Power and Stratification overview quiz - WJEC A-Level Sociology quiz

The division of society into a hierarchy of unequal layers

The process by which people are socialised into their culture

The collection of statistics about crime by the government

The movement of people between different countries

Validity, reliability and representativeness

Social class, gender, ethnicity and age

Norms, values, roles and status

Church, sect, denomination and cult

Stratification reflects the exploitation of the working class

Stratification is functional, motivating the able to fill important roles through unequal rewards

Stratification is purely a result of patriarchy

Stratification does not really exist in modern society

Norms and values

Validity and reliability

Status and party

Crime and deviance

The opportunities people have to obtain valued things such as health and education

The random events that happen during a person's lifetime

The chances of being selected for a research sample

The number of children a person is likely to have

Crime breaks social norms; deviance breaks the law

Crime breaks the law; deviance breaks social norms and may not be illegal

They are exactly the same thing

Crime is always more serious than any form of deviance

The total number of crimes solved by the police each year

Crime that is not reported by the public or not recorded by the police

The most serious category of violent crime

Crime committed only at night

Labelling theory

Strain theory

Pluralism

The social model

Disability is caused by the individual's impairment and should be cured

Disability is produced by a society that fails to accommodate impairment

Disability does not exist as a social category

Disability is the same as illness in every respect

The pattern by which lower social classes have worse health and shorter life expectancy

The slope of the route to a hospital in a deprived area

The cost of private health care for different classes

The number of doctors working in each social class

Authority is illegitimate; power is always legitimate

Authority is power that is seen as legitimate

There is no difference between the two

Authority applies only to the police and courts

Power is concentrated in a single ruling class

Power is held by a small, self-perpetuating elite

Power is widely dispersed among competing groups

Power belongs only to men in a patriarchal system

The strengthening of the link between class and voting

The weakening of the link between social class and voting

The abolition of social classes in modern Britain

The movement of people up the class structure

Poorer countries are held back only by their own traditional values

Global inequality results from the exploitation of poorer countries by richer ones

Free markets alone explain global development

Global inequality does not really exist

Economic growth measured by income alone

Improving lives, including health, education, rights and well-being

The total population of a country

The number of factories a country has built

World sociology

Politics

Health and disability

Crime and deviance