Deck 5: Exploring Social Status: Definitions and Implications

Question 1

A person's age is an example of what kind of status?

A) Ascribed
B) Achieved
C) Master
D) Role

Answer 1

Ascribed

Question 2

Having AIDS is an example of which kind of status?

A) Ascribed
B) Achieved
C) Master
D) Role

Answer 2

Master

Question 3

With each distinctive ­__________, whether ascribed or achieved, come particular status expectations. However, actual performance varies from individual to individual.

A) social role position
B) master status position
C) social relationship position
D) social status position

Answer 3

social status position

Question 4

Prime minister, fruit picker, daughter, resident of Nunavut, dental technician, and neighbour are all examples of which of the following?

A) Role status
B) Status
C) Ascribed status
D) Achieved status

Question 5

Many people with disabilities find that their status as "disabled"functions as a(n) __________ that overshadows their actual ability to perform successfully in meaningful employment.

A) Master status
B) Achieved status
C) Ascribed status
D) Social status

Question 6

Understanding how patterns of male dominance are reinforced in many societies around the world can be accomplished by using which of the following concepts?

A) Mores
B) Role strain
C) Folkways
D) Social status

Question 7

What is the relationship between social status and social role?

A) A person performs a collection of social roles which affects their social status
B) A person holds a social status and performs a social role
C) A person performs a collection of social statuses which affects their social role
D) A person holds a social role and performs a social status

Question 8

An instructor who is unfriendly with some of her students is an example of _________, while a woman who puts off having children while she establishes her career is an example of __________.

A) role conflict; folkway
B) socialization; role strain
C) role strain; role conflict
D) mores; role strain

Question 9

Which of the following statements is correct?

A) A status set is to a social status position as social norms are to a social role
B) Social roles are to social norms as social roles are to a status set
C) Social status positions are to social norms as social norms are to social roles
D) A social status position is to a social role as social norms are to a status set

Question 10

In Canadian society how might we explain the privileged situation of a middle-aged, white, male, medical doctor?

A) A person's master status affects their social status in society
B) A person's achieved status affects their ascribed status in society
C) A person's status set affects their social role in society
D) A person's ascribed status affects their achieved status in society

Question 11

Which sociological perspective would focus on understanding individuals' views of folkways and mores through a qualitative analysis?

A) Conflict
B) Symbolic interactionist
C) Feminist
D) Structural functionalist

Question 12

What occurs when incompatible expectations arise from two or more social positions held by the same person?

A) Role conflict
B) Role strain
C) Role status
D) Role fulfillment

Question 13

A male nurse working in his occupation, which is not common for his ascribed status may experience which of the following?

A) Role strain
B) Role fulfillment
C) Role conflict
D) Role status

Question 14

The participants who acted as "teachers"in Milgram's classic social control experiment obeying the experimenter's orders to shock the "learner"were described by Milgram as acting obediently, because they were accustomed to submitting to impersonal authority figures in the social world. Which sociological perspective explains the organization of North American society in this way?

A) Symbolic interactionist
B) Conflict
C) Feminist
D) Structural functionalist

Question 15

In his study of obedience Stanley Milgram used the term authority to mean which of the following?

A) Going along with others of our own status who have no right to direct our behaviour
B) Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure
C) The techniques and strategies used to prevent deviant behaviour in any society
D) The penalties and rewards for conduct concerning a social norm

Question 16

Which sociological perspective would agree with the results of Milgram's study, which argued that one's obedience in a social situation may be affected by the influence of social status positions such as authority?

A) Structural functionalist
B) Feminist
C) Symbolic interactionist
D) Conflict

Question 17

Which of the following situations describes the concept of obedience as described by Stanley Milgram in his research?

A) Compliance with higher authorities in a hierarchical structure such as a recruit following the orders of his superior officer.
B) A person's decision on how to act is affected by the value s/he places on those whom the behaviour affects.
C) Connection to other members of society leads someone to conform systematically to society's norms.
D) Obedience allows people to decide whether they want to follow rules.

Question 18

A student in your intro sociology class is asked by your instructor to answer the followingquestion: "How does the idea of a social relationship further our understanding of the sociological imagination?"How would you judge this answer? "Because the concept of social status position allows us to add important detail to our understanding of social context, the idea of a social relationship furthers our understanding of the sociological imagination by thinking about social relationships as being representative of those public issues which shape our day-to-day private troubles."

A) Excellent (the statement is correct, with a clear and correct assumption about the concept)
B) Good (the statement is correct, but the assumption about the concept is incorrect)
C) Mediocre (the statement is correct, and the assumption about the concept is irrelevant)
D) Unacceptable (the statement is incorrect and the explanation is unclear and irrelevant)

Question 19

Which sociological perspective would understand and support the view that the social status position of an instructor might include the norm of curving grades in order to meet the expectations of the larger educational institution?

A) Symbolic interactionist
B) Feminist
C) Structural functionalist
D) Conflict

Question 20

Match the examples below to the following concepts:Social status position; ascribed status; achieved status; master status.

A) Caucasian; gender; employee; famous singer
B) Gender; Caucasian; famous singer' employee
C) employee; Caucasian; famous singer; gender
D) famous singer; employee; gender; Caucasian