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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.
| 1351. |
According to Castells Which of the following is a world city ? |
| A. | Frankfurt |
| B. | Madrid |
| C. | Buenos Aires |
| D. | Moscow |
| Answer» B. Madrid | |
| 1352. |
According to Bourdieu cultural capital exists in three forms Which one of the following is not one of the three ? |
| A. | an objectified state |
| B. | an institutionalized form |
| C. | a symbolic form |
| D. | an embodied state |
| Answer» D. an embodied state | |
| 1353. |
According to __________ a variety of life experiences can come to be viewed as illnesses or not? |
| A. | functionalist perspective |
| B. | conflict perspective |
| C. | interactionist perspective |
| D. | labelling theory |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1354. |
According to _____________ a variety of life experiences can come to be viewed as illnesses or not ? |
| A. | functionalist perspective |
| B. | conflict perspective |
| C. | interactionist perspective |
| D. | labeling theory |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1355. |
Abstract sediments are________________? |
| A. | closer to the center of the self than the moral rules |
| B. | provide a focus for allegiance |
| C. | are compellers of action |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 1356. |
Absolute poverty refers to a set standard which is consistent over time and______________? |
| A. | in a county |
| B. | between countries |
| C. | for a decade |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. for a decade | |
| 1357. |
Aalia aged 7 lives in a private home with her parents her grandmother and her aunt Alice,s family is an example of a(n)? |
| A. | nuclear family |
| B. | dysfunctional family |
| C. | extended family |
| D. | polygynous family |
| Answer» D. polygynous family | |
| 1358. |
A useful distinction between conformity and obedience was made by social psychologist ? |
| A. | Richard Quinney |
| B. | Emile Durkheim |
| C. | Edwin Sutherland |
| D. | Stanley Milgram |
| Answer» C. Edwin Sutherland | |
| 1359. |
A university that serves as a meeting ground for people seeking marital partners is performing_______________? |
| A. | a manifest function |
| B. | a latent function |
| C. | a dysfunction |
| D. | a manifest dysfunction |
| Answer» C. a dysfunction | |
| 1360. |
A university that serves as a meeting ground for people seeking marital partners is performing______________? |
| A. | a manifest function |
| B. | a latent function |
| C. | a dysfunction |
| D. | a manifest dysfunction |
| Answer» C. a dysfunction | |
| 1361. |
A system of stratification where positions are partly achieved, and mobility is common is one based on_____________? |
| A. | slavery |
| B. | caste |
| C. | class |
| D. | status |
| Answer» D. status | |
| 1362. |
A system of stratification where positions are partly achieved, and mobility is common is one based on ? |
| A. | slavery |
| B. | caste |
| C. | class |
| D. | status |
| Answer» D. status | |
| 1363. |
A system in which people have great difficulty changing their status is called a(n) ______________? |
| A. | objectified system |
| B. | social differentiation |
| C. | open system |
| D. | closed system |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1364. |
A survey that asks the respondent to indicate their level of education and includes response categories of some high school high school and university violated which important rule for constructing close-ended items for naires ? |
| A. | exhaustive |
| B. | mutually exclusive |
| C. | comprehensive |
| D. | tangible |
| E. | relevant |
| Answer» B. mutually exclusive | |
| 1365. |
A survey that asks the respondent to indicate their age and includes response categories of age 20-30 age 30-40 age 40 50 and age 50+ violates which important rule for constructing closed-ended items for naires ? |
| A. | exhaustive |
| B. | tangible |
| C. | comprehensive |
| D. | relevant |
| E. | mutually exclusive |
| Answer» F. | |
| 1366. |
A survey should avoid asking_____________? |
| A. | fixed-choice questions s |
| B. | short questions s |
| C. | leading questions |
| D. | funneled questions s |
| Answer» D. funneled questions s | |
| 1367. |
A subculture ? |
| A. | is always at odds with the ways of the larger society |
| B. | is a set of patterned and recurrent aspects of life that appear in all known societies? |
| C. | includes members of a group that participate in the main culture while sharing another culture |
| D. | uses a value-free approach that views people from the perspective of their own culture |
| Answer» D. uses a value-free approach that views people from the perspective of their own culture | |
| 1368. |
A stratum of people of similar positions in the social status continuum are termed as_____________? |
| A. | Social class |
