WWU SOC 364 Midterm questions with
complete solutions
Social Inequality - correct answer ✔✔Condition whereby people have unequal access to valued
resources, services, and positions in society
Social Stratification - correct answer ✔✔Inequality has been institutionalized, and there is a
system of social relationships that determines who gets what, and why
Human Capital - correct answer ✔✔-Credentials, Skills, and Work Experience
Cultural Capital - correct answer ✔✔-Knowledge, Habits, Values, Tastes
Social Capital - correct answer ✔✔Network connections
Stratification systems in which people are assigned, or ascribed, a status at birth are:
a) Open system
b) More common in the modern world
c) Characterized by extensive mobility
d) Closed systems
e) Bureaucratic systems - correct answer ✔✔d) Closed systems
According to lecture, which of the following represents a supplementary or ancillary belief?
a) The weak will die off
b) Social institutions support only the rich
, c) Competition and the pursuit of personal interests are basic human qualities
d) Compared to capitalism, other economic systems are not viable
e) Both C and D - correct answer ✔✔e) Both C and D
The process by which serfs came to accept the appropriateness of extensive inequality in feudal
society as well as their role in it is called:
a) Legitimacy
b) Ideological domination
c) Repression
d) Legitimation
e) Ascription - correct answer ✔✔d) Legitimation
The belief in individual achievement tends to minimize the effect that ____ has/have on the
determination of a person's success in life.
a) Meritocracy
b) Socio-legal authority
c) Structural factors
d) Self-reliance
e) Status groups - correct answer ✔✔Structural factors
The class systems of modern societies are characterized by:
a) Mobility between positions
b) Closed stratification systems
c) The validation of social inequality by prevailing religious beliefs
d) Ascribed status
e) Ascription - correct answer ✔✔a) Mobility between positions
complete solutions
Social Inequality - correct answer ✔✔Condition whereby people have unequal access to valued
resources, services, and positions in society
Social Stratification - correct answer ✔✔Inequality has been institutionalized, and there is a
system of social relationships that determines who gets what, and why
Human Capital - correct answer ✔✔-Credentials, Skills, and Work Experience
Cultural Capital - correct answer ✔✔-Knowledge, Habits, Values, Tastes
Social Capital - correct answer ✔✔Network connections
Stratification systems in which people are assigned, or ascribed, a status at birth are:
a) Open system
b) More common in the modern world
c) Characterized by extensive mobility
d) Closed systems
e) Bureaucratic systems - correct answer ✔✔d) Closed systems
According to lecture, which of the following represents a supplementary or ancillary belief?
a) The weak will die off
b) Social institutions support only the rich
, c) Competition and the pursuit of personal interests are basic human qualities
d) Compared to capitalism, other economic systems are not viable
e) Both C and D - correct answer ✔✔e) Both C and D
The process by which serfs came to accept the appropriateness of extensive inequality in feudal
society as well as their role in it is called:
a) Legitimacy
b) Ideological domination
c) Repression
d) Legitimation
e) Ascription - correct answer ✔✔d) Legitimation
The belief in individual achievement tends to minimize the effect that ____ has/have on the
determination of a person's success in life.
a) Meritocracy
b) Socio-legal authority
c) Structural factors
d) Self-reliance
e) Status groups - correct answer ✔✔Structural factors
The class systems of modern societies are characterized by:
a) Mobility between positions
b) Closed stratification systems
c) The validation of social inequality by prevailing religious beliefs
d) Ascribed status
e) Ascription - correct answer ✔✔a) Mobility between positions
