Social Inequalities Vocabulary Practice Quiz

C. Wright Mills’ theory that a select few from the corporate, military, and political world have most of the power and influence in the U.S.

• World Systems Theory

• Social Stratification

• Military Industrial Complex

• Power Elite Theory

being unemployed

• Real Wages

• Unemployment

• Underemployment

• Poverty

The lowest legal wage that can be paid to most workers

• Real Wages

• Third world

• Minimum Wage

• First World

Underdeveloped and developing countries of Asia and Africa and Latin America

• Third World

• First World

• Real Wages

• Second World

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross believed that people experience these five stages when coping with dying:

• Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance

• Denial, regret, hopefulness, depression, acceptance

• Regret, anger, hopefulness, denial, acceptance

• Denial, anger, regret, bargaining, depression

High-status groups own land and have power based om noble birth

• Welfare System

• Status

• Estate System

• Caste System

A symbolic interactionist sees aging as

• A struggle for resources between the old and the young

• A social construction

• Necessary to pave the way for a new generation

• Completely unnecessary

The largely democratic and free-market states (Cold War to Today)

• Real Wage

• Third World

• Second World

• First World

Being under the control of another person

• Poverty

• Status

• SES

• Slavery

Classes are determined by heredity

• Estate System

• Welfare system

• Status

• Caste System