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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.
| 251. |
When individuals work in groups they ? |
| A. | work harder than when they work alone |
| B. | may engage in social loafing |
| C. | feel they must work harder to prove their value to the group |
| D. | may engage in intergroup relativism |
| Answer» C. feel they must work harder to prove their value to the group | |
| 252. |
Social constructionism studies the processes which create and sustain ? |
| A. | social structures |
| B. | social space |
| C. | social reality |
| D. | social inequality |
| Answer» D. social inequality | |
| 253. |
Social occasions in which individuals act out formal roles are called_____________? |
| A. | front regions |
| B. | back regions |
| C. | public regions |
| D. | social regions |
| Answer» B. back regions | |
| 254. |
The internet rearranges our experience or space-time by making it possible to_____________? |
| A. | communicate instantly with people far away |
| B. | experience what it,s like to be a different gender |
| C. | interact in an unreal and alienated way |
| D. | communicate without non-verbal cues |
| Answer» B. experience what it,s like to be a different gender | |
| 255. |
The term ethnomethodology was coined by______________? |
| A. | Harold Garfinkel |
| B. | Max Weber |
| C. | Erving Goffman |
| D. | Anthony Giddens |
| Answer» B. Max Weber | |
| 256. |
The socially defined expectations that a person in a given status follows are called______________? |
| A. | a position |
| B. | a role |
| C. | a performance |
| D. | an impression |
| Answer» C. a performance | |
| 257. |
What is the compulsion of proximity ? |
| A. | the dominance of spoken language in interactions |
| B. | the need to meet each other face to face |
| C. | the ability to read peoples body language |
| D. | the desire for intimacy in personal relationships |
| Answer» C. the ability to read peoples body language | |
| 258. |
According to Edward T Hall which of the following zones of personal space is the one normally used in interaction with friends and close acquaintances ? |
| A. | intimate distance |
| B. | personal distance |
| C. | social distance |
| D. | public distance |
| Answer» C. social distance | |
| 259. |
Ideological notions of equality of opportunity are irrelevant in deciding the positions of individuals to different statues in a_____________ system of mobility ? |
| A. | Open |
| B. | Broad |
| C. | closed |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 260. |
A person’s overall position in society is called_______________? |
| A. | achieved status |
| B. | ascribed status |
| C. | master status |
| D. | status set |
| Answer» D. status set | |
| 261. |
Which one of the following is not an example of non-verbal communication ? |
| A. | smiling |
| B. | talking |
| C. | frowning |
| D. | waving |
| Answer» C. frowning | |
| 262. |
An instance of focused interaction is called______________? |
| A. | a meeting |
| B. | an event |
| C. | a moment |
| D. | an Encounter |
| Answer» E. | |
| 263. |
Mobility taking place in personal terms within the lifespan of the same person is called______________? |
| A. | Inter-generational mobility |
| B. | Intra-generational mobility |
| C. | Structural mobility |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Structural mobility | |
| 264. |
Career and mobility patterns for men and women are_______________? |
| A. | quite different |
| B. | all alike |
| C. | growing more nearly alike |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 265. |
Mobility of women was usually decided the past through ? |
| A. | Status of women in society |
| B. | Status of their husbands |
| C. | Both a and b |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Both a and b | |
| 266. |
Mobility oriented behavior education Work habits are______________? |
| A. | Individual factor |
| B. | Structural |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Structural | |
| 267. |
In Gerhard Lenski,s theory of sociocultural evolution a society’s level of __________ is critical to the way it is organized? |
| A. | agriculture |
| B. | health care |
| C. | technology |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» D. all of the above | |
| 268. |
The most common master statuses are based on what ? |
| A. | gender and race |
| B. | class and income |
| C. | education and occupation |
| D. | family and peer groups |
| Answer» B. class and income | |
| 269. |
A change in occupational position or role without involving any change in its position in the social hierarchy is called____________? |
| A. | Vertical mobility |
| B. | Horizontal mobility |
| C. | social mobility |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. social mobility | |
| 270. |
Which sociological perspective emphasizes that the performance of major social institutions is generally efficient and desirable ? |
| A. | functionalist perspective |
| B. | conflict perspective |
| C. | interactionist perspective |
| D. | each of the above |
| Answer» B. conflict perspective | |
| 271. |
Which sociological perspective emphasizes that in comparison with women men can drw on larger social networks that are useful in locating employment opportunities ? |
| A. | functionalist perspective |
| B. | conflict perspective |
| C. | interactionist perspective |
| D. | clinical perspective |
| Answer» C. interactionist perspective | |
| 272. |
Which of the following would experience role exit ? |
| A. | retired person |
| B. | a recovering alcoholic |
| C. | nun who leaves her religious order |
| D. | each of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 273. |
During the Second World War Christians living in Nazi Germany had to choose between trying to protect Jewish friends and associates and turning them in to the authorities This is an example of____________? |
| A. | cultural universalism |
| B. | role strain |
| C. | functional prerequisites |
| D. | role conflict |
| Answer» E. | |
| 274. |
An open society is one that_____________? |
| A. | grants every member equal status |
| B. | does not have any official secrets in its government |
| C. | has permissive attitudes towards sexual behavior |
| D. | allows people to move between levels of the hierarchy |
| Answer» E. | |
| 275. |
The career mobility of married women is still greatly handicapped by_______________? |
| A. | men |
| B. | household duties |
