sociology Mcqs
1001. Early theories of collective behavior emphasized ________ a view that crowd behavior is like a mental illness that a person cannot resist ?
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A. expressiveness

B. convention

C. group thinks

D. contagion

E. reformation

1002. The shift from custodial to joint parenthood after divorce means that_______________?
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A. fathers are more likely to be absent from their childrens lives

B. one parent has total responsibility for the childs welfare and socialization

C. both parents are expected to co-operate in the continued care of their children

D. parents must provide for all of their children in equal measure

1003. Gossip usually consists of information about a person ?
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A. family

B. crimes

C. work

D. military record

E. personal affairs
1004. A change in occupational position or role without involving any change in its position in the social hierarchy is called____________?
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A. Vertical mobility

B. None of these

C. social mobility

D. Horizontal mobility
1005. The term vested interests was coined by social economist ?
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A. Auguste Comte

B. Thorstein Veblen

C. Talcott Parsons

D. William F. Ogburn

1006. The term Socio Cultural Change refers to______________?
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A. Overlapping of two concepts

B. That there is no distinction between both

C. Changes of both kind

D. None of these

1007. Deviance is dysfunctional in that it_______________?
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A. can impair and undermine organized social life

B. increases our willingness to contribute to the larger social enterprise

C. enhances our trust of one another

D. increases our willingness to play our roles

1008. According to Merton the most common adaptation in the anomie theory of deviance is_____________?
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A. innovation

B. rebellion

C. conformity

D. ritualism

1009. The Functionalist view on social change sees development and modernization both________________?
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A. responsive but counterproductive

B. abnormal and troublesome

C. necessary and functional

D. humanistic and rational

E. slow and adaptive
1010. In sociological terms Which of the following constitute group ?
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A. women in the Pakistan 50 years and over

B. members of a hospitals business office

C. all residents of the city of Lahore

D. all of the above

1011. In modern society people belong to so many groups that a number of their in-group and out-group relationships overlap It has given the members of society a wide spectrum of___________?
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A. behavior learning

B. socialization

C. both a & b

D. None of these

1012. In order for a deviant act to be considered a crime______________?
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A. the majority of the population must consider the act criminal

B. it must be committed by someone labelled a criminal

C. it must involve the violation of a person or property

D. the state must undertake a political process of criminalizing it
1013. According to Foucault carceral organizations________________?
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A. stripped inmates of their previous identities

B. isolated people and put them under surveillance

C. increased the amount of power held by managers

D. emphasized human relations and employee satisfaction

1014. If labor market changes may lead to the rise of an occupational group within the social hierarchy it is_____________?
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A. None of these

B. Structural mobility

C. Intra-generational

D. Inter-generational

1015. Which one of the following crime rates was higher in the United States than in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s ?
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A. rape

B. all of the above

C. murder

D. robbery

1016. According to Edward T Hall which of the following zones of personal space is the one normally used in interaction with friends and close acquaintances ?
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A. public distance

B. intimate distance

C. personal distance

D. social distance

1017. In Gerhard Lenski,s theory of sociocultural evolution a societys level of __________ is critical to the way it is organized?
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A. technology

B. agriculture

C. health care

D. all of the above

1018. Principles such as efficiency calculability and predictability are all part of what Ritzer called____________?
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A. the service industry

B. McDonaldization

C. post-modernization

D. the culture of commerce

E. post-industrialization

1019. According to Smelsers model which of the following determinants of collective behavior occurs first ?
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A. structural conduciveness

B. growth of a generalized belief

C. structural strain

D. precipitating factors

1020. The career mobility of married women is still greatly handicapped by_____________?
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A. other rival women

B. None of these

C. household duties

D. men

1021. What is defined as non-conformity to a given set of norms that are accepted by a significant number of people in a community or society ?
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A. deviance

B. recidivism

C. criminality

D. degeneracy

1022. What is the most common reason people give for not reporting a crime ?
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A. best dealt with privately

B. fear of reprisal

C. too trivial for the police

D. dislike of the police

1023. Of what is the failure of companies to adhere to legal regulations that apply to them an example ?
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A. victimless crime

B. organized crime

C. corporate crime

D. white-collar crime

1024. The first stage according to Comte is that of_______________?
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A. Stage of scientific progress

