A. structural mobility of a negative sort
B. horizontal mobility
C. intragenerational mobility
D. status ambiguity
Miscellaneous Economics Mcqs
Where one stands in the social hierarchy is intimately related to…………….?
A. how one performs one,s job
B. how long one lives
C. how much stress one experiences
D. only B and C
Craftsmen foremen secretary’s office workers belong to the…………….?
A. upper-middle class
B. middle-middle class
C. working class
D. “new class”
Global inequality is evident in……………?
A. the size of families
B. per capita
C. the items rich countries throw out
D. all of the above
Membership in specific racial ethnic and religious groupings is…………….?
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
The difference between racial minorities and ethnic minorities is……………?
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
Conflicts between the dominant group and minorities develop because……………..?
A. minorities are perceived as different
B. minorities perceive themselves as different
C. the dominant group has coercive power
D. all of the above
Stressing the desirability of retaining each group,s cultural distinctiveness is part of the ideology of…………..?
A. Anglo-conformity
B. melting pot
C. ethnicity
D. cultural pluralism
Discriminatory behavior prompted by the knowledge that prejudice exists on a society wide level is called…………..?
A. attitudinal discrimination
B. institutional discrimination
C. cultural discrimination
D. personal discrimination
Ethnic groups are based on……………..?
A. skin color
B. common customs and /or identities
C. genes
D. eye shape