Sociology MCQs

Option A: Adolf Hitler

Option B: Winston Churchill

Option C: Charles De Gaulle

Option D: Harry S Truman

Correct Answer: Winston Churchill ✔

Option A: about half

Option B: one fifth

Option C: one third

Option D: one tenth

Correct Answer: one third ✔

Option A: 1989

Option B: 1998

Option C: 2001

Option D: 1991

Correct Answer: 1991 ✔

Option A: maintain strong national identities in spite of operating abroad

Option B: may need to avoid alienating non-American workers and customers

Option C: provide preferential treatment for American employees

Option D: play an increasingly important role in the structuring of the division of labor in the world economy

Correct Answer: play an increasingly important role in the structuring of the division of labor in the world economy ✔

Option A: behaviorist

Option B: egalitarian populist

Option C: residua list

Option D: social insurance

Correct Answer: residua list ✔

Option A: determining what goods and services to produce

Option B: determining how to employ limited resources

Option C: determining how much each individual should be paid

Option D: determining for whom goods and services should be produced

Correct Answer: determining how much each individual should be paid ✔

Option A: the powers of government derive from the consent of the governed

Option B: the procedures for changing government officials may change with each administration

Option C: the people govern directly

Option D: the government tolerates little opposition

Correct Answer: the powers of government derive from the consent of the governed ✔

Option A: Democracy

Option B: Power

Option C: Government

Option D: Totalitarianism

Correct Answer: Government ✔

Option A: characteristic

Option B: charismatic

Option C: legal-rational

Option D: traditional

Correct Answer: traditional ✔

Option A: instrumental conflict theorists

Option B: reactionary conflict theorists

Option C: structural conflict theorists

Option D: dysfunctional conflict theorists

Correct Answer: structural conflict theorists ✔

Option A: enforcement of norms planning and direction arbitration of conflicting interests and protection against other societies

Option B: oppression of minorities enforcement of norms planning and direction protection against enemies within society

Option C: enforcement of norms planning and direction protection against other societies protection against enemies within society

Option D: arbitration of conflicting interests maintaining social contracts distributing goods and services protection against internal threats

Correct Answer: enforcement of norms planning and direction arbitration of conflicting interests and protection against other societies ✔

Option A: charismatic authority

Option B: traditional authority

Option C: authority

Option D: force

Correct Answer: force ✔

Option A: The environment provides the resources essential for life

Option B: The environment serves as a waste depository

Option C: The environment provides a natural setting for social inequalities

Option D: The environment “houses” our species

Correct Answer: The environment provides a natural setting for social inequalities ✔

Option A: cosmopolites

Option B: ethnic villagers

Option C: the trapped

Option D: gentrifies

Correct Answer: ethnic villagers ✔

Option A: the concentric zone theory

Option B: the multiple -nuclei theory

Option C: new urban sociology

Option D: zone sector theory

Correct Answer: new urban sociology ✔

Option A: Ernest Burgess

Option B: Homer Hoyt

Option C: Ferdinand Tonnies

Option D: C.D Harris and Edward L. Ulman

Correct Answer: C.D Harris and Edward L. Ulman ✔

Option A: relatively open class systems

Option B: extensive social mobility

Option C: a much more rigid division of labor by gender

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: a much more rigid division of labor by gender ✔

Option A: China

Option B: Bangladesh

Option C: Iran

Option D: Tunisia

Correct Answer: China ✔

Option A: functionalist perspective

Option B: conflict perspective

Option C: interactionist perspective

Option D: labeling theory

Correct Answer: labeling theory ✔

Option A: USA

Option B: Mozambique

Option C: Canada

Option D: Sweden

Correct Answer: Sweden ✔

Option A: Physicians serve as “gatekeepers” for the sick role either verifying a patient’s condition as “illness” or designating the patient as “recovered”

Option B: Patients play an active role in health care by failing to follow a physician’s advice

