Exam 2: Analyzing Economic Inequalities

What was a victory for the Occupy Wall Street movement?

Robert has the right to legally own lower stratified people as if they were property. Robert's society is stratified based on which criteria?

In spite of the fact that Aisha was born a Shudra, or a low-status worker, her Hindu faith tells her that if she is a good person, she will be reborn into a higher group. She focuses not on her daily struggles, but instead on the better life she will have when she is reincarnated. Aisha's society is stratified based on which criteria?

If you want to calculate your ______, you need to add up the value of everything you own, and subtract the amount of money you owe.

What is the outcome of "Right-to-work" laws?

How do neoliberal policies and redistributive policies impact economic inequality in the United States?

Social reproduction theory and the Davis-Moore hypothesis each identify people who benefit from economic inequality. For each approach, identify who benefits from economic inequality and why.

Identify and explain at least one policy difference between the United States and the rest of the Global North that contributes to the United State's higher rate of economic inequality.

The Davis-Moore hypothesis argues that inequality is a social problem that must be addressed.

Economic inequality results in an imbalance of political power; as a result, poorer citizens have less success fighting back against high-polluting corporations in their communities.

If talented, hard-working people still face barriers to social mobility, then that suggests that social reproduction theory is a better approach to economic inequality than the Davis-Moore hypothesis.

The Davis-Moore hypothesis argues that economic inequality can be reduced if laws are created to ensure that people have similar opportunities and resources to succeed, no matter what social class they were born into.

Compare the concepts of wealth and income.

What is the relationship between economic inequality and democracy?

On average, American women make 80 cents for every dollar a man makes.

Income inequality among nations has ______, while income inequality within nations has ______.

Countries with an unequal distribution of income and wealth are more likely to ______.

Describe how different systems of stratification permit, or prohibit, movement up or down in the social hierarchy.

High economic inequality within a country is correlated with lower levels of social mobility.

Social problems such as racism, sexism, and unequal access to educational opportunities have also exacerbated economic inequality. Examine how each of these social problems has increased the gap between the haves and the have-nots.