- The division of large numbers of people into layers according to their relative power, property, and prestige is referred to as ________.
- All of the following acts qualify as a white collar crime EXCEPT for which one?
- The Most Industrialized Nations are almost equally distributed between the Northern and Southern hemispheres of the world.
- Mahatma is a member of India's Brahman caste. What is Mahatma's most likely occupation?
- In a caste system, social stratification is based on ascribed status.
- Racism has traditionally been the cause of slavery.
- Which concept explains the rise of global stratification as including core nations, semiperiphery nations, periphery nations, and external areas?
- A group's usual and customary social arrangements, on which its members depend and on which they base their lives, is called ________.
- In which of the following societies might slavery MOST likely exist?
- The spread of an economic system based on investing to make profits, which is becoming the world's dominant economic system, is referred to as ________.
- Sociologically, an act cannot be classified as deviance if it does not cause physical or emotional harm to another individual.
- Human sexuality illustrates how a group's definitions of an act, and not the act itself, determines whether or not it is considered deviant.
- Phil, a janitor for an expensive apartment-house complex in Chicago, is a union janitor who makes quite a bit more money than many of the tenants in the building he maintains. Lenski would note that Phil's high income but low occupational prestige demonstrates a condition of ________.
- Which of the following statements is most accurate with respect to determining social prestige in modern society?
- Crime "in the suites" (white collar crime) actually costs the American taxpayer more in terms of dollars lost than "crime in the streets."
- Defining social class in America is an objective science because there are clear-cut, agreed-upon definitions of each class.
- According to strain theory, the underlying cause of deviance is that people experience a sense of normlessness. This sense of normlessness is referred to as ________.
- The relativity of deviance is most aligned with which sociological perspective?
- In every society, from the hunting and gathering society to the postindustrial society, the most common basis for social stratification has been ________.
- Conflict theorists classify the few who own the means of production as ________ and those who sell their labor to these owners as ________.