Category: Social Stratification

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

A. capitalists are being replaced by salaried managers with bureaucratic authority
B. the affluent working class is adopting middle class values and ways of life
C. white collar occupations are being deskilled by the introduction of new technologies into the workplace
D. the class structure has fragmented and there are no longer any distinct social classes

A. this pattern of speech made them the target of bullying
B. they referred to explicit context independent meanings
C. they prevented children from communicating outside of their peer groups
D. they involved short simple sentences with a small vocabulary

A. conformity deviance and social control
B. class status and power
C. class caste and age
D. class prestige and esteem

A. class consciousness
B. false consciousness
C. socialist consciousness
D. surplus value

A. intersectionality
B. ascription
C. mobility
D. meritocracy