A. lobbying campaign financing and corruption
B. socialization outside the capitalist class to enforce discriminatory norms
C. class warfare economic cycles and intercorporate conflict
D. corporate corruption through interlocking directorates
Related Mcqs:
- Which type of theorists would argue that relentless class conflict between capitalists and workers boom and bust economic cycles and intercorporate conflict place limits on the ability of the capitalist class to manipulate political institutions at will?
A. instrumental conflict theorists
B. reactionary conflict theorists
C. structural conflict theorists
D. dysfunctional conflict theorists - The capitalist class of the mid-twentieth century were said to join the upper class because them___________?
A. Participated in the same leisure pursuits and events of the social calendar
B. emulated the lifestyle and cultural values of the traditional aristocracy
C. owned companies and financial assets that generated wealth through corporations
D. had direct personal ownerships of land and businesses as physical assets - An instructor wants to determine if giving essay tests increases student learning one class that the instructor teaches she continues to test as she has always done In another class she gives the students essay s She then measures the differences in learning if any between the two classes The class that is given essay s is the_______________?
A. control group
B. representative group
C. experimental group
D. correlation group - An instructor wants to determine if giving essay tests increases student learning In one class that the instructor teaches she continues to test as she has always done In another class She then measures the differences in learning if any between the two classes The class that is given essay s is the______________?
A. control group
B. representative group
C. experimental group
D. correlation group - Functionalists argue that even though ethnic conflict is dysfunctional it my still serve some important functions in society Which of the following is NOT one of those important functions ?
A. Conflict promotes group formation and cohesion
B. Conflict may function as a safety valve for society by enabling hostilities to be channelled toward permissible targets known as permissible targets known as scapegoats
C. A multiplicity of conflicts between large numbers of differing groups within a society may be conducive to a democratic as opposed to a totalitarian society
D. Conflict attributable to ethnic stratification problems may reach an unacceptable frequency and intensity - Which of the following argued that a capitalist society has a dominant ideology that serves the interests of the ruling class ?
A. Max Weber
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Karl Marx
D. Margaret Mead - In Karl Marx,s view the destruction of the capitalist system will occur only if the working class first develops______________?
A. bourgeois consciousness
B. false consciousness
C. class consciousness
D. caste consciousness - Which of the following argued that a capitalist society has a dominant ideology that serves the interests of the ruling class ?
A. Max Weber
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Karl Marx
D. Margaret Mead - Conflict theorists contend that_______________?
A. organizational goals reflect the priorities of those who occupy the top positions
B. bureaucracies are arenas for cooperation in which the dominant social values of justice and equality take precedence
C. factories are organized and operate independently of market pressures
D. bureaucracies result from the centralizing tendencies of socialism and help to redistribute wealth and power - Which of the following theorists argued that conflict is a normal and desirable aspect of social change ?
A. Karl Marx
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Emile Durkheim
D. each of the above
