4.2.1.4 Identity and age, disability, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexuality and class Quiz: AQA Sociology, Unit 2

The 20 questions

1. Which concept refers to the social expectations and roles associated with different life stages?

   • Ethnic identity
   • Age identity
   • Gender identity
   • Class identity

2. According to the social model of disability, what primarily disables individuals?

   • Biological defects
   • Social barriers
   • Genetic flaws
   • Individual impairments

3. Where does the medical model of disability locate the primary source of disability?

   • Societal attitudes
   • Individual impairment
   • Institutional discrimination
   • Environmental barriers

4. What concept did Benedict Anderson use to describe a nation?

   • Civic state
   • Primary group
   • Global village
   • Imagined community

5. Which sociologist proposed the concept of multiple masculinities and hegemonic masculinity?

   • Raewyn Connell
   • Judith Butler
   • Stuart Hall
   • Ann Oakley

6. Which term describes the social assumption that heterosexuality is the default sexuality?

   • Heteronormativity
   • Homophobia
   • Essentialism
   • Securitisation

7. How do contemporary sociologists primarily view sexual identities?

   • Biologically determined
   • Genetically fixed
   • Socially constructed
   • Purely instinctive

8. What term describes a shared cultural identity based on language, religion, and origin?

   • Nationality
   • Ethnicity
   • Social class
   • Race

9. How do sociologists describe class identity in contemporary Britain?

   • Universal
   • Fixed and immutable
   • Entirely obsolete
   • Fragmented

10. Which term describes an identity formed by combining elements of two or more cultures?

    • Assimilated identity
    • Marginalised identity
    • Hegemonic identity
    • Hybrid identity

11. Which concept describes how class, gender, and ethnicity interact to shape identity?

    • Stratification
    • Intersectionality
    • Socialisation
    • Structuralism

12. What social factor heavily shapes how older people are perceived and treated?

    • Economic productivity
    • Natural decline
    • Biological necessity
    • Ageist stereotypes

13. What concept describes a person's sense of belonging to a specific state?

    • Ethnic identity
    • Global identity
    • Local identity
    • National identity

14. Viewing school barrier problems for disabled students as social issues reflects which model?

    • Deficit model
    • Biological model
    • Medical model
    • Social model

15. According to Stuart Hall, how should personal and cultural identities be understood?

    • Process of becoming
    • Static inheritance
    • Universal constant
    • Fixed biological essence

16. Which term describes pushing groups that depart from social norms to the edges of society?

    • Socialisation
    • Stratification
    • Marginalisation
    • Stigmatisation

17. Which model argues that social and environmental barriers disable people, rather than physical impairments?

    • Social model
    • Individual model
    • Biological model
    • Medical model

18. Which term describes directing young children towards gendered toys and activities during early socialisation?

    • Verbal appellation
    • Manipulation
    • Domestic activity
    • Canalisation

19. Which sociological term describes ethnic identity being shaped by both self-definition and external classification?

    • Cultural assimilation
    • Class stratification
    • Institutional racism
    • Social construction

20. According to contemporary sociologists, how are human sexual identities and norms primarily formed?

    • Biologically determined
    • Genetically inherited
    • Socially constructed
    • Universally fixed

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