Martha and Susan work at the local factory ten hours a day five days a week They make the minimum wage with no overtime pay insurance or benefits One day they discuss their situations over lunch and express frustration over the fact that they never seem to make enough money to “get ahead “By the end of the conversation they have motivated each other to volunteer to work on Sundays They figure that if they work just a little harder they will make enough money to increase their social status Marx would say these women are demonstrating ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Sociologist Alvin Goldner sees Erving Goffman’s work on social behavior as implicitly reaffirming the status quo especially social class inequalities Gouldner,s critique is associated with the_____________?

   A. functionalist perspective
   B. conflict perspective
   C. interactionist perspective
   D. psychoanalytic perspective

2. Now a days more women are joining different fields and making their own status in society This provides women a mobility ladder apart form____________?

   A. Their father’s status
   B. Marriage
   C. Their children’s status
   D. None of these

3. Now a days more women are joining different fields and making their own status in society This provides women a mobility ladder apart from_____________?

   A. Their father’s status
   B. Marriage
   C. Their children’s status
   D. None of these

4. 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

5. In its study of language, which sociological perspective focuses on how people rely on shared definitions of phrases expressions in both formal speech everyday conversation ?

   A. functionalist perspective
   B. conflict perspective
   C. interactionist perspective
   D. ethnocentric perspective

6. A social system in which social position is fixed for a lifetime What type of social stratification does this describe ?

   A. slavery
   B. Social class
   C. caste
   D. estates

7. Which of the following statements about the status of women around the world is correct _____________?

   A. it is estimated that women grow half the world’s food but they rarely own land.
   B. Women constitute one-third of the world’s paid labor force but are generally found in the lowest paying jobs
   C. Single-parent households headed by women which appear to be on the increase in many nations -are typically found in the poorest section of the population
   D. all of the above

8. The theory pictures social movements as operating within a competitive field of movements __ a “social movement industry” ____ within which they compete not least for members and activists Which theory of social movements is this ___________?

   A. new social movement theory
   B. collective behavior theory
   C. social strain theory
   D. resource mobilization theory

9. The statement that “the social relations of work find expression in the social relation of school” reflects ?

   A. the correspondence principle
   B. credentialism
   C. the hidden curriculum
   D. structural dyspepsia

10. A stratum of people of similar positions in the social status continuum are termed as_____________?

    A. Social class
    B. clan or tribe
    C. Community
    D. None of these