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Chapter 7: Social Stratification in the United States and Globally
Test Bank
Multiple Choice
1. Which of these are the three dimensions of social stratification?
A. lower class, middle class, and upper class
B. power, status, and mobility
C. class, status, and power
D. status, symbolism, and ascription
Learning Objective: 7.1: Describe the three dimensions of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Dimensions of Social Stratification
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. Which social theorist is credited with identifying the three dimensions of social stratification?
A. Karl Marx
B. Emile Durkheim
C. Erving Goffman
D. Max Weber
Learning Objective: 7.1: Describe the three dimensions of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Dimensions of Social Stratification
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Bill has worked as a Walmart cashier for 5 years and makes $28,000 annually, while Jane has worked as a customer service representative at Target for 4 years, making $32,000 annually. Bill and Jane appear to share which of these?
A. the same social stratum
B. the same social environment
C. the same social class
D. the same economic division
Learning Objective: 7.1: Describe the three dimensions of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Social Class
Difficulty Level: Medium
4. Which of these is defined as the ability to get others to do what you want them to do?
A. status
B. social class
C. power
D. wealth
Learning Objective: 7.1: Describe the three dimensions of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Power
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Which of these is the basis of stratification in the United States and in many other countries?
A. the money economy
B. symbolic exchanges
C. inherited titles
D. the prestige attached to a person’s position
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Economic Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. Owen makes $25,000 a year. He has just inherited $100,000 dollars. Owen owes 25,000 and has 25,000 in savings. What is his wealth?
A. $150,000
B. $125,000
C. $100,000
D. $25,000
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Economic Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. The income gap between the top 1% of earners in the United States and the bottom 20% of the population has ______ since 1979.
A. increased
B. decreased
C. stayed the same
D. not been recorded
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Income Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. Which of these refers to the loss of high-paying manufacturing jobs and the rise of low-paying service jobs?
A. deindustrialization
B. industrialization
C. McDonaldization
D. desegregation
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Income Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
9. Which of these is associated with recent increases in income inequality?
A. industrialization
B. increasing presence of labor unions
C. technological advances
D. decreasing power of people at the top
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Income Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
10. How are wealth and income linked?
A. Wealth produces sources of income.
B. Wealth is simply a more specific measurement of income.
C. Wealth includes one’s status, which can help someone earn income.
D. They are only linked by being measures of money; disparities in one don’t influence inequalities in the other one.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Wealth Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. According to Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, which is more important to inequality, income or wealth?
A. income
B. wealth
C. They are equally important.
D. Neither is important.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Growing Wealth Disparities
Difficulty Level: Medium
12. Why are the wealthy able to maintain their wealth across generations?
A. They are fiscally conservative.
B. They have been able to resist taxation systems aimed at redistributing wealth in society.
C. They have different values on spending that they pass on to their children.
D. They are actually unlikely to maintain their wealth across generations because of changing social norms.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Perpetuation of Wealth
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. Which of these is true of middle-class decline?
A. Wages have not kept up with the cost of living and thus have led to middle-class decline.
B. Workers are demanding jobs that pay more and, as a result, are unwilling to work in middle-class jobs, which has caused middle-class decline.
C. Most of the middle class were not willing to take government assistance during the Great Recession, which caused the numbers of middle class to decline.
D. Middle-class decline is a myth--the upper class is declining.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Decline of the American Middle Class
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Which of these does the chapter text list as a major disadvantage of being in the lower class in the United States?
A. limited ability to move up in an occupation
B. increased likelihood of domestic issues
C. a shorter life expectancy
D. a higher likelihood of being affected by hard economic times
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Poverty
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. Fred has been homeless for over 10 years. He often does not have adequate food each day. Which of these bests describes the type of poverty Fred is experiencing?
A. relative poverty
B. limited poverty
C. absolute poverty
D. comparative poverty
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Analyzing Poverty
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. The poverty line in the United States is measured by the federal government using which of these formulas?
A. the median cost of rent based on one’s geographic region multiplied by 2
B. the cost of a nutritionally adequate food plan multiplied by 3
C. the median cost of rent in one geographic region, plus the standard cost for a nutritionally adequate food plan, times the number of people in the household
D. the sum total of the average cost for the four major household expenses: transportation, housing, food, and childcare
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Poverty in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
17. According to the text, how many percentage of people in the United States were living below the poverty line in 2016?
