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.Management Sciences
Category: Sociology Mcqs
When workers organized unions and forced management to recognize that they were not object, theorists of formal organizations began to revise the________________?
A. classical theory
B. scientific management approach
C. human relations approach
D. both a and b
Which of the following is not one of Perlmutter,s (1972) types of transnational corporations ?
A. polycentric
B. ethnocentric
C. heliocentric
D. geocentric
____________involves the transformation of raw data into numbers to make it suitable for further analysis ?
A. Coding
B. Conceptualization
C. Factoring
D. Classification
E. Enumeration
The pragmatist philosophy used in Symbolic interactionist theory teaches that_______________?
A. theory must be augmented by straightforward plausible methods
B. we can find true objective knowledge of the world through our senses
C. Knowledge is produced in everyday practical situations
D. the best social theory was developed in Prague
Psychological positivism stresses the key role that _______ plays in the development of conformist of criminal belief systems?
A. pre-natal nutrition
B. hormones
C. genetic abnormalities
D. early childhood
E. adolescence
Which sociological perspective emphasizes that ethnocentrism serves to maintain a sense of solidarity by promoting group pride ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. dramaturgical perspective
Median earnings are a better benchmark for poverty than mean earnings because____________?
A. the mean is distorted by a few people at the very top of the distribution
B. they lead more people to be defined as in poverty
C. the median is a more accurate measurement of earnings than the mean
D. all of the above
What term describes ties between individuals established through marriage or blood ?
A. family
B. kinship
C. network
D. tribe
When so much attention is focused on group survival the group often experiences __________ which is a loss of focus regarding its original intent?
A. immanence
B. anomie
C. hysteria
D. goal displacement
E. cultural lag
Durkheim introduced the ideas of Anomic which means________________?
A. Solidarity
B. Enemy
C. Chaos
D. None of theses
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