The purpose of a reference group is to serve a(n) ?

Related Mcqs:

1. The purpose of a reference group is to serve a (n)_________________?

   A. normative function by enforcing standards of conduct and belief
   B. comparison function by serving as a standard against which people can measure themselves and others
   C. elimination function by dissolving groups that no longer have a social purpose
   D. both a and b

2. In the middle teens the most important reference group is__________________?

   A. Family
   B. Peer group
   C. Teachers
   D. None of these

3. Which group of learners does the university of the third age serve ?

   A. teenagers
   B. travelles
   C. workers
   D. pensioners

4. Which sociologist writing in 1906 noted that individuals make distinctions between members of their own group (thein-group) and everyone else (the out-group) ?

   A. Charles Horton Cooley
   B. Emile Durkheim
   C. William I. Thomas
   D. William Graham Sumner

5. Socialization is a series of stages in which the individual learns to participate in various levels of organization of society and internalizes a cognitive frame of reference for interpersonal relations It is____________?

   A. Internalization theory
   B. Role theory
   C. Symbolic theory
   D. None of these

6. Which of the following statements is true of reference groups ?

   A. They are membership groups
   B. They provide comparative but not normative functions
   C. Those which do not match membership groups may create feelings of relative deprivation
   D. They are groups to which we refer in our conversations

7. Functionalists argue that even though ethnic conflict is dysfunctional it my still serve some important functions in society Which of the following is NOT one of those important functions ?

   A. Conflict promotes group formation and cohesion
   B. Conflict may function as a safety valve for society by enabling hostilities to be channelled toward permissible targets known as permissible targets known as scapegoats
   C. A multiplicity of conflicts between large numbers of differing groups within a society may be conducive to a democratic as opposed to a totalitarian society
   D. Conflict attributable to ethnic stratification problems may reach an unacceptable frequency and intensity

8. The rank and position of a person in a group or of a group in relation to other groups is termed as_____________?

   A. Role
   B. Status
   C. Both a and b
   D. None of these

9. Chinese social control is done mainly through group pressure Every individual is a member of a small group called_____________?

   A. Danwie
   B. Communis
   C. Nessar
   D. None of these

10. Which approach holds that deviance is not a feature of a group or individual but a process of interaction through which one group becomes defined as deviant ?

    A. labelling theory
    B. control theory
    C. functionalist theory
    D. conflict theory