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Sociology Chapter 9 Exam Questions and Correct Answers (Latest Update 2024) What factor makes caste systems closed? - Answers People cannot change their social standings. What factor makes class systems open? - Answers They allow for movement between the classes. Which of these systems allows fo...

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Sociology Chapter 9 Exam Questions and Correct Answers (Latest Update 2024)

What factor makes caste systems closed? - Answers People cannot change their social standings.

What factor makes class systems open? - Answers They allow for movement between the classes.

Which of these systems allows for the most social mobility? - Answers Class

Which person best illustrates opportunities for upward social mobility in the United States? - Answers
First-generation college student

Which statement illustrates low status consistency? - Answers A college dropout launches an online
company that earns millions in its first year.

Based on meritocracy, a physician's assistant would: - Answers Earn a pay raise for doing excellent work

In the United States, most people define themselves as: - Answers Middle class

Structural mobility occurs when: - Answers A large group moves up or down the class ladder due to
societal changes

The behaviors, customs, and norms associated with a class are known as: - Answers Class traits

Which of the following scenarios is an example of intergenerational mobility? - Answers An executive
belongs to a different class than her parents.

Occupational prestige means that jobs are: - Answers Not equally valued

Social stratification is a system that: - Answers Ranks society members into categories

Which graphic concept best illustrates the concept of social stratification? - Answers Pyramid

The GNI PPP figure represents: - Answers The average annual income of a country's citizens

The basic premise of the Davis-Moore thesis is that the unequal distribution of rewards in social
stratification: - Answers Serves a purpose in society

Unlike Davis and Moore, Melvin Tumin believed that, because of social stratification, some qualified
people were _______ higher-level job positions. - Answers Denied the opportunity to obtain

Which statement represents stratification from the perspective of symbolic interactionism? - Answers
After work, Pat, a janitor, feels more comfortable eating in a truck stop than a French restaurant.

When Karl Marx said workers experience alienation, he meant that workers: - Answers Do not feel
connected to their work

Conflict theorists view capitalists as those who: - Answers Get rich while workers stay poor

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