Eduqas A-Level Sociology Component 3 Section A power and stratification overview quiz quiz

It is based only on the exploitation of the working class by the ruling capitalist class

It is purely a matter of social status and prestige, with nothing to do with the economy

It is functional and inevitable, motivating the able to fill important roles through higher rewards

It serves no real purpose at all and is simply an accident of the way that each society happens to develop

Class, caste and estate

Wealth, income and savings

Age, gender and ethnicity

Class, status and party

Absolute poverty is a fixed survival minimum; relative poverty is being poor compared with one's own society

They are exactly the same idea, with both measuring a single fixed minimum standard of living for survival

Relative poverty is a fixed survival minimum; absolute poverty is poverty defined relative to one's own society

Both are fixed survival minimums that stay the same and never rise as a society grows richer over time

Poverty is purely structural, caused entirely by the way the economy is organised

A welfare-dependent underclass has formed at the bottom, lacking the work ethic

Social class no longer exists at all in modern society and has been replaced by status

The wealthy are themselves an underclass who are cut off from mainstream values

A person's good or bad luck and the random chances that happen to them in life

A particular type of social mobility between the social classes from one generation to the next

A person's chances of obtaining valued things such as health, education, housing and income

A specific government policy designed to reduce inequality and redistribute wealth

The middle class is steadily shrinking, a claim that the Affluent Worker study went on to fully confirm

Class divisions have completely disappeared from society, and this has now been clearly proven to be true

Manual workers were becoming steadily poorer over time, a claim later confirmed by the Affluent Worker study

Affluent manual workers were becoming middle class; the Affluent Worker study found they remained distinct

An invisible barrier preventing women from reaching top positions (vertical segregation)

A particular type of modern office building with large transparent glass windows and ceilings

A legal guarantee of fully equal pay for women doing the same work as men

Horizontal segregation of men and women into different types of occupation

Disability is caused entirely by the individual's own impaired or damaged body

Disability is created by society's barriers, not by impairment alone

Disability cannot be studied scientifically by sociologists in any meaningful way

Disability is essentially the same thing as the natural process of growing old

The practice of studying just one single dimension of social inequality at a time, fully in isolation

A particular sampling technique used to select respondents for a large-scale social survey

The idea that class, gender, ethnicity, age and disability combine rather than acting separately

A functionalist concept describing how the parts of society fit together into a stable whole

It is far too radical and revolutionary in the conclusions that it draws about society

It greatly overstates the amount of class conflict and struggle present in modern society

It completely ignores the importance of status and social prestige in stratification

It is circular (importance is judged by reward) and ignores inherited advantage