Social differentiation and stratification overview quiz - Eduqas GCSE Sociology quiz

The arrangement of groups into a hierarchy of unequal layers (strata)

The way society divides people into separate groups that are all treated as equal

The movement of people between different jobs and occupations over time

The study of crime and deviance and how societies respond to rule-breaking

Becoming a doctor after years of hard study and training

Being born into a particular family or sex

Being promoted to manager after working hard at your job

Passing an exam through your own effort and revision

It is simply exploitation of the workers by the ruling class to keep them in power

It is based only on social status and on party, never on a person's economic class

It is necessary and beneficial, motivating talented people into important jobs

It does not really exist at all in any modern industrial society today

Wealth, income and savings

Family, school and work

Past, present and future

Class, status and party

An invisible barrier that stops women reaching the most senior positions

A type of housing built mainly for wealthy families in the upper class

A measure of absolute poverty used to count how many people cannot survive

A form of upward social mobility that lets workers rise into the middle class

A person's luck in games of pure chance, such as the lottery or card games at home

A person's opportunities for income, education, health, housing and a long life

The chance that a particular person will go on to commit a crime in their life

The total number of paid jobs that are available in a society at any one time

Being unable to afford the basics, such as food and warm shelter, needed to survive

Having relatives who are poor, even if you yourself are quite well off

Being unable to afford the standard of living considered normal in your society

Owning no property or possessions of any kind at all whatsoever

Parsons

Becker

Goldthorpe

Townsend

Authority is power accepted as legitimate; coercion is power through force or fear

Authority is power exercised through force; coercion is power freely accepted by consent

They mean exactly the same thing and there is no real difference between them at all

Authority is always illegal and against the law; coercion is always perfectly legal

Moving house frequently from one area to another over a person's lifetime

The movement of individuals or groups up or down the social hierarchy

The use of public transport to travel around for work and for leisure

Changing your job for another job that is in exactly the same social class

Inequality being carefully measured and recorded by the government each year

Inequality gradually disappearing over time as societies become fairer and richer

Advantage passing from parents to children through wealth, education and culture

The birth rate among the poorest groups being higher than among the rich

Component 1, Understanding Social Processes

A separate methods paper sat at the end of the course

Coursework that is completed and marked in school

Component 2, Understanding Social Structures