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miscellaneous Mcqs

721. The chief function of interest group is to________________?
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A. choose candidates for political office

B. provide group representation above and beyond that provided by our elected officials in Congress

C. bring into the open obscure problems to be solved

D. provide geographic representation

722. Personal space is defined differently in different societies Therefore we can say that_____________?
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A. culture shapes both verbal and nonverbal behavior

B. personal space is controlled genetically

C. many people have no manners

D. nonverbal behavior is not part of culture

723. Which of the following is NOT an interest group ?
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A. Lobbyists of America

B. The National Rifle Association

C. The American Association of Retired people

D. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference

724. Social life is organized and structured through____________?
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A. group situations and the positions of individuals

B. patterns of actions

C. all of the above

D. rules and regulations

725. Institution are_________________?
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A. unimportant

B. found among all animals

C. places like schools and banks

D. traditional habits centering around fundamental human needs

726. The scientific method contains all but one of the following techniques ?
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A. systematic collection of data

B. selecting data to prove a point

C. scientific observation

D. making data public

727. The allocation of tasks to particular individuals who specialize in performing them is referred to as_______________?
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A. status specialization

B. status fulfillment

C. division of labor

D. ascribed status

728. Four primary social processes are________________?
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A. accommodation assimilation conflict and coercion

B. conflict exchange cooperation and competition

C. differentiation stratification conflict and coercion

D. exchange reciprocity competition and conflict

729. The writers of the Constitution intended the president to have________________?
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A. strong personal power

B. power only in declaring war

C. no power at all

D. weak personal power

730. The first step in the scientific method is____________?
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A. observation and recording of data

B. selection of area to be researched

C. obtaining a government grant

D. classification and organization of data

731. During the Enlightenment of the 18th century_______________?
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A. scholars denied the possibility of a scientific study of humans

B. a number of scholars believed human social life could be studied scientifically

C. none of the above

D. scholars emphasized the supernatural

732. Social organization________________?
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A. is sometimes used interchangeably with social structure

B. is microsocial macrosocial and interchangeable with social structure

C. may be analyzed at the microsocial and the macrosocial levels

D. is a fixed set of rules?

733. Like Freud Erik Erikson maintains that_______________?
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A. there are five psycho sexual stages

B. the personality is fixed by age five

C. psychoanalysis including dream analysis is the only way to overcome personality problems

D. none of the above

734. The primary agent of socialization is the______________?
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A. school

B. peer group

C. mass media

D. family

735. The numbers of PACs ?
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A. quadrupled since 1974

B. doubled since 1974

C. increased nearly sevenfold since 1974

D. tripled since 1074

736. Specialized division of labor in industrial societies can make workers feel that they_______________?
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A. have no sense of accomplishment

B. have lack of control

C. are an anonymous group

D. all of the above

737. Anthropology is restricted to the study of_______________?
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A. primitive people only

B. modern peoples only

C. prehistoric people only

D. none of the above

738. Regarding capitalist industrial societies Marx asserted that______________?
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A. they contained the seeds of their own destruction

B. property is unimportant in the modern state

C. religion and philosophy are the foundations of society

D. the means of production are controlled by the masses

739. The opposite of a variable is a______________?
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A. constant

B. concept

C. value

D. law

740. One British psychologist believes that the Western family causes most of the mental illness in individuals This theory implies that ___________??
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A. the primary group is always helpful to the individual

B. primary group relations can be harmful to the individual

C. none of the above are relevant

D. secondary relations are more important than primary ones

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