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Sociology by Zharas

Question 1 of 200

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Sociology is a science that studies:

Select one of the following:

  • • social groups, social institutions and individual behaviour

  • • natural science

  • • technical science

  • • environmental science

Explanation

Question 2 of 200

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• The study of sociology originated from:

Select one of the following:

  • • Australia

  • • Europe

  • • Asia

  • • America

Explanation

Question 3 of 200

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• Which of these events probably preceded the study of sociology?

Select one of the following:

  • • The French revolution

  • • The Russian revolution

  • • American civil war

  • • The American Independence

Explanation

Question 4 of 200

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• Sociology began as a result of:

Select one of the following:

  • • The French revolution

  • • American civil war

  • • The Industrial Revolution

  • • The Russian revolution

Explanation

Question 5 of 200

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• The popularity of sociology in the USA took off from the:

Select one of the following:

  • • The Great Economic Depression

  • • Chicago school of sociology in the 1920s

  • • The Stanford university

  • • Harvard college university

Explanation

Question 6 of 200

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• The first person to teach sociology at a French university was:

Select one of the following:

  • • E. Durkheim

  • • H. Spencer

  • • A. Comte

  • • M. Weber

Explanation

Question 7 of 200

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• Which of the following is not a sociological paradigm?

Select one of the following:

  • • symbolic interactionism theory

  • • conflict/feminism theory

  • • structural functionalism theory

  • • probability theory

Explanation

Question 8 of 200

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• Which Sociologist suggests that human beings are able to interact with the help of languages and symbols?

Select one of the following:

  • • E. Durkheim

  • • G. H. Mead

  • • T. Parsons

  • • A. Comte

Explanation

Question 9 of 200

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Sociologists might be interested in which of the following social issues?

Select one of the following:

  • • Animal rights

  • • Inequality in the society

  • • Political process

  • • Economic crisis

Explanation

Question 10 of 200

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• Which Sociologist proposes the concept of sociological perspectives?

Select one of the following:

  • • Ralf Dahrendorf

  • • Peter L. Berger

  • • T. Parsons

  • • A. Comte

Explanation

Question 11 of 200

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• Which of the following is not part of Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism?

Select one of the following:

  • • capitalist production exploits the working class

  • • class conflict is inevitable in capitalist societies

  • • industrial workers are the revolutionary class

  • • class struggle only occurs under capitalism

Explanation

Question 12 of 200

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• Which of these three elements underlie Digital Transformations?

Select one of the following:

  • • super computers, artificial intelligence, the internet of Things

  • • smart phones, i-phones, i-pad

  • • computers, telephones, scientific calculators

  • • none of the above

Explanation

Question 13 of 200

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• Which of the following people influenced the theoretical approach known as symbolic interactionist?

Select one of the following:

  • • Georg Hegel

  • • George Herbert Mead

  • • Talcott Parsons

  • • Ralf Dahrendorf

Explanation

Question 14 of 200

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• According to Durkheim, 'social facts' are:

Select one of the following:

  • • social insights into collective behavior

  • • information we get on the media or internet

  • • ideas, feelings, and ways of behaving that already existed in society before we were born

  • • those things that we create ourselves

Explanation

Question 15 of 200

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• The feeling of despair often leading to suicide is called:

Select one of the following:

  • • deviance

  • • anxiety

  • • anomie

  • • depression

Explanation

Question 16 of 200

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• Which of the following people is the founder of Sociology?

Select one of the following:

  • • Talcott Parsons

  • • A.Comte

  • • Emile Durkheim

  • • Robert Merton

Explanation

Question 17 of 200

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• What is the initial stage of sociological research?

Select one of the following:

  • • review the evidence

  • • define the research problem or research question

  • • create a research design

  • • carry out a research design

Explanation

Question 18 of 200

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• Any behavior which is against the NORMS expected in the society is called?

Select one of the following:

  • • stigma

  • • crime

  • • deviance

  • • label

Explanation

Question 19 of 200

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• Any behavior that breaks the NORMS expected is likely to lead to a negative labeling called?

Select one of the following:

  • • deviance

  • • stigma/sanction

  • • label

  • • crime

Explanation

Question 20 of 200

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• Human culture has two forms what are they?

Select one of the following:

  • • ancient and modern culture

  • • mainstream and subculture

  • • elite and popular culture

  • • material and non-material

Explanation

Question 21 of 200

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• Which of these are not examples of research methods?

Select one of the following:

  • • Talk shows and advertising

  • • participant observation and survey

  • • document study and case study

  • • interview and questionnaires

Explanation

Question 22 of 200

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• To research unemployment situation in Kazakhstan you may have to use:

Select one of the following:

  • • interview

  • • survey research method

  • • questionnaire

  • • quantitative research method

Explanation

Question 23 of 200

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• What is demography?

Select one of the following:

  • • The study of people and society

  • • The study of population growth in a particular area at a particular time

  • • the number of people in a school or university

  • • large numbers of people living together

Explanation

Question 24 of 200

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• Which of the listed below constitutes cyber-crimes?

Select one of the following:

  • • harkening

  • • virus distribution

  • • scooping essential information

  • • all of the above

Explanation

Question 25 of 200

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• The post-industrial society identified by Bell involved?

Select one of the following:

  • • A technological developed country

  • • Extensive machine Production

  • • Production of goods and services

  • • a shift towards a service economy, based on knowledge and information

Explanation

Question 26 of 200

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• Social Mobility is a term that describes:

Select one of the following:

  • • Ability of people to move from one social class to another

  • • a piece of research conducted in a laboratory

  • • a piece of research trying out new methods

  • • an attempt to mobilize people for a national purpose

Explanation

Question 27 of 200

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• What is a social role?

Select one of the following:

  • • an achieved occupational status

  • • a person's overall social status within their family

  • • a social position that becomes a master status for the person occupying it

  • • socially defined expectations of people in a given social position

Explanation

Question 28 of 200

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• Which of the following is not an agent of socialization?

