Miscellaneous Sociology – MCQs

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