Free Social Stratification MCQs with Answers
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61. Life chances are________________?
- A. the magnitude and manner of consumption of goods and services.
- B. the likelihood that individuals and groups will enjoy desired goods and services experiences and opportunities for living long and healthy lives
- C. the respect admiration and recognition associated with a social status
- D. the view that the poor possess self- perpetuating lifeways
Explanation: Life chances are the probabilities people have of obtaining valued goods, services, opportunities, and a long healthy life. In Weber's approach, these chances are strongly shaped by class position and access to resources.
Correct answer: the likelihood that individuals and groups will enjoy desired goods and services experiences and opportunities for living long and healthy lives62. Which method of identifying social classes views social class as a statistical category formed by sociologists or statisticians or statisticians on the basis of income occupation education or some combination of these ?
- A. the combined approach
- B. the reputational method
- C. the self-placement method
- D. the objective methodPeople & Society
Explanation: The objective method places people into statistically defined classes using measurable indicators such as income, occupation, and education. The reputational and self-placement methods instead rely on how others classify a person or how the person classifies themselves.
Correct answer: the objective methodPeople & Society63. A system in which people have great difficulty changing their status is called a(n) ______________?
- A. objectified system
- B. social differentiation
- C. open system
- D. closed systemJobs
Explanation: A closed stratification system restricts movement between social positions, often through inherited status or rigid social rules. An open system, by contrast, permits greater social mobility.
Correct answer: closed systemJobs64. What is the idea that racism pervades all of society's structures in a systematic way called ?
- A. new racism
- B. cultural racism
- C. ethnocentrism
- D. institutional racism
Explanation: Institutional racism exists when discriminatory patterns are built into the policies and routine practices of institutions, so inequality is reproduced across society rather than only by individual prejudice. Cultural racism concerns beliefs and representations, while ethnocentrism means judging other cultures by one's own standards.
Correct answer: institutional racism65. Marx said that the development of the labor movement through factory-based production would turn the working class into____________?
- A. a class in itself
- B. a-class by itself
- C. a class for itself
- D. a ruling class
Explanation: A class in itself is a group sharing an economic position without class consciousness, whereas a class for itself recognises its common interests and organises politically. Marx therefore linked labour-movement development with the formation of a class for itself.
Correct answer: a class for itself66. Weber defined a class situation as____________?
- A. the exploitation of the working class by their capitalist employers
- B. a social groups consciousness of their status and life chances
- C. a person's position in the capital product and labor markets based on their economic resources
- D. the lifestyle of a social class as defined by patterns of consumption
Explanation: For Weber, a class situation is a person's market position and resulting life chances, determined by resources such as property, skills and qualifications. Exploitation is central to Marx's class analysis, not Weber's definition of class situation.
Correct answer: a person's position in the capital product and labor markets based on their economic resources67. The determinants of social class are______________?
- A. Birth
- B. Money
- C. Education and occupation
- D. All of above
Explanation: Social class is shaped by inherited position, wealth or income, education, and occupation, which together influence a person's life chances and social standing. Therefore, all the listed factors are determinants.
Correct answer: All of above68. A stratum of people of similar positions in the social status continuum are termed as_____________?
- A. Social class
- B. clan or tribe
- C. Community
- D. None of these
Explanation: A social class is a stratum whose members occupy broadly similar positions in the system of social status and economic inequality. A clan or tribe is based mainly on kinship, while a community refers to a wider social grouping.
Correct answer: Social class69. The word stratification derives from the geological concept "Strata "meaning ?
- A. class
- B. groups
- C. Rock layers
- D. None of these
Explanation: Stratification comes from the geological image of strata, or layers of rock arranged one above another. In sociology, the term similarly describes hierarchical layers of people or groups.
Correct answer: Rock layers70. The price paid for increased mobility includes a decrease in__________?
- A. Conformity
- B. Loyalty to superior
- C. Personal Responsibility
- D. None of these
Explanation: Greater social mobility requires people to adapt to changing positions and relationships, which tends to weaken conformity to fixed expectations. This reduced conformity is commonly described as one cost of increased mobility.
Correct answer: Conformity