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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.
| 1101. |
Of all of the steps in the research process the one that typically takes the most time is_____________? |
| A. | formulating the problem |
| B. | selecting a research method |
| C. | developing a hypothesis |
| D. | evaluation of the results |
| E. | data collection |
| Answer» B. selecting a research method | |
| 1102. |
In order for a variable to be measured, a researcher must provide a (n) ? |
| A. | operational definition |
| B. | quantitative theorem |
| C. | theory |
| D. | hypothesis |
| E. | scale |
| Answer» B. quantitative theorem | |
| 1103. |
In most instances how well a student does on a test is determined by how much the student studies for it in this example studying for an exam is a (n) ? |
| A. | correlation |
| B. | independent variable |
| C. | dependent variable |
| D. | sample |
| Answer» C. dependent variable | |
| 1104. |
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 | |
| 1105. |
s that are relevant to some respondents may irrelevant to others are known as______________? |
| A. | double barreled questions |
| B. | leading questions |
| C. | contingency questions |
| D. | Matrix questions |
| Answer» D. Matrix questions | |
| 1106. |
The rate of rate of return or a mailed naire is usually_____________? |
| A. | very high |
| B. | it can be both A and C |
| C. | very low |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 1107. |
Pre-testing a naira is useful for_____________? |
| A. | finding out which topics are important to the respondents |
| B. | testing out your computer and printer |
| C. | identifying any problems with the wording and routing |
| D. | deciding which respondents to leave out of the final sample |
| Answer» D. deciding which respondents to leave out of the final sample | |
| 1108. |
One of the ethical problems with covert participant observation is______________? |
| A. | not being able to write comprehensive field notes or record conversations |
| B. | deceiving the respondents as to the reason for your presence |
| C. | observing people outside of their natural setting |
| D. | subjecting the participants to physical harm |
| Answer» C. observing people outside of their natural setting | |
| 1109. |
Impressionistic studies are____________? |
| A. | fully controlled |
| B. | less controlled |
| C. | uncontrolled |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. uncontrolled | |
| 1110. |
Weber said that all knowledge is value-relevant, because____________? |
| A. | sociologists like to put a value on different theories |
| B. | Knowledge refers to people and their values |
| C. | theorists interpret the world in terms of their own values |
| D. | attempts to provide knowledge about the world are always valuable |
| Answer» D. attempts to provide knowledge about the world are always valuable | |
| 1111. |
naire and interview studies are systematic ways of asking s under______________? |
| A. | Experiment situation |
| B. | Scientific control |
| C. | Normal circumstances |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Normal circumstances | |
| 1112. |
Snowballing is an example of_______________? |
| A. | probability sampling |
| B. | non-probability sampling |
| C. | cluster sampling |
| D. | using the Christmas vacation constructively |
| Answer» C. cluster sampling | |
| 1113. |
Search for ways of using scientific knowledge to solve practical problems is termed as_____________? |
| A. | Pure science |
| B. | Applied Science |
| C. | both a & b |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. both a & b | |
| 1114. |
Compared With the sate formation process in industrialized countries which one of the following created major problems for developing societies ? |
| A. | the lack of a strong work ethic |
| B. | the legacy of economic mismanagement by local leaders |
| C. | the lock of a democratic culture |
| D. | the legacy of colonialism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1115. |
The use of scientific research procedures to measure the effectiveness of an action program is called____________? |
| A. | Evaluation research |
| B. | analytical research |
| C. | Scientific research |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. analytical research | |
| 1116. |
The al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks on American targets on 11th September 2001 In what year did al-Qaeda bomb a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali Killing more than 200 people ? |
| A. | 1999 |
| B. | 2004 |
| C. | 2005 |
| D. | 2002 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1117. |
The notion of citizenship rights is associated with______________? |
| A. | T.H Huxley |
