sociology MCQs – Page 75

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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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
1481. Bourdieu attributed the reproduction of class to______________?
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A. cults of the capital

B. capital culture

C. culpable capture

D. cultural capital
1482. When was the World Wide Web invented at a Swiss physics laboratory ?
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A. 1980

B. 1995

C. 1990

D. 1985

1483. Which term describes the process whereby religion loses its influence over various spheres of social life ?
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A. fundamentalism

B. evangelicalism

C. alienation

D. secularization
1484. Social occasions in which individuals act out formal roles are called___________?
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A. social regions

B. back regions

C. front regions

D. public regions

1485. A decline in which of the following does Putnam link to the spread of television ?
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A. cultural capital

B. rational through

C. political awareness

D. social capital
1486. In Which of these countries is Orthodox Christianity the dominant religion ?
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A. Greece

B. Finland

C. Ireland

D. Spain

1487. Which of the following does NOT account for the rise in the cost of health care ?
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A. Classical rules that govern marketplace exchanges have been applied to the health care industry for decades

B. Labor costs have risen sharply

C. The concept of health has been expanded to include mental and psychological difficulties and condition such as infertility

D. The continual upgrading in the scope and intensity of medical services is costly

1488. There are some important gender inequalities in paid employment and the chapter identifies three of these Which one of the following is not one of the three ?
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A. womens concentration in part-time jobs

B. the wage gap in favor of men

C. the division of household labor

D. occupational segregation

1489. What sociological approach argues that religions can be fruitfully understood as organization in competition with one another for followers ?
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A. religious ritual

B. religious economy

C. religious culture

D. religious polity

1490. The socializer is also called socializing agent and socialize is also called_______________?
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A. novice

B. principal

C. None of these

D. object of socializing process

1491. Who is most closely associated with the view that the equal and impartial treatment of each case is a strength of bureaucracies ?
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A. Zygmunt Bauman

B. Michel Foucault

C. Robert Michels

D. Paul Gay
1492. How does racial and ethnic stratification differ from other forms of stratification ?
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A. Racial and ethnic groups often have the potential for carving out their own independent nations from the existing state

B. Racial and ethnic stratification is harder to eliminate than are other forms of stratification

C. All other forms of stratification grow out of racial and ethnic stratification

D. All of the above

1493. ________ is a relatively permanent change in behaviour or capability that results from experience ?
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A. Insight

B. Education

C. Manipulated cognition

D. Learning

1494. The coexistence of diverse groups is called_______________?
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A. continued subjugation

B. gatekeeping

C. pluralism

D. assimilation

1495. Which Black person wrote the acclaimed novel Invisible Man ?
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A. Malcolm X

B. James Baldwin

C. Alice Walker

D. Ralph Ellison

1496. Ludwig Feuerbach,s views on the alienation involved in transferring human values and ideas onto gods and spirits as distinct from human societies influenced the ideas of which classical sociologist ?
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A. Max Weber

B. Vilfredo Pareto

C. Karl Marx

D. Emile Durkheim

1497. The concept of collective consumption is most closely associated with______________?
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A. Moloch

B. Castells

C. Saunders

D. Harvey

1498. Secularization involves the two related ideas of__________________?
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A. disbelief and disintegration

B. distribution and distillation

C. disengagement and disenchantment

D. disappointment and disproportion

1499. In the twentieth century, the familys protective function has increasingly been transferred to outside agencies such as______________?
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A. mental health clinics

B. insurance companies

C. hospitals

D. all of the above
1500. Weber,s famous study The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1904/5) was part of a larger project to study what ?
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A. how salvation beliefs have shaped the modern world economy

B. Christianity,s influence in the West

C. the impact of capitalism on the world religions

D. the influence of the world religions on social development