ISS-Week 6

One of the best ways to advance from one class to another is through:

• thrift.

• winning the lotto.

• education.

• an increase of income.

What is the experience for those immigrating to the U.S. to work in the unskilled labor market?

• They find there are no unskilled jobs available for immigrant laborers.

• They rapidly move into the American middle class because their wages are so high.

• They usually return to their native countries because they can’t survive here on such low wages.

• They make good money because our “low-wage” jobs are “high-wage” jobs for them.

Any class system is somewhat inconsistent with the:

• autocratic system of rule by a few.

• idea of noble classes.

• democratic ideal of equal opportunity.

• idea of royal families.

The primary unit of stratification is the:

• village.

• family.

• region.

• social club.

Karl Marx divided the populations of industrial societies into:

• capitalists and the proletariat social classes.

• technical and nontechnical groups.

• one equal class.

• four classes.

Most Americans are:

• not highly class conscious.

• highly interested in relative social classes.

• very much concerned about class status.

• highly conscious of class distinctions.

Which is not a part of the reason the U.S. economic class system is not strongly developed?

• Historical factors.

• Social inequality

• The government and market economy.

• U.S. ideology that sees class consciousness as a negative trait.

Affirmative Action programs are designed to:

• discriminate against minorities.

• favor minority groups.

• help majority groups exclude minorities.

• protect the dominant group.

Segregation that occurs because of social and cultural, not legal, reasons is called:

• de jure segregation.

• unintended segregation.

• de facto segregation.

• international segregation.

The U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1896 that was based on the so-called separate-but-equal doctrine was:

• Brown v. Board of Education.

• Dred Scott v. Sandford.

• Plessy v. Ferguson.

• Bingham v. Cabot.