Category: Social Mobility

A. people share characteristics without necessarily identifying with each other
B. people’s life-chances and experiences depend heavily on their social ranking
C. the ranks of different social categories tend to change very slowly over time
D. stratification occurs because of inequalities in assets or property

A. teach new recruits
B. preserve order
C. replace personnel
D. provide and maintain a sense of purpose

A. excellent instructor
B. disabled
C. middle-aged
D. male

A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. clinical perspective

A. Opposite to those of upward mobility
B. Same
C. different from those
D. None of these

A. Status of women in society
B. Status of their husbands
C. Both a and b
D. None of these

A. Individual factor
B. Structural
C. both a and b
D. None of these

A. Inter-generational mobility
B. Intra-generational mobility
C. Structural mobility
D. None of these

A. Individual factors
B. Social factors
C. Class factor
D. None of these

A. Sociologists use the term negotiated order to underscore the fact that social order is continually being constructed and altered through negotiation
B. Negotiation is a cultural universal
C. Most elements of social structure are not static and are therefore subject to change through bargaining and exchanging (negotiation)
D. Negotiation is a macro-level process that does not usually involve interactions between small groups such as families