Exam 7: Social Class: the Structure of Inequality

People are more likely to marry individuals with social and cultural backgrounds similar to their own because

________ is/are the tastes, habits, and expectations that children "inherit" or learn from their parents, which help them achieve material success in life.

Who acted kindly toward John Coleman when he went undercover as a homeless person and lived on the street for ten days?

Which of the following is a serious flaw in the way the federal government defines poverty?

Many workers at auto plants in Michigan lost their jobs when plants closed. What has this resulted in for the vast majority of these workers?

What makes the just-world hypothesis psychologically appealing to the average person?

Describe and analyze Pierre Bourdieu's theory of cultural capital in terms of microsociology and macrosociology. What elements of his theory are more like conflict theory? What elements are more like symbolic interactionism?

People are optimistic that the jobs lost in the U.S. recession of the late 2000s will be replaced with others. However, even if the optimists are right, the shift in the economy may permanently alter the social class status of many people. This is due to the jobs lost being largely in manufacturing and new jobs being mostly in information technology. This suggests that the newly unemployed will have trouble competing for newly created jobs. If this is the case, what is it called?

A reporter who covers the police beat at a newspaper changes careers. She becomes an editor of nonfiction books and is paid the same salary as she was at the newspaper. What has she experienced?

What is the principal sociological critique of the culture of poverty?

According to Max Weber, what are the three components of class? Explain each of them in your own words.

________ was the system of social stratification in the final stages of breaking down when Karl Marx developed his ideas.

In 2019, the U.S. Census Bureau identified the poverty threshold for a family of four as

According to Karl Marx, the social relations that matter MOST in a capitalist system are

Newlyweds were asked about how they met. The newlyweds explained that they were friends as children because their families attended the same church, but they did not start dating until much later when they ended up at the same university. This couple is an example of

A homeless shelter in Illinois held a "sleep out" to protest cutting funding for homeless shelters. The organizers of the rally suspected that most residents did not realize just how many homeless people existed in their community. This was a result of what sociologists would call

Paul Fussell's living room scale attempts to measure

Poverty can be defined in either relative or absolute terms. How is poverty defined according to absolute deprivation?

What do sociologists call it when an individual changes their career but remains within the same social class?

Culture is a source of shared norms and values, but cultural capital can never generate profits like economic capital can.