In a class system, each member of a given class shares similar:
a. opportunities.
b. lifestyles.
c. attitudes.
d. all of the above
Question 2In pre-Christian Samoa, ideal standards signifying manhood centered around
a. speed and agility.
b. hair.
c. body tattooing.
d. muscles.
Question 3The ____________ class dominates the professional and technical fields and often consists of two-income families.
a. upper-middle
b. lower-middle
c. working
d. upper
e. lower-upper
Question 4In American Samoa, ideal standards of beauty for women center around
a. eyebrows.
b. long hair.
c. shoe size.
d. legs.
Question 5A large percentage of the new upper-middle class:
a. are two-income couples.
b. are couples who are both college-educated.
c. are corporate executive executives or high governmental officials.
d. are gentrifying run-down city neighborhoods.
e. all of the above
Question 6The expectation that women in the United States should remove body hair because it is unfeminine points to the fact that
a. females with facial and body hair are an anomaly.
b. expectations about appropriate amount and distribution of body hair for males and females are socially created.
c. effective depilatory creams are hard to find.
d. natural differences between males and females that are rooted in biology.
Question 7A successful professional who has a college education, lives in an exclusive suburb, and has a savings reserve would be placed into which of the following class categories?
a. lower-upper
b. middle
c. upper-middle
d. upper
e. lower-lower
Question 8When the painter Paul Gauguin visited Tahiti in 1891, he emphasized that there is something virile in the women and something feminine in the men.. on the basis of the observation Gauguin concluded that
a. Tahiti was a backward society.
b. homosexuality was acceptable in that society.
c. there is a fixed line separating maleness from femaleness.
d. the United States (and Europe) had made women into artificial creations.