Free Social Institutions MCQs with Answers
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41. Disciplinary power was exercised in the 19th century factories by_______________?
- A. the use of corporal punishment by employers
- B. excluding women from participating in waged labor
- C. punctuality uninterrupted work and the threat of dismissal
- D. making routine tasks less monotonous
Explanation: Factory discipline relied on regulating time and conduct through punctuality, continuous work, supervision, and the possibility of dismissal. It was therefore based more on workplace control than on routine corporal punishment.
Correct answer: punctuality uninterrupted work and the threat of dismissal42. A network of roles according to which each person accepts certain duties towards others makes ?
- A. Social background
- B. Social Order
- C. Social stratification
- D. None of these
Explanation: Social order exists when interconnected roles and reciprocal duties organise people's behaviour and expectations. Social stratification instead refers to the ranking of people into unequal social layers.
Correct answer: Social Order43. In many societies newlyweds move into the husbands house at marriage This arrangement is referred to as a _________ pattern?
- A. poly-local
- B. neo-local
- C. patrilocal
- D. matrilocal
- E. communal
Explanation: Patrilocal residence means that a newly married couple lives with or near the husband's family or household. Matrilocal refers to residence with the wife's family, while neolocal means establishing a separate home.
Correct answer: patrilocal44. The depression that occurs when the last child leaves the home is called______________?
- A. the nurturing complex
- B. empty-nest syndrome
- C. childless anxiety
- D. the fear of singularity
- E. post-partum depression
Explanation: Empty-nest syndrome describes sadness, loneliness, or depression experienced by some parents when their last child leaves home. Post-partum depression occurs after childbirth, so it is unrelated to this later family transition.
Correct answer: empty-nest syndrome45. Aalia aged 7 lives in a private home with her parents her grandmother and her aunt Alice,s family is an example of a(n)?
- A. nuclear family
- B. dysfunctional family
- C. extended family
- D. polygynous family
Explanation: A family containing parents, a child, and additional relatives such as a grandmother and aunt is an extended family. A nuclear family consists only of parents and their dependent children.
Correct answer: extended family46. Care for the elderly_____________?
- A. is provided by the family in 40 percent of cases
- B. falls mostly on the eldest son
- C. is provided by the sandwich generation
- D. none of the above
Explanation: The sandwich generation consists of adults caring both for dependent children and for ageing parents or other elderly relatives. This makes it the most suitable option for care of the elderly in the question.
Correct answer: is provided by the sandwich generation47. Research on the family life course indicates that_____________?
- A. women with a first child are more likely than women without a child to report that their husbands do not pay enough attention to them
- B. the marital adjustment rating rises after the birth of a first child
- C. most couples consider parenthood a crisis
- D. the psychological well-being of parents is a little better than that of childless couples
Explanation: The transition to parenthood commonly reduces marital attention and adjustment, with mothers especially likely to feel that their husbands give them less attention after the first child. The other options incorrectly suggest that marital adjustment or parental well-being generally improves.
Correct answer: women with a first child are more likely than women without a child to report that their husbands do not pay enough attention to them48. Polygyny______________?
- A. is the preferred type of marriage in more than 40 per cent of societies?
- B. is generally available to all men in societies where it is permitted
- C. tend to be favored where large families are advantageous and women make substantial contributions to subsistence
- D. usually involves the right of younger brothers to have sexual access to their brothers' wives
Explanation: Polygyny, one man having multiple wives, is more likely where women contribute substantially to subsistence and larger families provide economic advantages. It is not automatically available to every man in societies where it is permitted.
Correct answer: tend to be favored where large families are advantageous and women make substantial contributions to subsistence49. My husband and my daughters constitute my____________?
- A. extended family
- B. family of orientation
- C. family of procreation
- D. none of the above
Explanation: A family of procreation is the family formed through marriage or partnership and includes one's spouse and children. A family of orientation is the family into which a person is born, such as parents and siblings.
Correct answer: family of procreation50. The term informal economy is used to describe_____________?
- A. work where no money changes hands
- B. the activities of small businesses
- C. transactions outside the sphere of regular employment
- D. organizations with less rigid rules and procedures
Explanation: The informal economy includes paid or unpaid economic activities outside the regulated and formally recorded employment sector, such as unregistered work and street trading. It is broader than small businesses, since not every small business operates informally.
Correct answer: transactions outside the sphere of regular employment