True or False Quiz


1	In Ancient Greece, slave status was permanent.
		A)	True
		B)	False


2	In recent decades, industrialization and urbanization have led to the end of India's famous caste system.
		A)	True
		B)	False


3	Britain's Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights organization, estimates that more than 100 million people around the world are still enslaved.
		A)	True
		B)	False


4	According to Daniel Rossides, the largest social class in the United States is the upper middle class.
		A)	True
		B)	False


5	Unlike Karl Marx, Max Weber insisted that no single characteristic (such as class) totally defines a person's position within the stratification system.
		A)	True
		B)	False


6	Social science research has found that inequality exists in all societies¾even the simplest.
		A)	True
		B)	False


7	Conflict sociologists argue that stratification will inevitably lead to instability and to social change.
		A)	True
		B)	False


8	Federal tax programs and minimum wage laws, welfare programs, and work incentive programs have helped decrease the income gap between the rich and the poor in the United States during the last three decades.
		A)	True
		B)	False


9	Herbert Gans notes that the presence of poor people means that society's dirty work¾physically dirty or dangerous, dead-end and underpaid, undignified, and menial jobs¾will be performed at low cost.
		A)	True
		B)	False


10	Gender has little influence in shaping social mobility within the United States.
		A)	True
		B)	False

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