Sociology Quarter 3 Quiz 1

Julia grew up with a dad who worked on the railroad and a mom who ran an in-home daycare. She graduated from college and is now an accountant. She moved from the working class to the middle class. Julia's experience is an example of

• Prestige

• Poverty

• Social Stratification

• Social Mobility

Which of the following would be considered part of a person’s wealth?

• Tax forms and bank statements

• Inheritance and other personal possessions

• A paycheck that will be mailed next Friday

• A house that a person rents

From this perspective, stratification exists so that the most qualified people fill the most important positions and the least qualified people fill the other positions

• Functionalism

• Conflict

• Symbolic Interactionism

A mail carrier works hard to give his son the opportunity to go to college and then medical school to become a doctor. This is an example of:

• Downward Mobility

• Intragenerational Mobility

• Intergenerational Mobility

• Structural Mobility

John is a lawyer. He makes $200,000/yr. He lives in a newly built multifunctional condominium. He's able to take his family on international trips several times a year What social class is he in?

• Upper Class

• Middle class

• Lower class

• Poor

Bill is excited to go to his high school reunion, so his classmates can see that he was successful and became a business magnate. Bill is essentially looking forward to receiving what from his classmates?

• Prestige

• Esteem

• Prejudice

• Wealth

The idea that the class you are in affects your opinion about other classes that you are not in. Which theory would have this perspective?

• Functionalism

• Symbolic Interactionalism

• Conflict Theory

A social system were individuals are divide by their relative power, prestige and socioeconomic status is known as

• Social Stratification

• Racism

• Prejudice

• Discrimination

• Classism

Class is to caste as _____________is to _____________

• closed open stratification

• open closed stratification

• bound and unbound stratification

• mobility and stability

The dominant ideology in a capitalistic society served the interests of the ruling class according to which sociologist?

• Weber

• Lenski

• Marx

• Veblen