Working-class and poverty-level parents endow their children with more cultural capital than do middle- and upper-income parents. Because cultural capital is essential for acquiring an education, children with more cultural capital have fewer opportunities to succeed in school.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 2According to the text's discussion of roles, _____.
a. role performance does not always match role expectation
b. role expectations vary little in terms of specificity
c. role expectations typically are based on strictly defined standards
d. role expectations are not defined in the context of roles performed by others
Question 3In Wright's Marxian model, persons who have substantial control over production and over workers but do not participate in key corporate decisions such as how to invest profit are the __________.
a. capitalist class
b. small-business class
c. working class
d. managerial class
Question 4Conflict theorists do not believe that public schools reduce social inequality in society; rather, they believe that schools often perpetuate class, racial/ethnic, and gender inequalities as some groups seek to maintain their privileged position at the expense of others.
a. True
b. False
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Question 5_____ is a group's or society's definition of the way a specific role ought to be played.
a. Status expectation b. Collective judgment
c. Role expectation d. Role performance
Question 6Most women who made the Forbes magazine wealthiest list __________.
a. inherited their wealth or acquired it through marriage
b. are CEOs of large multinational corporations
c. founded social media or technology companies
d. gained their fortunes through shrewd investments