Related Mcqs:

1. ________ usually last longer are better organized more goal-oriented and have a longer lasting impact than fads or crazes ?

   A. Social movements
   B. Developments
   C. Conventions
   D. Hysterias
   E. Protests

2. How does racial and ethnic stratification differ from other forms of stratification ?

   A. Racial and ethnic groups often have the potential for carving out their own independent nations from the existing state
   B. Racial and ethnic stratification is harder to eliminate than are other forms of stratification
   C. All other forms of stratification grow out of racial and ethnic stratification
   D. All of the above

3. How do market and command economies differ ?

   A. Market economies rely on free markets whereas command economies rely on consumer sovereignty
   B. Market economies rely on cooperation whereas command economies rely on conflict
   C. Market economies rely on privately held property whereas command economies rely on publicly-held property
   D. Market and command economies do not differ substantially, but their political institutions do

4. The four principles of McDonaldization are________________?

   A. efficiency calculability affordability consistent decor
   B. efficiency calculability uniformity automation
   C. efficiency dehumanization automation high calories
   D. efficiency Big Mac large fries’ milkshake

5. Dahrendorf Rex and Habermas focused their attention on_____________?

   A. social solidarity and cohesion
   B. the interpretive understanding of action
   C. women’s experiences and gendered knowledge
   D. power domination and conflict

6. A ___________ is a substantial number of people who interact on the basis of loosely defined norms ?

   A. craze
   B. group
   C. contagion
   D. collectivity
   E. mob

7. According to Marxian view each stage contained within itself the seeds of_____________?

   A. progress
   B. it’s won destruction
   C. next stage
   D. both b and c

8. Which nation(s) has(have) witnessed a significant decline in voter turnout in recent elections ?

   A. Japan
   B. Great Britain
   C. the United States
   D. all of the above

9. The value-added model of collective behavior ?

   A. presents three preconditions for collective behavior
   B. states that each determinant expands the range of potential final outcomes
   C. is of little use in understanding the complexity of collective behavior.
   D. none of the above

10. Resistance to certain aspects of development and social change in an effort to neutralize their efforts is called________________?

    A. countermovement
    B. social amelioration
    C. counter modernization
    D. countenance
    E. post modernization