FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY CH. 8 QUIZ

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT SOCIOLOGY CH. 8 QUIZ

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-Guarantee passing score -46 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: If you have most wealth and power, then do you necessarily have most prestige?

Answer:

No, priest or college professor may have more prestige than a banker

Question 2: explanation of stratification according to Functionalist Theory

Answer:

most qualified people have most important jobs; these people do their tasks well & are rewarded for efforts; inequality exists b/c some jobs = more important than others; monetary rewards & prestige- rewards for going thru extra training & education

Question 3: horizontal mobility

Answer:

a change in occupation within the same social class

Question 4: open-class system

Answer:

a system in which social class is based on merit and individual effort; movement is allowed between classes

Question 5: how much blacks make compared to whites

Answer:

Blacks make 21% less than what whites make

Question 6: percent of managers that are white males

Answer:

97%

Question 7: power

Answer:

the ability to control the behavior of others, even against their will

Question 8: wealth

Answer:

total economic resources held by a person or group

Question 9: false consciousness

Answer:

adoption of the ideas of the dominant class by the less powerful class

Question 10: vertical mobility

Answer:

a change upward or downward in occupational status or social class

Question 11: poverty rate for African Americans

Answer:

27.4%

Question 12: income rates for next 19% (year)

Answer:

in 2006, 40.1%

Question 13: prestige

Answer:

recognition, respect, and admiration attached to social positions

Question 14: absolute poverty

Answer:

the absence of enough money to secure life's necessities

Question 15: percent that women and ethnic minorities make up of workforce

Answer:

57%

Question 16: explanation of stratification according to Symbolic Interactionism

Answer:

people are taught to accept the existing structure; kids are taught that people "on top" are there because talent & hard work, people "on bottom"- no talent & motivation; wrong to question b/c they deserve it; lower class=lower self esteem, and vice versa

Question 17: income rates for bottom 80% (year)

Answer:

in 2006, 38.6%

Question 18: underclass

Answer:

people typically unemployed who came from families that have been poor for generations

Question 19: wealth rates for next 19% (year)

Answer:

in 2007, 50.5%

Question 20: income

Answer:

amount of money received by an individual or group over a specific time period

Question 21: class consciousness

Answer:

identification with the goals and interests of a social class

Question 22: poverty rate for Hispanics

Answer:

26.6%

Question 23: chance of being poor

Answer:

59%

Question 24: poverty rate for whites

Answer:

10%

Question 25: explanation of stratification according to Conflict Theory

Answer:

wealthy control business; common person works for wealthy; wealthy exploit commoner to maintain social stratification; forced; based on power, not property ownership; false consciousness

Question 26: social class

Answer:

segment of society whose members hold similar amounts of resources and share values, norms, and an identifiable lifestyle

Question 27: upper-middle class

Answer:

14%; successful in busi., professions, politics, military; ppl who benefited frm corporate&profess.expansion after WWII; earn enof to live well&save$; college, career goals for kids; no natl or internatl pwr but in political organizations in communities

Question 28: caste system

Answer:

a stratification structure that does not allow for social mobility