sociology MCQs – Page 41

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
801. In modern societies social status is typically measured by a person_______________?
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A. income

B. verbal fluency

C. age

D. occupation
802. Which one of the following is NOT associated with the materialist conception of history ?
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A. the mode of production

B. the history of class struggle

C. the motor of history

D. the spirit of capitalism
803. Which one of the following is a pull factor in emigration ?
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A. population pressures

B. employment opportunities

C. political oppression

D. food shortages

804. The term Second World societies refers to______________?
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A. countries that industrialized after those in Europe

B. countries that industrialized less successfully than Europe

C. countries that have yet to proceed to industrialize

D. countries that industrialized under state central planning
805. A series of complexes centering upon an important activity is___________________?
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A. None of these

B. Trait

C. Religion

D. Institution
806. Which of the following is a characteristic of a society ?
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A. A group must have at least 1,500 members to be considered a society

B. Members of a society possess a wide variety of values and norms based on their social status

C. Members of a society comprise a more or less self-sufficient social unit

D. Another term for society is nation-state

807. The conflict theory holds that stratification exists because____________?
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A. privilege prestige and power are equally distributed in society

B. capitalists and workers are class conscious

C. its benefits individuals and groups who have the power to dominate and exploit others

D. the capitalist drive to distribute wealth equitably is the foundation of modern society

808. Women of which ethnic group are least likely to have a white partner ?
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A. India

B. Pakistan

C. Chinese

D. Bangladeshi
809. Which of the following are viewed by sociologists as analytically distinct components of stratification ?
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A. class prestige and esteem

B. conformity deviance and social control

C. class caste and age

D. class status and power
810. What is the idea that racism pervades all of societys structures in a systematic way called ?
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A. cultural racism

B. new racism

C. ethnocentrism

D. institutional racism
811. A social stratum is_______________?
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A. a level in the social hierarchy comprising people with shared life chances

B. a symbol of status used to differentiate between social classes

C. the boundary between two levels of the social hierarchy

D. a methodological tool used to identify a persons social class

812. the level of public spending on Education has regrettably reduced from 2.6% in 1990, s to _____ in 2002-03 ?
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A. None of these

B. 1.50%

C. 1.8%

D. 2%

813. A social class is a group of people who stand in a common relationship to the means of production Whose perspective does this definition describe ?
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A. Erik Olin-Wright

B. Karl Marx

C. John Goldthorpe

D. Max Weber

814. Which of these classification terms when in use would never have been used to describe for example Ghana in Africa ?
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A. global South

B. second World

C. developing

D. majority world

815. The class polarization that Marx predicted referred to________________?
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A. the division of each social class into the more or less privileged.

B. the tendency for the working class to live in very could places

C. a growing gap between rich and poor resulting in class consciousness

D. the growth of intermediate strata in the middle classes

816. Underclass refers to____________?
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A. the poor who are concentrated in isolated rural areas

B. individuals who experience occasional poverty but who move back into the mainstream of economic life within 12 months

C. the persistently poor who exist mainly because of a sharp climb in joblessness due to a redistribution of jobs in the inner city

D. both b and c

817. Pakistanis net primary enrolment is significantly below than its neighbors specially ?
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A. India

B. Sri Lanka

C. Bangladesh

D. None of these
818. The term ethnocentrism was coined by sociologist____________?
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A. George Murdock

B. William Graham Sumner

C. Max Weber

D. William F. Ogburn

819. Values_______________?
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A. provide explicit indications of which behaviors are acceptable and which are not.

B. are general and abstract and do not explicitly specify which behaviors are acceptable and which are not

C. are narrow ideas about what is desirable correct and good

D. are defined by symbols

820. The lower class is often considered to be living in_______________?
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A. None of these

B. Mere poverty

C. Culture of lower class

D. culture of poverty