Sociology Mcqs for Preparation of Test - Set 8

1)   Which perspective does not come under the umbrella of interactionism ?

a. ethnomethodology
b. symbolic interactionism
c. feminism
d. phenomenology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: feminism

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


2)   Talcott Parsons,s structural functionalism attempted to tackle ?

a. the problem of class conflict
b. the problem of economic restructuring
c. the problem of social welfare
d. the problem of social order
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: the problem of social order

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


3)   Which of the following is not a mode of production ?

a. feudalism
b. communism
c. capitalism
d. liberalism
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: liberalism

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


4)   Which one of the following is the odd one out _______________ ?

a. George Herbert Mead
b. Antonio Gramsci
c. Erving Goffman
d. Howard Becker
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Antonio Gramsci

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


5)   Max Weber,s pioneering work The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism is an example of______________?

a. Macro-level analysis
b. micro-level analysis
c. resurgent fundamentalism
d. the interactionist approach to religion
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Macro-level analysis

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


6)   Feminist perspectives are distinctive in sociology because_______________?

a. only women can write from a feminist perspective
b. other theoretical perspectives have not researched women
c. they emphasize the centrality of gender in social analysis
d. men and women view the world in different ways
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: they emphasize the centrality of gender in social analysis

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


7)   The writings of Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim are examples of___________?

a. cyclical theory
b. unilinear theory
c. multilinear theory
d. conflict theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: unilinear theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


8)   The conflict perspective would note that____________?

a. Physicians serve as gatekeepers for the sick role either verifying a patient’s condition as illness or designating the patient as recovered.
b. Patients play an active role in health care by failing to follow a physician’s advice
c. Multinational corporations based in industrialized countries have reaped significant profits dumping unapproved drugs on unsuspecting Third World coun
d. The designation healthy or ill generally involves social definition by others
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Multinational corporations based in industrialized countries have reaped significant profits dumping unapproved drugs on unsuspecting Third World coun

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


9)   The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans contains an implicit critique of Blacks Hispanics and others for failing to succeed as well as the model minority has Which sociological perspective would view this as yet another instance of blaming the victim ?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. dramaturgical approach
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: conflict perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


10)   Which sociological perspective views race from the macro level and sees the economic structure as a central factor in the exploitation of minority groups ?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. labelling theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: conflict perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


11)   Which sociology perspective emphasizes that societies literally could not function if massive numbers of people defied standards of appropriate conduct ?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. labelling theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: functionalist perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


12)   Which sociological perspective emphasizes that school in the United States foster competition through built-in systems of reward and punishment ?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. psychological perspective
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: conflict perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


13)   In studying the strategies that students employ to create appearances after grades have awarded sociologists Daniel Albas and Cheryl Albas drew upon the concept of impression managements developed by______________?

a. George Herbert Mead
b. Charles Horton Cooley
c. Erving Goffman
d. Jean Piaget
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Erving Goffman

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


14)   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 ?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. ethnocentric perspective
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: interactionist perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


15)   Which of the following is an aspect of culture ?

a. a comic book
b. patriotic attachment to the flag of the United States
c. burial of a family pet in a cemetery plot
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: all of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


16)   Erving Goffman made a distinctive contribution to sociology by popularizing a particular type of interactionist method known as____________?

a. macrosociology
b. the dramaturgical approach
c. Verstehen
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: the dramaturgical approach

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


17)   Karl Marx,s view of the struggle between social classes inspired the contemporary_____________?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. dramaturgical approach
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: conflict perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


18)   Human behavior is guided by expectations held both by the individual and by other people is the basic notion of_____________?

a. conflict theory
b. Structural functionalism
c. role theory
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: role theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


19)   The human action and interaction are understandable only through the exchange of meaningful communication or symbols, this is the basic assumption of_______________?

a. conflict theory
b. Role theory
c. Symbolic interactionism
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Symbolic interactionism

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


20)   In modern societies members perform different tasks and are highly interdependent this kind of solidarity is called______________?

a. Organic solidarity
b. Mechanical solidarity
c. Interdependence solidarity
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Organic solidarity

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


21)   Structural functionalism draws its inspiration primarily from the ideas of___________?

a. Marx
b. weber
c. Durkheim
d. All of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Durkheim

