Deck 10: Class

Question 1

What is the only commodity that can transform others into profit?

A) labor
B) raw materials
C) politicians
D) money
E) education

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Social capital is:

A) the value of your social relations
B) a form of capital available to everyone
C) something money can't buy
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 2

E

Question 3

The most important issue for anthropology is:

A) thought control
B) kinship
C) economics
D) politics
E) class

Answer 3

E

Question 4

The poorest 90% of the people in the U.S. own:

A) 23% of the wealth
B) 10% of the wealth
C) 4% of the wealth
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 5

The richest 1/10 of 1% of Americans are how many times richer than the poorest 90%?

A) 100
B) 10
C) 25
D) 0
E) 50

Question 6

The richest 1/10 of 1% of the population in the U.S. own:

A) 5 % of the wealth
B) 25 % of the wealth
C) 22% of the wealth
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 7

A bayonet is a weapon with:

A) a working person at both ends
B) an enemy at the other end
C) a foreigner at the other end
D) an aristocrat at the other end
E) a politician at the other end

Question 8

The gospel of work holds that:

A) only the gospel works
B) only wealth creates wealth
C) only talent creates wealth
D) only education is worth investing in
E) only work creates wealth

Question 9

The gospel of wealth holds that:

A) only wealth creates wealth
B) the wealthy deserve what they have
C) the poor deserve what they have
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 10

The concept of race was invented in the U.S. to:

A) justify using slaves
B) pay white people more than black
C) get special benefits for minority people
D) equalize the payments to different schools
E) support school busing

Question 11

Comparative studies can tell us what governments can do well.

Question 12

The idea that governments do everything badly is part of the corporate propaganda campaign.

Question 13

Ideologies are selected parts of cultural codes.

Question 14

Everyone's opinion is equally good.

Question 15

Governments can deliver better health care at less cost than the private sector.

Question 16

The private sector can do anything better than the public sector.

Question 17

All stratified societies have classes.

Question 18

Americans don't like to talk about class.

Question 19

In the U.S. the Democrats and Republicans both represent the ruling class.

Question 20

In the U.S. people are working more for lower wages and fewer benefits.

Question 21

In the U.S. neoconservatives put the power of government behind union busting.

Question 22

Corporations destroy communities.

Question 23

Understanding why your car isn't running is usually sufficient to fix it.

Question 24

Thought control may have been used in ancient times, but it hasn't been used recently.

Question 25

Most professors in the U.S. and in the world are members of the middle class.

Question 26

People who own their own businesses are members of the middle class.

Question 27

In the U.S. there is no class, just status.

Question 28

The government of the U.S. may use violence against its own people.

Question 29

In the U.S. there is no ruling class.

Question 30

In the U.S. working people agree with the ideology of meritocratic individualism.

Question 31

In the U.S. black people don't get as far as white people do.

Question 32

Economics is not a science.

Question 33

The idea that immigrants are dangerous is a recent one in the U.S.

Question 34

List the two classes in a capitalist system:

Question 35

List five anthropologists named in this chapter:

Question 36

Discuss why everyone's opinion is not equally good.

Question 37

If governments can deliver better health care at less cost than corporations, why doesn't the government run health care in the U.S.?

Question 38

Discuss why working people would vote for neoconservative candidates who hurt them and how this is an example of a self-intensifying loop.

Question 39

Discuss how corporations damage communities.

Question 40

Explain how corporations undermine democracy.

Question 41

Discuss why trading opinions is not the same as analysis and understanding and why it makes a difference.

Question 42

Discuss how meritocratic individualism disguises class in the U.S.

Question 43

Explain how economics is part of the corporate cultural revolution and why.

Question 44

What is the point of the story about the Sufi who told his follower to keep his money because the master had no money and needed none while the follower had much and needed more?