Chapter 8 example #73213

Weber said social stratification involved 3 distinct dimensions: economic class, status, and power

Which area of the US has the highest rate of poverty?

Because education is a right in the US there is very little inequality in schooling

Two thirds of all poor people in the US are African Americans

Total amount of financial assets minus any debts is referred to as

In the US there are more people in the upper class than in the lower class

In general white collar jobs have more prestige than blue collar occupations

Critics of the 1996 welfare reforms claim the new system

Work involving mostly mental activity is called

Recent welfare reform has greatly reduced poverty rate in US

Hispanic families lag behind non Hispanic white families in income and wealth

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

Which of the following concepts refers to earnings from work or any investments

Which of the following factors tends to raise your social standing

According to Marx; which class forms the core of the industrial proletariat

The richest 20 percent of US families earn 48 percent of all income while the bottom 20 percent earn only about 4 percent

Working class is sometimes called the lower middle class

Ideology refers to ideas that support social stratification

Looking around during the world today, income inequality is greatest in which of the following regions

Relative poverty

Social stratification is a concept that refers to

About what of the richest people in the US gained at least some of their fortune from inheritance

In the US, people of what are most likely to vote

People if low social position see more liberal on ____ issues and more conservative on ___ issues

For most people in the US, social standing remains much the same over the course of a lifetime

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

In 2010, the median income for US FAMILIES WAS

Great Britain has eliminated all aspects of its historic aristocracy

Social stratification is found in most but not all societies