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This section includes 1267 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Economics knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 901. |
Gentrification is the trend of__________________? |
| A. | city dwellers learning proper manners |
| B. | middle class professionals renovating old city housing and using them as |
| C. | continued movement to suburbs |
| D. | city residents returning to manor houses in country |
| Answer» C. continued movement to suburbs | |
| 902. |
Gender assignment is based on______________? |
| A. | biological sex only |
| B. | sexuality only |
| C. | social expectations only |
| D. | a combination of biology and socialization |
| Answer» E. | |
| 903. |
Gambling and prostitution are included in the category of______________? |
| A. | organized crime |
| B. | crimes against persons |
| C. | social order crimes |
| D. | sins against religious teaching |
| Answer» D. sins against religious teaching | |
| 904. |
Futurist Alvin Toffler called his concept_______________? |
| A. | future shock |
| B. | culture shock |
| C. | myocardial shock |
| D. | static shock |
| Answer» B. culture shock | |
| 905. |
“Future shock”is____________? |
| A. | a phrase used to describe an alien culture |
| B. | the name of a famous movie dealing with a society of the future |
| C. | a phrase used by Alvin Toffler to describe the rapidity of change |
| D. | what the elderly experience in every society when a new generation comes into power |
| Answer» D. what the elderly experience in every society when a new generation comes into power | |
| 906. |
Future generations will have to pay interest on the current debt because______________? |
| A. | it takes a long time to pay off debts |
| B. | budget deficits are funded with borrowed money |
| C. | the U.S government never borrows money from foreign governments |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» C. the U.S government never borrows money from foreign governments | |
| 907. |
Furnishing historical data about past societies with no written records is the task of_______________? |
| A. | archaeology |
| B. | cultural geography |
| C. | history |
| D. | ornithology |
| Answer» B. cultural geography | |
| 908. |
Functionalists approach the state as a tool to________________? |
| A. | maintain order |
| B. | protect the privileged few |
| C. | protect private property |
| D. | maintain the state of nature |
| Answer» B. protect the privileged few | |
| 909. |
Functionalist theorists view stratification system as_______________? |
| A. | resulting from a need for order |
| B. | providing a stabilizing influence on society |
| C. | preventing conflicts among individuals |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 910. |
From the point of view of Catholicism Protestantism began as a(n)________________? |
| A. | cult |
| B. | charismatic movement |
| C. | fundamentalist movement sect |
| D. | ecclesia |
| Answer» B. charismatic movement | |
| 911. |
From a sociological viewpoint to say that deviance has functions means that ? |
| A. | deviant acts serve the individual,s purpose |
| B. | deviant acts are escape valves for anxiety |
| C. | deviance may contribute to group cohesion |
| D. | successful deviants become stronger people |
| Answer» D. successful deviants become stronger people | |
| 912. |
Friedman’s theory of consumption focuses on ? |
| A. | Past income |
| B. | Current income |
| C. | Disposable income |
| D. | permanent income |
| Answer» E. | |
| 913. |
Freudian psychoanalytic theory emphasizes the importance of the______________? |
| A. | unconscious level of personality |
| B. | conscious level of personality |
| C. | the absence of the unconscious level |
| D. | empirical level of personality |
| Answer» B. conscious level of personality | |
| 914. |
Freud located the “libido” ? |
| A. | within the ld |
| B. | within family relations |
| C. | in the genital stage |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» B. within family relations | |
| 915. |
Four primary social processes are________________? |
| A. | differentiation stratification conflict and coercion |
| B. | accommodation assimilation conflict and coercion |
| C. | exchange reciprocity competition and conflict |
| D. | conflict exchange cooperation and competition |
| Answer» E. | |
| 916. |
Formal organizations have_______________? |
| A. | clearly stated goals and policies |
| B. | no ranking of their members |
| C. | little durability |
| D. | no people in them |