| C. | other rival women |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. other rival women | |
| 276. |
Now a days more women are joining different fields and making their own status in society This provides women a mobility ladder apart from_____________? |
| A. | Their father’s status |
| B. | Marriage |
| C. | Their children’s status |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Their children’s status | |
| 277. |
Change is the only ______ in the universe? |
| A. | Variable |
| B. | Constant |
| C. | Problem |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Problem | |
| 278. |
Downward mobility factors are______________? |
| A. | Opposite to those of upward mobility |
| B. | Same |
| C. | different from those |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. different from those | |
| 279. |
If labor market changes may lead to the rise of an occupational group within the social hierarchy it is_____________? |
| A. | Structural mobility |
| B. | Inter-generational |
| C. | Intra-generational |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Inter-generational | |
| 280. |
Social revolutions_______________? |
| A. | involve the gradual evolution of existing state and class structures into new social arrangements |
| B. | are most likely to occur when political |
| C. | appear to follow no “natural history” |
| D. | often begin with intellectuals withdrawing their support of the existing regime |
| Answer» E. | |
| 281. |
The term “Socio Cultural” Change refers to______________? |
| A. | Overlapping of two concepts |
| B. | That there is no distinction between both |
| C. | Changes of both kind |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 282. |
Inter-generational mobility is______________? |
| A. | When position changes within same generation |
| B. | When the next generation remains same |
| C. | When next generation goes upward than previous one |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 283. |
Addition of new words in a language is a______________? |
| A. | Social Change |
| B. | Cultural Change |
| C. | Language Change |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Language Change | |
| 284. |
In sociological terms Which of the following constitute group ? |
| A. | members of a hospitals business office |
| B. | all residents of the city of Lahore |
| C. | women in the Pakistan 50 years and over |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» B. all residents of the city of Lahore | |
| 285. |
You are a student at XYZ College and You have your sociology and history final exams on the same morning Your know that preparing for both exams at the same time is going to lead to lower grades in one or both of the exams The conflict that you are experiencing as you try to fulfill both of your responsibilities at the college is an example of_________________? |
| A. | role conflict |
| B. | role exit |
| C. | role strain |
| D. | role dissonance |
| Answer» D. role dissonance | |
| 286. |
In modern society cultural change is most likely to be the by-product of_______________? |
| A. | Planning |
| B. | Diffusion |
| C. | Social struggle |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Social struggle | |
| 287. |
__________ are the alterations over time in social structures culture and behavioral patterns ? |
| A. | Reformist movements |
| B. | Social changes |
| C. | Collective behaviors |
| D. | Modernization movements |
| E. | Social movements |
| Answer» F. | |
| 288. |
The form of capitalism that thrives in some developing countries is characterized by a high degree of____________? |
| A. | repression |
| B. | anomie |
| C. | success |
| D. | relative depression |
| E. | solidarity |
| Answer» B. anomie | |
| 289. |
_________ is a model whereby public funds are extensively used to promote economic development? |
| A. | A welfare states |
| B. | Democracy |
| C. | State capitalism |
| D. | Neo-democracy |
| E. | A liberation government |
| Answer» D. Neo-democracy | |
| 290. |
People who are open to new experience and who tend to reject traditional patterns of authority are said to be experiencing ? |
| A. | hysteria |
| B. | countenance |
| C. | modernity |
| D. | a cultural hangover |
| E. | anomie |
| Answer» D. a cultural hangover | |
| 291. |
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 |
| Answer» E. cultural lag | |
| 292. |
The preoccupation with eating habits following the Atkins diet is an example of a(n) _____________? |
| A. | fad |
| B. | craze |
| C. | interest |
| D. | fashion |
| E. | resistance |
| Answer» C. interest | |
| 293. |
What theory of social movement development currently dominates academic though ? |
| A. | Contagion |
| B. | Conflict |
| C. | Resource Development |
| D. | Frame Alignment |
| E. | Linear Evolutionary |
| Answer» D. Frame Alignment | |
| 294. |
__________ movements advocate for progressive change using different methods than those that have previously failed and are often considered to be anti-government ? |
| A. | Reactionary |
| B. | Redundant |
| C. | Reformist |
| D. | Radical |
| E. | Revolutionary |
| Answer» F. | |
| 295. |
Europeans gave firearms whiskey and small pox to India in exchange of corn potatoes tobacco This is an example of_____________? |
| A. | cultural Exchange |
| B. | Diffusion |
| C. | Imperialism |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Imperialism | |
| 296. |
Spread of cultural traits from group to group is called______________? |
| A. | Intercultural harmony |
| B. | Cultural contacts |
| C. | diffusion |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 297. |
Deviant is an agent of___________? |
| A. | Change |
| B. | no change |
| C. | neutrality |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. no change | |
| 298. |
The word stratification derives from the geological concept “Strata “meaning ? |
| A. | class |
| B. | groups |
| C. | Rock layers |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 299. |
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 | |
| 300. |
Cultural lag________________? |
| A. | refers to new forms of social disintegration |
| B. | is the adjustment gap between material and nonmaterial culture? |
| C. | occurs when the dominant group forces change upon the subordinate group which lags behind |
| D. | is society’s way of avoiding the social problems that ensue from social change |
| Answer» C. occurs when the dominant group forces change upon the subordinate group which lags behind | |