Related Mcqs:

1. Shortcomings of interest groups include______________?

   A. injecting partisan ideologies into political parties
   B. creating splinter parties
   C. the dissemination of biased information
   D. stifling minority voices

2. Societies in which ascribed statuses have been prevalent include______________?

   A. estate systems in feudal Europe
   B. industrial societies like the United States
   C. occupationally-based caste systems as in pre-modern India
   D. A and C only

3. The jobs of the future will include______________?

   A. steel workers
   B. routine services
   C. personal services
   D. All but A

4. The ethnic groups among whom arranged marriages are common include______________?

   A. Indians (natives of India)
   B. Hasidic Jews
   C. Muslim
   D. All of the above

5. Cultural change is always________________?

   A. fast and dramatic
   B. slow and imperceptible
   C. nether of the above
   D. both of the above

6. The ratio of change in the equilibrium level of output to a change in some autonomous variable is the ?

   A. automatic stabiliser
   B. multiplier
   C. elasticity coefficient
   D. marginal propensity of the autonomous variable

7. Cultural relativity ideally implies ?

   A. that moral values different from one, s own are all wrong
   B. everyone’s crazy except you and me (and I’m not sure about you)
   C. mindless acceptance of all cultural values of others
   D. tolerance and respect for the cultural values of others

8. The theory speculating that every society develops a number of cultural goals for members to attain but that attainment is not possible for all is called the_____________?

   A. anomie theory
   B. differential association theory
   C. deviant personality theory
   D. focal concerns theory

9. Stressing the desirability of retaining each group,s cultural distinctiveness is part of the ideology of______________?

   A. Anglo-conformity
   B. melting pot
   C. ethnicity
   D. cultural pluralism

10. Which of the following brings about cultural change_________________?

    A. scientific discoveries
    B. technological invention
    C. new art forms
    D. all of the above