miscellaneous MCQs – Page 53

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

miscellaneous Mcqs
1041. The struggle of women and ethnic minorities to change certain discriminatory practices concerns ?
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A. role strain

B. role conflict

C. ascribed statuses

D. master statuses

1042. Utilitarian organizations are so named because they ?
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A. serve the practical purposes of their owners

B. produce useful things

C. provide material benefits in exchange for work

D. provide useful services to the community

1043. Studying interaction within a human family would occur on a____________?
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A. microsocial level

B. macroscopic level

C. microscopic level

D. macrosocial level
1044. Political scientist Morgenthau and the realist school believe that foreign policy is based on_______________?
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A. rights of humanity

B. what is best for the people of a nation

C. morality

D. exercise of power
1045. The principle of the separation of powers________________?
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A. provides for an absolute separation of three branches of government

B. is prescribed by the Constitution

C. was a notion the framers had to abandon

D. was imitated by the framers of the constitution from Roman forms of government

1046. Socialization happens in__________________?
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A. infants

B. children

C. persons of all ages

D. adults

1047. One of the functions of public policy is to________________?
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A. plan to ensure the correct mix of supply and demand

B. ensure that everyone is a sinner in the economy

C. none of the above

D. mediate among conflicting economic goals
1048. The concept of human inequality ?
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A. has been borrowed from the natural sciences

B. is tolerated by religious ideologies

C. is incorporated in the ideology of democracy

D. underlies fascism
1049. The most advanced form of regional cooperation is exhibited by______________?
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A. Africa

B. The Middle East

C. Europe

D. The Pacific Rim

1050. According to Daniel Bell the first technological revolution_______________?
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A. all of the above

B. was the first of three such revolution

C. entailed the harnessing of electricity

D. involved a change in farming techniques

1051. When supply and demand are essentially equal the economy is said to be in________________?
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A. abeyance

B. equilibrium

C. equivalence

D. a recession

1052. What models did the frames of the Constitution use for the office of the presidency ?
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A. None

B. American Indian chiefdoms

C. Middle Eastern dynasties

D. The European monarchs

1053. The middle- and low-income nation are located mostly in_______________?
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A. the southern regions of the world

B. the northern regions of the world

C. the North and South Pole

D. the North-South Axis

1054. Congestion pollution urban decay and similar side effects of the market system are termed_____________?
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A. externalities

B. negatives

C. tangentials

D. internalities

1055. Constitution are_________________?
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A. instruments for limiting governmental power

B. characteristic of democracies only

C. signed documents

D. possible only in industrial societies

1056. Which of the following programs are particularly dependent upon state resources ?
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A. Public education

B. Corporate growth

C. Public housing

D. The Social Security system

1057. A formal structure of an organizations is its_______________?
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A. leadership structure

B. bylaws and body of officers

C. appearance to its general public

D. full-time employees

1058. When politicians refer to the intention of the framers of the Constitution of the United States they are making recourse to_____________?
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A. charismatic authority

B. legal rational authority

C. traditional authority

D. all of the above

1059. The democratic state is based on the social contract theories of Locke and Rousseau These theories maintain that ?
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A. people must obey the rulers at all times

B. a society cannot exist without authoritarian rulers

C. the people allow themselves to be governed for their own good

D. the rulers govern at the direction of God

1060. According to Mead the generalized other is_______________?
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A. analytic internalization

B. shame

C. societal norms

D. ones mother