LETRS UNIT 5 - 8 PRETEST
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026
FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◍ Weber defined class situation as one's position within the system of
manufacturing.
Answer: False
◍ Estate System.
Answer: What form of stratification is based on legal entitlements?
◍ Class.
Answer: According to weber, a group with power would rank higher on
what?
◍ What economic resource takes the form of homes, cars, artworks, stocks,
and bonds?.
Answer: Assets
◍ What would theoretically happen when a larger number of people have high
status?.
Answer: Status inflation
◍ An index composed of income, wealth, education, and occupation indicates
what?.
Answer: SES
◍ Social stratification in the United States primarily takes what form?.
Answer: Class system
◍ Marx showed that the value of a product is created by what?.
, Answer: Labor
◍ Weber saw peoples' class position where?.
Answer: Markets
◍ A group may earn what by its lifestyle?.
Answer: Status
◍ Debts are subtracted from what to calculate a person's wealth?.
Answer: Assets
◍ What do Davis and Moore assume about the most highly paid positions?.
Answer: Function importance and scarcity of personnel
◍ Lowering a person's status is difficult because status has what quality?.
Answer: Inalienable
◍ Marx's labor theory of surplus value is represented by what formula?.
Answer: M-C-M
◍ What type of relationship is a dating relationship in high school?.
Answer: Expressive
◍ The ability to force others to do things against their will is what?.
Answer: Power
◍ When a job meets more of society's needs, Davis and Moore describe it has
having greater what?.
Answer: Functional importance
◍ The size of an elite group, as Milner observes, will not be made larger
because status has what quality?.
Answer: Inexpansible
◍ According to Davis and Moore, what has society developed to motivate its
scarce talent to fill top positions?.
Answer: Social Stratification
◍ Milner finds that a person will not lose status by associating with someone
of lower status when their relationship is what?.
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY GUIDE 2026
FULL QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
◍ Weber defined class situation as one's position within the system of
manufacturing.
Answer: False
◍ Estate System.
Answer: What form of stratification is based on legal entitlements?
◍ Class.
Answer: According to weber, a group with power would rank higher on
what?
◍ What economic resource takes the form of homes, cars, artworks, stocks,
and bonds?.
Answer: Assets
◍ What would theoretically happen when a larger number of people have high
status?.
Answer: Status inflation
◍ An index composed of income, wealth, education, and occupation indicates
what?.
Answer: SES
◍ Social stratification in the United States primarily takes what form?.
Answer: Class system
◍ Marx showed that the value of a product is created by what?.
, Answer: Labor
◍ Weber saw peoples' class position where?.
Answer: Markets
◍ A group may earn what by its lifestyle?.
Answer: Status
◍ Debts are subtracted from what to calculate a person's wealth?.
Answer: Assets
◍ What do Davis and Moore assume about the most highly paid positions?.
Answer: Function importance and scarcity of personnel
◍ Lowering a person's status is difficult because status has what quality?.
Answer: Inalienable
◍ Marx's labor theory of surplus value is represented by what formula?.
Answer: M-C-M
◍ What type of relationship is a dating relationship in high school?.
Answer: Expressive
◍ The ability to force others to do things against their will is what?.
Answer: Power
◍ When a job meets more of society's needs, Davis and Moore describe it has
having greater what?.
Answer: Functional importance
◍ The size of an elite group, as Milner observes, will not be made larger
because status has what quality?.
Answer: Inexpansible
◍ According to Davis and Moore, what has society developed to motivate its
scarce talent to fill top positions?.
Answer: Social Stratification
◍ Milner finds that a person will not lose status by associating with someone
of lower status when their relationship is what?.
