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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

 

What sociological theory of crime and deviance emphasizes sub-cultural belief systems as a major contributor to crime?
A) Social Control theory
B) Anomie theory
C) Lower Class Focal Value theory
D) Social Process theory

According to Strain theory, ____ are those individuals who have traditional success goals but substitute deviant means by which to achieve them?
A) Ritualists
B) Ret realists
C) Rebels
D) Innovators

Psychological positivism stresses the key role that _______ plays in the development of conformist of criminal belief systems?
A) Pre-natal nutrition
B) Hormones
C) Genetic abnormalities
D) Early childhood

Conflict theory’s primary suggestion for reducing crime and deviance involves the_____________?
A) Substantial reduction of economic inequality
B) Subordination of the agents of social control
C) Redefinition of acts that are currently defined as criminal
D) Amelioration of social welfare activities

The of “who defines deviance” has principally been addressed by what sociological theory ?
A) Differential Association
B) Conflict
C) Positivism
D) Social Control

Peer approval of your actions would be a good example of_____________?
A) Age-specific support
B) Informal social control
C) Internalization of norms
D) Formal social control

Sociologists believe that no behavior is____________?
A) Without a deal of grate variation
B) Inherently deviant
C) Totally in keeping with tradition
D) Without a corresponding judgment 

How is terrorism different from the types of crime described by the Chicago School ?
A) It is a committed on a larger, often global, scale, and is well organized
B) It is associated with political conflict between states and their citizens
C) It can have far-reaching effects upon international relations
D) All of the above

The Mafia is an example of____________?
A) White collar crime
B) Organized crime
C) None-criminal deviance
D) Global terrorism

The term ‘secondary deviation refers to_________________?
A) The punishment or stigmatization of deviant acts
B) The labelling of an act as deviant through social reaction to it
C) The ways in which taking on a deviant role affects future action
D) All of the above

 

Which one of these is a measure of dispersion?
A) Parameter
B) Range
C) Median
D) Mean

Which of these NOT viewed as a strength of surveys?
A) They are often undertaken by specialist agencies
B) They offer an appearance of precision
C) The data is easy to quantify and analyses
D) Large numbers of people can be studied

One strength of ethnography is that______________?
A) The influence of specific variables can be controlled by the investigator
B) It usually generates richer and more in-depth information than other methods
C) It is essential when a study is primarily historical or has a historical dimension
D) It can only be used to study relatively small groups or communities

An association between two variables which is in fact caused by other factor(s) is called a_____________?
A) Multiple regression
B) Causal mechanism
C) Spurious correlation
D) Multinomial distribution

Bias in research practice refers to_____________?
A) The investigator being committed to a particular ideology
B) The research team prejudging the meaning of the data
C) The data being unbalanced by the design or execution of the research
D) Interpretations being applied to the results

Science aims to be both______________?
A) Philosophical and progressive
B) Complex and against commonsense
C) Experimental and statistical
D) Valid and reliable

Who introduce culture lag theory –

A) Edward B. Taylor

B) Radcliffe-Brown

C) William Ogburn

D) Robert K. Morton


Which of these is not an example of a qualitative research method?
A) Survey research
B) Ethnography
C) Focus groups
D) Biographical research

What is the initial element of sociological research?
A) Review the evidence
B) Define the research problem
C) Create a research design
D) Carry out a research design

Laud Humphreys study Tearoom Trade (1970) is an example of______________?
A) Historical research
B) Survey research
C) Participant observation
D) Experimental design

 

Karl Marx held that a social movement-the revolt of the proletariat -would help workers overcome feelings of_______________?
A) Class consciousness
B) False consciousness
C) Socialist consciousness
D) Surplus value

The most all-encompassing type of collective behavior is_______________?
A) Public opinion
B) Social movements
C) Rumors
D) Crowds

The abbreviation “NIMBY” stands for “not in my backyard” a cry often heard when people protest____________?
A) Landfills
B) Prisons
C) Nuclear power facilities
D) All of the above

The term vested interests was coined by social economist______________?
A) William F. Oghurn
B) Talcott Parsons
C) Auguste Comte
D) Thorstein Veblen

