Social issues: SQA Advanced Higher Modern Studies quiz quiz

Income is accumulated assets; wealth is the flow of earnings

Income is the flow of earnings; wealth is accumulated assets, which is more unequally distributed

They are the same thing

Wealth applies only to the poor

The way society and the economy are organised, such as the class structure and labour market

Only personal laziness

Pure chance with no pattern

The weather

It overstates the role of the state

It ignores individual choice entirely

It is argued to blame the poor for their poverty and to understate structural constraint

It applies only to wealthy groups

As entirely accidental

As functional, rewarding important roles and helping maintain order through shared values

As caused solely by patriarchy

As proof the ruling class controls everything

They serve all citizens equally

They broadly serve the interests of the powerful and reproduce inequality

They have no effect on inequality

They exist only to promote gender equality

Patriarchy, under which institutions systematically advantage men

A shared value consensus

The functional needs of society

Random individual choices

Classical, modern and neo

Traditional and revisionist

Liberal, radical and socialist

Consensus and conflict

To make the essay longer

Because a vague issue cannot be tied to relevant evidence and theory, whereas a focused one can

Because definitions earn all the marks

It does not need to be defined

Accepting any statistic at face value

Evaluating the research behind the evidence: its reliability, validity, representativeness and source

Avoiding evidence altogether

Using only qualitative data

Because policies never have any effect

Because indicators take time to move, many factors change at once, and effectiveness can be defined differently

Because effectiveness is always obvious

Because policy is not examinable

Described in the abstract as background

Listed without comment

Applied as tools to explain the issue and then evaluated for how well they fit

Ignored in favour of opinion

They are completely separate and never interact

Only one can ever be correct

They interact, with structure often setting the conditions within which cultural and individual factors operate

Culture always overrides structure

Functionalism

Radical feminism

Marxist conflict theory

Individualism

Describing each perspective separately

Arguing between perspectives with evidence and reaching a substantiated judgement

Listing as many statistics as possible

Avoiding any conclusion

That research methods are not examined here

That the social content and the research methods strand are tested together

That only essays are set

That the section is optional reading