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1. A sociologist conducting research on stratification asks Jane about her past and current income, wealth, and
health history. The sociologist then asks Jane the same questions about her parents. What is the sociologist
trying to determine?
A. The specific occupations and diseases that are passed from one generation to the next.
B. How persons experiencing social inequality remember the conditions in their families of origin.
C. Whether social inequalities are passed from one generation to the next.
D. What forms of property are passed from one generation to the next.

2. Linda and her twin brother, Martin, were raised in a wealthy Canadian family during the 1950s. They
attended a private school, excelled academically, made good friends and enjoyed tennis lessons and horseback
riding. Linda marries a young man who is studying to become a lawyer, while in the same year, Martin follows
in his father's footsteps to become a highly successful business tycoon. Linda and Martin are good examples of
the close link in stratification between:
A. achieved status and prestige.
B. ascribed status and achieved status.
C. ascribed status and prestige.
D. achieved status and power.
3. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power is called:
A. socialization.
B. status.
C. social structure.
D. social inequality.

4. Which of the following terms is used by sociologists to refer to a structured ranking of groups of people that
perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in society?
A. social mobility
B. stratification
C. hypergamy
D. status

5. An individual's salary and wages are referred to as:

A. wealth.
B. income.
C. prosperity.
D. finances.

6. A panhandler makes $15 to $20 per day on the streets. This is his:
A. status.
B. prestige.
C. income.
D. wealth.

7. Wealth is:
A. all of a person's material assets, including land, stocks, and other types of property.
B. salaries and wages.
C. a term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have a similar level of income and prestige.
D. a term used by Thorstein Veblen for people who have the same lifestyle, independent of their class position.

8. A well-known Hollywood actress owns a home in Beverly Hills and another one on the French Riviera. She
owns her own movie production company along with a large portfolio of stocks. The total of the different things
she owns is considered her:
A. income.
B. caste.
C. esteem.
D. wealth.
9. An ascribed status is a social position:
A. attained by a person largely through his or her own effort.
B. assigned to a person without regard to the person's unique characteristics or talents.
C. based solely on income and wealth.
D. based solely on lifestyle.

10. An 83-year-old woman is placed at a small table in a dark corner of a trendy nightclub and is ignored by the
staff. Her shoddy treatment is probably due to her age, which is a(an) ______________ status.
A. ascribed
B. achieved
C. horizontal
D. structural

11. Achieved status is a social position:

A. attained by a person largely through his or her own effort.
B. assigned to a person by peers, without regard to the person's unique talents or characteristics.
C. assigned to an individual at birth.
D. given to an individual based upon his or her age, race, or gender.

12. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others is known as:
A. feudalism.
B. slavery.
C. communism.
D. caste system.

13. Which of the following statements about slavery is true?

A. It is considered the most extreme form of social inequality.
B. The only recorded examples of slavery occurred in the U.S. and in ancient Greece.
C. Slavery was considered a permanent status in ancient Greece.
D. Slavery in the U.S. was considered an achieved status.

14. Which of the following terms is used to refer to hereditary systems of rank that are relatively fixed,
immobile, and generally religiously dictated?
A. tenure
B. slavery
C. castes
D. feudalism
15. Around the world at the beginning of the 21st century, _____ people were enslaved.
A. 15 million
B. 1 million
C. 27 million
D. 10 million

16. A person who is unable to voluntarily withdraw his/her labour from an employer is:
A. untouchable
B. tenured
C. a serf
D. a slave

17. A class system employs a social ranking based primarily on:

A. age.
B. caste.
C. economic position.
D. religious and ethnic background.

18. A woman is born into a homeless, single-parent family. She is very talented and as an adult, becomes a
wealthy, world-acclaimed pianist. This scenario most closely represents which type of stratification system?
A. caste
B. class
C. estate
D. slavery

19. According to the 2009 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, the rate of child poverty in
Canada was:
A. 1 in 8
B. 1 in 6
C. 1 in 4
D. at least 1 in 10

20. Karl Marx argued that social, economic, and political inequalities are dependent on:
A. class differentiation.
B. achieved status.
C. the Protestant work ethic.
D. religious factors.
21. Capitalism is an economic system in which:
A. the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
B. all property is communally owned and no social distinctions are made on the basis of people's ability to
produce.
C. the means of production are largely in private hands, and the main incentive for economic activity is the
accumulation of profit.
D. none of these

22. Which term is used by Karl Marx to refer to the capitalist class that owns the means of production?
A. bourgeoisie
B. proletariat
C. peasantry
D. oligarchy

23. Net worth is measured by:

A. debts + assets
B. debts - assets
C. assets - debts
D. none of these

24. Karl Marx used the term "proletariat" to refer to:

A. the capitalist class.
B. the owners of the means of production.
C. the working class.
D. the middle class.

25. In Karl Marx's view, social relations during any period of history depend on who controls the:
A. mass media.
B. primary mode of economic production.
C. legislature.
D. most powerful religious organizations.

