Category: Social Stratification

A. senior executives
B. industrial entrepreneurs
C. finance capitalists
D. none of the above

A. political
B. economic capital
C. social capital
D. cultural capital

A. the magnitude and manner of consumption of goods and services.
B. the likelihood that individuals and groups will enjoy desired goods and services experiences and opportunities for living long and healthy lives
C. the respect admiration and recognition associated with a social status
D. the view that the poor possess self- perpetuating lifeways

A. the best possible outcome available
B. a perspective emphasizing the primacy of ideas
C. a model based on certain features of a phenomenon
D. the social agenda of political idealists

A. objectified system
B. social differentiation
C. open system
D. closed system

A. a level in the social hierarchy comprising people with shared life chances
B. a methodological tool used to identify a person’s social class
C. the boundary between two levels of the social hierarchy
D. a symbol of status used to differentiate between social classes

A. slavery
B. open class system
C. closed caste systems
D. caste systems

A. bourgeois consciousness
B. false consciousness
C. class consciousness
D. caste consciousness

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

A. the poor who are concentrated in isolated rural areas
B. individuals who experience occasional poverty but who move back into the “mainstream” of economic life within 12 months
C. the persistently poor who exist mainly because of a sharp climb in joblessness due to a redistribution of jobs in the inner city
D. both b and c