Category: Social Stratification

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

A. large densely populated areas
B. small groups
C. highly transient communities
D. none of the above

A. their holders do not believe in the notion of class
B. they share features of the positions above and below them
C. there is disagreement about how to interpret them
D. they are impossible for sociologists to measure and classify

A. shared working conditions in the manufacturing industry
B. the class consciousness of members of the proletariat
C. local communities extended kinship networks and shared leisure pursuits
D. collective aspirations to move into the middle class

A. open mobility
B. lateral mobility
C. intragenerational mobility
D. intergenerational mobility

A. the division of each social class into the more or less privileged.
B. a growing gap between rich and poor resulting in class consciousness
C. the growth of intermediate strata in the middle classes
D. the tendency for the working class to live in very could places