A large kinship group whose members inhibit one geographical area and believe that they are descendent from a common ancestor is known as a_______________?

Related Mcqs:

1. 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

2. 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 ?

   A. Max Weber
   B. Erik Olin-Wright
   C. John Goldthorpe
   D. Karl Marx

3. 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

4. In modern society people belong to so many groups that a number of their in-group and out-group relationships overlap It has given the members of society a wide spectrum of___________?

   A. behavior learning
   B. socialization
   C. both a & b
   D. None of these

5. The use of language label people can lead to a_______________?

   A. self-fulfilling prophecy
   B. sense of ethnocentrism
   C. cultural lag
   D. cultural adaptation
   E. development of a subculture

6. Auguste Comte was a_______________?

   A. French thinker
   B. American
   C. British
   D. None of these

7. Japanese industry progressed because its workers managers and stockholders share a common interest This group sentiment is best illustrated by____________?

   A. Functionalist approach
   B. Conflict theorists
   C. Interactionism
   D. None of these

8. A group of people who live within the same territory and share a common culture is called______________?

   A. a culture
   B. an iconoclastic enclave
   C. a society
   D. none of the above

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

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

10. When so much attention is focused on group survival the group often experiences __________ which is a loss of focus regarding its original intent?

    A. immanence
    B. anomie
    C. hysteria
    D. goal displacement
    E. cultural lag