Sociology Exam 2: Quiz 6

C. Wright Mills argues that there are three major institutions in the United States today that have the power to make decisions for the masses. Which one of the following is NOT one of these?

An example of horizontal social mobility is:

Which American job sector has greatly increased since the oil crisis of 1973?

Which term refers to a group or an individual transitioning from one social status to another that is situated more or less on the same rung of the ladder?

Sociologists often describe an individual's position in a stratified social order that attempts to classify groups, individuals, families, or households in terms of indicators such as occupation, income, wealth, and education. Sociologists call this:

The game of Monopoly follows the rules of what standard of equality?

A type of stratification that is based on hereditary notions of religious and theological purity and in which there is little to no individual mobility within the strata is the:

According to the Relative Social Prestige of Selected U.S. Occupations table (Table 7.1 in your text), which white-collar occupation has the highest prestige score?

Trade of goods and services across national boundaries, as well as the mobility of businesses and labor through immigration, is called:

An example of the ideology of equality of condition put into practice is:

What is the fastest-growing job market for people with only a high school education?

The prestige of a person's first job out of school factors into his or her position on the:

One of the best ways to reduce the number of children born (according to Sachs) is to:

Ferguson and Millar saw social developments resulting from the establishment of private property as representing a huge improvement in society because private property leads to higher degrees of social organization and:

In political speeches about the poor, those who are believed to deserve our assistance are termed the:

From Malthus's perspective, what keeps the population in check?

A system in which advancement is based on individual achievement or ability is referred to as:

Mobility that is inevitable from changes in the economy is called:

Hegel argued that notions of inequality are constantly evolving in a larger historical arc and will eventually lead to:

Economists and sociologists believe that the United States is stratified along what lines?

Under what system is your societal position related to your position in the economic market?

Elliot Essman asserts that America is a(n) ____________ because the very wealthy do not have much impact on the country in general.

The government's definition of poverty for a family of four (as of 2011) is a total yearly salary of just under:

What is another term for the nonworking poor?

Pareto believed in a society in which status and mobility are based on individual attributes and ability, called:

What is one of the main reasons cited for rising income and wealth inequality in the United States?

Historically, Marx's capitalist class was made up of members of the:

Which group exploits the working class by taking more of the value of the work of laborers than they repay in wages?

A subsystem of stratification that Mills mentions is the outer fringes of the power elite. These are:

A stratification system with a governing elite—that is, few leaders who broadly hold the power in society—is called a(n):

Mobility that is inevitable from changes in the economy is called:

According to Rousseau, there are two forms of inequality: ____________, or natural, and ____________, or political.

Rousseau believed that the source of all social ills was:

What is the primary source of income for the upper class?