Sociology 16th Edition by Macionis – Test Bank

Sociology 16th Edition by Macionis – Test Bank

In this revision of the test bank, I have updated all of the questions to reflect changes in Sociology, 16^th edition. In this revision, the questions are tagged according to six levels of learning that move from lower-level to higher-level cognitive reasoning. The six levels are:

REMEMBER: a question involving recall of key terms or factual material

UNDERSTAND: a question testing comprehension of more complex ideas

APPLY: a question applying sociological knowledge to some new situation

ANALYZE: a question requiring identifying elements of an argument and their interrelationship

The 114 questions in this chapter’s test bank are divided into four types of questions. True/False questions are the least demanding. As the table below shows, all of these questions fall within the two lowest levels of cognitive reasoning (“Remember” and “Understand”). Multiple-choice questions also fall within the three lowest levels of cognitive reasoning (adding some “Apply” questions). Short answer questions span a broader range of skills (from “Understand” to “Evaluate”). Finally, essay questions are the most demanding, falling within the four highest levels of cognitive reasoning (“Apply,” “Analyze,” “Evaluate,” and “Create”).

Types of Questions

Easy to Difficult Level of Difficulty

True/False

Mult Choice

Short Answer

Essay

Total Qs

Remember

30 (83%)

42 (75%)

0

0

72

Understand

6 (17%)

9 (16%)

4 (31%)

0

19

Apply

0

5 (9%)

2 (15%)

1 (11%)

8

Analyze

0

0

7 (54%)

8 (89%)

15

36

56

13

9

114

CHAPTER 11: SOCIAL CLASS IN THE UNITED STATES

TRUE/FALSE QUESTIONS

TB_Q11.1.1

U.S. society does not have social stratification.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.2

In the United States, wealth is distributed more unequally than income.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.3

In 2013, median family income in the United States was about $64,000.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.4

The richest 20 percent of U.S. families earns 49 percent of all income, while the bottom 20 percent earns slightly less than 4 percent.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.5

Wealth refers to what people earn each year from their jobs plus any income from investments.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.6

About 20 percent of U.S. families have negative wealth, which means that they are actually in debt.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.7

The wealth of rich people is not only greater, but more of it is in the form of investments that typically increase in value and generate income.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.8

Jobs typically performed by women carry more prestige than those typically performed by men.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.9

In general, white-collar occupations have more prestige than blue-collar occupations.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.10

Because education is a right in the United States, there is very little inequality in schooling.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.2.11

Today, on average, African American families have about the same income and wealth as white families.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.2: Explain how someone’s position at birth affects social standing later in life

Topic: U.S. Stratification: Merit and Caste

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.2.12

Hispanic families, on average, lag behind non-Hispanic white families in both income and wealth.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.2: Explain how someone’s position at birth affects social standing later in life

Topic: U.S. Stratification: Merit and Caste

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.2.13

In the United States, white people are more likely to own their own homes than African Americans.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.2: Explain how someone’s position at birth affects social standing later in life

Topic: U.S. Stratification: Merit and Caste

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.3.14

In the United States, there are more people in the upper class than in the lower class.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.3: Describe the various social class positions in U.S. society

Topic: Social Classes in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q11.3.15

People in the lower-upper class are sometimes said to have “old money.”

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.3: Describe the various social class positions in U.S. society

Topic: Social Classes in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.3.16

When people talk about realizing the American dream, they generally mean making enough money to join the ranks of the upper-upper class.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.3: Describe the various social class positions in U.S. society

Topic: Social Classes in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.3.17

The working class is sometimes called the “lower-middle class.”

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.3: Describe the various social class positions in U.S. society

Topic: Social Classes in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.3.18

In the United States in 2013, more than 45 million people were officially counted among the poor.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.3: Describe the various social class positions in U.S. society

Topic: Social Classes in the United States

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.4.19

As surprising as it may seem, in the United States, poor people typically have better health than rich people.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.4: Analyze how social class position affects health, values, politics, and family life

Topic: The Difference Class Makes

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.5.20

Intergenerational mobility refers to changes in social position within an individual’s lifetime.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.5: Assess the extent of social mobility in the United States

Topic: Social Mobility

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.5.21

Since 1980 in the United States, the most dramatic gains in income have been made by the richest people.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.5: Assess the extent of social mobility in the United States

