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| 51. |
Which of these is not an example of social exclusion ? |
| A. | tax avoidance |
| B. | gated communities |
| C. | homelessness |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 52. |
Which of these is not an example of a qualitative research method ? |
| A. | survey research |
| B. | ethnography |
| C. | focus groups |
| D. | biographical research |
| Answer» B. ethnography | |
| 53. |
Which of these is NOT an example of target hardening ? |
| A. | anti-social behavior orders |
| B. | Steering locks |
| C. | burglar alrams |
| D. | CCTV |
| Answer» B. Steering locks | |
| 54. |
Which of these is NOT an explicit feature of Third Way politics ? |
| A. | the strengthening of civil society |
| B. | retrenchment in welfare spending |
| C. | the maintenance of a mixed economy |
| D. | environmentally sustainable economic growth |
| Answer» C. the maintenance of a mixed economy | |
| 55. |
Which of these is not part of Judith Butlers theory of gender identity ? |
| A. | gender is performative |
| B. | people, s biological sex underpins their gendered identity |
| C. | gender is about what we do not who we are |
| D. | there is no essential or biological basis to gender |
| Answer» C. gender is about what we do not who we are | |
| 56. |
Which of these is NOT viewed as a strength of surveys ? |
| A. | they are often undertaken by specialist agencies |
| B. | they offer an appearance of precision |
| C. | the data is easy to quantify and analyses |
| D. | large numbers of people can be studied |
| Answer» C. the data is easy to quantify and analyses | |
| 57. |
Which of these is Steven Lukes,s third dimension of power _____________? |
| A. | the ability to influence decisions in a conflict situation |
| B. | the ability to manipulate others desires |
| C. | the ability to control the issues discussed |
| D. | the ability to appeal to legal-rational authority |
| Answer» C. the ability to control the issues discussed | |
| 58. |
Which of these key early figures in sociology had an interest in issues of labor and the economy ? |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim |
| C. | Karl Marx and Max Weber |
| D. | All three of them |
| Answer» E. | |
| 59. |
Which of these NOT viewed as a strength of surveys ? |
| A. | they are often undertaken by specialist agencies |
| B. | they offer an appearance of precision |
| C. | the data is easy to quantify and analyses |
| D. | large numbers of people can be studied |
| Answer» C. the data is easy to quantify and analyses | |
| 60. |
Which of these research projects would count as intersectional? A comparative study of employment based on______________? |
| A. | social class and gender |
| B. | gender and ethnicity |
| C. | ethnicity and sexuality |
| D. | all of them |
| Answer» E. | |
| 61. |
Which of these statements best represents C. Wright-Mills,s idea of the sociological imagination ? |
| A. | understanding the differences between the classical theorists |
| B. | bringing together private troubles and public issues |
| C. | seeing the social world as one made up of Social facts |
| D. | avoiding explanations based on individual psychology |
| Answer» C. seeing the social world as one made up of Social facts | |
| 62. |
Which of these statements does not reflect the conventional position in class analysis ? |
| A. | class inequalities govern gender stratification |
| B. | women’s pay is often essential to the family’s economic position |
| C. | women’s paid work is not as significant as that of men |
| D. | women should be seen as being the same class as their husbands/partners |
| Answer» C. women’s paid work is not as significant as that of men | |
| 63. |
Which of these statements is correct ? |
| A. | causes and correlations are essentially the same |
| B. | correlations always lead to causal explanations |
| C. | causation cannot be inferred directly from correlation |
| D. | correlations are one-way causal relationships |
| Answer» D. correlations are one-way causal relationships | |
| 64. |
Which of these terms is the odd one out ? |
| A. | causation |
| B. | correlation |
| C. | association |
| D. | connection |
| Answer» B. correlation | |
| 65. |
Which of these terms is the odd one out ______________? |
| A. | causation |
| B. | correlation |
| C. | association |
| D. | connection |
| Answer» B. correlation | |
| 66. |
Which of these trends did the New Right not suggest as evidence of declining family values ? |
| A. | the tendency for cohabitation before marriage |
| B. | the rising divorce rates |
| C. | the absence of fathers in many households |
| D. | the increasing number of single parent families |
| Answer» B. the rising divorce rates | |
| 67. |
Which of these types of industrial conflict is the odd one out ? |
| A. | sabotage |
| B. | strike |
| C. | overtime ban |
| D. | work to rule (working only ones contracted hours noting more or less) |
