Miscellaneous Economics Mcqs

A. Anglo-conformity
B. melting pot
C. ethnicity
D. cultural pluralism

A. there are three races
B. there are fifty two races
C. there are no races
D. all of humankind is descended from the same common stock

A. minorities are perceived as different
B. minorities perceive themselves as different
C. the dominant group has coercive power
D. all of the above

A. in the size of each group
B. ethnic minorities do not suffer from discrimination but only from prejudice
C. racial minorities differ biologically ethnic minorities differ culturally from the dominant group
D. racial minorities have been here longer than ethnic minorities

A. characteristic only of industrial societies
B. a variable of the stratification system
C. a biological rather than a social product
D. the cross every individual must bear

A. the size of families
B. per capita
C. the items rich countries throw out
D. all of the above

A. upper-middle class
B. middle-middle class
C. working class
D. “new class”

A. how one performs one,s job
B. how long one lives
C. how much stress one experiences
D. only B and C

A. structural mobility of a negative sort
B. horizontal mobility
C. intragenerational mobility
D. status ambiguity

A. Computer programmers
B. MBAs staring their own firms
C. Out of work middle managers
D. journalists’ academics media commentators