Sociology MCQs

Option A: a process that continues from birth to death

Option B: a process shaped by the forces of capitalism

Option C: a process of adapting to changing social roles

Option D: a process shaped by psychological decline

Correct Answer: a process that continues from birth to death ✔

Option A: they have a deep-rooted sense of ineffectiveness and are striving for control

Option B: they are in pursuit of the perfect body fueled by images of beauty

Option C: they perceive a part of their body as stigmatizing in relation to a cultural ideal

Option D: their male partners pressurize them to look like supermodels

Correct Answer: they perceive a part of their body as stigmatizing in relation to a cultural ideal ✔

Option A: 10%

Option B: 7.7%

Option C: 6.5%

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: 7.7% ✔

Option A: voting age

Option B: age of consent

Option C: drinking age

Option D: All of the above

Correct Answer: All of the above ✔

Option A: the process of growth

Option B: the process of aging

Option C: infant period

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: the process of aging ✔

Option A: a medical condition

Option B: a period of life

Option C: a state of mind

Option D: a social category

Correct Answer: a social category ✔

Option A: the size of working population supporting the young and the old

Option B: the number of children dependent upon the adults in a family

Option C: the amount of care both give and received by older people

Option D: the number of welfare professionals that support a population

Correct Answer: the size of working population supporting the young and the old ✔

Option A: take on full-time paid employment

Option B: take on less taxing and important roles

Option C: take one new and demanding civic roles

Option D: take on more active political roles

Correct Answer: take on less taxing and important roles ✔

Option A: That they can look after themselves

Option B: The sons are responsible

Option C: The daughters are responsible

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: The sons are responsible ✔

Option A: 19.4%

Option B: 12%

Option C: 20%

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: 19.4% ✔

Option A: sixteen

Option B: Seventeen

Option C: Eighteen

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Eighteen ✔

Option A: Europe

Option B: Japan

Option C: USA

Option D: Both A and B

Correct Answer: Both A and B ✔

Option A: Human beings have existed on earth for about half million years

Option B: agriculture is only around twelve thousand years old

Option C: civilizations date back around six thousand years

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: folkways

Option B: non-verbal communication

Option C: cultural integration

Option D: values

Correct Answer: non-verbal communication ✔

Option A: too many rules and regulations that weigh progress down

Option B: a disregard for cultural assimilation

Option C: a positive influence on multicultural development

Option D: too much concern for non-material culture

Correct Answer: few boundaries ✔

Option A: infanticide

Option B: homicide

Option C: pesticide

Option D: cultural extinction

Correct Answer: ethnocide ✔

Option A: belief in equality and fairness

Option B: importance of accommodation and tolerance

Option C: support for diversity

Option D: belief in consultation and dialogue

Correct Answer: support for diversity ✔

Option A: cultural diversity is increasing

Option B: cultural relativism is now the norm

Option C: cultural lag doesn,t last as long

Option D: culture shock is increasing

Correct Answer: cultural diversity is increasing ✔

Option A: enculturation

Option B: ethnocentrism

Option C: diffusion

Option D: cultural integration

Correct Answer: adaptation ✔

Option A: Proletariat

Option B: cultural universals

Option C: language

Option D: dominant ideology

Correct Answer: dominant ideology ✔

Option A: mass media and adaptation

Option B: invention and discovery

Option C: multiculturalism and assimilation

Option D: language and symbols

Correct Answer: invention and discovery ✔

Option A: fixed and static

Option B: a subjective entity

Option C: always changing

Option D: insulated against technology

Correct Answer: always changing ✔

Option A: talk more over the course of the relationship

Option B: be politer in their speech patterns

Option C: use a greater range of words

Option D: not appreciate or encourage self-disclosure as much

Correct Answer: not appreciate or encourage self-disclosure as much ✔

Option A: a flexible system of symbols

Option B: essential for cultural integration

Option C: a cultural barrier

Option D: a key cultural marker

Correct Answer: a key cultural marker ✔

Option A: Culture is symbolic

Option B: Culture is transmitted

Option C: Culture is cumulative

Option D: Culture is shared

Correct Answer: Culture is symbolic ✔

Option A: functionalist perspective

Option B: conflict perspective

Option C: interactionist perspective

Option D: dramaturgical perspective

Correct Answer: functionalist perspective ✔

Option A: xenocentrism

Option B: the Hawthorne effects

Option C: the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Option D: culture shock

