8.3 Global Stratification and Inequality

12. Social stratification is a system that:

a. ranks society members into categories

b. destroys competition between society members

c. allows society members to choose their social standing

d. reflects personal choices of society members

13. Which graphic concept best illustrates the concept of social stratification?

a. Pie chart

b. Flag poles

c. Planetary movement

d. Pyramid

14. The GNI PPP figure represents:

a. a country’s total accumulated wealth

b. annual government spending

c. the average annual income of a country’s citizens

d. a country’s debt

8.4 Theoretical Perspectives on Social Stratification

15. The basic premise of the Davis-Moore thesis is that the unequal distribution of rewards in social

stratification:

a. is an outdated mode of societal organization

b. is an artificial reflection of society

c. serves a purpose in society

d. cannot be justified

16. Unlike Davis and Moore, Melvin Tumin believed that, because of social stratification, some

qualified people were _______ higher-level job positions.

a. denied the opportunity to obtain

b. encouraged to train for

c. often fired from

d. forced into

17. Which statement represents stratification from the perspective of symbolic interactionism?

a. Men often earn more than women, even working the same job.

b. After work, Pat, a janitor, feels more comfortable eating in a truck stop than a French

restaurant.

c. Doctors earn more money because their job is more highly valued.

d. Teachers continue to struggle to keep benefits such as health insurance.

18. When Karl Marx said workers experience alienation, he meant that workers:

a. must labor alone, without companionship

b. do not feel connected to their work

c. move from one geographical location to another

d. have to put forth self-effort to get ahead

19. Conflict theorists view capitalists as those who:

a. are ambitious

b. fund social services

c. spend money wisely

d. get rich while workers stay poor

9.1 Global Stratification and Classification (Lecture9.Global inequality)

1. A sociologist who focuses on the way that multinational corporations headquartered in core nations

exploit the local workers in their peripheral nation factories is using a _________ perspective to

understand the global economy.

a. functional

b. conflict theory

c. feminist

d. symbolic interactionist

2. A ____________ perspective theorist might find it particularly noteworthy that wealthy corporations

improve the quality of life in peripheral nations by providing workers with jobs, pumping money into

the local economy, and improving transportation infrastructure.

a. functional

b. conflict

c. feminist

d. symbolic interactionist

3. A sociologist working from a symbolic interaction perspective would:

a. study how inequality is created and reproduced

b. study how corporations can improve the lives of their low-income workers

c. try to understand how companies provide an advantage to high-income nations compared to

low-income nations

d. want to interview women working in factories to understand how they manage the

expectations of their supervisors, make ends meet, and support their households on a day-today

basis

4. France might be classified as which kind of nation?

a. Global

b. Core

c. Semi-peripheral

d. Peripheral

5. In the past, the United States manufactured clothes. Many clothing corporations have shut down their

American factories and relocated to China. This is an example of:

a. conflict theory

b. OECD

c. global inequality

d. capital flight