miscellaneous MCQs – Page 13

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

miscellaneous Mcqs
241. Corporations wield power through_____________?
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A. All of the above

B. PACs

C. interlocking directorates

D. investment portfolios

242. Discrimination against the elderly has been especially apparent in the area of____________?
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A. creditworthiness

B. employment

C. hospitalization

D. retirement

243. The expectations people have regarding how husbands and wives ought to behave are called marital______________?
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A. illusions

B. orders

C. norms

D. scripts
244. An accountant is part of which sector ?
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A. Quaternary

B. secondary

C. primary

D. Tertiary
245. The elderly are a minority because them________________?
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A. are a small percentage of the population?

B. cannot defend themselves

C. are physically weak

D. lack power
246. Ideologies_______________?
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A. do not underlie all political movements

B. underlie only revolutionary movements

C. underlie all social movements

D. underlie only political movements

247. The knowledge of how the blood circulates in the body is a(n)______________?
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A. diffusion

B. innovation

C. discovery

D. invention

248. The difference between government and state is that________________?
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A. government is a process that includes the people who exercise political power

B. the state is an abstract symbol of the political institution

C. government is symbol state is the process

D. government is a process and the state is an abstract symbol
249. Meads work in New Guinea indicated that__________________?
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A. men are men and women are women everywhere

B. biology totally controls social role behavior

C. all tribes in her study stressed male aggression and hostility

D. sex role behavior is conditioned differently in different cultures
250. Reproduction outside the family__________________?
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A. has not been positively sanctioned in any society

B. is considered a sin by all religions of the world

C. cannot occur

D. reflects the norms and values of Pakistan society

251. In a few cultures a women can have several husbands at one time This custom is called_________________?
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A. monogamy

B. polygyny

C. bigamy

D. polyandry
252. Lean production________________?
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A. combines the best features of craft and mass production

B. has as its goal perfection

C. All of the above

D. pushes responsibility down the organizational ladder

253. The difference between an average workers salary and that of the average CEO has_______________?
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A. gradually narrowed

B. greatly increased

C. slightly increased

D. remained stable

254. The Ku Klux Klan is an example of a(n)_________________?
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A. neo-Nazi movement

B. change-resistant movement

C. fascist movement

D. progressive movement

255. Religion performs all but one of the following functions_______________?
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A. helps people deal with guilt for their transgressions offering a way back to a constructive life

B. provides answers to basic s for which there is no other authority

C. supports societal norms and values by transforming them into divine laws

D. provides a single set of norms that are universally accepted and agreed upon
256. The cottage or putting-out system refers to_________________?
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A. the housing given factory workers

B. a type of architecture popular in Britain

C. The fact that in early industrialization work was done in the home

D. The way young people were put out to go work in factories

257. ocial change must be analyzed in terms of________________?
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A. stability and efficiency

B. if it is good for the people

C. statics and dynamics

D. backward and forward progress

258. Group marriage ________________?
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A. has been a consistent feature in Western societies

B. is widespread in several societies

C. has never been consistently or extensively practiced

D. is practiced among Australian aborigines

259. The identical twin who lost his penis in a tragic accident______________?
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A. preferred dolls to guns

B. acted as a female would

C. none of the above

D. accepted his female identity

260. A strong predictive factor of becoming an abusive parent is________________?
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A. to have felt the injustice of abuse

B. none of the above

C. to have felt unloved and unwanted by one,s own parents

D. to have come to believe that abuse is the way things are