miscellaneous MCQs – Page 10

Practise focused miscellaneous questions with marked answers for exam preparation and subject revision.

miscellaneous Mcqs
181. The nuclear family is characteristic of industrial societies because______________?
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A. ascribed status is more important in industrial societies

B. most functions are better performed in secondary groups

C. geographic and social mobility are common in industrial societies

D. a large family means more hands to work

182. Feminist theory bas borrowed much of the ideas of________________?
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A. the ideology that tries to rationalize women ,s low position in society

B. conflict and Marxist theories

C. The Feminine Mystique

D. psychology

183. Identification theory is based on the ideas of______________?
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A. Mead

B. Cooley

C. Erikson

D. Freud
184. The instruments of foreign policy may be defined as_________________?
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A. ways of competing for the title of superpower

B. tools with which nations try to manipulate other nations

C. exchanges entered into in the spirit of trust

D. expressions of human solidarity around the world

185. The practice of U.S corporations movings their production facilities abroad is called________________?
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A. Oligopoly

B. insourcing

C. multinationalism

D. diversification

186. The most experimental of the social sciences is_________________?
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A. psychology

B. sociology

C. archaeology

D. economics

187. Ecology is the discipline concerned with________________?
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A. human processes such as migration

B. the way living things relate and adjust to each other in a common habitat

C. how ideologies motivate human behavior

D. the growth or decline of population

188. The term ecclesia means_______________?
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A. a universal religion

B. a state religion

C. a member of the clergy

D. a book of the Bible

189. The United Nations__________________?
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A. is extremely effective in policing the world

B. Open supports communist and socialist regimes

C. None of the above

D. Is primarily an instrument of the U.S

190. Economists chart the limits of resources and technology on output through_____________________?
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A. Venn diagrams

B. production-possibility schedules

C. welfare functions

D. product-moment correlations

191. The totality of the phenomenon under study is called the_______________?
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A. population

B. universe

C. inferential

D. sample

192. In education_______________?
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A. smart students easily overcome the disinterest of the family

B. the family is unimportant

C. the family is crucial to student success

D. the social class of the family is unimportant

193. The importance of status is supported by_____________?
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A. statistics on cancer deaths

B. the fact that people revere academics

C. a recent study by an epidemiologist

D. none of the above

194. The merging of majority and minority groups as happened in Brazil is called_______________?
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A. amalgamation

B. accommodation

C. acculturation

D. segregation

195. Status inconsistency is defined as_________________?
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A. the condition of persons who are ranked higher in one variable of status than another

B. the mechanism high status persons use to protect themselves from competition

C. the least important dimension of stratification

D. the order of importance given to status variables

196. Maintaining a groups distinctive customs and identity is called______________?
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A. cultural complex

B. cultural pluralism

C. cultural trait

D. cultural decline

197. In modern society death has acquired to some extent a sense of_____________?
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A. meaninglessness

B. unnaturalness

C. appropriateness

D. ordinariness

198. international relations include________________?
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A. declared but not undeclared wars

B. all of the above

C. public but not private diplomacy

D. legal but not illegal or black market trade
199. The sate differs from all the other institutions in that_______________?
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A. all of the above

B. it is an abstract concept

C. its political control is complete

D. membership is compulsory for all residents of its territory except for aliens and visitors

200. The idea that technology changes social organization and ideology is called______________?
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A. evangelical determinism

B. secular humanism

C. scientific determinism

D. technological revolution