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Sociology

Question 1Single Answer
Who has stated that the history of society is the history of the class struggle ?
  1. AEmile Durkheim
  2. BGeorge Herbert mead
  3. CErving Goffmann
  4. DKarl Marx
Question 2Single Answer
Who has propounded the concept of‘collective representation’ in sociology?
  1. AEmile Durkheim
  2. BMax Weber
  3. CAuguste Comte
  4. DKarl Marx
Question 3Single Answer
A Society which pessimistically depicts the social transformation brought about by modernization is a :
  1. AGlobal society
  2. BLocal society
  3. CMass society
  4. DCivil society
Question 4Single Answer
In any social arrangement in which the behaviour of majority is governed by norms and roles is known as :
  1. AAssociation
  2. BCommunity
  3. CInstitution
  4. DCulture
Question 5Single Answer
Lack of appropriate cultural resources like language and knowledge is known as :
  1. ACultural materialism
  2. BCultural deprivation
  3. CCultural trait
  4. DCultural pluralism
Question 6Single Answer
Who has observed that ‘each person in society inevitably occupies multiple statuses and that, for each of these statuses, there is an associated role’?
  1. AR.K. Merton
  2. BR. Linton
  3. CT. Newcomb
  4. DW.F. Ogburn
Question 7Single Answer
Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists.
    List-I                               List-II
(Authors)                    (Classification of Groups)
(a) Miller                    (i) Community - Association
(b) Tonnies                (ii) Vertical - Horizontal
(c) Park & Burgess    (iii) Genetic - Congregate 
(d) Giddings               (iv)Territorial-Non-territorial
                                 (v)    Positive-negative
   
  1. A Codes :
    (a)    (b)    (c)    (d)
    (i)    (iii)    (ii)    (v)
  2. B(i)    (ii)    (iii)    (iv)
  3. C(ii)    (i)    (iv)    (iii)
  4. D(iv)    (iii)    (v)    (i)
Question 8Single Answer
Which one of the following is not an ascribed status ?
  1. ASex
  2. BAge
  3. COccupation
  4. DKinship
Question 9Single Answer
Which one of the following refers to an individual whose behaviour in a particular role provides a pattern upon which another individual bases his behaviour in performing the same role?
  1. AIdeal role
  2. BRole model
  3. CPerceived role
  4. DInternalized role
Question 10Single Answer
Who has said that “man’s uniqueness lies in his possession of culture”?
  1. AR.M. Maclver
  2. BE. Durkheim
  3. CR. Benedict
  4. DK. Davis
Question 11Single Answer
Who was concerned, in his methodology, with ‘the way in which people grasp the consciousness of others while they live within their own stream of consciousness’?
  1. AM. Rogers
  2. BAlfred Shutz
  3. CJ. Duglas
  4. DGeorge Ritzer
Question 12Single Answer
Which one of the following approaches mainly focuses on ‘consciousness’ ?
  1. AEthnomethodology
  2. BComparative method
  3. CPhenomenology
  4. DFunctionalism
Question 13Single Answer
According to whom ideology must be seen not merely as ‘false’ consciousness’ but as an important part of real social relations ?
  1. AHabermas
  2. BAlthusser
  3. CAdorno
  4. DGiddens
Question 14Single Answer
Match the List-I with List-II and Select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists :
    List-I                             List-II
(Concepts)                  (Thinkers)
(a) Exchange              (i) Erving Goffman
(b) Dramaturgey          (ii) P.M. Blau
(c) Inter subjectivity     (iii) H. Garfinkel
(d) Indexicality             (iv) Alfred Shutz
  
