Power & Class Stratification

To have a similar romantic partner is called...

The ownership over people is...

Poverty impairs the nation's...

A "Just-World Hypothesis" is a good thing.

The "Digital Divide" is a problem in areas with little-to-no Internet access.

People that work multiple jops to get by, vs. people who were born into wealth is an example of ______.

An Oligarchy is...

Americans get little government help to tide households over in finacial energencies because...

A caste system is where people are separated by wealth and cannot be changed or escaped.

By the age of 30, what percent of Americans expirerence at least one year of poverty?

"Marrying down" is called...

You make $15 an hour. Your boss makes 50 times more than this. This situation is an example of _________.

"Deprivation" is the objective effect of poverty.

When different types of inequality intersect, this is called...

America has the highest poverty rates in the Western industrialized world...

To have citizenship stripped away is called...

In the article, the analogy used to decribe the demand for labor vs. the demand of decent paying jobs is...

What % of American full-time workers could be classified as low-wage workers?

A situation in which an individual holds differing and contradictory levels of status.

When class structure is passed down from one generation to the next, it is called social reproduction.

What culture provides a wide range of social and insureance programs that keep families from falling into poverty?

At one point 3 million Americans were working part time because shortage of full-time jobs because...

A system of segregation of racial and ethnic groups that was legal in South Africa is called an Apartheid.

The Simplicity Movement opposes consummerism and overworking.

"Marrying Up" is called...

"Social Mobility" refers to...

What percentage of Americans will fall below the poverty line?

Meritocracy is a system which rewards are distributed on merit.