A. testable
B. formulated prior to research
C. based on pre-existing facts
D. exclusively sociological
E. issue driven
Related Mcqs:
- Amjad must finish writing a report for work that is due the next day His son,s school just called and said the child must be picked up from school because he is sick Amjad,s wife is out of town on business As a result Amjad is experiencing ?
A. role strain
B. role conflict
C. role hypersensitivity
D. role reversal - Conflict and feminist theories both focus on______________?
A. consensus
B. subjective meanings
C. manifest functions
D. negotiated social orders
E. structured social inequality - Many sociologists argue that older theories of inherited intelligence and IQ tests have been discredited What concept did Gillborn and Youdell (2001) find had replaced of IQ in many Uk schools ?
A. skill
B. talent
C. capacity
D. ability - Theories of racialized discourse suggest that________________?
A. race is an objective way of categorizing people on biological grounds
B. the idea of race is socially constructed through powerful ideologies
C. race relations in Britain and America can be traced back to colonial times
D. people choose their racial identity, and this becomes fixed - Pluralist theories suggest that_______________?
A. the state,s power can be exercised through several different administrative structures
B. the ruling elite is composed of people from various class backgrounds
C. political parties must compete for the votes of consumers in the electorate
D. there is a close alignment between class background and party preference - The biggest difference between the theories of Freud and Erikson is that Erikson believed ?
A. That culture rather than biology plays the biggest part in socialization
B. that psychology is the dominant theory the social sciences
C. that biology/genetics explains everything
D. that there is no such thing as a superego
E. that men lacks a system of checks and balances in his life - Scientific theories in the nineteenth century tried to explain race in naturalistic terms Which of the following ideas was not considered ?
A. genetics
B. evolution
C. height
D. brain size - Nineteenth-century theories of social change reflect the pioneering work in biological evolution done by ____________?
A. Albert Einstein
B. Charles Darwin
C. Harriet Martineau
D. Benjamin Franklin - Early theories of collective behavior emphasized ________ a view that crowd behavior is like a mental illness that a person cannot resist ?
A. contagion
B. convention
C. group thinks
D. expressiveness
E. reformation - It is useful to have a diversity of theories in sociology because________________?
A. human behavior is so complicated that no single theory would be adequate
B. sociologists can choose the theory that best fits the data they have collected
C. It removes the need to assess a theory according to the empirical evidence
D. innumerable theories have been developed in the many fields of sociology