A. 7.7
B. 12.7
C. 22.7
D. 33.7
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Poverty in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Single-parent households headed by women are more likely to live in poverty compared to single-parent households headed by men. What does this exemplify?
A. the feminization of poverty
B. the poverty-gender threshold
C. the feminist poverty line
D. the stratification of poverty
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Feminization of Poverty
Difficulty Level: Medium
19. The ability or inability to change one’s place within the social classes in a society is called which of these?
A. stratification
B. mobilization
C. social mobility
D. achievement status
Learning Objective: 7.3: Identify different types of social mobility.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Social Mobility
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. Sean, 31, earns $10,000 a year as a seasonal worker at Macy's. His parents earn a combined income of $200,000 as lawyers. Which of these terms applies to Sean’s position relative to his parents?
A. upward intergenerational mobility
B. upward intragenerational mobility
C. downward intergenerational mobility
D. downward horizontal mobility
Learning Objective: 7.3: Identify different types of social mobility.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Social Mobility
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. Sharon is a cashier at a grocery store, making $20,000 a year. When the store goes out of business, she takes a job at a department store making $21,000 a year. Which of these is exemplified by her change of position?
A. vertical mobility
B. occupational mobility
C. structural mobility
D. horizontal mobility
Learning Objective: 7.3: Identify different types of social mobility.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Social Mobility
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. Lindsay is a part-time teacher at a local preschool. She decides to go to school and get her teaching certificate. Eventually, she becomes a full-time math teacher. Which of these is exemplified by her change of position?
A. vertical mobility
B. occupational mobility
C. structural mobility
D. horizontal mobility
Learning Objective: 7.3: Identify different types of social mobility.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Social Mobility
Difficulty Level: Medium
23. Britain’s Prince William and Prince Harry, sons of Prince Charles, were born into royalty and thus gained instant notoriety. This is an example of which characteristic?
A. achievement
B. accomplishment
C. attainment
D. ascription
Learning Objective: 7.3: Identify different types of social mobility.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Achievement and Ascription
Difficulty Level: Medium
24. Which of these is compatible with the structural-functional theory of stratification?
A. Stratification is needed because it ensures that people with the right abilities end up in the right positions.
B. Stratification is based on power relations that are structured into society.
C. Stratification exists in all societies but only becomes inequality at the face-to-face level.
D. When societies are structured poorly, they have dysfunctional ways to stratify people.
Learning Objective: 7.4: Discuss theories of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Structural/Functional Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. Which theorists advocate for narrowing the income gap between the very rich and the very poor?
A. structural/functional
B. conflict/critical
C. inter/actionist
D. feminist
Learning Objective: 7.4: Discuss theories of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Social Rewards and Status
Difficulty Level: Medium
26. Which perspective is likely to focus on what people do within a stratified structure, such as how they present their authority or lack of authority in their body language?
A. structural/functional
B. conflict/critical
C. inter/actionist
D. feminist
Learning Objective: 7.4: Discuss theories of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Inter/Actionist Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
27. Which of these is true of Matthew Desmond’s study of eviction?
A. Landlords lose substantial income when they rent to poor renters.
B. Women of color are most likely to be evicted.
C. People who are evicted tend to spend only about 25% of their income on housing before their eviction.
D. Most poor families receive public assistance but fail to manage it well.
Learning Objective: 7.4: Discuss theories of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Inter/Actionist Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
28. Many actors and actresses earn millions each year and display their wealth by living in upscale mansions and driving expensive vehicles. What does their behavior exemplify?
A. stratified consumption
B. conspicuous consumption
C. trickle-down theory
D. ranked consumption
Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain the relationship between consumption and social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Stratified Consumption
Difficulty Level: Medium
29. Many celebrities purchase large mansions and expensive vehicles. In addition, they often purchase designer clothing and wear lavish jewelry. According to Pierre Bourdieu, this is an example of which of these?
