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Category: Sociology Mcqs
Children living in poverty tend to be more likely______________?
A. to be killed in road accident
B. to have a diet consisting primarily of vegetables
C. to live in male-headed households
D. none of the above
Bringing music and movies into Canada from another country would be a good example of __________ diffusion ?
A. adaptive
B. relativistic
C. indirect
D. direct
E. integrative
The creative potential of personality is accounted for by______________?
A. Stimulus-response psychology
B. Drive psychology
C. Trait psychology
D. None of these
What proportion of the world’s societies today are thought to be authoritarian rather than democratic ?
A. about half
B. one fifth
C. one third
D. one tenth
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
E. positivism
Which one of the following is not one of the four migration trends identified by Castles and Miller (1993) ?
A. acceleration
B. diversification
C. globalization
D. regionalization
E. feminization
The Nation of Islam group appealed to ?
A. British-born second-generation immigrants from the Asian subcontinent
B. White Americans who wanted to convert to Islam
C. African-Americans who felt excluded from the ethnic melting pot in the USA
D. African-Caribbean’s who lived in the inner cities and had a distinctive youth culture
The process by which cultural traits spread from one group of society to another is called_____________?
A. Folkways
B. counter culture
C. cultural complexes
D. cultural diffusion
Which of the following is likely to occur as a result of the computer revolution in the United States ?
A. a restriction in the amount of information available to the general public
B. a plateauing of the amount of automation the workplace
C. a centralized accumulation of power in the hands of those who have access to computers
D. an increased involvement in society by people with disabilities
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