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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.
| 351. |
What major contribution did W.E.B DuBois make to sociology ? |
| A. | He developed a theoretical understanding of racial inequality |
| B. | He conducted research on the upper classes of Philadelphia |
| C. | He chaired the first Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» B. He conducted research on the upper classes of Philadelphia | |
| 352. |
What is urban recycling ? |
| A. | renovating inner-city buildings for occupation by the middle classes |
| B. | a new domestic waste reduction strategy for inner-city areas |
| C. | councils buying up cheap housing to turn into commercial developments |
| D. | refurbishing old buildings and finding new uses for previously used land |
| Answer» E. | |
| 353. |
What is the term used to describe the stages from one’s birth into a family with a specific status through formation of a new family unit ? |
| A. | intergenerational mobility |
| B. | socioeconomic life cycle |
| C. | vertical mobility |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» C. vertical mobility | |
| 354. |
What is the term used by Francis Fukuyama (1992) to describe the triumph of Western-style democracy has over other forms of government ? |
| A. | the end of history |
| B. | the rise of neoliberalism |
| C. | the fall of communism |
| D. | the birth of nationalism |
| Answer» B. the rise of neoliberalism | |
| 355. |
What is the term that describes repeat offending by those who have been in prison ? |
| A. | rehabilitation |
| B. | deterrence |
| C. | reform |
| D. | recidivism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 356. |
What is the term for associations that members enter and leave freely ? |
| A. | coercive organizations |
| B. | total institutions |
| C. | utilitarian organizations |
| D. | voluntary organizations |
| Answer» E. | |
| 357. |
What is the systematic elimination of one ethnic group at the hands of another called ? |
| A. | ethnic cleansing |
| B. | institutional racism |
| C. | genocide |
| D. | scapegoating |
| Answer» D. scapegoating | |
| 358. |
What is the systematic elimination of one ethnic group at the hands of another called ______________? |
| A. | ethnic cleansing |
| B. | institutional racism |
| C. | genocide |
| D. | scapegoating |
| Answer» D. scapegoating | |
| 359. |
What is the process by which schools help to perpetuate social and economic inequalities across the generation called______________? |
| A. | cultural reproduction |
| B. | passive consumption |
| C. | conceptual abstraction |
| D. | formal communication |
| Answer» B. passive consumption | |
| 360. |
What is the process by which schools help to perpetuate social and economic inequalities across the generations called ? |
| A. | cultural reproduction |
| B. | passive consumption |
| C. | conceptual abstraction |
| D. | formal communication |
| Answer» B. passive consumption | |
| 361. |
What is the optimum group size for problem solving ? |
| A. | two |
| B. | three |
| C. | four |
| D. | five |
| Answer» E. | |
| 362. |
What is the name of the process by which we acquire a sense of identity and become members of society____________? |
| A. | rationalization |
| B. | colonization |
| C. | McDonaldization |
| D. | socialization |
| Answer» E. | |
| 363. |
What is the name of the process by which we acquire a sense of identity and become members of society ? |
| A. | rationalization |
| B. | colonization |
| C. | McDonaldization |
| D. | socialization |
| Answer» C. McDonaldization | |
| 364. |
What is the most common reason people give for not reporting a crime ? |
| A. | fear of reprisal |
| B. | dislike of the police |
| C. | too trivial for the police |
| D. | best dealt with privately |
| Answer» D. best dealt with privately | |
| 365. |
What is the main role of the International Monetary Fund ? |
| A. | to reduce levels of global inequality |
| B. | to generate economic activity in the developing countries |
| C. | to maintain stability in the world financial system |
| D. | to provide funds for education programmed across the world |
| Answer» D. to provide funds for education programmed across the world | |
| 366. |
What is the main consequence of well-defined ethnic existing within established nations states ? |
| A. | nations without states |
| B. | multiculturalism |
| C. | a cultural melting Pot |
| D. | separate institutions |
| Answer» B. multiculturalism | |
| 367. |
What is the initial element of sociological research ? |
| A. | review the evidence |
| B. | define the research problem |
| C. | create a research design |
| D. | carry out a research design |
| Answer» C. create a research design | |
| 368. |
What is the idea that racism pervades all of society’s structures in a systematic way called ____________? |
| A. | new racism |
| B. | cultural racism |
| C. | ethnocentrism |
| D. | institutional racism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 369. |