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


22)   Evolutionary theory is of the view that society like biological organisms moves from___________?

a. simple to complex
b. complex to simple
c. Complex to more complex
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: simple to complex

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


23)   Karl Marx is Best known for_______________?

a. Conflict theory
b. Social change
c. Society and science
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Conflict theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


24)   According to Durkheim stronger social ties and religious affiliation______________?

a. Increase the suicide rates
b. Decrease them
c. Have no effect upon them
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Decrease them

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


25)   Sociology is well-equipped to uncover the truth about social problems because of______________?

a. its reliance on surveys
b. its theoretical grounding
c. its emphasis on careful reliable empirical research
d. its desire to solve problems
e. its reliance on government funding
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: its emphasis on careful reliable empirical research

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


26)   Conflict and feminist theories both focus on______________?

a. consensus
b. subjective meanings
c. manifest functions
d. negotiated social orders
e. structured social inequality
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: structured social inequality

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


27)   Which sociological theory emphasizes the meanings that people attach to various aspects of reality ?

a. Symbolic Interactionism
b. Feminism
c. Conflict
d. Radical
e. Structural Functionalism
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Symbolic Interactionism

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


28)   Conflict theory is heavily indebted to the work of_____________?

a. Abell
b. Mead
c. Marx
d. Pareto
e. Parsons
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Marx

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


29)   The fourth major perspective in sociology is ___________________________ theory.

a. political economy
b. symbolic interactionist
c. conflict
d. feminist
e. functionalist
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: feminist

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


30)   Karl Marx emphasized ____________ as a major factor in shaping social life ?

a. psychology
b. geography
c. economics
d. communism
e. social psychology
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: economics

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


31)   Which of the following was not a key development leading to the birth of sociology ?

a. Enlightenment thinkers/philosophers
b. The Industrial Revolution
c. Globalization
d. Renaissance thinkers/philosophers
e. The rapid expansion of colonialism
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Globalization

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


32)   Sociological research frequently focuses on______________?

a. religious integration
b. immigration
c. globalization
d. suicide
e. disadvantaged groups
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: disadvantaged groups

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


33)   Theories must be____________?

a. testable
b. formulated prior to research
c. based on pre-existing facts
d. exclusively sociological
e. issue driven
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: testable

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


34)   Post-modernist writers have argued that____________?

a. we live in a world of superficial fragmented images
b. no theory is better than any other anything goes
c. society has changed, and we need new kinds of theory
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: we live in a world of superficial fragmented images

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


35)   Dahrendorf Rex and Habermas focused their attention on_____________?

a. social solidarity and cohesion
b. the interpretive understanding of action
c. women’s experiences and gendered knowledge
d. Power domination and conflict
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Power domination and conflict

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


36)   Structural-Functionalists describe society as_____________?

a. a complex network of interaction at a micro-level
b. a source of conflict inequality and alienation
c. an unstable structure of social relations
d. a normative framework of roles and institutions
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: a normative framework of roles and institutions

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


37)   Weber said that all knowledge is value-relevant because_____________?

a. sociologists like to put a value on different theories
b. knowledge refers to people and their values
c. theorists interpret the world in terms of their own values
d. attempts to provide knowledge about the world are always valuable
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: theorists interpret the world in terms of their own values

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


38)   Which of the following ins NOT a key theme in Michel Foucault’s writing ?

a. the hyperreality of media imagery
b. the significance of expert discourses
c. societies use of surveillance and discipline
d. the archaeology of scientific knowledge
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: the hyperreality of media imagery

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


39)   Which of the following theorists rejects the notion of essential categories of male and female through her discussion of the performative aspect of gender ?

a. Joan Acker
b. Judith Butler
c. Helene Cixous
d. Simone de Beauvoir
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Judith Butler

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


40)   Which of these is a broadly Weberian idea ?

a. the main dynamic of modern development is capitalist economics
b. modem societies are in transition towards a socialist model
c. rationalization is bound to progress further in all spheres of life
d. all history is the history of class struggles
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: rationalization is bound to progress further in all spheres of life

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


41)   Which of the following has not been central to feminist theorizing ?

a. male domination in society
b. male bias in sociological theory
c. the gendered character of knowledge
d. the experience of black women
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: the experience of black women

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


42)   What did Max Weber understand by the spirit of capitalism ?

