Social Stratification/ Class systems/ Poverty

What is the U.S. minimum wage?

• $1.90

• $5.00

• $7.25

• $11.00

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

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

• India & South Africa

• Australia

• Southeast Asia & Philippines

• many South American countries

__ mobility occurs when people experience a gain or loss in position/income that does not produce a change in their place in the class structure.

• horizontal

• situational

• vertical

• structural

Occupations such as medical techs, teachers, and nurses pertain to the ___, which make up about 30% of the U.S. Populations

• middle class

• upper class

• upper-upper class

• upper-middle class

Working single mothers and their children and African Americans are overrepresented in the ___ class.

• middle

• working poor

• upper

• working

Which of the racial/ethnic groups has the highest rate of poverty?

• whites

• African American

• Asian American

• Hispanics

Recognition, respect and admiration attached to social positions

• prestige

• power

• control

• a title

the creation of layers (or strata) of people who possess unequal shares of scarce resources.

• social class

• social mobility

• social stratification

• social movement