Which of the following is an example of a caste system?
a. forcing rural women in Thailand into sex work
b. the racial wealth gap in the United States
c. forcing children to accept their parents' status as their own in India
d. high rates of child poverty in Slovenia
Answer: c. forcing children to accept their parents' status as their own in India
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Julian and his friends like to watch movies together. One movie focused on a young black man who rose out of poverty by playing basketball. His friend N'Cola commented that there would be no poverty if poor people simply tried to find employment. Julian said that the solution to poverty was not that simple and that N'Cola's understanding of how poverty worked was mistaken. What was the problem with N'Cola's argument?
A. It used the sociological perspective. B. It ignores the context of broader social conditions. C. It ignores the rules of sociology as a discipline. D. It viewed an individual problem as a social problem.
The process by which a race or ethnic minority group is prevented from achieving because of negative stereotypes that define them as inferior illustrates a. a latent function
b. a self-fulfilling prophecy. c. redlining. d. the racial threat hypothesis.
_____ refers to the change that family members make in social class from one generation to the next
a. Structural mobility b. Exchange mobility c. Intergenerational mobility d. Anomie
Toxic waste sites tend to be located in neighborhoods where people who are poor often live. This fact illustrates __________.
A. that social structure has lost its relevance over the past several decades B. the importance of power in the definition of social problems C. that the lack of voting rights was a personal trouble experienced by a few people D. a lack of consensus on a solution to a social problem