Sociology is a science that studies:
• social groups, social institutions and individual behaviour
• natural science
• technical science
• environmental science
• The study of sociology originated from:
• Australia
• Europe
• Asia
• America
• Which of these events probably preceded the study of sociology?
• The French revolution
• The Russian revolution
• American civil war
• The American Independence
• Sociology began as a result of:
• The Industrial Revolution
• The popularity of sociology in the USA took off from the:
• The Great Economic Depression
• Chicago school of sociology in the 1920s
• The Stanford university
• Harvard college university
• The first person to teach sociology at a French university was:
• E. Durkheim
• H. Spencer
• A. Comte
• M. Weber
• Which of the following is not a sociological paradigm?
• symbolic interactionism theory
• conflict/feminism theory
• structural functionalism theory
• probability theory
• Which Sociologist suggests that human beings are able to interact with the help of languages and symbols?
• G. H. Mead
• T. Parsons
Sociologists might be interested in which of the following social issues?
• Animal rights
• Inequality in the society
• Political process
• Economic crisis
• Which Sociologist proposes the concept of sociological perspectives?
• Ralf Dahrendorf
• Peter L. Berger
• Which of the following is not part of Karl Marx’s theory of capitalism?
• capitalist production exploits the working class
• class conflict is inevitable in capitalist societies
• industrial workers are the revolutionary class
• class struggle only occurs under capitalism
• Which of these three elements underlie Digital Transformations?
• super computers, artificial intelligence, the internet of Things
• smart phones, i-phones, i-pad
• computers, telephones, scientific calculators
• none of the above
• Which of the following people influenced the theoretical approach known as symbolic interactionist?
• Georg Hegel
• George Herbert Mead
• Talcott Parsons
• According to Durkheim, 'social facts' are:
• social insights into collective behavior
• information we get on the media or internet
• ideas, feelings, and ways of behaving that already existed in society before we were born
• those things that we create ourselves
• The feeling of despair often leading to suicide is called:
• deviance
• anxiety
• anomie
• depression
• Which of the following people is the founder of Sociology?
• A.Comte
• Emile Durkheim
• Robert Merton
• What is the initial stage of sociological research?
• review the evidence
• define the research problem or research question
• create a research design
• carry out a research design
• Any behavior which is against the NORMS expected in the society is called?
• stigma
• crime
• label
• Any behavior that breaks the NORMS expected is likely to lead to a negative labeling called?
• stigma/sanction
• Human culture has two forms what are they?
• ancient and modern culture
• mainstream and subculture
• elite and popular culture
• material and non-material
• Which of these are not examples of research methods?
• Talk shows and advertising
• participant observation and survey
• document study and case study
• interview and questionnaires
• To research unemployment situation in Kazakhstan you may have to use:
• interview
• survey research method
• questionnaire
• quantitative research method
• What is demography?
• The study of people and society
• The study of population growth in a particular area at a particular time
• the number of people in a school or university
• large numbers of people living together
• Which of the listed below constitutes cyber-crimes?
• harkening
• virus distribution
• scooping essential information
• all of the above
• The post-industrial society identified by Bell involved?
• A technological developed country
• Extensive machine Production
• Production of goods and services
• a shift towards a service economy, based on knowledge and information
• Social Mobility is a term that describes:
• Ability of people to move from one social class to another
• a piece of research conducted in a laboratory
• a piece of research trying out new methods
• an attempt to mobilize people for a national purpose
• What is a social role?
• an achieved occupational status
• a person's overall social status within their family
• a social position that becomes a master status for the person occupying it
• socially defined expectations of people in a given social position
• Which of the following is not an agent of socialization?
• school and peers, work
• education and media
• social group and family
• social clubs, team games
• All of these are examples of social institutions EXCEPT:
• night clubs, hip-hop music
• Media, education, religion
• Finance, government, legal system
• family, social groups, traditional cultures
• What is the sociological imagination?
