MCQ Bank
Which of the following religious community was mostly confined to the ghettos?
- A) Sikhs
- B) Jews
- C) Christians
- D) Hindus
A process of interaction and integration among people, companies, and governments worldwide is known as?
- A) Commodification
- B) Specialization
- C) Modification
- D) Globalization
Who gave forward the theory of Uneven Geographical Development?
- A) Max Weber
- B) Adam Smith
- C) David Ricardo
- D) Neil Smith
Phenomenon of transformation of a traditional society to an industrial society is known as:
- A) Secularization
- B) Urbanization
- C) Transformation
- D) Modification
A negative aspect of urbanization for farming is that it leads to the availability of:
- A) Less land for farming
- B) Agricultural loans
- C) Trained farmers
- D) Agricultural products
Which of the following is a common reason for city shrinkage?
- A) Immigration
- B) Development
- C) Emigration
- D) Traditionalism
Which of the following is NOT a component of Globalization?
- A) Culture
- B) Politics
- C) Environment
- D) Spirituality
An individual's social assets including his education, intellect, speaking style and dress is referred as:
- A) Social Capital
- B) Political Capital
- C) Cultural Capital
- D) Economic Capital
The main focus of urban sociologists in modern day cities is the process of:
- A) Evolution
- B) Articulation
- C) Revolution
- D) Dissolution
Which of the following is NOT an essential element of a ghetto?
- A) Confinement
- B) Parallelism
- C) Constraint
- D) Freedom
Way of life of people who live in the outer parts of a town is called as:
- A) Diffusion
- B) Exurbia
- C) Suburbia
- D) Urbanity
Major tenets upon which development initiatives are devised, proposed, designed, implemented and monitored include all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Social Justice
- B) Effectiveness
- C) Sustainability
- D) Profit motive
Cities that are assigned with the task to provide a barrier along some political border or natural bottleneck are known as:
- A) Post-Modern cities
- B) Figured cities
- C) Edge cities
- D) Fortified cities
Which of the following is NOT a Mental Effect of living in a Metropolis?
- A) Job Security
- B) Accommodation
- C) Stress
- D) Tolerance
Which of the following has emerged as a new social order?
- A) Village
- B) Town
- C) City
- D) Slum
Which one of the following said that “people, not police, are the guardians of the public space”?
- A) Max Weber
- B) Emile Durkheim
- C) August Comte
- D) Jane Jacob
Urban change relates with two important concepts in urban sociology, which are:
- A) Urbanization and Traditionalism
- B) Traditionalism and Parochialism
- C) Urbanism and Parochialism
- D) Urbanization and Urbanism
A populated area that is primarily residential, rather than commercial or industrial is known as:
- A) Suburb
- B) Exurb
- C) Downtown
- D) Commuter Town
Processes of Environmental change includes all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Climate
- B) Intellectual capacity
- C) Human demography
- D) Urban biodiversity
A phenomenon of peripheral growth while core of the city declines is known as:
- A) Axial Growth
- B) Ex-urbanization
- C) Sub-urbanization
- D) Re-urbanization