sociology MCQs – Page 51

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
1001. Early theories of collective behavior emphasized ________ a view that crowd behavior is like a mental illness that a person cannot resist ?
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A. expressiveness

B. convention

C. group thinks

D. contagion

E. reformation

1002. The shift from custodial to joint parenthood after divorce means that_______________?
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A. fathers are more likely to be absent from their childrens lives

B. one parent has total responsibility for the childs welfare and socialization

C. both parents are expected to co-operate in the continued care of their children

D. parents must provide for all of their children in equal measure

1003. Gossip usually consists of information about a person ?
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A. family

B. crimes

C. work

D. military record

E. personal affairs
1004. A change in occupational position or role without involving any change in its position in the social hierarchy is called____________?
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A. Vertical mobility

B. None of these

C. social mobility

D. Horizontal mobility
1005. The term vested interests was coined by social economist ?
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A. Auguste Comte

B. Thorstein Veblen

C. Talcott Parsons

D. William F. Ogburn

1006. The term Socio Cultural Change refers to______________?
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A. Overlapping of two concepts

B. That there is no distinction between both

C. Changes of both kind

D. None of these

1007. Deviance is dysfunctional in that it_______________?
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A. can impair and undermine organized social life

B. increases our willingness to contribute to the larger social enterprise

C. enhances our trust of one another

D. increases our willingness to play our roles

1008. According to Merton the most common adaptation in the anomie theory of deviance is_____________?
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A. innovation

B. rebellion

C. conformity

D. ritualism

1009. The Functionalist view on social change sees development and modernization both________________?
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A. responsive but counterproductive

B. abnormal and troublesome

C. necessary and functional

D. humanistic and rational

E. slow and adaptive
1010. In sociological terms Which of the following constitute group ?
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A. women in the Pakistan 50 years and over

B. members of a hospitals business office

C. all residents of the city of Lahore

D. all of the above

1011. In modern society people belong to so many groups that a number of their in-group and out-group relationships overlap It has given the members of society a wide spectrum of___________?
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A. behavior learning

B. socialization

C. both a & b

D. None of these

1012. In order for a deviant act to be considered a crime______________?
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A. the majority of the population must consider the act criminal

B. it must be committed by someone labelled a criminal

C. it must involve the violation of a person or property

D. the state must undertake a political process of criminalizing it
1013. According to Foucault carceral organizations________________?
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A. stripped inmates of their previous identities

B. isolated people and put them under surveillance

C. increased the amount of power held by managers

D. emphasized human relations and employee satisfaction

1014. If labor market changes may lead to the rise of an occupational group within the social hierarchy it is_____________?
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A. None of these

B. Structural mobility

C. Intra-generational

D. Inter-generational

1015. Which one of the following crime rates was higher in the United States than in Europe during the 1980s and 1990s ?
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A. rape

B. all of the above

C. murder

D. robbery

1016. According to Edward T Hall which of the following zones of personal space is the one normally used in interaction with friends and close acquaintances ?
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A. public distance

B. intimate distance

C. personal distance

D. social distance

1017. In Gerhard Lenski,s theory of sociocultural evolution a societys level of __________ is critical to the way it is organized?
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A. technology

B. agriculture

C. health care

D. all of the above

1018. Principles such as efficiency calculability and predictability are all part of what Ritzer called____________?
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A. the service industry

B. McDonaldization

C. post-modernization

D. the culture of commerce

E. post-industrialization

1019. According to Smelsers model which of the following determinants of collective behavior occurs first ?
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A. structural conduciveness

B. growth of a generalized belief

C. structural strain

D. precipitating factors

1020. The career mobility of married women is still greatly handicapped by_____________?
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A. other rival women

B. None of these

C. household duties

D. men