| Answer» C. overtime ban | |
| 68. |
Which one of the following concepts did Max Weber introduce to the field of sociology ? |
| A. | dramaturgy |
| B. | ideal types |
| C. | functionalism |
| D. | macro sociology |
| Answer» C. functionalism | |
| 69. |
Which one of the following concepts did Mix weber introduce to the field of sociology ? |
| A. | dramaturgy |
| B. | ideal types |
| C. | functionalism |
| D. | macrosociology |
| Answer» C. functionalism | |
| 70. |
Which one of the following crime rates was higher in the United States than in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s ? |
| A. | murder |
| B. | rape |
| C. | robbery |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 71. |
Which one of the following does not apply to social class systems ? |
| A. | class systems are relatively fluid |
| B. | class position is entirely subjective |
| C. | class is economically based |
| D. | class positions are in part achieved |
| Answer» C. class is economically based | |
| 72. |
Which one of the following does Chodorow NOT argue is a consequence for boys and men of separating from their early attachment to their mother ? |
| A. | feeling their self-esteem threatened by the lack a close relationship |
| B. | learning that to be a man is to reject being like a woman |
| C. | feeling endangered by close intimate emotional relationships |
| D. | developing a detached and analytical approach to the world |
| Answer» B. learning that to be a man is to reject being like a woman | |
| 73. |
Which one of the following does Wilkinson identify as the main determinant of relative health in a society ? |
| A. | social integration |
| B. | lifestyle choices |
| C. | social inequality |
| D. | work patterns |
| Answer» B. lifestyle choices | |
| 74. |
Which one of the following is a pull factor in emigration ? |
| A. | political oppression |
| B. | employment opportunities |
| C. | food shortages |
| D. | population pressures |
| Answer» C. food shortages | |
| 75. |
Which one of the following is a strategy for restorative justice ? |
| A. | community service |
| B. | imprisonment |
| C. | electronic tagging |
| D. | curfews |
| Answer» B. imprisonment | |
| 76. |
Which one of the following is an economic system that is typically found in contemporary societies ? |
| A. | socialism |
| B. | feudalism |
| C. | slavery |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» C. slavery | |
| 77. |
Which one of the following is an example of a ‘third generation’ or true cybercrime ? |
| A. | international drug dealing via email |
| B. | The global trade in online pornography |
| C. | the vandalizing of virtual environments |
| D. | theft of goods sold via online action websites |
| Answer» D. theft of goods sold via online action websites | |
| 78. |
Which one of the following is exposed to an independent variable ? |
| A. | the control groups |
| B. | the representative group |
| C. | the experimental group |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» D. none of the above | |
| 79. |
Which one of the following is not an example of non-verbal communication ? |
| A. | smiling |
| B. | talking |
| C. | frowning |
| D. | waving |
| Answer» C. frowning | |
| 80. |
Which one of the following is not one of the four migration trends identified by Castles and Miller (1993) ? |
| A. | acceleration |
| B. | diversification |
| C. | globalization |
| D. | regionalization |
| E. | feminization |
| Answer» E. feminization | |
| 81. |
Which one of the following is NOT associated with the materialist conception of history ? |
| A. | the mode of production |
| B. | the motor of history |
| C. | the history of class struggle |
| D. | the spirit of capitalism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 82. |
Which one of the following is not part of Bowles and Ginits,s (1976) Marxist thesis on schooling under capitalism ? |
| A. | head teachers often encourage working class children to be ambitious |
| B. | the structures of school life correspond to the structures of working life |
| C. | education is a great divider not a leveler |
| D. | schools provide the right kind of future workers for capitalist employers |
| Answer» B. the structures of school life correspond to the structures of working life | |
| 83. |
Which one of the following is the most basic manifest function of education ? |
| A. | bestowing status |
| B. | transmitting knowledge |
| C. | promoting social and political change |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» C. promoting social and political change | |
| 84. |
Which one of the following is the odd one out _______________ ? |
| A. | George Herbert Mead |
| B. | Antonio Gramsci |
| C. | Erving Goffman |
| D. | Howard Becker |
| Answer» C. Erving Goffman | |
| 85. |
Which one of the following religious denominations is most likely to report the experience of being “born again” ? |
| A. | Baptists |
| B. | Roman Catholics |
