Socialization MCQs

Option A: reverse socialization

Option B: face-work

Option C: studied nonobservance

Option D: anticipatory socialization

Correct Answer: face-work ✔

Option A: George Herbert Mead

Option B: Charles Horton Cooley

Option C: Erving Goffman

Option D: Harry Harlow

Correct Answer: Charles Horton Cooley ✔

Option A: is one social phenomenon that has changed little over time

Option B: is less bureaucratic than it was in the past

Option C: is a biological event with no associated social reality?

Option D: requires a new definition of self

Correct Answer: requires a new definition of self ✔

Option A: sex

Option B: love and work

Option C: socialization

Option D: preparation for death

Correct Answer: love and work ✔

Option A: introspective rejuvenation

Option B: self-ethnography

Option C: social comparisons

Option D: none of the above

Correct Answer: social comparisons ✔

Option A: nonverbal communication constitutes the majority of a message in communication

Option B: verbal communication is more important than touch and touch is more important than artifacts in communicating a message

Option C: definitions of the situation differ, and common understanding is impossible

Option D: if situations are defined as real they are real in their consequences

Correct Answer: if situations are defined as real they are real in their consequences ✔

Option A: culture

Option B: definition of the situation

Option C: social communication

Option D: socialization

Correct Answer: socialization ✔

Option A: Self

Option B: rudimentary personality

Option C: Language

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: rudimentary personality ✔

Option A: Biology being the major constraints does not allow any change in human nature hence socialization does not change much of human individual nature

Option B: Individual is the product of social group within which he is socialized

Option C: The nature-nurture controversy has ended in favor of nurture and the bio-sociologists have failed to promote their thesis

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Individual is the product of social group within which he is socialized ✔

Option A: school

Option B: family

Option C: television

Option D: peer group

Correct Answer: family ✔

Option A: sexual characteristics are the biological determinants of gender

Option B: heterosexuality and homosexuality are essential opposing identities

Option C: the tow-sex model replaced the one-sex model in the eighteenth century

Option D: gender is performed through bodily gestures and styles to create sex

Correct Answer: gender is performed through bodily gestures and styles to create sex ✔

Option A: both boys and girls being closely attached to their mothers, but then boys breaking away

Option B: girls being attached to their mothers but then breaking away

Option C: boys being attached to their fathers and girls to their mothers

Option D: both boys and girls being closely attached to their fathers, but girls breaking away

Correct Answer: both boys and girls being closely attached to their mothers, but then boys breaking away ✔

Option A: affectual

Option B: affective

Option C: effective

Option D: infected

Correct Answer: affectual ✔

Option A: functionalist perspective

Option B: conflict perspective

Option C: interactionist perspective

Option D: labeling theory

Correct Answer: interactionist perspective ✔

Option A: hospitals

Option B: mental health clinics

Option C: insurance companies

Option D: all of the above

Correct Answer: all of the above ✔

Option A: reverse socialization

Option B: face-work

Option C: studied nonobservance

Option D: anticipatory socialization

Correct Answer: face-work ✔

Option A: reared in an interracial family

Option B: kept in almost total seclusion for the first six years of her life

Option C: subjected to mistreatment in a mental institution

Option D: a child whose language skills were of genius calibre

Correct Answer: kept in almost total seclusion for the first six years of her life ✔

Option A: Internalization theory

Option B: Role theory

Option C: Symbolic theory

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Internalization theory ✔

Option A: Not socialized by adults while they were growing

Option B: Were given extremely protected environment

Option C: Were over socialized

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Not socialized by adults while they were growing ✔

Option A: Broad Socialization

Option B: Narrow Socialization

Option C: cultural impact

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Narrow Socialization ✔

Option A: Independence and self-expression

Option B: Obedience and Conformity

Option C: both a and b

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Independence and self-expression ✔