• The way you see your ex-boyfriend or girlfriend
• The way parents see their children
• The ability to distinguish between personal problems and public issues
• It enables us to see the connection between people
• A family which consists of only parents and children living together is:
• Single-parent family
• Blended family
• Nuclear family
• Extended family
• A family type which consists of relatives, parents and children living together is:
• Many younger people in Kazakhstan probably worry most about:
terrorism and migration
unemployment and uncertain future
Mortgage or home credits
nothing
• Society brings about acceptance of basic norms through techniques and strategies for preventing deviant human behavior. This process is termed:
• stigmatization
• labeling
• law
• social control
• The socially defined expectations that a person in a given status follows are called:
• a position
• a role
• a performance
• an impression
• A person's overall position in society is called:
• achieved status
• ascribed status
• master status
• status set
• A Civil Society is the one in which citizens enjoy:
• freedom
• rights
• liberty
• Bagira divorced her husband 2 years ago and now lives together with her two children, this family type is called?
• Single parent family
• 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?
Nuclear family
• C. Blended family
• Rosa and Sultan have lived together for four years, they both have a two-year old son but they are still formally not husband and wife, their relationship is called?
• Unmarried couple
• divorced couple
• common law marriage or co-habitation
• married couple
• For most women divorce could result in:
• Lack of money
• Poverty
Loneliness
• alcoholism
• 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?
• intimate distance
• personal distance
• social distance
• public distance
• Our beliefs, ideas, ways of thinking, languages, behavior all come from:
• our genes
• our intergration
• our socialization
• our food
• Which of the listed below is not a non-profit or a non-commercial organization?
• The United Nations Organization (UNO)
• UNICEF
• The World Bank
• The International Red Cross Organization
• The bureaucratic administrative system stipulates clear division of labour, hierarchy and effective communication in large organizations: who is the author of this work?
• C.W. Wright
• G.H. Meads
• Which of the listed below is an example of NGO (Non-Government Organization)?
• UNESCO
• FIFA
• Greenpeace
• Microsoft
• Which of the listed below is an example of a multinational company?
• International Olympic Committee
• Credit Suisse Bank
• Kaztelekom
• All of the listed below are International Organizations EXCEPT which one?
• Gazprom
• United Nations Organizations
• The Internet rearranges our experience of space-time by making it possible to:
• communicate instantly with people far away
• experience what it's like to be a different gender
• interact in an unreal and alienated way
• communicate without non-verbal cues
• Writing took thousands of years to go round the world, worldwide digital communications has taken only:
• 2 minutes
• 20 years
• 200 years
• 2 years
• What are mores?
• Norms that people consider pivotal to the well-being of the nation or the group.
• the written and unwritten rules
• more and more money
• traditions and values
• A group of people living on a territory, with a common culture, language, values and other symbols is known as?
• community
• society
• family
• social group
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?
• Max Weber
• Erik Olin-Wright
• John Goldthorpe
• Karl Marx
• What is stigma?
• it is a form of positive identity
• a change in a person’s personality character
• a form of punishment for a crime
• a powerful negative label that radically changes a person's self concept and social identity.
• What term is used to describe the movement of individuals up or down the social scale during the course of their working lives?
• open mobility
• lateral mobility
• intergenerational mobility
• A system of stratification where positions are partly achieved and mobility is common is one based on:
• slavery
• caste
• class
• status
• Which of the following does John Scott identify as belonging to the middle class?
• senior executives
• industrial entrepreneurs
• finance capitalists
• The idea that classes vary according to their possession of cultural capital is associated with:
• Pierre Bourdieu
• The Kuznets hypothesis states that as economic development proceeds, inequality:
• first decreases, then increases then it remains high
• first increases, then decreases, before remaining low
• first increases, then flattens out, before rising again
• first increases, then decreases, then increases, then decreases
• Kazakhstan can be said to be in the earlier stage of:
• Industrialization
• Post-industrialization
• Agricultural
• Pastoral society
• The most crucial agents of socialization in teaching gender roles in Kazakhstan are
• parents
• peers
• teachers
• media personalities
• Changes in a person’s personality and values due to changes in their environment (job, retirement, marriage, prison, military) is known as:
• Resocialization
• Total institutions
• Segregation
• New identity
• Walt Disney, Sony and Time Warner are examples of:
• transnational corporations
• multi-media empires
• ownership concentrated within one medium
government-owned companies
• The effect of the Internet upon the public sphere has been to:
• revive it, by reaffirming a commitment to freedom of speech
• repress it, by promoting only the interests of elite groups
• reproduce it, by emphasizing face-to-face contact with peer groups
• replace it with a superior form of communication
• Sreberny-Mohammadi (1996) argues that national cultures can resist American cultural domination of the media by:
• domesticating its content, including more 'home-produced' programmes
• controlling the distribution of imported products by banning satellite dishes
creating 'reverse flows' of their own programmes back to imperial societies
• The principle of a Civil Society includes which of the following?