What is the idea that racism pervades all of society’s structures in a systematic way called ? |
| A. | new racism |
| B. | cultural racism |
| C. | ethnocentrism |
| D. | institutional racism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 370. |
What is the concept used by Karl Marx to explain workers loss of control over their labor power in capitalist societies ? |
| A. | anomie |
| B. | pauperization |
| C. | de-skilling |
| D. | alienation |
| Answer» E. | |
| 371. |
What is the compulsion of proximity ? |
| A. | the dominance of spoken language in interactions |
| B. | the need to meet each other face to face |
| C. | the ability to read peoples body language |
| D. | the desire for intimacy in personal relationships |
| Answer» C. the ability to read peoples body language | |
| 372. |
What is the approach to ethnic integration which requires immigrants to adopt the culture and values of the majority called ? |
| A. | assimilation |
| B. | melting pot |
| C. | cultural pluralism |
| D. | multiculturalism |
| Answer» B. melting pot | |
| 373. |
What is social role ? |
| A. | an achieved occupational status |
| B. | a persons overall social status within their family |
| C. | a social position that becomes a master status for the person occupying it |
| D. | socially defined expectations of people in a given social position |
| Answer» E. | |
| 374. |
What is religious fundamentalism ? |
| A. | strict or literal adherence to basic religious principles and beliefs |
| B. | acceptance and use of violent means to transform secular societies |
| C. | commitment to the fundamental beliefs of charismatic leaders |
| D. | religious beliefs associated with new age sects |
| Answer» B. acceptance and use of violent means to transform secular societies | |
| 375. |
What is multiculturalism ? |
| A. | the existence of cultural diversity within a society |
| B. | policies encouraging ethnic groups to live together in harmony |
| C. | new immigrants adopting the values and norms of the host culture |
| D. | ethnic group cultures exist separately within a society |
| Answer» C. new immigrants adopting the values and norms of the host culture | |
| 376. |
What is meant by reflexivity in sociological research ? |
| A. | research findings feed back into society and as a result may change it |
| B. | research findings empower the general public making them more confident |
| C. | research funders have control over research findings and who has access |
| D. | sociologists learn more about the society they live in |
| Answer» B. research findings empower the general public making them more confident | |
| 377. |
What is Howard Becker’s famous definition of deviance ? |
| A. | deviant behavior is behavior that is labelled so by the law |
| B. | deviant behavior is behavior that people so label |
| C. | deviant behavior is that labelled by the perpetrators |
| D. | deviant behavior is that which causes public offence |
| Answer» C. deviant behavior is that labelled by the perpetrators | |
| 378. |
What is gentrification ? |
| A. | the movement of the middle classes into suburban areas |
| B. | a policy aimed at renovating inner-city council housing stock |
| C. | building shopping centers in cities to create employment |
| D. | renovation of run-down city neighborhoods to attract high income groups |
| Answer» E. | |
| 379. |
What is ethnomethodology ? |
| A. | the study of sociological research methods |
| B. | the study of the methods people uses to make sense of the world |
| C. | the study of language in everyday conversations |
| D. | the use of experiments in sociological research |
| Answer» C. the study of language in everyday conversations | |
| 380. |
What is education ? |
| A. | the process of delivering relevant skills and knowledge |
| B. | a knowledge and understanding of society’s high culture |
| C. | a social institution promoting the acquisition of skills and knowledge |
| D. | the skills and knowledge required for employment in a relevant field |
| Answer» D. the skills and knowledge required for employment in a relevant field | |
| 381. |
What is defined as the dispersal of an ethnic population from an original homeland into foreign areas often in a forced manner ? |
| A. | migration |
| B. | globalization |
| C. | colonialism |
| D. | diaspora |
| Answer» E. | |
| 382. |
What is defined as the cultural practices and outlooks of a given community of people that set them apart from others ? |
| A. | racism |
| B. | ethnicity |
| C. | identity |
| D. | stereotyping |
| Answer» C. identity | |
| 383. |
What is defined as ‘non-conformity to a given set or norms that are accepted by a significant number of people in a community or society ? |
| A. | criminality |
| B. | deviance |
| C. | recidivism |
| D. | degeneracy |
| Answer» C. recidivism | |
| 384. |
What is defined as non-conformity to a given set of norms that are accepted by a significant number of people in a community or society ? |
