Sociology Quiz: Exam Questions! Trivia
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- 1.Which one of the following WAS NOT considered by Max Weber to be involved in an individual's social position?
- A.
Social Power
- B.
Economic class (property)
- C.
The means of production. (production)
- D.
Social staus or prestige
- 2.The "feminization of poverty" refers to the fact that, in the United States:
- A.
There are very few rich women
- B.
A larger share of the poor are women
- C.
Women have fewer and fewer rights
- D.
Fewer women are working for income
- 3.Which of the following statements about the lower middle class (Gilbert and Kahl, 1993) is FALSE?
- A.
This class represents about 1/3 of all americans
- B.
People in the lower middle class do not vote elections
- C.
People in this class possess some wealth
- D.
Occupations in this class include "white collar jobs" and highly skilled crafts and trades
- 4.In the Gilbert and Kahl social class model (1993), the Capitalist class is divided into:
- A.
Conservatives and liberals
- B.
The rich and the poor
- C.
Men and women
- D.
Old money and new money
- 5.The chapter-opening account of passenger deaths that accompanied the sinking of the ocean liner Titanic shows that:
- A.
Social stratification can sometimes be a matter of life and death
- B.
All people have the same right to life
- C.
Life boats for rich passengers were made better than the life boats for poor passengers
- D.
Technology cannot prevent tragedy
- 6.Ideology refers to:
- A.
Plato's belief that stratification was good for society
- B.
How social inequality fosters greed in individuals
- C.
The study of social inequality
- D.
Cultural beliefs that justify social stratification
- 7.In the united states, which of the following age categories has the highest poverty rate?
- A.
Children
- B.
Young people in their 20's
- C.
Middle-aged persons
- D.
Seniors over age 65
- 8.In the United states, it is correct to say that social position is simply a reflection of a person's talents and ablitites
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 9.Caste systems encourage romantic love as the basis of marriage.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 10.About 40% of US families have little or no wealth.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 11.Which of the following is NOT one of the characteristics of poor countries?
- A.
Low levels of stratification
- B.
Cultural resistance to innovation
- C.
High levels of population increase
- D.
The use of relatively little advanced technology
- 12.The basic idea behind the demographic transition theory is that:
- A.
Population increase is now mostly found in high-income nations
- B.
Population patterns reflect a society's level of technological development
- C.
Population increase will outstrip the planet's ability to support us
- D.
All of the above are correct
- 13.The deadly fire in Bangladeshi sweatshop described in the opening to the chapter shows that:
- A.
Factory jobs are hard to find in low-income nations
- B.
Bangladesh has suffered a number of natural disasters in recent years
- C.
The lives of the world's poor are far worse than most people in the US realize
- D.
Individual dumping is a hazard to human health everywhere
- 14.Modernization theory claims that:
- A.
Most poor nations were richer in the past
- B.
The main cause of poverty involve multinational corporations
- C.
Poor nations can never become rich in today's world
- D.
The main causes of poverty involve culture and technology
- 15.Which of the following is NOT a reason that throughout history, families had many children.
- A.
Birth control was unreliable, at best
- B.
Many children born did not survive to adulthood
- C.
Most parents had so much love to share w/their children
- D.
Children were a needed source of labor
- 16."Neocolonization" refers to the process by which:
- A.
Countries grant independence to former colonies
- B.
Companies operate in many countries at one time
- C.
Countries gain new colonies to replace older ones
- D.
Multinational corporations dominate the economy of a poor country
- 17.Thomas Robert Malthus believed that:
- A.
The key to supporting a population is growing more food
- B.
The world could support an ever-larger population
- C.
Population increase would bring chaos to the world
- D.
Industrialization would reduce the birth rate
- 18.The wealthiest 20 percent of the global population receives about % of all global income.
- A.
20
- B.
35
- C.
50
- D.
80
- E.
99
- 19.What term refers to the number of deaths in a given year for every thousand people in a population?
- A.
Kill ratio
- B.
Fecundity
- C.
Crude death rate
- D.
Refined death proportion
- 20.Demography studies the size and composition of a society's population.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.Roughly 1 billion people in the world live in or close to absolute poverty.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.Those counted among the poor in the United States have about the same standard of living as the poor in low-income nations.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 23.An age-sex pyramid is useful, in part, because it helps predict the demographic future of a society.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 24.In low-income nations, a majority of the people live in villages and small towns where farming is the most common way to make a living.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 25.In poor countries, the amt of disadvantage that women face (compared to men) is:
- A.
In poor countries, women have higher social standing than men
- B.
Smaller than in rich nations
- C.
About the same as in rich nations
- D.
Greater than in rich countries
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