Deck 10: A: Social Stratification

Question 1

Social stratification is a matter of not only inequality but also beliefs about fairness.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The former Soviet Union was a classless society without social stratification.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

People living in societies with class systems,compared with those living in societies with caste systems,tend to think of others not as individuals but in terms of social categories.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

The concept of social mobility refers to changes in people's positions in the social hierarchy.

Question 5

Caste systems encourage the commitment to long-term labour required by agriculture.

Question 6

For most people in Canada,social standing remains much the same over a lifetime.

Question 7

Caste systems are typical of high-income societies.

Question 8

Caste systems encourage romantic love and personal choice as the basis of marriage.

Question 9

Compared to Canadian society,Japanese society exhibits more caste elements.

Question 10

Compared with people in Canada,people in Great Britain are more likely to experience social mobility.

Question 11

Social stratification is found in most-but not all-societies.

Question 12

Most British people consider themselves middle class.

Question 13

In class systems,social categories are more clearly and rigidly defined than they are in caste systems.

Question 14

Structural social mobility refers to a person's upward or downward social movement due to personal effort or,in some cases,good or bad luck.

Question 15

Individuals in class systems typically exhibit more status inconsistency than people in caste systems.

Question 16

Great Britain has eliminated all aspects of its historic aristocracy.

Question 17

Class systems assign social position based on both birth and individual achievement.

Question 18

China stands out as a country without any social classes.

Question 19

In Canada,social inequality is a matter of only people's talents and abilities.

Question 20

The more a society is a meritocracy,the greater the society's level of social mobility.

Question 21

The socialist revolution Karl Marx predicted took place in most industrial-capitalist societies about a century ago.

Question 22

Max Weber said social stratification involved three distinct dimensions: economic class,social prestige,and political power.

Question 23

The Davis-Moore thesis implies that societies without social inequality would be the most productive.

Question 24

Discussed in your text,Kurt Vonnegut,Jr.wrote a novel in which all social inequality was abolished.

Question 25

Ideology refers to ideas that support social stratification.

Question 26

Davis and Moore base their claim that stratification is not inevitable on the fact that it does not exist in every society.

Question 27

Weber argued that social stratification is necessary to make society highly productive.

Question 28

Weber described stratification as a complex socioeconomic status hierarchy.

Question 29

Karl Marx claimed that social stratification in high-income nations such as the United Kingdom and Canada reflected a capitalist economy.

Question 30

Conspicuous consumption refers to the fact that rich people and poor people generally shop for different products,such as foods and clothing.

Question 31

In general,income disparity is greater in lower-income nations than it is in higher-income nations.

Question 32

Social stratification shapes our patterns of interaction by encouraging people to socialize with others of similar social position.

Question 33

Marx believed that social stratification springs from injustice and greed.

Question 34

The Davis-Moore thesis states that social stratification has beneficial consequences for society.

Question 35

According to Herrnstein and Murray,authors of The Bell Curve,rich people are smarter than poor people because they are genetically superior.

Question 36

Weber agreed with Marx that a socialist revolution would result in complete social equality.

Question 37

Today,Canadian workers have far fewer legal protections than U.S.workers had a century ago,when the industrial age was just beginning.

Question 38

Values are not involved in the study of social stratification.

Question 39

The Kuznets curve shows that industrial societies have the greatest social stratification.