Cultural Anthropology - Chapter 11 Exam Questions and Correct Answers Latest update 2024
Societies in which prestige and status are stratified but wealth is not are considered: - Answers Ranked.
Which of the following income ranges represents the middle 20 percent of American household incomes
in 2011? - Answers $38,520-$62,434.
The anthropologist Oscar Lewis's concept of the "culture of poverty" argues that poverty is the result of:
- Answers Dysfunctional behaviors, attitudes, and values of poor people.
Given the poverty rates reported in the 2009 U.S. Census Bureau report, it is important to recognize that
most of the nation's poor are: - Answers White and live in rural and suburban areas.
The unequal distribution of a society's resources within a class system typically: - Answers Involves
moving surpluses steadily upward into the hands of the elite.
"A group in which wealth is not stratified but prestige and status are" (page 397) is best defined as which
of the following terms? - Answers Ranked society.
Theorist Pierre Bourdieu found that which of the following systems did not provide opportunities for
social class mobility, but instead helped reproduce the social class relations that already existed? -
Answers Educational.
Categories found within a class system serve as a basis for unequal access to which of the following? -
Answers Status.
Archaeological evidence suggests that hierarchy, violence, and aggression: - Answers Emerged relatively
recently in human history.
Which of the following is a type of society that is based on the sharing of resources to ensure group
success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence within or among groups? - Answers Egalitarian.
Societies in which prestige and status are stratified but wealth is not are considered: - Answers Ranked.
Which of the following income ranges represents the middle 20 percent of American household incomes
in 2011? - Answers $38,520-$62,434.
The anthropologist Oscar Lewis's concept of the "culture of poverty" argues that poverty is the result of:
- Answers Dysfunctional behaviors, attitudes, and values of poor people.
Given the poverty rates reported in the 2009 U.S. Census Bureau report, it is important to recognize that
most of the nation's poor are: - Answers White and live in rural and suburban areas.
The unequal distribution of a society's resources within a class system typically: - Answers Involves
moving surpluses steadily upward into the hands of the elite.
"A group in which wealth is not stratified but prestige and status are" (page 397) is best defined as which
of the following terms? - Answers Ranked society.
Theorist Pierre Bourdieu found that which of the following systems did not provide opportunities for
social class mobility, but instead helped reproduce the social class relations that already existed? -
Answers Educational.
Categories found within a class system serve as a basis for unequal access to which of the following? -
Answers Status.
Archaeological evidence suggests that hierarchy, violence, and aggression: - Answers Emerged relatively
recently in human history.
Which of the following is a type of society that is based on the sharing of resources to ensure group
success with a relative absence of hierarchy and violence within or among groups? - Answers Egalitarian.
