Exam 13: Social Mobility and Status Attainment: Openness in Us Society

Education:

Randall Collins argues that:

Research on contextual factors that affect status attainment reveals that:

Identify the principal factors that determine occupational and earnings attainments.

The attainment process of employed women is quite different from that of married, non-employed women.

Studies about occupational mobility indicate that:

Blau and Dunacan suggest that Blacks suffer from cumulative disadvantage.

Featherman and Hauser's study of mobility in the 1970s revealed that:

Explanations that causally attribute inequality to factors beyond the individual's control are called______________ arguments.

Recent evidence on mobility in the U.S. suggests that:

If one's income declines but the income of others is also declining or those below are much poorer, one may still remain in the same place on the income ladder. This demonstrates the concept of:

For most of the twentieth century, the extent of mobility in the United States was due primarily to changes in the occupational structure between generations.

The Blau-Duncan model is more effective in explaining the variation in educational and occupational attainment than the Wisconsin model.

Research suggests that during the mid-1980s:

Those who are better educated perform usually better in their occupations than the less educated.

In some corporations, women have to be present in relatively high proportions before they are hired or promoted in significant numbers.

In her longitudinal study of women's changing economic fortunes over a 30-year period, Andrea Willson (2003) found that:

Mobility is bound to occur if the occupational distributions in two generations in question are the same.

Discuss the patterns of mobility and attainment, as well as the obstacles, among women.

Research on eminent Black Americans listed in Who's Who Among Black Americans found that they are more likely to come from disadvantaged backgrounds.