Many businesses, governmental agencies, and nonprofit organizations exist to serve poor people or to ...

Many businesses, governmental agencies, and nonprofit organizations exist to serve poor people or to monitor their behavior. This arrangement is one example of
 
  a. functional uniqueness.
  b. comparable worth.
  c. the functions of poverty.
  d. status consciousness.

Question 2

In demographic terms, the Black Death is a __________ because the pandemic resulted in at least 75 million deaths.
 
  a. mortality crisis
  b. life expectancy crisis
  c. tragedy
  d. degenerative disease

Question 3

The now classic essay The Functions of Poverty was written by which one of the following sociologists?
 
  a. Max Weber
  b. Erik Orin Wright
  c. Herbert Gans
  d. Barbara Ehrenreich

Question 4

Stage 1 of the demographic transition is often referred to as the stage of high potential growth because
 
  a. the fertility rate is so high.
  b. the mortality rate is so low.
  c. if something happened to cause the death rate to decline, population would increase dramatically.
  d. the potential crude death rate is 50 per 1,000.

Question 5

In her book Nickeled and Dimed, Ehrenreich tells of a colleague who becomes frantic about a painfully impacted wisdom tooth and keeps making calls... to try and locate a source of free dental care.. This example illustrates
 
  a. one of the many ways inequality is enacted.
  b. ideas of comparable worth.
  c. pay equity.
  d. relative poverty.

Question 6

Formal ties are relationships people have with
 
  a. friends.
  b. family.
  c. colleagues at work.
  d. relatives.

Question 7

Barbara Ehrenreich studied inequality in everyday life as it is experienced by workers in jobs that paid 8.00 an hour or less. Ehrenreich's approach is one that a __________ would take.
 
  a. functionalist
  b. conflict theorist
  c. symbolic interactionist
  d. feminist

Question 8

__________ offers one explanation for why those in low-income and disadvantaged populations have worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy than those in advantaged populations.
 
  a. Labeling theory
  b. The theory of fundamental causes
  c. The demographic transition
  d. The theory of differential association