Sociology MCQs

A. Students
B. Manual working class
C. The unemployed
D. Retired people

A. Political
B. Economic capital
C. Social capital
D. Cultural capital

A. Class inequalities govern gender stratification
B. Women’s pay is often essential to the family’s economic position
C. Women’s paid work is not as significant as that of men
D. Women should be seen as being the same class as their husbands/partners

A. Slavery
B. Caste
C. Class
D. Status

A. Social mobility occurs only when shifts occur in the availability of different types of talent in the work force
B. Social mobility can occur when societies change altering the division of labor
C. Social mobility is controlled by those in the higher strata through control of opportunities for training and education
D. None of above

A. Intergenerational mobility
B. Socioeconomic life cycle
C. Vertical mobility
D. None of the above

A. Its benefits individuals and groups who have the power to dominate and exploit others
B. Privilege prestige and power are equally distributed in society
C. The capitalist drive to distribute wealth equitably is the foundation of modern society
D. Capitalists and workers are class conscious

A. Conflict theory is better at explaining inequality
B. Only functionalist theory has merit when discussing social structure
C. Some sociologists have tried to synthesize the conflict and functionalist perspectives to argue that stratification systems are institutions that have evolved in order to reduce conflict
D. None of the above

A. Class systems are relatively fluid
B. Class position is entirely subjective
C. Class is economically based
D. Class positions are in part achieved

A. Family capitalism
B. Managerial capitalism
C. Welfare capitalism
D. Institutional