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  • A. One-sided
  • B. Reciprocal
  • C. Non-existent
  • D. Fixed and unchanging

Explanation: The individual and society have a reciprocal relationship: society shapes people's identities, values and behaviour, while individuals…

Correct answer: Reciprocal
  • A. Hunting
  • B. Agrarian
  • C. Herding
  • D. Industrial

Explanation: Pastoral societies depend mainly on the domestication and herding of animals for food, livelihood and exchange.

Correct answer: Herding
  • A. Social groups interaction
  • B. Hereditary traits
  • C. Both 'a & b'
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Sociology emphasises that interaction within social groups strongly shapes people's ideas, beliefs, and behaviour.

Correct answer: Social groups interaction
  • A. Status in society
  • B. Location in history and society
  • C. Location in a town
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Social location means a person's position in the social and historical structure, including memberships such as class, gender, ethnicity…

Correct answer: Location in history and society
  • A. regenerating cities in economic decline
  • B. turning industrial landscapes into tourist attractions
  • C. all of the above
  • D. selling sites and images through the symbolic economy of media advertising

Explanation: Cultural restructuring changes both the physical and symbolic character of cities: declining areas may be regenerated, industrial sites…

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. ethnic communities based on shard identity and experiences of discrimination
  • B. gay villages which are formed in certain parts of large cities
  • C. sociological communities formed by unpopular lectures
  • D. virtual communities that exist only in cyberspace

Explanation: New communities may be based on ethnicity, sexuality, or online interaction, but “sociological communities formed by unpopular lectures”…

Correct answer: sociological communities formed by unpopular lectures
  • A. a shared sense of identity and belonging together
  • B. a fixed geographical location
  • C. common activities involving all -round relationships
  • D. collective action based on common interests

Explanation: A community can exist without a fixed geographical location, as shown by virtual and dispersed communities.

Correct answer: a fixed geographical location
  • A. a national identity with an associated set of symbols and beliefs
  • B. governmental authority over a clearly demarcated territory
  • C. all of the above
  • D. the granting of citizenship rights to the relevant population

Explanation: Modern nation-states combine a shared national identity, authority over a defined territory, and citizenship rights for the population.

Correct answer: all of the above
  • A. Masses
  • B. State institutions
  • C. Voluntary civic and social organizations
  • D. None of thesePeople & Society

Explanation: Civil society consists of voluntary associations and civic organizations that operate independently of the state, such as charities…

Correct answer: Voluntary civic and social organizations
  • A. Social capital
  • B. Network economy
  • C. Political corruption
  • D. De-differentiation

Explanation: Social capital means the useful resources available through social relationships, trust and networks.

Correct answer: Social capital
  • A. Social cohesion
  • B. Social Capital
  • C. Social bond
  • D. None of theseSearch Public Records

Explanation: Social capital consists of social networks together with the trust and norms of reciprocity that enable people to help one another.

Correct answer: Social Capital
  • A. population and common territory
  • B. Both sexes and all ages
  • C. shared beliefs and collective destiny
  • D. None of thesesAccess Government Careers

Explanation: Human and animal societies can have populations, territories, both sexes and different age groups, but shared beliefs and a consciously…

Correct answer: shared beliefs and collective destiny
  • A. racism
  • B. stereotyping
  • C. identity
  • D. ethnicity

Explanation: Ethnicity refers to a community's shared cultural practices, history and outlook that distinguish it from other communities.

Correct answer: ethnicity
  • A. they were confined to particular areas of the city
  • B. people knew each other only through specific situational roles and not as whole rounded individuals
  • C. there were distinctive patterns of activity of each social class
  • D. they were based on face to face interaction with close friends and familyTrace Family History

Explanation: Urban relationships are segmental because city dwellers often interact with others only in specific roles, such as customer, colleague or…

Correct answer: people knew each other only through specific situational roles and not as whole rounded individuals
  • A. 41 per cent
  • B. 22 per cent
  • C. 9 per cent
  • D. 63 per cent

Explanation: Agriculture accounted for about 9 percent of employment in nonurban US counties in the statistic cited.

Correct answer: 9 per cent
  • A. urbanization
  • B. the move to the "old homestead" in rural areas
  • C. the move to the sunbelt
  • D. suburbanization

Explanation: Suburbanization was the major twentieth-century US population shift, as people and employment moved from central cities into surrounding…

Correct answer: suburbanization
  • A. ethnic villagers
  • B. communities
  • C. the trapped
  • D. gentrofiles

Explanation: Herbert Gans called urban residents who maintained close, culturally familiar neighbourhoods ethnic villagers.

Correct answer: ethnic villagers
  • A. Transition
  • B. human communities' rural areas
  • C. Cities
  • D. None of these

Explanation: Urbanism is concerned with urban life and the organisation of cities and their communities, so cities are the closest option.

Correct answer: Cities
  • A. Urban Community
  • B. All of these
  • C. None of these
  • D. Rural community

Explanation: Subsistence farming and relatively homogeneous social life are characteristic of rural communities, where agriculture is often the main…

Correct answer: Rural community
  • A. All of above
  • B. Culture
  • C. Organizations
  • D. Geography

Explanation: Communities may be distinguished by territory or geography, shared culture, or organizational and institutional arrangements.

Correct answer: All of above

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