MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS WITH ANS 2024 LATEST UPDATE
1. Social stratification is a concept that refers to ________
a. specialization in productive work.
b. ranking categories of people in a hierarchy.
c. the idea that some people are more talented than others.
d. differences in talent from one person to another.
Answer: b
2. Using the sociological perspective, we see that social stratification ________
a. gives some people more privileges and opportunities than others.
b. places everyone on a level playing field.
c. ensures that hard work will lead people to become wealthy.
d. means that what people get out of life is pretty much what they put into it.
Answer: a
3. Social stratification ________
a. is a simple reflection of individual differences.
b. looks the same in every society.
c. typically changes a great deal from generation to generation.
d. is a matter of inequality and beliefs about why people should be unequal.
Answer: d
4. Comparing societies in history and around the world, we see that ________
a. many societies lack social stratification.
b. all societies are the same.
c. ways in which people are unequal and how unequal they are vary from society to
society.
d. patterns of social inequality do not change over time.
Answer: c
5. Which concept describes a person who moves from one occupation to another that
each provide about the same level of rewards?
a. Upward social mobility
b. Downward social mobility
c. Horizontal social mobility
d. This is not social mobility at all.
Answer: c
.
, 6. A caste system is defined as ________
a. social stratification based on ascription, or birth.
b. social stratification based on personal achievement.
c. a pure meritocracy.
d. any social system in which categories of people are unequal.
Answer: a
7. Ravi was born into a caste system in a small village in Sri Lanka. He can expect to
________
a. earn his social position through his own efforts.
b. change his social position many times throughout his life.
c. have the same social standing as his parents.
d. choose his life’s work for himself after finishing college.
Answer: c
8. If you lived in a society with a traditional caste system, you would expect your
marriage to be ________
a. polygamous.
b. exogamous.
c. based on romantic love.
d. endogamous.
Answer: d
9. In general, societies that have caste systems have economies that are ________
a. based on hunting and gathering.
b. industrial.
c. agrarian.
d. postindustrial.
Answer: c
10. A category of people historically defined as “untouchable” because they perform
work that has been viewed as “unclean” has been part of social stratification in ________
a. India.
b. The United States.
c. Sweden.
d. the former Soviet Union.
Answer: a
11. If you were born into a traditional caste system, you would expect that, based on
birth, you would be ________
.
1. Social stratification is a concept that refers to ________
a. specialization in productive work.
b. ranking categories of people in a hierarchy.
c. the idea that some people are more talented than others.
d. differences in talent from one person to another.
Answer: b
2. Using the sociological perspective, we see that social stratification ________
a. gives some people more privileges and opportunities than others.
b. places everyone on a level playing field.
c. ensures that hard work will lead people to become wealthy.
d. means that what people get out of life is pretty much what they put into it.
Answer: a
3. Social stratification ________
a. is a simple reflection of individual differences.
b. looks the same in every society.
c. typically changes a great deal from generation to generation.
d. is a matter of inequality and beliefs about why people should be unequal.
Answer: d
4. Comparing societies in history and around the world, we see that ________
a. many societies lack social stratification.
b. all societies are the same.
c. ways in which people are unequal and how unequal they are vary from society to
society.
d. patterns of social inequality do not change over time.
Answer: c
5. Which concept describes a person who moves from one occupation to another that
each provide about the same level of rewards?
a. Upward social mobility
b. Downward social mobility
c. Horizontal social mobility
d. This is not social mobility at all.
Answer: c
.
, 6. A caste system is defined as ________
a. social stratification based on ascription, or birth.
b. social stratification based on personal achievement.
c. a pure meritocracy.
d. any social system in which categories of people are unequal.
Answer: a
7. Ravi was born into a caste system in a small village in Sri Lanka. He can expect to
________
a. earn his social position through his own efforts.
b. change his social position many times throughout his life.
c. have the same social standing as his parents.
d. choose his life’s work for himself after finishing college.
Answer: c
8. If you lived in a society with a traditional caste system, you would expect your
marriage to be ________
a. polygamous.
b. exogamous.
c. based on romantic love.
d. endogamous.
Answer: d
9. In general, societies that have caste systems have economies that are ________
a. based on hunting and gathering.
b. industrial.
c. agrarian.
d. postindustrial.
Answer: c
10. A category of people historically defined as “untouchable” because they perform
work that has been viewed as “unclean” has been part of social stratification in ________
a. India.
b. The United States.
c. Sweden.
d. the former Soviet Union.
Answer: a
11. If you were born into a traditional caste system, you would expect that, based on
birth, you would be ________
.
