Chapter 05

Instructions

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Question 1

Approximately what proportion of the British workforce hold non-manual occupations?

a) 15%

b) 25%

c) 50%

d) 65%

Question 2

Which is the following best defines the underclass?

a) A marginalised section of society which exists outside the formal market economy

b) A deprived section of society without the means to escape their deprivation

c) That section of society which is routinely placed in groups C2, D and E in class classifications

d) A group in society whose culture and norms make it difficult to classify using traditional class typologies

Question 3

Which one of the following options best defines 'institutional racism'?

a) The lack of ethnic minority occupying jobs or elected positions within the state

b) Preferential treatment granted to minority groups

c) Practices pursued by institutions which have the effect of disadvantaging an ethnic group

d) Racism pursued as an official government or institutional policy

Question 4

Which one of the following statements correctly identifies a significant characteristic of the class and educational background of British Cabinets since 1970?

a) Labour Cabinets throughout this period have been dominated by politicians from working class, state school and non-University backgrounds

b) Aristocrats have comprised the majority of all Conservative Cabinets since 1970

c) Each Labour and Conservative Cabinet since 1970 has had a membership in which former public school students formed the majority

d) All Labour and Conservative Cabinets since the 1970s have shown biases in their class and educational background but Labour Cabinets have been consistently less biased

Question 5

Which one of the following statements best describes trends in the socio-demographic characteristics of civil servants?

a) The Civil Service has become much more socially representative of the rest of Britain in the last thirty years

b) The key change in the socio-demographic characteristics of the Civil Service is the dramatic increase in ethnic minority civil servants

c) The key change in the socio-demographic characteristics of the Civil Service is the decline in civil servants from the public schools and Oxbridge

d) There has been virtually no change in the socio-demographic characteristics of the Civil Service

Question 6

Why did Ann Winterton lose the Conservative whip in 2004?

a) She voted with the Labour government on extending race relations legislation

b) She proposed compulsory repatriation of ethnic minorities

c) She made a distasteful joke about the death of migrant workers

d) She was exposed by an undercover TV reporter to have racially discriminated amongst her constituents

Question 7

Which of the following best accounts for the increase of women in the House of Commons after 1997?

a) Changes to the law permitting all-women shortlists

b) The selection of more women candidates in winnable seats

c) A cross-party consensus on the need to make Parliament more representative of the gender balance of UK society

d) All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following would best represent evidence for the advance of post-materialism in Britain?

a) An increased number of people being awarded University degrees

b) The increase in the Gini co-efficient

c) An increase in the number of people defining their identity in non-class terms

d) Protests regarding petrol prices and the taxes levied by the Exchequer

Question 9

Lord Tebbit is associated with which of the following arguments?

a) Immigrants into Britain should be able to preserve as much or as little of their own cultural identities

b) Both immigrant and established communities should develop new European identities

c) Britain needs new forms of national identity which draw upon immigrant and established communities values

d) Immigrants should integrate completely into English society

Question 10

What was the principal finding of the Macpherson Report?

a) Social disorder experienced in Oldham, Burnley and Bradford was a product of segregation between ethnic communities

b) The Metropolitan Police were institutionally racist

c) Race relations legislation has not prevented pervasive discrimination in housing, education and employment

d) The riots in Brixton were due a loss of confidence in policing by ethnic minorities

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Chapter 05

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