A. Neighborhood
B. Class
C. Family
D. None of these
Related Mcqs:
- Which sociologist writing in 1906 noted that individuals make distinctions between members of their own group (thein-group) and everyone else (the out-group) ?
A. Charles Horton Cooley
B. Emile Durkheim
C. William I. Thomas
D. William Graham Sumner - In modern society people belong to so many groups that a number of their in-group and out-group relationships overlap It has given the members of society a wide spectrum of___________?
A. behavior learning
B. socialization
C. both a & b
D. None of these - The rank and position of a person in a group or of a group in relation to other groups is termed as_____________?
A. Role
B. Status
C. Both a and b
D. None of these - Chinese social control is done mainly through group pressure Every individual is a member of a small group called_____________?
A. Danwie
B. Communis
C. Nessar
D. None of these - Which approach holds that deviance is not a feature of a group or individual a process of interaction through which one group becomes defined as deviant ?
A. labelling theory
B. control theory
C. functionalist theory
conflict theory - When so much attention is focused on group survival the group often experiences __________ which is a loss of focus regarding its original intent?
A. immanence
B. anomie
C. hysteria
D. goal displacement
E. cultural lag - Spread of cultural traits from group to group is called______________?
A. Intercultural harmony
B. Cultural contacts
C. diffusion
D. None of these - In an experiment two groups are identical except for the change that researchers introduce into one group That group is called______________?
A. the contaminated group
B. the control groups
C. the experimental group
D. the neutral standard - Which approach holds that deviance is not a feature of a group or individual but a process of interaction through which one group becomes defined as deviant ?
A. labelling theory
B. control theory
C. functionalist theory
D. conflict theory - A social class is a group of people who stand in a common relationship to the means of production Whose perspective does this definition describe ?
A. Max Weber
B. Erik Olin-Wright
C. John Goldthorpe
D. Karl Marx