Quiz 5

A  redlining.

B  disenfranchisement.

C  economic hegemony.

D  residential racism.

A  tennis shoes

B  souvenirs

C  wealth

D  cultural capital

A  not very skilled.

B  lazy and selfish about helping people in need.

C  part of the simplicity movement.

D  experiencing structural mobility.

A  wise investing.

B  horizontal mobility.

C  structural mobility.

D  savvy technological genius.

A  education

B  social welfare

C  ideology

D  cultural capital

A  judgment

B  the pace of interaction

C  ideology

D  social class

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

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

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

D  The living room is where we receive guests.

A  Karl Marx

B  Emile Durkheim

C  Max Weber

D  Pierre Bourdieu

A  absolute deprivation

B  horizontal poverty

C  cultural poverty

D  relative 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  false consciousness.

B  meritocracy.

C  ideology.

D  hegemony.

A  Hispanics

B  working mothers

C  people who live on the West Coast

D  Asian Americans

A  intragenerational

B  structural

C  intergenerational

D  life-cycle

A  funding for law enforcement

B  population density and anomie

C  the availability of drugs

D  poverty

A  vertical social mobility

B  structural mobility

C  intergenerational mobility

D  horizontal social mobility

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

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

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  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  structural mobility

B  immigrant mobility

C  intergenerational mobility

D  intragenerational mobility

A  the American Dream

B  status inconsistency

C  cultural capital

D  class consciousness

A  aware of the law.

B  gender biased.

C  a meritocracy.

D  class conscious.

A  gender

B  social caste

C  slavery

D  social class

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 was born into a fairly wealthy family.

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

C  She represents the exception rather than the rule.

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

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

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

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

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

A  those with annual household incomes exceeding $75,000

B  those with just a high school education

C  Baby Boomers reaching retirement age

D  whites

A  jobs associated with skilled trades like carpentry

B  jobs in manufacturing

C  blue collar work

D  jobs in the service, information, and technology sectors

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 most Americans will inherit their parents’ class status

B  that poverty is absolute, not relative

C  that the American Dream is an ideology

D  that America is a largely class-free society

A  intragenerational

B  horizontal social

C  a lack of

D  intergenerational

A  social mobility

B  homelessness

C  political disenfranchisement

D  residential segregation