Miscellaneous Economics Mcqs - Set 7

1)   The pivotal institution of government_________________?

a. exists in every nation
b. is lacking in Third-World nations
c. is represented by the U.N on a global level
d. exists only theoretically or in a rudimentary form on the international level
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: exists only theoretically or in a rudimentary form on the international level

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   The instruments of foreign policy may be defined as_________________?

a. tools with which nations try to manipulate other nations
b. exchanges entered into in the spirit of trust
c. expressions of human solidarity around the world
d. ways of competing for the title of superpower
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: tools with which nations try to manipulate other nations

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   Entities such as the U.N and the European Economic Community (Common Market) are classed as_____________?

a. IGOs
b. LDCs
c. ICUs
d. EEcs
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: IGOs

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   American military policy has been built on___________________?

a. assured destruction capability
b. very large number of troops
c. trust in U.S allies
d. a spirit of peace in the world
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: assured destruction capability

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   American foreign aid after World War II_________________?

a. helped the domestic economies of industrial nations
b. boosted international trade
c. prevented revolutionary movements from starting in a number of nations
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: boosted international trade

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   The author of a famous treatise on the origin of the state characterized existence in the “state of nature” as________________?

a. similar to an earthly paradise
b. among “noble savages”
c. “solitary poor nasty brutish and short”
d. a pre-Christian utopia
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: “solitary poor nasty brutish and short”

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   The view that nationalism would wither away was held by_________________?

a. classical liberals
b. Marxists
c. stoic philosophers like Marcus Aurelius
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Marxists

Explanation:
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8)   The first European people to form a nation were is________________?

a. Scots
b. Picts
c. Slavs
d. English
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: English

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   In the U.S the military is________________?

a. subordinate to the government
b. a provision of government
c. synonymous with government
d. the basis of legitimate government
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: subordinate to the government

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   The emergence of the sate as a result of a “social contract” is the hypothesis found in the work of________________?

a. Talcott Parsons
b. Thomas Hobbes
c. Karl Marx
d. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Thomas Hobbes

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   The sate differs from all the other institutions in that_______________?

a. it is an abstract concept
b. its political control is complete
c. membership is compulsory for all residents of its territory except for aliens and visitors
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: its political control is complete

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   Legal-rational authority tends to be characteristic of_________________?

a. homogeneous single-culture societies
b. heterogeneous multicultural societies
c. simple agrarian societies
d. Central A Pakistan society
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: heterogeneous multicultural societies

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   A person affected by nationalism______________?

a. identifies with a state’s culture
b. shares a state,s interests and goals
c. displays feelings of ethnocentrism
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: all of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   Marx believed that the state would vanish when_____________?

a. the elite would work toward the good of the masses
b. the lion would lie down with the lamb
c. social classes ceased to exist
d. all societies became capitalist
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: social classes ceased to exist

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   Functionalists approach the state as a tool to________________?

a. maintain order
b. protect the privileged few
c. protect private property
d. maintain the state of nature
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: maintain order

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   Italy has had many changes in political leadership since World War II However economic and legal specialists keep the nation going We would call their authority_______________?

a. legal-rational
b. charismatic
c. traditional
d. irrational
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: legal-rational

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Political control refers to________________?

a. any social control
b. social control exercised by peers
c. social control exercised by the government
d. being forced to vote
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: social control exercised by the government

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   The state has the following relationship to force__________________?

a. it shares it with the citizens
b. it lacks it completely in democracy
c. it has a monopoly on it
d. it gives it up to the people
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: it has a monopoly on it

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   Political control_____________?

a. is internalized cultural learning
b. is acquired through socialization
c. is social control exerted by forces outside the individual
d. takes the place of moral control in simple societies
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: is social control exerted by forces outside the individual

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   The opposite of a nuclear family is the______________?

a. conjugal family
b. atomic family
c. extended family
d. group family
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: extended family

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   The legitimate possession of power is a definition of______________?

a. force
b. the police
c. the state
d. authority
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: authority

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   The view that the state has emerged to protect the rights of a privileged few has been expressed by philosophers of which school of thought ?

a. Functionalism
b. Ideologist
c. Conflict
d. Hegelianism
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Conflict

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   The most important of government is to__________________?

a. provide social welfare
b. implement political control
c. exercise total control
d. regulate human life in society
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: implement political control

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   Even in a democracy the state can________________?

a. size property
b. imprison persons
c. deprive people of their lives
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: imprison persons

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   The forces and processes revolving around government is policies and actions are called_________________?

a. politics
b. general social processes
c. dynamics
d. statics
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: politics

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   Which is FALSE of power ____________________?

a. It is necessary for exerting social control in society
b. It plays a significant role in all kinds of social interactions
c. All power relationships are one sided
d. People have greater or lesser amounts of power according to their statuses in society
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All power relationships are one sided

