The so-called "new middle class" is defined by
a. personal acquisition of capital.
b. inheritance of capital.
c. lower prestige than the "old middle class.".
d. higher prestige than the "old middle class.".
e. the ownership of knowledge.
e
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A. 11 B. 41 C. 91 D. 1,000
In Sklair formulation, the transnational capitalist class includes the following three out of four fractions, except:
a. individual actors (human agency); b. globalizing state and inter-state bureaucrats and politicians (state fraction); c. globalizing professionals (technical fraction); and d. merchants and media (consumerist fraction).
According to the functionalist perspective, an aspect of social life would be passed on from one generation to the next if it
A. promotes value consensus among members of a society. B. is dysfunctional. C. can be used by one group to subjugate another group. D. enhances impression management.
In the context of critical thinking, the ________ is the tendency to make something abstract into something definite.
A. fallacy of personal attack B. fallacy of dramatic instance C. fallacy of retrospective determinism D. fallacy of misplaced concreteness