• Civil rights
• civil freedom
• civil liberty
• The 'nuclear family' means:
• a group of people sharing living accommodation and meals
• a network of relatives extended within or between generations
• the new family created when an adult leaves home and gets married
two generations of parents and their children living together
• Parsons argued that the two main functions of the modern family were:
• secondary socialization and strict discipline
• emotional support and sexual gratification
• primary socialization and personality stabilization
• Stone's research suggests that prior to industrialization, the nuclear family:
• did not exist in any form
• had begun to disappear, as extended networks of kin became more important
• had begun to emerge through the separation of work and home life
• was simply another institution of patriarchal control
• Which sociological perspective argues that people must respect social norms if any group or society is to survive?
the conflict perspective
• the feminist perspective
• the functionalist perspective
• the interactionist perspective
• Which of the following describes a condition in which members of a society have different amounts of wealth, prestige, or power?
• social inequality
• status inconsistency
• social stratification
• Marriage appears to be in decline because:
• the proportion of people living alone has fallen to 29%
• many people are cohabiting in long term relationships
• the upward curve of remarriages compensates for the drop in first marriages
• What is culture?
• Folk music and dances
• Material and non-material productions including language, traditional believes
• “Kazakh Kozhe”
• food and drinks
• An 'open' society is one that:
• grants every citizen equal status
• there is no corruption in the government
• has permissive attitudes towards sexual behavior
• allows people to move between levels of the hierarchy
• Suppose that a workplace requires that only Kazakh be spoken, even when it is not a business necessity to restrict the use of other languages. This requirement would be an example of:
• scapegoating
• prejudice
• institutional discrimination
• a self-fulfilling prophecy
• The term 'wealth' refers to:
• a stock of economic resources, including estates or invested capital that brings income
• 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
• the flow of money a person receives from their salary or wage
• The term 'assets' refers to:
• a stock of economic resources, including land, shares and bank deposits
• The respect or admiration that an occupation holds in a society is referred to as:
• ranking
• esteem
• prestige
• A social stratum is:
• a level in the social hierarchy, comprising people with shared life chances
methodological tool used to identify a person's social class
• the boundary between two levels of the social hierarchy
• a symbol of status, used to differentiate between social classes
• Weber defined a 'class situation' as:
• the exploitation of the working class by their capitalist employers
• a social group's consciousness of their status and life chances
• a person's position in the capital, product and labour markets, based on their economic resources
• the lifestyle of a social class, as defined by patterns of consumption
In modern societies, social status is typically measured by a person's:
• Age
• Income
• verbal fluency
• occupation
• How is terrorism different from the types of crime described by the Chicago School?
• it is committed on a larger, often global, scale, and is well organized
• it is associated with political conflict between states and their citizens
• it can have far-reaching effects upon international relations
• 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:
• a start-up business
• an industry
• corporate business
• a sole proprietorship or one-man business
• The capitalist class of the mid-twentieth century were said to join the upper class because they:
• participated in the same leisure pursuits and events of the 'social calendar'
• emulated the lifestyle and cultural values of the traditional aristocracy
• owned companies and financial assets that generated wealth through corporations
• had direct, personal ownerships of land and businesses as physical assets
• What is the name of the process by which we acquire a sense of identity and become members of society?
