A. status is always achieved
B. status is always ascribed
C. status is both achieved and ascribed
D. status has no importance
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - Open Market Operations occur when the government ?
A. Reduces the interest rate
B. Buys and sells bonds and securities
C. Increases taxation
D. Increase the exchange rate - For equilibrium in an open four sector economy ?
A. Actual injections = actual withdrawals
B. Planned injections = planned withdrawals
C. Savings = investment
D. Government spending = tax revenue - Open stratification systems are associated with__________________?
A. industrialization
B. agriculture
C. pastoralism
D. hunter-gatherers - Studies of siblings who shared parents’ social class and everyday experiences have shown that they_____________?
A. view the same experiences differently
B. arrive at a common view point through discussion
C. perceive the same events in the same way
D. pretend to disagree when they really agree - Marx,s view of social class is that______________?
A. private ownership of the means of production perpetuates class divisions
B. talented people will always rise to the top
C. religion helps fight social inequality
D. the bourgeoisie will eventually triumph - The nation that social institutions reinforce and legitimize class division is derived from___________?
A. Karl Marx
B. Emile Durkheim
C. Adam Smith
D. Max Weber - Middle-and upper-class parents foster the viewpoint that________________?
A. occupational success is desirable
B. success does not matter as much as happiness
C. their children should have a classical education
D. students should find peers with similar goals - The Marxian model of class structure divided the population into______________?
A. quintiles
B. six or seven layers
C. the bourgeoisie and the proletariat
D. the haves and the have nots - In industrial societies the social class most likely to participate in social movements is the__________?
A. lower class
B. upper class
C. middle class
D. all social classes equally
