4.2.8.3 Defining and measuring social class Quiz: AQA Sociology, Unit 2

The 20 questions

1. How many main categories does the Registrar General's social class scale use?

   • Six
   • Seven
   • Five
   • Four

2. What primary criterion is used by the Registrar General's scale to classify people?

   • Occupation
   • Education
   • Income
   • Wealth

3. Which perspective criticises using the head of household's occupation to determine social class?

   • Functionalism
   • Postmodernism
   • Marxism
   • Feminism

4. Which factor distinguishes the NS-SEC schema from the older Registrar General's scale?

   • Educational qualifications
   • Employment relations
   • Cultural capital
   • Property ownership

5. In Marxist theory, social class is primarily determined by ownership of what?

   • Means of production
   • Cultural capital
   • Social status
   • Market situation

6. What is a major practical advantage of using occupation to measure social class?

   • Direct wealth measurement
   • Widespread data availability
   • Eliminates gender bias
   • Captures subjective identity

7. What is a main drawback of using income as the sole measure of social class?

   • Subjective interpretation
   • Lack of statistics
   • Short-term fluctuation
   • Gender inequality

8. What name did the Great British Class Survey give to low-paid, economically insecure workers?

   • Emergent service workers
   • The precariat
   • Traditional working class
   • The proletariat

9. What term refers to a person's own perception of their social class position?

   • Subjective class identity
   • Occupational rank
   • Economic capital
   • Objective class status

10. Which group presents a major challenge when measuring social class using current occupation?

    • Manual workers
    • High earners
    • Civil servants
    • Long-term unemployed

11. Which concept is central to the Weberian approach to social class?

    • Means of production
    • Surplus value
    • False consciousness
    • Market situation

12. Which social class schema explicitly groups occupations by employment contracts and autonomy?

    • Marxist binary model
    • Registrar General's scale
    • Savage model
    • Goldthorpe schema

13. Why do sociologists often combine multiple indicators when measuring social class?

    • Data is missing
    • Occupations change daily
    • Subjective bias increases
    • Occupation misses wealth

14. Why do different sociological class schemes classify the population in different ways?

    • Government legislation
    • Sampling calculation errors
    • Varying theoretical definitions
    • Identical measurement tools

15. Which approach assesses social class by evaluating the total resources of a cohabiting family?

    • Subjective self-placement
    • Occupational status ranking
    • Individual-level measurement
    • Household-level measurement

16. What is a major criticism of using NS-SEC to measure social class?

    • Overcounts manual labour
    • Ignores occupation
    • Excludes non-workers
    • Measures only wealth

17. What is the main benefit of using multiple indicators to measure social class?

    • More comprehensive picture
    • Faster data collection
    • Guaranteed objectivity
    • Lower research costs

18. What is a class schema in sociological research?

    • Statistical average
    • Theoretical perspective
    • Classification system
    • Historical timeline

19. What is used as a proxy to classify a retired person's social class?

    • Highest qualification
    • Current income
    • Former occupation
    • Pension value

20. Which modern social group complicates Marx's simple two-class model?

    • Middle class
    • Lumpenproletariat
    • Feudal serfs
    • Ruling elite

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