Related Mcqs:

1. The term collective consumption (Castells 1977) refers to____________?

   A. the privatization of public services by the Conservative government
   B. the lifestyle practice of shopping in peer groups
   C. the form of tuberculosis suffered by those who collect stamps
   D. the provision of health housing and education services by the state

2. The term inter-generational mobility refers to______________?

   A. movement into a different occupational category over a person’s lifetime
   B. movement into different occupational categories between generations
   C. movement into a higher occupational category
   D. movement into an occupation that generates a lower income

3. The term “Socio Cultural” Change refers to______________?

   A. Overlapping of two concepts
   B. That there is no distinction between both
   C. Changes of both kind
   D. None of these

4. The term Second World societies refers to______________?

   A. countries that industrialized after those in Europe
   B. countries that industrialized less successfully than Europe
   C. countries that industrialized under state central planning
   D. countries that have yet to proceed to industrialize

5. The new racism refers to______________?

   A. a subtler form of prejudice masked by nationalist pride
   B. a post-modern deconstruction of racist ideas to reveal their lack of depth
   C. racist practices found in newly emerging areas of social life such as cyberspace
   D. an anti-fascist movement which challenges nationalist politics

6. Ethnic identity refers to______________?

   A. the objective categories of ethnicity used in the census
   B. a felt sense of group of group membership on basis of religion language or history
   C. the imposition of a racial label on a minority by a powerful majority
   D. the fragmented and pluralistic nature of ethnicity

7. According to Max Weber the ideal type refers to______________?

   A. the best possible outcome available
   B. a perspective emphasizing the primacy of ideas
   C. a model based on certain features of a phenomenon
   D. the social agenda of political idealists

8. Bourgeoisie refers to______________?

   A. the capitalist
   B. the working class
   C. the middle man
   D. None of these

9. Global economic inequality refers primarily to______________?

   A. systematic difference in wealth and income between global firms
   B. systematic differences in wealth and income between countries
   C. systematic differences in wealth and income within countries
   D. systematic differences in wealth and income between poorer countries

10. The demographic transition refers to______________?

    A. an increase in the birth rate
    B. an increase in the death rate
    C. an exponential growth in population
    D. a change in the ratio of births to deaths