Option C: Multinational corporations based in industrialized countries have reaped significant profits by “dumping” unapproved drugs on unsuspecting Third World countries

Option D: The designation “healthy ” or “ill” generally involves social definition by others

Correct Answer: C. Multinational corporations based in industrialized countries have reaped significant profits by “dumping” unapproved drugs on unsuspecting Third World countries ✔

Option A: Japan

Option B: USA

Option C: Gambia

Option D: unknown

Correct Answer: Japan ✔

Option A: risks which result from human interaction with the natural world

Option B: risks associated with the activities of manufacturing industries

Option C: risks that have been exaggerated by the output of the media

Option D: risks that only affect advanced industrial economies

Correct Answer: risks which result from human interaction with the natural world ✔

Option A: falls in agricultural yields

Option B: the spread of disease

Option C: the use of unclear energy

Option D: a rise in sea levels

Correct Answer: the use of unclear energy ✔

Option A: social constructionism reminds us that all environmental issues have an important social aspect and context

Option B: social constructionism remains agnostic about the scientific reality of environmental issues

Option C: social constructionism tells us more about social interactions than the relationship between society and the environment

Option D: social constructionism applies standard which demand new theorizing and approaches

Correct Answer: social constructionism reminds us that all environmental issues have an important social aspect and context ✔

Option A: more resource to be directed towards economic growth

Option B: more resources to be put into Third World development

Option C: growth that minimizes resource depletion and pollution

Option D: fewer resources to be directed towards economic growth

Correct Answer: growth that minimizes resource depletion and pollution ✔

Option A: development that protects the environment for future generations even at the expense of the present generation

Option B: development which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Option C: a type of development which put the interests of developing countries ahead of the interests of the rich nations

Option D: development that is capable of maintaining sustainable economic growth for all countries of the world

Correct Answer: development which meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs ✔

Option A: the genes used cannot spread into the wider environment

Option B: they involve transplanting genes from one organism to another

Option C: we can say with certainty that they are risk-free

Option D: they have been accepted by consumers in all countries

Correct Answer: they involve transplanting genes from one organism to another ✔

Option A: predicting likely weather patterns in the future

Option B: understanding how human societies put pressure on the environment

Option C: understanding how environmental problems are distributed

Option D: evaluating policies for tackling environmental problems

Correct Answer: predicting likely weather patterns in the future ✔

Option A: the interactionist perspective

Option B: the conflict perspective

Option C: the relativist perspective

Option D: the functionalist perspective

Correct Answer: the functionalist perspective ✔

Option A: Segregation in always an involuntary process

Option B: Segregation is the encroachment by one group on an area occupied by another group

Option C: Segregation can be prevented by the practice of redlining

Option 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

Correct Answer: 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 ✔

Option A: Global cities are major urban centers of commerce on which corporations rely.

Option B: Global cities are characterized by centralized manufacturing and production activities.

Option C: Global cities result from decentralized managerial and financial operations.

Option D: Global cities result from changes in world population

Correct Answer: Global cities are major urban centers of commerce on which corporations rely. ✔

Option A: duration and predictability

Option B: frame of mind and environmental setting

Option C: the sex and race of individuals present

Option D: intensification of people’s definition of the situation

Correct Answer: the sex and race of individuals present ✔

Option A: economic development will lead to a reduction in fertility

Option B: governments consider modern contraceptive measures to be a threat to the preservation and continuation of their way of life.

Option C: if contraceptives are made available and if information about the value and need for birth planning is disseminated people will reduce their fertility

Option D: people can be coerced into using family planning techniques

Correct Answer: if contraceptives are made available and if information about the value and need for birth planning is disseminated people will reduce their fertility ✔

Option A: an economic crisis in the capitalist system would force factory owners into the ranks of the unemployed

Option B: an excess of the working-class population depends on the availability of employment opportunities not on fixed supply of food.

Option C: the problems associated with population growth are a function of the scarcity of wealth

Option D: self-control would restrain population growth.