B. Guided by supernatural wisdom

C. None of these

D. Stage of disbelief

1025. If a deviant act is normalized it is_______________?
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A. seen a temporary aberration from an otherwise normal character

B. the first step in establishing a deviant career

C. recognized as breaking an important norm of behavior

D. attributed to the persons genetic or anatomical make up

1026. What is the term for associations that members enter and leave freely ?
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A. coercive organizations

B. voluntary organizations

C. total institutions

D. utilitarian organizations

1027. Secondary groups are judged by them ?
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A. None of these

B. Emotional satisfaction

C. Performance

D. Sociability

1028. __________ movements advocate for progressive change using different methods than those that have previously failed and are often considered to be anti-government ?
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A. Reactionary

B. Radical

C. Reformist

D. Revolutionary

E. Redundant

1029. Rumors about a bizarre event that supposedly happened to someone far removed from the individual telling the story are often called_______________?
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A. schoolyard tales

B. rural legends

C. sports legends

D. legendary tales

E. urban legends
1030. Now a days more women are joining different fields and making their own status in society This provides women a mobility ladder apart form____________?
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A. Marriage

B. None of these

C. Their childrens status

D. Their fathers status

1031. A large kinship group whose members inhibit one geographical area and believe that they are descendent from a common ancestor is known as a_______________?
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A. class

B. Clan

C. Tribe

D. Kin group
1032. Downward mobility factors are_________________?
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A. Same

B. Opposite to those of upward mobility

C. different from those

D. None of these

1033. According to Marxian view each stage contained within itself the seeds of_____________?
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A. progress

B. its won destruction

C. next stage

D. both b and c
1034. Groups deliberately created for the achievement of specific objectives are called_____________?
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A. informal organizations

B. formal organizations

C. bureaucracies

D. task hierarchies

1035. Emergent norm theory argues that collective behavior arises when expectations regarding how to act are_____________?
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A. encouraged

B. repeated

C. vague

D. clear

E. explicit

1036. The word stratification derives from the geological concept Strata meaning ?
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A. class

B. groups

C. None of these

D. Rock layers
1037. People who are open to new experience and who tend to reject traditional patterns of authority are said to be experiencing ?
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A. anomie

B. hysteria

C. modernity

D. countenance

E. a cultural hangover

1038. We are not equally involved in all our in-groups To measure the degree of closeness or acceptance we feel toward other groups Bogardus developed a concept called______________?
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A. None of these

B. closeness degree

C. Measuring acceptance

D. Social distance
1039. Resistance to certain aspects of development and social change in an effort to neutralize their efforts is called________________?
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A. countermovement

B. post modernization

C. social amelioration

D. countenance

E. counter modernization

1040. Changes of relationships are primarily___________________________?
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A. Cultural Change

B. Social Change

C. Individual changes

D. None of these

1041. When a subordinate person breaks the tacit rules of everyday interaction this is called what ?
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A. interactional vandalism

B. a response cries

C. impression management

D. unfocused interaction

1042. Personality is formed in_______________?
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A. Primary group

B. Secondary group

C. Both groups

D. None of these

1043. Addition of new words in a language is a______________?
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A. Cultural Change

B. None of these

C. Language Change

D. Social Change

1044. A persons overall position in society is called_______________?
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A. master status

B. status set

C. ascribed status

D. achieved status

1045. What is the compulsion of proximity ?
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A. the ability to read peoples body language

B. the need to meet each other face to face

C. the dominance of spoken language in interactions

D. the desire for intimacy in personal relationships

1046. Change is the only ______ in the universe?
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A. Constant

B. Variable

C. None of these

D. Problem

1047. Which of the following theorists argued that conflict is a normal and desirable aspect of social change ?
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A. Talcott Parsons

B. each of above

C. Emile Durkheim

D. Karl Marx
1048. The value-added model of collective behavior ?
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A. is of little use in understanding the complexity of collective behavior.

B. presents three preconditions for collective behavior

C. states that each determinant expands the range of potential final outcomes

D. none of the above
1049. Social occasions in which individuals act out formal roles are called_____________?
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A. public regions

B. social regions

C. front regions

D. back regions

1050. The act of moving from one social class to another is termed as_____________?
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A. None of these

B. social groups

C. social mobility

D. Social class