What term is used to describe the movement of individuals up or down the social scale during the course of their working lives ?

Related Mcqs:

1. _____________ 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. A social class is a group of people who stand in a common relationship to the means of production Whose perspective does this definition describe ?

   A. Max Weber
   B. Erik Olin-Wright
   C. John Goldthorpe
   D. Karl Marx

6. 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

7. What is the term used to describe the stages from one’s birth into a family with a specific status through formation of a new family unit ?

   A. intergenerational mobility
   B. socioeconomic life cycle
   C. vertical mobility
   D. none of the above

8. What does Berger (1963) describe as a metaphor for social reality ?

   A. a fairground rides
   B. a circus
   C. a puppet theatre
   D. a ballet

9. Marx said that the development of the labor movement through factory-based production would turn the working class into____________?

   A. a class in itself
   B. a-class by itself
   C. a class for itself
   D. a ruling class

10. 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