Correct Answer: an excess of the working-class population depends on the availability of employment opportunities not on fixed supply of food. ✔

Option A: A population pyramid portrays the sex and age composition of a population

Option B: A population pyramid must be based on absolute numbers.

Option C: A population pyramid is of interest solely to academics.

Option D: A population pyramid requires complex statistical calculation to understand the interrelationship between age and sex in a given population.

Correct Answer: A population pyramid portrays the sex and age composition of a population ✔

Option A: emigration rate

Option B: growth rate

Option C: immigration rate

Option D: net migration rate

Correct Answer: net migration rate ✔

Option A: is the annual number of live births per 1000-woman age 15-44?

Option B: Is the potential number of children that could be born if every woman of childbearing age bore all the children she possibly could?

Option C: is the number of live births per 1000 members of a population in a given year

Option D: enables researchers to see important difference among races. ethnic groups, classes, age groups, and other categories with in the population

Correct Answer: is the number of live births per 1000 members of a population in a given year ✔

Option A: pollution

Option B: the internet

Option C: urban renewal

Option D: deindustrialization

Correct Answer: the internet ✔

Option A: edge city

Option B: defended neighborhood

Option C: urban enclave

Option D: ethnic village

Correct Answer: defended neighborhood ✔

Option A: cosmopolites

Option B: ethnic villagers

Option C: urban villagers

Option D: the trapped

Correct Answer: cosmopolites ✔

Option A: urban ecologists

Option B: new urban sociologist

Option C: functionalists

Option D: human ecologists

Correct Answer: new urban sociologist ✔

Option A: the functionalist perspective

Option B: the conflict perspective

Option C: the linear-development model

Option D: Urban ecology

Correct Answer: the functionalist perspective ✔

Option A: preindustrial city

Option B: industrial city

Option C: postindustrial city

Option D: edge cities

Correct Answer: industrial city ✔

Option A: reliance on animal power as a source of energy

Option B: the high levels of surplus produced by the agricultural sector

Option C: the ease of migration to the city

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: reliance on animal power as a source of energy ✔

Option A: Pre-transition stage

Option B: transition stage

Option C: post transition stage

Option D: initiation stage

Correct Answer: Pre-transition stage ✔

Option A: high birthrates and death rates

Option B: high birthrates and low death rates

Option C: low birthrates and high death rates

Option D: low birthrates and low death rates

Correct Answer: high birthrates and low death rates ✔

Option A: functionalist perspective

Option B: conflict perspective

Option C: interactionist perspective

Option D: labeling theory

Correct Answer: interactionist perspective ✔

Option A: Patients judgments regarding their own state of health may be related to their gender age social class and ethnic group

Option B: The sick role may be more applicable to people experiencing short-term illnesses than those with recurring long-term illnesses

Option C: Even simple factors such as whether a person is employed or not seem to affect willingness to assume the sick role

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: use artificial means of birth control

Option B: postpone marriage

Option C: pass legislation prohibiting families from having more than one child

Option D: do all of the above

Correct Answer: postpone marriage ✔

Option A: they are produced by techniques of cross-breeding

Option B: they are capable of drastically improving agricultural yields

Option C: they involve transplanting genes between different organisms

Option D: they have become front-page stories in the news everyday

Correct Answer: they involve transplanting genes between different organisms ✔

Option A: the media

Option B: fossil fuel corporations

Option C: academic climate change researchers

Option D: countries such as the Maldives at risk of rising sea levels

Correct Answer: fossil fuel corporations ✔

Option A: single-occupancy light truck

Option B: high-occupancy city bus

Option C: long-haul aero plane

Option D: high-speed coal-fired train

Correct Answer: single-occupancy light truck ✔

Option A: environmental protection and economic growth are incompatible aims

Option B: environmental protection cannot be achieved without high tech solutions

Option C: an ecological form of economic growth is possible

Option D: consumer demand and market mechanisms can bring about ecologically benign outcomes

