Practice Quiz: Chapter 06

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. Which term refers to the purchase of expensive goods and services primarily for the purpose of putting wealth on display?

a) Mass consumption correct incorrect

b) Conspicuous consumption correct incorrect

c) Capitalistic consumption correct incorrect

d) Hierarchical consumption correct incorrect

e) Status consumption correct incorrect

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. Which of the following groups of Canadians is particularly vulnerable to economic marginalization?

a) Disabled persons correct incorrect

b) Recent immigrants correct incorrect

c) Women correct incorrect

d) Aboriginal peoples correct incorrect

e) All of the above correct incorrect

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. In Canada, what is the trend in the income ratio between the wealthy and the poor over the last 25 years?

a) It has increased. correct incorrect

b) It has decreased. correct incorrect

c) It has stayed around the same. correct incorrect

d) It has fluctuated wildly between high and low. correct incorrect

e) We do not have the data available to know. correct incorrect

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. In 2012, nearly what percentage of Canadians were living on a low income?

a) 0.1 per cent correct incorrect

b) 1 per cent correct incorrect

c) 5 per cent correct incorrect

d) 15 per cent correct incorrect

e) 20 per cent correct incorrect

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. Which term refers to the view that systemic discrimination that exists within society, advocating that people are poor for many reasons beyond their control?

a) Poverty stereotyping correct incorrect

b) Systemic bashing correct incorrect

c) Classism correct incorrect

d) Blaming the system correct incorrect

e) Blaming the victim correct incorrect

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. Social stratification is NOT based on which of the following?

a) Prestige correct incorrect

b) Power correct incorrect

c) Possessions correct incorrect

d) Wealth correct incorrect

e) Social stratification is based on all of the above. correct incorrect

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. What system is based upon achievement rather than ascribed status?

a) Communism correct incorrect

b) Capitalism correct incorrect

c) Meritocracy correct incorrect

d) Mediocrity correct incorrect

e) Socialism correct incorrect

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. While there have been dramatic changes in women's status over the last 50 years, which of the following is still a serious concern for feminists studying social stratification?

a) Gender stereotypes correct incorrect

b) The feminization of poverty correct incorrect

c) Segregation correct incorrect

d) Wealth correct incorrect

e) Power correct incorrect

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. When studying social inequality, along with studying the poor and marginalized, who else do sociologists study?

a) The disadvantaged correct incorrect

b) The elites correct incorrect

c) The underrepresented correct incorrect

d) The silent majority correct incorrect

e) They only study the poor and marginalized. correct incorrect

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. Which term did Marx use to refer to an awareness of proletariat workers' shared interests and their ability to act in those interests?

a) Social stratification correct incorrect

b) Conspicuous consumption correct incorrect

c) Classification of poverty correct incorrect

d) Working poverty correct incorrect

e) Class consciousness correct incorrect

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. Marx maintained that the inequality the capitalist system produced is neither desirable nor inevitable.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. An individual's social status can be achieved but not ascribed.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Foreign education and experience is less valued in Canada.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. C. Wright Mills argued that the elites in US society were so powerful and so coordinated that they jeopardized democratic processes.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. The LICO is an absolute measure of poverty.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Social stratification is one of the foundational issues in sociology.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Compared to other countries, Canada has a relatively open stratification system.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. The structural functionalist approach is still the clearest way of understanding social stratification in Canada.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Early theorists studying stratification were deeply concerned with the role of women in class analysis.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect

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. Gender intersects in important and complex ways with social class.

a) True correct incorrect

b) False correct incorrect