A. formed an inferior race with low levels of intelligence
B. lived morally unsound lives of crime and squalor
C. were too reliant upon welfare benefits
D. all of the above
Related Mcqs:
- “Underclass “refers to____________?
A. the poor who are concentrated in isolated rural areas
B. individuals who experience occasional poverty but who move back into the “mainstream” of economic life within 12 months
C. the persistently poor who exist mainly because of a sharp climb in joblessness due to a redistribution of jobs in the inner city
D. both b and c - In the developed countries more people are employed in the service sector than manufacturing with a tiny percentage working in agriculture Globally which sector now employs the fewest people ?
A. services
B. industrial manufacture
C. agriculture
D. none of the above - Demographers who once believed that the U.S population would stabilize between 290 and 300 million people now believe that it will stabilize at around 390 million people because its________________?
A. overall birth-rate will increase significantly in the early part of the new century
B. life expectancy at birth will shortly increase to nearly 100 years of age
C. immigration rate is expected to remain high
D. all of the above - Which of the following are NOT factors involved in whether or not people define a situation as crowded ?
A. duration and predictability
B. frame of mind and environmental setting
C. the sex and race of individuals present
D. intensification of people’s definition of the situation - A Group of people affiliated by consanguinity affinity and co-residence is______________?
A. Neighborhood
B. Class
C. Family
D. None of these - 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 - When sociologists study the structure of layers in society and people’s movement between them they call this____________?
A. social stratification
B. social control
C. social conflict
D. social solidarity - A university that serves as a meeting ground for people seeking marital partners is performing_______________?
A. a manifest function
B. a latent function
C. a dysfunction
D. a manifest dysfunction - Which sociological perspective would be especially interested in studying how people communicate with each other and develop relationships through MUDS (multi -user domains) and electronic chat rooms ?
A. functionalist perspective
B. conflict perspective
C. interactionist perspective
D. labeling theory - What is defined as ‘non-conformity to a given set or norms that are accepted by a significant number of people in a community or society ?
A. criminality
B. deviance
C. recidivism
D. degeneracy
