Midterm 2 Quiz Questions 1 Flashcards
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If two people swap jobs and this trade results in social mobility for both, it is called
exchange mobility
Which of the following is a type of social stratification?
status hierarchy system
A team of researchers decide to study social mobility. They obtain data on respondents and their parents, gathering information on the occupational status of each generation to see if mobility has occurred. To understand the likelihood of social mobility more fully, they also ask questions about respondents’ educational attainment, type of training, and the prestige of the first job that respondents had in their respective occupational field. By considering some of these intervening processes, this research team has chosen to use a(n) ________ approach to social mobility.
status attainment model
Why are college completion rates not keeping up with the job market’s demand for college graduates?
Higher numbers of college students are dropping out before graduation.
In political speeches about the poor, those who are believed to deserve assistance are often termed the
working poor
Indira is a corporate CEO. Max is a janitor at a strip mall. New research on inequality trends from 1990 to 2002 suggests that for every dollar someone like Max earns, someone like Indira earns about
$18,000
An example of horizontal social mobility is a(n)
secretary changing firms but retaining his or her occupational status.
Denise, who comes from a lower-middle-class family, obtained a college degree, interned at a company, worked at that company for many years, and is now its CEO. Denise’s experiences support the idea of
meritocracy.
The effect of globalization has been to bifurcate labor into
high skilled and low skilled
Consider the case of a professional translator who begins to lose work opportunities because new technologies can largely replace human translators. If she ends up responding to this economic shift by changing professions and becoming a graphic designer, she has experienced
structural mobility
C. Wright Mills had a negative view of the elite-mass dichotomy. His view fits with the ________ paradigm.
conflict
Liam has only a high school education. His job counselor recommends ________, because it is the fastest-growing job for people with only a high school education.
food preparation
According to the research on status attainment, the best predictors of a person’s educational and other socioeconomic outcomes are
parents’ net worth and parents’ education.
Which American job sector has greatly increased since the oil crisis of 1973?
low-wage service work
Trade of goods and services across national boundaries, as well as the mobility of businesses and labor through immigration, is called
globalization
Marx focused on the relational class structure, made up of the capitalist class (the bourgeoisie) and the working class (the proletariat). However, managers could more accurately be described as occupying contradictory class locations because
they don’t own the means of production, but they do control others’ labor.
Mobility that is inevitable from changes in the economy is called
structural mobility
If a person with a high-paying and prestigious job wants to be sure others are aware of this status, this person might choose to wear very expensive clothing or to drive a high-end car. These behaviors are examples of
consumption
Peter is an architect. If Peter wishes to assert or increase his status, he may do so not only through his occupation but also through other means, such as
living in a gated community.
Attitudinal data show that Americans’ belief that it is possible for a person to start at the bottom of the economic ladder and work their way to the top has ________ in the last 20 years.
increased
