Sociology Mcqs

Social exclusion refers to ways in which people are cut off from full involvement in society How has Veit-Wilson (1998) distinguished the main variants of this concept ?

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Social exclusion refers to ways in which people are cut off from full involvement in society How has Veit-Wilson (1998) distinguished the main variants of this concept ?

A. primary/secondary
B. weak/strong
C. general/specific
D. old/new

Extreme poverty is often defined as living on less than US$1 per day how has extreme poverty changed between 1981 and 2004 ?

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Extreme poverty is often defined as living on less than US$1 per day how has extreme poverty changed between 1981 and 2004 ?

A. stayed the same around 1.5 billion people
B. rose from 1.5 billion people to 3 billion
C. fell form 1.5 billion people to 1 billion
D. rose from 1.5 billion people to 2.5 billion

New communications technologies have revolutionized social life in the last 30 years or so Which of the following is not one of the four most significant technological trends making this revolution possible ?

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New communications technologies have revolutionized social life in the last 30 years or so Which of the following is not one of the four most significant technological trends making this revolution possible ?

A. robotics
B. the capability of computers
C. the digitization of data
D. satellite communications
E. fiber optics