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The study of sociology originated from:
• Asia
• Australia
• Europe
• America
Which of these events probably preceded the study of sociology?
• The French revolution
• American civil war
• The American Independence
• The Russian revolution
Which of the following is not a sociological paradigm?
• probability theory
• conflict/feminism theory
• symbolic interactionism theory
• structural functionalism theory
4.Which Sociologist suggests that human beings are able to interact with the help of languages and symbols?
• A. Comte
• G. H. Mead
• E. Durkheim
• T. Parsons
Which of the following is not part of Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism?
• 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
6.The feeling of despair often leading to suicide is called:
• anomie
• deviance
• anxiety
• depression
Which of the following people is the founder of Sociology?
• A.Comte
• Talcott Parsons
• Emile Durkheim
• Robert Merton
Human culture has two forms what are they?
• mainstream and subculture
• material and non-material
• elite and popular culture
• ancient and modern culture
9.Which of these are not examples of research methods?
• Talk shows and advertising
• interview and questionnaires
• document study and case study
• participant observation and survey
What is a social role?
• socially defined expectations of people in a given social position
• a social position that becomes a master status for the person occupying it
• a person's overall social status within their family
• an achieved occupational status
All of these are examples of social institutions EXCEPT:
• Finance, government, legal system
• family, social groups, traditional cultures
• Media, education, religion
• night clubs, hip-hop music
Which of the following is not an agent of socialization?
• social group and family
• school and peers, work
• education and media
• social clubs, team games
A family which consists of only parents and children living together is:
• Blended family
• Extended family
• Nuclear family
• Single-parent family
A family type which consists of relatives, parents and children living together is:
Society brings about acceptance of basic norms through techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior. This process is termed
• stigmatization
• law
• labeling
• social control
A person's overall position in society is called:
• master status
• ascribed status
• status set
• achieved status
The socially defined expectations that a person in a given status follows are called:
• a performance
• an impression
• a position
• a role
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?
• C. Blended family
For most women divorce could result in:
• Loneliness
• Poverty
• Lack of money
• alcoholism
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?
• personal distance
• social distance
• intimate distance
• public distance
Which of the listed below is not a non-profit or a non-commercial organization?
• The International Red Cross Organization
• The United Nations Organization (UNO)
• The World Bank
• UNICEF
The bureaucratic administrative system stipulates clear division of labour, hierarchy and effective communication in large organizations: who is the author of this work?
• M. Weber
• G.H. Meads
• C.W. Wright
Which of the listed below is an example of NGO (Non-Government Organization)?
• FIFA
• UNESCO
• Greenpeace
• Microsoft
Which of the listed below is an example of a multinational company?
• International Olympic Committee
• Credit Suisse Bank
• Kaztelekom
All of the listed below are International Organizations EXCEPT which one?
• United Nations Organizations
• Gazprom
The Internet rearranges our experience of space-time by making it possible to:
• communicate instantly with people far away
• experience what it's like to be a different gender
• communicate without non-verbal cues
• interact in an unreal and alienated way
Writing took thousands of years to go round the world, worldwide digital communications has taken only:
• 200 years
• 2 minutes
• 20 years
• 2 years
A group of people living on a territory, with a common culture, language, values and other symbols is known as?
• community
• social group
• society
• family
.‘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?
• Karl Marx
• Max Weber
• John Goldthorpe
• Erik Olin-Wright
What term is used to describe the movement of individuals up or down the social scale during the course of their working lives?
• open mobility
• intergenerational mobility
• lateral mobility
A system of stratification where positions are partly achieved and mobility is common is one based on:
• status
• caste
• slavery
• class
Which of the following does John Scott identify as belonging to the middle class?
• finance capitalists
• senior executives
• industrial entrepreneurs
• none of the above
The idea that classes vary according to their possession of cultural capital is associated with:
• Pierre Bourdieu
The Kuznets hypothesis states that as economic development proceeds, inequality:
• first increases, then decreases, then increases, then decreases
• first decreases, then increases then it remains high
• first increases, then flattens out, before rising again
• first increases, then decreases, before remaining low
Kazakhstan can be said to be in the earlier stage of:
• Agricultural
• Post-industrialization
• Pastoral society
• Industrialization
The most crucial agents of socialization in teaching gender roles in Kazakhstan are
• peers
• media personalities
• teachers
• parents
Changes in a person’s personality and values due to changes in their environment (job, retirement, marriage, prison, military) is known as:
• Total institutions
• Resocialization
• New identity
• Segregation
Walt Disney, Sony and Time Warner are examples of:
• ownership concentrated within one medium
• government-owned companies
• transnational corporations
• multi-media empires
The effect of the Internet upon the public sphere has been to:
• reproduce it, by emphasizing face-to-face contact with peer groups
• replace it with a superior form of communication
• repress it, by promoting only the interests of elite groups
revive it, by reaffirming a commitment to freedom of speech
The 'nuclear family' means:
• a network of relatives extended within or between generations
• two generations of parents and their children living together
• a group of people sharing living accommodation and meals
• the new family created when an adult leaves home and gets married
Parsons argued that the two main functions of the modern family were:
• emotional support and sexual gratification
• primary socialization and personality stabilization
• secondary socialization and strict discipline
Stone's research suggests that prior to industrialization, the nuclear family:
• was simply another institution of patriarchal control
• had begun to disappear, as extended networks of kin became more important
• had begun to emerge through the separation of work and home life
• did not exist in any form
Which sociological perspective argues that people must respect social norms if any group or society is to survive?
the conflict perspective
• the feminist perspective
• the interactionist perspective
• the functionalist perspective
Which of the following describes a condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power?
• social stratification
• social inequality
• status inconsistency
Marriage appears to be in decline because:
• the upward curve of remarriages compensates for the drop in first marriages
• many people are cohabiting in long term relationships
• the proportion of people living alone has fallen to 29%
• all of the above
The term 'wealth' refers to:
• the 'slices' of the population who own differing amounts of wealth
• 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
• a stock of economic resources, including estates or invested capital that brings income
The term 'assets' refers to:
• a stock of economic resources, including land, shares and bank deposits
The respect or admiration that an occupation holds in a society is referred to as:
• esteem
• prestige
• ranking
In modern societies, social status is typically measured by a person's:
• Age
• Income
• verbal fluency
• occupation
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:
• a start-up business
• corporate business
• a sole proprietorship or one-man business
• an industry
What is the name of the process by which we acquire a sense of identity and become members of society?
• Organization
• Colonization
• Socialization
• Rationalization
In contemporary societies, social institutions are:
• disorganized social relations in a postmodern world
• virtual communities in cyberspace
• no longer relevant to sociology
• highly specialized, interrelated sets of social practices