Midterm 3
Soc 201A
Study guide
Here is a list of items that you should know about or questions you should be able to answer.
Chapter 7. Stratification, Class, and Inequality
1. class system
2. Karl Marx
3. means of production
4. capitalists and the working class
5. surplus value
6. Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E. Moore
7. Income inequality has increased dramatically since the 1970s as the income of the richest 20 percent saw its incomes rise __________, while the poorest 20 percent saw its incomes rise by __________.
8. In 2013, which group had the lowest percentage for achievement of a high school diploma?
9. the super-rich in the United States and globalization
10. working class
11. lower class
12. underclass
13. the gap between rich and poor in the United States
14. Inequality and the gap between rich and poor have been steadily growing in the United States. The richest 20 percent has __________ of the total income, while the poorest 20 percent has __________ of the total income.
15. While the average income of __________ households has been increasing, that of __________ households has been declining in the past decade.
16. Peter Blau and Otis Dudley Duncan and William Sewell and Robert Hauser
17. Pierre Bourdieu
18. In which of the following countries is the poverty rate the highest?
a. Germany c. United States
b. Norway d. Sweden
19. How does the government determine the poverty line?
20. absolute poverty
21. relative poverty
22. Of those who are currently in poverty in the United States, how many are working?
23. feminization of poverty
24. child poverty rates in the United States
25. Social Security, Medicare, and poverty among the elderly
26. structural causes of poverty
27. culture of poverty theory
28. Charles Murray
29. social exclusion
Chapter 9. Gender Inequality
30. sex
31. gender
32. gender socialization approach
33. “doing gender”
34. Norah Vincent
35. !Kung of the Kalahari Desert
36. Afghanistan and the bacha posh
37. Navajo culture and the nádleehí
38. Variations in gender roles across cultures demonstrate what?
39. patriarchy
40. differential valuing of the activities of men and women
41. Over the past fifty years, women’s participation in the paid labor force has done what?
42. In 1975, only __________ of married women with preschool-age children (under six years old) were in the labor force, yet this figure had increased to __________ by 2012.
43. How can the increase in female labor force participation over the past fifty years be explained?
44. gender typing
45. In 2012, the ratio of women’s to men’s earnings among full-time, year-round workers was what?
46. comparable worth policies
47. glass escalator
48. difference in the hours worked each day by men and women, including housework and child care, by country
49. percentage of women in senior management by country
50. Four of the ten richest self-made women in the world are in which country?
51. Shelley Correll
52. Who does the most housework?
53. differential behaviors patterns found in schools
54. female politicians
55. percentage of female members in national legislatures
56. violence against women
57. rape
58. rape culture
59. Talcott Parsons, instrumental and expressive roles
60. liberal feminists
61. radical feminism
62. black feminism
The following questions concern lecture material on social stratification:
63. How can social class be measured?
64. class differences in child socialization
65. know the table on intergenerational social mobility
66. In 2014, how many million poor individuals in the US 18 to 64 worked full-time and year-round?
67. In 2014, what percent of female householder, no husband present families in the US were poor?
68. cultural capital approach
69. social structural approach
The following questions concern lecture material on gender:
70. strength difference between genders
71. social position approach
72. Which gender now earns more doctorates in the United States?
73. In 2008, in the US, in which age group did full-time female workers come closest to what full-time male workers made?
74. Which theory implies that the solution to gender inequality it to eliminate the secondary labor market?
75. penalty for being a mother
76. in families where both the mother and father work full time, the division of housework and childcare