Why do sociologists use the category race ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Why do sociologists use the category race ?

   A. it distinguishes between biological and social factors
   B. it denotes something fixed and unchanging
   C. it is a social category which has real effects on people lives
   D. it enables comparisons between groups in different countries

2. Why do many sociologists use scare quotes when discussing race ?

   A. it,s a complex concept with multiple meanings
   B. to reflect the fact that the number of races is disputed
   C. the concept has no scientific basis but is still widely used
   D. to distinguish the science of race from discussions of ethnicity

3. Which method of identifying social classes views social class as a statistical category formed by sociologists or statisticians or statisticians on the basis of income occupation education or some combination of these ?

   A. the combined approach
   B. the reputational method
   C. the self-placement method
   D. the objective method

4. Modern day sociologists have applied Erikson,s model to_______________?

   A. early childhood
   B. adolescence
   C. infancy
   D. young adulthood
   E. later life

5. How people behave towards one another when they meet is referred to as ___________ by sociologists ?

   A. social interaction
   B. sociobiology
   C. social psychology
   D. socialization
   E. psychometrics

6. According to sociologists the critical agent of socialization is thought to be_____________?

   A. peers
   B. the family
   C. formal religion
   D. schools
   E. the media

7. Sociologists like Bordo (1993) have attributed the epidemic of anorexia in Western cultures to_____________?

   A. a generally ascetic frugal lifestyle that can be taken to extremes
   B. traditional images of women as emotional domesticated and unassertive
   C. the social construction of mental illness through which normal patterns of behaviour are pathologized
   D. the new ideal of independent self-assured femininity combined with cultural values of achievement and control

8. 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

9. Older people living in housing for the elderly workers in an offshore oil rig rodeo cowboys and circus performers-all are examples of what sociologists refer to as_______________?

   A. subcultures
   B. countercultures
   C. cultural universals
   D. argot

10. Tearoom Trade is typical of the s asked by sociologists because______________?

    A. it takes place outside the university campus
    B. it makes use of covert research methods
    C. it investigates working of society that are different from official accounts
    D. the investigator is sympathetic to the activities that he is investigating