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Question 13 of 52 Question 1 of 52

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The study of sociology originated from:

Select one of the following:

  • • Asia

  • • Europe

  • • America

  • • Australia

Explanation

Question 15 of 52 Question 2 of 52

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Which of these events probably preceded the study of sociology?

Select one of the following:

  • • The American Independence

  • • The Russian revolution

  • • The French revolution

  • • American civil war

Explanation

Question 36 of 52 Question 3 of 52

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Which of the following is not a sociological paradigm?

Select one of the following:

  • • conflict/feminism theory

  • • structural functionalism theory

  • • probability theory

  • • symbolic interactionism theory

Explanation

Question 12 of 52 Question 4 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • E. Durkheim

  • • A. Comte

  • • G. H. Mead

  • • T. Parsons

Explanation

Question 2 of 52 Question 5 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • class conflict is inevitable in capitalist societies

  • • capitalist production exploits the working class

  • • class struggle only occurs under capitalism

  • • industrial workers are the revolutionary class

Explanation

Question 20 of 52 Question 6 of 52

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6.The feeling of despair often leading to suicide is called:

Select one of the following:

  • • depression

  • • anomie

  • • anxiety

  • • deviance

Explanation

Question 19 of 52 Question 7 of 52

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Which of the following people is the founder of Sociology?

Select one of the following:

  • • Robert Merton

  • • Talcott Parsons

  • • A.Comte

  • • Emile Durkheim

Explanation

Question 32 of 52 Question 8 of 52

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Human culture has two forms what are they?

Select one of the following:

  • • elite and popular culture

  • • ancient and modern culture

  • • mainstream and subculture

  • • material and non-material

Explanation

Question 46 of 52 Question 9 of 52

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9.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 14 of 52 Question 10 of 52

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What is a social role?

Select one of the following:

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

  • • an achieved occupational status

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

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

Explanation

Question 9 of 52 Question 11 of 52

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All of these are examples of social institutions EXCEPT:

Select one of the following:

  • • Media, education, religion

  • • night clubs, hip-hop music

  • • Finance, government, legal system

  • • family, social groups, traditional cultures

Explanation

Question 47 of 52 Question 12 of 52

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Which of the following is not an agent of socialization?

Select one of the following:

  • • social group and family

  • • education and media

  • • social clubs, team games

  • • school and peers, work

Explanation

Question 18 of 52 Question 13 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • Extended family

  • • Single-parent family

  • • Blended family

  • • Nuclear family

Explanation

Question 25 of 52 Question 14 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • Extended family

  • • Blended family

  • • Nuclear family

  • • Single-parent family

Explanation

Question 34 of 52 Question 15 of 52

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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:

  • • social control

  • • stigmatization

  • • law

  • • labeling

Explanation

Question 39 of 52 Question 16 of 52

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A person's overall position in society is called:

Select one of the following:

  • • status set

  • • master status

  • • achieved status

  • • ascribed status

Explanation

Question 37 of 52 Question 17 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • an impression

  • • a role

  • • a position

  • • a performance

Explanation

Question 6 of 52 Question 18 of 52

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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

  • • Single-parent family

  • • Extended family

  • • C. Blended family

Explanation

Question 44 of 52 Question 19 of 52

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For most women divorce could result in:

Select one of the following:

  • • Poverty

  • • Loneliness

  • • Lack of money

  • • alcoholism

Explanation

Question 4 of 52 Question 20 of 52

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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:

  • • social distance

  • • public distance

  • • personal distance

  • • intimate distance

Explanation

Question 31 of 52 Question 21 of 52

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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 International Red Cross Organization

  • • The World Bank

Explanation

Question 10 of 52 Question 22 of 52

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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

  • • M. Weber

  • • G.H. Meads

  • • A. Comte

Explanation

Question 3 of 52 Question 23 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • Greenpeace

  • • FIFA

  • • Microsoft

  • • UNESCO

Explanation

Question 41 of 52 Question 24 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • International Olympic Committee

  • • Credit Suisse Bank

  • • Kaztelekom

  • • The United Nations Organization (UNO)