Select one of the following:

  • • school and peers, work

  • • education and media

  • • social group and family

  • • social clubs, team games

Explanation

Question 29 of 200

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• All of these are examples of social institutions EXCEPT:

Select one of the following:

  • • night clubs, hip-hop music

  • • Media, education, religion

  • • Finance, government, legal system

  • • family, social groups, traditional cultures

Explanation

Question 30 of 200

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• What is the sociological imagination?

Select one of the following:

  • • The way you see your ex-boyfriend or girlfriend

  • • The way parents see their children

  • • The ability to distinguish between personal problems and public issues

  • • It enables us to see the connection between people

Explanation

Question 31 of 200

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• A family which consists of only parents and children living together is:

Select one of the following:

  • • Single-parent family

  • • Blended family

  • • Nuclear family

  • • Extended family

Explanation

Question 32 of 200

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• A family type which consists of relatives, parents and children living together is:

Select one of the following:

  • • Nuclear family

  • • Extended family

  • • Blended family

  • • Single-parent family

Explanation

Question 33 of 200

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• Many younger people in Kazakhstan probably worry most about:

Select one of the following:

  • terrorism and migration

  • unemployment and uncertain future

  • Mortgage or home credits

  • nothing

Explanation

Question 34 of 200

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• Society brings about acceptance of basic norms through techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior. This process is termed:

Select one of the following:

  • • stigmatization

  • • labeling

  • • law

  • • social control

Explanation

Question 35 of 200

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• The socially defined expectations that a person in a given status follows are called:

Select one of the following:

  • • a position

  • • a role

  • • a performance

  • • an impression

Explanation

Question 36 of 200

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• A person's overall position in society is called:

Select one of the following:

  • • achieved status

  • • ascribed status

  • • master status

  • • status set

Explanation

Question 37 of 200

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• A Civil Society is the one in which citizens enjoy:

Select one of the following:

  • • freedom

  • • rights

  • • liberty

  • • all of the above

Explanation

Question 38 of 200

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• Bagira divorced her husband 2 years ago and now lives together with her two children, this family type is called?

Select one of the following:

  • • Nuclear family

  • • Extended family

  • • Blended family

  • • Single parent family

Explanation

Question 39 of 200

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• If Aina and Amir both remarry and each enters the marriage with children from their previous marriages; this is an example of what type family?

Select one of the following:

  • Nuclear family

  • • Extended family

  • • Single-parent family

  • • C. Blended family

Explanation

Question 40 of 200

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• Rosa and Sultan have lived together for four years, they both have a two-year old son but they are still formally not husband and wife, their relationship is called?

Select one of the following:

  • • Unmarried couple

  • • divorced couple

  • • common law marriage or co-habitation

  • • married couple

Explanation

Question 41 of 200

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• For most women divorce could result in:

Select one of the following:

  • • Lack of money

  • • Poverty

  • Loneliness

  • • alcoholism

Explanation

Question 42 of 200

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• According to Edward T. Hall, which of the following zones of personal space is the one normally used in interaction with friends and close acquaintances?

Select one of the following:

  • • intimate distance

  • • personal distance

  • • social distance

  • • public distance

Explanation

Question 43 of 200

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• Our beliefs, ideas, ways of thinking, languages, behavior all come from:

Select one of the following:

  • • our genes

  • • our intergration

  • • our socialization

  • • our food

Explanation

Question 44 of 200

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• Which of the listed below is not a non-profit or a non-commercial organization?

Select one of the following:

  • • The United Nations Organization (UNO)

  • • UNICEF

  • • The World Bank

  • • The International Red Cross Organization

Explanation

Question 45 of 200

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• The bureaucratic administrative system stipulates clear division of labour, hierarchy and effective communication in large organizations: who is the author of this work?

Select one of the following:

  • • C.W. Wright

  • • G.H. Meads

  • • M. Weber

  • • A. Comte

Explanation

Question 46 of 200

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• Which of the listed below is an example of NGO (Non-Government Organization)?

Select one of the following:

  • • UNESCO

  • • FIFA

  • • Greenpeace

  • • Microsoft

Explanation

Question 47 of 200

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• Which of the listed below is an example of a multinational company?

Select one of the following:

  • • The United Nations Organization (UNO)

  • • International Olympic Committee

  • • Credit Suisse Bank

  • • Kaztelekom

Explanation

Question 48 of 200

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• All of the listed below are International Organizations EXCEPT which one?

Select one of the following:

  • • UNESCO

  • • FIFA

  • • Gazprom

  • • United Nations Organizations

Explanation

Question 49 of 200

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• The Internet rearranges our experience of space-time by making it possible to:

Select one of the following:

  • • communicate instantly with people far away

  • • experience what it's like to be a different gender

  • • interact in an unreal and alienated way

  • • communicate without non-verbal cues

Explanation

Question 50 of 200

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• Writing took thousands of years to go round the world, worldwide digital communications has taken only:

Select one of the following:

  • • 2 minutes

  • • 20 years

  • • 200 years

  • • 2 years

Explanation

Question 51 of 200

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• What are mores?

Select one of the following:

  • • Norms that people consider pivotal to the well-being of the nation or the group.

  • • the written and unwritten rules

  • • more and more money

  • • traditions and values

Explanation

Question 52 of 200

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• A group of people living on a territory, with a common culture, language, values and other symbols is known as?

Select one of the following:

  • • community

  • • society

  • • family

  • • social group

Explanation

Question 53 of 200

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A social class is a group of people who stand in a common relationship to the means of production’. Whose perspective does this definition describe?

Select one of the following:

  • • Max Weber

  • • Erik Olin-Wright

  • • John Goldthorpe

  • • Karl Marx

Explanation

Question 54 of 200

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• What is stigma?

Select one of the following:

  • • it is a form of positive identity

  • • a change in a person’s personality character

  • • a form of punishment for a crime

  • • a powerful negative label that radically changes a person's self concept and social identity.

