Why, according to functionalists, must society be concerned with motivation?
Correct answer D. Are not equally pleasant
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Martha and Susan work ten-hour days, five days a week, at a local factory for the minimum wage with no overtime, insurance or benefits. Frustrated that they never get ahead, they agree to volunteer for Sunday shifts, believing a little more effort will raise their status. What would Marx say they are showing?
Correct answer B. False consciousness
Which type of social stratification describes a system in which a person’s social position is fixed for life?
Correct answer A. Caste
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Whose perspective defines a social class as a group of people sharing a common relationship to the means of production?
Correct answer C. Karl Marx
What term describes how different parts of a person’s identity, such as class, ethnicity, gender, disability and location, interact to create complex patterns of inequality, poverty and discrimination?
Correct answer D. Intersectionality
What term describes individuals moving up or down the social scale during their working lives?
Correct answer D. Intragenerational mobility
A comparative study of employment would count as intersectional if it examined which combination?
Correct answer D. All of them
According to Erik Olin Wright, why are some class locations contradictory?
Correct answer C. They share features of the positions above and below them
How did Goldthorpe define the service class?
Correct answer D. Those in non-manual occupations exercising authority on behalf of the state
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What is the most extreme form of legalised social inequality for individuals or groups?
Correct answer C. Slavery
In Karl Marx’s view, what must the working class develop before the capitalist system can be destroyed?
Correct answer C. Class consciousness
The intellectual tradition behind conflict theory begins mainly with whose work?
Correct answer B. Karl Marx
What term is used for the reputation that a particular individual has earned within an occupation?
Correct answer A. Esteem
A plumber whose father was a doctor is an example of what?
Correct answer D. Downward intergenerational mobility
Which sociological perspective stresses that relations between women and men involve unequal power, with men dominant over women?
Correct answer D. Conflict perspective
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Which statement about the status of women around the world is correct?
Correct answer D. All of the above
Which field of study first developed in the 1930s as more social scientists became aware of the difficulties faced by elderly people?
Correct answer B. Gerontology
What is social stratification?
Correct answer B. The ranking or grading of individuals and groups into hierarchical layers
What do members of the same class generally share?
Correct answer C. Both of these
Each social class can be seen as a subculture with its own system of what?
Correct answer D. All of the above