26. Karl Marx used the concept of class consciousness to refer to:
A. an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
B. the reputation that a particular individual has within an occupation.
C. a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and the need for
collective political action to bring about social change.
D. the respect and admiration with which an occupation is regarded by society.
27. Which of the following terms did Karl Marx use to refer to an attitude held by members of a class that does
not accurately reflect the class's objective position?
A. false consciousness
B. bourgeoisie consciousness
C. class consciousness
D. proletariat consciousness

28. In Karl Marx's view, a worker who identifies with the wealthy and believes that he/she can achieve great
wealth through hard work is likely to have developed a:
A. bourgeoisie consciousness.
B. class consciousness.
C. false consciousness.
D. caste consciousness.

29. Janice is a single parent working as a maid for a cleaning service. The manager offers her a supervisory
position at a higher hourly wage but Janice refuses the job offer because it would mean she would be in charge
of disciplining workers and making sure that their work hours are kept at a minimum to save the company
money. According to Marx, Janice's decision to decline the promotion is evidence of what kind of
consciousness?
A. class
B. bourgeoisie
C. false
D. capitalist

30. One shortcoming of Karl Marx's work is that he failed to anticipate the:
A. end of feudalism.
B. extent to which political liberties and relative prosperity could contribute to false consciousness.
C. effects of alienated labour on the working class.
D. conflict between various capitalist nations.

31. Max Weber uses the term "class" to refer to people who share a similar level of:
A. culture.
B. wealth and income.
C. power.
D. esteem.
32. Which of the following did Max Weber suggest were analytically distinct components of stratification?
A. conformity, deviance, and social control
B. class, status, and power
C. class, caste, and age
D. class, prestige, and esteem

33. In Max Weber's view:

A. people hold three distinct ranks in society.
B. our position in a stratification system reflects some combination of class, stigma, and power.
C. our rank in society is determined by four separate variables.
D. all of these

34. Which sociologist maintained that a person's position in a stratification system reflects some combination of
their class, status, and power?
A. Max Weber
B. Ralf Dahrendorf
C. Gerhard Lenski
D. Karl Marx

35. A status group refers to:

A. people who share a similar level of wealth and income.
B. people who share the same prestige or lifestyle, independent of their class position.
C. members of a class who have a subjective awareness regarding their common vested interests and need for
collective political action to bring about social change.
D. a feudal class.

36. Every evening at a neighbourhood bar, the clientele, which consists of construction workers, police officers,
plumbers, and factory workers, watches sports events on the big screen television set and plays pool. The people
who hang out in this bar are an example of a:
A. status group.
B. power group.
C. class.
D. caste.

37. Max Weber defined __________ as the ability to exercise one's will over others.
A. control
B. status
C. class
D. power
38. The owner of a major league baseball team can fire employees for not winning a pennant, have the city
build him a new ballpark, and prevent companies that compete against his own team from airing advertisements
during the team's televised games. In Max Weber's view, this owner would most likely be considered to have:
A. power.
B. class.
C. esteem.
D. status.

39. Judith Rollins's study of interactions between domestic workers and their employers is an example of the:
A. functionalist perspective.
B. conflict perspective.
C. interactionist perspective.
D. feminist perspective.

40. Rule by outsiders that includes political, social, economic, and cultural domination is referred to as:
A. consumption flow
B. false consciousness
C. colonialism
D. politicism

41. Which sociological perspective would be most likely to argue that most talented people would not go to
school for many years to become biochemists if they could make as much money and gain as much respect
working as elevator operators?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. feminist perspective

42. Which sociologist(s) argue(s) that stratification is universal and that social inequality is necessary so that
people will be motivated to fill functionally important positions?
A. Ralf Dahrendorf
B. Karl Marx
C. Pitirim Sorokin and William Ryan
D. Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore
43. Which sociological perspective argues that competition for scarce resources results in significant political,
economic, and social inequality?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. feminist perspective

44. Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf suggests that among the most powerful groups in society are:
A. managers of industry.
B. heads of the government bureaucracy.
C. legislators.
D. all of these

45. Which sociologist has merged Marx's emphasis on class conflict with Weber's recognition that power is an
important element of stratification?
A. William Julius Wilson
B. Ralf Dahrendorf
C. Gerhard Lenski
D. Kingsley Davis

46. Emily enters medical school and discovers that it takes extraordinary commitment to become a doctor. She
spends so much time studying that she rarely has time for her family and friends and in her classes it's expected
that students compete with each other to earn the respect of the professors. According to the radical feminist
perspective, Emily is:
A. working hard to enter a profession where she might later work to make it more "female friendly".
B. trying to survive in a culture in which male values prevail.
C. paying the price necessary to enter a profession that is associated with high prestige and good pay.
D. attempting to complete a program that is not suited to her personality.

