Sociology MCQs 1551 MCQs [All-Courses]

This category covers multiple-choice questions on core sociological concepts, social institutions, culture, social change, and major sociological thinkers. It is designed to help students and competitive-exam candidates (PPSC, FPSC, NTS, OTS, CTS, OTS, BPSC, SPSC, KPPSC, BPSC etc.) quickly revise theories and apply sociological ideas to real-world social issues.

_____________ is the term commonly used to describe the early days of a social movement characterized by a general mood of discontent ?

A Bureaucratization

B Decline

C Coalescence

D Incipience

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Correct Answer: Incipience

Care for the elderly_____________?

A is provided by the family in 40 percent of cases

B falls mostly on the eldest son

C is provided by the sandwich generation

D none of the above

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Correct Answer: is provided by the sandwich generation

What approach focuses on the ever-changing relationship over time between social movements and macro-level economic and political systems ?

A Globalization

B Political Process

C Postmodernism

D Linear Evolutionary

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Correct Answer: Political Process

Research on the family life course indicates that_____________?

A women with a first child are more likely than women without a child to report that their husbands do not pay enough attention to them

B the marital adjustment rating rises after the birth of a first child

C most couples consider parenthood a crisis

D the psychological well-being of parents is a little better than that of childless couples

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Correct Answer: women with a first child are more likely than women without a child to report that their husbands do not pay enough attention to them

________ usually last longer are better organized more goal-oriented and have a longer lasting impact than fads or crazes ?

A Social movements

B Developments

C Conventions

D Hysterias

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Correct Answer: Social movements

Polygyny______________?

A is the preferred type of marriage in more than 40 per cent of societies?

B is generally available to all men in societies where it is permitted

C tend to be favored where large families are advantageous and women make substantial contributions to subsistence

D usually involves the right of younger brothers to have sexual access to their brothers’ wives

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Correct Answer: tend to be favored where large families are advantageous and women make substantial contributions to subsistence

Rumors about a bizarre event that supposedly happened to someone far removed from the individual telling the story are often called_______________?

A legendary tales

B urban legends

C sports legends

D schoolyard tales

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Correct Answer: urban legends

My husband and my daughters constitute my____________?

A extended family

B family of orientation

C family of procreation

D none of the above

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Correct Answer: family of procreation

Unverified information that is passed on from person to person is called a______________?

A metaphor

B contagion

C convention

D rumor

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Correct Answer: rumor

In a patriarchal family the major decisions are taken be the____________?

A Old men and women

B the male or female head of the family

C the male head of the family who wields all the powers

D None of these

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Correct Answer: the male or female head of the family

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_____________ is the term commonly used to describe the early days of a social movement characterized by a general mood of discontent ?

Care for the elderly_____________?

What approach focuses on the ever-changing relationship over time between social movements and macro-level economic and political systems ?

Research on the family life course indicates that_____________?

________ usually last longer are better organized more goal-oriented and have a longer lasting impact than fads or crazes ?

Polygyny______________?

Rumors about a bizarre event that supposedly happened to someone far removed from the individual telling the story are often called_______________?

My husband and my daughters constitute my____________?

Unverified information that is passed on from person to person is called a______________?

In a patriarchal family the major decisions are taken be the____________?