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|Question 1 |According to Weber, status begins with the honor we confer on ourselves. |

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| |Wrong, status is a subjective assessment. |

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| |Correct, you have to have a high opinion of yourself to elicit a high opinion. |

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| |Correct, and as long as that status is shared by a plurality. |

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| |Wrong, because we can easily dishonor ourselves as a result. |

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|Question 2 |What is meant by Murray Milner's observation that "one's own status is always at the expense of someone else's|

|Type:  |social position"? |

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| |Whether intentional or by accident, a person either displaces or blocks another in status. |

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| |We are all status seekers whether we like it or not. |

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| |It means that there are restrictions on social intercourse. |

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| |Social status is in short supply and ultimately unfair. |

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|Question 3 |Joining a private country club is an example of what kind of "boundary work"? |

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| |closure |

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| |credentialism |

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| |appropriate dress |

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| |stylization |

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|Question 4 |How is social stratification established among the various ethnic groups in the United States? |

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| |external features such as skin color |

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| |appropriate neighborhood |

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| |consumption and buying habits |

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| |pariah characteristics |

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|Question 5 |Pariah groups tend to be egalitarian in nature. |

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| |Not necessarily, because groups dishonored or low in status establish their own ranking systems. |

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| |This is true because pariah groups are more accepting of people who fall in social status. |

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| |As long as its members are working class in origin. |

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| |They practice equality displays of group deference. |

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|Question 6 |The most important and current criterion for virtually all "status communities" is identified with what |

|Type:  |variable? |

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| |prestige |

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| |core values |

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| |salary |

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| |subculture value |

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|Question 7 |What defines cultural capital? |

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| |Cultural capital consists of a group's cultural values, experience, knowledge, and skills that can be passed |

| |on from one generation to another. |

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| |Cultural capital is an asset of the higher classes that its members learn in institutions of higher education.|

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| |The commodification of culture and education that is exchanged for status among the upper classes both in |

| |wealth and/or intellect. |

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| |Those experiences, learned in early childhood and reinforced in academic life, which are exchanged for status,|

| |superior jobs, mates, and the like. |

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|Question 8 |Status communities invariably produce outsiders whose dysfunctional behaviors can be attributed to what |

|Type:  |phenomenon? |

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| |deficits in self-esteem |

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| |violence |

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| |bullying |

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| |cliques |

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|Question 9 |Thorstein Veblen coined a term for how the acquisition of luxury goods, homes, cars, and the like would impart|

|Type:  |"honor and dignity" on its owner. |

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| |conspicuous consumption |

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| |symbolic wealth |

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| |simulated status |

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| |parody display |

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|Question 10 |What do women trade in when they buy into the beauty myth? |

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| |their ability to fully develop their mental, political, and economic potential |

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| |beauty as system of currency in the economy of male dominance |

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| |a commodification of culturally enforced standards |

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| |a social status resource that undermines gender inequality |

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|Question 11 |Why is beauty a social construct? |

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| |Definitions of beauty vary from society to society and among racial and ethnic groups. |

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| |Beauty has long been in the eye of the beholder. |

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| |The beauty as a status symbol changes over time. |

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| |The human body, especially the female body, has complex social meanings. |

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|Question 12 |Saggy, baggy pants worn below the hips by Black (as well as White) youths to be provocative are examples of |

|Type:  |what kind of clothes? |

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| |parody display |

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| |banned clothing |

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| |conspicuous display |

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| |gang identification |

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|Question 13 |Only in the past decade have sociologists have argued that space reinforces inequalities. What might be a |

|Type:  |jarring difference between their research and Veblen's? |

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| |The move from "conspicuous consumption" to "armed response" of gated communities. |

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| |The rise of the McMansion. |

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| |The status conscious are more exclusionary with their personal space. |

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| |Control of physical space is a prime more example of conspicuous consumption. |

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|Question 14 |What has been the downside of the Appalachian type as being the epitome of rugged individualism? |

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| |Over time, it has resulted in real people turned into caricatures. |

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| |They don't live up to the image. |

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| |They are actually innocent victims. |

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| |This stereotype only takes into account males. |

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|Question 15 |What is often the other dimension of religious conflicts between Coptic Christians and Muslims, Muslims and |

|Type:  |Hindus, and the like? |

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| |Many of these conflicts involve a repressive majority. |

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| |Certain conflicts involve the repression of women. |

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| |These religions tend to be intolerant of other faiths. |

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| |Many dominant religious communities are reacting to westernization, which they feel threaten their status. |

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