Chapter 2 Practice Quiz

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. What do classes refer to in sociology?

A group of people who study together correct incorrect

Those who work in the same environment correct incorrect

A close group of friends correct incorrect

A group of people who see each other more than twice a week correct incorrect

A group of people who share a common economic condition correct incorrect

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. Which sociologist published the Vertical Mosaic?

John Porter correct incorrect

Max Weber correct incorrect

Emilie Durkheim correct incorrect

Auguste Comte correct incorrect

Talcott Parsons correct incorrect

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. What are the two ways that we can view poverty?

Absolute and relative correct incorrect

Subjective and objective correct incorrect

Equal and unequal correct incorrect

Necessary and unnecessary correct incorrect

Homeless and non-homeless correct incorrect

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. What is the low-income cut off point?

A way of measuring relative poverty on the basis of the percentage of income devoted to daily necessities correct incorrect

A way of measuring absolute poverty on the basis of who is homeless and who is living in a sheltered environment correct incorrect

A way of gauging economic inequality where 0 represents perfect income equality and 1 represents perfect income inequality. correct incorrect

A set of figures representing 50 percent of the median "adjusted family income." correct incorrect

A threshold set at half the Canadian medium adjusted household income. correct incorrect

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. What is the human development index?

Another way of measuring a country's GDP correct incorrect

A way of measuring a country's poverty line correct incorrect

A way of gauging absolute and relative poverty correct incorrect

A way of measuring both social and economic progress through a broad set of measures correct incorrect

A way of measuring the number of Nobel prize laureates a country has correct incorrect

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. In large cities, most of the homeless are:

Young people who have run away from home correct incorrect

Drug addicts correct incorrect

Middle-aged people who don't have work correct incorrect

Seniors who can't afford assisted living correct incorrect

Babies that parents put up for adoption correct incorrect

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. What type of country is Canada considered?

A conservative regime correct incorrect

A liberal, social welfare regime correct incorrect

A communist regime correct incorrect

A liberal anarchy correct incorrect

A neo-conservative state correct incorrect

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. Which sociological perspective argues that society consists of a connected network of groups, organizations, and institutions that work together?

Symbolic interactionists correct incorrect

Conflict theorists correct incorrect

Structural functionalism correct incorrect

Social constructionists correct incorrect

Feminism correct incorrect

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. Which sociological thinker developed the ideas central to conflict theory?

Emilie Durkheim correct incorrect

Karl Marx correct incorrect

Lester B. Pearson correct incorrect

Talcott Parsons correct incorrect

Charles Horton Cooley correct incorrect

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. Which is NOT a type of alienation that Marx identified?

Alienation of the work from his "species essence" correct incorrect

Alienation between workers correct incorrect

Alienation of the worker from the product correct incorrect

Alienation from the act of production itself correct incorrect

Alienation from their spouses correct incorrect

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. False consciousness is the acceptance of the discourse and values of the dominant class.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. In a Capitalistic society social mobility is limitless. F

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Intergenerational income elasticity is the correlation between ethnicity and income level.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Absolute poverty is when you can survive but the living standards are below the general living standards.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. A Gini coefficient of 0 is perfect social equality.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The poverty line represents a standard of living and stays standard across different countries.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. The Human Development Index is made up of three primary measures: a country's GDP, the number of homeless people there are on the country's streets, and the number of shelters the country has to accommodate these people.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. A welfare state is a social system in which the government undertakes the responsibility of providing social and economic security to its citizens.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. When it comes to poverty, symbolic interactionists focus on the ways that people assign labels to "wealthy" and "poor."

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect

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. Despite popular opinion, wealthy people are more likely to commit crimes than those at the lower end of the socio-economic spectrum.

True correct incorrect

False correct incorrect