Correct Answer: environmental protection and economic growth are incompatible aims ✔

Option A: global warming is simply another term for the greenhouse effect

Option B: global warming is a problem caused mainly by unregulated industrialization in the developing countries

Option C: global warming is the rise in average temperature at Earth’s surface

Option D: global warming is an entirely natural phenomenon

Correct Answer: global warming is the rise in average temperature at Earth’s surface ✔

Option A: critical realism

Option B: social constructionism

Option C: structural Marxism

Option D: ecofeminism

Correct Answer: social constructionism ✔

Option A: Karl Marx

Option B: Emile Durkheim

Option C: Max Weber

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: None of these ✔

Option A: segregation

Option B: invasion

Option C: redlining

Option D: none of these

Correct Answer: invasion ✔

Option A: the multiple nuclei model

Option B: the sector models

Option C: the concentric circle models

Option D: the social area analysis model

Correct Answer: the concentric circle models ✔

Option A: the clash of values and culture of people who came together

Option B: poor transportation

Option C: difficulty securing large areas from outside threats

Option D: Sewage-polluted water supplies

Correct Answer: the clash of values and culture of people who came together ✔

Option A: Italy’s practice of punishing couples who have two or more children.

Option B: china’s practice of fining a woman who is pregnant with a second child 20 per cent of her pay if she refuses to have an abortion.

Option C: France’s elimination of tax deductions for families with more than two children.

Option D: Brazil’s refusal to grant a divorce to couples with children

Correct Answer: B. china’s practice of fining a woman who is pregnant with a second child 20 per cent of her pay if she refuses to have an abortion. ✔

Option A: the first stage

Option B: the second stage

Option C: the third stage

Option D: the first and third stage

Correct Answer: the first stage ✔

Option A: human populations tend to increase more slowly than their ability to increase the food supply.

Option B: agricultural production increases in a geometric fashion.

Option C: people could use “moral restraint” to reduce the birth rate.

Option D: famine war and pestilence are social problems that a population can overcome.

Correct Answer: C. people could use “moral restraint” to reduce the birth rate. ✔

Option A: immigration and emigration rates.

Option B: births and deaths

Option C: fertility and fecundity

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: none of the above ✔

Option A: crude death rate

Option B: age-specific death rate

Option C: infant mortality rate

Option D: targeted mortality rate

Correct Answer: age-specific death rate ✔

Option A: Demography

Option B: Ecology

Option C: Popology

Option D: Stratification

Correct Answer: Demography ✔

Option A: High birth rate and low death rate in its first phase

Option B: High death rate and low birth rate in its first phase

Option C: High birth rate and high death rate in its first phase

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: High birth rate and high death rate in its first phase ✔

Option A: apartheid

Option B: ethnic cleansing

Option C: multiculturalism

Option D: assimilation

Correct Answer: apartheid ✔

Option A: Malthusianism

Option B: demography

Option C: forecasting

Option D: official statistics

Correct Answer: demography ✔

Option A: risen from 56 to 67 years

Option B: fallen from 50 to 47 years

Option C: risen from 50 to 61 years

Option D: fallen from 54 to 50 years

Correct Answer: risen from 50 to 61 years ✔

Option A: wanting to meet face-to-face whenever possible

Option B: seeking experience of intimacy on the Internet

Option C: traveling to see foreign locations for holidays

Option D: creating feelings of security in on-line settings

Correct Answer: wanting to meet face-to-face whenever possible ✔

Option A: a reduction in population size caused by a higher rate of emigration than immigration

Option B: a change in the principal causes of death and disease since industrialization

Option C: increased birth and death rates resulting in a relatively young population

Option D: a decline in the birth rate greater life expectancy and an ageing population

Correct Answer: a decline in the birth rate greater life expectancy and an ageing population ✔

Option A: China

Option B: Bangladesh

Option C: Iran

Option D: Tunisia

Correct Answer: China ✔

Option A: overall birth-rate will increase significantly in the early part of the new century

