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
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
Socialization is:
the formation of an attachment bond between an infant and its carer
a tendency of social theorists to explain everything in terms of social causes
the process of becoming part of a society by learning its norms and values
the historical process by which societies change from traditional to modern
Who was introduced the word ' hierarchy ' in the context of caste stratification and assumed Indian society to be hierarchical ?
L. Dumont
M. N. Srinivas
S.C. Bose
F. Bailey
The social construction of childhood can be traced back to:
the introduction of compulsory education
increasingly emotional ties between parents and children
new consumer goods for children, such as clothes, toys and books
all of the above
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
In traditional Indian society, the system by which each caste group was expected to render certain standardised services to other caste groups was called :
Zamindari system
Tinkathia system
Varna system
Jajmani system
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
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
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