A. status inconsistency
B. status offense
C. distinction
D. consumption
Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain the relationship between consumption and social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Quest for Distinction
Difficulty Level: Easy
30. Stratification on the global level is often seen as a divide of ______ and ______.
A. East; West
B. Global North; Global South
C. First World; Second World
D. core; periphery
Learning Objective: 7.6: Understand the characteristics of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Global Stratification
Difficulty Level: Easy
31. In global stratification, the ______ has dominated, controlled, exploited, and oppressed the ______.
A. West; East
B. bigger continents; smaller continents
C. Global South; Global North
D. Global North; Global South
Learning Objective: 7.6: Understand the characteristics of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Global North and Global South
Difficulty Level: Easy
32. How many countries in the world are categorized as “high-income countries”?
A. 21
B. 41
C. 81
D. 101
Learning Objective: 7.6: Understand the characteristics of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: High-, Middle-, and Low-Income Countries
Difficulty Level: Easy
33. Which income category contains the largest number of countries according to the ranking by the World Bank?
A. high-income economies
B. middle-income economies
C. low-income economies
D. The World Bank divided countries equally among these categories.
Learning Objective: 7.6: Understand the characteristics of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: High-, Middle-, and Low-Income Countries
Difficulty Level: Medium
34. In percentages, how much of the world’s wealth is owned by the richest 1% of people in the world as of 2017?
A. 15%
B. 25%
C. 50%
D. 75%
Learning Objective: 7.6: Understand the characteristics of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Richest People in the World: The Global Concentration of Wealth
Difficulty Level: Easy
35. Where do the clear majority (70%) of those in the bottom billion live?
A. India
B. China
C. Africa
D. Mexico
Learning Objective: 7.6: Understand the characteristics of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Poorest People in the World: The Bottom Billion
Difficulty Level: Easy
36. What development has helped to narrow the digital divide?
A. the introduction of laptops with long battery lives
B. widespread access to electricity
C. the spread of the use of “smart” mobile phones
D. the social philanthropy of technology billionaires, who are building the necessary infrastructure in the Global South
Learning Objective: 7.7: Identify the different types of worldwide inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Global Digital Divide
Difficulty Level: Medium
37. Which of these is true of the global digital divide?
A. It appears to be increasing.
B. It appears to be decreasing.
C. It has stayed the same for many years and will likely continue to be very unequal.
D. It is impossible to predict.
Learning Objective: 7.7: Identify the different types of worldwide inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Global Digital Divide
Difficulty Level: Medium
38. There have been some improvements in health in the Global South. Most of these improvements tend to be found in which of these countries?
A. those best connected to the global economy
B. those that have the best sanitation practices
C. those with the most tourism from high-income countries
D. those that were once a part of the USSR
Learning Objective: 7.7: Identify the different types of worldwide inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Global Health Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
39. The chapter text suggests that those in the Global South suffer from a “double nutritional burden.” What makes the burden double?
A. Farmers cannot afford to maintain crops and therefore they don’t have enough to eat.
B. Starvation and being underweight from lack of food is a problem, but so is obesity from eating too much and the wrong types of foods.
C. The nutrition of the parents is not good, so they have more difficulty delivering healthy children.
D. There are problems with getting access to enough vegetables and with getting enough protein.
Learning Objective: 7.7: Identify the different types of worldwide inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Global Health Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
40. Maria is a domestic worker for a household where she has no secure contract, worker benefits, or wage agreement. Maria’s job is categorized as existing in which of these economies?
A. the Global South economy
B. the informal economy
C. the consumer economy
D. the guest-worker economy
Learning Objective: 7.7: Identify the different types of worldwide inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Women and Informal Employment
Difficulty Level: Easy
41. Globally, women are likely to participate ______ in the paid labor force than men and earn ______than men.
A. more; more
B. more; less
C. less; less
D. less; more
Learning Objective: 7.7: Identify the different types of worldwide inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Women and Informal Employment
Difficulty Level: Medium
42. What term does Arlie Hochschild use to describe the networks of immigrants who migrate to complete domestic work in the global economy?