| B. | A.H Halsey |
| C. | T.H Marshall |
| D. | E.H Carr |
| Answer» D. E.H Carr | |
| 1118. |
In many contemporary conflict’s attempts are made to protect soldiers often at the expense of civilian lives in order to minimize political problems from media coverage of fatalities How are such conflicts described ? |
| A. | degenerate wars |
| B. | genocides |
| C. | illegal wars |
| D. | risk-transfer wars |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1119. |
New style terrorism differs from old style terrorism in three main ways Which of the following is not one of the three ? |
| A. | it is global in the scope of its aims |
| B. | it has a nationalist ideology |
| C. | it adopts a loose international type of organization |
| D. | it is more ruthless in the recourse to violent means |
| Answer» C. it adopts a loose international type of organization | |
| 1120. |
Which of these ethnic groups has the greatest proportion of households below 60 per cent of median income ? |
| A. | Whites |
| B. | Indians |
| C. | Black Caribbean’s |
| D. | Bangladeshis |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1121. |
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 |
| Answer» C. the expulsion of an ethnic group from a disputed region | |
| 1122. |
An instance of focused interaction is called_________________? |
| A. | a meeting |
| B. | an event |
| C. | a moment |
| D. | an Encounter |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1123. |
Bias in research practice refers to_____________? |
| A. | the investigator being committed to a particular ideology |
| B. | the research team prejudging the meaning of the data |
| C. | the data being unbalanced by the design or execution of the research |
| D. | interpretations being applied to the results |
| Answer» D. interpretations being applied to the results | |
| 1124. |
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 |
| Answer» B. they lead more people to be defined as in poverty | |
| 1125. |
Social exclusion refers to ways in which people are cut off from full involvement in society How has Veit-Wilson (1998) distinguished the main variants of this concept ? |
| A. | primary/secondary |
| B. | weak/strong |
| C. | general/specific |
| D. | old/new |
| Answer» C. general/specific | |
| 1126. |
Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________? |
| A. | it concentrates too much on kinship ties |
| B. | the government should be raising benefit levels |
| C. | in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor |
| D. | it is wrong to make comparisons between countries |
| Answer» D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries | |
| 1127. |
Which of these countries has the smallest proportion of people living on less than $1 a day_______________? |
| A. | Bangladesh |
| B. | Mozambique |
| C. | China |
| D. | Pakistan |
| Answer» D. Pakistan | |
| 1128. |
The Frankfurt School built upon the work of Marx but the importance of which of the following did its members argue that he under emphasized ? |
| A. | globalization |
| B. | work |
| C. | economics |
| D. | culture |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1129. |
Which of the following theorists argued that conflict is a normal and desirable aspect of social change ? |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Talcott Parsons |
| C. | Emile Durkheim |
| D. | each of the above |
| Answer» B. Talcott Parsons | |
| 1130. |
William F Whyte’s study of a low-income Italian neighborhood in Boston was a classic example of_____________? |
| A. | participant observation research |
| B. | a survey |
| C. | content analysis |
| D. | an experiment |
| Answer» B. a survey | |
| 1131. |
The term vested interests was coined by social economist______________? |
| A. | William F. Oghurn |
| B. | Talcott Parsons |
| C. | Auguste Comte |
| D. | Thorstein Veblen |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1132. |
The first step in any sociological research project is to_________________? |
| A. | collect data |
| B. | define the problem |
| C. | review previous research |
| D. | formulate a hypothesis |
| Answer» C. review previous research | |
| 1133. |
Science aims to be both______________? |
| A. | philosophical and progressive |
| B. | complex and against commonsense |
| C. | experimental and statistical |
| D. | valid and reliable |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1134. |
The print revolution of the nineteenth century resulted in_____________? |
| A. | mass production mass circulation and the decline of serious content |
| B. | the public ownership of newspapers as a shared resource |
| C. | more people going to the cinema as a new leisure activity |
| D. | a reduction of virtual communities on the internet |
