Stratification MCQs
Stratification MCQs
Try to answer these 20 Stratification MCQs and check your understanding of the Stratification subject.
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1: Which statement is true about social stratification?
A. Stratification in band and tribal societies is based on wealth.
B. All societies experience stratification of some kind.
C. State societies have the lowest levels of stratification.
D. Stratification has no known connection of opportunity.
2: According to Karl Marx, what are the two main classes in a capitalist society?
A. Rich and poor
B. Capitalists and workers
C. Whites and blacks
D. Functionalist and conflict theorists
3: Which dimension of social stratification involves the accumulation of material resources?
A. Wealth
B. Power
C. Prestige
D. Culture
4: What did Marx argue that people should be most aware of in order to understand their place in a stratified society?
A. Their economic class position
B. Their relationship with political leaders
C. The level of prestige in their occupation
D. The amount of skills they have
5: In India’s caste system, which group is considered to be highest in the social order?
A. Brahmins (scholars and priests)
B. Kshatriyas (warriors and rulers)
C. Vaisyas (merchants)
D. Shudras (artisans and workers)
6: The top 5% of American households earn ______ of the country’s total income.
A. 8%
B. 23%
C. 15%
D. 5%
7: A core American cultural belief about social mobility is that ______.
A. It takes at least two generations of a family for a family to change their economic status
B. Race and gender have no effect on one’s economic status
C. Anyone can improve their economic position and gain access to greater wealth
D. The wealthy are morally bankrupt and undeserving of any prestige
8: Under which of the following circumstances does downward social mobility (when someone moves down in the class system) become most visible?
A. Times of fast economic growth
B. Times of ethnic strife
C. Times of financial crisis
D. Times of heightened immigration
9: Why does anthropologist John Ogbu think that “voluntary minorities” are more likely to achieve higher educational goals than “involuntary minorities”?
A. They come from ethnic groups that place an unusual emphasis on education.
B. They are more likely today to arrive in the country as free individuals.
C. They are more likely to believe in the possibilities for social mobility.
D. They are subject to less discrimination than involuntary minorities.
10: Which of the following is true about race in Brazil?
A. There are a few simple racial categories in Brazilian society.
B. Most people in Brazil identify as having primarily European ancestry.
C. Race mixing has positive connotations in Brazil.
D. There are currently no ways to measure race in Brazil.
11: Which of the following is a way that racial stratification differs between the United States and Brazil?
A. In Brazil, racial stratification has been eliminated and in the United States it persists.
B. In Brazil, siblings in the same family can be different races, and in the United States they are considered to be the same race.
C. In Brazil, slavery and racial segregation laws persisted for a century longer than they did in the United States.
D. In Brazil, the white population is a much larger proportion of the total, and they therefore have more control over major institutions.
12: Though the “American Dream” is supposed to mean equal opportunity for everyone, immigrants from which part of the world benefitted most from stratification in early U.S. history?
A. African slaves
B. Southern Europeans
C. East Asians
D. Northern Europeans
13: How did the U.S. Constitution limit the rights of citizenship when first adopted?
A. Citizenship applied to people living within the borders of the country.
B. Citizenship applied to those of European descent.
C. Citizenship applied to those who were both white and male.
D. Citizenship applied to humankind.
14: One shortcoming of the “melting pot” analogy in the United States has been ______.
A. That it does not explain the persistence of strong European ethnic identification
B. That various ethnic groups have only assimilated since the 1950s
C. That almost no group has fully assimilated into the American identity
D. That non-European groups have had a more difficult time with assimilation
15: Anthropologists speculate that the idea of a home country ______.
A. Will be more important in the near future
B. May be on the decline
C. Is not something Americans believe in
D. Only matters to recent immigrants
16: A social position that is substantially based on life experiences is known as_____
A. Achieved Status
B. Ascribed Status
C. Life Status
D. Actual Status
17: Ascribed Status is a social position based entirely on_____ .
A. Birth
B. Acquired status
C. Death
D. Any of these
18: Assimilation is a process through which immigrants were expected to abandon their distinctive cultures in favor of _____ identity.
A. European
B. British
C. American
D. African
19: Caste is an _____ group based on ascribed status.
A. Endogamous
B. Ranked
C. Permanent
D. All of these
20: Caste System is a social stratification based on birth or ascribed status in which social mobility between castes is possible.
A. True
B. False
21: Class is a category of people who all have about the same opportunity to obtain _____ and who are ranked relative to other categories.
A. Economic resources
B. Power
C. Prestige
D. All of these
22: Class System is a form of social stratification in which the different strata form a continuum and social mobility is possible.
A. True
B. False
23: Conflict Theory is a perspective on social stratification that focuses on _____ as a source of conflict and change.
A. Social equality
B. Economic equality
C. Social inequality
D. Economic inequality
24: The anthropological theory that specific cultural institutions function to support the structure of a society or serve the needs of its people is known as_____
A. Socialism
B. Functionalism
C. Stratification
D. All of these
25: The opportunities that people have to fulfil their potential in society refer to ______
A. Potential Chances
B. Life Chances
C. Social Chances
D. Both a and b
26: Movement from one social strata to another is known as_____
A. Social Transfer
B. Social Mobility
C. Social Change
D. Social Shift
27: A social hierarchy resulting from the relatively _____ unequal distribution of goods and services in a society is known as Social Stratification.
A. Temporary
B. Permanent
C. Both
D. None
28: The accumulation of material resources or access to the means of producing these resources is known as_____
A. Wealth
B. Economy
C. Black money
D. Dark money
29: Stratification is _____.
A. The division of classes based on heredity
B. A society’s placement of families into categories
C. A way to determine socioeconomic status the categorization of society into social classes
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