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Sociology Mcqs

What do separatist movements around the world seek to achieve ?

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What do separatist movements around the world seek to achieve ?

A. recognition of the equal rights of an ethnic group within a nation state
B. the creation of an independent nation state
C. the expulsion of an ethnic group from a disputed region
D. acceptance of an ethnic groups that to use a separate minority language

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

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

A. Whites
B. Indians
C. Black Caribbean’s
D. Bangladeshis

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

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

A. the mean is distorted by a few people at the very top of the distribution
B. they lead more people to be defined as in poverty
C. the median is a more accurate measurement of earnings than the mean
D. all of the above

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

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

A. Bangladesh
B. Mozambique
C. China
D. Pakistan

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

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

A. civil rights political citizenship social citizenship environmental citizenship
B. social citizenship political citizenship environmental citizenship civil rights
C. political citizenship social citizenship environmental citizenship civil rights
D. civil rights environmental citizenship social citizenship political citizenship

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

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

A. the personal experience of poverty is not the concern of sociologists
B. there is an arbitrary nature to how items are selected for a deprivation index
C. it may be choice not poverty that means some people do not qualify for some of the items on a deprivation index
D. the subjective nature of such indices means it is difficult to make comparisons between different studies and time periods

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Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?

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Critics of the concept of relative poverty argue that______________?

A. it concentrates too much on kinship ties
B. the government should be raising benefit levels
C. in modern affluent societies no one is truly poor
D. it is wrong to make comparisons between countries

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