Multiple choice questions

BEING SOCIOLOGICAL

According to Matthewman, the sociology of consumption (if not the entire discipline) is based on:
1. Inequality
2. Category error
3. Beer
4. Relations of Production
In focusing on consumption as a means of social distinction, sociologists tend to ignore:
1. What is being consumed
2. Relations of exploitation
3. The realm of production
4. None of the above
The wealth of the world’s richest three individuals outstrips the combined GDP of:
1. The poorest nation
2. The 10 richest OECD nations
3. The poorest 48 nations
4. No nation
Globally, the second-most legally traded commodity is:
1. Oil
2. Marijuana
3. Coffee
4. Tobacco
The claim that capitalist consumption practices lead “to problematics of newness, taste and fashion, sexualisation, and environmental calamity” is made by:
1. Viola Klein
2. Jeff Lewis
3. David Beckham
4. Pierre Bourdieu
The consumer ethic has entered the domain of politics via:
1. Makeup and hairstylists
2. Voice Coaches
3. Market Research
4. The election of sociologists into cabinet positions
To have consumption, we must also have:
1. Production
2. Transportation
3. Distribution
4. All of the above
In White Collar, with reference to capitalist consumption, C. Wright Mills says the media can be seen as:
1. Reality brokers
2. Instrumentalist
3. Pluralist
4. Fashionable
For sociologists, consumer societies are ones in which:
1. Choice and credit are readily available
2. Social value is defined in terms of purchasing power
3. There is a desire for the ‘new’
4. All of these
According to Steve Matthewman, our cultural products and preferred entertainment are often:
1. Little more than advertisements
2. Overpriced
3. Digitised in hyperreality
4. Based on educational achievement
In the West, eating, drinking and clothing have long-since surpassed what?
1. Class distinctions
2. Affordability
3. Recycling capacity
4. Strictly utilitarian functions
What ritual does Anthony Giddens use to show the sociological significance of mundane and habitual practices?
1. Teeth cleaning
2. Trainspotting
3. Coffee drinking
4. Stamp collecting
Modern citizenship increasingly appears to be based on the model of:
1. Class struggle
2. Consumer sovereignty
3. Gender inequality
4. The right to vote
For Veblen and Bourdieu, consumption is about:
1. Social distinctions
2. Satisfying wants
3. Satisfying needs
4. None of the above
Consuming coffee involves:
1. Social interaction
2. Global social and economic relations
3. The history of Western Imperialism
4. All of the above
Whereas we used to work to consume now we:
1. Use consumption to forge identity
2. Fix our identity at birth
3. Stay in the same place
4. Are lazy
Fashion involves:
1. Mimesis
2. Individualism
3. Expression
4. All of the above
The subtext of much advertising is that:
1. We seek satisfaction
2. Consuming makes us happy
3. We are incomplete without their product
4. None of the above
Consumption is:
1. Compensation
2. Social cohesion
3. Identity
4. All of the above
It would be fair to say that there are significant disparities in the ability to consume:
1. Between social classes
2. Between nation states
3. All of the above
4. None of the above

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