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.Management Sciences
Category: Sociology Mcqs
The rise of new social movements indicates that______________?
A. people vote according to pragmatic issues and concerns
B. consumer identities are more important than class identities
C. personal cultural and environmental issues can mobilize political consciousness just as much as economic interests
D. all of the above
According to Herbert Gans residents who remain in the city to take advantage of the unique cultural and intellectual benefits of the city are called_____________?
A. cosmopolites
B. ethnic villagers
C. urban villagers
D. the trapped
The process of social interaction by which people acquire the knowledge attitudes values and behaviors essential for effective participation in society is called_____________?
A. culture
B. definition of the situation
C. social communication
D. socialization
Which of the following is an achieved status ?
A. senior citizen
B. member of the female sex
C. bank robber
D. Native American
The conflict theory holds that stratification exists because____________?
A. its benefits individuals and groups who have the power to dominate and exploit others
B. privilege prestige and power are equally distributed in society
C. the capitalist drive to distribute wealth equitably is the foundation of modern society
D. capitalists and workers are class conscious
In Merton’s terms, a person who has abandoned the goal of material success and become compulsively committed to the institutional means is a (an)_____________?
A. ritualist
B. retreatism
C. rebel
D. innovator
The customary normal and habitual ways a group does things are called_____________?
A. Norms
B. Folkways
C. Customs
D. None of these
The shift form civil religion to common religion means that________________?
A. the increasing bureaucracy of the state has made religion only a marginal part of our lives
B. despite the weakening of traditional authority our everyday lives and common sense remain shaped by religious beliefs and values
C. religious participation in collective worship may have declined but people still practise their faiths in private
D. people are much more likely to discuss their religious beliefs in public informal settings
Drug is a very wide term and can be used for both medicinal and__________________?
A. Surgical
B. non-medicinal
C. treatment
D. None of these
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