miscellaneous MCQs – Page 8

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

miscellaneous Mcqs
351. Foreign aid is an instrument of________________?
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A. foreign policy

B. the democratic value system

C. propaganda

D. manipulation

352. The United Stats in an exception in that_________________?
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A. none of the above

B. wealth correlates with religion

C. wealth does not correlate with religion

D. in most wealth nations religion is very important

353. The crowd at a religious revival meeting is_______________?
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A. disorganized

B. acting

C. casual

D. expressive
354. Which of the following processes includes isolation of the minority population ?
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A. segregation

B. acculturation

C. accommodation

D. assimilation

355. Dominant groups tend to use all but which of the following methods in dealing with minorities ?
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A. population transfers

B. cultural relativity

C. economic exploitation

D. forced assimilation

356. The blended family______________?
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A. is another name for a childless family

B. is made up of natural parents stepparents natural children and stepchildren

C. is quite stable for children

D. consists of natural parents and children

357. The legitimate possession of power is a definition of______________?
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A. the police

B. authority

C. force

D. the state

358. Many listeners to a 1938 science fiction radio program believed that Martians were really invading the Earth They fled into the streets in panic We would call their behavior______________?
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A. fashion

B. fantasy

C. none of the above

D. rational legal behavior

359. A deliberate attempt to persuade the individual to accept a particular belief or to make a specific choice uncritically is______________?
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A. brainwashing

B. propaganda

C. education

D. instruction

360. The opposite of a nuclear family is the______________?
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A. extended family

B. conjugal family

C. group family

D. atomic family

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

381. Members of an ethnic group_________________?
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A. share social and cultural traits

B. share physical traits

C. are heterogeneous

D. share behavioral traits

382. Marriage is_________________?
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A. any union of males and females

B. a union recognized as legal by a society

C. always endogamous

D. always monogamous

383. The Cuban community in Miami is an example of______________?
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A. acculturation

B. accommodation

C. segregation

D. assimilation

384. In economic terms every action entail________________?
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A. risk

B. prime costs

C. fixed costs

D. opportunity costs
385. Which are manifest functions of schools ?
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A. To reinforce the norms of the society

B. All of the above

C. To teach skills

D. To teach the values prevalent in the society

386. A minority group consists of______________?
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A. fewer people than the majority group

B. the hostile subcultures in the society

C. the most recently settled immigrants

D. people distinguished by their physical or cultural traits
387. If a broad spectrum of the population is surveyed at a given time the study is called______________?
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A. longitudinal

B. descriptive

C. cross sectional

D. inferential

388. Which of the following is true ?
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A. Lower-class students do as well academically as those from higher social classes

B. Students with low levels of self-esteem and low levels of confidence tend to do poorly in school

C. Testing consistently low does not affect a students self-confidence

D. Students are seldom able to evaluate their own abilities

389. A nationalistic revolution occurred in the________________?
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A. French Revolution

B. Cuban revolution of 1959

C. communist takeover of China in 1949

D. American Revolution
390. The popularity of spaghetti in the United States resulted from_______________?
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A. the discovery of noodles

B. an innovation in agriculture

C. diffusion

D. the invention of pasta machines

391. Collective behavior is________________?
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A. emergent

B. nonroutine

C. alienating

D. convergent

392. In his book The Inevitability of Patriarchy Steven Goldberg asserts that_____________?
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A. matriarchal societies have never existed

B. men perform the highest status non-maternal roles in all societies

C. all of the above

D. men dominate male-female relationships

393. Most societies________________?
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A. accept all kinds of man-women unions

B. discourage marriage

C. pay couples to have children

D. encourage marriage
394. Change felt through new patterns of individual and small-group interaction is called_______________?
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A. micro-level change

B. innovation

C. diffusion

D. macro-level change

395. Legal-rational authority tends to be characteristic of_________________?
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A. homogeneous single-culture societies

B. heterogeneous multicultural societies

C. Central A Pakistan society

D. simple agrarian societies

396. Stratification systems tend to________________?
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A. equalize the status of people in a society

B. create conflict between old and young

C. differentiate among people within societies

D. oppress children and the old

397. Maintaining full employment stabilizing the economy and pursuing economic growth are issues analyzed in the context of_______________?
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A. hyper economics

B. microeconomics

C. microeconomics

D. super economics

398. A form of treatment for severe mental disorders that has been largely abandoned is_____________?
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A. psychosurgery

B. hypnotherapy

C. psychotherapy

D. electroconvulsive shock therapy

399. The female role as a passive and domestic creature may be conditioned by_______________?
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A. TV ads showing women as domestics

B. childrens picture books

C. all of the above

D. stress on male sports in school

400. A scattered collection of people who share a common interest or a concern about an issue are a (n).
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A. public

B. audience

C. Crowd

D. group