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This section includes 1534 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Sociology Mcqs knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 901. |
Every society handles many tasks be making them part of a sex role Yet boys and girls from their vary childhood start learning their respective ? |
| A. | Student roles |
| B. | Sex roles |
| C. | Jobs performed by parents |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Jobs performed by parents | |
| 902. |
Princess is an _______ status? |
| A. | Ascribed |
| B. | Achieved |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. both a and b | |
| 903. |
Role ascription by merit has also restricted the social statuses to those who has______________? |
| A. | Mental and physical proficiency |
| B. | inherited and good early environment |
| C. | (a)mainly depending on (b) |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 904. |
Role and status are two aspects of same____________? |
| A. | personality |
| B. | Phenomenon |
| C. | Situation |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Situation | |
| 905. |
Kaleem walks into the classroom just as another student has told the punchline to a very funny joke The room explodes in laughter Kaleem quickly checks to see that his shirt is buttoned correctly and that there is no toilet tissue clinging to her shoe Once he realizes the class isn,t laughing at him he settles down in his seat and asks the classmate to re-tell the joke This is an example of______________? |
| A. | esoteric social readjustment |
| B. | an egocentric bias |
| C. | the looking -glass self |
| D. | the formation of the self |
| Answer» C. the looking -glass self | |
| 906. |
The term sociological imagination was first coined by_____________? |
| A. | Durkheim |
| B. | Blumer |
| C. | Lemert |
| D. | Berger |
| E. | Mills |
| Answer» F. | |
| 907. |
According to Durkheim stronger social ties and religious affiliation______________? |
| A. | Increase the suicide rates |
| B. | Decrease them |
| C. | Have no effect upon them |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Have no effect upon them | |
| 908. |
The four ideal types of social action that Weber identified were as follows instrumentally-rational, value-rational traditional and_____________? |
| A. | affectual |
| B. | affective |
| C. | effective |
| D. | infected |
| Answer» B. affective | |
| 909. |
Chodorow (1978) argued that gender socialization occurred through____________? |
| A. | both boys and girls being closely attached to their mothers, but then boys breaking away |
| B. | girls being attached to their mothers but then breaking away |
| C. | boys being attached to their fathers and girls to their mothers |
| D. | both boys and girls being closely attached to their fathers, but girls breaking away |
| Answer» B. girls being attached to their mothers but then breaking away | |
| 910. |
Sociologists believe that_______________? |
| A. | Biology being the major constraints does not allow any change in human nature hence socialization does not change much of human individual nature |
| B. | Individual is the product of social group within which he is socialized |
| C. | The nature-nurture controversy has ended in favor of nurture and the bio-sociologists have failed to promote their thesis |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. The nature-nurture controversy has ended in favor of nurture and the bio-sociologists have failed to promote their thesis | |
| 911. |
A human being deprived of all communication with other humans from birth would lack all but one of the following ? |
| A. | Self |
| B. | rudimentary personality |
| C. | Language |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Language | |
| 912. |
Socialization is a series of stages in which the individual learns to participate in various levels of organization of society and internalizes a cognitive frame of reference for interpersonal relations It is____________? |
| A. | Internalization theory |
| B. | Role theory |
| C. | Symbolic theory |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Role theory | |
| 913. |
Which sociological perspective would be especially interested in studying how people communicate with other and develop relationships through MUDS (multi-user)? |
| A. | functionalist perspective |
| B. | conflict perspective |
| C. | interactionist perspective |
| D. | labeling theory |
| Answer» D. labeling theory | |
| 914. |
Which one of the following does Chodorow NOT argue is a consequence for boys and men of separating from their early attachment to their mother ? |
| A. | feeling their self-esteem threatened by the lack a close relationship |
| B. | learning that to be a man is to reject being like a woman |
| C. | feeling endangered by close intimate emotional relationships |
| D. | developing a detached and analytical approach to the world |
| Answer» B. learning that to be a man is to reject being like a woman | |
| 915. |