• Rationalization
• Colonization
• Organization
• Socialization
• In contemporary societies, social institutions are:
• highly specialized, interrelated sets of social practices
• disorganized social relations in a postmodern world
• virtual communities in cyberspace
• no longer relevant to sociology
• When sociologists study the structure of layers in society and people's movement between them, they call this:
• social conflict
• social solidarity
• Social norms are:
• creative activities such as gardening, cookery and craftwork
• the symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media
• religious beliefs about how the world ought to be
• rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life
• Society cannot be studied in the same way as the natural world because:
• human behavior is meaningful, and varies between individuals and cultures
• it is difficult for sociologists to gain access to a research laboratory
• sociologists are not rational or critical enough in their approach
• we cannot collect empirical data about social life
• Sociology differs from common sense in that:
• it focuses on the researchers' own experiences
• it makes little distinction between the way the world is and the way it ought to be
• its knowledge is accumulated from many different research contexts
• it is subjective and biased
• Sociological imagination is contained in the work of:
• P.L. Berger
• C. Wright Mills
• B. Weber
• D. Goffman
• The idea of Sociological perspectives belongs to:
• ________________is the author of mechanical and organic solidarity
• A. M.Weber
• B. K.MARX
• E. DURKHEIM
• A.COMTE
• Police officers, judges, administrators, employers, sport trainers and managers of movie theaters are all instruments of:
• Informal social control
• Social institutions
• Formal social control
• Socialization process
• What are values?
• ideas that people accept as true about the world operates
• the place where individual’s fit in in the world
• ideas rooted in blind faith, experience, tradition, or scientific observation
• A group’s ideas and shared conceptions of what is good, right, and important
• The Mafia is an example of:
• white collar crime
• organized crime
• global terrorism
• Role-learning theory suggests that…
• We internalize and take on social roles from a pre-existing framework
• we create and negotiate our roles through interaction with others
• social roles are not fixed or stable but fluid and pluralistic
• roles have to be learned to suppress unconscious motivations
• Bowlby's maternal deprivation thesis claimed that:
• mothers who are living in poverty cannot afford to give their children the resources that other children enjoy
• children deprived of an early, secure attachment to their mother are prone to suffer physically, intellectually and socially in later life
• 'mothering' is a socially constructed activity identified in the narratives of new mothers
• deprivation is something children inherit, usually through their mother's side
• White collar jobs are:
• Jobs for white people
• Jobs for the middle class people who tend to wear white shirts to work
• Jobs for people who work in government offices
• Jobs for school teachers
• White-collar crime (Consumer fraud, bribery, and income tax evasion, conspiracy) means:
• Economic Crime
• Corruption
• Deviant behavior
• Nonviolent crime committed by the upper/middle class during the course of their occupations
• Victimless crime is:
• Crimes in which laws are violated but there is no identifiable victim
• Traffic offence
• Welfare capitalism is:
• A system of market based economy
• A social welfare system
• A capitalist economy with extensive social welfare system that includes free health care and education for all citizens
• free health care and education
• What is Stereotype?
• A stereo music sound
• A group of rock music
• An assumption often on the basis of incorrect or incomplete information
• Incorrect language
• What is Social control?
• A system of traffic control
• Control of students
• Laws, Systems and traditional ways a society uses to make people conform to norms
• None of the above
• Rationalization of society is:
• Weber’s theory that bureaucracies would gain increasing power over modern life
• Government power
• Nationalization
• Increasing power of the modern economy
• Who coined the term “Power elite”?
• M. Beber
• A. Giddens
• What is Micro-sociology?
type of Sociological paradigm
• A large scale social problem
• A study of small group
• Sociological analysis focused on social interaction between individuals
• What is Macro-sociology?
• A type of Sociological paradigm
• Sociological analysis focused on social institutions and functioning of the society
• The Dominant culture is:
• Elite culture
• The culture held by the majority and/or by the most powerful group in a society
• A subculture
• Non-material culture
• Bureaucratic authority refers to a system of:
• Group administration with strict rules
• One man government
• A government by a charismatic leader
• A system featuring a Royal Monarch
• A Charismatic authority, according to Weber’s power theory means:
• Bureaucratic group
• Political group
• Authority that depends on the personal magnetism of one person
• A dictatorship
• Sutherland's study of the 'professional thief' suggested that:
• people are socialized into a life of crime by associating with others who define it in positive terms
• the majority of crime is committed by middle class people in professional occupations
• those who were arrested and charged with theft did not define themselves as thieves
• the most dangerous criminals on the street were those who were highly skilled thieves
• A social policy that refers to positive efforts to recruit minority group members or women for jobs, promotions, and educational opportunities –the policy of equal opportunities for all citizens is referred to as?
