Question 1

People living in __________ can afford the basic necessities of life, but can not maintain an adequate standard of living.

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Question 2

In the United States' stratification system, people's ascribed and achieved class are far more likely to be the same than different.

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In the United States, social mobility is relatively high, meaning that people are more likely to move up or down the social ladder based on their own efforts and achievements. This means that people's ascribed class (the class they are born into) and achieved class (the class they attain through their own efforts) are more likely to be different than the same.

Question 3

Blau and Duncan's classic research about intergenerational mobility left out much of the adult working population, focusing on data from __________ and __________.

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Question 4

Women compose an increasing number of poor people, which is referred to as the __________ of poverty.

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Question 5

In almost all societies, people's social position is a matter of birth, passed on from parents to children, from generation to generation.

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In many societies, social position is influenced by factors such as family background, wealth, and social class, which are often inherited from parents and passed down through generations.

Question 6

At the top of the American class structure we find the __________.

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Question 7

The poverty __________ tends to underestimate the minimum income necessary to not be poor.

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Question 8

_________ income countries are primarily agricultural with only a few industries and virtually no access to the Information Revolution.

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Question 9

Ranking of people occurs almost exclusively in capitalist societies

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Ranking of people occurs in various forms across all types of societies, not just capitalist ones. It can be based on social, economic, political, or cultural factors and is not exclusive to any single economic system.

Question 10

According to Marx, the _________ owned the means of production, while the __________ were the wage laborers or working class.

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Question 11

In Max Weber's theory of social class, __________ refers to what people think of you, i.e. other people's social evaluation of your lifestyle.

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Question 12

In the U.S., the elderly have a far lower poverty rate than they did a generation ago.

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This is largely due to Social Security and other retirement benefits that have significantly reduced poverty among the elderly in the U.S. over the past several decades.

Question 13

_________ reflects the idea that people are ranked by many interrelated factors, economic, social, political, cultural, and community.

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Question 14

Dependency theory focuses on the unequal relationship between wealthy and poor countries, arguing that poverty is the result of __________ of the poor by the wealthy.

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Question 15

In the United States, most Blacks are poor.

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While poverty rates among Black Americans are higher than the national average, most Black Americans are not poor. According to data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the majority of Black Americans live above the poverty line.

Question 16

The __________ refers to the amount of income below which people are considered poor.

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Question 17

__________ mobility refers to the change in social class position that takes place between generations (e.g. parent to child).

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Question 18

__________ theory emphasizes global commodity chains - worldwide networks of labor and production processes - and notes that the most profitable activities are done in core countries while the least profitable activities are done in peripheral countries.

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Question 19

Modernization theory, which argues that poverty in countries is largely due to cultural failings of their people, is criticized by sociologists as __________ because it uses the United States as the "model" country.

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Question 20

Joe has experienced upward __________ mobility by moving up from a nurse's aid to a CRNP - certified registered nurse practitioner - during his career.

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The answer of Joe has experienced upward __________ mobility by...

Quiz 7: Stratification and Social Class