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This section includes 1422 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Sociology knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 651. |
The first stage that existed in Pre-British era was when civil society existed in the form of______________? |
| A. | NGOs |
| B. | Baradaris |
| C. | Rural Notables |
| D. | Both b and c |
| Answer» E. | |
| 652. |
The first stage of the demographic transition is called the_____________? |
| A. | pretransition stage |
| B. | transition stage |
| C. | post transition stage initiation stage |
| D. | initiation stage |
| Answer» B. transition stage | |
| 653. |
The first stage of the demographic transition is called the________________? |
| A. | Pre-transition stage |
| B. | transition stage |
| C. | post transition stage |
| D. | initiation stage |
| Answer» B. transition stage | |
| 654. |
The first stage, according to Comte was_______________? |
| A. | Theological |
| B. | Metaphysical |
| C. | Scientific stage |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Metaphysical | |
| 655. |
The first stage according to Comte is that of_______________? |
| A. | Guided by supernatural wisdom |
| B. | Stage of disbelief |
| C. | Stage of scientific progress |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Stage of disbelief | |
| 656. |
The first book with the term sociology in its title was written by_________________? |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Karl Marx |
| C. | Herbert Spencer |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 657. |
The final stage in demographic transition is marked by_______________? |
| A. | high birthrates and death rates |
| B. | high birthrates and low death rates |
| C. | low birthrates and high death rates |
| D. | low birthrates and low death rates |
| Answer» C. low birthrates and high death rates | |
| 658. |
The final stage in demographic transition is marked by_____________? |
| A. | high birth-rates and death rates |
| B. | high birth-rates and low death rates |
| C. | low birth-rates and high death rates |
| D. | low birth-rates and low death rates |
| Answer» E. | |
| 659. |
The feeling of aimlessness or despair often associated with unsettling conditions is_______________? |
| A. | alienation |
| B. | amorality |
| C. | anomie |
| D. | ascription |
| Answer» D. ascription | |
| 660. |
The feeling of aimlessness or despair often associated with unsettling conditions is_____________? |
| A. | alienation |
| B. | amorality |
| C. | anomie |
| D. | ascription |
| Answer» D. ascription | |
| 661. |
The family structure has been profoundly altered by the twin processes of _______ and __________ ? |
| A. | industrialization/vertical mobility |
| B. | industrialization/urbanization |
| C. | urbanization/vertical mobility |
| D. | industrialization /horizontal mobility |
| E. | horizontal mobility /vertical mobility |
| Answer» C. urbanization/vertical mobility | |
| 662. |
The essential function of punishment in society is_______________? |
| A. | reform |
| B. | revenge |
| C. | affirmation of moral standards |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 663. |
The emphasis on the relationship between religion and which ONE of the following is distinctive to Weber’s study of religion ? |
| A. | social inequality |
| B. | social change |
| C. | social solidarity |
| D. | social conflict |
| Answer» C. social solidarity | |
| 664. |
The emergence of a consolidated network of business leadership is most compatible with which ideal-type of capitalism ? |
| A. | family capitalism |
| B. | managerial capitalism |
| C. | welfare capitalism |
| D. | institutional |
| Answer» E. | |
| 665. |
The embourgeoisement thesis suggests that_____________? |
| A. | capitalists are being replaced by salaried managers with bureaucratic authority |
| B. | the affluent working class is adopting middle class values and ways of life |
| C. | white collar occupations are being deskilled by the introduction of new technologies into the workplace |
| D. | the class structure has fragmented and there are no longer any distinct social classes |
| Answer» C. white collar occupations are being deskilled by the introduction of new technologies into the workplace | |
| 666. |
The effect of the Internet upon the public sphere has been to_____________? |
| A. | repress it by promoting only the interests of elite groups |
| B. | revive it by reaffirming a commitment of freedom of speech |
| C. | reproduce it by emphasizing face-to-face contact with peer groups |
| D. | replace it with a superior form of communication |
| Answer» C. reproduce it by emphasizing face-to-face contact with peer groups | |
| 667. |
The ecological approach to urban sociology involved studying ? |
| A. | how social groups colonized different areas of the city and competed for resources |
| B. | the forms of wildlife and natural habitats that could be found on the edges of the city |
| C. | the way in which people organized collective protests about environmental issues |
