👥Sociology MCQs
Sociology MCQs
486 MCQs71
The global dominance of American film exports raises s about_____________?
Acultural imperialism
Brise of digital media
Cvirtual communities
Dthe US is not the largest global exporter of films
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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 ?
Acyberspace
Bthe worldwide web
Cvirtual communities
Dchatrooms
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Which sociological perspective would be especially interested in studying how people communicate with each other and develop relationships through MUDS (multi -user domains) and electronic chat rooms ?
Afunctionalist perspective
Bconflict perspective
Cinteractionist perspective
Dlabeling theory
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Which term was introduced by Charles Per row to refer to failures that are inevitable given the manner in which human and technological systems are organized ________________?
Athe Per row principle
Bthe Peter principle
Cthe school principal
Dnormal accidents
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Durkheim defined social facts as___________?
Aways of acting thinking and feeling that are collective and social in origin
Bthe way scientists construct knowledge in a social context
Cdata collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct
Dideas and theories that have no basis in the external physical world
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Comte,s term positivism refers to_____________?
Aa theory that emphasizes the positive aspects of society
Bthe precise scientific study of observable phenomena
Ca theory that posits difficult s and sets out to answer them
Dan unscientific set of laws about social progress
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Which one of the following statements in not a key charge of postcolonial critiques against mainstream sociology ?
Astandard accounts of the origins of sociology focus on the industrial and French revolutions giving no weight to the significance of colonialism in shaping modern societies
Bthe sociological gaze is Eurocentric failing to incorporate the experience of formerly colonized societies
Csociology has described Western societies as developed or modem in opposition to the notion of non-Western societies as pre-modern traditional inferiors
Dthe sociological imagination has always encouraged and enabled the voices of people across the world to be heard in sociological theorizing
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which of these concepts is addressed in Foucault’s work ?
Asexuality
Bdiscipline
Cdiscourse
Dall of the these
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Feminist perspectives are distinctive in sociology because______________?
Aonly women can write from a feminist perspective
Bother theoretical perspectives have not researched women
Cthey emphasize the centrality of gender in social analysis
Dmen and women view the and world in different ways
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Which of the following is not an example of a manufactured risk ?
Agenetic modification of crops
Bvolcanic eruptions
Cglobal warming
Dthe threat of nuclear war