Exam 9: Global Stratification

In the estate system, the practice of the firstborn son inheriting all land owned by the father was called ________.

Even though apartheid has been dismantled, white Europeans still dominate South Africa's social, political, and financial institutions.

The maquiladoras are Mexican export plants that import components, manufacture a product, and then export the finished product to the United States, all without import or export taxes.

The concept of the maquiladoras was made possible by the passage of the ________.

What has been the unique purpose of child slavery in present-day Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia?

Identify current strains in the system of global stratification.

Of the following technologies, which does the government have the greatest difficulty controlling?

Who were the Afrikaners?

Melvin Tumin pointed out flaws in the functionalist position to explain social stratification. What were his three major arguments?

In a caste system, social stratification is based on ascribed status.

Why was slavery made inheritable when it was adopted by landowners in the American colonies?

In contrast to most other stratification systems, Karl Marx's system had only two classes, each depending on the individual's relationship to the means of production.

On what factor was the stratification system of the old Soviet Union based?

In Great Britain, what percentage of the population makes up the elite upper class?

In which of the following societies might slavery most likely exist?

Discuss the classical causes of slavery, and explain how the justification for slavery was modified by the colonial landowners in the New World.

The ability to control others, even over their objections, is referred to as ________.

According to Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore, how are highly qualified people motivated to enter high-pressure positions?

At the steel plant, all minorities hired are assigned to work the battery pits, one of the dirtiest jobs in the mill. Even so, the battery pit workers wear this assignment as a badge of honor and have developed a close social bond that transcends the time they spend at the mill. How would Karl Marx describe their solidarity?

What were the shortcomings of model consisting of First, Second, and Third Worlds that was used to describe global stratification?