Quiz 5

A  residential racism.

B  disenfranchisement.

C  economic hegemony.

D  redlining.

A  wealth

B  cultural capital

C  tennis shoes

D  souvenirs

A  part of the simplicity movement.

B  lazy and selfish about helping people in need.

C  not very skilled.

D  experiencing structural mobility.

A  structural mobility.

B  horizontal mobility.

C  wise investing.

D  savvy technological genius.

A  ideology

B  cultural capital

C  education

D  social welfare

A  judgment

B  the pace of interaction

C  social class

D  ideology

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

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

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

D  The living room is where we receive guests.

A  Max Weber

B  Emile Durkheim

C  Karl Marx

D  Pierre Bourdieu

A  horizontal poverty

B  absolute deprivation

C  relative deprivation

D  cultural poverty

A  They are middle class.

B  They are upper class.

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

D  They are lower class.

A  hegemony.

B  meritocracy.

C  ideology.

D  false consciousness.

A  Asian Americans

B  people who live on the West Coast

C  working mothers

D  Hispanics

A  life-cycle

B  intragenerational

C  structural

D  intergenerational

A  population density and anomie

B  poverty

C  funding for law enforcement

D  the availability of drugs

A  intergenerational mobility

B  horizontal social mobility

C  vertical social mobility

D  structural mobility

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

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

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

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

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

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

C  All societies stratify according to wealth accumulation.

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

A  immigrant mobility

B  structural mobility

C  intergenerational mobility

D  intragenerational mobility

A  class consciousness

B  cultural capital

C  status inconsistency

D  the American Dream

A  gender biased.

B  a meritocracy.

C  class conscious.

D  aware of the law.

A  gender

B  social class

C  social caste

D  slavery

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

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

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

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

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

D  She was born into a fairly wealthy family.

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

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

A  those with just a high school education

B  Baby Boomers reaching retirement age

C  those with annual household incomes exceeding $75,000

D  whites

A  jobs in manufacturing

B  jobs associated with skilled trades like carpentry

C  jobs in the service, information, and technology sectors

D  blue collar work

A  increasing scrutiny of the lower class

B  moving the homeless out of high-profile locations

C  attacking political protests that are organized by the poor

D  profiling the lower class

A  that America is a largely class-free society

B  that poverty is absolute, not relative

C  that most Americans will inherit their parents’ class status

D  that the American Dream is an ideology

A  intragenerational

B  a lack of

C  horizontal social

D  intergenerational

A  homelessness

B  residential segregation

C  social mobility

D  political disenfranchisement