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Sociology MCQs 1551 MCQs [All-Courses]

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.

Emergent norm theory argues that collective behavior arises when expectations regarding how to act are_____________?

A clear

B explicit

C encouraged

D vague

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Correct Answer: vague

Occupational gender segregation is used to explain ?

A the belief that women control the private sphere

B women’s increasing labor market participation

C the allocation of men and women to different types of job

D relations between men and women in the workplace

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Correct Answer: the allocation of men and women to different types of job

Early theories of collective behavior emphasized ________ a view that crowd behavior is like a mental illness that a person cannot resist ?

A contagion

B convention

C group thinks

D expressiveness

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Correct Answer: contagion

The term informal economy is used to describe_____________?

A work where no money changes hands

B the activities of small businesses

C transactions outside the sphere of regular employment

D organizations with less rigid rules and procedures

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Correct Answer: transactions outside the sphere of regular employment

Which of the following describes a central change in contemporary life that has been identified by futurists ?

A The United States is being restructured from an agrarian to an industrial society

B Modern societies are increasingly shifting from a national to a global economy

C High tech industries are becoming energy-and materials-intensive

D all of the above

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Correct Answer: Modern societies are increasingly shifting from a national to a global economy

Which accounts of the worth of education stress that it enables individuals to think freely and rationally which makes social progress and innovation possible ?

A postmodern

B modernist

C traditional

D vocational

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Correct Answer: modernist

According to contagion theory the “mob mind” develops through_____________?

A imitation suggestibility and circular reaction

B precipitating factors structural strain and structural conduciveness

C norms of the status quo emergent norms and new norms

D fashions fads and crazes

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Correct Answer: imitation suggestibility and circular reaction

What is an education system in which children achieve their status based on their own worth called ____________?

A comprehensive

B meritocratic

C selective

D elitist

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Correct Answer: meritocratic

Among the approaches that seek to explain the causes of social movements which one states that revolutions are most likely to take place when a prolonged period of social and economic betterment is followed by a period of sharp reversal ?

A the resource mobilization approach

B the deprivation approaches

C the capitalist collapse approach

D none of the above

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Correct Answer: the deprivation approaches

Which term describes the process whereby religion loses its influence over various spheres of social life ?

A secularization

B evangelicalism

C fundamentalism

D alienation

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Correct Answer: secularization

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Emergent norm theory argues that collective behavior arises when expectations regarding how to act are_____________?

Occupational gender segregation is used to explain ?

Early theories of collective behavior emphasized ________ a view that crowd behavior is like a mental illness that a person cannot resist ?

The term informal economy is used to describe_____________?

Which of the following describes a central change in contemporary life that has been identified by futurists ?

Which accounts of the worth of education stress that it enables individuals to think freely and rationally which makes social progress and innovation possible ?

According to contagion theory the “mob mind” develops through_____________?

What is an education system in which children achieve their status based on their own worth called ____________?

Among the approaches that seek to explain the causes of social movements which one states that revolutions are most likely to take place when a prolonged period of social and economic betterment is followed by a period of sharp reversal ?

Which term describes the process whereby religion loses its influence over various spheres of social life ?