47. Gerhard Lenski argues that social inequality may have once served the overall purposes of society, but the
degree of social and economic inequality that now exists far exceeds the need to provide for goods and services.
This facet of Lenski's analysis is consistent with which perspective?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. global perspective
48. Which of the following notes that while a system of rewards for filling highly expert professions demanding
long years of education and skill may have once served the overall purposes of society, this situation no longer
exists?
A. Gerhard Lenski
B. Ralf Dahrendorf
C. D. Stanley Eitzen
D. David Featherman

49. In a subsistence-based, hunting-and-gathering society, status is extended to those individuals who exhibit
culturally valued skills like healing the sick or tracking animals for food. Sociologist Gerhard Lenski argues that
while this is a form of social differentiation, a system based on class does not emerge in this setting because
hunting and gathering societies:
A. have too few members to be broken down into social classes.
B. organize their members according to religious beliefs.
C. are incapable of producing a surplus of wealth.
D. lack the bureaucracy associated with class stratification.

50. The objective method of assessing social class assigns individuals to classes on the basis of:
A. criteria such as occupation, education, income, and place of residence.
B. self-assessment.
C. assessments by friends and colleagues.
D. the neighbourhoods in which they reside.

51. Prestige refers to the:

A. reputation that a particular individual has within an occupation.
B. ability to exercise one's will over others.
C. respect and admiration with which an occupation is regarded by society.
D. people who have similar levels of wealth and income.

52. Which term is used to refer to the reputation that a specific person has within an occupation?
A. power
B. prestige
C. esteem
D. status
53. Which sociological perspective would be most likely to suggest that studies of social class have tended to
neglect the occupations and incomes of women as determinants of social rank, thereby elevating the status of
males?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. feminist perspective

54. In a national survey of occupational prestige rankings in the Canada, the highest score and the lowest score
are received by ___________, respectively.
A. librarians and janitors
B. sociologists and street-corner drug dealers
C. nurses and car salespeople
D. dentists and waiters and waitresses

55. In Canada:
A. the distribution of wealth is not studied
B. the distribution of wealth and income is similar
C. there is greater inequality in income than in wealth
D. there is greater inequality in wealth than in income

56. In 2005, the richest fifth of the population in Canada held _____ percent of the nation's wealth.
A. 69
B. 22
C. 15
D. 42

57. Which of the following would be the best example of absolute poverty?
A. A homeless man in tattered clothes begs in the streets for money and food.
B. A dual-career couple lives in a suburban community and struggles to pay their monthly bills.
C. A family owns only two luxury automobiles, although their friends and neighbours own three such vehicles.
D. none of these

58. The poverty rate in Canada is _________ the rate of poverty in the U.S.
A. twice as high as
B. lower than
C. equivalent to
D. three times as high as
59. Which of the following refers to a floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a
society are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison to the nation as a whole?
A. absolute poverty
B. elementary poverty
C. relative poverty
D. dramatic poverty

60. The fact that an unemployed coal miner in Appalachia has a higher standard of living than a doctor in
Congo, illustrates the idea that:
A. poverty is absolute.
B. poverty is relative.
C. being a doctor is not a high-prestige occupation in all countries.
D. Americans are ethnocentric.

61. The majority of lone-parent families are headed by women. In 2009, 21.5 percent of single mothers in
Canada lived in poverty. This alarming trend is referred to as:
A. discriminating poverty.
B. elementary poverty.
C. the feminization of poverty.
D. dramatic poverty.

62. Which sociological perspective suggests that the higher rates of poverty among single mothers are due to the
difficulty women have finding affordable childcare, sexual harassment, and sex discrimination in the labour
market?
A. functionalist perspective
B. feminist perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. global perspective

63. A family lives in a remote area of Appalachia, where coal mines that once employed many workers have
been idle for years. There are no jobs in the area, the distant schools are poorly funded, and because of the
remote location, there are no churches or medical facilities nearby. These poor, chronically unemployed people
who barely survive from winter to winter are an example of:
A. the underclass.
B. structural mobility.
C. an estate.
D. false consciousness.
64. Which of the following groups experiences the highest levels of chronic poverty in Canada?
A. Aboriginal peoples
B. Indo-Canadians
C. Chinese Canadians
D. Whites

65. Which sociologist has identified a number of social, economic, and political functions that the poor perform
for society (e.g., poor people do society's dirty work at low cost; poverty creates jobs for those in occupations
serving the poor; the existence of poor people guarantees the higher status of the more affluent)?
A. Herbert Gans
B. Émile Durkheim
C. Peter Blau
D. Daniel Rossides

66. Max Weber referred to people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living
conditions, and favourable experiences as:
A. power.
B. wealth.
C. life chances.
D. status.

67. Which of the following does Herbert Gans not mention as a function that the poor perform for society?
A. Poor people are available to perform society's menial jobs at a low cost.
B. Poverty creates jobs for the occupations and professions that service them.
C. Poverty ensures that at least some people aren't materialistic.
D. The existence of poor people guarantees the higher status of the more affluent.

