Multiple Choice Questions

From Malthus's perspective, what keeps the population in check?
  • Equality
  • Inequality
  • Upper class
  • Underclass
The prestige of a person's first job out of school factors into his or her position on the:
  • Caste system
  • Structural mobility
  • Status-attainment model
  • Meritocracy
Which American job sector has greatly increased since the oil crisis of 1973?
  • Food Preparation
  • Equality of opportunity
  • Low wage service work
  • Affirmative action
What is another term for the nonworking poor?
  • Returns on investments
  • Food Preparation
  • Upper class
  • Underclass
According to Rousseau, there are two forms of inequality: ____________, or natural, and ____________, or political.
  • Physical; social
  • Physician
  • Working poor
  • Globalization
Which group exploits the working class by taking more of the value of the work of laborers than they repay in wages?
  • Middle-class nation
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Horizontal social mobility
  • Meritocracy
Elliot Essman asserts that America is a(n) ____________ because the very wealthy do not have much impact on the country in general.
  • Meritocracy
  • Horizontal social mobility
  • Provide family planning
  • Middle-class nation
C. Wright Mills argues that there are three major institutions in the United States today that have the power to make decisions for the masses. Which one of the following is NOT one of these?
  • Religion
  • Efficiency
  • Globalization
  • Physician
The game of Monopoly follows the rules of what standard of equality?
  • Affirmative action
  • Returns on investments
  • Equality of opportunity
  • Status-attainment model
A system in which advancement is based on individual achievement or ability is referred to as:
  • Food Preparation
  • Globalization
  • Meritocratic
  • Working poor
What is the primary source of income for the upper class?
  • Structural mobility
  • Returns on investments
  • Food Preparation
  • Status-attainment model
The government's definition of poverty for a family of four (as of 2011) is a total yearly salary of just under:
  • $23,-1
  • $115,000
  • $23,000
  • $12,000
An example of horizontal social mobility is:
  • Underclass
  • Equality of opportunity
  • Affirmative action
  • ...
Under what system is your societal position related to your position in the economic market?
  • Elite-mass dichotomy system
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Caste system
  • Class system
Pareto believed in a society in which status and mobility are based on individual attributes and ability, called:
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Meritocracy
  • Provide family planning
  • Middle-class nation
A subsystem of stratification that Mills mentions is the outer fringes of the power elite. These are:
  • Elite-mass dichotomy system
  • Individuals who count in the decisions that affect all of us, but who don't actually make those decisions
  • Middle-class nation
  • Horizontal social mobility
What is one of the main reasons cited for rising income and wealth inequality in the United States?
  • Status-attainment model
  • Working poor
  • Food Preparation
  • Globalization
Ferguson and Millar saw social developments resulting from the establishment of private property as representing a huge improvement in society because private property leads to higher degrees of social organization and:
  • Socioeconomic status (SES)
  • Efficiency
  • Equality
  • Physician
Economists and sociologists believe that the United States is stratified along what lines?
  • Income
  • Working poor
  • Inequality
  • Globalization
Sociologists often describe an individual's position in a stratified social order that attempts to classify groups, individuals, families, or households in terms of indicators such as occupation, income, wealth, and education. Sociologists call this:
  • Socioeconomic status (SES)
  • Income
  • Efficiency
  • Status-attainment model
Rousseau believed that the source of all social ills was:
  • Affirmative action
  • Food Preparation
  • Structural mobility
  • Private property
Hegel argued that notions of inequality are constantly evolving in a larger historical arc and will eventually lead to:
  • Equality
  • Inequality
  • Globalization
  • Physical; social
Which term refers to a group or an individual transitioning from one social status to another that is situated more or less on the same rung of the ladder?
  • Middle-class nation
  • Bourgeoisie
  • Horizontal social mobility
  • Provide family planning
One of the best ways to reduce the number of children born (according to Sachs) is to:
  • Horizontal social mobility
  • Middle-class nation
  • Meritocracy
  • Provide family planning
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