Explanation

Question 55 of 200

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• What term is used to describe the movement of individuals up or down the social scale during the course of their working lives?

Select one of the following:

  • • open mobility

  • • lateral mobility

  • • intergenerational mobility

Explanation

Question 56 of 200

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• A system of stratification where positions are partly achieved and mobility is common is one based on:

Select one of the following:

  • • slavery

  • • caste

  • • class

  • • status

Explanation

Question 57 of 200

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• Which of the following does John Scott identify as belonging to the middle class?

Select one of the following:

  • • senior executives

  • • industrial entrepreneurs

  • • finance capitalists

  • • none of the above

Explanation

Question 58 of 200

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• The idea that classes vary according to their possession of cultural capital is associated with:

Select one of the following:

  • • Max Weber

  • • John Goldthorpe

  • • Karl Marx

  • • Pierre Bourdieu

Explanation

Question 59 of 200

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• The Kuznets hypothesis states that as economic development proceeds, inequality:

Select one of the following:

  • • first decreases, then increases then it remains high

  • • first increases, then decreases, before remaining low

  • • first increases, then flattens out, before rising again

  • • first increases, then decreases, then increases, then decreases

Explanation

Question 60 of 200

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• Kazakhstan can be said to be in the earlier stage of:

Select one of the following:

  • • Industrialization

  • • Post-industrialization

  • • Agricultural

  • • Pastoral society

Explanation

Question 61 of 200

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• The most crucial agents of socialization in teaching gender roles in Kazakhstan are

Select one of the following:

  • • parents

  • • peers

  • • teachers

  • • media personalities

Explanation

Question 62 of 200

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• Changes in a person’s personality and values due to changes in their environment (job, retirement, marriage, prison, military) is known as:

Select one of the following:

  • • Resocialization

  • • Total institutions

  • • Segregation

  • • New identity

Explanation

Question 63 of 200

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• Walt Disney, Sony and Time Warner are examples of:

Select one of the following:

  • • transnational corporations

  • • multi-media empires

  • • ownership concentrated within one medium

  • government-owned companies

Explanation

Question 64 of 200

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• The effect of the Internet upon the public sphere has been to:

Select one of the following:

  • • revive it, by reaffirming a commitment to freedom of speech

  • • repress it, by promoting only the interests of elite groups

  • • reproduce it, by emphasizing face-to-face contact with peer groups

  • • replace it with a superior form of communication

Explanation

Question 65 of 200

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• Sreberny-Mohammadi (1996) argues that national cultures can resist American cultural domination of the media by:

Select one of the following:

  • • domesticating its content, including more 'home-produced' programmes

  • • controlling the distribution of imported products by banning satellite dishes

  • creating 'reverse flows' of their own programmes back to imperial societies

  • • all of the above

Explanation

Question 66 of 200

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• The principle of a Civil Society includes which of the following?

Select one of the following:

  • • Civil rights

  • • civil freedom

  • • civil liberty

  • • all of the above

Explanation

Question 67 of 200

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• The 'nuclear family' means:

Select one of the following:

  • • a group of people sharing living accommodation and meals

  • • a network of relatives extended within or between generations

  • • the new family created when an adult leaves home and gets married

  • two generations of parents and their children living together

Explanation

Question 68 of 200

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• Parsons argued that the two main functions of the modern family were:

Select one of the following:

  • • secondary socialization and strict discipline

  • • emotional support and sexual gratification

  • • primary socialization and personality stabilization

Explanation

Question 69 of 200

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• Stone's research suggests that prior to industrialization, the nuclear family:

Select one of the following:

  • • did not exist in any form

  • • had begun to disappear, as extended networks of kin became more important

  • • had begun to emerge through the separation of work and home life

  • • was simply another institution of patriarchal control

Explanation

Question 70 of 200

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• Which sociological perspective argues that people must respect social norms if any group or society is to survive?

Select one of the following:

  • the conflict perspective

  • • the feminist perspective

  • • the functionalist perspective

  • • the interactionist perspective

Explanation

Question 71 of 200

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• Which of the following describes a condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power?

Select one of the following:

  • • slavery

  • • social inequality

  • • status inconsistency

  • • social stratification

Explanation

Question 72 of 200

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• Marriage appears to be in decline because:

Select one of the following:

  • • the proportion of people living alone has fallen to 29%

  • • many people are cohabiting in long term relationships

  • • the upward curve of remarriages compensates for the drop in first marriages

  • • all of the above

Explanation

Question 73 of 200

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• What is culture?

Select one of the following:

  • • Folk music and dances

  • • Material and non-material productions including language, traditional believes

  • • “Kazakh Kozhe”

  • • food and drinks

Explanation

Question 74 of 200

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• An 'open' society is one that:

Select one of the following:

  • • grants every citizen equal status

  • • there is no corruption in the government

  • • has permissive attitudes towards sexual behavior

  • • allows people to move between levels of the hierarchy

Explanation

Question 75 of 200

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• Suppose that a workplace requires that only Kazakh be spoken, even when it is not a business necessity to restrict the use of other languages. This requirement would be an example of:

Select one of the following:

  • • scapegoating

  • • prejudice

  • • institutional discrimination

  • • a self-fulfilling prophecy

Explanation

Question 76 of 200

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• The term 'wealth' refers to:

Select one of the following:

  • • a stock of economic resources, including estates or invested capital that brings income

  • • the culturally valued commodities and standards of living that make the poor feel relatively deprived

  • • the 'slices' of the population who own differing amounts of wealth

  • • the flow of money a person receives from their salary or wage

Explanation

Question 77 of 200

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• The term 'assets' refers to:

Select one of the following:

  • • the culturally valued commodities and standards of living that make the poor feel relatively deprived

