Social Mobility MCQs

Option A: role conflict

Option B: role exit

Option C: role strain

Option D: role dissonance

Correct Answer: role strain ✔

Option A: members of a hospitals business office

Option B: all residents of the city of Lahore

Option C: women in the Pakistan 50 years and over

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: members of a hospitals business office ✔

Option A: teach new recruits

Option B: preserve order

Option C: replace personnel

Option D: provide and maintain a sense of purpose

Correct Answer: preserve order ✔

Option A: excellent instructor

Option B: disabled

Option C: middle-aged

Option D: male

Correct Answer: excellent instructor ✔

Option A: Sociologists use the term negotiated order to underscore the fact that social order is continually being constructed and altered through negotiation

Option B: Negotiation is a cultural universal

Option C: Most elements of social structure are not static and are therefore subject to change through bargaining and exchanging (negotiation)

Option D: Negotiation is a macro-level process that does not usually involve interactions between small groups such as families

Correct Answer: Negotiation is a macro-level process that does not usually involve interactions between small groups such as families ✔

Option A: Conformity

Option B: Loyalty to superior

Option C: Personal Responsibility

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Conformity ✔

Option A: slavery

Option B: caste

Option C: class

Option D: status

Correct Answer: class ✔

Option A: grants every member equal status

Option B: does not have any official secrets in its government

Option C: has permissive attitudes towards sexual behavior

Option D: allows people to move between levels of the hierarchy

Correct Answer: allows people to move between levels of the hierarchy ✔

Option A: men

Option B: household duties

Option C: other rival women

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: household duties ✔

Option A: Their father’s status

Option B: Marriage

Option C: Their children’s status

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Marriage ✔

Option A: Opposite to those of upward mobility

Option B: Same

Option C: different from those

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Same ✔

Option A: Structural mobility

Option B: Inter-generational

Option C: Intra-generational

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Structural mobility ✔

Option A: When position changes within same generation

Option B: When the next generation remains same

Option C: When next generation goes upward than previous one

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: When next generation goes upward than previous one ✔

Option A: artful presentation of self

Option B: Differed Gratification pattern

Option C: The value-Stretch hypothesis

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: The value-Stretch hypothesis ✔

Option A: individual factor

Option B: Structural factor

Option C: Both a & b

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Structural factor ✔

Option A: from lower to higher

Option B: In both directions

Option C: from higher to lower

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: In both directions ✔

Option A: high

Option B: medium

Option C: low

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: high ✔

Option A: agriculture

Option B: health care

Option C: technology

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: technology ✔

Option A: functionalist perspective

Option B: conflict perspective

Option C: interactionist perspective

Option D: each of the above

Correct Answer: functionalist perspective ✔

Option A: functionalist perspective

Option B: conflict perspective

Option C: interactionist perspective

Option D: clinical perspective

Correct Answer: conflict perspective ✔

Option A: retired person

Option B: a recovering alcoholic

Option C: nun who leaves her religious order

Option D: each of the above

Correct Answer: each of the above ✔

Option A: cultural universalism

Option B: role strain

Option C: functional prerequisites

Option D: role conflict

Correct Answer: role conflict ✔

Option A: senior citizen

Option B: member of the female sex

Option C: bank robber

Option D: Native American

Correct Answer: bank robber ✔

Option A: daughter

Option B: long-distance runner

Option C: doctor

Option D: each of the above

Correct Answer: daughter ✔

Option A: Philip Zimbardo

Option B: Herbert Blumer

Option C: William I. Thomas

Option D: Erving Goggman

Correct Answer: William I. Thomas ✔

Option A: people share characteristics without necessarily identifying with each other

Option B: people’s life-chances and experiences depend heavily on their social ranking

Option C: the ranks of different social categories tend to change very slowly over time

Option D: stratification occurs because of inequalities in assets or property

Correct Answer: people’s life-chances and experiences depend heavily on their social ranking ✔

Option A: movement into a different occupational category over a person’s lifetime

Option B: movement into different occupational categories between generations

Option C: movement into a higher occupational category

Option D: movement into an occupation that generates a lower income

Correct Answer: movement into different occupational categories between generations ✔

Option A: Only by individuals

Option B: Only groups

Option C: By individual or by entire group

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: By individual or by entire group ✔

Option A: quite different

Option B: all alike

Option C: growing more nearly alike

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: growing more nearly alike ✔

Option A: Status of women in society

Option B: Status of their husbands

Option C: Both a and b

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Status of their husbands ✔

Option A: Open

Option B: Broad

Option C: closed

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: closed ✔

Option A: Inter-generational mobility

Option B: Intra-generational mobility

Option C: Structural mobility

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Intra-generational mobility ✔

Option A: Vertical mobility

Option B: Horizontal mobility

Option C: social mobility

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Horizontal mobility ✔

Option A: Individual factor

Option B: Structural

Option C: both a and b

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Individual factor ✔

Option A: Individual factors

Option B: Social factors

Option C: Class factor

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Individual factors ✔

Option A: Open society

Option B: Caste society

Option C: Closed society

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Closed society ✔

Option A: Social class

Option B: social groups

Option C: social mobility

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: social mobility ✔