Free Social Stratification MCQs with Answers
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81. Which of the following is an ascribed status ?
- A. daughter
- B. long-distance runner
- C. doctor
- D. each of the above
Explanation: Being a daughter is normally an ascribed status because it is assigned through birth and kinship rather than earned. A long-distance runner and doctor are achieved statuses based on activity, training, or qualification.
Correct answer: daughter82. 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
Explanation: Intergenerational mobility compares the social or occupational position of people in one generation with that of another, commonly children compared with their parents. Movement during one person's own career is intragenerational mobility.
Correct answer: movement into different occupational categories between generations83. Social mobility may be experienced by_____________?
- A. Only by individuals
- B. Only groups
- C. By individual or by entire group
- D. None of these
Explanation: Social mobility can occur at the individual level, such as one person changing class position, or at the group level, such as a whole occupational group gaining status. Therefore both individuals and entire groups may experience it.
Correct answer: By individual or by entire group84. Career and mobility patterns for men and women are_______________?
- A. quite different
- B. all alike
- C. growing more nearly alike
- D. none of these
Explanation: Men's and women's career and mobility patterns have become more similar as women's education and labour-force participation have increased, although important inequalities remain. Thus they are growing more nearly alike, not already identical.
Correct answer: growing more nearly alike85. Mobility of women was usually decided the past through ?
- A. Status of women in society
- B. Status of their husbands
- C. Both a and b
- D. None of these
Explanation: Historically, women's social and economic position was often tied to the status of their husbands, especially in societies where marriage determined access to class and resources. This describes the traditional pattern, although women's own achieved statuses increasingly affect mobility today.
Correct answer: Status of their husbands86. Ideological notions of equality of opportunity are irrelevant in deciding the positions of individuals to different statues in a_____________ system of mobility ?
- A. Open
- B. Broad
- C. closed
- D. None of these
Explanation: A closed mobility system assigns people to social positions largely by birth, so individual equality of opportunity does not determine placement. An open system, by contrast, allows achievement and opportunity to influence mobility.
Correct answer: closed87. Mobility taking place in personal terms within the lifespan of the same person is called______________?
- A. Inter-generational mobility
- B. Intra-generational mobility
- C. Structural mobility
- D. None of these
Explanation: Intra-generational mobility occurs within one person's lifetime, such as moving from a junior job to a senior position. Inter-generational mobility compares the social position of children with that of their parents.
Correct answer: Intra-generational mobility88. A change in occupational position or role without involving any change in its position in the social hierarchy is called____________?
- A. Vertical mobility
- B. Horizontal mobility
- C. social mobility
- D. None of these
Explanation: Horizontal mobility changes a person's occupation or social role without changing their position in the hierarchy, such as moving between jobs of similar status. Vertical mobility involves rising or falling in the hierarchy.
Correct answer: Horizontal mobility89. Mobility oriented behavior education Work habits are______________?
- A. Individual factor
- B. Structural
- C. both a and b
- D. None of these
Explanation: Education, work habits and mobility-oriented behaviour are individual factors because they reflect personal qualities or choices that influence movement between social positions. Structural factors arise from changes in the economy or organisation of society.
Correct answer: Individual factor90. Rate of mobility in modern societies is determined by (1) structural factor and (2) ?
- A. Individual factors
- B. Social factors
- C. Class factor
- D. None of these
Explanation: Mobility rates depend both on structural opportunities, such as expansion of professional jobs, and on individual factors such as education, skills and ambition. Thus individual factors complete the two-part classification.
Correct answer: Individual factors