Chapter 7 Practice Quizzes

. Which theory states that if you allow the rich the freedom to accumulate wealth and make investments, the wealth will eventually make its way down to the average worker and eventually the poor?

. When assessing the distribution of household wealth, which of the following are useful for comparative purposes, both across time periods and across regions?

. Which term refers to sports that offer people from poorer socio-economic backgrounds the chance to reap large financial rewards as professional athletes?

. Which term refers to the belief that anyone can "make it" if he or she is willing to work really hard?

. This term generally represents a target above the existing wage, which is considered too low for the working poor to live on.

. According to statistics (from Food Banks Canada, 2021), which of the following is true?

. Which of the following describes the term precariat?

. Which of the following groups played a major role in the appearance of Airbnb, Uber, Lyft?

. Which of the following is not a factor that could contribute to false consciousness?

. What did Marx call the resources needed to produce goods and hence wealth?

. Hegemony is used to maintain the power used by the dominant class.

. Marx and Engels stressed three elements as contributing to social inequality: wealth, prestige, and power.

. According to neo-liberal ideology, when people are successful, it is because they have benefited from the social privileges of race, ethnicity, class, or gender.

. According to Marx, class is relational.

. Failure to achieve the American dream is placed solely on the individual, which William Ryan called 'blaming the victim'.

. A counter-ideology is the set of beliefs put forward by society's dominant culture or classes.

. A sociology textbook could become an instrument of hegemony.

. The precariat is a vulnerable, unstable version of the Marxian working class.

. Adam Smith was an early proponent of laissez-faire economics, the idea that governments should not try to manage or interfere in the so-called free market.

. Current research has found that when it comes to poverty, causes and solutions are becoming easier to address and identify.

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