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Category: Sociology Mcqs
According to Durkheim the division of labor in industrial societies brings about______________?
A. organic solidarity
B. a loss of social solidarity
C. mechanical solidarity
D. communal solidarity
Durkheim defined social facts as______________?
A. ways of acting thinking and feeling that are collective and social in origin
B. the way scientists construct knowledge in a social context
C. data collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct
D. ideas and theories that have no basis in the external physical world
What do separatist movements around the world seek to achieve ?
A. recognition of the equal rights of an ethnic group within a nation state
B. the creation of an independent nation state
C. the expulsion of an ethnic group from a disputed region
D. acceptance of an ethnic groups that to use a separate minority language
The term Second World societies refers to______________?
A. countries that industrialized after those in Europe
B. countries that industrialized less successfully than Europe
C. countries that industrialized under state central planning
D. countries that have yet to proceed to industrialize
The ideas of right and wrong attached to folkways makes them____________?
A. Mores
B. Norms
C. Customs
D. None of these
The first stage of the demographic transition is called the________________?
A. Pre-transition stage
B. transition stage
C. post transition stage
D. initiation stage
The decentralized city can be identified by____________?
A. the shift of employment and services away from the inner city towards multiple centers in smaller towns and rural areas
B. the degendering of public space as women use local facilities more
C. gentrification the movement of middle-class people back into the inner city
D. all of the above
Social relations are directly proportional to_____________?
A. social Class
B. Social status
C. Caste system
D. None of these
Which of these is not a critique of attempts to measure relative deprivation ?
A. the personal experience of poverty is not the concern of sociologists
B. there is an arbitrary nature to how items are selected for a deprivation index
C. it may be choice not poverty that means some people do not qualify for some of the items on a deprivation index
D. the subjective nature of such indices means it is difficult to make comparisons between different studies and time periods
The salient features of Horticulturalist society are______________?
A. cultivation of crops
B. Dense populations
C. Food surplus and division of labor
D. All of above
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