Correct Answer: culture shock ✔

Option A: God-given and cannot be changed

Option B: Buildings and people who operate them

Option C: Constellation of folkways and mores

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: None of these ✔

Option A: Max Weber

Option B: Talcott Parsons

Option C: Karl Marx

Option D: Margaret Mead

Correct Answer: Karl Marx ✔

Option A: Values never change

Option B: Values of a culture may change but most remain relatively stable during any one person,s lifetime

Option C: Values are constantly changing sociologists view them as being very unstable

Option D: All of the above statements are correct

Correct Answer: Values of a culture may change but most remain relatively stable during any one person,s lifetime ✔

Option A: Max Weber

Option B: George Murdock

Option C: Margaret Mead

Option D: William F Ogburn

Correct Answer: William F Ogburn ✔

Option A: a comic book

Option B: patriotic attachment to the flag of the United States

Option C: burial of a family pet in a cemetery plot

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: have no specialized and enduring work groups governments, or standing armies

Option B: exhibit increased power of the state and size of the territory it controls

Option C: experience the emergence of social stratification due to production of a social surplus

Option D: have complex divisions of labor and exchange relationships

Correct Answer: experience the emergence of social stratification due to production of a social surplus ✔

Option A: group

Option B: aggregate

Option C: subculture

Option D: transitory collective

Correct Answer: aggregate ✔

Option A: A single status may have multiple roles attached to it

Option B: A role does not exist in isolation but is integrated with the activities of other people

Option C: Roles define duties but only statuses define rights

Option D: Groups consist of complexes of interlocking roles

Correct Answer: Roles define duties but only statuses define rights ✔

Option A: role modelling

Option B: ascribed status

Option C: status conception

Option D: role performance

Correct Answer: role performance ✔

Option A: is always at odds with the ways of the larger society

Option B: is a set of patterned and recurrent aspects of life that appear in all known societies?

Option C: includes members of a group that participate in the main culture while sharing another culture

Option D: uses a value-free approach that views people from the perspective of their own culture

Correct Answer: includes members of a group that participate in the main culture while sharing another culture ✔

Option A: cultural relativism

Option B: requisite societal composition

Option C: cultural universals

Option D: ethnocentrism

Correct Answer: cultural universals ✔

Option A: the custom of chewing food with one,s mouth closed

Option B: the practice of shaking hands when greeting someone for the first time

Option C: the courtesy of arriving on time for a religious service

Option D: the habit of driving on the right-hand side of the road

Correct Answer: the habit of driving on the right-hand side of the road ✔

Option A: nonmaterial culture

Option B: material culture

Option C: mores

Option D: proprietary culture

Correct Answer: nonmaterial culture ✔

Option A: the society has no norms and if there are any nobody follows them

Option B: the individual has no claim over the product that he has finished

Option C: the worker is least emotionally related to the product that he develops the co-workers and the work environment

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: None of these ✔

Option A: Ibn-e-khaldun

Option B: Emile Durkheim

Option C: Auguste Conte

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Emile Durkheim ✔

Option A: Cultural shock

Option B: role strain

Option C: role conflict

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Cultural shock ✔

Option A: Folkways

Option B: counter culture

Option C: cultural complexes

Option D: cultural diffusion

Correct Answer: cultural diffusion ✔

Option A: creative activities such as gardening cookery and craftwork

Option B: the symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media

Option C: religious beliefs about how the world ought to be

Option D: rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life

Correct Answer: rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life ✔

Option A: language

Option B: family organization

Option C: religion

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: functionalist perspective

Option B: conflict perspective

Option C: interactionist perspective

Option D: dramaturgical perspective

Correct Answer: functionalist perspective ✔

Option A: xenocentrism

Option B: the Hawthorne effects

Option C: the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis

Option D: culture shock

Correct Answer: culture shock ✔

Option A: functionalist perspective

Option B: conflict perspective

Option C: interactionist perspective

Option D: each of the above

Correct Answer: conflict perspective ✔

Option A: People do not follow norms in all situations in some cases they evade a norm because they know it is weakly enforced

