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Questions

1. Why did Christine Walley decide to title this ethnography Exit 0?

a. ??It is named after the exit ramp to Southeast Chicago's old steel mill neighborhoods.

b. ??The 'O' captures the sense of the region being passed over and having no future.

c. ??It '0 captures the sense the region and its residents are treated as worthless.

d. All of the above

e. She could not think of anything better

2. What does the story of Walley's grandmother Ethel reveal about the role of gender in class formation and social mobility?

a. ??That women never worked outside the home and did not contribute economically to their households.

b.While men contributed to upward class mobility economically through their work in the mills, women were at the heart of the family and community, and worked to provide social and cultural capital.

c. ??Women did not influence class formation.

d. ??That mothers often encouraged their daughters to challenge traditional gender norms.

e. ??All of the above

3. Building on the ideas of Max Weber and Pierre Bourdieu, Walley argues that class is.

a. a rigid system of social inequality based on people's position in the economic system, such as between "owners" (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat).

b. not a ridged structure determined by one's economic position, but a dynamic process with intersecting economic, social, cultural and physical dimensions.

c. ??a system of social distinction based on cultural tastes and sensibilities.

d. ??not important to understanding her own experience of deindustrialization.

e. ??a system of social stratification in which people can freely and easily improve their social position.

4. An ethnography that focuses on analyzing the personal experience of the author is..

a. an autoethnography

b. an intimate ethnography

c. an interpretive ethnography

d. a biased ethnography

e. an autobiography

5. Karl Marx used the concept of class to refer to..

a. Social distinctions between people based a number of factors including one's economic position, power, and prestige.

b. Social divisions based on "cultural capital."

c. Social divisions between people based on their position in the economic system, such as between "owners" (bourgeoisie) and workers (proletariat).

d ?.?All of the above

e. ??None of the above.

6. Christine Walley describes Exit Zero as a "transmedia" ethnography because:

a. It includes a written book

b. It includes a documentary film

c. ??It includes an interactive website

d. ??All of the above

e. None of the above

7. In Chapter 1, what narrative technique does Walley use as an arrival scene to introduce the reader to the neighbourhoods of Southeast Chicago and her personal connection to the region?

a. She describe a typical day in the life of a steel worker.

b. She describes riding around Chicago on a tour bus.

c. ??She describes a walk around her neighbourhood.

d. She describes going on drives through the neighbourhoods with her dad.

e. ??She describes the closing of steel mills in all the neighbourhoods.

8. Christine Walley's great grandfather, or Big Grampa, was a poor Swedish immigrant who worked in the steel mills and retired with a modest pension and a cottage. How does Big Grampa's story challenge common right wing narratives of individual hard work and upward social mobility?

a. Despite his economic success and upward mobility, Big Grampa regretted migrating to the U.S.A. and wished he had stayed in Sweden.

b. ??Big Grampa's survival and success in America was not just the result of his own hard work, but the support and assistance he received from other Swedish immigrants.

c. ??Even though Big Grampa was a strong supporter of labour unions, he was filled with ethnic and racial animosity that characterized the mill neighbourhoods.

d.?? He credited his success to his own work ethic rather than the collective advocacy of the unions....

e. Both A and B

9. Christine Walley argues that discussions of inequality in the United States tend to avoid the issue of class in favour of alternatives categories like race/ethnicity/gender. Why is this?

a. American's tend to think of themselves as part of an all-inclusive "middle class."

b. ??American's often use social categories such as gender and race as alternative ways of speaking about class.

c. ??White Americans often conflate race and class, with African-American's, regardless of their background, associated with poverty.

d.There has been a cynical manipulation of racial and cultural differences (e.g. between black/white/latino, liberals/conservatives) in order to protect the interests of the elite who benefit from inequality.

e. ??All of the above.

10. In Chapter 1, Walley explains that the story of her grandfather, or Little Grampa, challenges idealized images of left-wing labour and worker solidarity. Why is that?

a. ??Even though Big Grampa was a strong supporter of labour unions, he was filled with ethnic and racial animosity that characterized the mill neighbourhoods.

b. ??Even though he worked in the steel mills he was not a supporter of labour unions.

c. He did not support worker's rights.

d. ??He did not think women should work outside the home.

e. ??He credited his success to his own work ethic rather than the collective advocacy of the unions.