Sociology MCQ Questions Answers

1. The bottom ______ % of americans has 7% of the nation's wealth.

2. The ___________________ were the first major european slave-traders and enslavers in africa.

3. Dawn's "dawnsaveswildlife.com"; and product (red) are examples of ________.

4. Community policing is one of the most __________ ways that a police department can operate.

5. Of all those living alone, the vast majority are ________.

6. Nationally, _____ are more likely than students of other races to attend multiracial schools.

7. Marxist criminologists advocate _____ in response to crime.

8. Magnet schools encourage ________

9. Looking all around the world, what we find everywhere is ________

10. The plow was to the second social revolution as the ________ was to the third social revolution.

11. The percentage of former prisoners who are rearrested is known as ___________.

12. The fossil from utah was found in rocks that date from ______________ to 130 mya.

13. Fantasy and masturbation are basically considered _______ behaviors.

14. Arlie hochschild argues that many workers seek refuge from (the) ____________ in the ____________.

15. Women earn about ________ for every dollar a man earns.

16. An act of terrorism can be performed by __________.

17. Learning about ones culture and heritage sets the foundation for a persons ____ identity.

18. Nearly one in every _____ married women in two-income households earns more than her husband does.

19. Material culture corresponds to __________ as manifest functions corresponds to latent functions.

20. Under feudalism, the laborers who were obligated to work for landowners were called __________.

21. In hawai'i, the term ________ is used to refer to "real or true people."

22. In colonial times, youths were punished by ________.

23. A _____ summarizes the intersection of two or more variables.

24. In the face of strong evidence of the offender's guilt, a juvenile court judge may ________.

25. The campus culture of "hooking up" involves sexual relationships between partners who ________

26. An important exception to male domination of the u.s. workplace is that ________

27. A third urban revolution is now taking place in ________

28. Ordinary germans cooperated with and even participated in the genocide of jews because __________.

29. Couples who cohabit due to convenience are _____.

30. A prisoner would consider a maximum-security prison ________

31. Currently in developed nations, most grandparents try to be _____.

32. Using sociological imagination gives us more than a(n) ____________ interpretation of the world.

33. A norm can best be defined as a(n) __________.

34. Until the 1980s most parents believed that _____________ should be kept secret.

35. Society influences and molds the behavior of its members through a process known as ________.

36. The gender gap in education favors girls over boys with respect to __________.

37. When wealthy nations exploit poorer nations this is called __________.|

38. ________ refers to a range of negative feelings toward muslims and their religion.

39. As late as the 1920s, ______ of employed irish-born women in the united states worked as domestics.

40. Today, poor people spend about __________ of their income on food.

41. All death row inmates are held in ________ prisons

42. The relationship between agency and structure is _____, as ______.

43. The power elite has also been called the __________.

44. The idea of "getting" a joke, according to the text, depends on ________

45. The united states ranks _____ in women's political leadership.

46. According to __________ patriarchy could have had different origins in different places.

47. Research suggests that children raised in households in which parents are homosexual __________.

48. When a society classifies people by race, it _________________.

49. What gunnar myrdal called the "american dilemma" was ________

50. In 1948, the philippines lost their unrestricted immigration rights to the united states ________.

51. Historically, wasps dominated social life in the united states until about ________

52. Beginning in 1991, china loosened its adoption laws in order to ________.

53. The concept of "environmental deficit" refers to ________

54. Ashley montagu, a physical anthropologist, classified humans into ________ different racial groups.

55. Another term for an ethnic slur is ________.

56. Our earliest encounter with what is perceived to be normality is, essentially, that of __________.

57. The best determinant of how an individual measures their quality of life is _______.

58. The everyday actor uses _____ knowledge whereas the social analyst uses _____ knowledge.

59. The eagerness to show wealth by the purchase and visible ownership of goods is called ________.

60. The deviance implicit in a drone strike is that __________.

61. In biology-based arguments of gender, a predisposition ________.

62. Contrasted with socialist economic systems, capitalist economic systems typically ________

63. Among some residents of puerto rico, the idea of statehood invokes the fear of ________.

64. A focus on the least industrialized nations is characteristic of _____ feminism.

65. American adults account for __________ percent of all prison and jail inmates worldwide.

66. _______________ tend to draw members from all social classes and are more mainstream than sects.

67. Acculturation of chinese americans in family life is evidenced by ________.

68. According to the slave codes, ________.

69. ________ are contracted laborers brought to the united states from mexico after the depression.

70. The uniform crime report is prepared by_______

71. _____ refers to when members of a group ignore anything that goes against the group consensus.

72. The _____ created the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention.

73. Streetwise young women with little respect for traditional prison values are called ________.

74. _____ are people who think of themselves as belonging together and who interact with one another.

75. In ____, the court ruled that the probation officer/client relationship is not confidential.

76. House arrest is a valuable alternative to prison for ________.

77. Herbert packer likened the idealized criminal justice system to a(n) _________

78. The video reports that __________ americans live lonely, dependent lives in nursing homes.

79. Women are afftected ______ more than men?

80. Bernard madoff has been referred to as the greatest ____ of all time.

81. A(n) ________________ is an informal web site of time-stamped articles written in a journal format.

82. Another name for intelligence-led policing is __________ policing.

83. An eyewitness who saw a crime being committed is an example of a(n) ________ witness

84. An average of _____ people in the united states fall victim to hate crimes each year?

85. Charlotte perkins gilman is considered a _____.

86. An act that violates criminal law and is punishable by criminal sanctions is known as a_________

87. The theory that is contrary to disengagement theory is _____ theory.

88. All of the following discretionary decisions are always inappropriate, except ________.

89. According to peel, the main function of the police was to ________ by ________ of the community.

90. Knowing your tendency toward ethnocentrism __________.

91. With citizenship, the united states was to guarantee ________ in the treaty of guadalupe hidalgo.

92. According to conflict theorists, societal conflict promotes crime by ______.

93. According to ____ theory, indicators of neighborhood disorder are highly predictive of crime rates.

94. An individual who adopts cultural relativism aims to __________ a cultural practice.

95. In 1837, illinois blacksmith __________ developed a new steel plow that rapidly became popular.

96. According to goffman's scheme, we have _____ where we can have some privacy and let our hair down.

97. By 1830, the northern states of __________ , indiana, and southern illinois were heavily settled.

98. Without language, human culture would ________.

99. The majority of minimum-wage employees are __________.

100. Thomas szasz made the controversial assertion that ________