7 Intersecting Inequalities and Social Reproduction Online Quiz Questions

The occupation’s prestige establishes that the worker has high income and wealth.

The occupation may confer high status without providing great economic resources.

The worker’s economic position and social standing must be identical.

The occupation determines the worker’s social mobility.

True

False

Study class, race, and gender separately, then add their effects together.

Examine how class, race, and gender interact in the particular workplace and shape hiring, pay, or promotion.

Assume that every low-income Black woman experiences the workplace in the same way.

Focus on individual choices because social divisions cannot affect workplace outcomes.

True

False

Family wealth can support stable housing, educational opportunities, and a buffer against setbacks.

Parents’ educational experiences and support can influence children’s academic plans and self-concept.

Social reproduction requires children to occupy exactly the same position as their parents.

Families can pass on knowledge, habits, and networks that may be rewarded in schools or workplaces.

Parental decisions alone fully explain patterned differences in outcomes.

They ensure that children will attain the same outcomes as their parents.

They may provide resources that schools or workplaces reward, especially when those resources align with institutional expectations.

They can include knowledge, habits, networks, and ways of interacting with institutions.

They make institutional arrangements irrelevant to social outcomes.

People may move between positions while substantial resource gaps persist.

If some people move upward, social reproduction has ended.

Mobility is impossible whenever inequality persists.

Intergenerational mobility describes movement within one person’s lifetime.

Compare groups and examine how specific rules and everyday practices produce different outcomes.

Treat broad social categories as if all their members have identical experiences.

Assume that group outcomes are determined by a single social division in every setting.

Avoid examining institutions because individual experiences are unrelated to institutional practices.

The person has high status because wealth always guarantees social respect.

The person has substantial economic resources, but their social recognition is not necessarily high.

The person has low class because status is the only measure of economic position.

The person’s class and status must be identical because both refer to occupation.

Comparing a person’s current position with their parents’ position

Comparing the average income of two occupations

Movement within a person’s lifetime

A change in social status that occurs only between generations

Social arrangements and unequal advantages or disadvantages persist over time, making some outcomes more likely without guaranteeing identical positions across generations.

Children are guaranteed to occupy exactly the same social position as their parents.

Social mobility becomes impossible once unequal advantages are passed between generations.

Only individual choices, rather than family resources or institutions, shape outcomes across generations.

True

False

Study race first, then class, then gender, and combine the results without examining their interaction.

Assume every member of a broad social group faces the same pattern of disadvantage.

Treat each social division as a separate disadvantage whose effects can simply be added together.

Examine how race, class, and gender interact in a particular workplace to shape hiring, pay, and promotion.