sociology MCQs – Page 26

A. identifiably different from others in a society

B. numerically small compared to the main social group

C. holds views contrary to the social norm

A. Gross Domestic Product

C. Purchasing Power Parity

D. Gross National Income

A. three-fourths of divorced women

B. 80 percent of divorced women

D. two-thirds of divorced men

A. governments consider modern contraceptive measures to be a threat to the preservation and continuation of their way of life.

C. economic development will lead to a reduction in fertility

D. people can be coerced into using family planning techniques

A. formal communication

C. passive consumption

D. conceptual abstraction

A. functionalist perspective

B. conflict perspective

D. labeling theory

A. tax avoidance

B. gated communities

D. homelessness

A. they lead more people to be defined as in poverty

C. the median is a more accurate measurement of earning than the mean

D. all of the above

B. the flow of money a person receives from their salary or wage

C. the slices of the population who own differing amounts of wealth

D. the culturally valued commodities and standards of living that make the poor feel relatively deprived

A. The environment houses our species

B. The environment provides the resources essential for life

D. The environment serves as a waste depository

A. a reduction in population size caused by a higher rate of emigration than immigration

B. a change in the principal causes of death and disease since industrialization

D. increased birth and death rates resulting in a relatively young population

A. the state,s power can be exercised through several different administrative structures

C. there is a close alignment between class background and party preference

D. the ruling elite is composed of people from various class backgrounds

A. we think before we act

C. we have learned enough to function independently

D. we are capable of achieving at a maximum capacity

E. we are shaped by the primary agents of socialization in our life

A. it enables comparisons between groups in different countries

B. it distinguishes between biological and social factors

D. it denotes something fixed and unchanging

A. protection

B. providing of social status

D. reproduction

A. relatively open class systems

C. all of the above

D. extensive social mobility

A. low birthrates and high death rates

B. low birthrates and low death rates

D. high birthrates and death rates

A. None of these

B. Intelligentsia

C. Industrialist

B. a group of people sharing living accommodation and meals

C. the new family created when an adult leaves home and gets married

D. a network of relatives extended within or between generations

A. an increase in the death rate

C. an increase in the birth rate

D. an exponential growth in population

A. the ease of migration to the city

B. all of the above

D. the high levels of surplus produced by the agricultural sector

A. Howard S Becker

B. Emile Durkhieim

C. Robert Merton

B. oppression of minorities enforcement of norms planning and direction protection against enemies within society

C. arbitration of conflicting interests maintaining social contracts distributing goods and services protection against internal threats

D. enforcement of norms planning and direction protection against other societies protection against enemies within society

A. each of the above

B. a university

D. a factory

A. the increasing number of single parent families

C. the absence of fathers in many households

D. the rising divorce rates

A. Absolute poverty

C. both a and b

D. None of these

A. risen from 56 to 67 years

B. fallen from 54 to 50 years

C. fallen from 50 to 47 years

A. ethnic minorities practised religion to achieve social acceptance in the culture

C. mainstream faiths were becoming increasingly identified with national identity

D. the moral teachings of the main religions were becoming relatively similar

A. Protection

B. Learning and growing

D. None of these

A. urbanization/vertical mobility

B. industrialization /horizontal mobility

D. industrialization/vertical mobility

E. horizontal mobility /vertical mobility

A. John Maynard Keynes

C. Adam Smith

D. Arthur Scargill

A. ethnic villagers

C. the trapped

D. urban villagers

A. the Per row principle

B. the Peter principle

C. the school principal

A. nuclear family

B. polygynous family

D. dysfunctional family

A. functionalist perspective

B. interactionist perspective

C. conflict perspective

A. 32 years

C. 22 years

D. 42 years

A. game

B. play

C. infancy

D. maturation

A. University of Manchester

C. University of Cambridge

D. London Metropolitan University

B. postmodern

C. vocational

D. traditional

A. that men lacks a system of checks and balances in his life

C. that psychology is the dominant theory the social sciences

D. that there is no such thing as a superego

E. that biology/genetics explains everything

B. 2 dollars per day

C. 3 dollar per day

D. None of these

B. Ecology

C. Popology

D. Stratification

A. British-born second-generation immigrants from the Asian subcontinent

B. African-Caribbeans who lived in the inner cities and had a distinctive youth culture

C. White Americans who wanted to convert to Islam

A. Force is the most effective means for political rule

C. The elites ideals are fulfilled but tainted by use of force

D. Force is very efficient but also very costly

A. gentrifies

B. the trapped

C. cosmopolites

A. Michel Foucault

B. Jean Baudrillard

C. Steven Lukes

A. a did not exist in any form

B. was simply another institution of patriarchal control?

C. had begun to disappear as extended networks of kin became more important

A. post transition stage

B. transition stage

D. initiation stage

A. Roman Catholics

B. Episcopalians

C. Unitarians

A. is less likely in second marriages

B. has little or no new effect on the lives of children

C. no longer displaces homemakers in these days of womens liberation