Demography is the study of what?

Populations and their characteristics

A social norm is what?

A shared expectation about how to behave

Urbanisation refers to what?

The movement of population from rural areas into cities

The construction of taller buildings

Social mobility describes what?

Movement between social or economic positions

Globalisation describes what?

Increasing interconnection between countries and economies

The spread of a single language

Multiculturalism refers to what?

The coexistence of multiple cultural groups within one society

A single dominant national culture

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Social science supplies terms that get borrowed constantly into public argument and lose precision immediately. This quiz restores the definitions: what sociology and anthropology each study, what demography measures, and what norms, mobility and globalisation actually refer to. It describes rather than advocates, and treats genuinely contested questions as contested. The explanations note where the academic disagreement sits rather than papering over it.

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1Sociology is the study of what?
- A Political law exclusively
- B Society and social behaviour Correct
- C Individual brain chemistry
- D Ancient artefacts only
Answer: B. Society and social behaviour

Why: Sociology examines how groups, institutions and structures shape behaviour. Psychology by contrast focuses primarily on the individual.
2Demography is the study of what?
- A Religious practice
- B Democratic elections
- C Land ownership
- D Populations and their characteristics Correct
Answer: D. Populations and their characteristics

Why: Demographers study size, structure and change in populations, including birth and death rates and migration. Census data is a primary source.
3Anthropology is best described as the study of what?
- A Animal behaviour
- B Only prehistoric humans
- C Geological time
- D Humans and their cultures Correct
Answer: D. Humans and their cultures

Why: Anthropology spans cultural, social, biological and archaeological approaches. Fieldwork through extended immersion is a defining method.
4A social norm is what?
- A A government policy
- B A statistical average
- C A shared expectation about how to behave Correct
- D A written law
Answer: C. A shared expectation about how to behave

Why: Norms are informal and enforced through social approval or disapproval rather than legal penalty. They vary sharply between cultures and change over time.
5Urbanisation refers to what?
- A The movement of population from rural areas into cities Correct
- B The construction of taller buildings
- C The spread of farmland
- D A rise in birth rates
Answer: A. The movement of population from rural areas into cities

Why: More than half the world's population now lives in urban areas. The shift changes patterns of work, family structure and land use.
6Social mobility describes what?
- A Movement between social or economic positions Correct
- B Migration between countries
- C Changing address within a city
- D Switching political parties
Answer: A. Movement between social or economic positions

Why: It can be measured within a lifetime or between generations. Rates differ substantially between countries.
7Globalisation describes what?
- A Increasing interconnection between countries and economies Correct
- B The spread of a single language
- C The growth of world population
- D The expansion of city limits
Answer: A. Increasing interconnection between countries and economies

Why: It covers flows of trade, capital, people and information across borders. Its effects are distributed very unevenly, which is the core of most debate about it.
8Culture is transmitted between generations chiefly through what?
- A Genetic inheritance
- B Diet alone
- C Learning Correct
- D Climate
Answer: C. Learning

Why: Cultural knowledge passes through teaching, imitation and shared practice rather than biologically. This is why cultures can change far faster than populations do.
9A census is conducted primarily to do what?
- A Register businesses
- B Elect representatives
- C Collect data on a population Correct
- D Assess property values only
Answer: C. Collect data on a population

Why: Censuses count people and record characteristics such as age and household composition. Results typically inform funding allocation and representation.
10Multiculturalism refers to what?
- A A single dominant national culture
- B The coexistence of multiple cultural groups within one society Correct
- C International trade policy
- D A style of architecture
Answer: B. The coexistence of multiple cultural groups within one society

Why: The term describes both the fact of diversity and policies for managing it. Which policies work best is actively debated among researchers.

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