Exam 4

Question 1

a group may earn what by it’s lifestyle?

Answer 1

status

Question 2

a group with power would rank higher on what?

Answer 2

party

Question 3

Weber saw peoples’ class position in their activities where?

Answer 3

market

Question 4

Marx showed that the value of a product is created by what?

Answer 4

labor

Question 5

social stratification in the United States primarily takes what form?

Answer 5

class system

Question 6

a high status group does what to prevent it’s lifestyle from being copied?

Answer 6

complication of norms

Question 7

what economic resource takes the form of homes, cars, artworks, stocks, and bonds?

Answer 7

assets

Question 8

when a job meets more of society’s needs, Davis and More describe it as having greater what?

Answer 8

functional importance

Question 9

the size of an elite group, as Milner observes, will not be made larger because status has what quality?

Answer 9

in-expansible

Question 10

according to Davis and More, what has society developed to motivate it’s scarce talent to fill top positions?

Answer 10

social stratification

Question 11

measures of an individual’s income, wealth, education, and occupation are added to form what was an indicator of SES?

Answer 11

index

Question 12

what would theoretically happen when a larger number of people have high status?

Answer 12

status inflation

Question 13

What do Davis and More assume about the most highly paid positions?

Answer 13

functional importance / scarcity of personnel

Question 14

lowering a person’s status is difficult because status has what quality?

Answer 14

inalienable

Question 15

Marx’s labor theory of surplus value is represented by what formula?

Answer 15

M - C -M

Question 16

what type of relationship is a dating relationship in high school?

Answer 16

expressive

Question 17

the ability to force others to do things against their will is what?

Answer 17

power

Question 18

debts are substracted from what to calculate a person’s wealth?

Answer 18

assets

Question 19

the fact that few people are talented enough and willing to do the most functionally important jobs is the problem of what?

Answer 19

scarcity of personnel

Question 20

Milner finds that a person will not lose status by associating with someone of lower status when their relationship is what?

Answer 20

instrumental

Question 21

party is based on power

Answer 21

true

Question 22

a status group is normally a community

Answer 22

true

Question 23

there is no social mobility within a caste system

Answer 23

true

Question 24

stratification in the feudal era was an estate system

Answer 24

true

Question 25

income is more concentrated in the upper quintiles that is wealth

Answer 25

false

Question 26

in Marx’s labor theory of surplus of value, (C) stands for the capitalist’s profit

Answer 26

false

Question 27

both Weber and Milner showed that a high class position will give a person high status

Answer 27

false

Question 28

Weber defined class situation as one’s position within the system of manufacturing

Answer 28

false

Question 29

Marx found that capitalists accumulate wealth by selling products at high prices

Answer 29

true

Question 30

Davis and Moore presented a conflict theory of stratification

Answer 30

false - functionalist theory

Question 31

How does the labor theory of surplus value explain the capitalist’s wealth?

Answer 31

The capitalist takes the value out of labor

Labor theory of value - explain how shoes cost $8 to make and $2 is given to labor

Question 32

What problems are there with the conventional model of social class?

Answer 32

poetry threshold is only set, there is no definition of each class, there are no clear lines

Question 33

what are the 4 elements in Milner’s theory of status relations?

Answer 33

1. elaboration and complication of norms (high class change often to confuse lower)
2. association and disassociation - hang out with kids to be cool. If you don’t, you’re stupid.
   - expressive - significant other, show it
   - instrumental - lab partner
3. in-expansible
   - can’t create status
   - can’t take status away
4. status inflations

Question 34

what effects does social class have as an independent variable?

Answer 34

physical health, education, mental health, politics / criminal justice are affected by social class because a person may or may not make money to get them those things

Question 35

how does Marx’s explanation of stratification differ from the one presented by Davis and Moore?

Answer 35

Marx:
Proletariat are controlled by bourgeoisie

Davis and More:
social class is created by people and their talents to contribute