68. Which sociological perspective would be most likely to emphasize that a person's health and educational
opportunities are affected by his or her class position in important ways?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. global perspective
69. Recent studies suggest that computers:
A. are readily available in the Canada and have proved to be an effective device for integrating all ethnic, racial,
and socioeconomic groups.
B. have led to the emergence of an Internet gap that divides society into haves and have-nots based on financial
ability to access the Internet.
C. have led to the emergence of an Internet gap that divides society by gender.
D. have led to the creation of the "digital divide," a new form of social inequality in Canada.

70. Which of the following refers to the movement of individuals or groups from one position of society's
stratification system to another?
A. social mobility
B. life chances
C. relative poverty
D. social distribution

71. A stratification system that implies that the position of each individual is influenced by the person's
achieved status is referred to as a(an):
A. open stratification system.
B. closed stratification system.
C. egalitarian class system.
D. fractured class system.

72. Some analysts suggest that inner-city riots have frequently occurred when poor people realize that their
chances of climbing out of poverty are unlikely, because of the structure of our social system. Their frustration
is based on their perception that they are living in a(an):
A. open stratification system.
B. closed stratification system.
C. egalitarian class system.
D. fractured class system.

73. An inner-city youth spends many hours in the neighbourhood playground shooting baskets on the basketball
court and engaging in every game that he can play. His skills become outstanding, and he receives a college
scholarship and then signs a lucrative contract to play in the National Basketball Association. This is an
example of:
A. vertical mobility.
B. ascribed status.
C. horizontal mobility.
D. structural mobility.
74. Which of the following is an example of vertical mobility?
A. A person loses her job as a corporate vice president because of downsizing and remains unemployed for 14
months.
B. An African president is overthrown in a bloodless coup and flees to a neighbouring country where he works
as a farmer.
C. A National Football League star suffers a career-ending injury and gets a job as an auto mechanic.
D. all of these

75. A woman who was born and raised in a poor family becomes a regional supervisor for the U.S. Postal
Service. She has experienced:
A. structural mobility.
B. horizontal mobility.
C. upward intergenerational mobility.
D. institutional mobility.

76. Which sociologist first made the distinction between vertical and horizontal mobility?
A. Ferdinand Tönnies
B. Émile Durkheim
C. Pitirim Sorokin
D. Wilbert Moore

77. Research concerning the degree of social mobility within the occupational structure of Canada indicates
that:
A. the majority of Canadians experience no occupational mobility in their working lives.
B. much of the social mobility in Canada occurs among the poorest Canadians.
C. occupational mobility among Aboriginal peoples is no longer sharply limited by racial discrimination.
D. all of these

78. University students who come from families with higher incomes are ___________ to graduate from
university than students from lower-income families.
A. much more likely
B. slightly more likely
C. equally likely
D. less likely

79. The most extreme form of legalized social inequality for individuals or groups is a caste system.
True False
80. Varnas refers to the major castes in India.
True False

81. Peasants required to work on land leased to them by nobles in exchange for military protection and other
services is referred to as a caste system.
True False

82. According to Karl Marx, a worker with class consciousness may feel that he or she is being treated fairly by
the bourgeoisie, and a worker with false consciousness realizes that all workers are being exploited by the
bourgeoisie and have a common stake in revolution.
True False

83. Max Weber argued that the actions of individuals and groups can be understood solely in economic terms.
True False

84. Even if stratification is inevitable, the functionalist explanation for differential rewards does not explain the
wide disparity between the rich and the poor.
True False

85. Conflict sociologists argue that stratification will inevitably lead to instability and to social change.
True False

86. The discrepancy in average earnings of the richest Canadians compared to the poorest has decreased
substantially in the last two decades.
True False

87. Students from working class families are as likely to attend college as students from middle class families,
as long as they try hard.
True False

88. Men are more likely than women to withdraw from the workforce when their skills far exceed the jobs
offered to them.
True False
89. Women's employment opportunities are much more limited than men's.
True False

90. Describe the differences between ascribed status and achieved status. Give examples to support your
answer.

91. Discuss Karl Marx's view on class differentiation. Define the terms "bourgeoisie" and "proletariat."
Describe what Marx termed as a "false consciousness" and give an example to support your answer.

92. Compare and contrast the functionalist and conflict views of social stratification. Give examples of each
view to support your answer.

93. Describe the various issues surrounding the definition of poverty. Define the difference between absolute
and relative poverty.
94. Compare welfare policy reform in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.
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1. A sociologist conducting research on stratification asks Jane about her past and current income, wealth, and
health history. The sociologist then asks Jane the same questions about her parents. What is the sociologist
trying to determine?
A. The specific occupations and diseases that are passed from one generation to the next.
B. How persons experiencing social inequality remember the conditions in their families of origin.
C. Whether social inequalities are passed from one generation to the next.
D. What forms of property are passed from one generation to the next.