| D. | how men and women used the city’s public spaces differently |
| Answer» B. the forms of wildlife and natural habitats that could be found on the edges of the city | |
| 668. |
The earliest theoretical perspective in sociology______________? |
| A. | Conflict Perspective |
| B. | The Functionalist Perspective |
| C. | The Evolutionary Perspective |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 669. |
The dual economy mobility aids barriers and occupational structure are_____________? |
| A. | individual factor |
| B. | Structural factor |
| C. | Both a & b |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Both a & b | |
| 670. |
“The division between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat is the key to stratification in capitalist societies “This statement is consistent with the thinking of which theorist ? |
| A. | Marx |
| B. | Weber |
| C. | Parsons |
| D. | Lincoln |
| Answer» B. Weber | |
| 671. |
The division of labor among physicians into obstetricians’ internists surgeons and so forth is an example of the process that Talcott Parsons called_______________? |
| A. | differentiation |
| B. | value generalization |
| C. | inclusion |
| D. | adaptive upgrading |
| Answer» E. | |
| 672. |
The distribution of power in society is a concern for______________? |
| A. | microsociology |
| B. | interactionism |
| C. | macrosociology |
| D. | ethnomethodology |
| Answer» D. ethnomethodology | |
| 673. |
The distribution of power in society is a concern for_____________? |
| A. | microsociology |
| B. | interactionism |
| C. | macrosociology |
| D. | ethnomethodology |
| Answer» D. ethnomethodology | |
| 674. |
The distinction between elements of material and nonmaterial culture was made by sociologist ? |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | George Murdock |
| C. | Margaret Mead |
| D. | William F Ogburn |
| Answer» E. | |
| 675. |
The difference between horticulture and agriculture is________________? |
| A. | Agriculture employs machinery but horticulture not |
| B. | Horticulture employs machinery and other tools |
| C. | Horticulture only depends on humans for cultivation |
| D. | a and c both |
| Answer» E. | |
| 676. |
The deviant subculture of homosexuals who met in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London was called____________? |
| A. | polies |
| B. | molies |
| C. | dolies |
| D. | lollies |
| Answer» C. dolies | |
| 677. |
The development of computers and the increased use of the internet are examples of what source of social change ? |
| A. | clashes over resources and values |
| B. | diffusion |
| C. | the mass media |
| D. | innovation |
| Answer» E. | |
| 678. |
The determinants of social class are______________? |
| A. | Birth |
| B. | Money |
| C. | Education and occupation |
| D. | All of above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 679. |
The destructive consequences of tensions between in-groups and out-groups are stressed by ? |
| A. | functionalists |
| B. | conflict theorists |
| C. | interactionists |
| D. | classical theorists |
| Answer» C. interactionists | |
| 680. |
The destructive consequences of tensions between in-groups and out-groups are stressed by____________? |
| A. | functionalists |
| B. | conflict theorists |
| C. | interactionists |
| D. | classical theorists |
| Answer» C. interactionists | |
| 681. |
The destruction of a culture through conquest is referred to by anthropologists as_____________? |
| A. | infanticide |
| B. | homicide |
| C. | pesticide |
| D. | cultural extinction |
| E. | ethnocide |
| Answer» F. | |
| 682. |
The depression that occurs when the last child leaves the home is called______________? |
| A. | the nurturing complex |
| B. | empty-nest syndrome |
| C. | childless anxiety |
| D. | the fear of singularity |
| E. | post-partum depression |
| Answer» C. childless anxiety | |
| 683. |
The dependency ratio describes______________? |
| A. | the size of working population supporting the young and the old |
| B. | the number of children dependent upon the adults in a family |
| C. | the amount of care both give and received by older people |
| D. | the number of welfare professionals that support a population |
| Answer» B. the number of children dependent upon the adults in a family | |
| 684. |
The demographic transition refers to_____________? |
| A. | an increase in the birth rate |
| B. | an increase in the death rate |
| C. | an exponential growth in population |
| D. | a change in the ratio of births to deaths |
| Answer» E. | |
| 685. |
The demographic transition is social trend that involves____________? |
| A. | a reduction in population size caused by a higher rate of emigration than immigration |
| B. | a change in the principal causes of death and disease since industrialization |
| C. | increased birth and death rates resulting in a relatively young population |
| D. | a decline in the birth rate greater life expectancy and an ageing population |
| Answer» E. | |
| 686. |
The demographic transition refers to______________? |
| A. | an increase in the birth rate |
| B. | an increase in the death rate |
