Social Class

Offer the best definition of a food desert:

• Too many choices that one feels that it all looks the same, like a desert

• A lack of healthy food options. Often only fast food or gas station items

• A cluster of overpriced restaurants with no real range of options.

• No answers listed are correct

What was the goal of the Poor People's Campaign?

• To create a sizeable tax on the wealthiest families in America

• To highlight the reality of joblessness and deprivation on the doorstep of leaders in Washington

• To protest the war in Vietnam

• To push for better pay, without any real government intervention

King believed it was the government's obligation to create:

• options to avoid the draft in Vietnam and jobs

• transportation and healthcare

• work and income

• housing and taxes

Lareau studied family dynamics and how they were impacted by class. She concluded that upper class parents were far more willing to:

• Limit options for their children - what I as the parent say, you must do.

• Use various forms of discipline to make their children comply

• Negotiate with their children to comply with a task

• Yell at their children to comply

Class socialization is BEST defined as:

• Choices you make based on your financial standing

• How your parents/guardians told you to save money and invest

• Values that are taught (often by parent/guardian) that go along with being upper, middle or working class

• Media lessons learned about class from watching tv or movies

Known as the great equalizer:

• religion

• income

• education

• zip code

Working class parents tend to:

• place more emphasis on obedience and are more socially conservative

• place less emphasis on obedience and are more socially conservative

• place the same amount of emphasis on obedience as other social classes and are more fiscally conservative

• there are little distinctions between obedience and class as well as fiscal concerns between classes

Working class or low-income children are far more likely to attend college:

• false

• true

• it depends completely on the state they live in

• no answers listed are correct

Education, income, neighborhood and occupation all play contributing factors in:

• the are all separate forces with little connection

• class gaps in healthcare

• neighborhood hospital access is all that matters

• opportunities for school, but all other factors are within one's control

Learning to fit into a group you'll someday be a part of is known as:

• class socialization

• secondary socialization

• primary socialization

• anticipatory socializatrion