• Affirmative action
• Independent action
• Democratic process
• Electoral process
• The basic philosophy behind artificial intelligence is that
• Machines would soon not obey people
• Man would never design machines that he cannot control
• machine would control humans
• Machines would attack humans
• All of these are the opportunities with “Digital transformations” except which
• A new set of professions would be created
• People would not do dangerous jobs
• Computer would attack people
• Comfort and prosperity
• Structural functionalists describe society as:
• A normative framework of roles and institutions
• A country
• Families
• Ethnic groups
• Culture, translated from Latin means:
• Our language
• Music and dance
• civilization
• administration
• Which of the listed below is not a material culture?
• Tools/instruments
• mineral resource
• political institution
• yurta
• According to Augustus Comte, __________ means sociology is a positive science of the society
• Symbolic inter action
• Feminism theory
• Positivism theory
• Scientific theory
• Freud’s notion of the ego refers to:
• Compulsive and uncontrollable behavior
• The behavior which we learn as a result of interactions with others
• the conscious part of the mind that regulates emotional drives on a practical, rational level
• The conscious and sub-conscious mind
• According to C. Wright Mills social problems are the ones that affect:
• Only a small group
• Elite groups
• The mass of the population
• Only the poor masses
• According to C. Wright Mills, whereas personal problems are issues that affect:
• The masses
• Everyone
• Only the individual affected
• The politicians
• The outbreak of an epidemic or war is an example of:
• Personal problem
• Mass problem
• Social problem
• Group problem
• Exam mal-practice by students is an example of what?
• University problem
• According to C. Wright Mills ‘sociological imagination’ implies:
• Social problems of individuals
• Problems in our live
• Ability to perceive our problems as either personal or social
• The political situations
• To end poverty and injustice, sociology suggests that we change?
• The current monetary system
• The national currency
• The economic system
• The political system
• What category of people would be paid a fixed income in the new monetary system?
• Healthy adults who do not want to work
• Low income workers, pensioners who are too old to work, adults who are too incapacitated to work
• Everybody in the society
• Students
• According to the new monetary system inflation would be controlled by
• Speculating on currency, estates and energy
• Fixing prices on all commodities
• Issuing government bonds
• Returning excess money to the monetary agency
• Inflation would further be prevented by taxing heavily:
• Middle Class
• Everybody who gets fixed income
• Speculations on Estates, Currency and Commodity
• The rich
• The two fundamental flaws in our economic system have been identified as:
• i) the banking system ii) the wealth distribution system
• i) financial crisis ii) commodity price fluctuation
• i) Debt as a source of money ii) too many dependable variables in the economic model
• i) political ii) financial
• The premise of the new monetary system is to achieve:
• equality
• More rich class
• All our macro-economic goals and end to poverty
• progress
• The most popular Sociological research instrument is:
• The questionnaire
• The population census
• Political ratings
• Laboratory experiments
• Survey and sampling are both used in which research method?
• Secondary data collection
• quantitative method
• qualitative method
• A researcher wants to find out the rates of divorce in Almaty for a period of five years, the most appropriate method to use is?
• Survey method
• case study method
• Quantitative method
• Hypotheses can be tested using what methods?
• Survey and sampling methods
• Qualitative and quantitative methods
• All of the listed methods
• Null-hypothesis and alternative hypothesis
• The relationship that is based on roles and mutual responsibilities is called?
• Marriage
• According to C. Wright Mills the group who controls the wealth and power in the society are referred to as
• Aristocratic Families
• Ruling Elite
• The movement of individuals or groups from one social class to another is known as:
• Relocation
• Emigration
• Social mobility
• Evacuation
• Sociologists has defined two categories of poverty as:
• Underclass and working poor
• Poor and homeless
• Absolute and Relative
• Abject and absolute
• The behavior that is against the norms and invites serious disapproval in society is known as?
• taboo
• In survey research the group of respondents targeted for the research process is called?
• population
• Samples
• Respondents
• focus group
• Food and House provision
• Security and education
• Marriage and child bearing
• Primary socialization and personality stabilization
• Which of the following is not a calculation of average?
• Mean
• Mode
• Median
• percentage
Research materials from previous research works are known as?