| Answer» B. no ranking of their members | |
| 917. |
Form the dawn of history through the development of agriculture______________? |
| A. | men and women participated in a sex-based division of labor |
| B. | human infants and their mothers had to protected |
| C. | males were assigned hunting and other dangerous tasks |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 918. |
Foreign policy decisions may be categorized into those that are________________? |
| A. | general |
| B. | administrative |
| C. | crisis |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 919. |
Foreign aid________________? |
| A. | has been used as an instrument of foreign policy by the U.S |
| B. | should be abolished until poverty is eliminated is our own society |
| C. | is what ultimately overthrowing communism |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. should be abolished until poverty is eliminated is our own society | |
| 920. |
Foreign aid is an instrument of________________? |
| A. | foreign policy |
| B. | manipulation |
| C. | propaganda |
| D. | the democratic value system |
| Answer» B. manipulation | |
| 921. |
For the better part of recorded history knowledge about social relationships was principally based on ? |
| A. | scientific investigation |
| B. | speculation |
| C. | inspiration |
| D. | measurement |
| Answer» C. inspiration | |
| 922. |
For neo-realists the international order is one of________________? |
| A. | total anarchy |
| B. | centralized power |
| C. | full cooperation |
| D. | quasi-anarchy |
| Answer» C. full cooperation | |
| 923. |
For many second and third generation immigrants ethnic background is less a focus of identity than______________? |
| A. | social class |
| B. | religion |
| C. | race |
| D. | residence |
| Answer» C. race | |
| 924. |
For equilibrium in an open four sector economy ? |
| A. | Actual injections = actual withdrawals |
| B. | Planned injections = planned withdrawals |
| C. | Savings = investment |
| D. | Government spending = tax revenue |
| Answer» B. Planned injections = planned withdrawals | |
| 925. |
For a young guitar player a rock band seen on TV would represent a (n) ? |
| A. | reference group |
| B. | membership group |
| C. | involuntary group |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» B. membership group | |
| 926. |
For a firm operating in two markets and price discriminating the profit maximising condition is ? |
| A. | Marginal revenue in A= Price B |
| B. | Marginal revenue in A = Marginal revenue B = Price A = Price B |
| C. | Marginal revenue in A = Marginal revenue B = Marginal cost |
| D. | Marginal revenue in A = Marginal revenue B = Average cost |
| Answer» C. Marginal revenue in A = Marginal revenue B = Marginal cost | |
| 927. |
Following a divorce both partners remarry in what percentage of cases ? |
| A. | 90% |
| B. | 80% |
| C. | 60% |
| D. | 50% |
| Answer» C. 60% | |
| 928. |
Firms sell their products in________________? |
| A. | factor markets |
| B. | resource markets |
| C. | product markets |
| D. | abstract markets |
| Answer» D. abstract markets | |
| 929. |
Feminist theory bas borrowed much of the ideas of________________? |
| A. | psychology |
| B. | conflict and Marxist theories |
| C. | the ideology that tries to rationalize women ,s low position in society |
| D. | The Feminine Mystique |
| Answer» C. the ideology that tries to rationalize women ,s low position in society | |
| 930. |
Female-headed families have_______________? |
| A. | increased in number since 1970 |
| B. | generally a lower income than two-parent families |
| C. | greater emotional stress in dealing with children |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 931. |
Federalism many be defined as a system of_____________________? |
| A. | concurrent power |
| B. | central power |
| C. | wholesale power |
| D. | regional power |
| Answer» B. central power | |
| 932. |
Federal legislation has sometimes been prompted by_____________________? |
| A. | outright opposition by state governments to federal law |
| B. | a general lack of financial resources and professional expertise at the state level |
| C. | inefficiency and sluggishness of state administrations |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 933. |
Faulty role performance ? |
| A. | may create much stress |
| B. | sometimes occurs by chance |
| C. | could mean that another role is being performed well |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 934. |
Fascism_______________? |
| A. | distrusts reason |
| B. | refuses violence |
