A. wisdom accompanies advancing age
B. each stage of life has its own rewards
C. the young are superior to the old
D. life begins forty
Related Mcqs:
- The basic assertion of ageism is that________________?
A. the young are superior to the old
B. the old are superior to the young
C. there is a smooth transfer of roles between the old and the young
D. work is best left to those who can do it - The elitist school of thought asserts that______________?
A. the elite is not always against the masses
B. the elite always works against the public interest
C. the elite displays a monolithic power structure
D. the masses should rebel against the elite - The structural functionalist explanation of social stratification asserts that________________?
A. nature demands the existence of social classes
B. there is a limited number of skilled talented people thus they should be rewarded
C. resources are plentiful so there is enough for all
D. people were not meant to work - In his book The Inevitability of Patriarchy Steven Goldberg asserts that_____________?
A. matriarchal societies have never existed
B. men perform the highest status non-maternal roles in all societies
C. men dominate male-female relationships
D. all of the above - A pluralist in the U.S would maintain that___________________?
A. power is spread through multiple centers
B. policy reflects the wishes of a few elites
C. significant decisions are made by the upper classes
D. power is in the hands of a small homogeneous class of leaders - Crowds and masses differ in that___________________?
A. masses are not personally connected to one another
B. people in a crowd are in close proximity to one another
C. collective behavior cannot take place in masses
D. masses of people must always be in the same physical setting - The mechanism of the market system provides for________________?
A. the content and flow of goods and services to take place without any fixed plan
B. buyers and sellers not needing to know how the market works in order to act in it
C. the economy to function so that all participants derive some satisfaction
D. all of the above - Repeating a research project called ?
A. verification
B. generalization
C. replication
D. validation - The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ?
A. may well be unintelligible as translated in some languages
B. is the product of a distinct world view?
C. emphasizes the difficulty of understanding another culture as its participants understand it
D. all of the above - 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
