In Marx's theory of stratification, the way in which members of a given social class perceive their situation as a class is termed:
a. class position
b. economic class
c. objective class
d. subjective class
Question 2The impact of war can be seen in the damage done to the minds of the survivors. This is referred to as:
a. mental anxiety
b. war anxiety
c. post traumatic stress disorder
d. conscious stress disorder
Question 3Marx argued that in a capitalist society there would always be a reserve army. By this he meant that
a. a pool of unemployed people would work for lower wages than those who already had jobs
b. capitalism creates categories of workers who can concentrate on producing surplus
c. military force would have to be used to get people to work
d. war is an inevitable feature of capitalism
Question 4Which of the following is NOT a consequence of modernization?
a. A wage-earning class emerges.
b. Gender inequalities persist unchanged.
c. The nation-state becomes the center of political power.
d. There is a trend toward secularization.
Question 5In Marx's theory of stratification, a social class that has a visible, specific relationship to the means of production is
a. a closed class
b. an objective class
c. an open class
d. a subjective class
Question 6Which of the following terms includes all the others?
a. bureaucratization
b. industrialization
c. modernization
d. urbanization
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