Sociology Mcqs

A. a level in the social hierarchy comprising people with d life chances
B. a methodological tool used to identify a person’s social class
C. the boundary between two levels of the social hierarchy
D. a symbol of status used to differentiate between social classes

A. the globalization of culture through new technologies
B. they way in which cultural products were bought and sold for profit
C. the development of subcultures and counter-cultures in society
D. they way in which industrialization had created new means of communication

A. this pattern of speech made them the target of bullying
B. they referred to explicit context independent meanings
C. they prevented children from communicating outside of their peer groups
D. they involved short simple sentences with a small vocabulary

A. class consciousness
B. false consciousness
C. socialist consciousness
D. surplus value

A. Richard Quincy
B. Edwin Sutherland
C. Emile Durkheim
D. William Chambliss

A. Emile Durkheim
B. Max Weber
C. Auguste Comte
D. Harriet Martineau

A. culture of poverty
B. Culture of lower class
C. Mere poverty
D. None of these

A. Behavior
B. Set of values
C. Way of life
D. All of above

A. Same income level
B. Way of life values
C. Both of the values
D. None of these

A. a system in which people can change their status with relative ease.
B. the ranking or grading of individuals and groups into hierarchical layers
C. based entirely on self-classification
D. none of the above