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2. Linda and her twin brother, Martin, were raised in a wealthy Canadian family during the 1950s. They
attended a private school, excelled academically, made good friends and enjoyed tennis lessons and horseback
riding. Linda marries a young man who is studying to become a lawyer, while in the same year, Martin follows
in his father's footsteps to become a highly successful business tycoon. Linda and Martin are good examples of
the close link in stratification between:
A. achieved status and prestige.
B. ascribed status and achieved status.
C. ascribed status and prestige.
D. achieved status and power.

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3. A condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power is called:
A. socialization.
B. status.
C. social structure.
D. social inequality.

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4. Which of the following terms is used by sociologists to refer to a structured ranking of groups of people that
perpetuates unequal economic rewards and power in society?
A. social mobility
B. stratification
C. hypergamy
D. status

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5. An individual's salary and wages are referred to as:

A. wealth.
B. income.
C. prosperity.
D. finances.

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6. A panhandler makes $15 to $20 per day on the streets. This is his:
A. status.
B. prestige.
C. income.
D. wealth.

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7. Wealth is:
A. all of a person's material assets, including land, stocks, and other types of property.
B. salaries and wages.
C. a term used by Max Weber to refer to people who have a similar level of income and prestige.
D. a term used by Thorstein Veblen for people who have the same lifestyle, independent of their class position.

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8. A well-known Hollywood actress owns a home in Beverly Hills and another one on the French Riviera. She
owns her own movie production company along with a large portfolio of stocks. The total of the different things
she owns is considered her:
A. income.
B. caste.
C. esteem.
D. wealth.

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9. An ascribed status is a social position:

A. attained by a person largely through his or her own effort.
B. assigned to a person without regard to the person's unique characteristics or talents.
C. based solely on income and wealth.
D. based solely on lifestyle.

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10. An 83-year-old woman is placed at a small table in a dark corner of a trendy nightclub and is ignored by the
staff. Her shoddy treatment is probably due to her age, which is a(an) ______________ status.
A. ascribed
B. achieved
C. horizontal
D. structural

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11. Achieved status is a social position:

A. attained by a person largely through his or her own effort.
B. assigned to a person by peers, without regard to the person's unique talents or characteristics.
C. assigned to an individual at birth.
D. given to an individual based upon his or her age, race, or gender.

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12. A system of enforced servitude in which people are legally owned by others is known as:
A. feudalism.
B. slavery.
C. communism.
D. caste system.

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13. Which of the following statements about slavery is true?

A. It is considered the most extreme form of social inequality.
B. The only recorded examples of slavery occurred in the U.S. and in ancient Greece.
C. Slavery was considered a permanent status in ancient Greece.
D. Slavery in the U.S. was considered an achieved status.

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14. Which of the following terms is used to refer to hereditary systems of rank that are relatively fixed,
immobile, and generally religiously dictated?
A. tenure
B. slavery
C. castes
D. feudalism

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15. Around the world at the beginning of the 21st century, _____ people were enslaved.
A. 15 million
B. 1 million
C. 27 million
D. 10 million

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16. A person who is unable to voluntarily withdraw his/her labour from an employer is:
A. untouchable
B. tenured
C. a serf
D. a slave

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17. A class system employs a social ranking based primarily on:

A. age.
B. caste.
C. economic position.
D. religious and ethnic background.

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18. A woman is born into a homeless, single-parent family. She is very talented and as an adult, becomes a
wealthy, world-acclaimed pianist. This scenario most closely represents which type of stratification system?
A. caste
B. class
C. estate
D. slavery

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19. According to the 2009 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Canada, the rate of child poverty in
Canada was:
A. 1 in 8
B. 1 in 6
C. 1 in 4
D. at least 1 in 10

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20. Karl Marx argued that social, economic, and political inequalities are dependent on:
A. class differentiation.
B. achieved status.
C. the Protestant work ethic.
D. religious factors.

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21. Capitalism is an economic system in which:

A. the means of production and distribution are collectively owned.
B. all property is communally owned and no social distinctions are made on the basis of people's ability to
produce.
C. the means of production are largely in private hands, and the main incentive for economic activity is the
accumulation of profit.
D. none of these

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22. Which term is used by Karl Marx to refer to the capitalist class that owns the means of production?
A. bourgeoisie
B. proletariat
C. peasantry
D. oligarchy

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23. Net worth is measured by:

A. debts + assets
B. debts - assets
C. assets - debts
D. none of these

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24. Karl Marx used the term "proletariat" to refer to:
A. the capitalist class.
B. the owners of the means of production.
C. the working class.
D. the middle class.

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25. In Karl Marx's view, social relations during any period of history depend on who controls the:
A. mass media.
B. primary mode of economic production.
C. legislature.
D. most powerful religious organizations.

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26. Karl Marx used the concept of class consciousness to refer to:
A. an attitude held by members of a class that does not accurately reflect its objective position.
B. the reputation that a particular individual has within an occupation.
C. a subjective awareness held by members of a class regarding their common vested interests and the need for
collective political action to bring about social change.
D. the respect and admiration with which an occupation is regarded by society.

