Sociology Mcqs
World-affirming religions_______________?

A. Embrace conventional cultural values but offer new means of achieving them
B. React against the loss of any meaningful religious content in the teachings of churches
C. Adopt an attitude of mild disapproval towards mainstream social values
D. Reject both the goals and means of conventional society and provide utopian alternatives

What is the process by which schools help to perpetuate social and economic inequalities across the generation called______________?

A. Cultural reproduction
B. Passive consumption
C. Conceptual abstraction
D. Formal communication

Bourdieu attributed the reproduction of class to______________?

A. Cults of the capital
B. Capital culture
C. Cultural capital
D. Culpable capture

Simple supernaturalism_______________?

A. Is prevalent in industrial societies
B. Entails the notion of mana
C. Is centered upon the belief in powerful gods interested in human affairs
D. Is illustrated by buddhism

The secularization thesis______________?

A. States that sacred considerations gain ascendancy over secular considerations
B. Considerations trends toward modernization
C. Is assumed to accompany the transformation of human societies from simple to complex forms
D. None of the above

Which of the following is NOT a function of education ?

A. Completing socialization
B. Social integration
C. Research and development
D. Procreation

Educational self-fulfilling prophecies_______________?

A. Exist where children fail to learn because teachers cannot teach.
B. Are unlikely to exist when teachers’ assessments of students are grounded by the stereotype’s teachers hold of various classes and racial groups
C. May result in student alienation and failure
D. None of the above