Sociology The Real World Stein Chapter 8
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show | absolute deprivation
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The system of segregation of racial and ethnic groups that was legal in South Africa between 1948 and 1991. | show 🗑
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A description characterizing workers who perform manual labor. | show 🗑
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show | caste system
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show | class consciousness
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show | closed system
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show | cultural capital
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show | culture of poverty
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show | disenfranchisement
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A system of social stratification based on a hereditary nobility who were responsible for and served by a lower stratum of forced laborers called serfs. | show 🗑
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The occupational movement of individuals or groups within a social class. | show 🗑
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show | intergenerational mobility
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show | intragenerational mobility
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show | just-world hypothesis
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A system in which rewards are distributed based on merit. | show 🗑
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show | middle class
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show | open system
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show | prestige
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show | relative deprivation
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show | residential segregation
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A loosely knit movement that opposes consumerism and encourages people to work less, earn less, and spend less in accordance with nonmaterialistic values. | show 🗑
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The most extreme form of social stratification, based on the legal ownership of people. | show 🗑
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show | social class
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The unequal distribution of wealth, power, or prestige among members of a society. | show 🗑
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show | social mobility
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The tendency of social classes to remain relatively stable as social class status is passed down from one generation to the next. | show 🗑
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show | social stratification
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A measure of an individual's place within a social class system; often used interchangeably with "class." | show 🗑
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show | status inconsistency
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Changes in the social status of large numbers of people due to structural changes in society. | show 🗑
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show | underclass
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Mostly professionals and managers, who enjoy considerable financial stability; they constitute about 14 percent of the U.S. population. | show 🗑
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A largely self-sustaining group of the wealthiest people in a class system; in the United States they constitute about 1 percent of the population and possess most of the wealth of the country. | show 🗑
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The movement between different class statuses, often called either upward mobility or downward mobility. | show 🗑
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A description characterizing workers and skilled laborers in technical and lower-management jobs. | show 🗑
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show | working class
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show | working poor
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Weber would argue that person who belongs to an exclusive country club would belong to a higher social class due to that membership's _______________ | show 🗑
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The tendency of social classes to remain relatively stable as social class status is passed down from one generation to the next is called: | show 🗑
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A person from a lower socioeconomic status who is unaware of a job opening that is only posted on the Internet is an example of the impact of __________ on social mobility. | show 🗑
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show | an open system
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show | socioeconomic status
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The movement of individuals or groups within the hierarchal system of social classes is called: | show 🗑
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A single mother living on the streets with her two young children who does not have the means to provide adequate food and shelter for her family is experiencing: | show 🗑
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Which of the following is true concerning slavery? a) it is still legal in a few nations in the world today. b)Historically, based on race. c)it is the most extreme system of social strat. d)no longer takes place anywhere | show 🗑
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A man who has his Ph.D. in sociology, yet continues to work as a cabdriver, is an example of: | show 🗑
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show | the culture of poverty
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show | b) It is maintained through beliefs that are widely shared by members of society.
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Which theorist was concerned about the new kind of social inequality that was emerging between the owners and the workers? | show 🗑
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During the Great Depression, large numbers of people dropped down in social class standing. This is an example of: | show 🗑
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A student with highly educated parents who pass that value of education on to her is an example of that student acquiring what Bourdieu called: | show 🗑
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A woman who works on an assembly line on the floor of a factory has a: | show 🗑
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In 2008, the Census Bureau defined the poverty line as _______ for a family of three. | show 🗑
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show | everyone has the same chance to succeed and success or failure is completely determined by the individual person.
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The stratification system in India that is based on hereditary and allows little to no opportunity for movement between strata is a/an: | show 🗑
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show | meritocracy
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show | Moving from welfare to work is only mildly positive for families.
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Children who are able to attain more education and a better paying job than their parents are experiencing: | show 🗑
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show | homogamy
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show | True
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The geographic isolation of the poor from other parts of the city is called: | show 🗑
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show | social stratification
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show | wealth power and prestige
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__________ refers to a system of stratification based on access to resources such as wealth, property, power, and prestige. | show 🗑
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upper class characteristics | show 🗑
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show | professionals and managers 14%
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Middle class characteristics | show 🗑
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show | 30% less likely to have college degree blue collar workers
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show | 20% lower levels of literacy
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show | Intragenerational mobility
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_____ social mobility is the occupational movement of individuals or groups within a social class. | show 🗑
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_______ social mobility is the movement between social classes and is often called either upward mobility or downward mobility | show 🗑
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_________ mobility refers to changes in the social status of large numbers of people due to structural changes in society. | show 🗑
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___________ is a relative measure of poverty based on the standards of living. | show 🗑
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____________ is an objective measure of poverty that is defined by the inability to meet minimal standards for food, shelter, clothing, or health care. | show 🗑
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