Sociology

In the United States, the chances of moving from the highest income category to the lowest income ...

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Max Weber defined a social class as having similar life chances. Indicate whether the statement ...

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Karl Marx described the finance aristocracy as consisting of those whose income is created from ...

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According to Weber, power is the probability that a person can exercise his or her will in the face ...

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The wealthiest 20 percent of the world's population owns 40 percent of the total wealth. Indicate ...

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Since 1976, the greatest gains in after-tax income have been made by those in the top 1 percent ...

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Absolute poverty is lack of access to goods and services that have come to be defined as essential. ...

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Worldwide, fewer than 1000 people are part of the category extremely wealthy. Indicate whether ...

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The country ranked highest on the 2011 UN Human Development Index (HDI) was Finland. Indicate ...

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The United States houses about 20 percent of the world's population and consumes 4.6 percent of all ...

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Japan is the country with the smallest income gap between the richest and poorest 10 percent of the ...

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One indicator of modernization is wide spread literacy. Indicate whether the statement is true or ...

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Modernization theory holds that poor countries are poor because of a colonial past. Indicate ...

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According to modernization theorists, Western countries can shock a country into the modernization ...

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The U.S. military has established a command center with control over the African continent. ...

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Conflict theorists maintain that CEOs players would decline their positions if salaries were ...

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When studying social inequality, symbolic interactions try to understand the experience of social ...

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Barbara Ehrenreich worked in jobs that paid 8.00 or less to learn first hand about the situation of ...

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Low-wage workers are fit a clear personality and ability profile. Indicate whether the statement ...

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Symbolic interactionists seek to understand how inequality is communicated and how it shapes social ...

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Sociologist William Julius Wilson wrote about the structural changes that helped create the urban ...

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In the U.S. about 5 percent of the population is officially classified as poor. Indicate whether ...

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In the United States, poverty is an urban (inner city) problem, not a rural or suburban problem. ...

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A county is considered to be in a state of persistent poverty when its poverty rate has held at 20 ...

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Under the U.S. system of racial classification, parents and their biological children can belong to ...

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