SOCS 185 Week 5 Quiz

Question 1. Question:

(TCO 3) Kuznet’s curve suggests that

it could be an effective pitch for the veteran who is starting to lose a little something on his fast ball.
industrial societies will, in the longer run, remain unchanged.
industrial societies tend to become less stratified than agrarian societies.
as human technological sophistication has increased, social stratification has decreased.
industrialization and social stratification are unrelated.

Question 2. Question:

(TCO 3) _____ is the term for earnings from work or investments and _____ is the term for the total value of money and other assets, minus outstanding debts.

Income; personal property
Profit; income
Wealth; income
Income; wealth
Rent; net worth

Question 3. Question:

(TCO 3) Which theory of poverty blames poverty on the shortcomings of the poor themselves?

Individual responsibility theory
Personal chioce theory
Social forces theory
Culture of poverty theory
Legacy or poverty theory

Question 4. Question:

(TCO 5) Which of the following did Max Weber suggest were analytically distinct components of stratification?

Conformity, deviance, and social control
Power, prestige, and position
Class, caste, and age
Class, prestige, and esteem
Class, status, and power

Question 5. Question:

(TCO 4) Accounts Payable Administrator Imelda Czechs works for a small international corporation. This category of work can be described as _____

blue-collar work.
white-collar work.
pink-collar work.
fur collar work.
no-collar work.

Question 6. Question:

(TCO 4) Which type of slavery consists of employers holding workers by paying them too little to cover their debts?

Chattel slavery
Child slavery
Debt bondage
Debit slavery
Revolving credit slavery

Question 7. Question:

(TCO 4) Which of the following gives the correct order of stages of modernization according to W. W. Rostow?

High mass consumption, traditional, drive to technological maturity, and take-off
Traditional, drive to technological maturity, take-off, and high mass consumption
High mass consumption, traditional, take-off, and drive to technological maturity
Traditional, take-off, drive to technological maturity, and high mass consumption
Take-off, drive to traditional maturity, technological, and consume mass quantities

Question 8. Question:

(TCO 4) Andre Gunder Frank states that poor nations

are responsible for their own poverty.
were “underdeveloped,” or made poor, by rich nations.
suffer from traditional culture.
need to gain more productive technology.
can be helped with the investment of multinational corporations.

Question 9. Question:

(TCO 4) According to Immanuel Wallerstein’s view of the global economic system, which type of nation is relatively independent of outside control?

Core
Periphery
Semiperiphery
Marginality
Tertiary

Question 10. Question:

(TCO 5) While modernization theory focuses on _____, dependency theory focuses on _____.

poor nations; rich nations
distribution of wealth; production of wealth
production of wealth; distribution of wealth
culture; economics
multinationals; self-reliance

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SOCS 185 Week 6 Quiz

Question 1. Question:

(TCO 8) Back in 1900, it was common in the United States to consider people of these ancestries as “nonwhite.”

English, Scottish, or Welsh
Irish, Italian, or Jewish
French, German, or Swiss
Dutch, French, or Swede
Austrian, Norse, or Prussian

Question 2. Question:

(TCO 8) Ethnicity refers to ______.

a group that is set apart from others because of physical differences
socially constructed categories based on cultural traits a society defines as important
a group whose members have significantly less control over their own lives than the members of a dominant group
a collective that has reached very moral decisions about a way of life
all people from the same country

Question 3. Question:

(TCO 6) The unequal treatment of various categories of people is known as

stereotyping.
ethnocentrism.
discrimination.
segregation.
active prejudice.

Question 4. Question:

(TCO 5) The claim that defining members of some minority as inferior will make them inferior is one application of

social distance research.
the iron law of oligarchy.
the Thomas theorem.
authoritarian personality theory.
exploitation theory.

Question 5. Question:

(TCO 8) The barrier that is invisible, but which prevents women from rising beyond middle management positions, is referred to as

the “glass ceiling.”
the “closed top.”
transparent discrimination.
the “ceiling of upper management.”
the “impermeable barrier.”

Question 6. Question:

(TCO 8) _____ refers to social organization in which males dominate females.

Patriarchy
Matriarchy
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Fratriarchy

Question 7. Question:

(TCO 8) Talcott Parsons explained that males tend to exhibit _____ behavior, while females are more _____.

instrumental; expressive
expressive; instrumental
egalitarian; hierarchical
rational; emotional
emotional; rational

Question 8. Question:

(TCO 8) Which type of feminism seeks to end patriarchy by eliminating the idea of gender itself?

Liberal feminism
Socialist feminism
Radical feminism
Moderate feminism
Libertarian feminism

Question 9. Question:

(TCO 7) Comparing school performance, researchers have found that the most important cause of the achievement gap between rich and poor children is

differences in schools.
differences in home environments.
differences in personal ability.
differences in personal health.
differences in family composition.

Question 10. Question:

(TCO 3) _____ and _____ theories explain that families perpetuate social inequality in U.S. society through inheritance of private property, encouraging patriarchy, and passing on racial and ethnic inequality.

Feminist; functionalist
Social-exchange; feminist
Social-exchange; interactionist
Global; internationalist
Feminist; social conflict