0% 0 Sociology Quiz 9 1 / 50 By the year 2020 it is projected that less than 2 percent of the entire global labor force will be engaged in ? factory work high-tech jobs farming service jobs 2 / 50 Stratified sample falls under______________? None of these multi-stage sample design probability sampling design non-probability sampling design 3 / 50 Which of the following would be an example of a random sample? A researcher_____________? administers a naira to every fifth woman who enters a business office examines the attitudes of residents of a city by interviewing every twentieth name in the city?s telephone book None of the above studies the attitudes of Democratic voters by choosing every tenth name found on a city?s list of registered Democrats 4 / 50 Change is nearly always____________? None of these Ineffective Costly Priceless 5 / 50 Which of these does not include income earned by individuals or corporations outside a country ? Purchasing Power Parity Gross Domestic Product Gross National Income Gross National Product 6 / 50 Who famously stated the medium is the message_______________? Karl Marx Marshall McLuhan Manuel Castells Howard Rheingold 7 / 50 According to Marx_____________? an economic crisis in the capitalist system would force factory owners into the ranks of the unemployed the problems associated with population growth are a function of the scarcity of wealth an excess of the working-class population depends on the availability of employment opportunities not on fixed supply of food. self-control would restrain population growth. 8 / 50 Which of the following is NOT a reason for the rising divorce rate in the West ? women have become less economically dependent increased acceptance of same-sex relationships a reduction in the stigma attached to divorce marriage is seen in terms of personal satisfaction 9 / 50 Under what type of arrangement do people reckon descent and transmit property through the mother?s side of the family ? matrilineal bilineal patrilineal neolocal 10 / 50 Urbanization in preindustrial cities was restricted by___________? reliance on animal power as a source of energy the ease of migration to the city the high levels of surplus produced by the agricultural sector all of the above 11 / 50 Pluralist theories suggest that_______________? the state,s power can be exercised through several different administrative structures political parties must compete for the votes of consumers in the electorate there is a close alignment between class background and party preference the ruling elite is composed of people from various class backgrounds 12 / 50 Which of the following is not a function the family discussed by William Ogburn ? providing of social status economic reproduction protection 13 / 50 In reviewing capitalism worldwide following the downfall of communism in the Soviet Union some observers suggest that_____________? the performance of the Asian economy and financial institutions in late 1997 and early 1998 strongly supports the ?government-business /state capitalism/communal capitalism economic arrangement Russia Eastern Europe Latin America and Asia have fully accepted and are practicing the style of capitalism practiced in the United States capitalist nations fully agree on the merits of capitalism practiced by all developed nations in dynamic Asian nations (e.g. Japan Singapore Hong Kong South Korea and Taiwan) government intervention in economic life has resulted in a ?government-business symbiosis ? different from that in Europe and the United States 14 / 50 In a democracy ? the people govern directly the powers of government derive from the consent of the governed the procedures for changing government officials may change with each administration the government tolerates little opposition 15 / 50 Socialization is the process through which an individual internalizes ? None of these Sense of interaction Cultural norms Social processes 16 / 50 Structural-Functionalists describe society as_______________? a complex network of interaction at a micro-level a normative framework of roles and institutions an unstable structure of social relations a source of conflict inequality and alienation 17 / 50 Which term describes marriage patterns in contemporary Britain ? serial monogamy flexible monogamy reflexive monogamy liquid monogamy 18 / 50 An experiment can be defined as_______________? a piece of research conducted in a laboratory an attempt to test a hypothesis under controlled conditions a piece of research trying out new methods an attempt to deceive participants about the research?s true purpose 19 / 50 What is the term that describes repeat offending by those who have been in prison ? rehabilitation deterrence recidivism reform 20 / 50 Cyclical theorists_______________? try to predict the course of a civilization or society postulate that each culture possesses a life span of approximately 200 years believe that cultures pass through stages of growth quite different from the ones individuals pass through focus on analyzing a single society at a time 21 / 50 How do sociologists describe former Third World societies that have moved towards an economic base in industrial production ? newly industrializing countries developing countries globalizing countries peripheral countries 22 / 50 Which model of city growth describes the city as a central business district surrounded by a zone in transition than a zone of workingmen?s homes residential zones, and the commuters. zone ? the multiple nuclei model the sector models the concentric circle models the social area analysis model 23 / 50 In its study of language, which sociological perspective focuses on how people rely on shared definitions of phrases expressions in both formal speech everyday conversation ? functionalist perspective ethnocentric perspective conflict perspective interactionist perspective 24 / 50 The term terrorism has its origins in_____________? the