  • • the flow of money a person receives from their salary or wage

  • • a stock of economic resources, including land, shares and bank deposits

  • • the 'slices' of the population who own differing amounts of wealth

Explanation

Question 78 of 200

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• The respect or admiration that an occupation holds in a society is referred to as:

Select one of the following:

  • • ranking

  • • esteem

  • • status

  • • prestige

Explanation

Question 79 of 200

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• A social stratum is:

Select one of the following:

  • • a level in the social hierarchy, comprising people with shared life chances

  • methodological tool used to identify a person's social class

  • • the boundary between two levels of the social hierarchy

  • • a symbol of status, used to differentiate between social classes

Explanation

Question 80 of 200

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• Weber defined a 'class situation' as:

Select one of the following:

  • • the exploitation of the working class by their capitalist employers

  • • a social group's consciousness of their status and life chances

  • • a person's position in the capital, product and labour markets, based on their economic resources

  • • the lifestyle of a social class, as defined by patterns of consumption

Explanation

Question 81 of 200

1

In modern societies, social status is typically measured by a person's:

Select one of the following:

  • • Age

  • • Income

  • • verbal fluency

  • • occupation

Explanation

Question 82 of 200

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• How is terrorism different from the types of crime described by the Chicago School?

Select one of the following:

  • • it is committed on a larger, often global, scale, and is well organized

  • • it is associated with political conflict between states and their citizens

  • • it can have far-reaching effects upon international relations

  • • all of the above

Explanation

Question 83 of 200

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• The business idea which can be started easily by anyone with great enthusiasm and hope to become rich or move to an upper class is called:

Select one of the following:

  • • a start-up business

  • • an industry

  • • corporate business

  • • a sole proprietorship or one-man business

Explanation

Question 84 of 200

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• The capitalist class of the mid-twentieth century were said to join the upper class because they:

Select one of the following:

  • • participated in the same leisure pursuits and events of the 'social calendar'

  • • emulated the lifestyle and cultural values of the traditional aristocracy

  • • owned companies and financial assets that generated wealth through corporations

  • • had direct, personal ownerships of land and businesses as physical assets

Explanation

Question 85 of 200

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• What is the name of the process by which we acquire a sense of identity and become members of society?

Select one of the following:

  • • Rationalization

  • • Colonization

  • • Organization

  • • Socialization

Explanation

Question 86 of 200

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• In contemporary societies, social institutions are:

Select one of the following:

  • • highly specialized, interrelated sets of social practices

  • • disorganized social relations in a postmodern world

  • • virtual communities in cyberspace

  • • no longer relevant to sociology

Explanation

Question 87 of 200

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• When sociologists study the structure of layers in society and people's movement between them, they call this:

Select one of the following:

  • • social stratification

  • • social control

  • • social conflict

  • • social solidarity

Explanation

Question 88 of 200

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• Social norms are:

Select one of the following:

  • • creative activities such as gardening, cookery and craftwork

  • • the symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media

  • • religious beliefs about how the world ought to be

  • • rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life

Explanation

Question 89 of 200

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• Society cannot be studied in the same way as the natural world because:

Select one of the following:

  • • human behavior is meaningful, and varies between individuals and cultures

  • • it is difficult for sociologists to gain access to a research laboratory

  • • sociologists are not rational or critical enough in their approach

  • • we cannot collect empirical data about social life

Explanation

Question 90 of 200

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• Sociology differs from common sense in that:

Select one of the following:

  • • it focuses on the researchers' own experiences

  • • it makes little distinction between the way the world is and the way it ought to be

  • • its knowledge is accumulated from many different research contexts

  • • it is subjective and biased

Explanation

Question 91 of 200

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• Sociological imagination is contained in the work of:

Select one of the following:

  • • P.L. Berger

  • • C. Wright Mills

  • • B. Weber

  • • D. Goffman

Explanation

Question 92 of 200

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• The idea of Sociological perspectives belongs to:

Select one of the following:

  • • T. Parsons

  • • D. Goffman

  • • Peter L. Berger

  • • M. Weber

Explanation

Question 93 of 200

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• ________________is the author of mechanical and organic solidarity

Select one of the following:

  • • A. M.Weber

  • • B. K.MARX

  • • E. DURKHEIM

  • • A.COMTE

Explanation

Question 94 of 200

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• Police officers, judges, administrators, employers, sport trainers and managers of movie theaters are all instruments of:

Select one of the following:

  • • Informal social control

  • • Social institutions

  • • Formal social control

  • • Socialization process

Explanation

Question 95 of 200

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• What are values?

Select one of the following:

  • • ideas that people accept as true about the world operates

  • • the place where individual’s fit in in the world

  • • ideas rooted in blind faith, experience, tradition, or scientific observation

  • • A group’s ideas and shared conceptions of what is good, right, and important

Explanation

Question 96 of 200

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• The Mafia is an example of:

Select one of the following:

  • • white collar crime

  • • organized crime

  • • global terrorism

Explanation

Question 97 of 200

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• Role-learning theory suggests that…

Select one of the following:

  • • We internalize and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework

  • • we create and negotiate our roles through interaction with others

  • • social roles are not fixed or stable but fluid and pluralistic

  • • roles have to be learned to suppress unconscious motivations

Explanation

Question 98 of 200

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• Bowlby's maternal deprivation thesis claimed that:

Select one of the following:

  • • mothers who are living in poverty cannot afford to give their children the resources that other children enjoy

  • • children deprived of an early, secure attachment to their mother are prone to suffer physically, intellectually and socially in later life

  • • 'mothering' is a socially constructed activity identified in the narratives of new mothers

  • • deprivation is something children inherit, usually through their mother's side

Explanation

Question 99 of 200

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• White collar jobs are:

Select one of the following:

  • • Jobs for white people

  • • Jobs for the middle class people who tend to wear white shirts to work

  • • Jobs for people who work in government offices

  • • Jobs for school teachers

Explanation

Question 100 of 200

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• White-collar crime (Consumer fraud, bribery, and income tax evasion, conspiracy) means:

Select one of the following:

  • • Economic Crime

  • • Corruption

  • • Deviant behavior

  • • Nonviolent crime committed by the upper/middle class during the course of their occupations

Explanation

Question 101 of 200

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• Victimless crime is:

Select one of the following:

  • • Corruption

  • • Crimes in which laws are violated but there is no identifiable victim

  • • Traffic offence

  • • Deviant behavior

Explanation

Question 102 of 200

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• Welfare capitalism is:

Select one of the following:

  • • A system of market based economy

  • • A social welfare system

  • • A capitalist economy with extensive social welfare system that includes free health care and education for all citizens

  • • free health care and education

Explanation

Question 103 of 200

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• What is Stereotype?

