Sociology MCQs with Answers

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1. 1 Governance theory is mainly occupied with institutional change and it involves ______ agency.
   

   1. Political agency

   2. Human agency

   3. Public agency

   4. None of these

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   : Human agency

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2. 2 Causes of necrosis includes ________ ?
   

   1. Injury

   2. Cancer

   3. Infection

   4. All of above

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   : All of above

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3. 3 Positivism was first proposed by ___________ ?
   

   1. Augustus Comte

   2. Emily Durkheim

   3. Herbert Spencer

   4. None of these

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   : Augustus Comte

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4. 4 Which of the followings are included in primary goals of a social science _______?
   

   1. Experimentation

   2. Generalization

   3. Prediction

   4. All of these

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   : All of these

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5. 5 Which of the following shape our ideas more than the other __________ ?
   

   1. Hereditary traits

   2. Social groups interaction

   3. Both ‘a & b’

   4. None of these

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   : Social groups interaction

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6. 6 Social Location is the group membership that people have because of their __________ ?
   

   1. Status in society

   2. Location in history and society

   3. Location in a town

   4. None of these

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   : Location in history and society

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7. 7 Sociological perspective means __________ ?
   

   1. Understanding human behavior in broader context of society

   2. Understanding human behavior in narrower context of society

   3. Both ‘a & b’

   4. None of these

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   : Understanding human behavior in broader context of society

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8. 8 Which of these statements is correct ?
   

   1. causes and correlations are essentially the same

   2. correlations always lead to causal explanations

   3. causation cannot be inferred directly from correlation

   4. correlations are one-way causal relationships

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   : causation cannot be inferred directly from correlation

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9. 9 The decentralized city can be identified by______________?
   

   1. the shift of employment and service away from the inner city towards multiple centers in smaller towns and rural areas

   2. the degendering of public space as women use local facilities more

   3. gentrification the movement of middle-class people back into the inner city

   4. all of the above

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   : all of the above

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10. 10 Urbanization occurred in the nineteenth century because_______________?
    

    1. commuters started moving out of villages and into cities

    2. towns and cities were becoming increasingly planned and managed

    3. industrial capitalism led to a shift of population from rural to urban areas

    4. transport systems were not provided so it was easier to live in the city

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    : industrial capitalism led to a shift of population from rural to urban areas

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