sociology MCQs – Page 18

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
341. Compared With the sate formation process in industrialized countries which one of the following created major problems for developing societies ?
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A. the legacy of colonialism

B. the lock of a democratic culture

C. the lack of a strong work ethic

D. the legacy of economic mismanagement by local leaders

342. The conflict perspective would note that____________?
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A. Patients play an active role in health care by failing to follow a physicians advice

B. Multinational corporations based in industrialized countries have reaped significant profits dumping unapproved drugs on unsuspecting Third World countries.

C. Physicians serve as gatekeepers for the sick role either verifying a patients condition as illness or designating the patient as recovered.

D. The designation healthy or ill generally involves social definition by others

343. Max Weber_____________?
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A. recognized that it is impossible for scholars to prevent their personal values from influencing their work

B. emphasized that under no conditions could a researcher allow his or her personal feelings to influence the interpretation of data

C. all of the above

D. stressed that researchers had to maintain the confidentiality of their subjects

344. An experiment can be defined as______________?
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A. a piece of research conducted in a laboratory

B. a piece of research trying out new methods

C. an attempt to deceive participants about the researchs true purpose

D. an attempt to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions
345. Which sociological perspective minimizes change ?
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A. conflict perspective

B. each of the above

C. interactionist perspective

D. functionalist perspective
346. Which of the following would not be a good example of a counterculture ?
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A. organized crime

B. Toronto Raptors fans

C. motorcycle gangs

D. racist groups

E. terrorism

347. Judicial decisions are a part of_____________?
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A. None of them

B. British constitution

C. Convention

D. American constitution

348. According to Jean Baudrillard What is hyper reality ?
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A. modern theme parks such as Disneyland

B. people, s affinity with soap characters rather than real people

C. the merging of reality and media representations

D. the virtual world made possible by the Internet

349. The abbreviation NIMBY stands for not in my backyard a cry often heard when people protest____________?
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A. landfills

B. prisons

C. all of the above

D. nuclear power facilities

350. Conflict theory is often criticized for failing to account for______________?
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A. the rights of workers

B. minority rights

C. latent functions

D. women

E. consensus
351. Max Weber,s pioneering work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is an example of______________?
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A. resurgent fundamentalism

B. Macro-level analysis

C. the interactionist approach to religion

D. micro-level analysis

352. People waiting for a bus are an example of a(n) ?
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A. subculture

B. transitory collective

C. group

D. aggregate
353. Who became the first ever Professor of Sociology ?
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A. Talcott Parsons

B. Robert Merton

C. George Herbert Mead

D. Emile Durkheim
354. Which sociological perspective emphasizes that patients should not always be viewed as passive but instead as an actor who often shows a powerful intent to see the physician ?
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A. labelling theory

B. interactionist perspective

C. conflict perspective

D. Functionalist perspective

355. Pre-testing a naira is useful for_____________?
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A. finding out which topics are important to the respondents

B. deciding which respondents to leave out of the final sample

C. identifying any problems with the wording and routing

D. testing out your computer and printer

356. Which theoretical perspective in sociology emphasizes the inter-dependence of component parts of society ?
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A. Feminism

B. Symbolic Interaction ism

C. Structural Functionalism

D. Conflict

E. Staples

357. A list of cultural universals was compiled by anthropologist_______________?
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A. William F. Ogburn

B. Margaret Mead

C. George Murdock

D. Max Weber

358. The destruction of a culture through conquest is referred to by anthropologists as_____________?
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A. infanticide

B. pesticide

C. homicide

D. cultural extinction

E. ethnocide
359. Aging is an important phenomenon in developed countries specially ______________?
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A. Europe

B. Japan

C. USA

D. Both A and B
360. Search for ways of using scientific knowledge to solve practical problems is termed as_____________?
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A. Pure science

B. Applied Science

C. both a & b

D. None of these