miscellaneous MCQs – Page 19

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

miscellaneous Mcqs
361. The end of the Cold war_________________?
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A. created new possibilities for the world balance of power

B. has shifted American policy toward cooperative internationalism

C. raised new concerns about nuclear proliferation

D. All of the above
362. Functionalist theorists view stratification system as_______________?
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A. preventing conflicts among individuals

B. all of the above

C. resulting from a need for order

D. providing a stabilizing influence on society

363. In the 1960s some young people_______________?
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A. preferred to live in communes

B. decided to return to the traditional forms of family

C. saw the family as an oppressive institution

D. chose to cohabit rather than marry

364. individuals who hold lesser positions and make less money than their parents are displaying_____________?
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A. intragenerational mobility

B. intergenerational mobility

C. status inconsistency

D. horizontal mobility

365. The most fundamental factor(s)in stratification is (are)______________?
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A. education and income

B. an ambitious mother and later marriage

C. the ability to make someone do what you want

D. access to economic resources

366. What kind of individual is valued in industrial and postindustrial societies ?
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A. the manual worker

B. the technically sophisticated and well-educated individual

C. the nonproductive elderly

D. the nonproductive member of an underclass

367. Malthus suggested the following as means of birth control________________?
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A. abstinence

B. celibacy

C. all of the above

D. late marriage

368. Crowds and masses differ in that___________________?
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A. masses of people must always be in the same physical setting

B. people in a crowd are in close proximity to one another

C. masses are not personally connected to one another

D. collective behavior cannot take place in masses

369. Social movements tend to______________?
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A. redirect change

B. resist change

C. encourage change

D. all of the above
370. Pluralist societies depend upon one of the following for their existence_______________?
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A. colonization

B. conquest

C. coexistence

D. immigration

371. According to Gordon Allport,s theory of contact_______________?
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A. equal status between groups increases prejudice

B. equal status between groups leads to reduced competition

C. unequal status between groups reduces prejudice

D. Southern blacks and whites of the same social class have been driven further apart in recent years

372. Power may be asserted by_________________?
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A. coercion reciprocation or reward

B. reciprocating

C. coercion

D. promising a reward in return for compliance

373. The global social system differs from a societal social system in that________________?
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A. nations contain a variety of ethnic and racial groups

B. no global government exists

C. nations do not have common goals

D. all of the above
374. Standard English and the music of music This belief is an example of_______________?
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A. structural discrimination

B. attitudinal discrimination

C. elitist discrimination

D. individual discrimination

375. The state has the following relationship to force__________________?
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A. it has a monopoly on it

B. it lacks it completely in democracy

C. it gives it up to the people

D. it shares it with the citizens

376. Political control refers to________________?
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A. social control exercised by peers

B. any social control

C. social control exercised by the government

D. being forced to vote

377. Which of the following is NOT within the secondary economic sector ?
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A. Home construction

B. Salmon canning

C. Oil drilling

D. All of these

378. Publics and public opinion________________?
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A. are more characteristic of complex societies than of simple ones

B. have special meanings in traditional societies where conflicting issues are common

C. are more frequent in totalitarian societies than in democratic ones

D. express the values of leaders of society

379. Marx regarded religion as______________?
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A. a deliberate hoax on the part of dominant classes

B. alienating on both personal and social levels

C. an opiate

D. all of the above
380. The nuclear from of the family often appears in_________________?
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A. traditional agrarian societies

B. locations where there is the need for large families

C. industrial societies

D. rural areas