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What happened with the shift to Industrial society?
Literacy rates lowered as more people did factory work
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Jobs and workers became increasingly specialized
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Rural and urban life became increasingly similar
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Fewer children attended school
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Which of the following refers to a society that uses technology and a division of labour to promote mass production and a higher standard of living?
Organic society
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Mechanical society
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Postmodern society
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Industrial society
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Which of the following theories suggests that as societies industrialize their social patterns become more similar?
Likeness theory
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Convergence theory
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Symbolic interactionist theory
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World systems theory
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Which of the following inventors was the first woman to be hired by General Electric?
Stephanie Kwolek
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Katharine Blodgett
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Margaret Knight
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Melitta Bentz
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Emile Durkheim argued that too much specialization would lead to which of the following?
Increased social solidarity
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Crime and deviance
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Weakened social solidarity
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Industrializtion
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Which of the following types of solidarity is based on common feelings, values and beliefs?
Social
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Organic
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Mechanical
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Industrial
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Which of the following types of solidarity results from a division of labour that fosters mutual dependence of society's members?
Organic
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Mechanical
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Industrial
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Social
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Which of the following refers to the creation of a subordinate wage-working class among people with professional qualifications?
Industialization
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Mechanical solidarity
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Proletarianization
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Convergence
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Which of the following scholars coined the term McDonaldization?
Max Weber
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Erving Goffman
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Emile Durkheim
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George Ritzer
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Which of the following is a component of the McDonaldization process?
Proletarianization
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Calculability
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Organic solidarity
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Innovation
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According to Marx's definition, which of the following refers to a group of people who share the same relationship to the means of production?
Bourgeoisie
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Party
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Social group
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Class
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Deprofessionalization is when:
Automation eliminates entire categories of job from the labour market
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People move down in socioeconomic standing due to increased global competition
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Immigrants secure jobs which do not reflect their experience or qualifications
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Professional credentials become easier to obtain
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Which of the following terms refers to organizations or associations that give people non-economic power?
Class
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Parties
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Status groups
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Bourgeoisie
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Karl Marx's work on class focuses on ________ whereas Max Weber focused on ________. Which of the following best completes this statement?
symbolic exchange; taste and culture
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taste and culture; power and the market
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market power; means of production
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means of production; power and the market
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Compared to men, women produce ________ more unpaid household labour. Which of the following best completes this statement?
three times
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five times
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tour times
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two times
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According to survey research, which of the following best reflects the percentage of transgender people who have experienced workplace discrimination or harassment?
20 percent
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40 percent
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90 percent
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70 percent
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Which of the following statement is a conflict theorist most likely to agree with?
Work is a basic human need.
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Patriarchy operates in the workforce.
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Work provides a major part of our identity.
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Work promotes social inequality.
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Contemporary workplaces based on a strict division of labour and assembly-line principles are a form of:
Post-Fordism
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A knowledge economy
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A 'gig' workplace
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Neo-Fordism
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The Boston Consulting Group predicts that many Canadians will be using shared autonomous cars by:
2025
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2030
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2050
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2100
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Which of the following is a prediction about the future of work that H.G. Wells made in 1901?
Women will surpass men in professional positions.
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Economic inequality will be eradicated.
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There will be an increase in unskilled labour jobs.
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More complex power classes will emerge.
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Which of the following represents the annual cost to the US economy per year resulting from workers' confusion about new technologies?
One hundred thousand dollars
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One million dollars
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One trillion dollars
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One billion dollars
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Which of the following generally refers to a decrease in state intervention?
Economic downturn
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Proletarianization
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Neo-liberalism
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Neo-functionalism
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Which of the following is the fastest growing type of work in high-income countries?
White collar
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Non-standard
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Professional
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Full time
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Which of the following describes the trend in labour union participation over the past thirty years?
Stayed the same across occupations
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Decreased in male-dominated occupations
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Increased across all occupations
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Increased among male-dominated occupations
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Organic solidarity refers to social cohesion based on a division of labour.
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False
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The data on the costs of workplace injury likely underestimate the true extent of the problem.
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Class, party and status groups are synonymous terms.
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Mass consumption is a by-product of a lowered standard of living.
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Functionalist theorists assume that people generally agree on the value of an occupation.
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Human capital theorists argue that money invested in the well-being of people is a detriment to the economy.
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Canadian underemployment is a result of too much education.
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Precarious work is both uncontrollable and unpredictable.
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Some social classes have power but do not own the means of production or sell their labour to capitalists.
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The declining power of labour unions is an important consequence of neo-liberalism and globalization.
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