Crime and Crime Statistics
What type of crime happens more often… property or violent crime?
property crime
What theory says that stratification is divided into two groups: the proletariat and the bourgeois?
Marxist Theory / Conflict theory
Yes/no: Can a full time minimum wage job support more than one person?
No
What is internalized racism?
When minority group members are prejudiced against themselves or their own group.
What costs more… street crime or white-collar crime?
white-collar crime
What theory focuses on how stratification and inequality are constructed from everyday interaction?
Symbolic interactionism
What do most people spend the majority of their income on?
Housing
What is the prejudice against those with darker skin tones?
Colorism
Who commits white-collar crime?
men, white people, educated people (have a university degree)
What theory focuses on the importance of wealth, prestige, and power in how society is stratified?
Weberian Theory
What negative health outcomes are associated with poverty?
Shorter life expectancy, higher infant mortality rates, and higher death rates
Higher mortality rates for heart disease, liver disease, and kidney disease
What is the term describing how people of color live and work in areas with a disproportionate number of environmental hazards?
Environmental Racism
True or false: Both the crime rate and the crime solve have been decreasing over time.
True. The crime rate has been decreasing for 25 years. The amount of crime solved in at the lowest it’s been in the last 30 years
According to your book, what is the tendency of social classes to remain relatively stable as class status is passed down from one generation to the next?
What is the term that describes how women represent a disproportionate percentage of the world’s poor?
Feminization of poverty
What is the view that ignores race as an explanation for inequalities faced by racial minorities?
Colorblind racism
What amount of crimes are reported and what amount of crimes are solved?
Less than half of crimes are reported and solved
41.5% of violent crimes and 31.8% of property crimes (reported)
36.7% of violent crime and 12.1% of property crimes are solved (solved)
Bob, a lawyer, says that he gets paid more by the firm than his secretary because he has more training and highly valued skills than they do. What theory would support Bob’s view of stratification?
Functionalism
What households are more likely to be food insecure?
Households with children, Black and Hispanic households, female-lead households
According to your book, the highest rates of dropping out is associated with what two factors?
Being economically disadvantaged and having a non-English speaking background