Sociology Quiz 16
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Approximately what percentage of the global population currently lives outside their country of birth ?
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While predictions are not always reliable sociologists and labor specialists foresee a workforce increasingly composed of ?
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Spencer presented the theory of_______________?
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society is seen as a stable system in_______________?
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Which of the following statements is true of reference groups ?
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Scientific method has following steps_______________?
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The Macpherson Report highlighted the increasing problem of_____________?
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Which one of these is a measure of dispersion ?
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The scientific study of aging is called______________?
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The word stratification derives from the geological concept ?Strata ?meaning ?
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A person?s overall position in society is called_______________?
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The term feminist standpoint suggests______________?
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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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Ethnic identity refers to_____________?
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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 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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Which sociology perspective emphasizes that societies literally could not function if massive numbers of people defied standards of appropriate conduct ?
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Diffusion of innovations among the cultures means______________?
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Two basic types of economic systems distinguish contemporary industrial societies ?
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Who first introduced the notion of anomie into sociology ?
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According to Durkheim religion separates objects and symbols into the sacred and which of the following ?
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Which country has the world,s largest concentration of Jews ?
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Secondary groups are judged by them ?
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What is ethnomethodology ?
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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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The major advantage of interviews is________________?
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Which of the following can be classified as a charismatic leader ?
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According to Mead the socialized self means that_____________?
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In Primitive societies everyone performed similar tasks and so their was a__________________?
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Wirth (1938) said that social relationships in the urban way of life were segmental because______________?
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The dependency ratio describes______________?
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In order for field research to be successful the researcher must be________________?
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Suicide is the work of_____________?
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The conflict perspective would note that____________?
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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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Sutherland?s Differential Association theory emphasizes that crime and deviance are basically______________?
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How is terrorism different from the types of crime described by the Chicago School ?
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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 sociologist introduced the concept of culture lag ?
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The patterned and recurrent aspects of life that appear in all known societies are 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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As a consequence of rural-urban migration____________?
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Which of the following is NOT an example of an American folkway ?
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In a sense xenocentrism is a reverse form of_________________?
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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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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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_______ is the term for the science dealing with the size, distribution composition and the changes in population ?
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Due to urbanization Pakistanis urban population increased from six million in 1951 to_____________?
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Social constructionism studies the processes which create and sustain ?
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