Select one of the following:

  • • A stereo music sound

  • • A group of rock music

  • • An assumption often on the basis of incorrect or incomplete information

  • • Incorrect language

Explanation

Question 104 of 200

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• What is Social control?

Select one of the following:

  • • A system of traffic control

  • • Control of students

  • • Laws, Systems and traditional ways a society uses to make people conform to norms

  • • None of the above

Explanation

Question 105 of 200

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• Rationalization of society is:

Select one of the following:

  • • Weber’s theory that bureaucracies would gain increasing power over modern life

  • • Government power

  • • Nationalization

  • • Increasing power of the modern economy

Explanation

Question 106 of 200

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• Who coined the term “Power elite”?

Select one of the following:

  • • M. Beber

  • • H. Spencer

  • • C. Wright Mills

  • • A. Giddens

Explanation

Question 107 of 200

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• What is Micro-sociology?

Select one of the following:

  • type of Sociological paradigm

  • • A large scale social problem

  • • A study of small group

  • • Sociological analysis focused on social interaction between individuals

Explanation

Question 108 of 200

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• What is Macro-sociology?

Select one of the following:

  • • A type of Sociological paradigm

  • • A large scale social problem

  • • A study of small group

  • • Sociological analysis focused on social institutions and functioning of the society

Explanation

Question 109 of 200

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• The Dominant culture is:

Select one of the following:

  • • Elite culture

  • • The culture held by the majority and/or by the most powerful group in a society

  • • A subculture

  • • Non-material culture

Explanation

Question 110 of 200

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• Bureaucratic authority refers to a system of:

Select one of the following:

  • • Group administration with strict rules

  • • One man government

  • • A government by a charismatic leader

  • • A system featuring a Royal Monarch

Explanation

Question 111 of 200

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• A Charismatic authority, according to Weber’s power theory means:

Select one of the following:

  • • Bureaucratic group

  • • Political group

  • • Authority that depends on the personal magnetism of one person

  • • A dictatorship

Explanation

Question 112 of 200

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• Sutherland's study of the 'professional thief' suggested that:

Select one of the following:

  • • people are socialized into a life of crime by associating with others who define it in positive terms

  • • the majority of crime is committed by middle class people in professional occupations

  • • those who were arrested and charged with theft did not define themselves as thieves

  • • the most dangerous criminals on the street were those who were highly skilled thieves

Explanation

Question 113 of 200

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• A social policy that refers to positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities –the policy of equal opportunities for all citizens is referred to as?

Select one of the following:

  • • Affirmative action

  • • Independent action

  • • Democratic process

  • • Electoral process

Explanation

Question 114 of 200

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• The basic philosophy behind artificial intelligence is that

Select one of the following:

  • • Machines would soon not obey people

  • • Man would never design machines that he cannot control

  • • machine would control humans

  • • Machines would attack humans

Explanation

Question 115 of 200

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• All of these are the opportunities with “Digital transformations” except which

Select one of the following:

  • • A new set of professions would be created

  • • People would not do dangerous jobs

  • • Computer would attack people

  • • Comfort and prosperity

Explanation

Question 116 of 200

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• Structural functionalists describe society as:

Select one of the following:

  • • A normative framework of roles and institutions

  • • A country

  • • Families

  • • Ethnic groups

Explanation

Question 117 of 200

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• Culture, translated from Latin means:

Select one of the following:

  • • Our language

  • • Music and dance

  • • civilization

  • • administration

Explanation

Question 118 of 200

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• Which of the listed below is not a material culture?

Select one of the following:

  • • Tools/instruments

  • • mineral resource

  • • political institution

  • • yurta

Explanation

Question 119 of 200

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• According to Augustus Comte, __________ means sociology is a positive science of the society

Select one of the following:

  • • Symbolic inter action

  • • Feminism theory

  • • Positivism theory

  • • Scientific theory

Explanation

Question 120 of 200

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• Freud’s notion of the ego refers to:

Select one of the following:

  • • Compulsive and uncontrollable behavior

  • • The behavior which we learn as a result of interactions with others

  • • the conscious part of the mind that regulates emotional drives on a practical, rational level

  • • The conscious and sub-conscious mind

Explanation

Question 121 of 200

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• According to C. Wright Mills social problems are the ones that affect:

Select one of the following:

  • • Only a small group

  • • Elite groups

  • • The mass of the population

  • • Only the poor masses

Explanation

Question 122 of 200

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• According to C. Wright Mills, whereas personal problems are issues that affect:

Select one of the following:

  • • The masses

  • • Everyone

  • • Only the individual affected

  • • The politicians

Explanation

Question 123 of 200

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• The outbreak of an epidemic or war is an example of:

Select one of the following:

  • • Personal problem

  • • Mass problem

  • • Social problem

  • • Group problem

Explanation

Question 124 of 200

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• Exam mal-practice by students is an example of what?

Select one of the following:

  • • Social problem

  • • Group problem

  • • University problem

  • • Personal problem

Explanation

Question 125 of 200

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• According to C. Wright Mills ‘sociological imagination’ implies:

Select one of the following:

  • • Social problems of individuals

  • • Problems in our live

  • • Ability to perceive our problems as either personal or social

  • • The political situations

Explanation

Question 126 of 200

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• To end poverty and injustice, sociology suggests that we change?

