A. allowing a marriage only within the social class
B. allowing a man to have several birds
C. allowing a man to have several wives
D. allowing a woman to have several husbands
E. allowing a family to live in a commune
Related Mcqs:
- The nuclear family means_____________?
A. a group of people sharing living accommodation and meals
B. a network of relatives extended within or between generations
C. the new family created when an adult leaves home and gets married
D. a two-generation unit of parents and their children - In Marx,s theory the made of production means_____________?
A. the way in which products are made in a factory
B. the average measure of productivity under capitalism
C. the organization of a society’s technical and human resources
D. an integral part of the superstructure of a society - Ethnocentrims means_____________?
A. Evaluating other cultures with the yardstick of your own values
B. Taking other nations as good as your own one but disowned
C. no other society is like yours and your society is superior to the others
D. None of these - Which sociological perspective argues that to whatever extent religion actually does influence social behavior it reinforces existing patterns of dominance and inequality ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. each of the above - The Nation of Islam group appealed to ?
A. British-born second-generation immigrants from the Asian subcontinent
B. White Americans who wanted to convert to Islam
C. African-Americans who felt excluded from the ethnic melting pot in the USA
D. African-Caribbean’s who lived in the inner cities and had a distinctive youth culture - A group whose members are related by ancestry marriage or adoption is a(n) ?
A. family
B. institution
C. kinship group
D. none of the above - The primary function of the family is to reproduce______________?
A. Childer
B. Society
C. Biological and social evolution of society
D. None of these - The shift from civil religion to common religion means that_______________?
A. the increasing bureaucracy of the state has made religion only a marginal part of our lives
B. despite the weakening of traditional authority our everyday lives and common sense remain shaped by religious beliefs and values
C. religious participation in collective worship may have declined but people still practice their faiths in private
D. people are much more likely to discuss their religious beliefs in public informal settings - My husband and my daughters constitute my____________?
A. extended family
B. family of orientation
C. family of procreation
D. none of the above - In many societies newlyweds move into the husbands house at marriage This arrangement is referred to as a _________ pattern?
A. poly-local
B. neo-local
C. patrilocal
D. matrilocal
E. communal