| C. | Episcopalians |
| D. | Unitarians |
| Answer» B. Roman Catholics | |
| 86. |
Which one of the following statements in not a key charge of postcolonial critiques against mainstream sociology ? |
| A. | standard accounts of the origins of sociology focus on the industrial and French revolutions giving no weight to the significance of colonialism in sh |
| B. | the sociological gaze is Eurocentric failing to incorporate the experience of formerly colonized societies |
| C. | sociology has described Western societies as developed or modem in opposition to the notion of non-Western societies as pre-modern traditional inferio |
| D. | the sociological imagination has always encouraged and enabled the voices of people across the world to be heard in sociological theorizing |
| Answer» E. | |
| 87. |
Which one of the following statements is not part of the Code of Ethics developed by the American Sociological Association? Researchers must_______________? |
| A. | acknowledge research collaboration and assistance |
| B. | preserve the confidentiality of their subjects |
| C. | protect their subjects from personal harm |
| D. | make all research notes available for public scrutiny |
| Answer» E. | |
| 88. |
Which one of these is a measure of dispersion ? |
| A. | parameter |
| B. | range |
| C. | median |
| D. | mean |
| Answer» C. median | |
| 89. |
Which one of these is NOT one of the newly industrializing countries ? |
| A. | Brazil |
| B. | South Korea |
| C. | Taiwan |
| D. | Hungary |
| Answer» E. | |
| 90. |
Which one of these is NOT a version of the sick role as identified by Friedson ? |
| A. | conditional |
| B. | unconditionally legitimate |
| C. | modified legitimate |
| D. | illegitimate |
| Answer» D. illegitimate | |
| 91. |
Which one of these statements is correct _______________? |
| A. | global warming is simply another term for the greenhouse effect |
| B. | global warming is a problem caused mainly by unregulated industrialization in the developing countries |
| C. | global warming is the rise in average temperature at Earth’s surface |
| D. | global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon |
| Answer» D. global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon | |
| 92. |
Which one of these statements is NOT a definition of the knowledge economy ? |
| A. | much of the workforce in now involved in physical production of goods |
| B. | the economy is dominated by the constant flow of information and opinions |
| C. | this is a phase of development beyond industrialism |
| D. | investment in public education and software development is more significant |
| Answer» B. the economy is dominated by the constant flow of information and opinions | |
| 93. |
Which one of these would not be regarded as a dysfunction of bureaucracy according to Merton ? |
| A. | the rules could be upheld at all cost even in the face of a better solution |
| B. | people know they should be guaranteed fair and consistent treatment |
| C. | adherence to the rules takes precedence over organizational goals |
| D. | workers are not encouraged to be flexible in making decisions |
| Answer» C. adherence to the rules takes precedence over organizational goals | |
| 94. |
Which perspective does not come under the umbrella of interactionism ? |
| A. | ethnomethodology |
| B. | symbolic interactionism |
| C. | feminism |
| D. | phenomenology |
| Answer» D. phenomenology | |
| 95. |
Which perspective on environmental issues tends to adopt an agnostic stance towards the severity of the problem itself ? |
| A. | critical realism |
| B. | social constructionism |
| C. | structural Marxism |
| D. | ecofeminism |
| Answer» C. structural Marxism | |
| 96. |
Which pioneer of sociology first directed researchers to the significance of bureaucratic structure ? |
| A. | Emile Durkheim |
| B. | Max Weber |
| C. | Karl Marx |
| D. | Ferdinand Tonnies |
| Answer» C. Karl Marx | |
| 97. |
Which policy is supported by the theory of broken windows ? |
| A. | restorative justice |
| B. | zero tolerance |
| C. | target hardening |
| D. | deterrent sentencing |
| Answer» C. target hardening | |
| 98. |
Which political figure first called for a Untied States of Europe ? |
| A. | Adolf Hitler |
| B. | Winston Churchill |
| C. | Charles De Gaulle |
| D. | Harry S Truman |
| Answer» C. Charles De Gaulle | |
| 99. |
Which regions of the world currently have the highest and lowest proportions respectively of population living in cities ? |
| A. | Highest Asia Lowest Africa |
| B. | Highest Europe Lowest Oceania |
| C. | Highest North America Lowest Africa |
| D. | Highest Europe Lowest Africa |
| Answer» D. Highest Europe Lowest Africa | |
| 100. |
Which research technique would sociologists who adhere to the symbolic interactionist perspective use? most likely to employ ? |
| A. | interviews |
| B. | experiments |
| C. | quantitative measurement |
| D. | observation |
| E. | surveys |
| Answer» E. surveys | |