Exam 1: Social Class in America

Class inequalities in the United States increased during the 1950s and 1960s.

Weber believed that modern societies were characterized by two distinct social classes.

When did class inequalities rise steeply in the latter half of the 20th century?

The social class that must sell their labor for a wage in order to survive is referred to as the ______.

The mode of production characterized by the dominance of the owners of industry over the mass of industrial workers is called ______

Marx regarded production as the center of social life.

According to Marx, how does class consciousness develop?

The Gilbert-Kahl model of the class structure is built around ______.

What is the concept Marx used to describe the pervasive ideas that uphold the status quo and sustain the ruling class?

Marx regarded the means of production as the main determinant of a society's superstructure of social and political institutions and ideas.

Marx named the social class that owned the means of production the bourgeoisie.

According to the Gilbert-Kahl model of the class structure, what class derives its income largely from return on assets?

The years since 1975 are referred to as the Age of Growing Inequality.

Which social theorist argued that there were two social classes in society characterized by their relationship to the means of production?

Social revolutions have typically occurred in peasant societies during the early stages of industrialization under foreign influence rather than in the advanced industrial countries where Marx anticipated them.

Explain the differences between Marx and Weber in terms of how they define the nature of social class.

It was in the work ______ that Marx most completely explained his beliefs on class including the idea that "[t]he history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles."

Which of the following is one of the three broad issues in the study of social class based on Marx's and Weber's work suggested in the textbook?

There is no single correct model of the American class structure.

The years between 1946 and approximately 1973 are referred to in the text as the ______.