Assignment: Different Social Classes Question

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It’s for my Sociology final

QUESTION 1 9 points Save Answer Indicate whether each of the following statements best characterizes the upper class, the upper-middle class, the middle class, the working class, the working poor, or the underclass. About 1% of the U.S. population is in this class. a. upper The occupations held by this class usually require advanced b. upper middle degrees. c. middle The occupations held by members of this class often involve d. working manual labor. e. working poor Members of this class are the most likely to work at jobs with unpredictable and inflexible schedules. f. underclass The primary source of income for this class is return on investments. When asked, the majority of Americans say they are members of this class. ✓ This class is characterized by longterm unemployment and extreme poverty. QUESTION 2 1.5 points Save Answer Social reactions to deviance make an action deviant, not anything characteristic to the action itself. This is an idea posited by which theoretical perspective? a. structural functionalism b. conflict theory c. symbolic interactionism d. differential association QUESTION 3 1.5 points Save Answer The lunch counter sit-ins by Black college students in 1960 are an example of which function of deviance? a. Deviance can be a source of social change. b. Deviance affirms social values and norms. c.

Responding to deviance can bring social groups together. d. Responding to deviance clarifies boundaries. QUESTION 4 1.5 points Save Answer According to Emile Durkheim’s functionalist perspective, deviance in a society: a. must be eliminated through radical social change. b. is necessary for a society’s survival. c. can be eliminated through agents of social control. d. is a sign of social disintegration. QUESTION 5 1.5 points Save Answer Crime and deviance: a. are two entirely different concepts. b. are hierarchically related; all crime is deviance, but not all deviance is crime. c. are interchangeable; what is deviance is always a crime. d. are overlapping categories; not all deviance is crime, and not all crime is deviance. QUESTION 6 1.5 points Save Answer When a group that has been labeled deviant rejects the stigma and demands social change, that is an example of: a. original deviance. b. secondary deviance. c. primary deviance. d. tertiary deviance. 1.5 points Save Answer QUESTION 7 Chris struggles to learn how to read. Other children tease Chris, and parents and teachers call Chris “slow.” Chris underperforms in school and never thinks about going to college. Ultimately Chris drops out before graduating from high school. Which theory of deviance best explains this? a. labeling theory b. strain theory c. reflection theory O d. role theory QUESTION 8 1.5 points Save Answer According to Conflict Theory, powerful groups and individuals make the rules: a. in order to protect the law. b. in order to protect their own interests. c. in order to to protect human rights. O d. in order to protect those who need the most help. QUESTION 9 1.5 points Save Answer Jennifer goes into a local boutique and slips a bracelet into her purse. She successfully shoplifts.

Labeling theorists would call this deviance. a. undiscovered b. secondary c. primary d. stigmatized QUESTION 10 1.5 points Save Answer Definitions of deviance tend to a. change over time and from place to place. b. be the same in all known societies. c. be copied from one society to another. d. be perfected over time. QUESTION 11 1.5 points Save Answer Annette Lareau’s research demonstrates how takes place in families, through different childrearing strategies. a. social mobility b. social ideology C. social reproduction d. social institutions QUESTION 12 1.5 points Save Answer Which one of the following statements about wealth in the U.S. is TRUE? a. The top fifth of U.S. households own 29% of the total wealth of the country. b. The top fifth of households own 42% of the total wealth of the country. c. The top fifth of households own 75% of the total wealth of the country. d. The top fifth of households own 93% of the total wealth of the country. QUESTION 13 1.5 points Save Answer Many Americans believe that the U.S. is a fair society, where opportunities are equal for everyone. In their view, successful people deserve what they have, and others are poor because they lack character. This thinking is an example of: a. the ideology of Manifest Destiny. b. the Myth of Meritocracy. c. the ideology of Status Hierarchy. d. the ideology of Implicit Bias. QUESTION 14 1.5 points Save Answer What is it an example of when the children of working-class parents manage to attend college and get a job in a professional field? a. intragenerational mobility b. horizontal social mobility c. intergenerational mobility d. a lack of mobility QUESTION 15 1.5 points Save Answer What is the relationship between the Myth of Meritocracy and the social class system in the United States? a. The Myth of Meritocracy promises that one day social inequality will be overcome. b. The Myth of Meritocracy legitimizes inequality by reinforcing the idea that everyone has the same chance to get ahead.

