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Problemset Title Chapter Quiz Introductory Text Question 1 According to Weber, status begins with the honor we confer on ourselves. Hint: Type: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Wrong, status is a subjective assessment. Correct Correct, you have to have a high opinion of yourself to elicit a high opinion. Incorrect Correct, and as long as that status is shared by a plurality. Incorrect Wrong, because we can easily dishonor ourselves as a result. Incorrect Feedback Question 2 What is meant by Murray Milner's observation that "one's own status is always at the expense of someone else's social position"? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Question 3 Answer Graded As Whether intentional or by accident, a person either displaces or blocks another in status. Correct We are all status seekers whether we like it or not. Incorrect It means that there are restrictions on social intercourse. Incorrect Social status is in short supply and ultimately unfair. Incorrect Feedback Joining a private country club is an example of what kind of "boundary work"? Hint: Type: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As closure Correct credentialism Incorrect appropriate dress Incorrect stylization Incorrect Feedback Question 4 How is social stratification established among the various ethnic groups in the United States? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Question 5 Answer Graded As external features such as skin color Correct appropriate neighborhood Incorrect consumption and buying habits Incorrect pariah characteristics Incorrect Feedback Pariah groups tend to be egalitarian in nature. Hint: Type: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Not necessarily, because groups dishonored or low in status establish their own ranking systems. Correct This is true because pariah groups are more accepting of people who fall in social status. Incorrect As long as its members are working class in origin. Incorrect They practice equality displays of group deference. Incorrect Feedback Question 6 The most important and current criterion for virtually all "status communities" is identified with what variable? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Question 7 Answer Graded As prestige Correct core values Incorrect salary Incorrect subculture value Incorrect Feedback What defines cultural capital? Hint: Type: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Cultural capital consists of a group's cultural values, experience, Correct knowledge, and skills that can be passed on from one generation to another. Cultural capital is an asset of the higher classes that its members learn in institutions of higher education. Incorrect The commodification of culture and education that is exchanged for Incorrect status among the upper classes both in wealth and/or intellect. Those experiences, learned in early childhood and reinforced in Incorrect Feedback academic life, which are exchanged for status, superior jobs, mates, and the like. Question 8 Status communities invariably produce outsiders whose dysfunctional behaviors can be attributed to what phenomenon? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As deficits in self-esteem Correct violence Incorrect bullying Incorrect cliques Incorrect Feedback Question 9 Thorstein Veblen coined a term for how the acquisition of luxury goods, homes, cars, and the like would impart "honor and dignity" on its owner. Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Question 10 Answer Graded As conspicuous consumption Correct symbolic wealth Incorrect simulated status Incorrect parody display Incorrect Feedback What do women trade in when they buy into the beauty myth? Hint: Type: Multiple Choice Question 11 Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As their ability to fully develop their mental, political, and economic potential Correct beauty as system of currency in the economy of male dominance Incorrect a commodification of culturally enforced standards Incorrect a social status resource that undermines gender inequality Incorrect Feedback Why is beauty a social construct? Hint: Type: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback Definitions of beauty vary from society to society and among racial and ethnic groups. Correct Beauty has long been in the eye of the beholder. Incorrect The beauty as a status symbol changes over time. Incorrect The human body, especially the female body, has complex social meanings. Incorrect Question 12 Saggy, baggy pants worn below the hips by Black (as well as White) youths to be provocative are examples of what kind of clothes? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As parody display Correct banned clothing Incorrect conspicuous display Incorrect gang identification Incorrect Feedback Question 13 Only in the past decade have sociologists have argued that space reinforces inequalities. What might be a jarring difference between their research and Veblen's? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback The move from "conspicuous consumption" to "armed response" of Correct gated communities. The rise of the McMansion. Incorrect The status conscious are more exclusionary with their personal space. Incorrect Control of physical space is a prime more example of conspicuous consumption. Incorrect Question 14 What has been the downside of the Appalachian type as being the epitome of rugged individualism? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Feedback Over time, it has resulted in real people turned into caricatures. Correct They don't live up to the image. Incorrect They are actually innocent victims. Incorrect This stereotype only takes into account males. Incorrect Question 15 What is often the other dimension of religious conflicts between Coptic Christians and Muslims, Muslims and Hindus, and the like? Type: Hint: Multiple Choice Feedback for all incorrect answers: Answer Graded As Many of these conflicts involve a repressive majority. Correct Certain conflicts involve the repression of women. Incorrect These religions tend to be intolerant of other faiths. Incorrect Many dominant religious communities are reacting to westernization, which they feel threaten their status. Incorrect Feedback