Question 1
According to “The rise of the super-rich”, unions with large memberships affect the distribution of wealth because they
A. are able to extract concessions from management that increase workers’ relative earnings.
B. diminish workers’ wage bargaining power and by doing so increase firms’ market value and their profitability.
C. take capital from those who work for it and give it to those who don’t.
D. (all of the above)
Question 2
According to “Rise of the super-rich”, rising inequality in our country
A. results merely from natural market forces that are in large part out of our control.
B. is associated with government policies and partisan balance of congress.
C. results from Democratic party strength in Congress.
D. results from redistribution of income by government transfer programs such as welfare.
Question 3
According to “Patrimonial alliances and failures of
state penetration”, the main cause of the shift from patrimonialism to bureaucracy was
A. the increasing tendency to locate production in households rather than in factories, offices, and stores.
B. the decline of family values as societies lost faith in god.
C. growing military forces, which required larger tax-collection apparatus.
D. (all of the above)
Question 4
According to “Patrimonial alliances and failures of
state penetration”, patrimonialism, as opposed to bureaucracy, works by
A. written rules and procedures, impersonal adherence to abstract duties.
B. personal loyalty and abritrary discretion tempered by tradition.
C. passing property down through female lineages, emphasizing the importance of motherhood.
D. aligning with feminism.
Question 5
According to “Situational stratification”, status groups
A. do not structure their members’ lives as much as they used to.
B. assemble more often than they used to.
C. have identities that are increasingly influential as to where members spend their time..
D. (all of the above)
Question 6
According to “Situational stratification”, the closest we have today to an official status-group boundary is that between
A. Republicans and Democrats.
B. teachers and students.
C. capitalists and workers.
D. youth and adults.
E. women and men.
F. whites and racial minorities.
Question 7
According to “The costs of racial and class exclusion in the inner city”,
A. a set of such social ills as violent crime is the single largest force behind deindustrialization.
B. deindustrialization is the single largest force behind marginalization of inner-city blacks.
C. social ills of the ghetto result mainly from refusals by blacks to work the manufacturing and other blue-collar jobs available.
D. No answer text provided.
Question 8
According to “The costs of racial and class exclusion in the inner city”, extraordinary levels of economic hardship in Chicago’s inner city result mainly from
A. the prevalence of economic exclusion in the ghetto.
B. a ghetto culture of poverty.
C. moral-cultural and individual behavior.
D. a ‘welfare ethos’.