English Civil War Nazi Germany Revolutionary France the Roman Empire 25 / 50 The form of transnational organization where overseas subsidiaries are managed by local firms in each country is called ? geocentric ethnocentric egocentric polycentric 26 / 50 Mostly the drugs are used for a number of causes a few_________________? Peace of mind All of the above Fun-Pleasure Unemployment 27 / 50 Tearoom Trade is typical of the s asked by sociologists because______________? it investigates working of society that are different from official accounts it takes place outside the university campus it makes use of covert research methods the investigator is sympathetic to the activities that he is investigating 28 / 50 Society is a complex organization of parts that function to fulfil the requirements and promote the needs of the whole is a concept of________________? structural functionalism None of these interaction school of thought Phenom ology 29 / 50 Principles such as efficiency calculability and predictability are all part of what Ritzer called____________? McDonaldization post-modernization the service industry the culture of commerce 30 / 50 Which of the following is not one of Perlmutter,s (1972) types of transnational corporations ? polycentric geocentric heliocentric ethnocentric 31 / 50 Which method of identifying social classes views social class as a statistical category formed by sociologists or statisticians or statisticians on the basis of income occupation education or some combination of these ? the reputational method the self-placement method the combined approach the objective method 32 / 50 One of the ethical problems with covert participant observation is______________? not being able to write comprehensive field notes or record conversations deceiving the respondents as to the reason for your presence observing people outside of their natural setting subjecting the participants to physical harm 33 / 50 Which of the following are NOT factors involved in whether or not people define a situation as crowded ? the sex and race of individuals present duration and predictability intensification of people?s definition of the situation frame of mind and environmental setting 34 / 50 The Most Prominent spokesmen of Functionalist Perspective are______________? Kingsley Davis Robert Merton All of above Talcott Parsons 35 / 50 According to Merton the most common adaptation in the anomie theory of deviance is_____________? conformity innovation ritualism rebellion 36 / 50 In primary groups social contacts are____________? informal formal Social None of these 37 / 50 The terms ?Primary ?and ?Secondary ?thus describe a type of relationship and do not imply that one is more____________ than other? None of these formal Important Informal 38 / 50 social aggregations that emerge from the (Inter)Net when enough people carry on?. public discussions long enough with sufficient human feeling to form webs of personal relationships What is Rheingold (2000) describing here ? the worldwide web cyberspace virtual communities chatrooms 39 / 50 Agriculture cannot absorb the population concentration of human activities and settlements around the downtown areas when the residential area shifts outward this is called____________? None of these Urbanization Development Other occupations 40 / 50 Herbert Gans called urban residents who prefer to live in their own tight-knit communities ? ethnic villagers gentrifies the trapped cosmopolites 41 / 50 Robert Merton?s ideas on crime and deviance make use of the concept of anomie. What does anomie mean in Merton?s work ? social strain meaninglessness Normlessness social adaptation 42 / 50 Some groups are neither clearly primary nor secondary but are intermediate with some features of each usually formed for performing some task They are called______________? Intermediate groups Tertiary groups None of these Task-groups 43 / 50 The first book with the term sociology in its title was written by_________________? Max Weber Herbert Spencer None of these Karl Marx 44 / 50 A researcher can obtain a higher response rate by using which type of survey ? representative samples interviews observation techniques naires 45 / 50 According to Steve Bruce (1996) which of the following was a factor in generating strong religious commitment in the USA as compared to Europe ? late and very rapid industrialization an evangelical strand of Christianity a variety of new religious movements a non-established church 46 / 50 In most instances how well a student does on a test is determined by how much the student studies for it in this example studying for an exam is a(n)_____________? correlation dependent variable sample independent variable 47 / 50 Secularization involves the two related ideas of__________________? distribution and distillation disengagement and disenchantment disappointment and disproportion disbelief and disintegration 48 / 50 Psychological positivism stresses the key role that _______ plays in the development of conformist of criminal belief systems? pre-natal nutrition genetic abnormalities early childhood hormones 49 / 50 The rise of new social movements indicates that______________? all of the above people vote according to pragmatic issues and concerns personal cultural and environmental issues can mobilize political consciousness just as much as economic interests consumer identities are more important than class identities 50 / 50 The work of Smart suggested that_____________? women?s sexual delinquency was more likely to be normalized than men?s the rates of violent crime were similar for men and women women?s criminal behavior tended to reflect traditional gender roles all of the above Provide Your Information Your score is The average score is 0% LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback Share on facebook Facebook Share on twitter Twitter Share on whatsapp WhatsApp PrevSociology Quiz 8 Sociology Quiz 10Next
