July 17, 2025 [SOCI 1002] Tutorial Quiz

What factor makes caste systems closed?

• Exogamous marriage practices

• People cannot change their social standings

• Feudal deference rituals and values

Which term describes buying and using products to make a statement about social standing?

• Conspicuous consumption

• Cultural capital

• Presentation rituals

Match the term with its correct description:

• received through individual effort

• Blue-collar

• Relating to manual work or workers

• Ascribed status

• Group based on economic position

• Social class

• received when born into a group

• Achieved status

In sociology, what does the Gini Index measure?

• Income equality

• Income inequality

• Class mobility

• Social stratification

Match the term with its description:

• Buying to display social status

• Relative poverty

• Living with less than society’s average

• Bourgeoisie

• Owners of capital in capitalism

• Conspicuous consumption

The Gini Index measures ​ (a)   ​

• Income inequality
• Cultural capital
• Social mobility

Upward mobility means moving (a)   in social class

• up
• down
• laterally

Group these concepts:

Groups:

(a) Types of social mobility

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(b) types of marriage

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(c) social classes

• Structural

• Endogamous

• • Working class / Underclass

• • Petite bourgeoisie

• Intragenerational

• Intergenerational

• • Bourgeoisie

• Exogamous