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

miscellaneous Mcqs
821. In the United States a sense of national identity ?
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A. was first based on a common ethnicity and language

B. only B and C

C. was later reinforced by the notion of specialness

D. never developed

822. Deviance is defined______________?
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A. in the same way everywhere

B. in some cultures, as nonexistent

C. in the context of time and place

D. as another world for crime

823. Schizophrenia is_______________?
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A. another name for split personality

B. a psychosomatic disorder

C. a term meaning to hallucinate

D. applied to a number of disturbances for lack of any other label
824. The myth complex functions to_________________?
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A. give legitimate authority to the government in power

B. secure that will of the people

C. fool the people some of the time

D. make people feel free

825. Culture______________?
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A. is arguably possessed to some degree by nonhuman primates as well as humans

B. is based on symbols in animals and on signals among humans

C. all of the above

D. is a property of all higher animal groups?

826. How are presidential programs funded ?
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A. By government investments

B. By withdrawals from the Treasury Department

C. By foreign nations

D. By Congress
827. Federalism many be defined as a system of_____________________?
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A. central power

B. wholesale power

C. regional power

D. concurrent power
828. Laissez-faire______________?
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A. is the French expression Adam Smith used to mean that government should keep its hands off the economy?

B. is the economic theory introduced to the U.S by Keynes?

C. is the rallying cry of the Women Liberation Movement?

D. was Karl Marxs exhortation to the workers of the world

829. Individuals who become inmates of a total institution undergo the process of______________?
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A. anomie

B. socialization

C. desocialization

D. resocialization

830. An example of a category would be_____________?
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A. sharpshooters at a pistol range

B. all the redheads currently imprisoned in the U.S

C. the N.A.A.C.P

D. the N.R.A

831. Critiques of bureaucratic forms of business administration argue that_____________?
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A. vertical hierarchies of power are too sluggish

B. explicit standards of quality control must be imposed by management

C. employees are given too much discretion

D. small organization inevitably become bureaucracies

832. Skepticism refers to________________?
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A. doubting

B. impartiality

C. repetition

D. precision

833. The foremost advantage of a corporation is its_____________?
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A. ability to profit from the labor of its employees

B. ability to accumulate vast amounts of capital in a short time

C. capacity for protracted periods of employment

D. necessity to exhibit the latest technology

834. A police office follows a speeding car and when the car finally stops she is horrified to discover her husband at the wheel in giving him a ticket she experiences______________?
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A. fear of a divorce

B. role conflict

C. a master status

D. no role involvement

835. The social sciences have_____________?
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A. more control over data than physics

B. problems with studying people in laboratories

C. been accepted as equally valid as the physical sciences

D. complete objectivity

836. The power elite are drawn from among the_______________?
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A. middle-class urban residents

B. union leaders

C. military and business leaders

D. intellectuals

837. In regard to public and political opinion_________________?
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A. public opinion is limited to few issues

B. political opinion is all opinions expressed on political issues

C. political opinion deals with all matters

D. they are the same

838. If the daughter of a factory worker wants to become the president of the company for which her father works we may assume that______________?
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A. she has a different reference group than her social class would indicate

B. her father has special connections to the boss

C. she has been reading too many yuppie biographies

D. the daughter likes to daydream

839. Human beings are born into a social world that is_______________?
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A. totally beyond their control

B. not of their own making

C. newly created in each generation

D. the result of cultural development over previous generation
840. In the American political system_____________?
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A. there is no ruling elite

B. real equality for everyone is a fact

C. everyone participates in the political process

D. members of Congress and their constituents generally do not know much about what the other thinks