Category: Social Stratification

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

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