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This set of Social Stratification Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Social Stratification Set 1

Q1 | ________ is large set of people regarded by themselves or others as sharing similar status withregard to wealth, power and prestige.
  • group
  • creed
  • community
  • class
Q2 | The type of communalism characterized by a high degree of sharing and minimal socialinequality.
  • social
  • premitive
  • all of these
  • none of these
Q3 | The system which involves great social inequality and the ownership of some persons byothers.
  • caste
  • slavery
  • none of these
  • all of these
Q4 | The system in which an individual is permanently assigned to a status based on his or herparents' status is called.
  • slavery
  • community
  • caste
  • none of these
Q5 | This stratification system is more open.
  • community
  • slavery
  • class
  • caste
Q6 | The kind of stratification system which is more closed.
  • community
  • slavery
  • class
  • caste
Q7 | In________ societies the survival of the group is paramount and people will share theirresources to ensure that the group survives.
  • social
  • premitive
  • all of these
  • none of these
Q8 | _________ is called the movement of a person from one status to another, either betweengenerations or within a person's adult career.
  • social mobility
  • strectural mobility
  • functional mobility
  • none of these
Q9 | _______ is called the mobility brought about by changes in the stratification hierarchy forinstance as society becomes more technologically advanced.
  • social mobility
  • strectural mobility
  • functional mobility
  • none of these
Q10 | Who said that in all stratified societies there are two major social groups: a ruling class and asubject class.
  • john lennen
  • fisher
  • eugene
  • karl marx
Q11 | According to _________Kingsley Davis and________ Moore stratification exists in everyknown human society.
  • talcott and parson
  • fisher ans eugene
  • kingsley davis and moore
  • none of these
Q12 | Who defined slave as a man whom law and custom regard as the property of another.
  • karl marx
  • kingsley davis
  • talcott parson
  • l.t.hobhouse
Q13 | It is the extreme form of inequality in which some individuals are owned by others as theirproperty.
  • slavery
  • creed
  • caste
  • class
Q14 | According to the basis of slavery is always economic because with it emerged a kind ofaristocracy which lived upon slave labour.
  • h.j nieboer
  • kingsley davis
  • talcott parson
  • l.t.hobhouse
Q15 | The system which is synonymous with Feudalism is called.
  • slavery system
  • creed system
  • caste system
  • estate system
Q16 | The system in which clergy, nobility and commoners functioned like three political groups.
  • slavery system
  • creed system
  • caste system
  • estate system
Q17 | The type of social system which is closely connected with the Hindu philosophy and religion,custom and tradition .It is believed to have had a divine origin and sanction.
  • slavery system
  • creed system
  • caste system
  • estate system
Q18 | The term caste is derived from the _____word, caste meaning breed or lineage..
  • french
  • italian
  • greek
  • spanish
Q19 | The caste stratification of the Indian society had its origin in the _______ system.
  • gothic
  • chathurvarna
  • none of these
  • all of these
Q20 | According to ___and____ when status is wholly predetermined so that men are born to theirlot without any hope of changing it, then the class takes the extreme form of caste.
  • maclver and page
  • risely ans page
  • talcott and parson
  • hobhouse and davis
Q21 | According to Hindu caste system which is the major upper caste.
  • brahmins
  • nairs
  • thiyyas
  • namboothiris
Q22 | According to _____the chief criteria of domination of a caste are Economic strength,Politicalpower,Ritual purity and numerical strength.
  • m.n.srininvas
  • risely ans page
  • talcott and parson
  • hobhouse and davis
Q23 | According to Hindu caste system which caste is the lowest in the caste hierarchy.
  • brahmins
  • shudras
  • thiyyas
  • namboothiris
Q24 | According to Hindu caste system how many varnas there as part social stratification.
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 4
Q25 | According to______ a more complex division of labour made the class more heterogeneous.
  • marx
  • weber
  • parson
  • davis