Quiz 5

A  disenfranchisement.

B  residential racism.

C  redlining.

D  economic hegemony.

A  cultural capital

B  wealth

C  tennis shoes

D  souvenirs

A  lazy and selfish about helping people in need.

B  not very skilled.

C  experiencing structural mobility.

D  part of the simplicity movement.

A  wise investing.

B  savvy technological genius.

C  horizontal mobility.

D  structural mobility.

A  education

B  social welfare

C  ideology

D  cultural capital

A  the pace of interaction

B  judgment

C  ideology

D  social class

A  The living room is where we receive guests.

B  The living room is where the television is usually found.

C  The living room is a part of the house the whole family uses.

D  The living room is where the most expensive furniture goes.

A  Pierre Bourdieu

B  Karl Marx

C  Max Weber

D  Emile Durkheim

A  relative deprivation

B  absolute deprivation

C  horizontal poverty

D  cultural poverty

A  They are upper class.

B  They are lower class.

C  They do not feel they have a class status, or they are unaware of it.

D  They are middle class.

A  meritocracy.

B  ideology.

C  hegemony.

D  false consciousness.

A  people who live on the West Coast

B  Hispanics

C  working mothers

D  Asian Americans

A  intergenerational

B  structural

C  life-cycle

D  intragenerational

A  funding for law enforcement

B  the availability of drugs

C  population density and anomie

D  poverty

A  vertical social mobility

B  horizontal social mobility

C  structural mobility

D  intergenerational mobility

A  Class status helped to predict high school grades but had no relationship to later academic success.

B  Parental income is strongly correlated with academic achievement, especially in low-income families.

C  Children from working-class families are more likely to attend and graduate from college, as they have better work ethics.

D  There was no correlation between class status and educational achievement.

A  Low-level groups often have basic access to the rewards and privileges of higher-level groups.

B  With each new generation, families’ social positions start anew.

C  It is maintained through beliefs that are widely shared in a society.

D  All societies stratify according to wealth accumulation.

A  intragenerational mobility

B  intergenerational mobility

C  structural mobility

D  immigrant mobility

A  the American Dream

B  cultural capital

C  class consciousness

D  status inconsistency

A  a meritocracy.

B  aware of the law.

C  gender biased.

D  class conscious.

A  gender

B  slavery

C  social class

D  social caste

A  Moving from welfare to work helped single people much more than it did families or single mothers.

B  Moving from welfare to work increases both the self-esteem of the poor and their incomes.

C  Moving from welfare to work caused many former welfare recipients to plunge into homelessness.

D  Moving from welfare to work did not substantially increase income levels; it simply shifted the poor from welfare to low-paying jobs.

A  She represents the exception rather than the rule.

B  Her family might not have had much money but did have social connections that helped her with her career.

C  She was born into a fairly wealthy family.

D  She has recently lost most of her resources and is not particularly well off.

A  It justifies a welfare system that supports a great number of people who simply do not want to work.

B  It is too complicated because it takes into account too many factors, especially the cost of housing in each major metropolitan area.

C  It overestimates the number of people who cannot afford basic necessities.

D  It does not take into account regional differences in the cost of living.

A  Baby Boomers reaching retirement age

B  those with just a high school education

C  those with annual household incomes exceeding $75,000

D  whites

A  jobs in the service, information, and technology sectors

B  jobs associated with skilled trades like carpentry

C  jobs in manufacturing

D  blue collar work

A  attacking political protests that are organized by the poor

B  moving the homeless out of high-profile locations

C  increasing scrutiny of the lower class

D  profiling the lower class

A  that the American Dream is an ideology

B  that most Americans will inherit their parents’ class status

C  that America is a largely class-free society

D  that poverty is absolute, not relative

A  a lack of

B  horizontal social

C  intragenerational

D  intergenerational

A  political disenfranchisement

B  homelessness

C  social mobility

D  residential segregation