A. People who aspire to the upper class
B. The ruling elite
C. white collar businessmen
D. gang members
E. the lower socio-economic strate
Related Mcqs:
- Sreberny-Mohammadi (1996) argues that national cultures can resist American cultural domination of the media by_____________?
A. domesticating its content including more home-produced programmes
B. controlling the distribution of imported products by banning satellite dishes
C. creating reverse flows of their own programmes back to imperial societies
D. all of the above - Which of the following is not a reason why corporate crime is more difficult to prosecute compared with individual crimes ?
A. victims may not realise that a crime has been committed
B. it is more difficult to apportion blame to corporate criminals
C. legal systems are founded on individual not collective responsibility
D. corporate offences cause less harm than crimes against an individual - In Merton’s terms, a person who has abandoned the goal of material success and become compulsively committed to the institutional means is a (an)_____________?
A. ritualist
B. retreatism
C. rebel
D. innovator - According to Strain theory, retreatants are likely to engage in what type of deviant activity ?
A. Sexual assault
B. terrorism
C. counterfeiting
D. drug abuse
E. robbery - According to Strain theory, ____ are those individuals who have traditional success goals but substitute deviant means by which to achieve them ?
A. ritualists
B. ret realists
C. rebels
D. innovators
E. conformists - GM crops are different from anything that has existed before because ______________?
A. they are produced by techniques of cross-breeding
B. they are capable of drastically improving agricultural yields
C. they involve transplanting genes between different organisms
D. they have become front-page stories in the news everyday - Approximately how long on average did a Victorian marriage last ______________?
A. 12 years
B. 22 years
C. 32 years
D. 42 years - In “Gesellschaft” the society of tradition is replaced with the society of ______________?
A. Impersonal relations
B. Contract
C. Modern ideas
D. None of these - A system in which people have great difficulty changing their status is called a(n) ______________?
A. objectified system
B. social differentiation
C. open system
D. closed system - Which of these terms is the odd one out ______________?
A. causation
B. correlation
C. association
D. connection
