Questão 1
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The study of sociology originated from:
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• Australia
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• Europe
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• America
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• Asia
Questão 2
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Which of these events probably preceded the study of sociology?
Questão 3
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Which of the following is not a sociological paradigm?
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• symbolic interactionism theory
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• conflict/feminism theory
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• structural functionalism theory
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• probability theory
Questão 4
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4.Which Sociologist suggests that human beings are able to interact with the help of languages and symbols?
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• E. Durkheim
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• T. Parsons
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• A. Comte
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• G. H. Mead
Questão 5
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Which of the following is not part of Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism?
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• capitalist production exploits the working class
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• class conflict is inevitable in capitalist societies
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• class struggle only occurs under capitalism
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• industrial workers are the revolutionary class
Questão 6
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6.The feeling of despair often leading to suicide is called:
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• deviance
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• anxiety
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• anomie
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• depression
Questão 7
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Which of the following people is the founder of Sociology?
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• Talcott Parsons
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• Emile Durkheim
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• Robert Merton
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• A.Comte
Questão 8
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Human culture has two forms what are they?
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• ancient and modern culture
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• elite and popular culture
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• material and non-material
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• mainstream and subculture
Questão 9
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9.Which of these are not examples of research methods?
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• Talk shows and advertising
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• participant observation and survey
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• document study and case study
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• interview and questionnaires
Questão 10
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What is a social role?
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• an achieved occupational status
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• socially defined expectations of people in a given social position
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• a social position that becomes a master status for the person occupying it
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• a person's overall social status within their family
Questão 11
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All of these are examples of social institutions EXCEPT:
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• night clubs, hip-hop music
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• family, social groups, traditional cultures
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• Finance, government, legal system
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• Media, education, religion
Questão 12
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Which of the following is not an agent of socialization?
Questão 13
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A family which consists of only parents and children living together is:
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• Single-parent family
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• Nuclear family
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• Extended family
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• Blended family
Questão 14
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A family type which consists of relatives, parents and children living together is:
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• Single-parent family
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• Blended family
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• Extended family
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• Nuclear family
Questão 15
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Society brings about acceptance of basic norms through techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior. This process is termed
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• stigmatization
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• law
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• labeling
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• social control
Questão 16
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A person's overall position in society is called:
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• achieved status
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• master status
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• status set
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• ascribed status
Questão 17
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The socially defined expectations that a person in a given status follows are called:
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• a position
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• a performance
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• an impression
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• a role
Questão 18
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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?
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• Extended family
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• Single-parent family
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• C. Blended family
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• Nuclear family
Questão 19
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For most women divorce could result in:
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• Lack of money
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• Loneliness
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• alcoholism
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• Poverty
Questão 20
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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?
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• intimate distance
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• social distance
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• public distance
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• personal distance
Questão 21
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Which of the listed below is not a non-profit or a non-commercial organization?
Questão 22
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The bureaucratic administrative system stipulates clear division of labour, hierarchy and effective communication in large organizations: who is the author of this work?
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• C.W. Wright
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• M. Weber
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• A. Comte
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• G.H. Meads
Questão 23
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Which of the listed below is an example of NGO (Non-Government Organization)?
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• UNESCO
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• Greenpeace
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• Microsoft
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• FIFA
Questão 24
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Which of the listed below is an example of a multinational company?
Questão 25
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All of the listed below are International Organizations EXCEPT which one?
Questão 26
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The Internet rearranges our experience of space-time by making it possible to:
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• communicate instantly with people far away
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• interact in an unreal and alienated way
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• communicate without non-verbal cues
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• experience what it's like to be a different gender
Questão 27
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Writing took thousands of years to go round the world, worldwide digital communications has taken only:
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• 2 minutes
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• 20 years
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• 200 years
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• 2 years
Questão 28
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A group of people living on a territory, with a common culture, language, values and other symbols is known as?
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• community
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• family
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• society
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• social group
Questão 29
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.‘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?
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• Max Weber
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• John Goldthorpe
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• Karl Marx
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• Erik Olin-Wright
Questão 30
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What term is used to describe the movement of individuals up or down the social scale during the course of their working lives?