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27. Which of the following terms did Karl Marx use to refer to an attitude held by members of a class that does
not accurately reflect the class's objective position?
A. false consciousness
B. bourgeoisie consciousness
C. class consciousness
D. proletariat consciousness

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28. In Karl Marx's view, a worker who identifies with the wealthy and believes that he/she can achieve great
wealth through hard work is likely to have developed a:
A. bourgeoisie consciousness.
B. class consciousness.
C. false consciousness.
D. caste consciousness.

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29. Janice is a single parent working as a maid for a cleaning service. The manager offers her a supervisory
position at a higher hourly wage but Janice refuses the job offer because it would mean she would be in charge
of disciplining workers and making sure that their work hours are kept at a minimum to save the company
money. According to Marx, Janice's decision to decline the promotion is evidence of what kind of
consciousness?
A. class
B. bourgeoisie
C. false
D. capitalist

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30. One shortcoming of Karl Marx's work is that he failed to anticipate the:
A. end of feudalism.
B. extent to which political liberties and relative prosperity could contribute to false consciousness.
C. effects of alienated labour on the working class.
D. conflict between various capitalist nations.

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31. Max Weber uses the term "class" to refer to people who share a similar level of:
A. culture.
B. wealth and income.
C. power.
D. esteem.

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32. Which of the following did Max Weber suggest were analytically distinct components of stratification?
A. conformity, deviance, and social control
B. class, status, and power
C. class, caste, and age
D. class, prestige, and esteem

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33. In Max Weber's view:

A. people hold three distinct ranks in society.
B. our position in a stratification system reflects some combination of class, stigma, and power.
C. our rank in society is determined by four separate variables.
D. all of these

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34. Which sociologist maintained that a person's position in a stratification system reflects some combination of
their class, status, and power?
A. Max Weber
B. Ralf Dahrendorf
C. Gerhard Lenski
D. Karl Marx

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35. A status group refers to:
A. people who share a similar level of wealth and income.
B. people who share the same prestige or lifestyle, independent of their class position.
C. members of a class who have a subjective awareness regarding their common vested interests and need for
collective political action to bring about social change.
D. a feudal class.

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36. Every evening at a neighbourhood bar, the clientele, which consists of construction workers, police officers,
plumbers, and factory workers, watches sports events on the big screen television set and plays pool. The people
who hang out in this bar are an example of a:
A. status group.
B. power group.
C. class.
D. caste.

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37. Max Weber defined __________ as the ability to exercise one's will over others.
A. control
B. status
C. class
D. power

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38. The owner of a major league baseball team can fire employees for not winning a pennant, have the city
build him a new ballpark, and prevent companies that compete against his own team from airing advertisements
during the team's televised games. In Max Weber's view, this owner would most likely be considered to have:
A. power.
B. class.
C. esteem.
D. status.

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39. Judith Rollins's study of interactions between domestic workers and their employers is an example of the:
A. functionalist perspective.
B. conflict perspective.
C. interactionist perspective.
D. feminist perspective.

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40. Rule by outsiders that includes political, social, economic, and cultural domination is referred to as:
A. consumption flow
B. false consciousness
C. colonialism
D. politicism

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41. Which sociological perspective would be most likely to argue that most talented people would not go to
school for many years to become biochemists if they could make as much money and gain as much respect
working as elevator operators?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. feminist perspective

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42. Which sociologist(s) argue(s) that stratification is universal and that social inequality is necessary so that
people will be motivated to fill functionally important positions?
A. Ralf Dahrendorf
B. Karl Marx
C. Pitirim Sorokin and William Ryan
D. Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore

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43. Which sociological perspective argues that competition for scarce resources results in significant political,
economic, and social inequality?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. feminist perspective

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44. Sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf suggests that among the most powerful groups in society are:
A. managers of industry.
B. heads of the government bureaucracy.
C. legislators.
D. all of these

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45. Which sociologist has merged Marx's emphasis on class conflict with Weber's recognition that power is an
important element of stratification?
A. William Julius Wilson
B. Ralf Dahrendorf
C. Gerhard Lenski
D. Kingsley Davis

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46. Emily enters medical school and discovers that it takes extraordinary commitment to become a doctor. She
spends so much time studying that she rarely has time for her family and friends and in her classes it's expected
that students compete with each other to earn the respect of the professors. According to the radical feminist
perspective, Emily is:
A. working hard to enter a profession where she might later work to make it more "female friendly".
B. trying to survive in a culture in which male values prevail.
C. paying the price necessary to enter a profession that is associated with high prestige and good pay.
D. attempting to complete a program that is not suited to her personality.