Explanation

Question 1 of 52 Question 25 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • Gazprom

  • • United Nations Organizations

  • • FIFA

  • • UNESCO

Explanation

Question 16 of 52 Question 26 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • communicate without non-verbal cues

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

  • • interact in an unreal and alienated way

  • • communicate instantly with people far away

Explanation

Question 29 of 52 Question 27 of 52

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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 years

  • • 20 years

  • • 200 years

  • • 2 minutes

Explanation

Question 23 of 52 Question 28 of 52

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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:

  • • family

  • • social group

  • • community

  • • society

Explanation

Question 38 of 52 Question 29 of 52

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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:

  • • Erik Olin-Wright

  • • Max Weber

  • • Karl Marx

  • • John Goldthorpe

Explanation

Question 17 of 52 Question 30 of 52

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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:

  • • lateral mobility

  • • intergenerational mobility

  • • open mobility

Explanation

Question 48 of 52 Question 31 of 52

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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:

  • • class

  • • status

  • • slavery

  • • caste

Explanation

Question 28 of 52 Question 32 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • finance capitalists

  • • none of the above

  • • industrial entrepreneurs

  • • senior executives

Explanation

Question 51 of 52 Question 33 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • Karl Marx

  • • John Goldthorpe

  • • Pierre Bourdieu

  • • Max Weber

Explanation

Question 50 of 52 Question 34 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • first increases, then decreases, before remaining low

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

  • • first decreases, then increases then it remains high

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

Explanation

Question 22 of 52 Question 35 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • Agricultural

  • • Pastoral society

  • • Industrialization

  • • Post-industrialization

Explanation

Question 8 of 52 Question 36 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • peers

  • • media personalities

  • • parents

  • • teachers

Explanation

Question 5 of 52 Question 37 of 52

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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:

  • • Segregation

  • • Total institutions

  • • Resocialization

  • • New identity

Explanation

Question 30 of 52 Question 38 of 52

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Walt Disney, Sony and Time Warner are examples of:

Select one of the following:

  • • government-owned companies

  • • ownership concentrated within one medium

  • • transnational corporations

  • • multi-media empires

Explanation

Question 49 of 52 Question 39 of 52

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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 35 of 52 Question 40 of 52

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The 'nuclear family' means:

Select one of the following:

  • • two generations of parents and their children living together

  • • 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

Explanation

Question 45 of 52 Question 41 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • emotional support and sexual gratification

  • • primary socialization and personality stabilization

  • • secondary socialization and strict discipline

Explanation

Question 40 of 52 Question 42 of 52

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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 33 of 52 Question 43 of 52

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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 functionalist perspective

  • • the interactionist perspective

  • the conflict perspective

  • • the feminist perspective

Explanation

Question 43 of 52 Question 44 of 52

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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:

  • • status inconsistency

  • • social stratification

  • • slavery

  • • social inequality

Explanation

Question 7 of 52 Question 45 of 52

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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%

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

  • • all of the above

  • • many people are cohabiting in long term relationships

Explanation

Question 27 of 52 Question 46 of 52

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The term 'wealth' refers to:

Select one of the following:

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

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

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

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

Explanation

Question 26 of 52 Question 47 of 52

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The term 'assets' refers to:

Select one of the following:

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

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

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

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

Explanation

Question 52 of 52 Question 48 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • status

  • • prestige

  • • ranking

  • • esteem

Explanation

Question 11 of 52 Question 49 of 52

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

Select one of the following:

  • • Age

  • • Income

  • • occupation

  • • verbal fluency

Explanation

Question 21 of 52 Question 50 of 52

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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 sole proprietorship or one-man business

  • • a start-up business

  • • an industry

  • • corporate business

Explanation

Question 24 of 52 Question 51 of 52

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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

  • • Socialization

  • • Colonization

  • • Organization

Explanation

Question 42 of 52 Question 52 of 52

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In contemporary societies, social institutions are:

Select one of the following:

  • • disorganized social relations in a postmodern world

  • • virtual communities in cyberspace

  • • highly specialized, interrelated sets of social practices

  • • no longer relevant to sociology

Explanation

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