Which sociological perspective minimizes change?
A) Functionalist perspective
B) Conflict perspective
C) Interactionist perspective
D) Each of the above

The division of labor among physicians into obstetricians’ internists surgeons and so forth is an example of the process that Talcott Parsons called_______________?
A) Differentiation
B) Value generalization
C) Inclusion
D) Adaptive upgrading

The writings of Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim are examples of______________?
A) Cyclical theory
B) Unilinear theory
C) Multilinear theory
D) Conflict theory

Sreberny-Mohammadi (1996) argues that national cultures can resist American cultural domination of the media by_____________?
A) Domesticating its content including more home-produced programmes
B) Controlling the distribution of imported products by banning satellite dishes
C) Creating reverse flows of their own programmes back to imperial societies
D) All of the above

Walt Disney Sony and Time Warner are examples of________________?
A) Transnational corporations
B) Multi-media empires
C) Ownership concentrated within one medium
D) Government-owned companies

The print revolution of the nineteenth century resulted in_____________?
A) Mass production mass circulation and the decline of serious content
B) The public ownership of newspapers as a shared resource
C) More people going to the cinema as a new leisure activity
D) A reduction of virtual communities on the internet

 

Mills, C.Wright wrote the book
A) White Collar
B) The Language Of Social Research
C) Value In Social Theory
D) None Of These

By Penology we mean
A) Studies Of Social Structure
B) Study Of Punishments
C) Alternative Methods Of Social Control
D) None Of These

Dyad is
A) Social Custom
B) Norm
C) The Smallest Possible Group
D) The Largest Possible Group

Collaboration of two or more people in a work is called
A) Teamwork
B) Division Of Labor
C) Both ‘A & B’
D) None Of These

Stereotype is an assumption that is
A) Always True
B) Always False
C) Either True Or False
D) None Of These

Stereotype is an
A) Habit
B) Assumption
C) Custom
D) None Of These

Specifying a task for a person is
A) Social Integration
B) Social Alienation
C) Division Of Labor
D) None Of These

Social integration is level to which members of a society feel
A) United
B) Alienated
C) Separated
D) None Of These

People of society who share commonness in several things form
A) Cluster
B) Gathering
C) Group
D) None Of These

The behavior attached to social status is described as
A) Role
B) Performance
C) Duties
D) None Of These

 

The collective value of all social networks (who people know) and the inclinations that arise from these networks to do things for each other (the norms of reciprocity) is called ____________?
A) Social cohesion
B) Social Capital
C) Social bond
D) None of these

Tonnies divided the social structure into Gemeinschaft and Gesellschafts The tighter and cohesive social entity was the salient feature of___________?
A) Gemeinschaft
B) Gesellschafts
C) Both of them
D) None of these

Human and animal societies share all but one of the following characteristics?
A) Population and common territory
B) Shared beliefs and collective destiny
C) Both sexes and all ages
D) None of theses

What is defined as the cultural practices and outlooks of a given community of people that set them apart from others?
A) Racism
B) Ethnicity
C) Identity
D) Stereotyping

Wirth (1938) said that social relationships in the urban way of life were segmental because______________
A) They were confined to particular areas of the city
B) People knew each other only through specific situational roles and not as whole rounded individuals
C) There were distinctive patterns of activity of each social class

D) None of these


What proportion of employment in nonurban counties in the United States is accounted for by agriculture?
A) 9 per cent
B) 22 per cent
C) 41 per cent
D) 63 per cent

The most dramatic population trend in the United States throughout the twentieth century has been_______________?
A) Urbanization
B) Suburbanization
C) The move to the sunbelt
D) The move to the “old homestead” in rural areas

Herbert Gans called urban residents who prefer to live in their own tight-knit communities___________?
A) Communities
B) Ethnic villagers
C) The trapped
D) Gentrofiles

Louis Wirth argued that a relatively large and permanent settlement leads to distinctive patterns of behavior which he called_______________?
A) Squatting
B) Linear development
C) Urbanism
D) Gentrification

Urbanism is the study of________________?
A) Cities
B) Human communities’ rural areas
C) Transition
D) None of these

 
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