Lesson 02B.1.3

02B.1.3 Life chances and inequalities in work and employment Quiz: OCR Sociology, Unit 6

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The 20 questions

  1. Which sociological term describes the unequal distribution of wealth, power and status in society?

    • Social mobility
    • Social stratification
    • Meritocracy
    • Cultural capital

  2. What concept captures a person's overall likelihood of achieving positive outcomes in life?

    • Social closure
    • False class consciousness
    • Embourgeoisement
    • Life chances

  3. Which term describes the shift from traditional manufacturing employment to service-sector jobs in the UK?

    • Urbanisation
    • Proletarianisation
    • Deindustrialisation
    • Globalisation

  4. What describes the persistent difference in average hourly earnings between working men and women?

    • Gender pay gap
    • Dual burden
    • Glass ceiling
    • Reserve army

  5. Which invisible barrier prevents women from rising to the highest senior management positions?

    • Concrete wall
    • Glass escalator
    • Glass ceiling
    • Sticky floor

  6. What term describes low-paid, routine work that offers virtually no opportunities for upward career progression?

    • Secondary labour market
    • State bureaucracy
    • Primary labour market
    • Tertiary sector

  7. Which sociological perspective argues that inequality in employment is a functional necessity for society?

    • Marxism
    • Feminism
    • Interactionism
    • Functionalism

  8. Which Marxist concept refers to the working class developing awareness of their collective exploitation?

    • Proletariat
    • Class fraction
    • False consciousness
    • Class consciousness

  9. Applying Weberian theory, which market capacity forms the primary basis of class division?

    • Religious beliefs
    • Economic skills
    • Political status
    • Cultural tastes

  10. John works as an IT contractor with high pay and strong security. Which employment sector is he in?

    • Informal economy
    • Secondary labour market
    • Primary labour market
    • Gig economy

  11. Sarah manages a busy warehouse where 80 percent of senior roles are held by men. What concept applies?

    • Glass ceiling
    • Matriarchy
    • Glass escalator
    • Occupational segregation

  12. Ahmed struggles to find stable work because local manufacturing plants closed down. What process is this?

    • Taylorism
    • Deindustrialisation
    • Globalisation
    • Secularisation

  13. What is it called when women combine paid work with domestic chores?

    • Gender pay gap
    • Triple shift
    • Glass ceiling
    • Dual burden

  14. Which term describes ethnic minority workers being concentrated disproportionately in low-status, precarious jobs?

    • Institutional racism
    • Cultural deprivation
    • Ethnic penalty
    • Colour-blindness

  15. What economic shift has seen the rapid growth of app-based delivery and freelance platform work?

    • Fordism
    • Gig economy
    • Keynesianism
    • Corporatism

  16. Which concept suggests poverty and low wages are passed down across generations, restricting life chances?

    • Meritocratic ladder
    • Social fluidity
    • Cycle of deprivation
    • Affluence gap

  17. Which Marxist term describes unemployed workers hired during booms and fired during slumps?

    • Reserve army of labour
    • Proletariat
    • Lumpenproletariat
    • Bourgeoisie

  18. Which measure calculates the proportion of households living below a threshold relative to median UK income?

    • Absolute poverty
    • Subsistence level
    • Subjective poverty
    • Relative poverty

  19. What sociological term explains how ruling classes maintain dominance through cultural institutions rather than force?

    • Hegemony
    • Polarisation
    • Alienation
    • Coercion

  20. Which trend denotes the decline in permanent, full-time contracts and the rise of zero-hour arrangements?

    • Proletarianisation
    • Fordist stability
    • Precarity
    • Bureaucratisation

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