A. Society
B. Sociology
C. Anthropology
D. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- Search for ways of using scientific knowledge to solve practical problems is termed as_____________?
A. Pure science
B. Applied Science
C. both a & b
D. None of these - A new combination or a new use of existing knowledge is termed as______________?
A. Invention
B. discovery
C. Social Change
D. None of these - Those aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability and social organization that allow societies and groups to hold together and endure are called______________?
A. social statics
B. social dynamics
C. social absolutes
D. constructed reality - Socialization is extended to every part of human life As a result every one becomes both a socializer and a socialize in all encounters with others This concept leaves socialization without a social home. This is the approach of______________?
A. Arnett
B. Long & Hadden
C. Henslin
D. None of these - The theory pictures social movements as operating within a competitive field of movements __ a “social movement industry” ____ within which they compete not least for members and activists Which theory of social movements is this ___________?
A. new social movement theory
B. collective behavior theory
C. social strain theory
D. resource mobilization theory - A social system in which social position is fixed for a lifetime What type of social stratification does this describe ?
A. slavery
B. Social class
C. caste
D. estates - The life-course model views aging as______________?
A. a process that continues from birth to death
B. a process shaped by the forces of capitalism
C. a process of adapting to changing social roles
D. a process shaped by psychological decline - Durkheim defined social facts as______________?
A. ways of acting thinking and feeling that are collective and social in origin
B. the way scientists construct knowledge in a social context
C. data collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct
D. ideas and theories that have no basis in the external physical world - A rising suicide rate associated with normlessness and a lack of social regulation can be described as______________?
A. egoistic suicide
B. altruistic suicide
C. fatalistic suicide
D. anomic suicide - The scientific study of aging is called______________?
A. gerontology
B. gerontocracy
C. the maturational method
D. maturational reform
E. global greying