A. slavery
B. Social class
C. caste
D. estates
Related Mcqs:
- How does racial and ethnic stratification differ from other forms of stratification ?
A. Racial and ethnic groups often have the potential for carving out their own independent nations from the existing state
B. Racial and ethnic stratification is harder to eliminate than are other forms of stratification
C. All other forms of stratification grow out of racial and ethnic stratification
D. All of the above - A social class is a group of people who stand in a common relationship to the means of production Whose perspective does this definition describe ?
A. Max Weber
B. Erik Olin-Wright
C. John Goldthorpe
D. Karl Marx - A change in occupational position or role without involving any change in its position in the social hierarchy is called____________?
A. Vertical mobility
B. Horizontal mobility
C. social mobility
D. None of these - Social stratification is_______________?
A. a system in which people can change their status with relative ease.
B. the ranking or grading of individuals and groups into hierarchical layers
C. based entirely on self-classification
D. none of the above - Which of the following is true regarding the functionalist and conflict theories of social stratification ?
A. Conflict theory is better at explaining inequality
B. Only functionalist theory has merit when discussing social structure
C. Some sociologists have tried to synthesize the conflict and functionalist perspectives to argue that stratification systems are institutions that have evolved in order to reduce conflict
D. none of the above - Which sociological perspective argues that stratification is universal, and that social inequality is necessary so that people will be motivated to fill socially important positions ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. labelling perspective - Which term does John Thompson use to describe the sort of social relations created by the mass media ?
A. face-to-face interaction
B. mediated interaction
C. mediated quasi interaction
D. mediated multiple -interaction - What does Berger (1963) describe as a metaphor for social reality ?
A. a fairground rides
B. a circus
C. a puppet theatre
D. a ballet - What term is used to describe the movement of individuals up or down the social scale during the course of their working lives ?
A. open mobility
B. lateral mobility
C. intragenerational mobility
D. intergenerational mobility - _____________ is the term commonly used to describe the early days of a social movement characterized by a general mood of discontent ?
A. Bureaucratization
B. Decline
C. Coalescence
D. Incipience
E. Arousal
