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Higher Education

Thinking About Sociology, Second Edition - Chapter 12

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Question 1:

Which of the following terms describes how certain attributes that are deemed to be valuable are unevenly distributed across societies, social class, etc.?
a) Discrimination
b) Social hierarchy
c) Social inequality
d) Socioeconomic status

Question 2:

Persistent patterns of inequality in a society are indicative of which of the following concepts?
a) Social stratification
b) Social decay
c) Market failure
d) A feature of capitalism

Question 3:

Which of the following refers to a composite measure of an individual’s social standing that includes a number of dimensions?
a) Economic status
b) Socioeconomic status
c) Social capital
d) Socio-cultural influences

Question 4:

An indication of just how badly governments are failing to help the poorest Canadians is the reliance on which of the following?
a) Family support
b) Secular charities
c) Food banks
d) Religious organizations

Question 5:

While the rates of low family income have been falling among Canadian-born groups, they have been rising rapidly among which of the following groups?
a) Second-generation immigrants
b) Recent immigrants
c) Baby boomers
d) The working poor

Question 6:

What term did Weber use for concepts such as “property class,” “acquisition class,” “middle class,” and “social class”?
a) Class types
b) Hegemonic concepts
c) Pure or ideal types
d) Platonic ideas

Question 7:

Which of the following refers to the process by which an ascribed social class position is transmitted from one generation to the next?
a) Genetic classicism
b) Reproduction of aristocracy
c) Reproduction of class identity
d) Line of succession

Question 8:

What did Kaufman argue was a process of social transformation?
a) Intrapersonal negotiation
b) Symbolic negotiation
c) Intergroup negotiation
d) Interpersonal negotiation

Question 9:

Many Canadians and Americans believe that if they just apply themselves, get a good education, and work hard, they will be able to achieve which of the following?
a) Upward social mobility
b) Social progress
c) The American Dream
d) Consumer paradise

Question 10:

Which of the following terms did Bourdieu use to refer to the local social world in which social actors are embedded and towards which they orient their actions?
a) Stage
b) Field
c) Local context
d) Social setting

Question 11:

There has been a shift in immigrant source countries to Canada from Europe and the United States to Asia and Africa
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

All wealthy people have high incomes.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Accurate data on salaries and wages are not widely available.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Marx pointed out that in all societies, economic activities including the production, exchange, and consumption of goods are always social activities.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

Both Marx and Weber adopted relational concepts of social class.
a) True
b) False

Question 16:

Weber’s primary interest was on the analysis of conflict or exploitation between social classes.
a) True
b) False

Question 17:

Wright and his colleagues began with the basic Weberian premise that within any given mode of production, there are polarizing class locations.
a) True
b) False

Question 18:

Bourdieu argued that the choice of cultural practices and objects that people use in their daily lives helps them to establish their class position and work to maintain class boundaries.
a) True
b) False

Question 19:

According to Bourdieu, the issue of gender plays a major role in social class.
a) True
b) False

Question 20:

Class factors are not alone in contributing to the creation of advantaged or disadvantages positions.
a) True
b) False