What is wrong with treating Oprah Winfrey as the ultimate symbol of the American

Dream?
She represents the exception rather than the rule
Davis and Moores discussion of stratification relates to _____, not to the _____
the system of positions individuals occupying those positions
One cost-of-living indicator available on the Internet shows that a salary of $40,000 in
Santa Barbara, California,
It points to a flaw in the way the government calculates the poverty line,
What sort of jobs can support a middle-class lifestyle in America today?
jobs in the service, information, and technology sectors

What is realistic about Cinderella stories like the film Pretty Woman?
When class boundaries are crossed, women usually marry up, while men marry
down
Being born into a lower social class means that an individual will be:
more likely to feel at risk of being harassed by law enforcement.
In 2008 and 2009, the United States government initiated a large-scale economic bailout
of the banking and auto industries
the United States is a capitalist nation with a degree of socialism in government
subsidies to businesse
What is the relationship between the American Dream and the social class system by
which the United States is st
The American Dream legitimizes inequality by reinforcing the idea that everyone
What variable would account for the dramatic jump in test scores evidenced by the
students in Rosenthal
Techer Attitude
Wingfields findings on Black male nurses found that many colleagues, supervisors
demonstrate an unwillingness to disassociate from feminized
Glass Barrier
How has the Information Revolution changed the nature of work
The importance of place has been greatly diminished
How are workers situations different in socialist, as opposed to capitalist,
n a socialist economy, workers do not enjoy the same consumption patterns.

What did C. Wright Mills mean by the term power elite

a small group of people who occupy key positions in political, economic, and
military institutions
Why are people more likely to marry individuals with social and cultural backgrounds
very similar to their own
People have greater access to individuals like themselves.
How is Max Webers idea of social class different from Karl Marxs
Wealth Power Prestige
Lilly Ledbetter, a supervisor at a Goodyear tire plant
a meritocracy
According to Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol,
by using local property taxes to fund public schools, trapping poor children in
poor school
The four main factors that explain why some people come to be included into the power
elite: higher class origins,elite educations, a lighter skin color,
TRUE
Most research shows that as men nurses employ strategies that distance them from
femininity
Upward Mobility
Which statement is more accurate about those people of race, ethnicity, and gender who
have made it into the power elite class?
members of the power elite of both genders and of all ethnicities practice
Ferguson argues that the _____ biases in education reflect those in the media
Cultural
Since 1917, all Puerto Ricans have been considered U.S. citizens,
disenfranchised.
What does a sociological perspective tell us about
Educational success often has as much to do with social stratification as it does
with individual
An accountant with a college degree and a license from the state accounting board works
Upper middle class

Which of the following is NOT one of the basic principles of social stratification
Low-level groups often have basic access to the rewards and privileges of higherlevel groups
According to Karl Marx, where does surplus value come from?
paying workers less than the value of what they create
When the children of working-class parents manage to attend college and get a job in a
professional field
intergenerational mobility
Although they make very little money, priests, ministers, rabbis, imams, and clergy
Max Webber
Someone who works giving acupuncture to dogs in order to relieve their stress is:
Service Worker

What do the primary employees of McDonalds, i.e., teenagers, senior citizens, and housewives, have in comm
a preference or need for part-time work and little alternative job
The practices of surveillance, policing, charges, and penalties are reflected in both the
U.S. _____ system
educational penal
Given what you have read about socioeconomic status and life chances
Taking care of child after work
Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung, Koreas current and former leader, have both
restricted the basic human
Totalitarian
Barbara Ehrenreich studied the working poor, people with service jobs that paid mostly
minimum wage
nothing, because there are few ways for them to move out of poverty
Many sociologists in the 1960s noticed that economic obstacles alone were not sufficient
to explain disparities
cultural capital
How is service work different from manufacturing
In service work, unlike manufacturing work, it is common for workers
expectations to conflict

In 2005 teaching assistants at the University of Oregon went on strike. What feature of
their job made it
Their jobs cant be moved overseas.
Which of the following is true of the upper class in the United States
They are a largely self-sustaining group and rarely add new
In 2003 Evan Williams, the owner of the Internet firm Blogger, sold his company to
Google
He no longer had control over what he produced
You want to discover who made the comforter on your bed. You notice that one tag says,
Made in the USA from imported materials
deep integration
How are workers situations different in socialist, as opposed to capitalist,
In a socialist economy, workers do not enjoy the same consumption
What does a sociological perspective tell us about education in the United States
Educational success often has as much to do with social stratification
Mother Teresa was a person with tremendous powe
status inconsistency
In House of Yes, a play by Wendy MacLeod, the character Marty brings his fiance,
cultural capital.
What do schools, churches, and governments all have in common?
All social institutions
Ferguson states that _____ _____ practices operated as part of a
curriculum
school labeling
When students are tested and the test results are used to place them in a certain category
of classes
Tracking
What sort of social mobility often results from losing a
vertical social mobility
In his response to Davis and Moores article, Melvin Tumin argues
a reward rather than a sacrifice because of the potential loss of resources

Some municipalities in the Los Angeles area have zoning rules that prohibit multifamily
dwellings and require that all homes be built on lots]
residential segregation
Based upon their argument, Davis and Moore consider social roles to be based upon
extrinsic motivation
A reporter who covers the police beat at a newspaper changes careers. She becomes an
editor
Horizontal
According to Robin Leidners Fast Food, Fast Talk,
It is damaging to workers and suppresses their real selves.
What is the principal sociological critique of the culture of poverty
It tends to blame the victims of poverty for their own misfortunes,
What are the most significant consequences of a high school freshman being assigned to
a remedial math
She has been effectively locked out of certain careers
Oscar Lewis was the first to suggest that, because they are excluded from mainstream
social life
the culture of poverty.
What do sociologists call the lessons that students learn indirectly but which
the hidden curriculum
The two main strategies that organizations use to get people to act according to their
organizationa
socialization and social control
According to Karl Marx, what social relations matter most in a capitalist system
economic relations
When young people go away to college, its often the first time they make friends with
people of substantially different class statuses
class consciousness.
According to Leidner, routinization of work primarily consists of
exerting control over work by closing off workers choices

Wingfields article argues that the glass escalator is a _______ as well as a _______ c
racialized , gendered