The term 'collective consumption' (Castells 1977) refers to:
the privatization of public services by the Conservative government
the lifestyle practice of shopping in peer groups
the form of tuberculosis suffered by those who collect stamps
the provision of health, housing, and education services by the state
There is freedom of association between members of all strata including inter - marriage and equalitarian social relations in :
Open - class
Open - ethnic
Closed - caste
Closed - estate
The existence of structural inequalities between groups in a given society in terms of their differential access to material of symbolic rewards is called :
Differentiation
Stratification
Multiculturalism
Hetero geneity
The broad meaning of sanskritization is :
Horizontal mobility
Cultural upward mobility
Structural mobility
Parochialisation
In Parsons' view, the function of the sick role was to:
provide a set of guidelines for medical staff to treat patients in hospital
create a sense of meaning and order out of the illness experience
create a scapegoat for people to blame, in the context of family life
provide normative expectations to minimise the disruptive effects of illness on social life
A social stratum is:
a level in the social hierarchy, comprising people with shared life chances
a methodological tool used to identify a person's social class
the boundary between two levels of the social hierarchy
a symbol of status, used to differentiate between social classes
The four functional groups that came into being in the Varna system such as teaching and preaching, administration and protection, agriculture and commerce and services and manual labour, are the result of the need for :
Division of social living
Division of gender
Division of social categories
Division of labour
Marx proclaimed that religion would disappear when:
a new trend of moral individualism became established
a socialist revolution removed the need for capitalist ideology
church attendance dropped below 15%
people came to believe more in science and technology
Weber said that the 'spirit of capitalism' could be traced back to:
the movement towards religious pluralism
inspirational Protestant groups who revived religious ideas
new religious movements who rejected traditional forms of labour
Calvinists who engaged in ascetic practices to gain signs of salvation
Who pointed out that social stratification is needed to ensure effective role allocation and role performance ?
Moore and parsons
Davis and parsons
Parsons and Weber
Davis and Moore
