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  • A. make people feel free
  • B. secure that will of the people
  • C. give legitimate authority to the government in power
  • D. fool the people some of the time

Explanation: A myth complex supplies symbolic stories and historical justifications that make the existing government appear rightful and…

Correct answer: give legitimate authority to the government in power
  • A. definitely proven to increase the crime rate
  • B. definitely proven to improve school learning
  • C. providing realistic view of the world
  • D. none of the above

Explanation: No reliable general conclusion says television definitely increases crime or improves learning, and television does not always present…

Correct answer: none of the above
  • A. peer group
  • B. school
  • C. family
  • D. mass media

Explanation: The family is normally the first and most influential agent of socialization because children initially learn language, behaviour and…

Correct answer: family
  • A. a sense of calm
  • B. love of all humans
  • C. anxiety
  • D. none of the above

Explanation: Modern competitive social life often creates anxiety because people face pressure, uncertainty and continual evaluation.

Correct answer: anxiety
  • A. naires
  • B. personal interviews
  • C. previously gathered statistical information
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: Survey information may come from questionnaires, personal interviews and previously collected statistical records.

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. significant others
  • B. generalized others
  • C. the l and the me
  • D. the ego and the superego

Explanation: Significant others are people whose opinions matter to us and whose approval helps shape our self-concept.

Correct answer: significant others
  • A. conscious socialization
  • B. unconscious socialization
  • C. subconscious socialization
  • D. conscience socialization

Explanation: Directly instructing a child about acceptable behaviour is conscious socialization because an adult deliberately teaches the norm.

Correct answer: conscious socialization
  • A. learning
  • B. social interaction
  • C. body contact
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: Infants require learning, interaction with other people and physical contact for healthy social and emotional development.

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. successfully socialized
  • B. brainwashed
  • C. conditioned
  • D. a significant other

Explanation: A person is successfully socialized when they understand expected roles and can willingly perform them.

Correct answer: successfully socialized
  • A. the absence of others
  • B. genes alone
  • C. contact with other humans
  • D. the existence of schools or the media

Explanation: Human social development depends on interaction and contact with other humans, especially during infancy.

Correct answer: contact with other humans
  • A. more control over data than physics
  • B. complete objectivity
  • C. problems with studying people in laboratories
  • D. been accepted as equally valid as the physical sciences

Explanation: People cannot be studied exactly like physical objects because their behaviour changes when they know they are being observed and cannot…

Correct answer: problems with studying people in laboratories
  • A. relative to time and place of study and subject to revision
  • B. absolute truths for all times
  • C. universally accepted
  • D. personal opinions of important scholars

Explanation: Scientific conclusions depend on the evidence, conditions and methods of a study, so later evidence can modify or revise them.

Correct answer: relative to time and place of study and subject to revision
  • A. case study
  • B. observation
  • C. experiment
  • D. social research

Explanation: An experiment involves deliberately controlling or changing one variable and observing its effect while recording the results.

Correct answer: experiment
  • A. status is always achieved
  • B. status is always ascribed
  • C. status is both achieved and ascribed
  • D. status has no importance

Explanation: In an open or class system, people may gain status through achievement, such as education or occupation, while also receiving ascribed…

Correct answer: status is both achieved and ascribed
  • A. income
  • B. years of education
  • C. prestigious position
  • D. all of the above

Explanation: The objective approach uses measurable indicators of class, including income, education and occupational prestige.

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. late marriage
  • B. rural residence
  • C. one of many children
  • D. none of the above

Explanation: Late marriage can increase individual mobility by allowing more time for education, skill-building and occupational advancement before…

Correct answer: late marriage
  • A. industrialization
  • B. agriculture
  • C. pastoralism
  • D. hunter-gatherers

Explanation: Industrial societies require occupational skills and allow movement between education and employment positions, which supports open…

Correct answer: industrialization
  • A. one person's demand for goods and services
  • B. the lack of demand for goods and services
  • C. the total demand in a society or on a world level for goods and services
  • D. none of the above

Explanation: Aggregate demand means total planned spending on goods and services in an economy, usually represented by consumption, investment…

Correct answer: the total demand in a society or on a world level for goods and services
  • A. the southern regions of the world
  • B. the North-South Axis
  • C. the northern regions of the world
  • D. the North and South Pole

Explanation: Middle- and low-income countries are concentrated mainly in the Global South, which broadly refers to the southern regions of the world.

Correct answer: the southern regions of the world
  • A. 10%
  • B. 35%
  • C. 56%
  • D. 5%

Explanation: The stated figure is 56%, reflecting the large share of the world’s population living in low-income areas in the source’s development…

Correct answer: 56%