A. intergenerational mobility
B. socioeconomic life cycle
C. vertical mobility
D. none of the above
Related Mcqs:
- According to demographic transition theory, both birth and death rates are high in which stages of demographic transition ?
A. the first stage
B. the second stage
C. the third stage
D. the first and third stage - Carolyn supported her family by working as an administrative assistant She also attended law school and passed the bar she took a job with a small firm specializing in family law Carolyn experienced______________?
A. horizontal mobility
B. transgenerational mobility
C. vertical mobility
D. geographic mobility - What term is used to describe the way that the varied aspects of an individual’s identity-such as class ethnicity gender disability and location -interact to produce complex patterns of inequality poverty and discrimination ?
A. intersectionality
B. ascription
C. mobility
D. meritocracy - 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 - The term informal economy is used to describe ?
A. work where no money changes hands
B. the activities of small businesses
C. transactions outside the sphere of regular employment
D. organizations with less rigid rules and procedures - 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 is the term used by Francis Fukuyama (1992) to describe the triumph of Western-style democracy has over other forms of government ?
A. the end of history
B. the rise of neoliberalism
C. the fall of communism
D. the birth of nationalism - _____________ 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 - What term is used to describe the phenomenon whereby newspapers can be read online radio stations accessed on digital televisions and mobile phones enable internet access ?
A. mediatization
B. convergence
C. globalization
D. cloud computing - Critics of the spread of Western cultural products across the globe argue that a cultural empire has been created What term do they use to describe this ____________?
A. media saturation
B. media globalization
C. media penetration
D. media imperialism