Option B: life expectancy at birth will shortly increase to nearly 100 years of age

Option C: immigration rate is expected to remain high

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: the United States

Option B: Mozambique

Option C: Canada

Option D: Sweden

Correct Answer: Sweden ✔

Option A: use artificial means of birth control

Option B: postpone marriage

Option C: pass legislation prohibiting families from having more than one child

Option D: do all of the above

Correct Answer: postpone marriage ✔

Option A: deindustrialization

Option B: downsizing

Option C: post industrialization

Option D: “banana time”

Correct Answer: deindustrialization ✔

Option A: educate and use this resource

Option B: Send educated abroad

Option C: both a and b

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: both a and b ✔

Option A: 2003 census

Option B: 2004 census

Option C: 2005 census

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: 2004 census ✔

Option A: Its population exceeds set limit

Option B: Its resources fail to cope with its requirement

Option C: None of these

Option D: Both of these

Correct Answer: Its resources fail to cope with its requirement ✔

Option A: unemployment

Option B: Inflation

Option C: Poverty

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: Available acreage

Option B: Improved technology

Option C: Motivation to achieve

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Improved technology ✔

Option A: 35 years

Option B: 75 years

Option C: 100 years

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: 35 years ✔

Option A: it distinguishes between biological and social factors

Option B: it denotes something fixed and unchanging

Option C: it is a social category which has real effects on people lives

Option D: it enables comparisons between groups in different countries

Correct Answer: it is a social category which has real effects on people lives ✔

Option A: an increase in the birth rate

Option B: an increase in the death rate

Option C: an exponential growth in population

Option D: a change in the ratio of births to deaths

Correct Answer: a change in the ratio of births to deaths ✔

Option A: fertility

Option B: fecundity

Option C: femininity

Option D: facticity

Correct Answer: fecundity ✔

Option A: 46

Option B: 54

Option C: 71

Option D: 80

Correct Answer: 71 ✔

Option A: acute infectious diseases such as typhus measles and cholera

Option B: respiratory diseases such as pneumonia and asthma

Option C: chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer heart disease and strokes

Option D: too diverse to put into one category

Correct Answer: chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer heart disease and strokes ✔

Option A: increases in the age of marriage and the age at which childbearing begins

Option B: there being fewer women of childbearing age than there were in the first half of the century

Option C: errors in the measurement of birth rates and production of statistics

Option D: the risk diseases caused by poverty poor housing and bad sanitation

Correct Answer: increases in the age of marriage and the age at which childbearing begins ✔

Option A: pretransition stage

Option B: transition stage

Option C: post transition stage initiation stage

Option D: initiation stage

Correct Answer: pretransition stage ✔

Option A: high birth-rates and death rates

Option B: high birth-rates and low death rates

Option C: low birth-rates and high death rates

Option D: low birth-rates and low death rates

Correct Answer: low birth-rates and low death rates ✔

Option A: Japan

Option B: United States

Option C: Gambia

Option D: unknown

Correct Answer: Japan ✔

Option A: 75

Option B: 14

Option C: 19

Option D: 28

Correct Answer: 75 ✔

Option A: women

Option B: racial minorities

Option C: ethnic minorities

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: coping illiteracy

Option B: Eradicating poverty

Option C: Controlling Population

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Controlling Population ✔

Option A: 33

Option B: 40

Option C: 25

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: 33 ✔

Option A: Low cast labor

Option B: Work force

Option C: technological advancement

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Low cast labor ✔

Option A: community

Option B: Society

Option C: Population

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Population ✔

Option A: India

Option B: China

Option C: Indonesia

Option D: Vietnam

Correct Answer: China ✔

Option A: systematic differences in wealth and income between global firms

Option B: systematic differences in wealth and income between countries

Option C: systematic differences in wealth and income within countries

Option D: systematic differences in wealth and income between poorer countries

Correct Answer: systematic differences in wealth and income between countries ✔