Socialization MCQs
Socialization MCQs
Answer these 30+ Socialization MCQs and assess your grip on the subject of Socialization. Scroll below and get started!
1: Which of the following is a macro-level socialization activity?
A. Reading a religious text (e.g., the Bible, Talmud, Koran, etc.)
B. “playing house” with a small group of friends
C. Watching the Super Bowl or World Cup
D. Receiving a “time out” from one’s parents
2: “The links between various parts of the social world are in competition with one another” is most closely related to which perspective?
A. Structural-functional
B. Conflict
C. Symbolic interactionist
D. Rational choice
3: Socialization is a short but important phase of life.
A. True
B. False
4: People are dependent upon organizations, and organizations are dependent upon people.
A. True
B. False
5: Individuals are born with a sense of self.
A. True
B. False
6: According to Mead, when children play “mommy” or “daddy,” they are role taking.
A. True
B. False
7: Social structures are created by individuals and in turn take on an independent existence which affects individuals’ thoughts and actions.
A. True
B. False
8: Anuk had the strange feeling that other people were staring at him. As a result, he kept checking to see if something was wrong with him. He carefully made sure there was nothing in his teeth, that nothing was on his face, and that his zipper was up. Anuk kept checking these things because he was using ______.
A. The “I”
B. The looking-glass self
C. Reductionism
D. The “play” stage
9: The self is made up of the perceptions we have of who we are.
A. True
B. False
10: According to Mead, when a child develops the ability to take the role of multiple others concurrently and conform to societal expectations, the child is in the ______ stage.
A. Imitation
B. Play
C. Game
D. Generalized other
11: Amy is studying the ways religion and education work in conjunction to influence the behavior of children. Which theoretical perspective is she most likely using?
A. Structural-functional
B. Conflict
C. Symbolic interactionist
D. Rational choice
12: Generalized others are the people, organizations, and institutions that transmit culture and teach us who we are and how to thrive in our social world.
A. True
B. False
13: Our sense of self is influenced by our interpretations of how others react to us.
A. True
B. False
14: Resocialization is most likely to occur in which of the following settings?
A. Elementary schools
B. Prisons
C. One’s family home
D. Within one’s peer group
15: The transmitters of culture—the people, organizations, and institutions that help us define our identity and teach us how to thrive in our social world is agents of socialization
A. True
B. False
16: Official or legal agents (e.g., families, schools, teachers, and religious organizations) whose purpose it is to socialize the individual into the values, beliefs, and behaviors of the culture is formal agent of socialization
A. True
B. False
17: ____ in the process of developing a social self when a child develops the ability to take the role of multiple others concurrently and to conform to societal expectations
A. Gamestage
B. Playstage
C. Multistage
D. None of these
18: Generalized other is composite of societal expectations that a child learns from family, peers, and other organizations
A. True
B. False
19: A period when children under ___ years old are preparing for role-taking by observing others and imitating their behaviors, sounds, and gestures is imitation stage
A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
20: Unofficial influential agents that shape values, beliefs, and behaviors in which socialization is not the express purpose is informal agent of socialization
A. True
B. False
21: The exchange of verbal and nonverbal messages is interaction
A. True
B. False
22: A reflective process that develops our self based on our interpretations and internalization of the reactions of others to us is ____ glass self
A. Looking
B. Cooking
C. Booking
D. None of these
23: The part of the self that has learned the rules of society through interaction and role taking; it controls the I and its desires is called
A. Me
B. Our
C. Us
D. We
24: People who are roughly equal in some status within the society, such as the same age or occupation is ____ group
A. Peer
B. Poor
C. Multi
D. Single
25: Involves a child, usually ages 3 to 5, having the ability to see things (role-take) from the perspective of one person at a time; simple role-taking or play-acting is ___ stage
A. Play
B. Game
C. Multi
D. Single
26: The process of shedding one or more positions and taking on others, which involves learning new norms, behaviors, and values suitable to the newly acquired status is called socialization
A. True
B. False
27: The process by which individuals take others into account by imagining themselves in the position of that other
A. Self
B. Role Taking
C. Resocialization
D. All of these
28: The perceptions we have of who we are is called
A. Self
B. Role Taking
C. Resocialization
D. All of these
29: Parents, guardians, relatives, siblings, or important individuals whose primary and sustained interactions with the individual are especially influential for the individual is significant others
A. True
B. False
30: The wealth, power, and prestige rankings that individuals hold in society is ____ class
A. Social
B. Moral
C. Physical
D. Online
31: The lifelong process of learning to become a member of the social world, beginning at birth and continuing until death is socialization
A. True
B. False
32: A culture that values independence and a person’s own career first has a(n) ______.
A. Self-reference criterion
B. Fewer; fewer women
C. Communication
D. Individual social orientation
33: Prior to voip, attackers would use wardialers to ________.
A. Identify analog modem signals to gain access
B. Gain access to PBX phone systems to commit toll fraud
C. Identify the operating system running on a computer
D. All of the above
34: The average person is exposed to __________ commercials a year.
A. 20,000
B. 200,000
C. 2,000
D. 200
35: A father who is the sole breadwinner for his family is performing a(n) ________ role.
A. Expressive
B. Instrumental
C. Institutional
D. Nurturing
36: Children who grow up without television tend to be ________.
A. More stereotyped in their attitudes about gender
B. Less stereotyped in their attitudes about gender
C. Need to be reconceptualized when applied to nonwestern cultures
D. Hormonal imbalances in the uterus during fetal development
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