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47. Gerhard Lenski argues that social inequality may have once served the overall purposes of society, but the
degree of social and economic inequality that now exists far exceeds the need to provide for goods and services.
This facet of Lenski's analysis is consistent with which perspective?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. global perspective

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48. Which of the following notes that while a system of rewards for filling highly expert professions demanding
long years of education and skill may have once served the overall purposes of society, this situation no longer
exists?
A. Gerhard Lenski
B. Ralf Dahrendorf
C. D. Stanley Eitzen
D. David Featherman

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49. In a subsistence-based, hunting-and-gathering society, status is extended to those individuals who exhibit
culturally valued skills like healing the sick or tracking animals for food. Sociologist Gerhard Lenski argues that
while this is a form of social differentiation, a system based on class does not emerge in this setting because
hunting and gathering societies:
A. have too few members to be broken down into social classes.
B. organize their members according to religious beliefs.
C. are incapable of producing a surplus of wealth.
D. lack the bureaucracy associated with class stratification.

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50. The objective method of assessing social class assigns individuals to classes on the basis of:
A. criteria such as occupation, education, income, and place of residence.
B. self-assessment.
C. assessments by friends and colleagues.
D. the neighbourhoods in which they reside.

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51. Prestige refers to the:

A. reputation that a particular individual has within an occupation.
B. ability to exercise one's will over others.
C. respect and admiration with which an occupation is regarded by society.
D. people who have similar levels of wealth and income.

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52. Which term is used to refer to the reputation that a specific person has within an occupation?
A. power
B. prestige
C. esteem
D. status

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53. Which sociological perspective would be most likely to suggest that studies of social class have tended to
neglect the occupations and incomes of women as determinants of social rank, thereby elevating the status of
males?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. feminist perspective

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54. In a national survey of occupational prestige rankings in the Canada, the highest score and the lowest score
are received by ___________, respectively.
A. librarians and janitors
B. sociologists and street-corner drug dealers
C. nurses and car salespeople
D. dentists and waiters and waitresses

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55. In Canada:
A. the distribution of wealth is not studied
B. the distribution of wealth and income is similar
C. there is greater inequality in income than in wealth
D. there is greater inequality in wealth than in income

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56. In 2005, the richest fifth of the population in Canada held _____ percent of the nation's wealth.
A. 69
B. 22
C. 15
D. 42

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57. Which of the following would be the best example of absolute poverty?
A. A homeless man in tattered clothes begs in the streets for money and food.
B. A dual-career couple lives in a suburban community and struggles to pay their monthly bills.
C. A family owns only two luxury automobiles, although their friends and neighbours own three such vehicles.
D. none of these

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58. The poverty rate in Canada is _________ the rate of poverty in the U.S.
A. twice as high as
B. lower than
C. equivalent to
D. three times as high as

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59. Which of the following refers to a floating standard of deprivation by which people at the bottom of a
society are judged to be disadvantaged in comparison to the nation as a whole?
A. absolute poverty
B. elementary poverty
C. relative poverty
D. dramatic poverty

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60. The fact that an unemployed coal miner in Appalachia has a higher standard of living than a doctor in
Congo, illustrates the idea that:
A. poverty is absolute.
B. poverty is relative.
C. being a doctor is not a high-prestige occupation in all countries.
D. Americans are ethnocentric.

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61. The majority of lone-parent families are headed by women. In 2009, 21.5 percent of single mothers in
Canada lived in poverty. This alarming trend is referred to as:
A. discriminating poverty.
B. elementary poverty.
C. the feminization of poverty.
D. dramatic poverty.

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62. Which sociological perspective suggests that the higher rates of poverty among single mothers are due to the
difficulty women have finding affordable childcare, sexual harassment, and sex discrimination in the labour
market?
A. functionalist perspective
B. feminist perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. global perspective

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63. A family lives in a remote area of Appalachia, where coal mines that once employed many workers have
been idle for years. There are no jobs in the area, the distant schools are poorly funded, and because of the
remote location, there are no churches or medical facilities nearby. These poor, chronically unemployed people
who barely survive from winter to winter are an example of:
A. the underclass.
B. structural mobility.
C. an estate.
D. false consciousness.

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64. Which of the following groups experiences the highest levels of chronic poverty in Canada?
A. Aboriginal peoples
B. Indo-Canadians
C. Chinese Canadians
D. Whites

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65. Which sociologist has identified a number of social, economic, and political functions that the poor perform
for society (e.g., poor people do society's dirty work at low cost; poverty creates jobs for those in occupations
serving the poor; the existence of poor people guarantees the higher status of the more affluent)?
A. Herbert Gans
B. Émile Durkheim
C. Peter Blau
D. Daniel Rossides

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66. Max Weber referred to people's opportunities to provide themselves with material goods, positive living
conditions, and favourable experiences as:
A. power.
B. wealth.
C. life chances.
D. status.

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67. Which of the following does Herbert Gans not mention as a function that the poor perform for society?
A. Poor people are available to perform society's menial jobs at a low cost.
B. Poverty creates jobs for the occupations and professions that service them.
C. Poverty ensures that at least some people aren't materialistic.
D. The existence of poor people guarantees the higher status of the more affluent.