• Secondary data
• Interviews
• Statistical analysis
• Questionnaires
• Describe the three (3) steps that precede a sociological research
• Report/analysis of materials/research method
• Research method/data analysis/literature review
• The topic/the problem/literature review
• research topic/research problem/literature review
Proper references must be given for all material sources to avoid what?
• Data loss
• Plagiarism
• Paradigm Shift
• Hypothesis
• Which research method is most suitable for studying problems facing a company?
• Document study
• Interview method
• Observation method
• Experiment method
• In sociology social facts are considered to be:
• religion, politics and education
• meditation, shaping and yoga
ideas, feelings, and ways of behaving that we learn from birth
• love and romantic feelings
• According to K. Marx the capitalist (bourgeoisie) exploits:
• The workers.
The women.
• little children.
• the middle class.
• Which of these is NOT a belief?
• the place where individuals fit in the world
• ideas that people accept as true about how the world operates.
• ideas rooted in blind faith, experience, tradition, or observation.
• general and shared conceptions of what is good, right, and important
• What are society norms?
• rules of appearance, ways of greeting others, eating, sleeping arrangements, and so forth
• only unwritten rules that specify how people should behave
only written rules that specify how people should behave
the written and unwritten rules that specify how people should behave in particular kinds of situations.
• What are the two categories of norms?
• folkways and mores
• traditions and folkways.
• values and mores
• People who violate Social Norms
• often provoke intense reactions or may be severely punished by society.
• may be sanctioned
• may be severely punished by society.
• Which of the listed below is an example total institution?
• Maternity home
• Prison penitentiary
• old people’s house
• political party
• The process by which foreign knowledge, inventions or some other cultural aspects are spread in a society is known as?
• Technology transfer
• cultural process
• culture diffusion
• innovation process
• What is Re-socialization?
• old ways of life
• the process of changing old values and acquired new ones
• when people change jobs
• when people marry again
• If a deviant act is 'normalized', it is:
• recognized as breaking an important norm of behaviour
• seen as a temporary aberration from an otherwise 'normal' character
• attributed to the person's genetic or anatomical make up
the first step in establishing a deviant career
• The term 'secondary deviation' refers to:
• the punishment or stigmatization of deviant acts
• the labelling of an act as deviant through social reactions to it
• the ways in which taking on a deviant role affects future action
• Structural-Functionalists describe society as:
• a source of conflict, inequality, and alienation
• a complex network of interaction at a micro-level
• an unstable structure of social relations
• a normative framework of roles and institutions
• If Aina and Amir both remarry and each enters the marriage with children from their previous marriages; this is an example of what family?
• A type family which consists of two generations of relatives, parents and children living together is:
• A family which consists of one generation of parents and children living together is called:
• Which of the statements below best describes a family?
• a group of people who are living together in the same house
• a group of people who are related by marriage or blood only
• husband and wife living together with their children
• a group of people who are related by marriage, blood or sometimes adoption
• Sociologists believe that a woman who plays the roles of the maid, cook, baby-sister in a nuclear family could suffer from:
• Depression and stress
• Disappointment and anxiety
• physical burnout
• All of the above
• What does Universality of family imply?
• It is an old way of life
• Family is found in every human society: barbarian, savage or civilized
• Family is the smallest unit in the society
• Family provides everything for you
• The hunting and gathering society maintained small families because:
• They did not produce enough food to feed many mouths
• they preferred qualitative culture
• the cared more about nature
• there wasn’t enough work for many people to do
• The Artificial Intelligence is likely to change our:
• Ideas of traditional cultures and values
• The way we see each other
• Working and shopping
• People’s nature
• The agricultural society probably maintained large families because:
• They have devised new farming technology
• They were able to produce more food to feed lots of people
• They lived a permanent settlement in small communities
• They began to have city states
• The most important criteria for effective communication are that it must be:
• Loud and Concise
• Interesting and Informative
• Clear and Concise
• Narrative and Detailed
• Interesting to hear
• Communication is described as:
• Ability to have many friends
• Becoming very popular among family and friends
• Being very sociable
• transmission of essential information from one side to another
• Good communicators often possess two distinct characteristics:
• They are extroverts
• They are good listeners and self-confident
• They are introverts
• They are very sociable
• Which of the listed below is an example of open ended question?
