Test: Social Structure, Stratification and Social Processes in Society - Humanities/Arts MCQ

Capitalism increased the growth of individualism and the process of free competition for greater profit maximization.

Social structure is a patterned way of all these parts or units.

The correct option is Option A.

Social stratification refers to a society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power (social and political).

Durkheim in discussing about social facts elaborated the role of social structure in determining the actions of an individual as a member of society.

Competition and conflict rises where surplus is produced and on that basis a gap forms between haves and haves not.

In every society of the world, these three processes are very common and therefore they are universal.

More division of labour is based on the specialisation of work and in that social cohesion is called as organic solidarity.

Functionalist and Conflict approaches both supported the role of ‘co-operation’ in society though in different contexts.

The bases of conflict may be different. It may be class or caste conflict, race or gender conflict etc. Conflict is a social process.

Abovementioned pattern in schools are repeated and this repetition forms the structure of schools.