Option B: In some instances, behavior that appears to violate society’s norms may actually represent adherence to the norms of a particular group

Option C: Norms are violated in some instances because one norm conflicts with another

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: Max Weber

Option B: George Murdock

Option C: Margaret Mead

Option D: William F. Ogburn

Correct Answer: William F. Ogburn ✔

Option A: Ethnocentrism

Option B: Xenocentric Approach

Option C: Quality consciousness

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Xenocentric Approach ✔

Option A: Counter Culture

Option B: Ethnocentrism

Option C: Xenocentrism

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Ethnocentrism ✔

Option A: Family and Religion

Option B: State and economic institutions

Option C: both a and b

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: both a and b ✔

Option A: Trait

Option B: Complex

Option C: Family

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Complex ✔

Option A: Mores

Option B: Norms

Option C: Customs

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Mores ✔

Option A: What is expected to exist

Option B: The common conduct

Option C: What actually exists

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: What actually exists ✔

Option A: obstacle to cultural development

Option B: Helpful in cultural development

Option C: have no effect

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: obstacle to cultural development ✔

Option A: Three Stages

Option B: Four Stages

Option C: Two stages

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Three Stages ✔

Option A: material culture

Option B: Non-material culture

Option C: Out of culture

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: material culture ✔

Option A: Customs and beliefs ideas

Option B: tools and domestic items

Option C: Books and written material

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Customs and beliefs ideas ✔

Option A: Conflict

Option B: Symbolic Interactionism

Option C: Functionalism

Option D: Radical

Correct Answer: Functionalism ✔

Option A: cultural relativism

Option B: cultural lag

Option C: cultural proscriptions

Option D: cultural genocide

Correct Answer: cultural integration ✔

Option A: adaptive mechanisms

Option B: constitutional law

Option C: cultural givens

Option D: human rights

Correct Answer: human rights ✔

Option A: political incompetence

Option B: sports

Option C: our Aboriginal history

Option D: an intricate and diverse set of circumstances

Correct Answer: immigration ✔

Option A: Toronto Raptors fans

Option B: motorcycle gangs

Option C: racist groups

Option D: terrorism

Correct Answer: Toronto Raptors fans ✔

Option A: Functionalism

Option B: Conflict

Option C: Feminism

Option D: Radical

Correct Answer: Conflict ✔

Option A: adaptive

Option B: relativistic

Option C: indirect

Option D: direct

Correct Answer: indirect ✔

Option A: means by which to present the self

Option B: political tool

Option C: defense mechanism

Option D: means by which to bind culture

Correct Answer: political tool ✔

Option A: self-fulfilling prophecy

Option B: sense of ethnocentrism

Option C: cultural lag

Option D: cultural adaptation

Correct Answer: self-fulfilling prophecy ✔

Option A: popular culture

Option B: customs

Option C: material culture

Option D: non-material culture

Correct Answer: material culture ✔

Option A: cultural integration

Option B: cultural relativism

Option C: ethnocentrism

Option D: culture shock

Correct Answer: ethnocentrism ✔

Option A: William F. Ogburn

Option B: William Graham Sumner

Option C: George Murdock

Option D: Max Weber

Correct Answer: William Graham Sumner ✔

Option A: subcultures

Option B: countercultures

Option C: cultural universals

Option D: argot

Correct Answer: subcultures ✔

Option A: functionalist perspective

Option B: conflict perspective

Option C: interactionist perspective

Option D: each of the above

Correct Answer: conflict perspective ✔

Option A: People do not follow norms in all situations In some cases they evade

Option B: In some instances behavior that appears to violate society,s norms the norms of a particular group

Option C: Norms are violated in some instances because one norm conflicts with another

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: invention

Option B: discovery

Option C: diffusion

Option D: cultural integration

Correct Answer: discovery ✔

Option A: Increasing numbers of workers are employed in the service sector

Option B: Many processes in the work place are automated

Option C: Economic self-sufficiency is displaced by complex divisions of labour exchange relationships and national and international market systems

Option D: Changes are accompanied by the knowledge explosion based on the creation processing and distribution of knowledge

Correct Answer: Economic self-sufficiency is displaced by complex divisions of labour exchange relationships and national and international market systems ✔

