Sociology Chapter 10: Social Class

According to Weber, what is a large group of people who rank close to one another in property, power, and prestige?

What consists of any of the various types of material possessions?

The total value of all a person owns after subtracting all that person owes is called what?

The money you receive, whether it comes to you from a paycheck or from your assets is considered what?

Income and wealth are what?

What percentage of the nation's wealth is owned by the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans?

What percentage of the nation's wealth is owned by the wealthiest 10 percent of Americans?

If we can use the analogy that some U.S. families have an income that could be represented by the height of Mount Everest, then the average American family has an income that is about how many feet off the ground?

In 2017, the highest-paid U.S. CEO received what?

Income inequality in the United States has what trajectory?

What enables a person to exert his or her will even in the face of opposition?

C. Wright Mills identified the major decision-makers at the highest levels of corporations, politics, and the armed forces in the United States as what?

Which occupation has the most prestige in the United States?

The prestige of your occupation refers specifically to what?

June was the president of her neighborhood association, which afforded her a high what?

Status consistency refers to what?

Ranking high on some dimensions of social class and low on others is considered what?

Durkheim called it what when people became separated from the usual norms that were expected to guide their behavior?

Based on the histories of lottery winners, sudden wealth brings what?

Wright characterizes a position in the class structure that contains inherently contradictory interests as what?

Marx's model of the social classes specifically included what?

Which group members, because of their great wealth, are at the top of Wright's modification of Marx's model of social classes?

Because of the large differences between types of workers and owners, Wright felt it necessary to modify Marx's model of social classes to include what?

The upper end of the capitalist class is occupied by those with what?

Philanthropist Bill Gates has given away how much?

The class members most clearly affected by education are those in which class?

Compared to the working class, the lower-middle class generally has what?

Which class members likely consider themselves the real workers and regard those above them as practically inexperienced?

Most members of the working-poor class what?

Seth relied on welfare and food stamps. In terms of class, Seth belonged to the what?

Part of the what are homeless people?

As you go up the social-class ladder, what happens to your health?

As you go down the social-class ladder, what happens to your mental health?

When it comes to raising children, parents in the lower class tend to what?

When it comes to religion, the lower classes tend to be attracted to what?

Which statement is true about people toward the bottom of the class structure?

White-collar crimes are usually handled how?

What refers to the change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next?

In Mexico, Javier was a physician. Upon immigrating to the United States, he ended up working as a carpenter. What did Javier experience?

Lee started as a bank teller and fifteen years later ended up running the bank. This is an example of what?

What type of mobility is movement either up or down the social class ladder due more to changes in society than to individual actions?

In exchange mobility, a large number of people move up the social class ladder, a large number move down, and the social class system shows little change. This is referred to as what?

It is likely to be painful to do what?

What proportion of all African American adults works at white-collar jobs today?

The official measure of poverty of the U.S. government is what?

Which statement about poverty is true?

The region of the United States that has the most poverty is what?

About what percent of high school dropouts are poor, while approximately what percent of those with college degrees are poor?

The Horatio Alger myth does what?

According to the author, those who have what will likely make up the second tier in a three-tier society?

What are the four characteristics of jobs that have the most prestige?

Describe the underclass.

Name three effects of social class on family life.

Discuss research on women in studies of social mobility.

Discuss the impact of geography on poverty in the United States.