Sociologists like Bordo (1993) have attributed the epidemic of anorexia in Western cultures to_____________?

A. a generally ascetic frugal lifestyle that can be taken to extremes
B. traditional images of women as emotional domesticated and unassertive
C. the social construction of mental illness through which normal patterns of behaviour are pathologized
D. the new ideal of independent self-assured femininity combined with cultural values of achievement and control

Related Mcqs:

In which century was anorexia was first identified as a disorder ?
A. 17th
B. 18th
C. 19th
D. 20th
Which one of the following is not one of the four migration trends identified by Castles and Miller (1993) ?
A. acceleration
B. diversification
C. globalization
D. regionalization
E. feminization
How do industrial sociologists characterize Fordism and Taylorism ?
A. high risk systems
B. high trust systems
C. low trust systems
D. low risk systems
While predictions are not always reliable sociologists and labor specialists foresee a workforce increasingly composed of ?
A. women
B. racial minorities
C. ethnic minorities
D. all of the above
Sociologists believe that_______________?
A. Biology being the major constraints does not allow any change in human nature hence socialization does not change much of human individual nature
B. Individual is the product of social group within which he is socialized
C. The nature-nurture controversy has ended in favor of nurture and the bio-sociologists have failed to promote their thesis
D. None of these
The unique sense of identity that distinguishes each individual from all other individuals is called ________ by sociologists?
A. personality
B. self
C. ego
D. the I
E. the me
When sociologists study the structure of layers in society and people’s movement between them they call this____________?
A. social stratification
B. social control
C. social conflict
D. social solidarity
How do sociologists describe former Third World societies that have moved towards an economic base in industrial production ?
A. developing countries
B. peripheral countries
C. globalizing countries
D. newly industrializing countries
Which research technique would sociologists who adhere to the symbolic interactionist perspective use? most likely to employ ?
A. interviews
B. experiments
C. quantitative measurement
D. observation
E. surveys
Weber,s view that sociologists must not allow their personal biases to affect the conduct of their research is called______________?
A. verstehen
B. dialectical materialism
C. social facts
D. value-free sociology