Sociology MCQs

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Career and mobility patterns for men and women are_______________?
A. Quite different
B. All alike
C. Growing more nearly alike
D. None of these
Social mobility may be experienced by_____________?
A. Only by individuals
B. Only groups
C. By individual or by entire group
D. None of these
The term inter-generational mobility refers to______________?
A. Movement into a different occupational category over a person’s lifetime
B. Movement into different occupational categories between generations
C. Movement into a higher occupational category
D. Movement into an occupation that generates a lower income
Which of these is a front region of social life ?
A. A restaurant kitchen
B. A clothing store payment counter
C. A football ground dressing room
D. A nightclub toilet
When a subordinate person breaks the tacit rules of everyday interaction this is called what ?
A. A response cries
B. Unfocused interaction
C. Interactional vandalism
D. Impression management
Selves without bodies don,t make much sense in human terms (Jenkins 1996) What is Jenkins alluding to in this quotation ?
A. The need to bring biological knowledge into sociology
B. The need to theorize the embodiment of the social self
C. The need for sociologists to understand the natural sciences
D. The need for a new science of sociobiology
A person’s overall position in society is called_______________?
A. Achieved status
B. Ascribed status
C. Master status
D. Status set