A. an achieved occupational status
B. a persons overall social status within their family
C. a social position that becomes a master status for the person occupying it
D. socially defined expectations of people in a given social position
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - While a role is the behavior expected of one in a particular status role behavior is_____________?
A. Actual behavior
B. Supposed behavior
C. Ascribed behavior
D. None of these - Role ascription by merit has also restricted the social statuses to those who has______________?
A. Mental and physical proficiency
B. inherited and good early environment
C. (a)mainly depending on (b)
D. None of these - Which of the following theorists described the family as the ultimate source of social inequality because of its role in the transfer of power property and privilege ?
A. Friedrich Engels
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Margaret Mead
D. George Murdock - Which of the following theorists described the family as the ultimate source of social inequality because of its role in the transfer of power property and privilege ?
A. Friedrich Engels
B. Talcott Parsons
C. Margaret Mead
D. George Murdock - 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 - Which of the following conducted observation research on two groups of high school males-the Saints and the Roughnecks-and concluded that social class played an important role in the varying fortunes of the two groups ?
A. Richard Quincy
B. Edwin Sutherland
C. Emile Durkheim
D. William Chambliss - Which method of identifying social classes views social class as a statistical category formed by sociologists or statisticians or statisticians on the basis of income occupation education or some combination of these ?
A. the combined approach
B. the reputational method
C. the self-placement method
D. the objective method - Tonnies divided the social structure into Gemeinschaft and Gesellschafts The tighter and cohesive social entity was the salient feature of___________?
A. Gemeinschaft
B. Gesellschafts
C. Both of them
D. None of these