| C. | an exponential growth in population |
| D. | a change in the ratio of births to deaths |
| Answer» E. | |
| 687. |
The decentralized city can be identified by____________? |
| A. | the shift of employment and services away from the inner city towards multiple centers in smaller towns and rural areas |
| B. | the degendering of public space as women use local facilities more |
| C. | gentrification the movement of middle-class people back into the inner city |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 688. |
The decentralized city can be identified by______________? |
| A. | the shift of employment and service away from the inner city towards multiple centers in smaller towns and rural areas |
| B. | the degendering of public space as women use local facilities more |
| C. | gentrification the movement of middle-class people back into the inner city |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 689. |
The customary normal and habitual ways a group does things are called_____________? |
| A. | Norms |
| B. | Folkways |
| C. | Customs |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Customs | |
| 690. |
The current level of urbanization 32% in Pakistan is in SAARC Countries ? |
| A. | Lowest |
| B. | Normal |
| C. | Highest |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 691. |
The current debate on sociobiology focuses on the work of Harvard University zoologist___________? |
| A. | Jean Piaget |
| B. | Edward O.Wilson |
| C. | Erving Goffman |
| D. | Harry Harlow |
| Answer» C. Erving Goffman | |
| 692. |
The crude birth rate______________? |
| A. | is the annual number of live births per 1000-woman age 15-44? |
| B. | Is the potential number of children that could be born if every woman of childbearing age bore all the children she possibly could? |
| C. | is the number of live births per 1000 members of a population in a given year |
| D. | enables researchers to see important difference among races. ethnic groups, classes, age groups, and other categories with in the population |
| Answer» D. enables researchers to see important difference among races. ethnic groups, classes, age groups, and other categories with in the population | |
| 693. |
The creative potential of personality is accounted for by______________? |
| A. | Stimulus-response psychology |
| B. | Drive psychology |
| C. | Trait psychology |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 694. |
The correspondence principle (Bowles & Gintis) suggests that________________? |
| A. | schools prepare children work by teaching them to be obedient |
| B. | teachers and parents tend to have similar attitudes to learning |
| C. | children who write lots of letters develop a better grasp of language |
| D. | boys’ and girls’ educational achievements have recently become similar |
| Answer» B. teachers and parents tend to have similar attitudes to learning | |
| 695. |
The correspondence principle (Bowles & Gintis) suggests that_______________? |
| A. | schools prepare children for work by teaching them to be obedient |
| B. | teachers and parents tend to have similar attitudes to learning |
| C. | children who write lots of letters develop a better grasp of language |
| D. | boys and girls educational achievements have recently become similar |
| Answer» B. teachers and parents tend to have similar attitudes to learning | |
| 696. |
The conscious and rational part of the self is______________? |
| A. | id |
| B. | ego |
| C. | Superego |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Superego | |
| 697. |
The conflict theory holds that stratification exists because____________? |
| A. | its benefits individuals and groups who have the power to dominate and exploit others |
| B. | privilege prestige and power are equally distributed in society |
| C. | the capitalist drive to distribute wealth equitably is the foundation of modern society |
| D. | capitalists and workers are class conscious |
| Answer» B. privilege prestige and power are equally distributed in society | |
| 698. |
The conflict perspective would note that____________? |
| A. | Physicians serve as gatekeepers for the sick role either verifying a patient’s condition as illness or designating the patient as recovered. |
| B. | Patients play an active role in health care by failing to follow a physician’s advice |
| C. | Multinational corporations based in industrialized countries have reaped significant profits dumping unapproved drugs on unsuspecting Third World coun |
| D. | The designation healthy or ill generally involves social definition by others |
| Answer» D. The designation healthy or ill generally involves social definition by others | |
| 699. |
The conflict Perspective is mostly based upon the work of______________? |
| A. | C.H Cooley |
| B. | G.H Meads |
| C. | Karl Marx |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 700. |
The concepts of protestant and Bourgeois were presented by_______________? |
| A. | Talcat parson |
| B. | Karl Marx |
| C. | Max Weber |
| D. | Emile Durkheim |
| Answer» C. Max Weber | |