Economics MCQs

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Max Weber,s notion of life chances closely resembles the concept of________________?
A. Social status
B. Personal power
C. Social power
D. Occupational prestige
The victims of crime tend to be_______________?
A. Members of the middle class
B. Members of minority groups
C. Poor
D. B and c
The categories used by researchers to pigeonhole people into social classes__________________?
A. Reflect the common -sense self-ratings of individuals
B. Indicate that there are two classes the working class and the middle class
C. Tend to be arbitrary and artificial
D. Adequately reflect the complexity of the american class system
Life expectancy is____________________?
A. About the same across social classes
B. Lower for the upper-middle class
C. Lower for the lower classes
D. Lower for the middle class
Members of the “New Class” occupy which of the following occupations_________________?
A. Computer programmers
B. Mbas staring their own firms
C. Out of work middle managers
D. Journalists’ academics media commentators
The loss of entire categories of jobs without the creation of new occupations would be_______________?
A. Structural mobility of a negative sort
B. Horizontal mobility
C. Intragenerational mobility
D. Status ambiguity
Where one stands in the social hierarchy is intimately related to________________?
A. How one performs one,s job
B. How long one lives
C. How much stress one experiences
D. Only b and c
Craftsmen foremen secretary’s office workers belong to the________________?
A. Upper-middle class
B. Middle-middle class
C. Working class
D. “new class”