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Category: Sociology Mcqs
__________ refers to the reputation that a specific person has earned within an occupation?
A. prestige
B. esteem
C. status
D. power
Conflict and feminist theories both focus on______________?
A. consensus
B. subjective meanings
C. manifest functions
D. negotiated social orders
E. structured social inequality
New style terrorism differs from old style terrorism in three main ways Which of the following is not one of the three ?
A. it is global in the scope of its aims
B. it has a nationalist ideology
C. it adopts a loose international type of organization
D. it is more ruthless in the recourse to violent means
What is the term used by Francis Fukuyama (1992) to describe the triumph of Western-style democracy has over other forms of government ?
A. the end of history
B. the rise of neoliberalism
C. the fall of communism
D. the birth of nationalism
A minority group is one that is both disadvantaged and_______________?
A. has some sense of collective or group solidarity?
B. numerically small compared to the main social group
C. identifiably different from others in a society
D. holds views contrary to the social norm
According to Merton the most common adaptation in the anomie theory of deviance is_____________?
A. conformity
B. innovation
C. ritualism
D. rebellion
According to the World Bank which of these is a middle-income country ?
A. India
B. China
C. Indonesia
D. Vietnam
Proponents of the family planning approach to fertility reduction argue that______________?
A. economic development will lead to a reduction in fertility
B. governments consider modern contraceptive measures to be a threat to the preservation and continuation of their way of life.
C. if contraceptives are made available and if information about the value and need for birth planning is disseminated people will reduce their fertility
D. people can be coerced into using family planning techniques
In idealized views of science the experimental method is said to involve_____________?
A. testing out new research methods to see which one works best
B. isolating and measuring the effect of one variable upon another
C. using personal beliefs and values to decide what to study
D. interpreting date subjectively drawing on theoretical paradigms
________ is the process by which a society moves from traditional to industrial social and economic arrangements?
A. Development
B. Evolution
C. Modernization
D. Social change
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