Quiz 5

A  disenfranchisement.

B  redlining.

C  residential racism.

D  economic hegemony.

A  souvenirs

B  tennis shoes

C  wealth

D  cultural capital

A  not very skilled.

B  lazy and selfish about helping people in need.

C  experiencing structural mobility.

D  part of the simplicity movement.

A  horizontal mobility.

B  structural mobility.

C  savvy technological genius.

D  wise investing.

A  ideology

B  education

C  cultural capital

D  social welfare

A  judgment

B  ideology

C  the pace of interaction

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 where the most expensive furniture goes.

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

A  Emile Durkheim

B  Pierre Bourdieu

C  Karl Marx

D  Max Weber

A  horizontal poverty

B  relative deprivation

C  cultural poverty

D  absolute deprivation

A  They are lower class.

B  They are upper class.

C  They are middle class.

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

A  hegemony.

B  meritocracy.

C  false consciousness.

D  ideology.

A  working mothers

B  Asian Americans

C  Hispanics

D  people who live on the West Coast

A  life-cycle

B  structural

C  intergenerational

D  intragenerational

A  funding for law enforcement

B  poverty

C  population density and anomie

D  the availability of drugs

A  vertical social mobility

B  horizontal social mobility

C  intergenerational mobility

D  structural mobility

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

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

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

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

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

B  All societies stratify according to wealth accumulation.

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

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

A  immigrant mobility

B  intergenerational mobility

C  structural mobility

D  intragenerational mobility

A  status inconsistency

B  class consciousness

C  cultural capital

D  the American Dream

A  gender biased.

B  a meritocracy.

C  aware of the law.

D  class conscious.

A  slavery

B  social class

C  gender

D  social caste

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

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

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

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

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

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

C  She was born into a fairly wealthy family.

D  She represents the exception rather than the rule.

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  Baby Boomers reaching retirement age

B  whites

C  those with annual household incomes exceeding $75,000

D  those with just a high school education

A  blue collar work

B  jobs in manufacturing

C  jobs associated with skilled trades like carpentry

D  jobs in the service, information, and technology sectors

A  moving the homeless out of high-profile locations

B  increasing scrutiny of the lower class

C  profiling the lower class

D  attacking political protests that are organized by the poor

A  that America is a largely class-free society

B  that the American Dream is an ideology

C  that poverty is absolute, not relative

D  that most Americans will inherit their parents’ class status

A  intragenerational

B  intergenerational

C  horizontal social

D  a lack of

A  social mobility

B  residential segregation

C  political disenfranchisement

D  homelessness