Quiz 6: Social Inequality

Social ________ may be defined as a change in the relative amount of all "power resources" held by a person or a group.

According to the 2006 census, individual income levels of Aboriginals were about percent of the Canadian median.

In the 1960s, during the "________", there was a move in Quebec to catch up with English Canada.

Suppose a young woman began her working career as a clerical worker. By taking night courses and demonstrating considerable competence at work, she was promoted to a managerial position much like the job held by her father before his retirement. In her case, a sociologist would conclude that she had experienced:

Since 1931, blue-collar incomes have tended to remain about to percent below the national average.

In terms of socio-economic status in Canada, the ________ ethnic group no longer enjoys the dominant position it once did.

Virtually all societies are organized around the principle that the ________ is the means for creating and implementing laws, and thus the sanctions and rights that define power differences in society.

Which of the following would not be an example of a status?

Marx used the term ________ to refer to the class of capitalists.

A Native female physician might be an example of status ________.

The term "social class" is most closely identified with:

Which of the following is an ascribed status?

In 2005, the top quintile of the Canadian population held approximately ________ percent of Canada's wealth.

________ mobility involves differences between the occupational status of child and parent.

Modern societies are complex, filled with people living in different circumstances and engaging in a wide range of activities. Social scientists usually refer to this great diversity in social life as social ________.

Structural functionalism generally avoids the concept of ________.

Lenski asserted that social inequality is concerned mainly with who gets what and why, a ________ process, in which some people receive more of the valued things in life, such as wealth and power.

An ________ status is one assigned by circumstance rather than by accomplishment.

There are three major forms of structured power in society: ________, ________, and ________.

In the ________ perspective, Canada's social structure involves a complex network of regions and communities in which rural areas or hinterlands are connected by a series of links to the few major urban centres or metropolises.