Intro Sociology Chapter 7 Exam

Among high-income nations, the U.S. has the greatest income inequality.

• True

• False

Virtually anyone can be poor, and poverty is randomly distributed throughout the population of the U.S.

• True

• False

The child poverty rate in the U.S. is higher than in any other industrialized country?

• True

• False

Women's lower socioeconomic status is the primary explanation for poverty in the U.S. today.

• True

• False

__ is the sociological term for the hierarchical arrangement of large social groups based on their control over basic resources.

• Bureaucracy

• Ethnocentrism

• Social stratification

• Social Learning

Weber used the term ___ to refer to extent to which individuals have access to important resources such as food, clothing, shelter, education, and health care.

• life chances

• cultural opportunity

• social stratification

• social prospects

Sociological term for the movement of individuals or groups from one level in a stratification system to another is ____.

• life chances

• stratification

• social mobility

• meritocracy

Carry started her career as a high-tech factory worker. By taking courses and continuing to learn she became an entrepreneur and started her own business. Her advancement is an example of ____ mobility.

• exchange

• intergenrational

• structural

• intragenerational

U.S. State Dept. estimates about __ thousand foreigners are brought to the U.S. and enslaved yearly.

• 6

• 12

• 18

• 25

Even today we find places where the caste system still exist in _______.

• India & South Africa

• Australia

• Southeast Asia & Philippines

• many South American countries