| Answer» B. the public ownership of newspapers as a shared resource | |
| 1135. |
Which sociological perspective minimizes change ? |
| A. | functionalist perspective |
| B. | conflict perspective |
| C. | interactionist perspective |
| D. | each of the above |
| Answer» B. conflict perspective | |
| 1136. |
Which approach to audience studies emphasizes the ways in which different audiences use the media to meet their needs ? |
| A. | hypodermic model |
| B. | gratification model |
| C. | reception theory |
| D. | interpretative model |
| Answer» C. reception theory | |
| 1137. |
The abbreviation “NIMBY” stands for “not in my backyard” a cry often heard when people protest____________? |
| A. | landfills |
| B. | prisons |
| C. | nuclear power facilities |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1138. |
Critics of the spread of Western cultural products across the globe argue that a cultural empire has been created What term do they use to describe this ____________? |
| A. | media saturation |
| B. | media globalization |
| C. | media penetration |
| D. | media imperialism |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1139. |
The term culture industry used by members of the Frankfurt School referred to________________? |
| A. | the globalization of cultural through new technologies |
| B. | the way in which culture products were bought and sold for profit |
| C. | the development of subcultures and counter-cultures society |
| D. | the way in which industrialization had created new means of communication |
| Answer» C. the development of subcultures and counter-cultures society | |
| 1140. |
Which of the following is not a characteristic of ideology according to the critical conception of ideology ? |
| A. | neutral |
| B. | misleading |
| C. | illusory |
| D. | distorting |
| Answer» B. misleading | |
| 1141. |
Which sociologist introduced the concept of culture lag ? |
| A. | William F. Ogburn |
| B. | Talcott Parsons |
| C. | Auguste Comte |
| D. | Thorstein Veblen |
| Answer» B. Talcott Parsons | |
| 1142. |
The use of terms such as flaming and chat rooms by the subculture of early Internet users is an example of____________? |
| A. | charisma |
| B. | argot |
| C. | equilibrium |
| D. | virtual reality |
| Answer» C. equilibrium | |
| 1143. |
Which sociological perspective would be especially interested in studying how people communicate with each other and develop relationships through MUDS (multi -user domains) and electronic chat rooms ? |
| A. | functionalist perspective |
| B. | conflict perspective |
| C. | interactionist perspective |
| D. | labeling theory |
| Answer» D. labeling theory | |
| 1144. |
The term feminist standpoint, suggests_______________? |
| A. | taking a stand on the issues neglected by feminism |
| B. | studying society from the perspective of women |
| C. | the recognition of difference and diversity in women’s lives |
| D. | a tendency to ignore the gendered nature of knowledge |
| Answer» C. the recognition of difference and diversity in women’s lives | |
| 1145. |
Which term was introduced by Charles Per row to refer to failures that are inevitable given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized ________________? |
| A. | the Per row principle |
| B. | the Peter principle |
| C. | the school principal |
| D. | normal accidents |
| Answer» E. | |
| 1146. |
Conflict theory is often criticized for failing to account for______________? |
| A. | minority rights |
| B. | women |
| C. | consensus |
| D. | latent functions |
| E. | the rights of workers |
| Answer» D. latent functions | |
| 1147. |
According to Manual Castells which is the defining organizational structure of our age ? |
| A. | bureaucracy |
| B. | networks |
| C. | hierarchy |
| D. | conglomerates |
| Answer» C. hierarchy | |
| 1148. |
The writings of Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim are examples of______________? |
| A. | cyclical theory |
| B. | unilinear theory |
| C. | multilinear theory |
| D. | conflict theory |
| Answer» C. multilinear theory | |
| 1149. |
Which theoretical perspective in sociology emphasizes the inter-dependence of component parts of society ? |
| A. | Structural Functionalism |
| B. | Feminism |
| C. | Conflict |
| D. | Staples |
| E. | Symbolic Interaction ism |
| Answer» B. Feminism | |
| 1150. |
Mass-society theory suggests that______________? |
| A. | the content of the media is determined market forces |
| B. | the subordinate classes are dominated by the ideology of the ruling class |
| C. | the media manipulate the masses as vulnerable passive consumers |
| D. | audiences make selective interpretations of media messages |
| Answer» D. audiences make selective interpretations of media messages | |