What is the rank or position of a person within a group, or of a group relative to other groups, called?
Correct answer B. Status
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Role & Status MCQs
Role & Status MCQs cover how sociologists describe a person's position in society and the behaviour expected of that position, including role sets, role conflict and the sick role. They help sociology students, CSS and PMS candidates and lecturer test takers. Each question shows its correct answer instantly, so you can check definitions and thinkers as you practise.
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Role and status are two aspects of the same what?
Correct answer C. Phenomenon
A role is the behaviour expected of someone in a particular status. What, by contrast, is role behaviour?
Correct answer A. Actual behaviour
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What kind of status is being a princess?
Correct answer A. Ascribed
Assigning roles on the basis of merit has also limited social statuses to people who possess what?
Correct answer C. (a)mainly depending on (b)
Which is the most all-encompassing form of collective behaviour?
Correct answer D. Social movements
What does role-learning theory propose?
Correct answer B. We internalise and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework
In Freud’s theory, what did the ego refer to?
Correct answer B. The conscious part of the mind that regulates emotional drives on a practical rational level
What did Margaret Mead suggest?
Correct answer C. Adolescence and gender roles varied between societies and so were culturally determined
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In modern societies, what is a person’s social status usually measured by?
Correct answer A. Occupation
What name is given to the socially defined expectations that a person holding a given status is expected to follow?
Correct answer A. A role
What are social settings in which people perform their formal roles called?
Correct answer A. Front regions
Which of the following is NOT one of the versions of the sick role identified by Freidson?
Correct answer A. Modified legitimate
Which of the following does NOT help to generate role confusion in modern society?
Correct answer D. None of these
What term is normally used for the behaviour expected of someone who occupies a particular status?
Correct answer C. Role
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When one status involves many roles, what is this known as?
Correct answer C. Role sets
As its name suggests, what is an ascribed status?
Correct answer B. Ascribed to us by society
What does the term feminist standpoint suggest?
Correct answer A. Studying society from the perspective of women
In symbolic interactionist theory, how did Mead define the generalised other?
Correct answer A. An image of how people in the wider society might perceive our behaviour
What did Bowlby’s maternal deprivation thesis claim?
Correct answer C. Children deprived of an early secure attachment to their mother are prone to suffer physically, intellectually and socially in later life
About Role & Status MCQs
Status is a person's social position, and a role is the behaviour expected from someone holding that status. Questions on this page ask about the term for rank within a group, role-learning theory, and Robert Merton's ideas, including the role set, where one status carries several roles, and latent functions, the hidden reasons behind behaviour. You will also find items on Freidson's versions of the sick role, Margaret Mead's work on gender roles across cultures, feminist standpoint theory and formal social occasions. These definitions are frequently tested in sociology papers.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between ascribed and achieved status?
An ascribed status is assigned at birth or involuntarily, such as sex, ethnicity or being someone's son. An achieved status is gained through effort, choice or ability, such as becoming a doctor or a teacher. Many MCQs ask you to classify examples into these two types.
What is a role set?
A role set, a term from Robert Merton, is the collection of roles attached to a single status. A teacher, for example, has roles towards students, colleagues, parents and the head teacher. Conflicting expectations within a role set can create role strain.
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Last reviewed October 2026