People who believe in the Myth of Meritocracy can usually overcome the class system. d. The Myth of Meritocracy has no real impact, since no one really believes it. QUESTION 16 1.5 points Save Answer Which of the following social class categories have seen their incomes rise substantially in the past 30 years? a. the privileged classes b. all class categories c. the majority classes d. the lower classes QUESTION 17 1.5 points Save Answer Annette Lareau, author of Unequal Childhoods (2003), makes a compelling case for the existence of differences between working-class and middle-class families. Which of the following statements best summarizes what she found? a. Class-based parenting differences have minimal effects on children’s life chances as they head into adulthood. b. Children’s life chances are primarily related to aspirations, talents, and hard work on the part of individuals, not parents’ social class. c. Because schools are the “great equalizer,” parents play only a small role in shaping students’ life chances. d. Class differences, played out in the daily routines of parenting, have a powerful impact on children’s life chances. QUESTION 18 1.5 points Save Answer Many people became instant millionaires during the so-called dot-com boom of the late 1990s, because of large-scale changes in society. This is an example of a. savvy technological genius. b. wise investing. c. structural mobility. d. horizontal mobility. QUESTION 19 1.5 points Save Answer What has been the pattern in income growth among low-, middle-, and high-income earners in the United States over the past 30 years? a. Middle-income individuals have experienced greater income growth than those at the highest and lowest ends of the bracket. O b. Incomes at the highest end of the bracket have stayed the same, while low-income and middle-income individuals have experienced slow but steady growth in their incomes. c. Incomes at all levels have increased at about the same rate. d. Income growth for high-income individuals has far outpaced that of middle- and low-income individuals. QUESTION 20 1.5 points Save Answer Which of the following statements about wealth and income in the U.S. is FALSE? a. Income is more unequally distributed than wealth. b.

Wealth is more unequally distributed than income. c. The median wealth of American households is about $100,000. d. Half of the households in the U.S. have an income below the median. QUESTION 21 1.5 points Save Answer Which is NOT generally used to define social class in the U.S.? O a. social norms b. wealth c. occupation d. education QUESTION 22 1.5 points Save Answer The concept of race: a. has changed over time. b. is biological. c. is stable and constant. d. all of the above. QUESTION 23 1.5 points Save Answer Race is not a fixed biological or natural reality; rather, it is: a. genetic. b. biologically invented. c. an environmental reality. d. a social construction. QUESTION 24 1.5 points Save Answer than people commonly believe. The genetic variation that corresponds with geographic origins is much a. more random b. more important c. less d. more QUESTION 25 1.5 points Save Answer Although race has no deterministic, biological basis, it still strongly impacts people’s life chances. This illustrates the sociological concept of: a. concerted cultivation. b. the Thomas Theorem. c. the American Dream. d. the one-drop rule. QUESTION 26 1.5 points Save Answer A study that followed nearly thirty years of capital punishment cases in North Carolina found that persons convicted of killing a White victim were three times more likely to receive the death penalty than persons convicted of killing a Black victim. The term that best describes this is: a. a stereotype. b. institutional racism. c. mass incarceration. O d. individual bigotry. QUESTION 27 1.5 points Save Answer How long has the concept of race been part of human societies? a. since the earliest civilizations b. since the U.S. Civil War c. about 2000 years d. about 500 years QUESTION 28 1.5 points Save Answer On December 13, 2020, the city of Cleveland’s Major League Baseball team announced that they will no longer be named “The Indians.” In sociological terms, this means that the team will no longer: a. practice discrimination in its treatment of players. b. perpetuate a harmful stereotype. c. participate in the social construction of race. d. participate in the social construction of ethnicity. QUESTION 29 1.5 points Save Answer An action or behavior that results in the unequal treatment of an individual because of his or her membership in a racial or ethnic group is called a. discrimination. b. passing. c. prejudice. d. pluralism. QUESTION 30 1.5 points Save Answer In the United States, the one-drop rule lumped together anyone with any amount of Black ancestry into one category, Black, setting up an essentially two-race system, with little thought for other minorities such as Asians or Native Americans. In South Africa, on the other hand, there are four racial categories and in Brazil there are up to a dozen racial categories depending on whom you ask. What conclusion can we draw from these differences in racial categories? a. Racial categories are social constructs, not biological absolutes that transcend time and place. b. Brazil is a more diverse society than either South Africa or the United States. c. The United States has had stricter laws against miscegenation than either South Africa or Brazil. d.

