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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Which of the following is an achieved status ? |
| A. | senior citizen |
| B. | member of the female sex |
| C. | bank robber |
| D. | Native American |
| Answer» D. Native American | |
| 2. |
Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding the state ? |
| A. | The state has existed throughout human history |
| B. | The existence of the state requires that some people are able to devote time and energy to organizing power resources |
| C. | External factors such as threats and trading partners played no part in the rise of the state |
| D. | The production of a social surplus hindered the rise of the state |
| Answer» C. External factors such as threats and trading partners played no part in the rise of the state | |
| 3. |
Which of the following is an accurate statement about segregation ? |
| A. | Segregation in always an involuntary process |
| B. | Segregation is the encroachment by one group on an area occupied by another group |
| C. | Segregation can be prevented by the practice of redlining |
| D. | Segregation is the process by which natural areas are formed by the clustering of individuals or groups on the basis of common traits or activities |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
Which of the following is an accurate statement regarding evolutionary perspectives on social change ? |
| A. | Lenski argues that evolution depends largely on changes in a society’s level of technology and made of economic production |
| B. | Social Darwinists like Spencer see evolution as inevitably leading to the downfall of society |
| C. | Contemporary approaches take a unilinear view of evolution and assume all change equals progress |
| D. | Parsons suggested that societies tend become simpler over time |
| Answer» B. Social Darwinists like Spencer see evolution as inevitably leading to the downfall of society | |
| 5. |
Which of the following is an accurate statement about rumors ? |
| A. | Rumors are effective ways to disseminate reliable information |
| B. | Rumors are easy to verify |
| C. | Rumors are transmitted from person to person in a relatively rapid fashion |
| D. | Rumors typically arise when people trust official sources of information |
| Answer» D. Rumors typically arise when people trust official sources of information | |
| 6. |
Which of the following is an accurate statement about global cities ? |
| A. | Global cities are major urban centers of commerce on which corporations rely. |
| B. | Global cities are characterized by centralized manufacturing and production activities. |
| C. | Global cities result from decentralized managerial and financial operations. |
| D. | Global cities result from changes in world population |
| Answer» B. Global cities are characterized by centralized manufacturing and production activities. | |
| 7. |
Which of the following is an accurate statement about a population pyramid ? |
| A. | A population pyramid portrays the sex and age composition of a population |
| B. | A population pyramid must be based on absolute numbers. |
| C. | A population pyramid is of interest solely to academics. |
| D. | A population pyramid requires complex statistical calculation to understand the interrelationship between age and sex in a given population. |
| Answer» B. A population pyramid must be based on absolute numbers. | |
| 8. |
Which of the following is a true statement ? |
| A. | Human beings have existed on earth for about half million years |
| B. | agriculture is only around twelve thousand years old |
| C. | civilizations date back around six thousand years |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 9. |
Which of the following is a polytheistic religion ? |
| A. | Christianity |
| B. | Hinduism |
| C. | Islam |
| D. | Judaism |
| Answer» C. Islam | |
| 10. |
Which of the following is a personal document with closed access ? |
| A. | government white paper |
| B. | confidential medical records |
| C. | household account book |
| D. | the shares register of a business |
| Answer» D. the shares register of a business | |
| 11. |
Which of the following is a nation without a state ? |
| A. | Tibet |
| B. | Israel |
| C. | Belgium |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» B. Israel | |
| 12. |
Which of the following is a leading exponent of the view that the criminal justice system serves the interests of the powerful ? |
| A. | Richard Quinney |
| B. | Edwin Sutherland |
| C. | Stanley Milgram |
| D. | William Chambliss |
| Answer» B. Edwin Sutherland | |
| 13. |
Which of the following is a factor that has contributed to the rise of the dual income model of the family ? |
| A. | increase in the number of men with a college education |
| B. | increasing birth-rate |
| C. | shift in the economy of the United States from manufacturing to service industries |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» D. all of the above | |
| 14. |
Which of the following is a criticism of the sick role ? |
| A. | Patients judgments regarding their own state of health may be related to their gender age social class and ethnic group |
| B. | The sick role may be more applicable to people experiencing short-term illnesses than those with recurring long-term illnesses |
