According to your instructor, which situation is likeliest to provide the highest pay for members of given occupational groups?

low demand for their skills, but large number of workers within these groups.

high demand for their skills, but relatively few workers with those skills.

high educational attainment among such workers, coupled with high occupational prestige.

low degree of occupational prestige among such workers, but high educational attainment.

2) According to your instructor's conception of reward inequality, employers may attempt to cut labor costs in several ways. When they simply terminate a large number of workers, they are engaging in?

downsizing

outsourcing

mechanization

increasing the division of labor

4)Which is true about the ownership of wealth in the U.S.?

Most of the total wealth is owned by middle-class Americans.

Wealth has never before been as equally distributed across the population as it is now.

Wealth in recent decades has become increasingly concentrated in a very small percentage of American households.

Over the last three decades, the richest one-tenth of 1 percent of Americans have actually lost a larger percentage of their wealth than has the rest of the population.

5) According to Veblen, the expensive and impractical fashions worn by the wives of those whom he studied 100 years ago illustrate the concept of

parody display.

the beauty myth.

conspicuous consumption.

leisure-class theory.

6) According to your instructor's model of reward inequality, such processes as mechanization and labor outsourcing

serve to produce a situation of occupational monopoly.

reduce the supply of labor available to employers.

produce a situation that advantages workers over employers.

reduce the price of labor for employers.

7) Relative to reward inequality, this explanation emphasizes how the class structure is maintained, and specifically how societal institutions perpetuate the social relationships and attitudes needed to sustain the existing relations of production in a capitalist society.??

synthetic theory

neoclassical labor market theory

social reproduction theory

symbolic maintenance dynamics

8) William Julius Wilson argues that the persistence of high rates of poverty among black among Americans is best explained as a function of???

contemporary racism and bigotry among the white masses.

middle-class backlash against programs like racial quotas and Affirmative Action.

a neglectful white power structure at the federal level, which is interested in keeping blacks in their place, politically powerless, and docile..

historical forces of racism and poverty, in combination with various contemporary factors such as the deindustrialization of the urban north, a declining urban tax base for public services, and the flight of the black middle class to suburbs.

9) Which labels for American social classes emerged several years ago with the "Occupy Wall Street" movement?

1% / 99%

rich versus poor

bourgeoisie / proletariat

haves / have-nots / have-a-little-want-mores

10) Which isnot consistent with the functional theory of Davis and Moore in addressing why such groups as doctors have higher incomes than do others, such as garbage collectors?

the functional importance of the doctor is greater.

a longer period of training is required to become a doctor.

fewer people have the talent to become doctors than garbage collectors.

doctors have much more organizational power to determine their incomes than do garbage doctors.