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Practise multiple-choice questions from sociology for competitive examinations and subject revision. Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

sociology Mcqs

181. Comte believed that society developed in______________?
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A. two stages

B. None of these

C. three stages

D. four stages

182. What is the term that describes repeat offending by those who have been in prison ?
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A. deterrence

B. rehabilitation

C. reform

D. recidivism

183. Social norms are_____________?
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A. religious beliefs about how the world ought to be

B. the symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media

C. creative activities such as gardening cookery and craftwork

D. rules and expectation about interaction that regulate social life

184. Robert Mertons ideas on crime and deviance make use of the concept of anomie. What does anomie mean in Mertons work ?
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A. meaninglessness

B. social strain

C. social adaptation

D. Normlessness

185. What does Berger (1963) describe as a metaphor for social reality ?
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A. a ballet

B. a puppet theatre

C. a fairground rides

D. a circus

186. Which of these is not an ethical issue for researchers ?
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A. safe storage of the raw data collected in the process

B. protecting the anonymity of participants

C. assessing the potential risks for research subjects

D. selecting a relevant theoretical perspective

187. Those aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability and social organization that allow societies and groups to hold together and endure are called______________?
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A. constructed reality

B. social absolutes

C. social statics

D. social dynamics

188. A survey that asks the respondent to indicate their age and includes response categories of age 20-30 age 30-40 age 40 50 and age 50+ violates which important rule for constructing closed-ended items for naires ?
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A. tangible

B. comprehensive

C. exhaustive

D. relevant

E. mutually exclusive

189. According to feminists an androcentric bias in research is the direct result of______________?
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A. women not being objective

B. assuming that men and women are the same

C. a lack of female researchers

D. using males as the accepted norm

E. the funding of certain projects

190. Which one of the following is NOT associated with the materialist conception of history ?
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A. the history of class struggle

B. the spirit of capitalism

C. the mode of production

D. the motor of history

191. What does the functionalist perspective see as crucial for the maintenance of social order ?
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A. a strong state

B. moral consensus

C. strong class-based identities

D. multiculturalism

192. Which of these is not a concept associated with Left Realist explanations of criminal subcultures ?
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A. individual pathology

B. social exclusion

C. political marginalization

D. relative deprivation

193. Who first introduced the notion of anomie into sociology ?
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A. Weber

B. comte

C. Durkheim

D. Marx

194. In an experiment two groups are identical except for the change that researchers introduce into one group That group is called______________?
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A. the control groups

B. the experimental group

C. the contaminated group

D. the neutral standard

195. A university that serves as a meeting ground for people seeking marital partners is performing______________?
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A. a dysfunction

B. a manifest function

C. a latent function

D. a manifest dysfunction

196. Collecting information regarding crime control from several countries would be a good example of a(n)_________________?
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A. ethnography

B. content analysis

C. an international approach

D. field research

E. comparative approach

197. According to Readers Digest Dictionary the one which causes euphoria in the taker and pre-disposes hint to addiction is______________?
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A. None of these

B. medicine

C. Cure

D. Drug

198. Sociologists believe that no behavior is____________?
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A. Completely irrelevant

B. inherently deviant

C. totally in keeping with tradition

D. Without a deal of grate variation

E. Without a corresponding judgment

199. The Muqaddimah is an early Muslim view of______________?
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A. society

B. universal History

C. all of above

D. social Change

200. Society cannot be studied in the same way as the natural world because_____________?
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A. human behavior is meaningful and varies between individuals and cultures

B. it is difficult for sociologists to gain access to a research laboratory

C. we cannot collect empirical data about social life

D. sociologists are not rational or critical enough in their approach

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