Quiz 5

A  residential racism.

B  disenfranchisement.

C  redlining.

D  economic hegemony.

A  wealth

B  cultural capital

C  tennis shoes

D  souvenirs

A  part of the simplicity movement.

B  experiencing structural mobility.

C  lazy and selfish about helping people in need.

D  not very skilled.

A  horizontal mobility.

B  savvy technological genius.

C  wise investing.

D  structural mobility.

A  ideology

B  social welfare

C  education

D  cultural capital

A  judgment

B  social class

C  the pace of interaction

D  ideology

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

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

C  The living room is where we receive guests.

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

A  Emile Durkheim

B  Pierre Bourdieu

C  Karl Marx

D  Max Weber

A  horizontal poverty

B  cultural poverty

C  relative deprivation

D  absolute deprivation

A  They are middle class.

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

C  They are lower class.

D  They are upper class.

A  false consciousness.

B  hegemony.

C  meritocracy.

D  ideology.

A  Asian Americans

B  working mothers

C  Hispanics

D  people who live on the West Coast

A  intragenerational

B  structural

C  intergenerational

D  life-cycle

A  funding for law enforcement

B  population density and anomie

C  poverty

D  the availability of drugs

A  intergenerational mobility

B  vertical social mobility

C  structural mobility

D  horizontal social mobility

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

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

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

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

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

B  All societies stratify according to wealth accumulation.

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

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

A  immigrant mobility

B  intragenerational mobility

C  intergenerational mobility

D  structural mobility

A  cultural capital

B  class consciousness

C  status inconsistency

D  the American Dream

A  gender biased.

B  class conscious.

C  a meritocracy.

D  aware of the law.

A  social class

B  social caste

C  slavery

D  gender

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

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

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

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 was born into a fairly wealthy family.

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

C  She represents the exception rather than the rule.

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 annual household incomes exceeding $75,000

C  whites

D  those with just a high school education

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  profiling the lower class

B  attacking political protests that are organized by the poor

C  moving the homeless out of high-profile locations

D  increasing scrutiny of the lower class

A  that America is a largely class-free society

B  that the American Dream is an ideology

C  that most Americans will inherit their parents’ class status

D  that poverty is absolute, not relative

A  intergenerational

B  horizontal social

C  intragenerational

D  a lack of

A  social mobility

B  homelessness

C  political disenfranchisement

D  residential segregation