Question 1

What is the difference between income and wealth?

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Question 2

How does the upper-upper class differ from the lower-upper class?

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Question 3

Who are the working poor?

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Question 4

Provide evidence to assess the claim that economic inequality in the United States is increasing.

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Question 5

What did Max Weber mean by describing inequality in terms of a socioeconomic status ranking? Provide a description of a person with different standing on Weber's three dimensions of social inequality.

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Question 6

Using what you know about the distribution of income in the United States, why is it incorrect to say that we live in a "middle-class society"?

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Question 7

Point to evidence that helps you assess the extent to which the responsibility for poverty lies with the poor or with society as a whole.

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Question 8

Briefly describe the main characteristics of caste systems and class systems.How are these types linked to different systems of economic production (agrarian versus industrial technology)? What part does meritocracy play in each type of stratification? How does each type of stratification justify inequality?

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Question 9

In recent years, we have heard more and more talk about "class warfare" in the United States.To what specific facts do people point in support of the claim of "class warfare?" To what extent do you think class warfare really exists? Explain.

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Question 10

Explain how social stratification shapes patterns of social interaction.

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Question 11

What traits define the "working class" in the United States?

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Question 12

How has the expansion of the global economy affected class structure in the United States?

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Question 13

What is meritocracy? Why do caste systems have little of it? Why do class systems have more? Illustrate how class systems combine caste and meritocracy with reference to the United States and also Great Britain.

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Question 14

Define the concepts "intragenerational mobility" and "intergenerational mobility." Based on research data presented in the CHAPTER, describe patterns of intergenerational mobility for people born to families with various levels of wealth.

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Question 15

Provide several examples of the operation of caste in U.S.society today.Provide several examples of the operation of meritocracy.

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Question 16

How is the wealth of the rich different from the wealth of ordinary people?

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Question 17

What is the Kuznets curve? What does it tell us about how social stratification has varied over the course of human history as well as in the world today?

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Question 18

Give three examples each of blue-collar jobs and white-collar jobs.

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Question 19

What were some of the consequences of the 1996 welfare reform in the United States? To what extent would you say that this reform was or was not successful?

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Question 20

Applying the sociological perspective to poverty, what can we say about the categories of people at highest risk of being poor?

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Quiz 8: Social Stratification