Quest #7  Q1) Which factor is considered when evaluating someone’s standard of living? Income Class Employment All choices are correct   Q2: With the recent Occupy Wall Street Movement, the people of the United States keep hearing about the top 1%

Quest #7

 Q1) Which factor is considered when evaluating someone’s standard of living?

1. Income
2. Class
3. Employment
4. All choices are correct

Q2: With the recent Occupy Wall Street Movement, the people of the United States keep hearing about the top 1%. How much of the United States’s wealth rests in the hands of the wealthiest top 1% of people?

Q3: What is particularly unique about the United States middle class?

1. It is broken into two subcategories: upper and lower middle class
2. It is the smallest class in the United States
3. There is little mobility
4. The people who are middle class often have little to no education

Q4: Which historical event was greatly responsible for global stratification as we see it today? a. The Industrial Revolution

2. The fall of Rome
3. WW1
4. WW2

Q5: Charlotte was born to a lower class family in rural Pennsylvania. After taking a job in the mailroom of a large corporate office, Charlotte is slowly promoted through the ranks and becomes CEO of the company by the age of 50. What type of stratification is shown in this story?

1. Intragenerational mobility
2. Downward mobility
3. Intergenerational mobility
4. Structural mobility

Q6: What is Karl Marx’s over-arching sociological theory named?

1. Individual Habituation
2. Resource Acquisition
3. Conflict Theory
4. Emotional Labor
5. Evolution

Q7: Which best describes conflict theory?

1. High SES populations eat more red vines than low SES populations
2. Function, structure and social control are the most important factors to consider
3. It is important to observe symbolism in everyday life when analyzing interaction
4. Political systems allow low classes to remain economically disadvantaged, powerless  

Q8: What is the term for the parent who takes the most responsibility for child welfare?

1. Primary Guardian
2. Head Parent
3. Primary Caregiver
4. Head of Household

Q9: What is the primary agency of socialization for younger children?

1. Dad
2. Mom
3. Family
4. School

Q10: What seems to be the key (although not the rule) to upward social mobility?

1. How much you spend on your personal appearance
2. How much education you have
3. How many jobs you work
4. How well off your parents are

Q11: A person’s position in a country’s social stratification is determined by:

1. Prestige, family, legal records, occupation, and favorite food
2. GNI PPP, GDP, GNI, the PRB, and standards of living
3. Clothes, accessories, hobbies, shoes, and number of credit cards
4. Wealth, power, income, race, and education

Q12: Sue is desperate for the new designer purse that she saw while window shopping at her local mall. She knew every girl in school would covet her bag and wish to be like her. When she walked in, she whipped out her credit card, and purchased the $5,000 bag. This kind of purchasing is …

1. Designer consumerism
2. Credit card consumerism
3. Popular consumerism
4. Conspicuous consumption

Q13: Symbolic interactionists have come to the conclusion that:

1. Most people only socialize with people in their same social class
2. Only lower class people drink beer
3. Most people do not care about social rank and standing
4. Only upper class people can enjoy a good game of polo

Q14: In 2008 the United States, as well as the rest of the world, felt the effects of the recession.

After the collapse of the housing market, people lost their jobs and they quit spending money.

Many people could not afford their mortgages anymore and their homes went into foreclosure. For many people, it was a time of _________. 

1. Horizontal mobility
2. Social stratification
3. Downward mobility
4. Social inconsistency

Q15: GNI PPP, or gross national income divided by purchasing power parity, helps measure:

1. The average global interest rates for loans
2. The average level of education per person in a country
3. The amount of inflation affecting a country’s currency
4. The standard of living in a country

Q16: Whose work do conflict theorists rely on to help form their arguments surrounding social stratification?

1. Jack from Jack in the Box
2. Brandon Rowe
3. Karl Marx
4. Emil Durkheim

Q17: One main issue in studying global social inequality is:

1. Most countries keep their economic situations secret
2. The presence of tourism can make a country look richer than it really is
3. Most people live beyond their means which gives a false sense of wealth to a society
4. Social inequality is relative and therefore, difficult to compare across cultures  

Q18: Mohit spent his days combing through garbage in Mumbai, India with his brothers and sisters. Sometimes he would find food, or something to sell for money. He never tried to overcome his lower-class status because he had seen his friends try and fail. So, he accepted his fate, and tried to live life as best he could in a closed society. Mohit is an example of someone living under:

1. A democracy
2. A meritocracy
3. An Open Stratification System
4. A Closed Stratification System

Q19: Elisa graduated from college with a double major and was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa society. She was then offered a job in New York where she worked 12 hours a day and produced excellent results. Within two years she had over 100 employees working under her. Elisa’s hard work was rewarded with a raise and a bonus. This form of promotion is based on the principals of:

1. A meritocracy
2. A caste system
3. A dictatorship
4. An oligarchy

Q20: It was time for Oli to marry. He had finished school and was starting a job. His parents chose a bring for him whose parents had the same amount of wealth and belonged to the same class as they did. Oli and his bride will have a(n) ________ marriage.

1. Unconventional
2. Endogamous
3. Exogamous
4. Traditional

Q21: Cate is the daughter of a Senator and the former CEO of a Fortune 500 company. Harry grew up on a farm, tilling the land for a living. They are planning a June wedding. They will have a(n) _________ marriage.

1. Traditional
2. Endogamous
3. Exogamous
4. Unconventional

Q22: What is the most significant threat to the relatively high standard of living people are accustomed to in the United States?

1. The growth of the upper class
2. The stagnation of wages for workers
3. The feminization of poverty
4. The decline of the middle class

Q23: What if false consciousness as defined by Marx?

1. When class division raises and then falls within ones own perspective 
2. Lower class feeling that they are doing better economically than they really are 
3. Having a feeling that you are disconnected from class
4. Being asleep at the economic wheel