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Sociology MCQs 1551 MCQs [All-Courses]

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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 a model whereby public funds are extensively used to promote economic development?

A A welfare states
B Democracy
C State capitalism
D Neo-democracy
Correct Answer: State capitalism

Polyandry means_____________?

A allowing a marriage only within the social class
B allowing a man to have several birds
C allowing a man to have several wives
D allowing a woman to have several husbands
Correct Answer: allowing a woman to have several husbands

People who are open to new experience and who tend to reject traditional patterns of authority are said to be experiencing ?

A hysteria
B countenance
C modernity
D a cultural hangover
Correct Answer: modernity

Grandparents aunts and uncles and cousins are all examples of a (n) _____ family ?

A bilateral
B extended
C polyandry
D nuclear
Correct Answer: extended

When so much attention is focused on group survival the group often experiences __________ which is a loss of focus regarding its original intent?

A immanence
B anomie
C hysteria
D goal displacement
Correct Answer: goal displacement

Peer involvement in adolescence is generally thought to be______________?

A overly-superficial
B over-rated
C negative
D positive
Correct Answer: negative

What theory of social movement development currently dominates academic though ?

A Contagion
B Conflict
C Resource Development
D Frame Alignment
Correct Answer: Resource Development

The scientific study of aging is called______________?

A gerontology
B gerontocracy
C the maturational method
D maturational reform
Correct Answer: gerontology

The preoccupation with eating habits following the Atkins diet is an example of a(n) _____________?

A fad
B craze
C interest
D fashion
Correct Answer: craze

According to Mead the socialized self means that_____________?

A we are constantly learning
B we are capable of achieving at a maximum capacity
C we are shaped by the primary agents of socialization in our life
D we think before we act
Correct Answer: we are constantly learning