Exam 10: Stratification and Global Inequality

When children of upper middle class families are taught to sit straight and not slouch, to address Men older than themselves as "sir,"And to look the person they are addressing directly in the eye, they are learning aspects of:

Which of the following is not used as a primary measure of social change when comparing nations?

Which of the following describes the trends in perceptions of standard of living mobility in the U.S.?

Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a closed stratification system?

The production of sugar even today requires extremely dangerous and debilitating labor.

An open stratification system is characterized by unlimited social and economic equality.

The division of the members of a society into layers based on such attributes as wealth, power, and prestige is termed:

Distinguish between objective and subjective classes.

Rates of intragenerational mobility provide a fairly good means of comparing the social class position of children with that of their parents.

Which of the following was NOT a goal set forth by the United Nations in their World Millennium Development Goals?

A major reason peasants in pre-revolutionary France did not rebel was that:

Which of the following best describes the trends in world poverty since 1820?

The migration of Blacks in the United States from the South to the Northeast, Upper Midwest, and the Far West is an example of:

Which of the following statements about deference is NOT true?

When James Riley arrived in this country ten years ago, he had three dollars in his pocket and had to sleep on a park bench. After many years of hard work, he owns his own factory and has investments in three apartment buildings. Riley has experienced:

The French Revolution occurred largely as a result of:

Karl Marx identified all of the following as major classes in capitalist society EXCEPT:

Which of the following perspectives focuses on the degree of prestige stratification that occurs within social classes?

The functionalist perspective on stratification maintains that inequality emerges because:

What is the role of ideology in maintaining systems of stratification?