Option A: Total institution

Option B: Isolated Society

Option C: Closed society

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Total institution ✔

Option A: Primary socialization

Option B: Secondary

Option C: Developmental

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Primary socialization ✔

Option A: family

Option B: Peer group

Option C: school

Option D: state

Correct Answer: family ✔

Option A: a university

Option B: a mental hospital

Option C: a factory

Option D: each of the above

Correct Answer: a mental hospital ✔

Option A: George Herbert Mead

Option B: Charles Horton Cooley

Option C: Erving Goffman

Option D: W.I Thomas

Correct Answer: George Herbert Mead ✔

Option A: Jean Piaget

Option B: Edward O.Wilson

Option C: Erving Goffman

Option D: Harry Harlow

Correct Answer: Edward O.Wilson ✔

Option A: age norms

Option B: life events

Option C: social clocks

Option D: remarkably similar for men and women

Correct Answer: life events ✔

Option A: impression management

Option B: the Thomas theorem

Option C: the looking -glass self

Option D: the dramaturgical approach

Correct Answer: the dramaturgical approach ✔

Option A: esoteric social readjustment

Option B: an egocentric bias

Option C: the looking -glass self

Option D: the formation of the self

Correct Answer: an egocentric bias ✔

Option A: conditioning

Option B: personal efficacy

Option C: reflexive behavior

Option D: egocentric bias

Correct Answer: conditioning ✔

Option A: closer to the center of the self than the moral rules

Option B: provide a focus for allegiance

Option C: are compellers of action

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: are compellers of action ✔

Option A: Religious ritual

Option B: changelessness

Option C: idealized ways of thinking and doing

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Religious ritual ✔

Option A: feeling their self-esteem threatened by the lack a close relationship

Option B: learning that to be a man is to reject being like a woman

Option C: feeling endangered by close intimate emotional relationships

Option D: developing a detached and analytical approach to the world

Correct Answer: feeling their self-esteem threatened by the lack a close relationship ✔

Option A: a lack of equal rights and opportunities for men and women

Option B: sex classes through which men oppress women economically politically and sexually

Option C: women’s domestic labor being exploited by the capitalist econorny

Option D: the dual systems of capitalist and male domination

Correct Answer: women’s domestic labor being exploited by the capitalist econorny ✔

Option A: the formation of an attachment bond between an infant and its carer

Option B: a tendency of social theorists to explain everything in terms of social causes

Option C: the process of becoming part of a society by learning its norms and values

Option D: the historical process by which societies change from traditional to modern

Correct Answer: the process of becoming part of a society by learning its norms and values ✔

Option A: rationalization

Option B: colonization

Option C: McDonaldization

Option D: socialization

Correct Answer: socialization ✔

Option A: the contact hypothesis

Option B: a self-fulfilling prophecy

Option C: scapegoating

Option D: reverse discrimination

Correct Answer: a self-fulfilling prophecy ✔

Option A: family

Option B: peer group

Option C: school

Option D: state

Correct Answer: family ✔

Option A: Isabelle and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process

Option B: Nell and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process

Option C: rhesus monkeys that had been raised away from their mothers

Option D: nature versus nurture that focused on sociobiology

Correct Answer: rhesus monkeys that had been raised away from their mothers ✔

Option A: object of socializing process

Option B: novice

Option C: principal

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: novice ✔

Option A: Creativity

Option B: Self-reliance

Option C: Conformity

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Conformity ✔

Option A: Arnett

Option B: Long & Hadden

Option C: Henslin

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Long & Hadden ✔

Option A: Symbolic interactionism

Option B: Role theory

Option C: Reinforcement theory

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Reinforcement theory ✔

Option A: Role theory

Option B: Reinforcement theory

Option C: Symbolic interactionism

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Symbolic interactionism ✔

Option A: high and low

Option B: broad and narrow

Option C: old and new

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: broad and narrow ✔

Option A: Socialization at primary school level

Option B: Socialization at home

Option C: Socialization in early life, as a child

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Socialization in early life, as a child ✔

Option A: Primary

Option B: Secondary

Option C: Developmental socialization

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Developmental socialization ✔

Option A: Culture

Option B: Socialization

Option C: Association

Option D: None of these

Correct Answer: Socialization ✔