Exam 8: Social Stratification and the Us Class System

What is the term used to describe the norms, values, beliefs, and attitudes that trap a small percentage of urban poor in a perpetual cycle of poverty?

What position did sociologist Max Weber advocate as the determining variable(s) in assigning social class?

What is the qualitative variable that determines if someone falls into absolute poverty?

Who was the sociologist who argued that social stratification is actually beneficial to society because it creates jobs for a certain segment of the population and provides a clientele to purchase inferior products and housing?

Which two families of entrepreneurs fall into the category of Old Money?

Develop a profile of the poor in the United States relying on factual data supported by research rather than media images and myth.

According to conflict theorists, the form of capitalism prominent in the nineteenth century was:

The term culture of poverty, used to describe the norms, values, beliefs, and attitudes that trap a small percentage of urban poor in a perpetual cycle of poverty, was coined by ________.

What theory explaining poverty states that each person is largely to blame for his or her own actions, successes or failures, and social standing?

In open systems of stratification how are boundaries determined?

Most capitalist nations have an economy based on competitive capitalism rather than monopoly capitalism.