What is the hunter-gatherer way of life based on?
Correct answer D. Exploitation of wild animals and plants
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The Maasai of Kenya are an example of which kind of society?
Correct answer C. Pastoralist society
Whose needs does subsistence agriculture meet?
Correct answer C. Agriculturist and his/her family
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What are the main types of agriculture?
Correct answer C. Both A and B
Where were agriculture and horticulture first developed?
Correct answer B. The Fertile Crescent region of the Middle East
Division of labour is a characteristic of which type of society?
Correct answer B. Industrialisation
According to Weber, what was the driving force of society?
Correct answer A. Rationality
What does the term proletariat refer to?
Correct answer B. The working class
What did Marx believe capitalism would lead to?
Correct answer A. Increasingly unhappy individuals
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According to Marx, what is the main cause of unhappiness among the working class?
Correct answer A. Alienation from the results of production
Who wrote the classic study ‘Suicide’?
Correct answer C. Emile Durkheim
According to Durkheim, what was one root cause of suicide?
Correct answer B. Decrease in social solidarity
Why, according to Durkheim, was the suicide rate higher among Protestants?
Correct answer A. Individualism
What is the process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it called?
Correct answer B. Socialisation
How was solidarity maintained in pre-industrial societies?
Correct answer C. Both A and B
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What is learning behaviour within a social institution or developing social skills called?
Correct answer B. Developmental socialisation
Which term did Talcott Parsons use to argue that society tends towards stability or balance?
Correct answer B. Equilibrium
Socialisation is often divided into primary and secondary stages. What does primary socialisation refer to?
Correct answer C. Socialisation in early life, as a child
Under communism, who owns the means of production?
Correct answer C. Means of production are owned by the community
Jeffrey Arnett proposed a distinction between which two types of socialisation?
Correct answer A. Broad and narrow