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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

61. The ecological approach to urban sociology involved studying ?
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A. how social groups colonized different areas of the city and competed for resources

B. the forms of wildlife and natural habitats that could be found on the edges of the city

C. the way in which people organized collective protests about environmental issues

D. how men and women used the citys public spaces differently

62. The first stage that existed in Pre-British era was when civil society existed in the form of______________?
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A. NGOs

B. Baradaris

C. Rural Notables

D. Both b and c

63. The adage that its not what you know it,s who you know emphasizes the importance of connections This is most relevant to the concept of____________?
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A. Network economy

B. De-differentiation

C. Social capital

D. Political corruption

64. The term collective consumption (Castells 1977) refers to____________?
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A. the form of tuberculosis suffered by those who collect stamps

B. the provision of health housing and education services by the state

C. the privatization of public services by the Conservative government

D. the lifestyle practice of shopping in peer groups

65. Which of the following is not identified by Fulcher & Scott as a criterion of community ?
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A. a shared sense of identity and belonging together

B. common activities involving all -round relationships

C. collective action based on common interests

D. a fixed geographical location

66. Division of labor social class formal government institutions and system of trade and commerce all are peculiar to any_____________?
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A. Urban Community

B. Rural Community

C. Both a and b

D. None of these

67. According to Gerald Suttles a gated community would be an example of a(n)_____________?
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A. ethnic village

B. edge city

C. urban enclave

D. defended neighborhood

68. Governance theory is mainly occupied with institutional change and it involves ______ agency.
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A. Public agency

B. None of these

C. Human agency

D. Political agency

69. A detailed plan or method for obtaining data scientifically called a (n) ?
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A. experiment

B. research design

C. scientific method

D. sample

70. Robert Merton,s contributions to sociology include______________?
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A. an analysis of deviant behavior that focuses on societal goals and means

B. all of the above

C. an attempt to bring macro- and micro

D. successfully combining theory and research

71. In contemporary societies social institutions are_______________?
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A. no longer relevant to sociology

B. highly specialized interrelated sets of social practices

C. virtual communities in cyberspace

D. disorganized social relations in a post modem world

72. Sociology differs from common sense in that_______________?
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A. it makes little distinction between the way the world is and the way it ought to be

B. it is subjective and biased

C. its knowledge is accumulated from many different research contexts

D. it focuses on the researchers own experiences

73. Tearoom Trade is typical of the s asked by sociologists because______________?
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A. the investigator is sympathetic to the activities that he is investigating

B. it investigates working of society that are different from official accounts

C. it takes place outside the university campus

D. it makes use of covert research methods

74. A data collection method in which the researcher does not interact with the subject(s) being studied is called_______________?
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A. qualitative analysis

B. field research

C. content analysis

D. ethnography

E. an unobtrusive

75. An instructor wants to determine if giving essay tests increases student learning one class that the instructor teaches she continues to test as she has always done In another class she gives the students essay s She then measures the differences in learning if any between the two classes The class that is given essay s is the_______________?
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A. correlation group

B. control group

C. representative group

D. experimental group

76. The approach to crime prevention based on increased surveillance (such as CCTV and Neighborhood Watch schemes) and target hardening (such as a car immobilizers and better home security) is known as what ?
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A. situational crime prevention

B. deviance reduction theory

C. the new criminology

D. broken windows theory

77. The feeling of aimlessness or despair often associated with unsettling conditions is_______________?
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A. anomie

B. ascription

C. amorality

D. alienation

78. ____________involves the transformation of raw data into numbers to make it suitable for further analysis ?
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A. Factoring

B. Enumeration

C. Coding

D. Classification

E. Conceptualization

79. Theoretical approaches can only be said to be valid if______________?
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A. they are written in such a way as to be impossible to disprove

B. the theorist has researched the literature thoroughly

C. they are shared by a large enough number of theorists

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

80. Homogeneity farming and subsistent economy are salient features of_____________?
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A. Urban Community

B. All of these

C. Rural community

D. None of these

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