Exam 8: Stratification, class, and Inequality

College students who graduate in the years following the Great Recession are likely to experience long-term negative consequences in terms of earning and social mobility.

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Question 41

What is the difference between intergenerational and intragenerational mobility? What factors influence the amount of each? Refer to specific research on the topic,including cross-national studies and comparisons of mobility for women and men.

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Question 42

Which of the following occupations is are NOT ranked at the top of occupational prestige ratings?

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Question 43

Median net worth in 2010 was highest for family households with a head in which age group?

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Question 44

Consumerism and consumption have blurred class differences to some extent in our society.Television and nationwide mall stores reinforce the idea that there are no intense class boundaries.Consumerism and consumption,however,do NOT alleviate the:

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Question 45

Scholars disagree on whether poverty is overreported,overestimated,or undereported when using the federal government's current poverty thresholds.Compare the arguments on both sides of this issue.What do you believe? Support your opinion with evidence.

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Question 46

Which of the following accurately describes the stratification system?

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Question 47

An example of what Pierre Bourdieu refers to as cultural capital is:

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Question 48

Which of the following factors does NOT account for current racial disparities in wealth?

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Question 49

According to Erik Olin Wright,people who control workers but are in turn controlled by their own employers are in:

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Question 50

Consumption patterns are indicators of class location.

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Question 51

In 2011,the top 5% of households in the United States earned _______________ of the total income?

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Question 52

In 2009,Hispanics aged 18 to 24 had the lowest rate of high school completion compared to whites and African Americans.

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Question 53

The American upper class lost the highest percentage of wealth of any social class during the Great Recession.

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Question 54

Researchers of social mobility from Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan in the 1960s to Pierre Bourdieu in the 1980s have shown that:

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Question 55

The money a person receives from a wage or salary or from investments is _; the assets an individual owns are _.

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Question 56

Class systems differ from slavery and castes in all the following ways EXCEPT that:

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Question 57

If a person has a different class position from that of his parents or grandparents,he has experienced:

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Question 58

In their classic study of social mobility in the United States,Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan found that:

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Question 59

Social mobility resulting from changes in the number and types of occupations in a society is called:

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College students who graduate in the years following the Great Recession are likely to experience long-term negative consequences in terms of earning and social mobility.

What is the difference between intergenerational and intragenerational mobility? What factors influence the amount of each? Refer to specific research on the topic,including cross-national studies and comparisons of mobility for women and men.

Which of the following occupations is are NOT ranked at the top of occupational prestige ratings?

Median net worth in 2010 was highest for family households with a head in which age group?

Consumerism and consumption have blurred class differences to some extent in our society.Television and nationwide mall stores reinforce the idea that there are no intense class boundaries.Consumerism and consumption,however,do NOT alleviate the:

Scholars disagree on whether poverty is overreported,overestimated,or undereported when using the federal government's current poverty thresholds.Compare the arguments on both sides of this issue.What do you believe? Support your opinion with evidence.

Which of the following accurately describes the stratification system?

An example of what Pierre Bourdieu refers to as cultural capital is:

Which of the following factors does NOT account for current racial disparities in wealth?

According to Erik Olin Wright,people who control workers but are in turn controlled by their own employers are in:

Consumption patterns are indicators of class location.

In 2011,the top 5% of households in the United States earned _______________ of the total income?

In 2009,Hispanics aged 18 to 24 had the lowest rate of high school completion compared to whites and African Americans.

The American upper class lost the highest percentage of wealth of any social class during the Great Recession.

Researchers of social mobility from Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan in the 1960s to Pierre Bourdieu in the 1980s have shown that:

The money a person receives from a wage or salary or from investments is _; the assets an individual owns are _.

Class systems differ from slavery and castes in all the following ways EXCEPT that:

If a person has a different class position from that of his parents or grandparents,he has experienced:

In their classic study of social mobility in the United States,Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan found that:

Social mobility resulting from changes in the number and types of occupations in a society is called:

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Exam 8: Stratification, class, and Inequality

College students who graduate in the years following the Great Recession are likely to experience long-term negative consequences in terms of earning and social mobility.

What is the difference between intergenerational and intragenerational mobility? What factors influence the amount of each? Refer to specific research on the topic,including cross-national studies and comparisons of mobility for women and men.

Which of the following occupations is are NOT ranked at the top of occupational prestige ratings?

Median net worth in 2010 was highest for family households with a head in which age group?

Consumerism and consumption have blurred class differences to some extent in our society.Television and nationwide mall stores reinforce the idea that there are no intense class boundaries.Consumerism and consumption,however,do NOT alleviate the:

Scholars disagree on whether poverty is overreported,overestimated,or undereported when using the federal government's current poverty thresholds.Compare the arguments on both sides of this issue.What do you believe? Support your opinion with evidence.

Which of the following accurately describes the stratification system?

An example of what Pierre Bourdieu refers to as cultural capital is:

Which of the following factors does NOT account for current racial disparities in wealth?

According to Erik Olin Wright,people who control workers but are in turn controlled by their own employers are in:

Consumption patterns are indicators of class location.

In 2011,the top 5% of households in the United States earned _______________ of the total income?

In 2009,Hispanics aged 18 to 24 had the lowest rate of high school completion compared to whites and African Americans.

The American upper class lost the highest percentage of wealth of any social class during the Great Recession.

Researchers of social mobility from Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan in the 1960s to Pierre Bourdieu in the 1980s have shown that:

The money a person receives from a wage or salary or from investments is _______________; the assets an individual owns are _______________.

Class systems differ from slavery and castes in all the following ways EXCEPT that:

If a person has a different class position from that of his parents or grandparents,he has experienced:

In their classic study of social mobility in the United States,Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan found that:

Social mobility resulting from changes in the number and types of occupations in a society is called:

What Is Sociology?

Asking And Answering Sociological Questions

Culture And Society

Socialization And The Life Cycle

Social Interaction And Everyday Life In The Age Of The Internet

Groups, networks, and Organizations

Conformity, deviance, and Crime

Global Inequality

Gender Inequality

Ethnicity And Race

Aging

Government, political Power, and Social Movements

Work And Economic Life

Families and Intimate Relations

Education

Religion In Modern Society

The Sociology Of The Body: Health,illness,and Sexuality

Urbanization, population, and The Environment

Globalization In A Changing World

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The money a person receives from a wage or salary or from investments is _; the assets an individual owns are _.