A. The proletariat
B. The bourgeoisie
C. The workers for the owners of the means of production
D. The military
Related Mcqs:
- Advocates of the elitist approach believe that the ruling elite maintains its power by____________?
A. physical force
B. manipulation of the masses
C. explaining the truth to the people
D. none of the above - In C.Wright Mill,s view what group constitutes an elite ?
A. Church leaders and educators
B. The corporate rich only
C. High ranking military officers only
D. The military-industrial-governmental complex - The smallest group is constituted by the________________?
A. triad
B. quadrad
C. dyad
D. monad - C.Wright Mills wrote that the “power elite” controls_________________?
A. all political and social issues
B. the major issues like war and peace
C. the election of all national officials
D. access to Supreme Court appointments - The power elite are drawn from among the_______________?
A. military and business leaders
B. middle-class urban residents
C. union leaders
D. intellectuals - A modern definition of class maintains that social class is constituted by____________?
A. the owners of the means of production
B. persons who have similar forms of power prestige or wealth
C. categories of people set up by governments
D. people especially endowed by nature - The history of the world according to Marx could be interpreted through ?
A. idealism
B. dialectic materialism
C. an absence of materialism
D. a cyclical theory - “The ability of one individual or group to control the actions of another individual or group without the latter’s consent” is a definition of____________?
A. coercion
B. violence
C. power
D. force - Another way of saying that position in a group are value-rated by group members is_______________?
A. statuses are ascribed
B. authority is hierarchical
C. statuses are ranked
D. roles are scripted - When a minority group accepts the culture of the dominant group it is called_______________?
A. accommodation
B. acculturation
C. amalgamation
D. assimilation
