Essentials Of Sociology 5th Edition By Giddens, Richard P. Appelbaum -Test Bank

Essentials Of Sociology 5th Edition By Giddens, Richard P. Appelbaum -Test Bank

CHAPTER 7: Stratification, Class, and Inequality

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. Sociologists study ________ when they are looking at the structured inequalities in a society.
a. social stratification
b. social disapproval
c. social inequity
d. strategic sociality
e. socialism

ANS: A DIF: Easy REF: Page 200 TOP: Systems of Stratification (I)
MSC: Factual

2. In all systems of stratification, people are ranked by:
a. personality
b. social categories
c. intelligence
d. social capital
e. social identity

ANS: B DIF: Easy REF: Page 200 TOP: Systems of Stratification (I)
MSC: Factual

3. Which of the following is NOT true of all systems of social stratification?
a. People are ranked according to social categories such as race and gender.
b. A person’s life chances are significantly influenced by his or her social category.
c. Ranks of social categories tend to change slowly over time.
d. If a person no longer identifies with the other members of his or her category, he or she is no longer classified at that level.
e. Social rankings reflect social inequality.

ANS: D DIF: Moderate REF: Page 200 TOP: Systems of Stratification (I)
MSC: Factual

4. According to the textbook, what is the main reason that slavery does not exist in most societies around the world today?
a. because it is an inefficient economic system
b. because slaves are too expensive to buy
c. because human rights became an important concept in industrial societies
d. because a postindustrial society required a different economic system
e. because machines displaced slaves

ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: Page 201 TOP: Slavery (I.A)
MSC: Factual

5. Today people are taken against their will and forced to work as bricklayers in Pakistan or sex workers in Thailand. These are examples of:
a. modern-day slavery
b. a caste system based on occupation
c. cheap labor in a capitalist system
d. the worst occupations in a class system
e. a caste system based on gender

ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: Page 201 TOP: Slavery (I.A)
MSC: Factual

6. A stratification system in which certain people are owned as property is known as:
a. capitalism
b. caste
c. estates
d. socialism
e. slavery

ANS: E DIF: Easy REF: Page 201 TOP: Slavery (I.A)
MSC: Factual

7. Which of the following is NOT an example of a caste system?
a. forcing rural women in Thailand into sex work
b. giving political and economic rights in South Africa only to people who were genetically completely white
c. forcing children to accept their parents’ status as their own in India
d. denying all civil rights to blacks in the United States
e. none of the above; all are examples of caste systems

ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: Page 202 TOP: Caste Systems (I.B)
MSC: Applied

8. The caste system of stratification can be best classified as:
a. an open system in which a person’s intelligence and hard work determine social position
b. an open system in which individuals can move out of the social position in which they are born
c. a closed system in which all individuals stay within the social position they are born into
d. a closed system in which people are able to own other individuals as property
e. nonexistent in the modern world

ANS: C DIF: Moderate REF: Page 201 TOP: Caste Systems (I.B)
MSC: Factual

9. Which country has a caste system based on occupation groupings?
a. India
b. the United States
c. South Africa
d. a and b only
e. b and c only

ANS: A DIF: Moderate REF: Page 201 TOP: Caste Systems (I.B)
MSC: Factual

10. Caste systems require that individuals marry within their social group. This is referred to as:
a. caste marriage
b. endogamy
c. social marriage
d. endomarriage
e. equal marriage

ANS: B DIF: Moderate REF: Page 202 TOP: Caste Systems (I.B)
MSC: Factual