The study of sociology originated from:
• Australia
• Europe
• America
• Asia
Which of these events probably preceded the study of sociology?
• The French revolution
• The Russian revolution
• The American Independence
• American civil war
Which of the following is not a sociological paradigm?
• symbolic interactionism theory
• conflict/feminism theory
• structural functionalism theory
• probability theory
4.Which Sociologist suggests that human beings are able to interact with the help of languages and symbols?
• E. Durkheim
• T. Parsons
• A. Comte
• G. H. Mead
Which of the following is not part of Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism?
• capitalist production exploits the working class
• class conflict is inevitable in capitalist societies
• class struggle only occurs under capitalism
• industrial workers are the revolutionary class
6.The feeling of despair often leading to suicide is called:
• deviance
• anxiety
• anomie
• depression
Which of the following people is the founder of Sociology?
• Talcott Parsons
• Emile Durkheim
• Robert Merton
• A.Comte
Human culture has two forms what are they?
• ancient and modern culture
• elite and popular culture
• material and non-material
• mainstream and subculture
9.Which of these are not examples of research methods?
• Talk shows and advertising
• participant observation and survey
• document study and case study
• interview and questionnaires
What is a social role?
• an achieved occupational status
• socially defined expectations of people in a given social position
• a social position that becomes a master status for the person occupying it
• a person's overall social status within their family
All of these are examples of social institutions EXCEPT:
• night clubs, hip-hop music
• family, social groups, traditional cultures
• Finance, government, legal system
• Media, education, religion
Which of the following is not an agent of socialization?
• school and peers, work
• social group and family
• social clubs, team games
• education and media
A family which consists of only parents and children living together is:
• Single-parent family
• Nuclear family
• Extended family
• Blended family
A family type which consists of relatives, parents and children living together is:
Society brings about acceptance of basic norms through techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior. This process is termed
• stigmatization
• law
• labeling
• social control
A person's overall position in society is called:
• achieved status
• master status
• status set
• ascribed status
The socially defined expectations that a person in a given status follows are called:
• a position
• a performance
• an impression
• a role
If Aina and Amir both remarry and each enters the marriage with children from their previous marriages; this is an example of what type family?
• C. Blended family
For most women divorce could result in:
• Lack of money
• Loneliness
• alcoholism
• Poverty
According to Edward T. Hall, which of the following zones of personal space is the one normally used in interaction with friends and close acquaintances?
• intimate distance
• social distance
• public distance
• personal distance
Which of the listed below is not a non-profit or a non-commercial organization?
• The United Nations Organization (UNO)
• The World Bank
• UNICEF
• The International Red Cross Organization
The bureaucratic administrative system stipulates clear division of labour, hierarchy and effective communication in large organizations: who is the author of this work?
• C.W. Wright
• M. Weber
• G.H. Meads
Which of the listed below is an example of NGO (Non-Government Organization)?
• UNESCO
• Greenpeace
• Microsoft
• FIFA
Which of the listed below is an example of a multinational company?
• Credit Suisse Bank
• Kaztelekom
• International Olympic Committee
All of the listed below are International Organizations EXCEPT which one?
• Gazprom
• United Nations Organizations
The Internet rearranges our experience of space-time by making it possible to:
• communicate instantly with people far away
• interact in an unreal and alienated way
• communicate without non-verbal cues
• experience what it's like to be a different gender
Writing took thousands of years to go round the world, worldwide digital communications has taken only:
• 2 minutes
• 20 years
• 200 years
• 2 years
A group of people living on a territory, with a common culture, language, values and other symbols is known as?
• community
• family
• society
• social group
.‘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?
• Max Weber
• John Goldthorpe
• Karl Marx
• Erik Olin-Wright
What term is used to describe the movement of individuals up or down the social scale during the course of their working lives?
• open mobility
• intergenerational mobility
• lateral mobility
A system of stratification where positions are partly achieved and mobility is common is one based on:
• caste
• class
• slavery
• status
Which of the following does John Scott identify as belonging to the middle class?
• senior executives
• finance capitalists
• none of the above
• industrial entrepreneurs
The idea that classes vary according to their possession of cultural capital is associated with:
• Pierre Bourdieu
The Kuznets hypothesis states that as economic development proceeds, inequality:
• first decreases, then increases then it remains high
• first increases, then decreases, before remaining low
• first increases, then decreases, then increases, then decreases
• first increases, then flattens out, before rising again
Kazakhstan can be said to be in the earlier stage of:
• Industrialization
• Agricultural
• Pastoral society
• Post-industrialization
The most crucial agents of socialization in teaching gender roles in Kazakhstan are
• parents
• teachers
• media personalities
• peers
Changes in a person’s personality and values due to changes in their environment (job, retirement, marriage, prison, military) is known as:
• Resocialization
• Segregation
• New identity
• Total institutions
Walt Disney, Sony and Time Warner are examples of:
• transnational corporations
• ownership concentrated within one medium
• government-owned companies
• multi-media empires
The effect of the Internet upon the public sphere has been to:
• repress it, by promoting only the interests of elite groups
• reproduce it, by emphasizing face-to-face contact with peer groups
revive it, by reaffirming a commitment to freedom of speech
• replace it with a superior form of communication
The 'nuclear family' means:
• the new family created when an adult leaves home and gets married
• a group of people sharing living accommodation and meals
• a network of relatives extended within or between generations
• two generations of parents and their children living together
Parsons argued that the two main functions of the modern family were:
• secondary socialization and strict discipline
• emotional support and sexual gratification
• primary socialization and personality stabilization
Stone's research suggests that prior to industrialization, the nuclear family:
• did not exist in any form
• had begun to emerge through the separation of work and home life
• was simply another institution of patriarchal control
• had begun to disappear, as extended networks of kin became more important
Which sociological perspective argues that people must respect social norms if any group or society is to survive?
the conflict perspective
• the functionalist perspective
• the feminist perspective
• the interactionist perspective
Which of the following describes a condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power?
• social inequality
• social stratification
• status inconsistency
Marriage appears to be in decline because:
• the proportion of people living alone has fallen to 29%
• the upward curve of remarriages compensates for the drop in first marriages
• all of the above
• many people are cohabiting in long term relationships
The term 'wealth' refers to:
• a stock of economic resources, including estates or invested capital that brings income
• the flow of money a person receives from their salary or wage
• the culturally valued commodities and standards of living that make the poor feel relatively deprived
• the 'slices' of the population who own differing amounts of wealth
The term 'assets' refers to:
• a stock of economic resources, including land, shares and bank deposits
The respect or admiration that an occupation holds in a society is referred to as:
• ranking
• prestige
• esteem
In modern societies, social status is typically measured by a person's:
• Age
• verbal fluency
• occupation
• Income
The business idea which can be started easily by anyone with great enthusiasm and hope to become rich or move to an upper class is called:
• a start-up business
• corporate business
• a sole proprietorship or one-man business
• an industry
What is the name of the process by which we acquire a sense of identity and become members of society?
• Organization
• Rationalization
• Colonization
• Socialization
In contemporary societies, social institutions are:
• virtual communities in cyberspace
• highly specialized, interrelated sets of social practices
• disorganized social relations in a postmodern world
• no longer relevant to sociology