Miscellaneous Sociology – MCQs

When sociologists study the structure of layers in society and people’s movement between them, they call this_____________?

A) Social stratification

B) Social control

C) Social conflict

D) Social solidarity

International human solidarity day is observed annually on _____________?

A) 20 December

B) 10 November

C) 15 October

D) None of These

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

A) Political agency

B) Human agency

C) Public agency

D) None of these

Causes of necrosis includes ________?

A) Injury

B) Cancer

C) Infection

D) All of above

Positivism was first proposed by ___________?

A) Augustus Comte

B) Emily Durkheim

C) Herbert Spencer

D) None of these

Which of the followings are included in primary goals of a social science _______?

A) Experimentation

B) Generalization

C) Prediction

D) All of these

Which of the following shape our ideas more than the other __________?

A) Hereditary traits

B) Social groups interaction

C) Both ‘a & b’

D) None of these

Social Location is the group membership that people have because of their __________?

A) Status in society

B) Location in history and society

C) Location in a town

D) None of these

Sociological perspective means __________?

A) Understanding human behavior in broader context of society

B) Understanding human behavior in narrower context of society

C) Both ‘a & b’

D) None of these

Which of these statements is correct?

A) Causes and correlations are essentially the same

B) Correlations always lead to causal explanations

C) Causation cannot be inferred directly from correlation

D) Correlations are one-way causal relationships