A person does poorly on a college chemistry test and later tells a friend “The exam wasn’t fair! There were trick s and it covered material that we weren’t assigned “This is an example of____________? |
| A. | reverse socialization |
| B. | face-work |
| C. | studied nonobservance |
| D. | anticipatory socialization |
| Answer» C. studied nonobservance | |
| 916. |
Turning points, a which people change direction in the course of their lives are_______________? |
| A. | age norms |
| B. | life events |
| C. | social clocks |
| D. | remarkably similar for men and women |
| Answer» C. social clocks | |
| 917. |
Isabelle was___________? |
| A. | reared in an interracial family |
| B. | kept in almost total seclusion for the first six years of her life |
| C. | subjected to mistreatment in a mental institution |
| D. | a child whose language skills were of genius calibre |
| Answer» C. subjected to mistreatment in a mental institution | |
| 918. |
The theoretical perspective that views social life as similar to performances staged in a theater is called_______________? |
| A. | impression management |
| B. | the Thomas theorem |
| C. | the looking -glass self |
| D. | the dramaturgical approach |
| Answer» E. | |
| 919. |
The most pervasive of the social processes are________________? |
| A. | Religious ritual |
| B. | changelessness |
| C. | idealized ways of thinking and doing |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. changelessness | |
| 920. |
The two-sex model that Liqueur (1990) identified______________? |
| A. | contrasted homosexuality with heterosexuality |
| B. | distinguished between male and females as separate sexes |
| C. | represented women’s genitalia as underdeveloped versions of men’s |
| D. | argued for male superiority over women |
| Answer» C. represented women’s genitalia as underdeveloped versions of men’s | |
| 921. |
The institution most closely associated with the process of socialization is the_________________? |
| A. | family |
| B. | peer group |
| C. | school |
| D. | state |
| Answer» B. peer group | |
| 922. |
What is the name of the process by which we acquire a sense of identity and become members of society____________? |
| A. | rationalization |
| B. | colonization |
| C. | McDonaldization |
| D. | socialization |
| Answer» E. | |
| 923. |
According to Sassan which of these is NOT a necessary trait of a global city ? |
| A. | they are centers of direction and policy-making for the global economy |
| B. | they are visited by large numbers of tourists from across the world |
| C. | they are the key locations for financial and specialized service firms |
| D. | they are markets for the exchange of the products of financial service |
| Answer» C. they are the key locations for financial and specialized service firms | |
| 924. |
A child who is repeatedly criticized as being lazy and lacking intelligence eventually accepts these criticisms and uses them to justify poor performance in school. This is an example of_____________? |
| A. | the contact hypothesis |
| B. | a self-fulfilling prophecy |
| C. | scapegoating |
| D. | reverse discrimination |
| Answer» C. scapegoating | |
| 925. |
Marxist feminists explain patriarchy in terms of_________________? |
| A. | a lack of equal rights and opportunities for men and women |
| B. | sex classes through which men oppress women economically politically and sexually |
| C. | women’s domestic labor being exploited by the capitalist econorny |
| D. | the dual systems of capitalist and male domination |
| Answer» D. the dual systems of capitalist and male domination | |
| 926. |
Socialization is extended to every part of human life As a result every one becomes both a socializer and a socialize in all encounters with others This concept leaves socialization without a social home. This is the approach of______________? |
| A. | Arnett |
| B. | Long & Hadden |
| C. | Henslin |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Henslin | |
| 927. |
Socialization is______________? |
| A. | the formation of an attachment bond between an infant and its carer |
| B. | a tendency of social theorists to explain everything in terms of social causes |
| C. | the process of becoming part of a society by learning its norms and values |
| D. | the historical process by which societies change from traditional to modern |
| Answer» D. the historical process by which societies change from traditional to modern | |
| 928. |
The socializer is also called socializing agent and socialize is also called_______________? |
| A. | object of socializing process |
| B. | novice |
| C. | principal |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. principal | |
| 929. |
Ellis Lee and Peterson developed a research exploring how parents raise their children relative to their class They viewed that lower class parents were more likely to emphasize____________ in their children? |
| A. | Creativity |
| B. | Self-reliance |
| C. | Conformity |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 930. |
What is the concept used by Karl Marx to explain workers loss of control over their labor power in capitalist societies ? |
| A. | anomie |
| B. | pauperization |
| C. | de-skilling |
