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BA Social Work Sociology — practice questions

Explore 22 free Sociology questions in BA Social Work Sociology. Each question opens with answer choices, the correct answer and a worked solution.

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Buses, metro passes and bus stops are objects you can touch. They belong to:Read the answer and worked solution →The ideas, attitudes and beliefs held by a society make up:Read the answer and worked solution →A school building is material culture. The teaching methods inside it are:Read the answer and worked solution →Every human society has some family structure. Such a shared feature is a cultural:Read the answer and worked solution →Murdock listed universals including personal names, jokes and:Read the answer and worked solution →A study found an isolated tribe responded to melody. That suggests music is a kind of:Read the answer and worked solution →Comparing societies, which are more common, cultural differences or universals?Read the answer and worked solution →A traveller judges another country by the rules of his own. That attitude is:Read the answer and worked solution →Judging others by your own standards can cause conflict, stereotyping and:Read the answer and worked solution →A researcher judges a community by its own standards, not by his. That practice is cultural:Read the answer and worked solution →Practising cultural relativism first demands an:Read the answer and worked solution →A student believes a foreign culture is better than his own. That belief is:Read the answer and worked solution →The term culture shock was first coined in 1960 by the anthropologist:Read the answer and worked solution →Withholding approval to discourage an unwanted act is a form of social:Read the answer and worked solution →Behaviours reflecting what a society calls good and right are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Written, established rules that exist in every society are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Casual everyday behaviours that most people follow without written rules are:Read the answer and worked solution →Children pick up unwritten rules by socialisation, imitation and:Read the answer and worked solution →Norms split further into two classes: folkways and:Read the answer and worked solution →Norms that carry the moral views and principles of a group are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Norms with no moral weight that guide daily habits are called:Read the answer and worked solution →Cosplayers form a smaller cultural group inside a larger one. That is a:Read the answer and worked solution →

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