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’