There are fewer White people in the United States than in South Africa or Brazil. QUESTION 31 1.5 points Save Answer How do sociologists define ethnicity? a. the same way they define race b. people who share a common physical characteristic c. people with the same skin color d. a group with a shared ancestry or shared cultural heritage QUESTION 32 1.5 points Save Answer Sociologists refer to a system that uses race categories to provide advantages to a social group as: a. assimilation. b. prejudice. C. racism. d. discrimination. QUESTION 33 1.5 points Save Answer According to the CDC, Covid hospitalization rates have been highest for which of the following racial/ethnic groups? a. Hispanic/Latino b. American Indian/Alaska Native c. Non-Hispanic White O d. Non-Hispanic Black QUESTION 34 1.5 points Save Answer Prejudice is to discrimination as thinking is to: O a. manifesting. b. developing. c. doing. d. being. QUESTION 35 1.5 points Save Answer In the U.S., most people who receive White privilege: O a. actively seek to maintain such privileges. b. are largely unaware of the unequal benefits they possess. c. are members of hate groups. d. seek to change the racial inequalities. QUESTION 36 1.5 points Save Answer While the notion of sex refers to biological characteristics, the concept of gender refers to: O a. psychological characteristics. b. physical characteristics. c. philosophical characteristics. d. social characteristics. QUESTION 37 1.5 points Save Answer The classification system that allows for only two separate gender categories is known as: a. gender socialization. b. the gender binary. c. nature vs. nurture. d. the social construction of gender. QUESTION 38 1.5 points Save Answer Women strongly outnumber men in occupations that involve caring, such as nursing, childcare, and social work. Which of the following statements best uses sociology to explain that? a. Women are naturally better caregivers than men. b. Men are not suited for work that involves caretaking. c. Women have a mothering instinct. d. Gender establishes different cultures and expectations for men and women. QUESTION 39 1.5 points Save Answer What is the term for a sex/gender system in which the sex one is assigned at birth is supposed to determine one’s gender identity and sexual orientation? a. sexual scripts b. heteronormativity c. gender negativity d. patriarchy QUESTION 40 1.5 points Save Answer The metaphor for barriers women face in the workplace that prevent them from reaching higher positions is: O a. the glass escalator. b. the glass ceiling. c. the glass elevator. d. the glass wall. QUESTION 41 1.5 points Save Answer Which of the following is one of the reasons why sociologists view gender as a social construction rather than a biological given? a. Societies in various historical periods have not made any distinction between different genders. b. There are no social or biological differences between men and women. c. Our understandings and categorizations of what it means to be a man or woman have changed throughout history. d. Contemporary studies show us that men and women have different personality structures, the innate by-product of existing social structural relations. QUESTION 42 1.5 points Save Answer A person’s self-conception of being a man or woman is their: a. heteronormativity. b. gender identity. C. sexual orientation. d. sexual attitude. QUESTION 43 1.5 points Save Answer According to intersex activists, why do parents and surgeons push to assign a sex to a genitally ambiguous child? a. The need to assign a gender-appropriate name. b. Social discomfort and fear of difference. c. The government requires a sex on the birth certificate. d. Psychological studies show that mothers require children with definite sexes. QUESTION 44 1.5 points Save Answer Which of the following is NOT required in order for a person to meaningfully consent to sex? a. The person must be married to their sex partner. b. The person must not be incapacitated by alcohol or drugs. c. The person must not be coerced. O d. The person must have reached the age of consent. QUESTION 45 1.5 points Save Answer What can be concluded regarding gendered occupations? a. The gender wage gap will disappear in the next ten years. b. Men outnumber women in high-paying occupations. c. Men tend to be overrepresented in jobs that involve caretaking. d. Jobs dominated by women require less education.

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Important information on Writing a Discussion Question

• Your response needs to be a minimum of 150 words (not including your list of references)
• There needs to be at least TWO references with ONE being a peer reviewed professional journal article.
• Include in-text citations in your response
• Do not include quotes—instead summarize and paraphrase the information
• Follow APA-7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

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• A minimum of 6 responses per week, on at least 3 days of the week.
• Each response needs at least ONE reference with citations—best if it is a peer reviewed journal article
• Each response needs to be at least 75 words in length (does not include your list of references)
• Responses need to be substantive by bringing information to the discussion or further enhance the discussion. Responses of “I agree” or “great post” does not count for the word count.
• Follow APA 7th edition
• Points will be deducted if the above is not followed

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