Social Mobility

A. retired person
B. a recovering alcoholic
C. nun who leaves her religious order
D. each of the above

A. cultural universalism
B. role strain
C. functional prerequisites
D. role conflict

A. senior citizen
B. member of the female sex
C. bank robber
D. Native American

A. daughter
B. long-distance runner
C. doctor
D. each of the above

A. Philip Zimbardo
B. Herbert Blumer
C. William I. Thomas
D. Erving Goggman

A. people share characteristics without necessarily identifying with each other
B. people’s life-chances and experiences depend heavily on their social ranking
C. the ranks of different social categories tend to change very slowly over time
D. stratification occurs because of inequalities in assets or property

A. movement into a different occupational category over a person’s lifetime
B. movement into different occupational categories between generations
C. movement into a higher occupational category
D. movement into an occupation that generates a lower income

A. Only by individuals
B. Only groups
C. By individual or by entire group
D. None of these

A. quite different
B. all alike
C. growing more nearly alike
D. none of these

A. Status of women in society
B. Status of their husbands
C. Both a and b
D. None of these