Select one of the following:

  • • The current monetary system

  • • The national currency

  • • The economic system

  • • The political system

Explanation

Question 127 of 200

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• What category of people would be paid a fixed income in the new monetary system?

Select one of the following:

  • • Healthy adults who do not want to work

  • • Low income workers, pensioners who are too old to work, adults who are too incapacitated to work

  • • Everybody in the society

  • • Students

Explanation

Question 128 of 200

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• According to the new monetary system inflation would be controlled by

Select one of the following:

  • • Speculating on currency, estates and energy

  • • Fixing prices on all commodities

  • • Issuing government bonds

  • • Returning excess money to the monetary agency

Explanation

Question 129 of 200

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• Inflation would further be prevented by taxing heavily:

Select one of the following:

  • • Middle Class

  • • Everybody who gets fixed income

  • • Speculations on Estates, Currency and Commodity

  • • The rich

Explanation

Question 130 of 200

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• The two fundamental flaws in our economic system have been identified as:

Select one of the following:

  • • i) the banking system ii) the wealth distribution system

  • • i) financial crisis ii) commodity price fluctuation

  • • i) Debt as a source of money ii) too many dependable variables in the economic model

  • • i) political ii) financial

Explanation

Question 131 of 200

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• The premise of the new monetary system is to achieve:

Select one of the following:

  • • equality

  • • More rich class

  • • All our macro-economic goals and end to poverty

  • • progress

Explanation

Question 132 of 200

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• The most popular Sociological research instrument is:

Select one of the following:

  • • The questionnaire

  • • The population census

  • • Political ratings

  • • Laboratory experiments

Explanation

Question 133 of 200

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• Survey and sampling are both used in which research method?

Select one of the following:

  • • Secondary data collection

  • • interview

  • • quantitative method

  • • qualitative method

Explanation

Question 134 of 200

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• A researcher wants to find out the rates of divorce in Almaty for a period of five years, the most appropriate method to use is?

Select one of the following:

  • • Survey method

  • • case study method

  • • qualitative method

  • • Quantitative method

Explanation

Question 135 of 200

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• Hypotheses can be tested using what methods?

Select one of the following:

  • • Survey and sampling methods

  • • Qualitative and quantitative methods

  • • All of the listed methods

  • • Null-hypothesis and alternative hypothesis

Explanation

Question 136 of 200

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• The relationship that is based on roles and mutual responsibilities is called?

Select one of the following:

  • • Nuclear family

  • • Marriage

  • • Survey and sampling methods

Explanation

Question 137 of 200

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• According to C. Wright Mills the group who controls the wealth and power in the society are referred to as

Select one of the following:

  • • Middle Class

  • • Aristocratic Families

  • • Ruling Elite

  • • The politicians

Explanation

Question 138 of 200

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• The movement of individuals or groups from one social class to another is known as:

Select one of the following:

  • • Relocation

  • • Emigration

  • • Social mobility

  • • Evacuation

Explanation

Question 139 of 200

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• Sociologists has defined two categories of poverty as:

Select one of the following:

  • • Underclass and working poor

  • • Poor and homeless

  • • Absolute and Relative

  • • Abject and absolute

Explanation

Question 140 of 200

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• The behavior that is against the norms and invites serious disapproval in society is known as?

Select one of the following:

  • • deviance

  • • crime

  • • taboo

  • • stigma

Explanation

Question 141 of 200

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• In survey research the group of respondents targeted for the research process is called?

Select one of the following:

  • • population

  • • Samples

  • • Respondents

  • • focus group

Explanation

Question 142 of 200

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• Parsons argued that the two main functions of the modern family were:

Select one of the following:

  • • Food and House provision

  • • Security and education

  • • Marriage and child bearing

  • • Primary socialization and personality stabilization

Explanation

Question 143 of 200

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• Which of the following is not a calculation of average?

Select one of the following:

  • • Mean

  • • Mode

  • • Median

  • • percentage

Explanation

Question 144 of 200

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Research materials from previous research works are known as?

Select one of the following:

  • • Secondary data

  • • Interviews

  • • Statistical analysis

  • • Questionnaires

Explanation

Question 145 of 200

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• Describe the three (3) steps that precede a sociological research

Select one of the following:

  • • Report/analysis of materials/research method

  • • Research method/data analysis/literature review

  • • The topic/the problem/literature review

  • • research topic/research problem/literature review

Explanation

Question 146 of 200

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Proper references must be given for all material sources to avoid what?

Select one of the following:

  • • Data loss

  • • Plagiarism

  • • Paradigm Shift

  • • Hypothesis

Explanation

Question 147 of 200

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• Which research method is most suitable for studying problems facing a company?

Select one of the following:

  • • Document study

  • • Interview method

  • • Observation method

  • • Experiment method

Explanation

Question 148 of 200

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• In sociology social facts are considered to be:

Select one of the following:

  • • religion, politics and education

  • • meditation, shaping and yoga

  • ideas, feelings, and ways of behaving that we learn from birth

  • • love and romantic feelings

Explanation

Question 149 of 200

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• According to K. Marx the capitalist (bourgeoisie) exploits:

Select one of the following:

  • • The workers.

  • The women.

  • • little children.

  • • the middle class.

Explanation

Question 150 of 200

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• Which of these is NOT a belief?

Select one of the following:

  • • the place where individuals fit in the world

  • • ideas that people accept as true about how the world operates.

  • • ideas rooted in blind faith, experience, tradition, or observation.

  • • general and shared conceptions of what is good, right, and important

Explanation

Question 151 of 200

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• What are society norms?

Select one of the following:

  • • rules of appearance, ways of greeting others, eating, sleeping arrangements, and so forth

  • • only unwritten rules that specify how people should behave

  • only written rules that specify how people should behave

  • the written and unwritten rules that specify how people should behave in particular kinds of situations.