| A. | criminality |
| B. | deviance |
| C. | recidivism |
| D. | degeneracy |
| Answer» C. recidivism | |
| 385. |
What is cosmopolitan democracy ? |
| A. | a form of world government with global citizenship |
| B. | rule by the worlds educated elites |
| C. | democratic government at the level of the city |
| D. | democratic government that is representative of a multicultural society |
| Answer» B. rule by the worlds educated elites | |
| 386. |
What is behavior towards a group or individual which treats them differently from other groups or individuals called ? |
| A. | Prejudice |
| B. | discrimination |
| C. | racism |
| D. | projection |
| Answer» C. racism | |
| 387. |
What is applied social research _________________? |
| A. | research that tries to contribute to the development of theory |
| B. | research that is always multidisciplinary |
| C. | research that aims to intervene in and improve social life |
| D. | research based on government priorities |
| Answer» D. research based on government priorities | |
| 388. |
What is an education system in which children achieve their status based on their own worth called ____________? |
| A. | comprehensive |
| B. | meritocratic |
| C. | selective |
| D. | elitist |
| Answer» C. selective | |
| 389. |
What is an education system in which children achieve their status based on their own worth called ? |
| A. | comprehensive |
| B. | meritocratic |
| C. | selective |
| D. | elitist |
| Answer» C. selective | |
| 390. |
What does the functionalist perspective see as crucial for the maintenance of social order ? |
| A. | strong class-based identities |
| B. | multiculturalism |
| C. | moral consensus |
| D. | a strong state |
| Answer» D. a strong state | |
| 391. |
What does Berger (1963) describe as a metaphor for social reality ? |
| A. | a fairground rides |
| B. | a circus |
| C. | a puppet theatre |
| D. | a ballet |
| Answer» B. a circus | |
| 392. |
What do separatist movements around the world seek to achieve ? |
| A. | recognition of the equal rights of an ethnic group within a nation state |
| B. | the creation of an independent nation state |
| C. | the expulsion of an ethnic group from a disputed region |
| D. | acceptance of an ethnic groups that to use a separate minority language |
| Answer» C. the expulsion of an ethnic group from a disputed region | |
| 393. |
What did Max Weber understand by the spirit of capitalism ? |
| A. | the exploitation of the working class |
| B. | the desire for more material wealth |
| C. | the continual reinvestment of profits back into businesses |
| D. | the belief in free markets |
| Answer» D. the belief in free markets | |
| 394. |
What did Auguste Comte mean by positivism in sociology ? |
| A. | sociological research must contribute to a governments social policy |
| B. | sociology should be optimistic about human achievements |
| C. | sociology should make use of statistical evidence |
| D. | sociology should adopt the same methods as the natural sciences |
| Answer» E. | |
| 395. |
What concept does Durkheim use to explain how religious ceremonies generate social solidarity ? |
| A. | collective consciousness |
| B. | collective interaction |
| C. | collective effervescence |
| D. | class consciousness |
| Answer» D. class consciousness | |
| 396. |
What approach focuses on the ever-changing relationship over time between social movements and macro-level economic and political systems ? |
| A. | Globalization |
| B. | Political Process |
| C. | Postmodernism |
| D. | Linear Evolutionary |
| E. | Counter-modernization |
| Answer» C. Postmodernism | |
| 397. |
Western countries have a larger percentage of aged that is_____________? |
| A. | 19.4% |
| B. | 12% |
| C. | 20% |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. 12% | |
| 398. |
Weber,s famous study The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904/5) was part of a larger project to study what ? |
| A. | Christianity,s influence in the West |
| B. | the influence of the world religions on social development |
| C. | how salvation beliefs have shaped the modern world economy |
| D. | the impact of capitalism on the world religions |
| Answer» C. how salvation beliefs have shaped the modern world economy | |
| 399. |
Weber,s view that sociologists must not allow their personal biases to affect the conduct of their research is called______________? |
| A. | verstehen |
| B. | dialectical materialism |
| C. | social facts |
| D. | value-free sociology |
| Answer» E. | |
| 400. |
Weber said that all knowledge is value-relevant because_____________? |
| A. | sociologists like to put a value on different theories |
| B. | knowledge refers to people and their values |
| C. | theorists interpret the world in terms of their own values |
| D. | attempts to provide knowledge about the world are always valuable |
| Answer» D. attempts to provide knowledge about the world are always valuable | |