Exam 8: Stratification and Inequality, Inequality and Achievement: Social Class, and Inequality and Ascription: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

A prejudice could accurately be called an unjustified prejudgment.

According to Marx, the bourgeoisie

Mr. Smith is worried about his daughter because today is her first day of school. He accompanies her to school and confides in the teacher: "Please give my daughter extra attention because I am afraid she is not very bright." In your informed judgment, has Mr. Smith just done his daughter a favor-or not? Why? (Draw upon social scientific evidence to support your answer.)

Rich people are more likely than poor people to be victims of crime.

According to Weber, occupation is the primary determinant of one's social position.

Most people in the United States tend to end up in a better social stratum than their parents occupied.

Describe Louis Wirth's definition of "minority group."Then, indicate whether women in US society should or should not be considered members of a minority group, and why.

Because it is the most stable source of social honor in modern Western society, most sociologists measure prestige in terms of

Max Weber used the term ______________ to refer to the ability to control the behavior of others, even against their will.

Legitimating rationales are widely accepted beliefs that something is "right and reasonable."

Katherine Newman and Chancy Lennon found that well paying jobs are hard to come by in the ghetto so that people fall back on low paying jobs (such as those found in the fast food industry) which are everywhere widely available to those who are willing to do such jobs.

Aunt Bertha recently died. In her will she specified that you are to receive all of her stuff-her home, Porsche, sailboat, and horse racing stables. You have just inherited Aunt Bertha's

Elizabeth Bliss comes from a wealthy family. She attended all of the right schools and an Ivy League college. Now she has fallen in love with Mike Smith, the family's gardener. Elizabeth's father forbids her to marry Mike. Clearly, Mr. Bliss is a believer in

Which of the following is NOT an attribute of the ideal typical open system of stratification?

A prejudice can be thought of as

Some social scientists believe that a slave system is essentially the same as a caste system (and that slaves are simply outcastes). However, the Harvard historian, Orlando Patterson argued that there are significant differences between slaves and outcastes. According to Patterson, how are slaves different from outcastes?

Stratification systems tend to be resistant to change.

When sociologists discuss SES they are referring to "Serious Extraneous Status"factors.

Economist Lester Thurow once explained that "Once wealth is accumulated, opportunities to make more money multiple, since accumulated wealth tends of lead to income-earning opportunities that are not open to those without wealth." Sociologists refer to this phenomenon as

What sociologist Joe Feagin calls the "pyramiding effect" refers to