sociology MCQs – Page 12

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
221. Peer approval of your actions would be a good example of_____________?
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A. age-specific support

B. positivism

C. informal social control

D. internalization of norms

E. formal social control

222. Weber,s view that sociologists must not allow their personal biases to affect the conduct of their research is called______________?
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A. social facts

B. dialectical materialism

C. verstehen

D. value-free sociology
223. A researcher can obtain a higher response rate by using which type of survey ?
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A. interviews

B. representative samples

C. naires

D. observation techniques

224. Eyeballing is a technique that involves________________?
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A. gathering a sample from whoever you can see in a public place

B. scanning a table to identify general patterns and significant figures

C. keeping your eyes on research participants at all times

D. reading a textual document quickly to understand the gist of it

225. Which of the following sociology never wrote a book and about whose thoughts most of our knowledge is presented in an edited volume of his lectures published by his students after his death ?
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A. Karl Marx

B. Max Weber

C. George Herbert Mead

D. Emile Durkheim

226. If the information needed has already been written down somewhere it is looked up. It is called_____________?
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A. Statistical Comparative studies

B. Observational studies

C. None of these

D. Sociological analysis

227. Ibne Khaldun in his theories is near to______________?
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A. All of above

B. Comte

C. Kurkheim

D. Marx
228. Formulating the hypothesis is the _________ step in the scientific method?
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A. first

B. third

C. second

D. fourth

229. Which of the following is not a research purpose ?
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A. triangulation

B. explanation

C. description

D. exploration

230. When a number of researchers use the same operational definition to measure a variable and achieve the same results the measure is said to be_______________?
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A. reliable

B. internally consistent

C. valid

D. instrumental

E. factual

231. Social Sciences are pejoratively known as_______________?
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A. hard sciences

B. Theoretical

C. None of these

D. Soft sciences
232. Which of the following research methods uses existing records ?
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A. observational research

B. naire research

C. survey research

D. archival research

233. In observational studies the scientist observes_______________?
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A. the things that happen by themselves

B. Are arranged knowingly

C. both a and b

D. None of these

234. Constructed reality is________________?
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A. the ability to control the behavior of others

B. the principle that meaning derives from social interaction in daily life

C. and artificial explanation of culture that exists apart from any social reality or shared social meaning

D. the observed consequences that permit the adaptation or adjustment of a system

235. Whose theorizing according societal change comes closer to lqbal,s verse. Tujh ko bataoon taqdeer-e-huma kia hai shamsheer o Sannan Awwal taus o rabab akhir ?
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A. Ibn-e-Khaldum

B. Karl Max

C. None of these

D. George Hegel

236. Karl Marx,s view of the struggle between social classes inspired the contemporary ?
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A. conflict perspective

B. functionalist perspective

C. dramaturgical approach

D. interactionist perspective

237. Which of these terms is the odd one out ?
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A. causation

B. connection

C. association

D. correlation

238. What sociological theory of crime and deviance emphasizes sub-cultural belief systems as a major contributor to crime ?
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A. Strain theory

B. Anomie theory

C. Lower Class Focal Value theory

D. Social Process theory

E. Social Control theory

239. In order for field research to be successful the researcher must be________________?
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A. creative

B. unobtrusive

C. discreet

D. tactful

E. fluent in several languages

240. Which of these statements best represents C. Wright-Mills,s idea of the sociological imagination ?
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A. understanding the differences between the classical theorists

B. seeing the social world as one made up of Social facts

C. bringing together private troubles and public issues

D. avoiding explanations based on individual psychology