A. group
B. aggregate
C. subculture
D. transitory collective
Related Mcqs:
- In the developed countries more people are employed in the service sector than manufacturing with a tiny percentage working in agriculture Globally which sector now employs the fewest people ?
A. services
B. industrial manufacture
C. agriculture
D. none of the above - Demographers who once believed that the U.S population would stabilize between 290 and 300 million people now believe that it will stabilize at around 390 million people because its________________?
A. overall birth-rate will increase significantly in the early part of the new century
B. life expectancy at birth will shortly increase to nearly 100 years of age
C. immigration rate is expected to remain high
D. all of the above - Older people living in housing for the elderly workers in an offshore oil rig rodeo cowboys and circus performers-all are examples of what sociologists refer to as_______________?
A. subcultures
B. countercultures
C. cultural universals
D. argot - 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 - Older people living in housing for the elderly, workers in an offshore oil rig rodeo cowboys and circus performers-all are examples of what sociologists refer to as_____________?
A. subcultures
B. countercultures
C. cultural universals
D. argot - 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 - Which of the following are NOT factors involved in whether or not people define a situation as crowded ?
A. duration and predictability
B. frame of mind and environmental setting
C. the sex and race of individuals present
D. intensification of people’s definition of the situation - A Group of people affiliated by consanguinity affinity and co-residence is______________?
A. Neighborhood
B. Class
C. Family
D. None of these - An important aspect of labelling theory is the recognition that some people or groups have the power to define labels and apply them to others This view recalls the emphasis placed on the social significance of power by the______________?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. anomie theory of deviance - social aggregations that emerge from the (Inter)Net when enough people carry on…. public discussions long enough with sufficient human feeling to form webs of personal relationships What is Rheingold (2000) describing here ?
A. cyberspace
B. the worldwide web
C. virtual communities
D. chatrooms