| C. | Even simple factors such as whether a person is employed or not seem to affect willingness to assume the sick role |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15. |
Which of the following is a characteristic of a society ? |
| A. | Members of a society possess a wide variety of values and norms based on their social status |
| B. | A group must have at least 1,500 members to be considered a society |
| C. | Another term for “society” is nation-state |
| D. | Members of a society comprise a more or less self-sufficient social unit |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
Which of the following ins NOT a key theme in Michel Foucault’s writing ? |
| A. | the hyperreality of media imagery |
| B. | the significance of expert discourses |
| C. | societies use of surveillance and discipline |
| D. | the archaeology of scientific knowledge |
| Answer» B. the significance of expert discourses | |
| 17. |
Which of the following influenced the theoretical approach known as symbolic interactionism ? |
| A. | Georg Hegel |
| B. | George Herbert Mead |
| C. | Talcott Parsons |
| D. | Ralf Dahrendof |
| Answer» C. Talcott Parsons | |
| 18. |
Which of the following in NOT associated with functionalism ? |
| A. | Talcott Parsons |
| B. | Ralf Dahrendorf |
| C. | Emile Durkheim |
| D. | Robert Merton |
| Answer» C. Emile Durkheim | |
| 19. |
Which of the following in NOT a criterion for groupthink to emerge ? |
| A. | Members demand conformity and apply pressure to those who express doubts about a proposed course of action |
| B. | Members withhold dissent and exercise self- censorship |
| C. | Members share an illusion of invulnerability |
| D. | Members share a common socioeconomic background |
| Answer» E. | |
| 20. |
Which of the following have expressed particular concern about the longevity of union leaders who are not always responsive to the needs and demands of membership ? |
| A. | functionalists |
| B. | conflict theorists |
| C. | interactionists |
| D. | classical theorists |
| Answer» C. interactionists | |
| 21. |
Which of the following has NOT been identified as a potential consequence of global warming ? |
| A. | falls in agricultural yields |
| B. | the spread of disease |
| C. | the use of unclear energy |
| D. | a rise in sea levels |
| Answer» D. a rise in sea levels | |
| 22. |
Which of the following has not been central to feminist theorizing ? |
| A. | male domination in society |
| B. | male bias in sociological theory |
| C. | the gendered character of knowledge |
| D. | the experience of black women |
| Answer» E. | |
| 23. |
Which of the following factors is associated with the high divorce rate in the United States ? |
| A. | the liberalization of divorce laws |
| B. | divorce is easier to work out since contemporary families have fewer children than earlier families |
| C. | the increase in family incomes |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
Which of the following does NOT account for the rise in the cost of health care ? |
| A. | Classical rules that govern marketplace exchanges have been applied to the health care industry for decades |
| B. | Labor costs have risen sharply |
| C. | The continual upgrading in the scope and intensity of medical services is costly |
| D. | The concept of “health” has been expanded to include mental and psychological difficulties and “condition” such as infertility |
| Answer» B. Labor costs have risen sharply | |
| 25. |
Which of the following does John Scott identify as belonging to the middle class ? |
| A. | senior executives |
| B. | industrial entrepreneurs |
| C. | finance capitalists |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. industrial entrepreneurs | |
| 26. |
Which of the following did NOT restrict the size of postindustrial cities ? |
| A. | the clash of values and culture of people who came together |
| B. | poor transportation |
| C. | difficulty securing large areas from outside threats |
| D. | Sewage-polluted water supplies |
| Answer» B. poor transportation | |
| 27. |
Which of the following did the pst-war welfare state of 1948 not aim to provide ? |
| A. | free health care and education for all |
| B. | a minimum wage |
| C. | full employment |
| D. | universal welfare |
| Answer» C. full employment | |
| 28. |
Which of the following did Max Weber see as a potentially serious problem with the advance of modern bureaucracies ? |
| A. | bureaucratic organization could become prohibitively expensive to run |
| B. | social organization could become too efficient |
| C. | democracy could become a sham if bureaucrats held real power |
| D. | bureaucratic officials may be able to abuse their power |
| Answer» D. bureaucratic officials may be able to abuse their power | |
| 29. |
Which of the following describes a central change in contemporary life that has been identified by futurists ? |
| A. | The United States is being restructured from an agrarian to an industrial society |
| B. | Modern societies are increasingly shifting from a national to a global economy |
| C. | High tech industries are becoming energy-and materials-intensive |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» C. High tech industries are becoming energy-and materials-intensive | |
| 30. |
