Sociology Mcqs

A. nonverbal communication constitutes the majority of a message in communication
B. verbal communication is more important than touch and touch is more important than artifacts in communicating a message
C. definitions of the situation differ, and common understanding is impossible
D. if situations are defined as real they are real in their consequences

A. culture
B. definition of the situation
C. social communication
D. socialization

A. Self
B. rudimentary personality
C. Language
D. None of these

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

A. school
B. family
C. television
D. peer group

A. sexual characteristics are the biological determinants of gender
B. heterosexuality and homosexuality are essential opposing identities
C. the tow-sex model replaced the one-sex model in the eighteenth century
D. gender is performed through bodily gestures and styles to create sex

A. both boys and girls being closely attached to their mothers, but then boys breaking away
B. girls being attached to their mothers but then breaking away
C. boys being attached to their fathers and girls to their mothers
D. both boys and girls being closely attached to their fathers, but girls breaking away

A. affectual
B. affective
C. effective
D. infected

A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. labeling theory

A. hospitals
B. mental health clinics
C. insurance companies
D. all of the above