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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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

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481. Theoretical approaches can only be said to be, valid. if______________?
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A. they are shared by a large enough number of theorists

B. they have been tested out by means of factual research

C. the theorist has researched the literatures thoroughly

D. they are written in such a way as to be impossible to disprove

482. According to Manual Castells which is the defining organizational structure of our age ?
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A. bureaucracy

B. conglomerates

C. hierarchy

D. networks

483. The limitation of symbolic interactionism is that________________?
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A. It overlooks macro-level interaction

B. It cannot count for culture

C. None of these

D. It overlooks micro-level interaction

484. Who stated that war is the continuation of political intercourse by other means ?
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A. Karl Marx

B. Mary Kaldor

C. Carl von Clausewitz

D. Martin Shaw

485. Which of the following is NOT an example of an American folkway ?
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A. the courtesy of arriving on time for a religious service

B. the practice of shaking hands when greeting someone for the first time

C. the custom of chewing food with one,s mouth closed

D. the habit of driving on the right-hand side of the road

486. A researcher can obtain a higher response rate by using which type of survey ?
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A. representative samples

B. observation techniques

C. interviews

D. nares

487. Which term was introduced by Charles Per row to refer to failures that are inevitable given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized ________________?
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A. the Per row principle

B. the school principal

C. normal accidents

D. the Peter principle

488. In many contemporary conflicts attempts are made to protect soldiers often at the expense of civilian lives in order to minimize political problems from media coverage of fatalities How are such conflicts described ?
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A. degenerate wars

B. risk-transfer wars

C. genocides

D. illegal wars

489. The notion of citizenship rights is associated with______________?
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A. E.H Carr

B. A.H Halsey

C. T.H Huxley

D. T.H Marshall

490. A university that serves as a meeting ground for people seeking marital partners is performing_______________?
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A. a manifest function

B. a latent function

C. a manifest dysfunction

D. a dysfunction

491. What name did Norbert Elias give to the dynamic of competition between social units that eventually gave rise to a nation state ?
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A. the courtizaion process

B. the decivilizing process

C. the monopoly mechanism

D. the absolutist mechanism

492. Which sociology perspective emphasizes that societies literally could not function if massive numbers of people defied standards of appropriate conduct ?
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A. conflict perspective

B. functionalist perspective

C. labelling theory

D. interactionist perspective

493. Evolutionary theory is of the view that society like biological organisms moves from___________?
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A. complex to simple

B. Complex to more complex

C. simple to complex

D. None of these

494. Social exclusion refers to ways in which people are cut off from full involvement in society How has Veit-Wilson (1998) distinguished the main variants of this concept ?
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A. old/new

B. general/specific

C. weak/strong

D. primary/secondary

495. While vacationing in Great Britain an American discover that the British drive on the Wrong side of the road are critical of his United States accent and will not accept dollars in stores He feel disoriented and out of place and thus are experiencing ?
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A. xenocentrism

B. culture shock

C. the Hawthorne effects

D. the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

496. Experiments are of two types_____________?
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A. Laboratory

B. Field

C. both A & B

D. None of these

497. Which of the following statements concerning roles is FALSE ?
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A. A single status may have multiple roles attached to it

B. Roles define duties but only statuses define rights

C. A role does not exist in isolation but is integrated with the activities of other people

D. Groups consist of complexes of interlocking roles

498. The print revolution of the nineteenth century resulted in_____________?
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A. the public ownership of newspapers as a shared resource

B. more people going to the cinema as a new leisure activity

C. a reduction of virtual communities on the internet

D. mass production mass circulation and the decline of serious content

499. The global economy and the concept of global interdependence is often accused of having_______________?
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A. a positive influence on multicultural development

B. too many rules and regulations that weigh progress down

C. a disregard for cultural assimilation

D. few boundaries

E. too much concern for non-material culture

500. Social norms are______________?
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A. creative activities such as gardening cookery and craftwork

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

C. religious beliefs about how the world ought to be

D. rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life

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