Social Sturcture and Group Behaviour

Multiple Choice

achieved status

• the social position a person gains as a result of personal effort

• Ascribed status is a term used in sociology that refers to the social status of a person that is assigned at birth or assumed involuntarily later in life.

Open Ended

What do you understand by social stratification?

Multiple Choice

Functionalists Theorists

• members of society are rewarded when they acquire the skills to do society's most important tasks.

• the situation is unfair and creates working class resentment.

Multiple Choice

roots of prejudice:

• psychological

• cultural

• social

• all of the choices

Open Ended

Do you favour assimilation or cultural pluralism?

Open Ended

Why do you think it is difficult for a minority group to live by rules set by the dominant group in a society?

Open Ended

Categorize the following forms of negative treatment from less to more harmful. (SUBJUGATION, REMOVAL, ANNIHILATION, SEGREGATION)

Open Ended

Write the four types of modern government.

Open Ended

Write the world's three most common economic systems.