Sociology Quiz 16
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The word stratification derives from the geological concept ?Strata ?meaning ?
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The dependency ratio describes______________?
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According to the World Health Organization which of these is NOT a main cause of chronic disease and long-term impairments in developing countries ?
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How is terrorism different from the types of crime described by the Chicago School ?
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The patterned and recurrent aspects of life that appear in all known societies are called_____________?
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Which approach holds that deviance is not a feature of a group or individual but a process of interaction through which one group becomes defined as deviant ?
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Which sociology perspective emphasizes that societies literally could not function if massive numbers of people defied standards of appropriate conduct ?
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Which sociological perspective views society as a network of connected parts each of which contributes to the maintenance of the system as a whole ?
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Two basic types of economic systems distinguish contemporary industrial societies ?
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Which of the following can be classified as a charismatic leader ?
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Which country has the world,s largest concentration of Jews ?
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Which one of these is a measure of dispersion ?
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Which of the following statements is true of reference groups ?
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According to Durkheim religion separates objects and symbols into the sacred and which of the following ?
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In a sense xenocentrism is a reverse form of_________________?
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The division of labor among physicians into obstetricians? internists surgeons and so forth is an example of the process that Talcott Parsons called_______________?
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The conflict perspective would note that____________?
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In order for field research to be successful the researcher must be________________?
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The four ideal types of social action that Weber identified were as follows instrumentally-rational, value-rational traditional and_____________?
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The Macpherson Report highlighted the increasing problem of_____________?
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Which of the following is NOT an example of an American folkway ?
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In Primitive societies everyone performed similar tasks and so their was a__________________?
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Social constructionism studies the processes which create and sustain ?
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If the information needed has already been written down somewhere it is looked up. It is called_____________?
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_______ is the term for the science dealing with the size, distribution composition and the changes in population ?
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Which type of theorists would argue that relentless class conflict between capitalists and workers boom and bust economic cycles and intercorporate conflict place limits on the ability of the capitalist class to manipulate political institutions at will?
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Secondary groups are judged by them ?
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Due to urbanization Pakistanis urban population increased from six million in 1951 to_____________?
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The term feminist standpoint suggests______________?
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While predictions are not always reliable sociologists and labor specialists foresee a workforce increasingly composed of ?
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The major advantage of interviews is________________?
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A person?s overall position in society is called_______________?
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As a consequence of rural-urban migration____________?
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Which sociologist introduced the concept of culture lag ?
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Suicide is the work of_____________?
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Sutherland?s Differential Association theory emphasizes that crime and deviance are basically______________?
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Early theories of collective behavior emphasized ________ a view that crowd behavior is like a mental illness that a person cannot resist ?
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Spencer presented the theory of_______________?
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What is ethnomethodology ?
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Approximately what percentage of the global population currently lives outside their country of birth ?
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Diffusion of innovations among the cultures means______________?
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Ethnic identity refers to_____________?
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The scientific study of aging is called______________?
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The president of the United States need not be a good typist a surgeon need not be able to fill a cavity This is because of the bureaucratic characteristic of___________?
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Wirth (1938) said that social relationships in the urban way of life were segmental because______________?
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Scientific method has following steps_______________?
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society is seen as a stable system in_______________?
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According to Mead the socialized self means that_____________?
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Who first introduced the notion of anomie into sociology ?
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