| D. | alienation |
| Answer» E. | |
| 931. |
Harry Harlow conducted study of______________? |
| A. | Isabelle and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process |
| B. | Nell and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process |
| C. | rhesus monkeys that had been raised away from their mothers |
| D. | nature versus nurture that focused on sociobiology |
| Answer» D. nature versus nurture that focused on sociobiology | |
| 932. |
“Self develops as a result of cognitive evaluations of costs and benefits “this is_______________? |
| A. | Symbolic interactionism |
| B. | Role theory |
| C. | Reinforcement theory |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 933. |
Socialization is a life process generally divided into two parts primary and secondary socialization Primary refers to_____________? |
| A. | Socialization at primary school level |
| B. | Socialization at home |
| C. | Socialization in early life, as a child |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 934. |
Arnett proposed an interesting distinction of types of socialization_______________? |
| A. | high and low |
| B. | broad and narrow |
| C. | old and new |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. old and new | |
| 935. |
Socialization is a continuous lifelong process and self develops as a result of social interactions this is_______________? |
| A. | Role theory |
| B. | Reinforcement theory |
| C. | Symbolic interactionism |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 936. |
The process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it is called________________? |
| A. | Culture |
| B. | Socialization |
| C. | Association |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Association | |
| 937. |
Learning behavior in a social institution or developing social skills is called________________? |
| A. | Primary |
| B. | Secondary |
| C. | Developmental socialization |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 938. |
Ayub Government brought ____ in 1950s and 60s which changed agricultural infrastructure to greater extent ? |
| A. | agricultural reforms |
| B. | Green Revolution |
| C. | Both a and b |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 939. |
Civil society includes______________? |
| A. | Voluntary civic and social organizations |
| B. | State institutions |
| C. | Masses |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. State institutions | |
| 940. |
Which term does John Thompson use to describe the sort of social relations created by the mass media ? |
| A. | face-to-face interaction |
| B. | mediated interaction |
| C. | mediated quasi interaction |
| D. | mediated multiple -interaction |
| Answer» D. mediated multiple -interaction | |
| 941. |
Some of hallmarks of socio-economic change in Pakistan can be enlisted as such_____________? |
| A. | Migration after Independence |
| B. | Green Revolution |
| C. | Urbanization and Islamization of Zia ere |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 942. |
Individual learns socialization______________? |
| A. | in infancy |
| B. | in childhood |
| C. | throughout the life |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 943. |
Among which occupational group are infant mortality rates the lowest____________? |
| A. | professional |
| B. | managerial and technical |
| C. | skilled non-manual |
| D. | skilled manual |
| Answer» B. managerial and technical | |
| 944. |
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 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 945. |
Who described urbanism as a way of life ? |
| A. | Park |
| B. | Hawley |
| C. | Wirth |
| D. | Burgess |
| Answer» D. Burgess | |
| 946. |
Urbanization in preindustrial cities was restricted by___________? |
| A. | reliance on animal power as a source of energy |
| B. | the high levels of surplus produced by the agricultural sector |
| C. | the ease of migration to the city |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» B. the high levels of surplus produced by the agricultural sector | |
| 947. |
According to Castells Which of the following is a world city ? |
| A. | Frankfurt |
| B. | Madrid |
| C. | Buenos Aires |
| D. | Moscow |
| Answer» B. Madrid | |
| 948. |
The trend toward urbanization is most advanced in ? |
| A. | America |
| B. | England |
| C. | Japan |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 949. |
Urban recycling is shorthand for______________? |
| A. | encouraging existing residents to move out of an area |
| B. | introducing local environmental strategies to an area |
| C. | the refurbishment or replacement of old buildings and land |
| D. | providing incentives for urban dwellers to use public transport |
| Answer» D. providing incentives for urban dwellers to use public transport | |
| 950. |
Cultural restructuring has involved ? |
| A. | regenerating cities in economic decline |
| B. | turning industrial landscapes into tourist attractions |
| C. | selling sites and images through the symbolic economy of media advertising |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |