01
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1 point
A manager follows routine promotion procedures that shape which employees gain influence, without issuing direct orders about who should advance. Which idea best explains how power operates in this situation?
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5 Power, Inequality, and Institutional Change Online Quiz Questions
Use this free practice quiz with 20 questions to review 5 Power, Inequality, and Institutional Change, test your knowledge, and prepare for your next test or exam.
20 questions
02
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A school rewards a style of classroom participation that some students have had more opportunity to practice at home. If the school treats this advantage only as individual merit, what may happen?
- A
It ensures that all students begin with equal opportunities.
- B
It proves that students' home experiences have no effect on school outcomes.
- C
It can make unequal starting points appear to be differences in individual merit.
- D
It prevents schools from interacting with wider social inequalities.
03
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An organization adopts a widely accepted hiring procedure to appear impartial, but the procedure repeatedly benefits some groups more than others. Which conclusion is best supported?
- A
A procedure may appear impartial and legitimate while still distributing benefits unequally.
- B
A procedure that appears impartial cannot contribute to unequal outcomes.
- C
Unequal outcomes require every decision-maker to intend discrimination.
- D
Legitimacy means that everyone receives the same resources.
04
Choose all
1 point
Select all the workplace practices or beliefs that can contribute to reproducing inequality, even when an organization views its procedures as fair.
- A
Hiring practices can affect who gains secure employment.
- B
Job assignments can affect who gains influence.
- C
Belief in meritocracy guarantees equal access to opportunities.
- D
Promotion and pay practices can contribute to unequal outcomes.
05
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1 point
Select all the developments that can contribute to institutional change.
- A
A social movement presses for new rules.
- B
A political coalition challenges existing arrangements.
- C
A technology changes the conditions in which an institution operates.
- D
An institution's durability makes change impossible.
- E
Economic or demographic conditions change.
06
True or false
1 point
A wage floor remains unchanged while prices rise, reducing its purchasing power. This is an example of drift.
- A
True
- B
False
07
True or false
1 point
Because institutions are durable, collective action cannot reshape how they work.
- A
True
- B
False
08
Written response
1 point
What is the term for the process by which social advantages and disadvantages are passed on or recreated across generations and settings?
09
Written response
1 point
A policy's wording stays the same, but new conditions cause it to have different effects. What gradual institutional change pathway does this describe?
10
Fill in the blank
1 point
When an institution adds new rules alongside its existing rules, this gradual change pathway is called .
11
Fill in the blank
1 point
When people reinterpret existing rules so that they serve a different purpose, this gradual change pathway is called .
12
Open ended
1 point
Explain how an institution can reproduce inequality through a practice that appears neutral. Use one example, and describe one way the arrangement could be challenged or changed.
13
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1 point
When analyzing a public service institution, which approach best connects its power structure to people's opportunities?
- A
Whether an institution has lasted a long time, without considering its rules or effects.
- B
Who can make, interpret, or enforce rules, and how resources and costs are distributed.
- C
Whether every decision-maker intends to discriminate.
- D
Whether written rules are the only factor that shapes people's choices.
14
Written response
1 point
Class, race, and gender can combine to shape how someone encounters institutional rules and what resources they can draw on. What concise term from the material describes the relationship among these social positions?
15
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1 point
An organization adopts widely accepted procedures that appear impartial, yet the procedures distribute benefits unequally. Which interpretation best fits how institutions can sustain inequality?
- A
An institution must intend to discriminate for its rules to produce unequal outcomes.
- B
Accepted procedures can appear impartial and legitimate while distributing benefits unequally.
- C
Unequal outcomes occur only when leaders use direct commands.
- D
Rules that are widely accepted distribute resources equally.
16
True or false
1 point
A manager gives no explicit order, but routine job assignments repeatedly determine who gains influence and secure opportunities. This can be an example of institutional power.
- A
True
- B
False
17
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1 point
A school rewards a style of classroom participation that some students have had more opportunity to learn at home. What is a likely effect if the school treats success in that style simply as individual merit?
- A
The school has removed the influence of social background from educational outcomes.
- B
The differences must result from deliberate discrimination by each teacher.
- C
Treating home-acquired styles as individual merit can conceal unequal starting points.
- D
The school is rewarding only knowledge learned in the classroom.
18
Written response
1 point
What concept describes the process by which advantages and disadvantages are passed on or recreated across generations and settings?
19
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1 point
A workplace uses apparently neutral hiring and promotion practices that repeatedly advantage some groups and disadvantage others. Which conclusion is best supported?
- A
Repeatedly unequal effects can make workplace inequality systemic, even without an intention to discriminate in each decision.
- B
The pattern must be accidental because the practices appear neutral.
- C
Only unequal pay can make a workplace practice reproduce inequality.
- D
Shared beliefs in efficiency guarantee equal access to opportunities.
20
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1 point
Two people encounter the same institutional rules but have different resources available to them because of their social positions. Which conclusion best reflects the material?
- A
The rules must have exactly the same effects on everyone.
- B
The institution can reproduce only one form of inequality at a time.
- C
Differences in outcomes prove that formal rules are irrelevant.
- D
People’s intersecting social positions can shape how they experience rules and access resources.
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