• Can you please say your name?
• Where did you come from originally?
• Is this your first visit to Astana?
• It’s a lovely day today, isn’t it?
• What is Plagiarism?
• Using someone’s written work without references to the author
• Stealing a research paper
• Buying a ready project paper
• Copy and paste article from the internet
• What does research imply?
• Academic hoax
• Academic work
• The work you do to get a university degree
• An extensive reading and writing work for the purpose of getting a new kind of knowledge
• The Internet of Things imply?
• Wi-Fi enhanced machines
• Interaction between people
• The work you do on the internet
• Interactions between people and machines via Wi-Fi
• What does marriage to a minor imply?
• a marriage of an adult to someone who is under the official marriage age
• marriage of a man to a young woman
• What does Peter Berger’s sociological perspective imply?
• The ability to see the specific in a general phenomenon and to see things from different perspectives
• Internalizing problems
• Ability to think clearly
• Externalizing social problems
• Which of the groups below form the Ruling Elite according to C.W. Mills?
• Top politicians
• Top Military officers
• Corporate magnates
• The vast majority of people in Kazakhstan fall into which of the class categories below?
• Upper middle and low middle class
• Middle class and working class
• upper class and upper middle class
• working class and lower class
• People in society are stratified according to:
• occupation, leisure and lifestyle
• wealth, power and status
• money and power
• education and prestige
• Sociologists are concerned about what aspects of the Industrial 4.0?
• over dependency on technologies
• the social impact of AI
• deep poverty
• displaced workers
• The philosophy behind technologies is that:
• the man would never design machines that he could not control
• machine would control people
• machine would build machines
• people would become lazy
• According to the author, Ray Kurtzwel, SINGULARITY is:
• Computers becoming smaller by 2024
• Computer would become as smart as humans by 2024
• Solution to mathematical equations
• A view of the future with the supercomputers
• Youth is defined as who?
• The most active group in society
• People in the age 13-30 years
• Young men
• People who do sport
• What is co-habitation according to sociologists?
• One-person household
• a man and woman living together not married officially
• family members living together in a household
• people living together in one house
• Why do people in industrial society prefer smaller families?
• They don’t like children much
• they have preference for one-man-one-wife and a more quality life culture
• they cannot afford many children
• the live city life with difficult living conditions
• Crimes and inequality are lacking in Hunting and Gathering society because?
• They live the old ways of life
• People live in small communities without properties
• People often change professions and move about a lot
• People do various jobs every day
• What are some of the negativities found in families?
• bad parenting could damage a child’s psyche forever
• families can suppress a person’s freedom and progress
• woman and child abuse are common features in many families
• Which of the listed below is true for nuclear families?
• Regular conflicts make them unstable
• The woman is stressed and depressed from burnout:(cleaning, cooking, shopping and caring for everyone)
• Children are often lonely, abused and egoistic
• All of the above are true
• How do societies pass their culture to the next generation?
• When they fight wars with other groups
• with language and by watching actions
• when people emigrate
• when people marry and start a family
• What does ethnocentricism imply?
• A way of thinking that one’s culture is better than that of others
• the process of changing old values and acquiring new ones
• Homophobia
• Aculturization process
• What does culture diffusion imply?
• Borrowing a culture
• the process of spreading a culture
• learning a foreign language
• the process of controlling people
• In which of these ways can cultures come to a society?
• Indoctrination, imitation and conditioning
• Borrowing and diffusion,
• War, conquer and immigration
• Why must culture continue to change as the people change with time?
• To keep old ways of life
• To make the culture modern and more creative
• To kill the culture
• To adopt a new way of life
• The term social Darwinism was coined by who?
• R. Dahrendorf
• P. Piaget
• Who inveighed that all our problems are social problems?
• G. H. Meads
• What does inter-generational mobility imply?
• The process of changing jobs to improve career
• movement into different occupational categories between generations
• ability to move from one class to another
• vertical or horizontal class movement
• What is a nuclear family?
• two generations of mother, father and their children living together
• when two divorced people marry again
• family that either has no children or none living with the parents
• when people marry their relatives