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