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
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - Ageism asserts that___________________?
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 - 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 - The school of thought that considers power to be brokered by various interest groups is called______________?
A. pluralism
B. power elitism
C. absolute power
D. authoritarianism - The view that the state has emerged to protect the rights of a privileged few has been expressed by philosophers of which school of thought ?
A. Functionalism
B. Ideologist
C. Conflict
D. Hegelianism - Symbols differ from signals in that______________?
A. symbols have universal meaning
B. symbols are intrinsically meaningful
C. symbols are biologically determined
D. none of the above - If the daughter of a factory worker wants to become the president of the company for which her father works we may assume that______________?
A. she has a different reference group than her social class would indicate
B. her father has special connections to the boss
C. the daughter likes to daydream
D. she has been reading too many yuppie biographies - Regarding capitalist industrial societies Marx asserted that______________?
A. the means of production are controlled by the masses
B. religion and philosophy are the foundations of society
C. property is unimportant in the modern state
D. they contained the seeds of their own destruction - Kinsey maintained that______________?
A. sexuality exists on a continuum
B. one is either a heterosexual or a homosexual
C. bisexuals lack specific hormones
D. people should have sex-change operations if they felt they were the wrong sex - sociocultural change means that______________?
A. social change is really separate from cultural change
B. cultural change has nothing to do with social change
C. social and cultural change are interrelated
D. the concept is a contradiction in terms