a. the exploitation of the working class
b. the desire for more material wealth
c. the continual reinvestment of profits back into businesses
d. the belief in free markets
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: the continual reinvestment of profits back into businesses

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


43)   Who became the first ever Professor of Sociology ?

a. George Herbert Mead
b. Talcott Parsons
c. Emile Durkheim
d. Robert Merton
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Emile Durkheim

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


44)   Comte argued that knowledge passed through which three stages ?

a. theological metaphysical positive
b. ignorance understanding truth
c. philosophical biological sociological
d. functionalist marxist interactionist
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: theological metaphysical positive

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


45)   Which sociological perspective examines human activities on the micro level by focusing on how day-to-day social behavior is shaped by the distinctive norms, values and demands of a particular society ?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: interactionist perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


46)   When Comet wrote of sociology as a positive science he meant ?

a. that it should show people in the best possible light
b. that it should attempt to appeal to as many people as possible
c. that it should apply the same methods as physics or chemistry
d. that it should progress by positing new concepts and theories
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: that it should apply the same methods as physics or chemistry

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


47)   Which sociological perspective emphasizes that patients should not always be viewed as passive but instead as an actor who often shows a powerful intent to see the physician ?

a. Functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. labelling theory
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: interactionist perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


48)   Which sociological perspective would note that poor and rural sections of the United States tend to be underserved because medical service concentrate where people are numerous or wealthy ?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. neo-Malthusian view
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: conflict perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


49)   A Hispanic woman and a Jewish man working together as computer programmers for an electronics from overcome their initial prejudices and come to appreciate each other,s strengths and talents This is an example of____________?

a. the contact hypothesis
b. a self-fulfilling prophecy
c. amalgamation
d. reverse discrimination
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: the contact hypothesis

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


50)   An important aspect of labelling theory is the recognition that some people or groups have the power to define labels and apply them to others This view recalls the emphasis placed on the social significance of power by the______________?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. anomie theory of deviance
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: conflict perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


51)   Which pioneer of sociology first directed researchers to the significance of bureaucratic structure ?

a. Emile Durkheim
b. Max Weber
c. Karl Marx
d. Ferdinand Tonnies
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Max Weber

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


52)   Sociologist Alvin Goldner sees Erving Goffman’s work on social behavior as implicitly reaffirming the status quo especially social class inequalities Gouldner,s critique is associated with the_____________?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. psychoanalytic perspective
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: conflict perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


53)   In the United States we often formalize norms into_____________?

a. folkways
b. mores
c. values
d. laws
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: laws

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


54)   A list of cultural universals was compiled by anthropologist_______________?

a. Max Weber
b. George Murdock
c. Margaret Mead
d. William F. Ogburn
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: George Murdock

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


55)   Max Weber_____________?

a. recognized that it is impossible for scholars to prevent their personal values from influencing their work
b. stressed that researchers had to maintain the confidentiality of their subjects
c. emphasized that under no conditions could a researcher allow his or her personal feelings to influence the interpretation of data
d. all of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: emphasized that under no conditions could a researcher allow his or her personal feelings to influence the interpretation of data

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


56)   Which sociological perspective examines human activities on the micro level by is shaped by the distinctive norms values and demands of a particular society ?

a. functionalist perspective
b. conflict perspective
c. interactionist perspective
d. psychological perspective
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: interactionist perspective

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


57)   A university that serves as a meeting ground for people seeking marital partners is performing_______________?

a. a manifest function
b. a latent function
c. a dysfunction
d. a manifest dysfunction
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: a latent function

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


58)   Ritzer presented a theory that the different components of social life work together to influence society and behavior This theory is called_______________?

a. Integration theory
b. Cohesion theory
c. Role theory
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: Integration theory

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


59)   The limitation of symbolic interactionism is that________________?

a. It overlooks micro-level interaction
b. It overlooks macro-level interaction
c. It cannot count for culture
d. None of these
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: It overlooks macro-level interaction

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!


60)   In contrast to Marxian theory structural functionalism views different parts of society________________?

a. Performing their respective functions
b. Contributing in social equilibrium
c. Beneficial to the society
d. All of the above
Answer  Explanation 

ANSWER: All of the above

Explanation:
No explanation is available for this question!