Explanation

Question 152 of 200

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• What are the two categories of norms?

Select one of the following:

  • • folkways and mores

  • • The politicians

  • • traditions and folkways.

  • • values and mores

Explanation

Question 153 of 200

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• People who violate Social Norms

Select one of the following:

  • • often provoke intense reactions or may be severely punished by society.

  • • may be sanctioned

  • • may be severely punished by society.

  • • all of the above

Explanation

Question 154 of 200

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• Which of the listed below is an example total institution?

Select one of the following:

  • • Maternity home

  • • Prison penitentiary

  • • old people’s house

  • • political party

Explanation

Question 155 of 200

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• The process by which foreign knowledge, inventions or some other cultural aspects are spread in a society is known as?

Select one of the following:

  • • Technology transfer

  • • cultural process

  • • culture diffusion

  • • innovation process

Explanation

Question 156 of 200

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• What is Re-socialization?

Select one of the following:

  • • old ways of life

  • • the process of changing old values and acquired new ones

  • • when people change jobs

  • • when people marry again

Explanation

Question 157 of 200

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• If a deviant act is 'normalized', it is:

Select one of the following:

  • • recognized as breaking an important norm of behaviour

  • • seen as a temporary aberration from an otherwise 'normal' character

  • • attributed to the person's genetic or anatomical make up

  • the first step in establishing a deviant career

Explanation

Question 158 of 200

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• The term 'secondary deviation' refers to:

Select one of the following:

  • • the punishment or stigmatization of deviant acts

  • • the labelling of an act as deviant through social reactions to it

  • • the ways in which taking on a deviant role affects future action

  • • all of the above

Explanation

Question 159 of 200

1

• Sutherland's study of the 'professional thief' suggested that:

Select one of the following:

  • • people are socialized into a life of crime by associating with others who define it in positive terms

  • • the majority of crime is committed by middle class people in professional occupations

  • • those who were arrested and charged with theft did not define themselves as thieves

  • • the most dangerous criminals on the street were those who were highly skilled thieves

Explanation

Question 160 of 200

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• Structural-Functionalists describe society as:

Select one of the following:

  • • a source of conflict, inequality, and alienation

  • • a complex network of interaction at a micro-level

  • • an unstable structure of social relations

  • • a normative framework of roles and institutions

Explanation

Question 161 of 200

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• If Aina and Amir both remarry and each enters the marriage with children from their previous marriages; this is an example of what family?

Select one of the following:

  • • Nuclear family

  • • Extended family

  • • Single-parent family

  • • Blended family

Explanation

Question 162 of 200

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• A type family which consists of two generations of relatives, parents and children living together is:

Select one of the following:

  • • Blended family

  • • Nuclear family

  • • Extended family

  • • Single-parent family

Explanation

Question 163 of 200

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• A family which consists of one generation of parents and children living together is called:

Select one of the following:

  • • Nuclear family

  • • Extended family

  • • Blended family

  • • Single-parent family

Explanation

Question 164 of 200

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• Which of the statements below best describes a family?

Select one of the following:

  • • a group of people who are living together in the same house

  • • a group of people who are related by marriage or blood only

  • • husband and wife living together with their children

  • • a group of people who are related by marriage, blood or sometimes adoption

Explanation

Question 165 of 200

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• Bagira divorced her husband 2 years ago and now lives together with her two children, this family type is called?

Select one of the following:

  • • Single-parent family

  • • Nuclear family

  • • Extended family

  • • Blended family

Explanation

Question 166 of 200

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• Sociologists believe that a woman who plays the roles of the maid, cook, baby-sister in a nuclear family could suffer from:

Select one of the following:

  • • Depression and stress

  • • Disappointment and anxiety

  • • physical burnout

  • • All of the above

Explanation

Question 167 of 200

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• What does Universality of family imply?

Select one of the following:

  • • It is an old way of life

  • • Family is found in every human society: barbarian, savage or civilized

  • • Family is the smallest unit in the society

  • • Family provides everything for you

Explanation

Question 168 of 200

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• The hunting and gathering society maintained small families because:

Select one of the following:

  • • They did not produce enough food to feed many mouths

  • • they preferred qualitative culture

  • • the cared more about nature

  • • there wasn’t enough work for many people to do

Explanation

Question 169 of 200

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• The Artificial Intelligence is likely to change our:

Select one of the following:

  • • Ideas of traditional cultures and values

  • • The way we see each other

  • • Working and shopping

  • • People’s nature

Explanation

Question 170 of 200

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• The agricultural society probably maintained large families because:

Select one of the following:

  • • They have devised new farming technology

  • • They were able to produce more food to feed lots of people

  • • They lived a permanent settlement in small communities

  • • They began to have city states

Explanation

Question 171 of 200

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• The most important criteria for effective communication are that it must be:

Select one of the following:

  • • Loud and Concise

  • • Interesting and Informative

  • • Clear and Concise

  • • Narrative and Detailed

  • • Interesting to hear

Explanation

Question 172 of 200

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• Communication is described as:

Select one of the following:

  • • Ability to have many friends

  • • Becoming very popular among family and friends

  • • Being very sociable

  • • transmission of essential information from one side to another

Explanation

Question 173 of 200

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• Good communicators often possess two distinct characteristics:

Select one of the following:

  • • They are extroverts

  • • They are good listeners and self-confident

  • • They are introverts

  • • They are very sociable

Explanation

Question 174 of 200

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• Which of the listed below is an example of open ended question?

Select one of the following:

  • • Can you please say your name?

  • • Where did you come from originally?

  • • Is this your first visit to Astana?

  • • It’s a lovely day today, isn’t it?

Explanation

Question 175 of 200

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• What is Plagiarism?

Select one of the following:

  • • Using someone’s written work without references to the author

  • • Stealing a research paper

  • • Buying a ready project paper

  • • Copy and paste article from the internet

Explanation

Question 176 of 200

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• What does research imply?

