sociology MCQs – Page 39

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

761. The Maasai of Kenya is an example of_______________?
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A. Hunter gatherer society

B. Agrarian society

C. Pastoralist society

D. None of these

762. Which of the following positions is NOT associated with the hyper globalizers ?
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A. regional institutions are becoming as powerful as nation-states

B. individual countries no longer control their own economies

C. citizens lose faith in existing systems of governance

D. globalization needs to happen much more quickly

763. Which of the following is not part of the argument made against globalization by sceptics ?
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A. trading blocs are effective not a global economy

B. regionalization is occurring not globalization

C. economic globalization is occurring not political globalization

D. national governments are most significant not international institutions

764. A pastoralist society depends upon ?
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A. domesticated livestock

B. Trade and business

C. None of these

D. agriculture

765. Arlie Hochschild,s The Managed Heart is an influential application of_____________?
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A. emotional labor

B. symbolic interactionism

C. social action

D. symbiosis

766. Dropout rate in Pakistan is_____________?
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A. None of these

B. 40%

C. 50%

D. 60%

767. The kuznets hypothesis states that as economic development proceeds inequality ?
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A. first increases then decreases then increases then decreases

B. first increases then flattens out, before rising again

C. first increases then decreases before remaining low

D. first decreases then increases before remaining high

768. According to Durkheim an important component of social life was______________?
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A. Social solidarity

B. Social alienation

C. Individualism

D. None of these

769. Sociology can be considered a social science because_______________?
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A. sociologists collect data in a relatively objective and systematic way

B. all of the above

C. ideas and research findings are scrutinized by other sociologists

D. its theories are logical explicit and supported by empirical evidence

770. Which one of the following does not apply to social class systems ?
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A. class positions are in part achieved

B. class systems are relatively fluid

C. class is economically based

D. class position is entirely subjective

771. The most extreme form of legalized social inequality for individuals or groups is ________________?
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A. open class system

B. caste systems

C. closed caste systems

D. slavery

772. When Berger & Luckman said that reality is socially constructed they meant ?
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A. sociologists decide what constitutes social reality and measure only that

B. people negotiate shared definitions of their situation and live according to these often forgetting that these social worlds are not fixed and external

C. scientists are guided in their work by social values and interests, so they define and measure phenomena that will support their theories

D. terms like reality have no deeper meaning beyond the level of discourse

773. The term culture industry used by members of the Frankfurt School referred to____________?
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A. the development of subcultures and counter-cultures in society

B. they way in which industrialization had created new means of communication

C. they way in which cultural products were bought and sold for profit

D. the globalization of culture through new technologies

774. The solution Marx gave to the problem of alienation was______________?
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A. Dictatorship

B. Communism

C. None of these

D. Democracy