Sociology MCQs with Answers – Practice Online – Page 23

Question 441 Social Institutions

According to Mead, what is the earliest stage of socialisation called?

Correct answer D. Preparatory

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Question 442 Social Institutions

What is the main difference between the theories of Freud and Erikson?

Correct answer D. That culture rather than biology plays the biggest part in socialisation

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Question 443 Social Institutions

What is the depression some parents feel when their last child leaves home called?

Correct answer E. Empty-nest syndrome

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Question 444 Social Institutions

What are sets of behavioural expectations linked to chronological and biological age, which change as we get older, called?

Correct answer E. Age grades

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Question 445 Social Institutions

According to sociologists, which agent of socialisation is considered the most critical?

Correct answer B. The family

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Question 446 Social Groups

Which sociologist, writing in 1906, observed that people distinguish between members of their own group (the in-group) and everyone else (the out-group)?

Correct answer B. William Graham Sumner

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Question 447 Social Institutions

Which two processes have profoundly changed the structure of the family?

Correct answer A. Industrialisation/urbanisation

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Question 448 Social Institutions

In many societies newly married couples go to live in the husband’s home. What is this pattern of residence called?

Correct answer C. Patrilocal

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Question 449 Social Groups

For Simmel, what is a means of maintaining or increasing integration within groups?

Correct answer D. Conflict

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Question 450 Social Groups

Which statement correctly reflects the importance of groups in social life?

Correct answer D. Support groups have been found to add an average of 18 months to the lives of women in advanced stages of cancer

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Question 451 Social Groups

Which statement about in-groups and out-groups is correct?

Correct answer D. Can be thought of as “we-groups” and “they-groups” respectively

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Question 452 Social Groups

What is the ideal group size for solving problems?

Correct answer A. Five

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Question 453 Social Groups

Which of these is NOT a condition for groupthink to develop?

Correct answer A. Members share a common socioeconomic background

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Question 454 Social Groups

What are groups deliberately set up to achieve specific objectives called?

Correct answer D. Formal organisations

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Question 455 Social Groups

Which of these is NOT one of the seven features of Weber’s ideal type of bureaucracy?

Correct answer A. Qualifications based on “whom you know”

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Question 456 Social Groups

Overall, management strategies over the past decade have stressed all of the following EXCEPT which?

Correct answer D. Larger work groups

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Question 457 Social Groups

What is informal organisation?

Correct answer A. Consists of the interpersonal networks that arise in a formal organisation

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Question 458 Social Groups

According to Parsons, what were the two main functions of the modern family?

Correct answer A. Primary socialisation and personality stabilisation

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Question 459 Social Groups

What does the move from custodial to joint parenthood after divorce mean?

Correct answer D. Both parents are expected to co-operate in the continued care of their children

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Question 460 Social Groups

Domestic violence is physical abuse of one family member by another. Which two groups are most likely to be its victims?

Correct answer C. Female partners/spouses and children

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