A. global care chains
B. globalized domestics
C. underground economy networks
D. sex work
Learning Objective: 7.7: Identify the different types of worldwide inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Women in Global Care Chains
Difficulty Level: Easy
43. Which of these describes the “race to the bottom?”
A. the way in which countries near the bottom of the global hierarchy lower their prices to outbid other similar competitors for work
B. the way in which countries that stay near the bottom of the hierarchy too long begin to lose their national infrastructure
C. the way in which Global South countries try to appear poorer than they are to attract more aid from the Global North
D. the way in which poor countries misuse foreign aid as a means of development
Learning Objective: 7.8: Discuss the changing positions in the global stratification system.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Race to the Bottom
Difficulty Level: Medium
44. Which of these describes the phenomenon of economic assistance given by countries or global institutions to foreign countries to promote development or social welfare?
A. outsourcing
B. foreign aid
C. world-systems theory
D. globalization loans
Learning Objective: 7.8: Discuss the changing positions in the global stratification system.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Foreign Aid and Development
Difficulty Level: Easy
45. When did foreign aid begin in its contemporary form?
A. after World War I
B. after World War II
C. after the Korean War
D. after the Vietnam War
Learning Objective: 7.8: Discuss the changing positions in the global stratification system.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Foreign Aid and Development
Difficulty Level: Easy
46. ______ is the country that gives the most foreign aid in terms of dollars, but ______ routinely give more in terms of the percentage of their gross national income.
A. The United Kingdom; the Nordic countries
B. The United States; the Nordic countries
C. The United Arab Emirates; Western European countries
D. The United States; Western European countries
Learning Objective: 7.8: Discuss the changing positions in the global stratification system.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Foreign Aid and Development
Difficulty Level: Medium
47. One theory of global stratification by the ______ approach is the modernization theory, which explains unequal economic differences based on structural and cultural differences between countries.
A. structural/functionalist
B. conflict/critical
C. interactionist
D. ethnomethodological
Learning Objective: 9.4: Summarize theories of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Structural/Functional Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
48. Theories from the ______ approach examine the relationship of dependency between wealthy countries and their transnational corporations that exploit poor countries.
A. structural/functionalist
B. conflict/critical
C. interactionist
D. ethnomethodological
Learning Objective: 9.4: Summarize theories of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Conflict/Critical Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
49. According to ______, some areas, such as some Middle Eastern countries, parts of Asia, and much of Africa, are dependent upon and exploited by core nation-states.
A. neocolonialism
B. imperialism
C. colonialism
D. world-systems theory
Learning Objective: 9.4: Summarize theories of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: World-Systems Theory
Difficulty Level: Medium
50. World-systems theory divides the world into two parts: the ______ and the ______.
A. Global North; Global South
B. colonizers; colonized
C. core; periphery
D. capitalists; noncapitalists
Learning Objective: 9.4: Summarize theories of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Inter/Actionist Theories
Difficulty Level: Hard
True/False
1. The three dimensions of social stratification are social class, income, and power.
Learning Objective: 7.1: Describe the three dimensions of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Dimensions of Social Stratification
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. High income is always associated with high status and high social power.
Learning Objective: 7.1: Describe the three dimensions of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Power
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Wealth refers to money earned from wages and rents, whereas income refers to assets.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Economic Inequality
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Sociologists use a month-by-month measure to determine income.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Economic Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. The greatest economic differences in U.S. society are due to differences in income.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Income Inequality
Difficulty Level: Medium
6. The U.S. tax system is designed to decrease wealth inequality.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Growing Wealth Disparities
Difficulty Level: Medium
7. Wealth helps people buy or otherwise acquire high status and power.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Status, Power, and Wealth
Difficulty Level: Medium
8. One major reason for the decline of the middle class is the decline of middle-income jobs, often because of technological change.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Decline of the American Middle Class
Difficulty Level: Medium
9. Those who see poverty as a moral problem believe that poverty hurts the economy because the poor are unable to consume very much.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Poverty
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Relative poverty is a measure of what people need to survive.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Analyzing Poverty
Difficulty Level: Easy
11. In 2018, Jenna, a single mom who heads a family of four, had a pretax income of $15,100. Jenna would be above the poverty line according to U.S. Department of Health and Human Service guidelines.
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Poverty in the United States
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. Social mobility is defined as the ability to move up higher in the social system.
Learning Objective: 7.3: Identify different types of social mobility.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Social Mobility
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. A cashier at Walmart who eventually becomes the district regional manager exemplifies horizontal mobility.
