Deck 7: A: Social Inequality

Question 1

Intergenerational mobility occurs when a person becomes increasingly wealthy over his or her life span.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Unlike Marx,Weber argued that capitalism did not in fact lead to class conflict.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

With the exception of reincarnation,a caste system allows virtually no social mobility.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Because there are so few upper-class people living in Canada,their influence on the country is relatively insignificant.

Question 5

In a caste system,members of a particular caste can only improve their position in society by accumulating wealth.

Question 6

The cornerstone of our capitalist ideology is that every member of society starts out with the same chances of success.

Question 7

An example that refutes "blaming the victim" is that unemployment and poverty result from structural variables,such as deindustrialization,which lead to the loss of well-paying factory jobs.

Question 8

Sociologists have found a significant amount of evidence to support the assertion that social inequality is the result of individual attributes.

Question 9

Essentially,Weber agreed with Marx that modern society is divided into economic classes and that the ownership of property is key for gaining influence.

Question 10

Canadians are slightly less likely to be poor if they live in urban areas than if they live in rural ones.

Question 11

Stratified systems in Canada are open for Canadians to move out of the social class into which they were born.

Question 12

Few people have much contact with the upper class in Canada because its members tend to use their wealth to maintain their privacy.

Question 13

An example of a "party," as Weber used the term,is Greenpeace.

Question 14

The Davis-Moore thesis on social stratification holds that social inequality is detrimental to society.

Question 15

High-status people,even those who lack talent or intelligence,generally find it easier to obtain property,prestige,and power than those who are more capable but reside in lower classes.