Questão 31
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A system of stratification where positions are partly achieved and mobility is common is one based on:
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• caste
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• class
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• slavery
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• status
Questão 32
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Which of the following does John Scott identify as belonging to the middle class?
Questão 33
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The idea that classes vary according to their possession of cultural capital is associated with:
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• Max Weber
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• Karl Marx
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• Pierre Bourdieu
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• John Goldthorpe
Questão 34
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The Kuznets hypothesis states that as economic development proceeds, inequality:
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• first decreases, then increases then it remains high
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• first increases, then decreases, before remaining low
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• first increases, then decreases, then increases, then decreases
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• first increases, then flattens out, before rising again
Questão 35
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Kazakhstan can be said to be in the earlier stage of:
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• Industrialization
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• Agricultural
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• Pastoral society
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• Post-industrialization
Questão 36
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The most crucial agents of socialization in teaching gender roles in Kazakhstan are
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• parents
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• teachers
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• media personalities
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• peers
Questão 37
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Changes in a person’s personality and values due to changes in their environment (job, retirement, marriage, prison, military) is known as:
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• Resocialization
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• Segregation
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• New identity
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• Total institutions
Questão 38
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Walt Disney, Sony and Time Warner are examples of:
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• transnational corporations
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• ownership concentrated within one medium
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• government-owned companies
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• multi-media empires
Questão 39
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The effect of the Internet upon the public sphere has been to:
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• repress it, by promoting only the interests of elite groups
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• reproduce it, by emphasizing face-to-face contact with peer groups
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revive it, by reaffirming a commitment to freedom of speech
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• replace it with a superior form of communication
Questão 40
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The 'nuclear family' means:
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• the new family created when an adult leaves home and gets married
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• a group of people sharing living accommodation and meals
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• a network of relatives extended within or between generations
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• two generations of parents and their children living together
Questão 41
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Parsons argued that the two main functions of the modern family were:
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• secondary socialization and strict discipline
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• emotional support and sexual gratification
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• primary socialization and personality stabilization
Questão 42
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Stone's research suggests that prior to industrialization, the nuclear family:
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• did not exist in any form
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• had begun to emerge through the separation of work and home life
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• was simply another institution of patriarchal control
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• had begun to disappear, as extended networks of kin became more important
Questão 43
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Which sociological perspective argues that people must respect social norms if any group or society is to survive?
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the conflict perspective
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• the functionalist perspective
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• the feminist perspective
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• the interactionist perspective
Questão 44
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Which of the following describes a condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power?
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• social inequality
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• social stratification
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• slavery
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• status inconsistency
Questão 45
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Marriage appears to be in decline because:
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• the proportion of people living alone has fallen to 29%
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• the upward curve of remarriages compensates for the drop in first marriages
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• all of the above
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• many people are cohabiting in long term relationships
Questão 46
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The term 'wealth' refers to:
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• a stock of economic resources, including estates or invested capital that brings income
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• the flow of money a person receives from their salary or wage
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• the culturally valued commodities and standards of living that make the poor feel relatively deprived
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• the 'slices' of the population who own differing amounts of wealth
Questão 47
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The term 'assets' refers to:
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• the culturally valued commodities and standards of living that make the poor feel relatively deprived
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• a stock of economic resources, including land, shares and bank deposits
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• the 'slices' of the population who own differing amounts of wealth
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• the flow of money a person receives from their salary or wage
Questão 48
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The respect or admiration that an occupation holds in a society is referred to as:
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• ranking
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• status
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• prestige
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• esteem
Questão 49
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In modern societies, social status is typically measured by a person's:
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• Age
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• verbal fluency
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• occupation
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• Income
Questão 50
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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:
Questão 51
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What is the name of the process by which we acquire a sense of identity and become members of society?
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• Organization
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• Rationalization
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• Colonization
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• Socialization
Questão 52
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In contemporary societies, social institutions are:
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• virtual communities in cyberspace
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• highly specialized, interrelated sets of social practices
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• disorganized social relations in a postmodern world
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• no longer relevant to sociology