Option A: Members of a society possess a wide variety of values and norms based on their social status

Option B: A group must have at least 1,500 members to be considered a society

Option C: Another term for “society” is nation-state

Option D: Members of a society comprise a more or less self-sufficient social unit

Correct Answer: Members of a society comprise a more or less self-sufficient social unit ✔

Option A: actions that others can legitimately insist that we perform

Option B: actions that we can legitimately insist that others perform

Option C: rules that are enforced by a special political organization composed of individuals who enjoy the right to use force

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: rules that are enforced by a special political organization composed of individuals who enjoy the right to use force ✔

Option A: role strain

Option B: role conflict

Option C: role hypersensitivity

Option D: role reversal

Correct Answer: role conflict ✔

Option A: All cultures agree on the importance of exclusive mother-infant interaction to encourage bonding in the first 15 to months of life.

Option B: Methods of caring for babies are linked to other elements of a society’s culture

Option C: No culture supports waking a sleeping infant

Option D: Pediatricians are trained to teach parents the one universally accepted set of best practices for raising an infant

Correct Answer: Methods of caring for babies are linked to other elements of a society’s culture ✔

Option A: provide explicit indications of which behaviors are acceptable and which are not.

Option B: are narrow ideas about what is desirable correct and good

Option C: are defined by symbols

Option D: are general and abstract and do not explicitly specify which behaviors are acceptable and which are not

Correct Answer: are general and abstract and do not explicitly specify which behaviors are acceptable and which are not ✔

Option A: a culture

Option B: an iconoclastic enclave

Option C: a society

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: a society ✔

Option A: Culture is genetic

Option B: Culture is passed down generation to generation

Option C: Culture includes physical artifacts not abstract creations

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: Culture is passed down generation to generation ✔

Option A: Has to be against the existing ethos/values

Option B: May not be against the existing culture ethos/values

Option C: if different from the exiting culture may never survive

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Has to be against the existing ethos/values ✔

Option A: Travelling of traits and patterns space/territory

Option B: Transmission of trait complexes time

Option C: Both A and B

Option D: None of the above

Correct Answer: Both A and B ✔

Option A: Evaluating other cultures with the yardstick of your own values

Option B: Taking other nations as good as your own one but disowned

Option C: no other society is like yours and your society is superior to the others

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: no other society is like yours and your society is superior to the others ✔

Option A: Assimilation

Option B: Hawthorne affect

Option C: invasion

Option D: anomie

Correct Answer: anomie ✔

Option A: the influence of specific variables can be controlled by the investigator

Option B: it usually generates richer and more in-depth information than other methods

Option C: it is essential when a study is primarily historical or has a historical dimension

Option D: it can only be used to study relatively small groups or communities

Correct Answer: it usually generates richer and more in-depth information than other methods ✔

Option A: charisma

Option B: argot

Option C: equilibrium

Option D: virtual reality

Correct Answer: argot ✔

Option A: cultural integration

Option B: cultural relativism

Option C: ethnocentrism

Option D: culture shock

Correct Answer: ethnocentrism ✔

Option A: William F. Ogburn

Option B: William Graham Sumner

Option C: George Murdock

Option D: Max Weber

Correct Answer: William Graham Sumner ✔

Option A: subcultures

Option B: countercultures

Option C: cultural universals

Option D: argot

Correct Answer: subcultures ✔

Option A: Values never change

Option B: Values of a culture may change but most remain relatively stable during any one person’s lifetime

Option C: Values are constantly changing sociologists view them as being very unstable

Option D: All of the above statements are correct

Correct Answer: Values of a culture may change but most remain relatively stable during any one person’s lifetime ✔

Option A: folkways

Option B: mores

Option C: values

Option D: laws

Correct Answer: laws ✔

Option A: New Cultures

Option B: cultural relativism

Option C: Countercultures

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Countercultures ✔

Option A: Xenocentrism

Option B: Ethnocentrism

Option C: Cultural Adjustment

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Xenocentrism ✔

Option A: Subcultures

Option B: Counter Cultures

Option C: Relative Cultures

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Subcultures ✔

Option A: Institution

Option B: Trait

Option C: Religion

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Institution ✔