Learning Objective: 7.3: Identify different types of social mobility.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Social Mobility
Difficulty Level: Medium
14. Sam’s father is unemployed and living on welfare, whereas Sam is the president of his company, an auto parts warehouse. Sam exemplifies intergenerational mobility.
Learning Objective: 7.3: Identify different types of social mobility.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Types of Social Mobility
Difficulty Level: Medium
15. According to structural-functional theory, brain surgeons should earn higher salaries and more lucrative stock options than doctors who work in family practices.
Learning Objective: 7.4: Discuss theories of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Structural/Functional Theories
Difficulty Level: Medium
16. Mike owns a collection business and sees his employees as servants who should adhere to all his rules. He pays them well below minimum wage. Symbolic Interactionists are the theorists who would be most interested in Mike’s sense of entitlement and how it impacts wage inequality.
Learning Objective: 7.4: Discuss theories of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Inter/Actionist Theories
Difficulty Level: Hard
17. Actors who wear expensive diamonds and pearl necklaces to award shows exemplify stratified consumption.
Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain the relationship between consumption and social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Stratified Consumption
Difficulty Level: Medium
18. Cultural omnivores are people in the elite class who enjoy culture and consumption from across a wide range of available offerings.
Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain the relationship between consumption and social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Elites as Cultural Omnivores
Difficulty Level: Easy
19. China and Japan are part of the Global South.
Learning Objective: 7.6: Understand the characteristics of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Global North and Global South
Difficulty Level: Easy
20. Countries that recently industrialized are commonly found in the middle-income category range.
Learning Objective: 7.6: Understand the characteristics of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: High-, Middle-, and Low-Income Countries
Difficulty Level: Medium
21. The majority of countries today are considered “low income” according to your text.
Learning Objective: 7.6: Understand the characteristics of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: High-, Middle-, and Low-Income Countries
Difficulty Level: Medium
22. The number of Internet users worldwide has declined in the past 5 years.
Learning Objective: 7.7: Identify the different types of worldwide inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Global Digital Divide
Difficulty Level: Easy
23. Globalization is associated with narrowed global disparities in life span and health outcomes.
Learning Objective: 7.7: Identify the different types of worldwide inequalities.
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: The Global Digital Divide
Difficulty Level: Easy
24. Foreign aid is defined as economic assistance given by industries to promote capitalism abroad.
Learning Objective: 7.8: Discuss the changing positions in the global stratification system.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Foreign Aid and Development
Difficulty Level: Medium
25. The world-systems theory focuses on the fact that many peripheral countries are dependent on core countries for basic supplies and financial support, whereas the core exploits these countries for cheap labor.
Learning Objective: 7.9: Outline the different theories of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Inter/Actionist Theories
Difficulty Level: Hard
Essay
1. Discuss the three main dimensions of social stratification. Give an example of how each dimension shapes one’s position within the stratified system.
Learning Objective: 7.1: Describe the three dimensions of social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Dimensions of Social Stratification
Difficulty Level: Medium
2. How is the poverty line set in the United States? What purpose does a poverty line serve? Discuss one criticism of the current method for setting the poverty line. What is one strategy that families use to manage poverty?
Learning Objective: 7.2: Identify factors contributing to economic inequality.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Poverty in the United States
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. Discuss the theories of Simmel, Veblen, Bourdieu, and the cultural omnivore theory on stratified consumption, addressing what each theory says elites are expressing through consumption. How would each of these theories describe how elites would consume music in contrast with the music consumption of those in other social classes?
Learning Objective: 7.5: Explain the relationship between consumption and social stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Application
Answer Location: Consumption and Social Stratification
Difficulty Level: Hard
4. Name two of the serious problems faced by people who live in the bottom billion.
Learning Objective: 7.6: Understand the characteristics of global stratification.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: The Poorest People in the World: The Bottom Billion
Difficulty Level: Medium
5. Define foreign aid. Discuss one trend and one criticism related to the use of foreign aid to address global economic inequality.
Learning Objective: 7.8: Discuss the changing positions in the global stratification system.
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Foreign Aid and Development
Difficulty Level: Medium