| B. | clan or tribe |
| C. | Community |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. clan or tribe | |
| 1369. |
A statistical norm is______________? |
| A. | What is expected to exist |
| B. | The common conduct |
| C. | What actually exists |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 1370. |
A split labor market ? |
| A. | Underlies the development of ethnic tensions |
| B. | results in more well-defined norms and roles |
| C. | divides managerial and line workers |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. results in more well-defined norms and roles | |
| 1371. |
A society which is socially isolated but still provides for all the needs of its members, is called______________? |
| A. | Total institution |
| B. | Isolated Society |
| C. | Closed society |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Isolated Society | |
| 1372. |
A social system in which social position is fixed for a lifetime What type of social stratification does this describe ? |
| A. | slavery |
| B. | Social class |
| C. | caste |
| D. | estates |
| Answer» B. Social class | |
| 1373. |
A social stratum is________________? |
| A. | a level in the social hierarchy comprising people with shared life chances |
| B. | a methodological tool used to identify a person’s social class |
| C. | the boundary between two levels of the social hierarchy |
| D. | a symbol of status used to differentiate between social classes |
| Answer» B. a methodological tool used to identify a person’s social class | |
| 1374. |
A social stratum is_______________? |
| A. | a level in the social hierarchy comprising people with shared life chances |
| B. | a methodological tool used to identify a person’s social class |
| C. | the boundary between two levels of the social hierarchy |
| D. | a symbol of status used to differentiate between social classes |
| Answer» B. a methodological tool used to identify a person’s social class | |
| 1375. |
A social group of organisms sharing an environment normally with shared interests is a______________? |
| A. | Colony |
| B. | Society |
| C. | Community |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 1376. |
A social condition in which values are conflicting weak or absent is called____________? |
| A. | Assimilation |
| B. | Hawthorne affect |
| C. | invasion |
| D. | anomie |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1377. |
A social class is a group of people who stand in a common relationship to the means of production Whose perspective does this definition describe ? |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Erik Olin-Wright |
| C. | John Goldthorpe |
| D. | Karl Marx |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1378. |
A set of behavioral expectations that are linked to chronological and biological age that change as we get older are referred to as____________? |
| A. | maturational motivations |
| B. | activity norms |
| C. | age grades |
| D. | continuity contingencies |
| E. | disengagement techniques |
| Answer» D. continuity contingencies | |
| 1379. |
A series of complexes centering upon an important activity is___________________? |
| A. | Institution |
| B. | Trait |
| C. | Religion |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Trait | |
| 1380. |
A sect is organized around_______________? |
| A. | beliefs that can be challenged by members a charismatic leader and openness to new recruits |
| B. | tolerance towards other religions and the separation of church and state |
| C. | voluntary membership democratic leadership and high levels of emotional commitment |
| D. | the idea of the secular world itself as being sacred |
| Answer» D. the idea of the secular world itself as being sacred | |
| 1381. |
A sect is organized around______________? |
| A. | beliefs that can be challenged by members a charismatic leader and openness to new recruits |
| B. | tolerance towards other religions and the separation of church and state |
| C. | voluntary membership democratic leadership and high levels of emotional commitment |
| D. | the idea of the secular world itself as being sacred |
| Answer» D. the idea of the secular world itself as being sacred | |
| 1382. |
A rising suicide rate associated with normlessness and a lack of social regulation can be described as______________? |
| A. | egoistic suicide |
| B. | altruistic suicide |
| C. | fatalistic suicide |
| D. | anomic suicide |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1383. |
A researcher was able to prove that, on average as age increases eyesight declines In research terminology this is called a (n) ? |
| A. | variation |
| B. | correlation |
| C. | observation |
| D. | measure of central tendency |
| E. | spurious relationship |
| Answer» C. observation | |
| 1384. |
A researcher can obtain a higher response rate by using which type of survey ? |
| A. | interviews |
