SOCIOLOGY 1301 COMPREHENSIVE EXAMS 2025/2026
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Often lack a college education and the status that comes with white collar work -
✔✔Working class
✔✔Not paid very well and jobs are highly vulnerable to low wage compensation from
overseas workers - ✔✔Most factory workers
✔✔Workers in Mexico can be paid as little as - ✔✔$1.00
✔✔Workers from China can be paid as little as - ✔✔$.50
✔✔Often paid low wages and the jobs are highly cyclical depending on demand for
housing - ✔✔Working Class
✔✔Has lost millions of good jobs in last 25 years due to ____, - ✔✔Globalization
✔✔And jobs that remain tend to be paid less due to: - ✔✔Decline of Labor Unions and
Collective bargaining
✔✔Generally consist of Minimum Wage service workers - ✔✔Working Poor
✔✔Often only have a high school education - ✔✔Working Poor
✔✔Women and minorities more likely to be apart of this group - ✔✔Working Poor
✔✔Typical Jobs for Working Poor? - ✔✔Fast food & Retail
✔✔Members of this class cycle in and out of workforce - ✔✔Working Poor
✔✔Occasionally collect unemployment, food stamps or welfare - ✔✔Working Poor
✔✔US ranks low amount Industrialized countries in percentage of people who are born
into the _____ - ✔✔Bottom fifth 20%
✔✔Are able to make it to the - ✔✔Top fifth of income earners
✔✔Homeless people - ✔✔Underclass
✔✔Estimates range for number of people that go homeless for at least one night in a
year - ✔✔1-3 million
, ✔✔People chronically dependent on government assistance who are living under the
poverty line and can't work - ✔✔Underclass
✔✔Most people on welfare in this category are children - ✔✔Underclass
✔✔As of 2016, how many Americans on food stamps? - ✔✔40 million
✔✔39% of Americans in a recent study said - ✔✔It was common for poor or middle
class individuals to become rich
✔✔71% said - ✔✔Hard work and personal values are more significant factors in
becoming wealthy than things like birth position, wealth of parents etc.
✔✔Median Family Income in US - ✔✔$55,000/ year
✔✔Median income for Individuals - ✔✔$30,000/ year
✔✔Half of all individuals make - ✔✔Less than $30,000/ year
✔✔The richest 15% - ✔✔Have seen their share of wealth rapidly increase
✔✔Bottom 85% of population - ✔✔Has been left behind
✔✔How many billionaires in world today - ✔✔Approximately 2050 (550) are Americans
✔✔How many millionaires in US today? - ✔✔Approximately 10 million (3% of
population)
✔✔Most millionaires are classified as? - ✔✔Upper-middle Class,
✔✔The rushers 1% own___,
While ___% of Americans ____? - ✔✔Stock, 50%, own NO stock.
✔✔400 richest Americans - ✔✔Own as much wealth as the poorest 150 million
Americans
✔✔90% of Americans earn - ✔✔Less than $100,000/ year
✔✔5 reasons for increasing inequality in the US - ✔✔1. Globalization
2. Technology
3. Stock market & real estate booms
4. Taxation Policy
5. Decking of Labor Unions
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Often lack a college education and the status that comes with white collar work -
✔✔Working class
✔✔Not paid very well and jobs are highly vulnerable to low wage compensation from
overseas workers - ✔✔Most factory workers
✔✔Workers in Mexico can be paid as little as - ✔✔$1.00
✔✔Workers from China can be paid as little as - ✔✔$.50
✔✔Often paid low wages and the jobs are highly cyclical depending on demand for
housing - ✔✔Working Class
✔✔Has lost millions of good jobs in last 25 years due to ____, - ✔✔Globalization
✔✔And jobs that remain tend to be paid less due to: - ✔✔Decline of Labor Unions and
Collective bargaining
✔✔Generally consist of Minimum Wage service workers - ✔✔Working Poor
✔✔Often only have a high school education - ✔✔Working Poor
✔✔Women and minorities more likely to be apart of this group - ✔✔Working Poor
✔✔Typical Jobs for Working Poor? - ✔✔Fast food & Retail
✔✔Members of this class cycle in and out of workforce - ✔✔Working Poor
✔✔Occasionally collect unemployment, food stamps or welfare - ✔✔Working Poor
✔✔US ranks low amount Industrialized countries in percentage of people who are born
into the _____ - ✔✔Bottom fifth 20%
✔✔Are able to make it to the - ✔✔Top fifth of income earners
✔✔Homeless people - ✔✔Underclass
✔✔Estimates range for number of people that go homeless for at least one night in a
year - ✔✔1-3 million
, ✔✔People chronically dependent on government assistance who are living under the
poverty line and can't work - ✔✔Underclass
✔✔Most people on welfare in this category are children - ✔✔Underclass
✔✔As of 2016, how many Americans on food stamps? - ✔✔40 million
✔✔39% of Americans in a recent study said - ✔✔It was common for poor or middle
class individuals to become rich
✔✔71% said - ✔✔Hard work and personal values are more significant factors in
becoming wealthy than things like birth position, wealth of parents etc.
✔✔Median Family Income in US - ✔✔$55,000/ year
✔✔Median income for Individuals - ✔✔$30,000/ year
✔✔Half of all individuals make - ✔✔Less than $30,000/ year
✔✔The richest 15% - ✔✔Have seen their share of wealth rapidly increase
✔✔Bottom 85% of population - ✔✔Has been left behind
✔✔How many billionaires in world today - ✔✔Approximately 2050 (550) are Americans
✔✔How many millionaires in US today? - ✔✔Approximately 10 million (3% of
population)
✔✔Most millionaires are classified as? - ✔✔Upper-middle Class,
✔✔The rushers 1% own___,
While ___% of Americans ____? - ✔✔Stock, 50%, own NO stock.
✔✔400 richest Americans - ✔✔Own as much wealth as the poorest 150 million
Americans
✔✔90% of Americans earn - ✔✔Less than $100,000/ year
✔✔5 reasons for increasing inequality in the US - ✔✔1. Globalization
2. Technology
3. Stock market & real estate booms
4. Taxation Policy
5. Decking of Labor Unions