Which of the following conducted observation research on two groups of high school males-the Saints and the Roughnecks-and concluded that social class played an important role in the varying fortunes of the two groups ? |
| A. | Richard Quincy |
| B. | Edwin Sutherland |
| C. | Emile Durkheim |
| D. | William Chambliss |
| Answer» E. | |
| 31. |
Which of the following can be classified as a charismatic leader ? |
| A. | Joan of Arc |
| B. | Malcolm X |
| C. | Adolf Hitler |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
Which of the following argued that a capitalist society has a dominant ideology that serves the interests of the ruling class ? |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Talcott Parsons |
| C. | Karl Marx |
| D. | Margaret Mead |
| Answer» D. Margaret Mead | |
| 33. |
Which of the following are viewed by sociologists as analytically distinct components of stratification ? |
| A. | conformity deviance and social control |
| B. | class status and power |
| C. | class caste and age |
| D. | class prestige and esteem |
| Answer» C. class caste and age | |
| 34. |
Which of the following are NOT factors involved in whether or not people define a situation as crowded ? |
| A. | duration and predictability |
| B. | frame of mind and environmental setting |
| C. | the sex and race of individuals present |
| D. | intensification of people’s definition of the situation |
| Answer» D. intensification of people’s definition of the situation | |
| 35. |
Which nation(s) has(have) witnessed a significant decline in voter turnout in recent elections ? |
| A. | Japan |
| B. | Great Britain |
| C. | the United States |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» C. the United States | |
| 36. |
Which model of migration admits immigrants to a country on a temporary basis often for economic reasons without giving citizenship rights ? |
| A. | classic |
| B. | colonial |
| C. | guest worker |
| D. | illegal |
| Answer» D. illegal | |
| 37. |
Which model of city growth describes the city as a central business district surrounded by a zone in transition than a zone of workingmen’s homes residential zones, and the commuters. zone ? |
| A. | the multiple nuclei model |
| B. | the sector models |
| C. | the concentric circle models |
| D. | the social area analysis model |
| Answer» D. the social area analysis model | |
| 38. |
Which method of identifying social classes views social class as a statistical category formed by sociologists or statisticians or statisticians on the basis of income occupation education or some combination of these ? |
| A. | the combined approach |
| B. | the reputational method |
| C. | the self-placement method |
| D. | the objective method |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
Which is the oldest of the world religions being at least 6,000 years old ? |
| A. | Islam |
| B. | Confucianism |
| C. | Buddhism |
| D. | Hinduism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 40. |
Which is the most recently established of the greatest world religions ? |
| A. | Judaism |
| B. | Islam |
| C. | Hinduism |
| D. | Christianity |
| Answer» C. Hinduism | |
| 41. |
Which is the most recently established of the great world religions ? |
| A. | Judaism |
| B. | Islam |
| C. | Hinduism |
| D. | Christianity |
| Answer» C. Hinduism | |
| 42. |
Which is the JK,s largest university ? |
| A. | University of Cambridge |
| B. | The Open University |
| C. | London Metropolitan University |
| D. | University of Manchester |
| Answer» C. London Metropolitan University | |
| 43. |
Which group of sociologists note that developers’ bankers and other powerful real estate interests view housing as an investment and are primarily concerned with maximizing profit not with solving social problems? |
| A. | urban ecologists |
| B. | new urban sociologist |
| C. | functionalists |
| D. | human ecologists |
| Answer» C. functionalists | |
| 44. |
Which group of learners does the university of the third age serve ? |
| A. | teenagers |
| B. | travelles |
| C. | workers |
| D. | pensioners |
| Answer» E. | |
| 45. |
Which field of study was originally developed in the 1930s as an increasing number of social scientists became aware of the plight of the elderly ? |
| A. | geriatrics |
| B. | gerontology |
| C. | gerontocracy |
| D. | silicide |
| Answer» C. gerontocracy | |
| 46. |
Which equation can be used to represent pluralism ? |
| A. | A+B+C=A |
| B. | A+B+C=A+B+C |
| C. | A+B+C=D |
| D. | A+B+C=A+B+D |
| Answer» D. A+B+C=A+B+D | |
| 47. |
Which equation can be used to represent amalgamation ? |
| A. | A+B+C=A |
| B. | A+B+C=A+B+C |
| C. | A+B+C=D |
| D. | A+B+C=A+B+D |
| Answer» D. A+B+C=A+B+D | |
| 48. |
which definition best describes the process of globalization ? |
| A. | capitalist companies are spreading across the planet |
| B. | we all now live in a single society |
| C. | individuals’ groups and nations are becoming more interdependent |
| D. | human beings now live on every continent of the planet |
| Answer» D. human beings now live on every continent of the planet | |
| 49. |
Which country is currently experiencing a negative birth-rate ? |
| A. | China |
| B. | Bangladesh |
| C. | Iran |
| D. | Tunisia |
| Answer» B. Bangladesh | |
| 50. |
Which country is currently experiencing a negative birthrate ? |
| A. | China |
| B. | Bangladesh |
| C. | Iran |
| D. | Tunisia |
| Answer» B. Bangladesh | |