| B. | naires |
| C. | representative samples |
| D. | observation techniques |
| Answer» B. naires | |
| 1385. |
A researcher examines the literature written by Black novelists during the “Negro Renaissance” (1913-1935) to see if they reflect the political movements going on in the Black community in the United States at that time What type of research methodology is being used in this example ? |
| A. | secondary analysis |
| B. | interviews |
| C. | observation |
| D. | content analysis |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1386. |
A process through which cultural elements become closely connected and mutually interdependent is also known as______________? |
| A. | cultural relativism |
| B. | cultural lag |
| C. | cultural proscriptions |
| D. | cultural genocide |
| E. | cultural integration |
| Answer» F. | |
| 1387. |
A preference for foreign culture and products is called________________? |
| A. | Xenocentrism |
| B. | Ethnocentrism |
| C. | Cultural Adjustment |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Ethnocentrism | |
| 1388. |
A plumber whose father was a physician is an example of_________________? |
| A. | downward intergenerational mobility |
| B. | upward intergenerational mobility |
| C. | downward intergenerational mobility |
| D. | upward intergenerational mobility |
| Answer» B. upward intergenerational mobility | |
| 1389. |
A person’s self-esteem – low or high -is mainly a function of________________? |
| A. | introspective rejuvenation |
| B. | self-ethnography |
| C. | social comparisons |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» D. none of the above | |
| 1390. |
A person’s overall position in society is called______________? |
| A. | achieved status |
| B. | ascribed status |
| C. | master status |
| D. | status set |
| Answer» D. status set | |
| 1391. |
A person’s overall position in society is called_______________? |
| A. | achieved status |
| B. | ascribed status |
| C. | master status |
| D. | status set |
| Answer» D. status set | |
| 1392. |
A person is consciously motive primarily by his_______________? |
| A. | Social values |
| B. | Real traits |
| C. | Picture of himself |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Real traits | |
| 1393. |
A person does poorly on a college chemistry test and later tells a friend “The exam wasn’t fair! There were trick s and it covered material that we weren’t assigned! “This is an example of______________? |
| A. | reverse socialization |
| B. | face-work |
| C. | studied nonobservance |
| D. | anticipatory socialization |
| Answer» C. studied nonobservance | |
| 1394. |
A person does poorly on a college chemistry test and later tells a friend “The exam wasn’t fair! There were trick s and it covered material that we weren’t assigned “This is an example of____________? |
| A. | reverse socialization |
| B. | face-work |
| C. | studied nonobservance |
| D. | anticipatory socialization |
| Answer» C. studied nonobservance | |
| 1395. |
A pastoralist society depends upon ? |
| A. | domesticated livestock |
| B. | agriculture |
| C. | Trade and business |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. agriculture | |
| 1396. |
A new combination or a new use of existing knowledge is termed as______________? |
| A. | Invention |
| B. | discovery |
| C. | Social Change |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. discovery | |
| 1397. |
A network of roles according to which each person accepts certain duties towards others makes ? |
| A. | Social background |
| B. | Social Order |
| C. | Social stratification |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Social stratification | |
| 1398. |
A moral panic occurs when_______________? |
| A. | the media exaggerate reports of deviant groups generating hostile reactions |
| B. | children watch violent or sexually explicit films and then copy the behavior |
| C. | audiences challenge the ethnic stereotypes represented by the media |
| D. | elitists express concern with the Americanization of culture |
| Answer» B. children watch violent or sexually explicit films and then copy the behavior | |
| 1399. |
A minority group is one that is both disadvantaged and_______________? |
| A. | has some sense of collective or group solidarity? |
| B. | numerically small compared to the main social group |
| C. | identifiably different from others in a society |
| D. | holds views contrary to the social norm |
| Answer» B. numerically small compared to the main social group | |
| 1400. |
A minority group is one that is both disadvantaged and______________? |
| A. | has some sense of collective or group solidarity |
| B. | numerically small compared to the main social group |
| C. | identifiably different from others in a society |
| D. | holds views contrary to the social norm |
| Answer» B. numerically small compared to the main social group | |