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   Power may be asserted by_________________?

a. reciprocating
b. promising a reward in return for compliance
c. coercion
d. coercion reciprocation or reward
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: coercion reciprocation or reward

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   The difference between government and state is that________________?

a. government is symbol state is the process
b. government is a process that includes the people who exercise political power
c. the state is an abstract symbol of the political institution
d. government is a process and the state is an abstract symbol
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: government is a process and the state is an abstract symbol

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   international relations include________________?

a. public but not private diplomacy
b. legal but not illegal or “black market” trade
c. declared but not undeclared wars
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: legal but not illegal or “black market” trade

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   By “dependent relations” globalists mean_______________?

a. the legitimacy of nation -states depends upon propaganda and internal surveillance
b. industrial nations depend upon raw materials located in no-industrial nations
c. Third-World countries are maintained in a state of dependency by First-and Second- World nations
d. the effectiveness of the United Nations depends upon a cohesive Security Council
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Third-World countries are maintained in a state of dependency by First-and Second- World nations

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   The realist school of international relations defines war and security as_____________?

a. brinkmanship
b. statecraft
c. high politics
d. low politics
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: low politics

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   The global social system differs from a societal social system in that________________?

a. nations contain a variety of ethnic and racial groups
b. no global government exists
c. nations do not have common goals
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: all of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   The United Stats in an exception in that_________________?

a. wealth correlates with religion
b. wealth does not correlate with religion
c. in most wealth nations religion is very important
d. none of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: wealth does not correlate with religion

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   Critics maintain that the following issues are present in higher education______________?

a. high tuitions
b. a lowering of standards
c. muzzling of academic freedom
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: all of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   The practice of requiring degrees as a minimum hiring requirement is called_______________?

a. elitism
b. academicism
c. credentialism
d. syndication
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: credentialism

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   Middle-and upper-class parents foster the viewpoint that________________?

a. occupational success is desirable
b. success does not matter as much as happiness
c. their children should have a classical education
d. students should find peers with similar goals
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: occupational success is desirable

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   Which of the following is true ?

a. Students with low levels of self-esteem and low levels of confidence tend to do poorly in school
b. Students are seldom able to evaluate their own abilities
c. Lower-class students do as well academically as those from higher social classes
d. Testing consistently low does not affect a students self-confidence
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Testing consistently low does not affect a students self-confidence

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   What kind of individual is valued in industrial and postindustrial societies ?

a. the nonproductive member of an underclass
b. the nonproductive elderly
c. the technically sophisticated and well-educated individual
d. the manual worker
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: the technically sophisticated and well-educated individual

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   Critics of our school system sate that _________________?

a. education makes no attempt to exercise social control
b. education places too little emphasis on hard work and obedience
c. education is used to foster the acceptance of our political system without
d. none of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: education is used to foster the acceptance of our political system without

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   In education_______________?

a. the family is unimportant
b. the family is crucial to student success
c. the social class of the family is unimportant
d. smart students easily overcome the disinterest of the family
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: the family is crucial to student success

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   Which are manifest functions of schools ?

a. To teach skills
b. To teach the values prevalent in the society
c. To reinforce the norms of the society
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   Which branch of Judaism ordains women as rabbis ?

a. Orthodox
b. Conservative
c. Reform
d. Sephardic
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Reform

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   The term “ecclesia” means_______________?

a. a book of the Bible
b. a member of the clergy
c. a universal religion
d. a state religion
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: a state religion

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   The most common form of religious behavior is__________________?

a. tithing
b. mana
c. prayer
d. taboo
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: prayer

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   All religions once established consist of_________________?

a. beliefs rituals and organization
b. doctrine sacraments and priests
c. dogma ecclesia and faith
d. church clergy and believers
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: beliefs rituals and organization

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   Weber,s “Protestant Ethic”is_______________?

a. a rejection of the ideological function of religion
b. a refutation of economic determinism
c. a vindication of the morality of capitalism
d. an explanation of Third-World underdevelopment
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: a vindication of the morality of capitalism

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   Marx regarded religion as______________?

a. a deliberate hoax on the part of dominant classes
b. alienating on both personal and social levels
c. an opiate
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: all of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   The theologian Ludwig Feuerbach portrayed God as_______________?

a. an inappropriate object of worship
b. a figment of the human imagination
c. a sort of ideal
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: a figment of the human imagination

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   Religions__________________?

a. reinforce society’s nation of good and evil
b. link the human and divine orders
c. provide a special feeling of belonging and power
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: all of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   In Melanesia “mana”is________________?

a. the power of good over evil
b. the power of evil over good
c. a power that is neither good nor evil
d. the food miraculously given to the escaped slaves in the wilderness
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: a power that is neither good nor evil

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!