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Question 1

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The study of sociology originated from:
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  • • Australia
  • • Europe
  • • America
  • • Asia

Question 2

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Which of these events probably preceded the study of sociology?
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  • • The French revolution
  • • The Russian revolution
  • • The American Independence
  • • American civil war

Question 3

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Which of the following is not a sociological paradigm?
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  • • symbolic interactionism theory
  • • conflict/feminism theory
  • • structural functionalism theory
  • • probability theory

Question 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
  • • T. Parsons
  • • A. Comte
  • • G. H. Mead

Question 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
  • • class conflict is inevitable in capitalist societies
  • • class struggle only occurs under capitalism
  • • industrial workers are the revolutionary class

Question 6

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6.The feeling of despair often leading to suicide is called:
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  • • deviance
  • • anxiety
  • • anomie
  • • depression

Question 7

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Which of the following people is the founder of Sociology?
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  • • Talcott Parsons
  • • Emile Durkheim
  • • Robert Merton
  • • A.Comte

Question 8

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Human culture has two forms what are they?
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  • • ancient and modern culture
  • • elite and popular culture
  • • material and non-material
  • • mainstream and subculture

Question 9

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9.Which of these are not examples of research methods?
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  • • Talk shows and advertising
  • • participant observation and survey
  • • document study and case study
  • • interview and questionnaires

Question 10

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What is a social role?
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  • • 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

Question 11

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All of these are examples of social institutions EXCEPT:
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  • • night clubs, hip-hop music
  • • family, social groups, traditional cultures
  • • Finance, government, legal system
  • • Media, education, religion

Question 12

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Which of the following is not an agent of socialization?
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  • • school and peers, work
  • • social group and family
  • • social clubs, team games
  • • education and media

Question 13

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A family which consists of only parents and children living together is:
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  • • Single-parent family
  • • Nuclear family
  • • Extended family
  • • Blended family

Question 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
  • • Blended family
  • • Extended family
  • • Nuclear family

Question 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
  • • law
  • • labeling
  • • social control

Question 16

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A person's overall position in society is called:
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  • • achieved status
  • • master status
  • • status set
  • • ascribed status

Question 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
  • • a performance
  • • an impression
  • • a role

Question 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
  • • Single-parent family
  • • C. Blended family
  • • Nuclear family

Question 19

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For most women divorce could result in:
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  • • Lack of money
  • • Loneliness
  • • alcoholism
  • • Poverty

Question 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
  • • social distance
  • • public distance
  • • personal distance

Question 21

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Which of the listed below is not a non-profit or a non-commercial organization?
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  • • The United Nations Organization (UNO)
  • • The World Bank
  • • UNICEF
  • • The International Red Cross Organization

Question 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
  • • M. Weber
  • • A. Comte
  • • G.H. Meads

Question 23

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Which of the listed below is an example of NGO (Non-Government Organization)?
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  • • UNESCO
  • • Greenpeace
  • • Microsoft
  • • FIFA

Question 24

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Which of the listed below is an example of a multinational company?
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  • • The United Nations Organization (UNO)
  • • Credit Suisse Bank
  • • Kaztelekom
  • • International Olympic Committee

Question 25

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All of the listed below are International Organizations EXCEPT which one?
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  • • UNESCO
  • • Gazprom
  • • United Nations Organizations
  • • FIFA

Question 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
  • • interact in an unreal and alienated way
  • • communicate without non-verbal cues
  • • experience what it's like to be a different gender

Question 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
  • • 20 years
  • • 200 years
  • • 2 years

Question 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
  • • family
  • • society
  • • social group

Question 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
  • • John Goldthorpe
  • • Karl Marx
  • • Erik Olin-Wright

Question 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?
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  • • open mobility
  • • intergenerational mobility
  • • lateral mobility

Question 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
  • • class
  • • slavery
  • • status

Question 32

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Which of the following does John Scott identify as belonging to the middle class?
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  • • senior executives
  • • finance capitalists
  • • none of the above
  • • industrial entrepreneurs

Question 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
  • • Karl Marx
  • • Pierre Bourdieu
  • • John Goldthorpe

Question 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
  • • first increases, then decreases, before remaining low
  • • first increases, then decreases, then increases, then decreases
  • • first increases, then flattens out, before rising again

Question 35

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Kazakhstan can be said to be in the earlier stage of:
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  • • Industrialization
  • • Agricultural
  • • Pastoral society
  • • Post-industrialization

Question 36

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The most crucial agents of socialization in teaching gender roles in Kazakhstan are
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  • • parents
  • • teachers
  • • media personalities
  • • peers

Question 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
  • • Segregation
  • • New identity
  • • Total institutions

Question 38

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Walt Disney, Sony and Time Warner are examples of:
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  • • transnational corporations
  • • ownership concentrated within one medium
  • • government-owned companies
  • • multi-media empires

Question 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
  • • 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

Question 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
  • • 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

Question 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
  • • emotional support and sexual gratification
  • • primary socialization and personality stabilization

Question 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
  • • 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

Question 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
  • • the functionalist perspective
  • • the feminist perspective
  • • the interactionist perspective

Question 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
  • • social stratification
  • • slavery
  • • status inconsistency

Question 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%
  • • the upward curve of remarriages compensates for the drop in first marriages
  • • all of the above
  • • many people are cohabiting in long term relationships

Question 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
  • • 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

Question 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
  • • a stock of economic resources, including land, shares and bank deposits
  • • the 'slices' of the population who own differing amounts of wealth
  • • the flow of money a person receives from their salary or wage

Question 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
  • • status
  • • prestige
  • • esteem

Question 49

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In modern societies, social status is typically measured by a person's:
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  • • Age
  • • verbal fluency
  • • occupation
  • • Income

Question 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:
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  • • a start-up business
  • • corporate business
  • • a sole proprietorship or one-man business
  • • an industry

Question 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
  • • Rationalization
  • • Colonization
  • • Socialization

Question 52

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In contemporary societies, social institutions are:
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  • • virtual communities in cyberspace
  • • highly specialized, interrelated sets of social practices
  • • disorganized social relations in a postmodern world
  • • no longer relevant to sociology
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