Most of the time we all try to be a modal personality. What does a modal personality represent?
Correct answer B. Most of the cultural traits
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Which reference group matters most to young people in their mid-teens?
Correct answer B. Peer group
Compared with state formation in industrialised countries, which factor caused major problems for developing societies?
Correct answer B. The legacy of colonialism
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How many steps make up Cooley’s looking-glass self process?
Correct answer B. Three
What is the main result when well-defined ethnic groups exist within established nation-states?
Correct answer D. Nations without states
What do wallflowers come to believe about themselves early in life?
Correct answer A. They cannot make conversation
In many modern conflicts, soldiers are protected at the expense of civilian lives so that media coverage of military deaths does not create political problems. What are such conflicts called?
Correct answer B. Risk-transfer wars
Freud viewed the self and society as being in fundamental conflict rather than harmony. What did he call this self?
Correct answer A. Antisocial self
Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks on American targets on 11 September 2001. In which year was a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali bombed, killing more than 200 people?
Correct answer C. 2002
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Which part of the personality is made up of the social ideals and values a person has internalised, forming the conscience?
Correct answer B. Superego
How is cosmopolitan democracy best defined?
Correct answer C. A form of world government with global citizenship
Erik Erikson, a German-born scholar trained in Freudian psychoanalysis, described life-cycle socialisation as passing through how many stages?
Correct answer A. Eight stages
Which of these is an example of a nation without a state?
Correct answer B. Tibet
Which sociologist drew a distinction between significant others and the generalised other?
Correct answer D. George Herbert Mead
Which of these figures could be described as a charismatic leader?
Correct answer D. All of the above
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Judicial decisions form part of which of the following?
Correct answer A. British constitution
The tourist gaze is organised socially by professional experts. What does it lead the tourist to look for?
Correct answer D. The exotic
In what way does the internet reshape our experience of space and time?
Correct answer A. Communicate instantly with people far away
On what basis do charismatic leaders gain their followers?
Correct answer C. Personal qualities
Which approach in psychology is credited with explaining the creative potential of personality?
Correct answer B. Trait psychology