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 Review each marked answer and report any item that may be outdated or unclear.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

141. Which of the following statements about crime and deviance is false ?
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A. deviance is normally sanctioned by law

B. the concept of deviance can be applied to individuals and groups

C. the concept of deviance is much broader than crime

D. deviance and crime very often overlap

142. The application of evolutionary notions and the concept of the survival of the fittest to society is called_______________?
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A. Social Darwinism

B. Social dynamics

C. class conflict

D. Dialectical materialism

143. When in sociology we speak of researchers using controls we mean_________________?
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A. holding some variables constant to look at the effects of others

B. seeking to manipulate the outcomes of a research process

C. being as precise as possible in defining an initial hypothesis

D. supervising the data collection process as closely as possible

144. Psychological positivism stresses the key role that _______ plays in the development of conformist of criminal belief systems?
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A. hormones

B. early childhood

C. genetic abnormalities

D. adolescence

E. pre-natal nutrition

145. Which of the following influenced the theoretical approach known as symbolic interactionism ?
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A. George Herbert Mead

B. Georg Hegel

C. Ralf Dahrendof

D. Talcott Parsons

146. Which of the following is most closely associated with the concept of the sociological imagination ?
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A. Karl Marx

B. C Wright Mills

C. Max Weber

D. Emile Durkheim

147. In most instances how well a student does on a test is determined by how much the student studies for it in this example studying for an exam is a (n) ?
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A. independent variable

B. dependent variable

C. sample

D. correlation

148. The first book with the term sociology in its title was written by_________________?
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A. None of these

B. Max Weber

C. Karl Marx

D. Herbert Spencer

149. The of who defines deviance has principally been addressed by what sociological theory ?
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A. Functionalism

B. Conflict

C. Social Control

D. Differential Association

E. Positivism

150. The term sociology was coined by________________?
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A. Emile Durkheim

B. August Comte

C. None of these

D. Max Weber

151. Which approach framed their analysis of crime and deviance in terms of this preservation of power by the ruling class ?
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A. interactionism

B. Right Realism

C. New Left Realism

D. new criminology

152. The first step in scientific method is________________?
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A. Recollection

B. Observation

C. Addition to already experimented material

D. None of these

153. Which one of the following concepts did Mix weber introduce to the field of sociology ?
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A. ideal types

B. dramaturgy

C. functionalism

D. macrosociology

154. Which of the following is not part of karl Marx,s theory of capitalism ?
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A. class conflict is inevitable in capitalist societies

B. industrial workers are the revolutionary class

C. class struggle only occurs under capitalism

D. capitalist production exploits the working class

155. Sociology________________?
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A. has little bearing on public policy

B. Is the scientific study of social interaction and organization?

C. has been to study social interaction for over 500 years.

D. is most useful when applied to abstract -as opposed to practical matters

156. According to Scott (1990) a document is authentic if it________________?
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A. is a sincere and accurate account free from political bias

B. is representative of all the similar documents that did not survive

C. has both a literal and an interpretable meaning

D. is a sound original, or reliable copy of known authorship

157. Sociologists________________?
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A. should obtain informed consent in cases where subjects may be exposed to risks of research that are greater than the risks of everyday life

B. are exempt from the considerations of research ethics that govern biological researchers

C. have not been able to agree on a code of ethics

D. enjoy the same privileges as attorneys in protecting subjects privacy

158. A mean, median and mode are all examples of_______________?
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A. measures of correlation

B. measures of enumeration

C. measures of coefficients

D. measures of variation

E. measures of central tendency

159. Who wrote the first book on the methodology of social research How to Observe Manners and Morals ?
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A. Emily Post

B. Harriet Martineau

C. Herbert Spencer

D. Emile Durkheim

160. It is useful to have a diversity of theories in sociology because________________?
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A. It removes the need to assess a theory according to the empirical evidence

B. human behavior is so complicated that no single theory would be adequate

C. sociologists can choose the theory that best fits the data they have collected

D. innumerable theories have been developed in the many fields of sociology

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