Select one of the following:

  • • Academic hoax

  • • Academic work

  • • The work you do to get a university degree

  • • An extensive reading and writing work for the purpose of getting a new kind of knowledge

Explanation

Question 177 of 200

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• The Internet of Things imply?

Select one of the following:

  • • Wi-Fi enhanced machines

  • • Interaction between people

  • • The work you do on the internet

  • • Interactions between people and machines via Wi-Fi

Explanation

Question 178 of 200

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• What does marriage to a minor imply?

Select one of the following:

  • • old ways of life

  • • a marriage of an adult to someone who is under the official marriage age

  • • marriage of a man to a young woman

  • • when people marry again

Explanation

Question 179 of 200

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• What does Peter Berger’s sociological perspective imply?

Select one of the following:

  • • The ability to see the specific in a general phenomenon and to see things from different perspectives

  • • Internalizing problems

  • • Ability to think clearly

  • • Externalizing social problems

Explanation

Question 180 of 200

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• Which of the groups below form the Ruling Elite according to C.W. Mills?

Select one of the following:

  • • Top politicians

  • • Top Military officers

  • • Corporate magnates

  • • All of the above

Explanation

Question 181 of 200

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• The vast majority of people in Kazakhstan fall into which of the class categories below?

Select one of the following:

  • • Upper middle and low middle class

  • • Middle class and working class

  • • upper class and upper middle class

  • • working class and lower class

Explanation

Question 182 of 200

1

• People in society are stratified according to:

Select one of the following:

  • • occupation, leisure and lifestyle

  • • wealth, power and status

  • • money and power

  • • education and prestige

Explanation

Question 183 of 200

1

• Sociologists are concerned about what aspects of the Industrial 4.0?

Select one of the following:

  • • over dependency on technologies

  • • the social impact of AI

  • • deep poverty

  • • displaced workers

Explanation

Question 184 of 200

1

• The philosophy behind technologies is that:

Select one of the following:

  • • the man would never design machines that he could not control

  • • machine would control people

  • • machine would build machines

  • • people would become lazy

Explanation

Question 185 of 200

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• According to the author, Ray Kurtzwel, SINGULARITY is:

Select one of the following:

  • • Computers becoming smaller by 2024

  • • Computer would become as smart as humans by 2024

  • • Solution to mathematical equations

  • • A view of the future with the supercomputers

Explanation

Question 186 of 200

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• Youth is defined as who?

Select one of the following:

  • • The most active group in society

  • • People in the age 13-30 years

  • • Young men

  • • People who do sport

Explanation

Question 187 of 200

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• What is co-habitation according to sociologists?

Select one of the following:

  • • One-person household

  • • a man and woman living together not married officially

  • • family members living together in a household

  • • people living together in one house

Explanation

Question 188 of 200

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• Why do people in industrial society prefer smaller families?

Select one of the following:

  • • They don’t like children much

  • • they have preference for one-man-one-wife and a more quality life culture

  • • they cannot afford many children

  • • the live city life with difficult living conditions

Explanation

Question 189 of 200

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• Crimes and inequality are lacking in Hunting and Gathering society because?

Select one of the following:

  • • They live the old ways of life

  • • People live in small communities without properties

  • • People often change professions and move about a lot

  • • People do various jobs every day

Explanation

Question 190 of 200

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• What are some of the negativities found in families?

Select one of the following:

  • • bad parenting could damage a child’s psyche forever

  • • families can suppress a person’s freedom and progress

  • • woman and child abuse are common features in many families

  • • all of the above

Explanation

Question 191 of 200

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• Which of the listed below is true for nuclear families?

Select one of the following:

  • • Regular conflicts make them unstable

  • • The woman is stressed and depressed from burnout:(cleaning, cooking, shopping and caring for everyone)

  • • Children are often lonely, abused and egoistic

  • • All of the above are true

Explanation

Question 192 of 200

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• How do societies pass their culture to the next generation?

Select one of the following:

  • • When they fight wars with other groups

  • • with language and by watching actions

  • • when people emigrate

  • • when people marry and start a family

Explanation

Question 193 of 200

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• What does ethnocentricism imply?

Select one of the following:

  • • A way of thinking that one’s culture is better than that of others

  • • the process of changing old values and acquiring new ones

  • • Homophobia

  • • Aculturization process

Explanation

Question 194 of 200

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• What does culture diffusion imply?

Select one of the following:

  • • Borrowing a culture

  • • the process of spreading a culture

  • • learning a foreign language

  • • the process of controlling people

Explanation

Question 195 of 200

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• In which of these ways can cultures come to a society?

Select one of the following:

  • • Indoctrination, imitation and conditioning

  • • Borrowing and diffusion,

  • • War, conquer and immigration

  • • All of the above

Explanation

Question 196 of 200

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• Why must culture continue to change as the people change with time?

Select one of the following:

  • • To keep old ways of life

  • • To make the culture modern and more creative

  • • To kill the culture

  • • To adopt a new way of life

Explanation

Question 197 of 200

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• The term social Darwinism was coined by who?

Select one of the following:

  • • H. Spencer

  • • R. Dahrendorf

  • • T. Parsons

  • • P. Piaget

Explanation

Question 198 of 200

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• Who inveighed that all our problems are social problems?

Select one of the following:

  • • T. Parsons

  • • G. H. Meads

  • • C. Wright Mills

  • • M. Weber

Explanation

Question 199 of 200

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• What does inter-generational mobility imply?

Select one of the following:

  • • The process of changing jobs to improve career

  • • movement into different occupational categories between generations

  • • ability to move from one class to another

  • • vertical or horizontal class movement

Explanation

Question 200 of 200

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• What is a nuclear family?

Select one of the following:

  • • two generations of mother, father and their children living together

  • • when two divorced people marry again

  • • family that either has no children or none living with the parents

  • • when people marry their relatives

Explanation

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