The movement of a person from one social position to another of a different rank is called________?

Related Mcqs:

1. Movement of individuals or groups from one position of a society’s stratification system to another is called:

   A. Social change
   B. Social mobility
   C. Vertical mobility
   D. None of these

2. Leyton suggested that members are symbolic of structural discontent – at different times in history a (social) class comes under treat from another (social) class under treat from another social class and feel dissatisfaction. What did he call this?

   A. Depressive
   B. Over- controlled repressors
   C. Paranoid- aggression
   D. Homicidal protest

3. Social position in a group determines one’s _________?

   A. competence
   B. auto kinetic norms
   C. role
   D. usefulness

4. A set of expectations of people who occupy a given social position or status is called:

   A. Social change
   B. Vertical mobility
   C. Social role
   D. None of these

5. Which theory of social change would predict that all societies eventually experience the same kinds of social changes?

   A. functionalist
   B. conflict
   C. unilateral evolutionary
   D. evolutionary

6. _______refers to a learned negative attitude toward a person based on their person’s membership in a particular group.

   A. Normative justice
   B. Prejudice
   C. Discrimination
   D. The Asch effect

7. In most social settings, the theory of social attraction of which one of the following appears most applicable?

   A. Winch
   B. Webster
   C. Finch
   D. Newcomb

8. Education as a process embodies all those forms of activities that fit an individual for social living and that help transmit customs, laws, religious beliefs, languages of social institutions from one_____to another:

   A. Generation
   B. Person
   C. View
   D. Situation

9. The widely murder of Kitty Genovese in New York in 1964, in which 38 people admitted witnessing the murder but not a single person went to her aid, was an example of which social-psychological phenomenon?

   A. Bystander intervention
   B. Social facilitation
   C. Bystander apathy
   D. Equity theory

10. A tone-deaf person would probably not be able to tell two musical notes apart unless they were very different. We could say that this person has a relatively large:

    A. just noticeable difference
    B. relative threshold
    C. absolute threshold
    D. detection threshold