Free Social Change and Development MCQs with Answers
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11. Which of the following is predicted to be a major influence on cities during the next 50 years ?
- A. Pollution
- B. The internet
- C. Urban renewal
- D. Deindustrialization
Explanation: The internet is expected to reshape cities through telework, online services, digital commerce and changing patterns of transport and urban interaction. Pollution is a major urban problem, but it is not the future social and technological influence targeted by this prediction.
Correct answer: The internet12. According to Riley Dunlap which one of the following is not a basic function that the natural environment serves for humans ?
- A. the environment provides the resources essential for life
- B. the environment serves as a waste depository
- C. the environment provides a natural setting for social inequalities
- D. the environment "houses our species
Explanation: Dunlap identifies the environment as a source of life-supporting resources, a waste sink and a habitat or home for humans. Providing a natural setting for social inequalities is not a basic ecological function, so it is the exception.
Correct answer: the environment provides a natural setting for social inequalities13. According to Gerald Suttles a gated community would be an example of a(n)_____________?
- A. edge city
- B. defended neighborhood
- C. urban enclave
- D. ethnic village
Explanation: Suttles uses defended neighborhood for residential areas protected by physical barriers, surveillance or social exclusion. A gated community fits this idea because its gates defend the residents and restrict access.
Correct answer: defended neighborhood14. According to Herbert Gans residents who remain in the city to take advantage of the unique cultural and intellectual benefits of the city are called_____________?
- A. cosmopolites
- B. ethnic villagers
- C. urban villagers
- D. the trapped
Explanation: Gans called residents who stay in the city for its cultural and intellectual advantages cosmopolites. Ethnic villagers and urban villagers describe people whose city life is organised more around local ethnic or neighbourhood ties.
Correct answer: cosmopolites15. The world urbanization rate is rising highly It was 49% in 2005 and is likely to be 60% till_____________?
- A. 2015
- B. 2020
- C. 2030
- D. None 0f these
Explanation: The commonly cited projection was that about 60 percent of the world's population would be urban by 2030. The question uses a demographic forecast, not a claim that the increase would occur by 2015 or 2020.
Correct answer: 203016. New urbanism was a movement started in 1980s decreasing dependency on_____________?
- A. each other
- B. Vehicular transportation
- C. State
- D. None of these
Explanation: New urbanism promotes compact, walkable, mixed-use neighbourhoods with public transport, thereby reducing dependence on private vehicles. Its target is vehicular transportation, not dependence on other people or the state.
Correct answer: Vehicular transportation17. Division of labor social class formal government institutions and system of trade and commerce all are peculiar to any_____________?
- A. Urban Community
- B. Rural Community
- C. Both a and b
- D. None of these
Explanation: Classical sociology commonly associates extensive division of labour, formal institutions and developed trade with urban communities. Rural communities may also contain these features today, but the textbook contrast makes urban community the intended answer.
Correct answer: Urban Community18. In western world urbanization has accompanied________________?
- A. Trade
- B. Progress
- C. Industrialization
- D. None of these
Explanation: In the Western historical experience, urbanization expanded alongside industrialization because factories, wage employment and transport drew people into towns and cities. Trade contributed to urban growth, but industrialization is the standard sociological association.
Correct answer: Industrialization19. The social world is_______________?
- A. Stagnant
- B. Changing
- C. Both a & b
- D. None of these
Explanation: The social world is changing because institutions, values, technology, and patterns of interaction continuously develop. Sociology therefore studies society as dynamic rather than stagnant.
Correct answer: Changing20. In many contemporary conflict's attempts are made to protect soldiers often at the expense of civilian lives in order to minimize political problems from media coverage of fatalities How are such conflicts described ?
- A. degenerate wars
- B. genocides
- C. illegal wars
- D. risk-transfer wars
Explanation: Risk-transfer wars are conflicts in which military forces reduce risks to their own personnel by transferring greater danger to civilians, often through remote or high-tech warfare. This pattern also reflects concern about the political impact of military casualties.
Correct answer: risk-transfer wars