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68. Which sociological perspective would be most likely to emphasize that a person's health and educational
opportunities are affected by his or her class position in important ways?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. global perspective

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69. Recent studies suggest that computers:

A. are readily available in the Canada and have proved to be an effective device for integrating all ethnic, racial,
and socioeconomic groups.
B. have led to the emergence of an Internet gap that divides society into haves and have-nots based on financial
ability to access the Internet.
C. have led to the emergence of an Internet gap that divides society by gender.
D. have led to the creation of the "digital divide," a new form of social inequality in Canada.

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70. Which of the following refers to the movement of individuals or groups from one position of society's
stratification system to another?
A. social mobility
B. life chances
C. relative poverty
D. social distribution

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71. A stratification system that implies that the position of each individual is influenced by the person's
achieved status is referred to as a(an):
A. open stratification system.
B. closed stratification system.
C. egalitarian class system.
D. fractured class system.

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72. Some analysts suggest that inner-city riots have frequently occurred when poor people realize that their
chances of climbing out of poverty are unlikely, because of the structure of our social system. Their frustration
is based on their perception that they are living in a(an):
A. open stratification system.
B. closed stratification system.
C. egalitarian class system.
D. fractured class system.

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73. An inner-city youth spends many hours in the neighbourhood playground shooting baskets on the basketball
court and engaging in every game that he can play. His skills become outstanding, and he receives a college
scholarship and then signs a lucrative contract to play in the National Basketball Association. This is an
example of:
A. vertical mobility.
B. ascribed status.
C. horizontal mobility.
D. structural mobility.

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74. Which of the following is an example of vertical mobility?
A. A person loses her job as a corporate vice president because of downsizing and remains unemployed for 14
months.
B. An African president is overthrown in a bloodless coup and flees to a neighbouring country where he works
as a farmer.
C. A National Football League star suffers a career-ending injury and gets a job as an auto mechanic.
D. all of these

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75. A woman who was born and raised in a poor family becomes a regional supervisor for the U.S. Postal
Service. She has experienced:
A. structural mobility.
B. horizontal mobility.
C. upward intergenerational mobility.
D. institutional mobility.

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76. Which sociologist first made the distinction between vertical and horizontal mobility?
A. Ferdinand Tönnies
B. Émile Durkheim
C. Pitirim Sorokin
D. Wilbert Moore

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77. Research concerning the degree of social mobility within the occupational structure of Canada indicates
that:
A. the majority of Canadians experience no occupational mobility in their working lives.
B. much of the social mobility in Canada occurs among the poorest Canadians.
C. occupational mobility among Aboriginal peoples is no longer sharply limited by racial discrimination.
D. all of these

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78. University students who come from families with higher incomes are ___________ to graduate from
university than students from lower-income families.
A. much more likely
B. slightly more likely
C. equally likely
D. less likely

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79. The most extreme form of legalized social inequality for individuals or groups is a caste system.
FALSE

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80. Varnas refers to the major castes in India.

TRUE

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81. Peasants required to work on land leased to them by nobles in exchange for military protection and other
services is referred to as a caste system.
FALSE

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82. According to Karl Marx, a worker with class consciousness may feel that he or she is being treated fairly by
the bourgeoisie, and a worker with false consciousness realizes that all workers are being exploited by the
bourgeoisie and have a common stake in revolution.
FALSE

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83. Max Weber argued that the actions of individuals and groups can be understood solely in economic terms.
FALSE

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84. Even if stratification is inevitable, the functionalist explanation for differential rewards does not explain the
wide disparity between the rich and the poor.
TRUE

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85. Conflict sociologists argue that stratification will inevitably lead to instability and to social change.
TRUE

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86. The discrepancy in average earnings of the richest Canadians compared to the poorest has decreased
substantially in the last two decades.
FALSE

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87. Students from working class families are as likely to attend college as students from middle class families,
as long as they try hard.
FALSE

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88. Men are more likely than women to withdraw from the workforce when their skills far exceed the jobs
offered to them.
FALSE

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89. Women's employment opportunities are much more limited than men's.
TRUE

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90. Describe the differences between ascribed status and achieved status. Give examples to support your
answer.

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91. Discuss Karl Marx's view on class differentiation. Define the terms "bourgeoisie" and "proletariat."
Describe what Marx termed as a "false consciousness" and give an example to support your answer.

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92. Compare and contrast the functionalist and conflict views of social stratification. Give examples of each
view to support your answer.

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93. Describe the various issues surrounding the definition of poverty. Define the difference between absolute
and relative poverty.

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94. Compare welfare policy reform in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

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06 Summary

Category # of Questions
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 89
Bloom's: Analyze 8
Bloom's: Apply 15
Bloom's: Remember 55
Bloom's: Understand 16
Learning Objective: 06-01 What Is Stratification? 58
Learning Objective: 06-02 How Are Stratification and Social Class Related? 23
Learning Objective: 06-03 Does Social Mobility Exist? 13
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