Topic: Social Mobility

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q11.5.22

Among people in all five economic quintiles (from the rich to the poor) a majority of children born into a particular quintile remain in that same quintile as adults.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.5: Assess the extent of social mobility in the United States

Topic: Social Mobility

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q11.5.23

People who marry and stay married accumulate only half as much wealth as people who remain single.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.5: Assess the extent of social mobility in the United States

Topic: Social Mobility

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.5.24

The expansion of the global economy has helped create more high-paying jobs in manufacturing in the United States.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.5: Assess the extent of social mobility in the United States

Topic: Social Mobility

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.5.25

Recent survey research indicates that less than half of U.S. adults say they believe that their family can achieve the American dream.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.5: Assess the extent of social mobility in the United States

Topic: Social Mobility

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.5.26

The globalization of the economy has increased the earnings of highly educated people who specialize in law, finance, marketing, and computer technology.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.5: Assess the extent of social mobility in the United States

Topic: Social Mobility

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.6.27

The age category of the U.S. population most likely to be poor is children and young adults under the age of eighteen.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.

Topic: Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.6.28

Two-thirds of all poor people in the United States are African Americans.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.

Topic: Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.6.29

In the United States, Asians and Pacific Islanders have the lowest poverty rate of all racial and ethnic categories—even lower than non-Hispanic whites.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.

Topic: Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q11.6.30

In 2011, for the first time, all poor families in the United States were headed by women.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.

Topic: Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q11.6.31

In the United States, rural areas have a higher poverty rate than central cities.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.

Topic: Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.6.32

In most poor families in the United States, no family member has a full-time job.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.

Topic: Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.6.33

William Julius Wilson claims that many central cities in the United States no longer have enough jobs to support the families who live there.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.

Topic: Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.6.34

Societal factors that contribute to homelessness include low wages and a lack of low-income housing.

Answer: True

Learning Objective: LO 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.

Topic: Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.6.35

Research confirms that one-third of all people in the United States are homeless for some portion of a given year.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.

Topic: Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.6.36

Recent welfare reform has greatly reduced the poverty rate in the United States.

Answer: False

Learning Objective: LO 11.6: Discuss patterns of poverty and increasing economic inequality in the United States.

Topic: Poverty and the Trend Toward Increasing

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS

TB_Q11.1.37

Since the United States lacks a history of nobility, as in Europe, many people in this country think of it as ________

1. highly stratified.
2. mostly upper-class.
3. mostly working-class.
4. mostly middle-class.

Answer: d

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.38

In 2013, the median income for U.S. families was ________

99. $16,099.
100. $36,077.
101. $63,815.
102. $76,055.

Answer: c

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.39

Which concept refers to earnings from work or any investments?

1. Income
2. Personal property
3. Wealth
4. Power

Answer: a

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.40

Based on income statistics provided in the chapter, it is correct to say that the richest 20 percent of the population earns more than _____ times as much as the poorest 20 percent.

1. two
2. twelve
3. fifty
4. one hundred

Answer: b

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Understand the Concepts

TB_Q11.1.41

The total amount of financial assets, minus any debts, is referred to as ________

1. personal property.

Answer: c

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.42

The richest 5 percent of U.S. families own about what percentage of privately owned property?

1. 5 percent
2. 15 percent
3. 35 percent
4. 65 percent

Answer: d

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.43

If you were looking for data supporting the claim that U.S. society is very stratified, you would make the strongest case by pointing to which of the following factors?

1. Occupational prestige
2. Education
3. Income
4. Wealth

Answer: d

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Moderate

Skill Level: Apply What You Know

TB_Q11.1.44

The wealthiest 1 percent of U.S. families (the “super-rich”) controls about _____ of the nation’s privately held wealth.

1. 17 percent
2. 37 percent
3. 67 percent
4. 87 percent

Answer: b

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts

TB_Q11.1.45

Today, the wealth of the average U.S. family is about ________

800. $1,800.
801. $18,000.
802. $81,000.
803. $281,000.

Answer: c

Learning Objective: LO 11.1: Describe the distribution of income and wealth in the United States

Topic: Dimensions of Social Inequality

Difficulty Level: Easy

Skill Level: Remember the Facts