A. class systems are relatively fluid
B. class position is entirely subjective
C. class is economically based
D. class positions are in part achieved
Related Mcqs:
- 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - An important aspect of labelling theory is the recognition that some people or groups have the power to define labels and apply them to others This view recalls the emphasis placed on the social significance of power by the______________?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. anomie theory of deviance - 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 - 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 - Which of the following social groups do occupational class schemes not have difficulty accommodating ?
A. students
B. manual working class
C. the unemployed
D. retired people
