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Understanding Social Dynamics Quiz

Test your knowledge on social stratification, ethnic groups, and gender relations with our engaging quiz! This interactive experience will challenge your understanding of key sociological concepts and theories.

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16) The paradigm of conflict ...

A) Imagine society as an entity where individuals continuously fight for limited and scarce resources

B) It is an eminently micro sociological approach

C) Considers that society has an imbalance between social groups

17) The people who share an ethnic group are those who ...

A) They share a common genetic inheritance, such as skin color

B) They share the same nationality, as being Congolese

C) Share the same cultural heritage, as the Quechua language

18) Social stratification shapes social groups based on ...

A) Unequal access to resources

B) Merits and personal effort

C) Unequal access to wealth

19) Which of these elements is an example of material culture?

A) A forest of enzymes

B) A flower garden in an urban public park

C) None of the above

20) Which of the following statements regarding the stratification is NOT true?

A) Reflects individual differences

B) Generate the shared identity

C) It is maintained because it is part of the beliefs and ideologies

21) What is the delimiting criterion of the classes according to Marx?

A) The detention or not of heritage and wealth

B) Economic inequality based on the income received

C) None of the above

22) The function of ideologies according to Plato is ...

A) Legitimizing inequalities

B) delegitimize inequalities

C) Change the established political order

23) For Silvia Walby, gender relations should be understood

A) As a stratification system of ancestral origin

B) As a product of the patriarchy of industrial societies

C) As an inequality relation caused by biological reasons

24) Which of the following is NOT a system of social stratification?

A) The meritocratic system

B) The capitalist productive system

C) The class system

25) For Karl Marx, the stratification is based

A) The division between bourgeois and workers

B) The division between masters and slaves

C) The division between owners and workers

26) The theory of comparative advantage holds that ...

A) Commercial exchange between countries increases the consumption of merchandise

B) Specializing in the production of a good for the exchange is advantageous

C) All the previous ones

27) Generalize in a rigid and irrational way a valuation about a whole category of people, it is called ...

A) Racism

B) Stereotype

C) Prejudice

28) Which of the following options is a symbol?

A) Close the hand with the index finger facing up

B) A path in the middle of the forest

C) All the previous ones

29) Social stratification systems are perpetuated by ...

A) Upward social mobility

B) Class consciousness

C) Beliefs and ideologies

30) For Davis and Moore, social inequality was ...

A) Dysfunctional for social equilibrium

B) Positive for the social order of the system

C) Necessary for the dominant classes to maintain their privileges

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