Sociology Mcqs Practice Test

Question 1

The al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attacks on American targets on 11th September 2001 In what year did al-Qaeda bomb a nightclub on the Indonesian island of Bali Killing more than 200 people ?

Accepted Answer

D.	2002

Question 2

In many contemporary conflict’s attempts are made to protect soldiers often at the expense of civilian lives in order to minimize political problems from media coverage of fatalities How are such conflicts described ?

Accepted Answer

D.	risk-transfer wars

Question 3

What is the main consequence of well-defined ethnic existing within established nations states ?

Accepted Answer

A.	nations without states

Question 4

Compared With the sate formation process in industrialized countries which one of the following created major problems for developing societies ?

Accepted Answer

D.	the legacy of colonialism

Question 5

Which of these distinguishes modern nation-sates from traditional civilizations ?

Accepted Answer

D.	all of the above

Question 6

New style terrorism differs from old style terrorism in three main ways Which of the following is not one of the three ?

Accepted Answer

B.	it has a nationalist ideology

Question 7

Mary Kaldor (2006) argues that globalization processes lie at the heart of many new wars Which of the following is not an example of the increasing globalization of conflict ?

Accepted Answer

B.	the recourse of combatants to small -scale guerrilla tactics

Question 8

Who stated that war is the continuation of political intercourse by other means ?

Accepted Answer

B.	Martin Shaw

Question 9

What name did Norbert Elias give to the dynamic of competition between social units that eventually gave rise to a nation state ?

Accepted Answer

C.	the monopoly mechanism

Question 10

What do separatist movements around the world seek to achieve ?

Accepted Answer

B.	the creation of an independent nation state

Question 11

The notion of citizenship rights is associated with______________?

Accepted Answer

C.	T.H Marshall

Question 12

Which of these ethnic groups has the greatest proportion of households below 60 per cent of median income ?

Accepted Answer

D.	Bangladeshis

Question 13

Median earnings are a better benchmark for poverty than mean earnings because____________?

Accepted Answer

A.	the mean is distorted by a few people at the very top of the distribution

Question 14

Which of these countries has the smallest proportion of people living on less than $1 a day_______________?

Accepted Answer

C.	China

Question 15

Put these stages in the evolution of citizenship in chronological order _____________?

Accepted Answer

A.	civil rights political citizenship social citizenship environmental citizenship

Question 16

Which of these is not a critique of attempts to measure relative deprivation ?

Accepted Answer

A.	the personal experience of poverty is not the concern of sociologists

Question 17

Which of these constitute the three worlds of welfare-capitalism ?

Accepted Answer

B.	social democratic corporatist liberal

Question 18

Which of these is not an example of social exclusion ?

Accepted Answer

D.	none of these

Question 19

Children living in poverty tend to be more likely______________?

Accepted Answer

A.	to be killed in road accident

Question 20

Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?

Accepted Answer

C.	in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor