Social Stratification

A. downward intergenerational mobility
B. upward intergenerational mobility
C. downward intergenerational mobility
D. upward intergenerational mobility

A. prestige
B. esteem
C. status
D. power

A. Max Weber
B. Emile Durkheim
C. Erving Goffman
D. Karl Marx

A. bourgeois consciousness
B. false consciousness
C. class consciousness
D. caste consciousness

A. slavery
B. open class system
C. closed caste systems
D. caste systems

A. those in non-manual occupations exercising authority on behalf of the state
B. people working in consultancy firms who were recruited by big businesses
C. the young men and women employed in domestic service in the nineteenth century
D. those who had worked in the armed services

A. age
B. income
C. verbal fluency
D. occupation

A. Max Weber
B. John Goldthorpe
C. Karl Marx
D. Pierre Bourdieu

A. their holders do not believe in the notion of class
B. they share features of the positions above and below them
C. there is disagreement about how to interpret them
D. they are impossible for sociologists to measure and classify

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