| C. | stresses a belief in human equality |
| D. | appeals to intellectuals |
| Answer» B. refuses violence | |
| 935. |
Fascism first emerged ? |
| A. | in Germany under the leadership of Adolf Hitler |
| B. | in Italy under the leadership of Benito Mussolini |
| C. | in Argentina under Juan Peron |
| D. | In South Africa under apartheid |
| Answer» C. in Argentina under Juan Peron | |
| 936. |
Factors in the urban crisis include_______________? |
| A. | the move of the middle class and industry to the suburbs |
| B. | the inner city,s declining tax base |
| C. | a high percentage of deprived and trapped individuals |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 937. |
Factors in the decline of the marriage rate include__________________? |
| A. | a delay in the age of first marriage |
| B. | the increase of cohabitation |
| C. | the increase in the incidence of remaining single |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 938. |
Extraction of raw materials occurs in which sector of the economy ? |
| A. | Primary |
| B. | Secondary |
| C. | Tertiary |
| D. | Quaternary |
| Answer» B. Secondary | |
| 939. |
Experiments_______________? |
| A. | are conducted in both field and laboratory setting |
| B. | involve the risk that people may modify their behavior |
| C. | must involve control groups of some kind |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 940. |
Experiments are_______________? |
| A. | the most common method of social investigation |
| B. | based on controlling a variable and observing the results |
| C. | not used in the study of humans |
| D. | valid only if performed on white mice |
| Answer» C. not used in the study of humans | |
| 941. |
Exceptions to the circular flow are__________________? |
| A. | incidentals |
| B. | withdrawals |
| C. | injections |
| D. | B and C only |
| Answer» E. | |
| 942. |
Every hypothesis must ? |
| A. | predict a relationship between two factors |
| B. | be general |
| C. | be based on scientific theory |
| D. | predict a causal relationship |
| Answer» B. be general | |
| 943. |
Even in a democracy the state can________________? |
| A. | size property |
| B. | imprison persons |
| C. | deprive people of their lives |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» C. deprive people of their lives | |
| 944. |
Ethnocentrism refers to_______________? |
| A. | an attitude with which members of one society judge another society according to their own standards |
| B. | the attitude that cultures be analyzed on their own terms |
| C. | the attitude that certain values and practices are common to all cultures |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» B. the attitude that cultures be analyzed on their own terms | |
| 945. |
Ethnocentrism has two meanings The version which may alternatively be called ethnochauvinism refers to the conviction that__________________? |
| A. | one,s own culture subculture or society is best bar none |
| B. | women are subordinate in every culture |
| C. | other cultures can be judged by the standards of one,s own |
| D. | the males of a given ethnic group are superior |
| Answer» B. women are subordinate in every culture | |
| 946. |
Ethnic groups are based on_________________? |
| A. | skin color |
| B. | common customs and /or identities |
| C. | genes |
| D. | eye shape |
| Answer» C. genes | |
| 947. |
Ethical neutrality is the opposite of_________________? |
| A. | objectivity |
| B. | judgmental social science |
| C. | generalization |
| D. | participant observation |
| Answer» C. generalization | |
| 948. |
Environmental pollution is the result of_________________? |
| A. | dysfunctions in the earth,s atmosphere |
| B. | ignorance on the part of the underdeveloped nations |
| C. | human actions that have harmful consequences |
| D. | unknown bacteria and viruses |
| Answer» D. unknown bacteria and viruses | |
| 949. |
Environmental depletion is the term used to mean that________________? |
| A. | natural resources are increasing in proportion to an increased demand for them |
| B. | natural resources are decreasing as demand for them increase |
| C. | natural resources can be substituted with artificial ones |
| D. | humans are capable to adapt to other resources when the old ones disappear |
| Answer» C. natural resources can be substituted with artificial ones | |
| 950. |
Entities such as the U.N and the European Economic Community (Common Market) are classed as_____________? |
| A. | IGOs |
| B. | LDCs |
| C. | ICUs |
| D. | EEcs |
| Answer» B. LDCs | |