The lower class is often described as living within what?
Correct answer C. A culture of poverty
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Which early sociologist, in ‘Society in America’, paid special attention to status distinctions and to factors such as gender and race?
Correct answer B. Harriet Martineau
Who carried out observational research on two groups of high-school boys, the Saints and the Roughnecks, and concluded that social class shaped their contrasting fortunes?
Correct answer D. William Chambliss
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According to Karl Marx, the revolt of the proletariat as a social movement would help workers overcome what?
Correct answer B. False consciousness
Why did Basil Bernstein think that using restricted language codes put pupils at a disadvantage in school?
Correct answer B. They involved short simple sentences with a small vocabulary
The term ‘culture industry’, used by members of the Frankfurt School, referred to?
Correct answer B. The way in which cultural products were bought and sold for profit
What is a social stratum?
Correct answer A. A level in the social hierarchy comprising people with shared life chances
What did Marx mean by class polarisation?
Correct answer B. A growing gap between rich and poor resulting in class consciousness
What does the embourgeoisement thesis propose?
Correct answer C. The affluent working class is adopting middle class values and ways of life
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What does the term hegemony refer to?
Correct answer B. A dominant ideology that legitimates economic and political power
What did Max Weber mean by an ideal type?
Correct answer D. A model based on certain features of a phenomenon
Which statement best describes positivism?
Correct answer A. Knowledge should be produced based on evidence from observations
According to John Scott, which of these groups belongs to the middle class?
Correct answer B. Senior executives
Which theorist is linked with the idea that classes differ in how much cultural capital they possess?
Correct answer A. Pierre Bourdieu
According to Peter Saunders, what does stratification in modern societies depend on?
Correct answer A. Social and economic classes
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Which theorist’s thinking matches the claim that the split between bourgeoisie and proletariat is the key to stratification in capitalist societies?
Correct answer D. Marx
Social inequality is described as a structured feature of contemporary life. What does this mean?
Correct answer C. Inequalities are passed from generation to generation
For identifying social classes, in which setting is the reputational method most effective?
Correct answer B. Small groups
What does the term ‘underclass’ refer to?
Correct answer C. The persistently poor who exist mainly because of a sharp climb in joblessness due to a redistribution of jobs in the inner city
Which statement about social mobility is true?
Correct answer A. Social mobility can occur when societies change altering the division of labour