In 1995, 45 percent of poor people in the United States were living in:
central cities
the suburbs
rural areas
Appalachia
In central cities, about 49 percent of the underclass are:
Whites
Asians
Hispanics
African Americans
In 1997, about what percentage of the wealth of the United States was held by the richest fifth (or 20 percent) of the population?
23 percent
38 percent
85 percent
75 percent
The intellectual tradition at the heart of conflict theory begins principally with the work of:
Max Weber
Erving Goffman
Karl Marx
The sinking of the SS Titanic is an example of how social class can affect life chances because:
only 705 poor passengers survived
poor passengers were slow to respond to emergency sirens
emergency procedures favored first and second-class passengers
all of the above
A plumber whose father was a physician is an example of:
downward intergenerational mobility
upward intergenerational mobility
downward intragenerational mobility
upward intragenerational mobility
In Karl Marx's view, the destruction of the capitalist system will occur only if the working class first develops:
bourgeois consciousness
false consciousness
class consciousness
caste consciousness
In sociologist Daniel Rossides's model of the class system of the United States, the class with the smallest proportion of the population is the:
upper class
upper middle class
lower middle class
lower class
The most extreme form of legalized social inequality for individuals or groups is:
slavery
open class systems
closed caste systems
caste systems
Sociological studies of colonialism suggest that:
colonialism has largely disappeared
colonialism was, for the most part, beneficial for poor, uncivilized countries
colonialism was inevitable and necessary for human civilization
colonialism is perpetuated to this day by practices known as neo-colonialism
