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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.

sociology Mcqs

581. Goldthorpe identified the Service class as______________?
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A. those who had worked in the armed services

B. those in non-manual occupations exercising authority on behalf of the state

C. the young men and women employed in domestic service in the nineteenth century

D. people working in consultancy firms who were recruited by big businesses

582. The division between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat is the key to stratification in capitalist societies This statement is consistent with the thinking of which theorist ?
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A. Parsons

B. Marx

C. Weber

D. Lincoln

583. Durkheim defined social facts as______________?
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A. the way scientists construct knowledge in a social context

B. data collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct

C. ideas and theories that have no basis in the external physical world

D. ways of acting thinking and feeling that are collective and social in origin

584. The Most Prominent spokesmen of Functionalist Perspective are______________?
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A. Kingsley Davis

B. Talcott Parsons

C. All of above

D. Robert Merton

585. Weber defined a class situation as____________?
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A. the exploitation of the working class by their capitalist employers

B. the lifestyle of a social class as defined by patterns of consumption

C. a social groups consciousness of their status and life chances

D. a persons position in the capital product and labor markets based on their economic resources

586. A minority group is one that is both disadvantaged and_______________?
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A. identifiably different from others in a society

B. has some sense of collective or group solidarity?

C. holds views contrary to the social norm

D. numerically small compared to the main social group

587. Which of the following positions is NOT associated with the hyper globalizers ?
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A. individual countries no longer control their own economies

B. citizens lose faith in existing systems of governance

C. regional institutions are becoming as powerful as nation-states

D. globalization needs to happen much more quickly

588. Suicide rate was higher in Protestants because they had higher emphasis on______________?
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A. Harmony

B. solidarity

C. None of these

D. Individualism

589. In Karl Marx,s view the destruction of the capitalist system will occur only if the working class first develops______________?
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A. bourgeois consciousness

B. class consciousness

C. false consciousness

D. caste consciousness

590. Spengler and Toynbee deny_____________?
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A. cultural growth from simple to complex

B. None of these

C. existence of upward progress

D. cyclic

591. The people of the same class share for the most part ?
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A. Same income level

B. Way of life values

C. Both of the values

D. None of these

592. Marx said that the development of the labor movement through factory-based production would turn the working class into____________?
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A. a-class by itself

B. a ruling class

C. a class for itself

D. a class in itself

593. Which one of these is NOT one of the newly industrializing countries ?
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A. Hungary

B. Taiwan

C. Brazil

D. South Korea

594. Older people living in housing for the elderly, workers in an offshore oil rig rodeo cowboys and circus performers-all are examples of what sociologists refer to as_____________?
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A. cultural universals

B. argot

C. subcultures

D. countercultures

595. Global economic inequality refers primarily to______________?
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A. systematic differences in wealth and income within countries

B. systematic difference in wealth and income between global firms

C. systematic differences in wealth and income between countries

D. systematic differences in wealth and income between poorer countries

596. The process of turning the class concept into something measurable is called_____________?
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A. operationalization

B. operant conditioning

C. operational research

D. modus operandum

597. Material and Non-material culture are_________________?
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A. not related to each other

B. slightly related

C. None of these

D. complementary

598. Which of the following does John Scott identify as belonging to the middle class ?
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A. finance capitalists

B. none of the above

C. senior executives

D. industrial entrepreneurs

599. Which one of these is NOT one of the newly industrializing countries ?
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A. Brazil

B. Taiwan

C. South korea

D. Hungary

600. In Society in America which early sociologist gave special attention to status distinctions and to such factors as gender and race ?
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A. Auguste Comte

B. Emile Durkheim

C. Harriet Martineau

D. Max Weber

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