  1. ACodes :
    (a)    (b)    (c)    (d)
    (i)    (ii)    (iii)    (iv)
  2. B(iii)    (iv)    (ii)    (i)
  3. C(iv)    (i)    (iii)    (ii)
  4. D(ii)    (i)    (iv)    (iii)
Question 15Single Answer
Unlike Functionalism, neofunctionalism devotes roughly equal attention to which of the following ?
  1. AAction and Order
  2. BAction and Reaction
  3. CBeliefs and practices
  4. DActor and Situation
Question 16Single Answer
Who have written the book, ‘The Social Construction of Reality’ ?
  1. AT. Luckmann and Reinhardt Bendix
  2. BPeter Berger and T. Luckmann
  3. CRuth Benedict and Peter Berger
  4. DReinhardt Bendix and Ruth Benedict
Question 17Single Answer
Who provides an account of ‘the role of common sense knowledge in the social construction of every day life and institution’?
  1. APeter Berger
  2. BGeorge Luca
  3. CMax Weber
  4. DErving Goffman
Question 18Single Answer
Who is said to be the founder of the specialist approach of Ethnomethodology ?
  1. AAlfred Shutz
  2. BHarold Garfinkel
  3. CErving Goffman
  4. DJohn K. Galbraith
Question 19Single Answer
Which term Althusser has used to convey the idea that major changes in society are complex and multiply ?
  1. AMultiplicity
  2. BOver determination
  3. CContradiction
  4. DReductionism
Question 20Single Answer
Who among the following can be classified as a ‘critical theorist’ ?
  1. AAlexander
  2. BHabermas
  3. CAlthusser
  4. DBourdieu
Question 21Single Answer
Which one of the following is not a characteristic of a primary group?
  1. APersonal orientation
  2. BLong term orientation
  3. CRelations are end in themselves
  4. DRelations are means to an end
Question 22Single Answer
Who of the following is the author of the book "Economy and Society"?
  1. AMax Weber     
  2. BAnthony Giddens
  3. CE. Durkheim     
  4. DA.  Comte
Question 23Single Answer
Which one of the following is not an element of rural community?
  1. AWe-feeling      
  2. BCultural diversity
  3. CTerritory         
  4. DSelf-sufficiency
Question 24Single Answer
Choose the correct sequence of following in order of increasing complexity :
  1. AHunting, Gathering,  Agrarian,  Pastoral,  Industrial and  Postindustrial societies
  2. BGathering,  Pastoral,  Hunting,  Industrial and Post-industrial societies
  3. CHunting,  Pastoral,  Agrarian,  Industrial and Pist-industrial societies
  4. DAgricultural,  Gathering,  Hunting,  Horticultural,  Industrial and Post-industrial societies
Question 25Single Answer
Sociology is characterized by a perspective that places..............  in the foreground :
  1. AIndividual
  2. BUnique social  events
  3. CSocial  interaction
  4. DCulture
Question 26Single Answer
When two people interact with each other,  they form :
  1. Aa society        
  2. Ban institution
  3. Can  association     
  4. Da dyadic group
Question 27Single Answer
Which one of the following Max Muller believed to be the earliest form of religion  ?
  1. ANaturism    
  2. BMonoism
  3. CAnimism     
  4. DFetishism
Question 28Single Answer
Ridicule is a :
  1. ASocial  sanction     
  2. BSocial  norm
  3. CMores     
  4. DFolkway
Question 29Single Answer
The term 'Reference group' was first introduced by :
  1. AHyman       
  2. BMerton
  3. CSrinivas       
  4. DCooley
Question 30Single Answer
Match List -I with List-II  and  mark the correct answer from the codes given below  the lists :
List-I                        List-II
(Author)                  (Change Perspective)
a.  Sorokin              (i)  Structural-functional
b.  Daherdorf         (ii)   Cyclical
c.  Spencer             (iii)   Dialectical
d.  Durkheim         (iv)  Evolutionary
  1. ACodes : 
    a       b      c       d
    ii       iii       iv      i
  2. Bi        iii       ii      iv
  3. Cii       iv       i       iii
  4. Diii      i        ii       iv
Question 31Single Answer
"Sociology is a Science which attempts an interpretative understanding of social action." who defined Sociology in this manner ? 
  1. AT. Parson
  2. BMaclver and Page
  3. CE. Durkheim
  4. DMax Weber
Question 32Single Answer
"Culture is man's guide, it liberates as well as enslaves him as all guides do." Which of the following school represents this view?
  1. AEvolutionary School
  2. BMarxian School
  3. CDiffusionistic School
  4. DCulture-personality School
Question 33Single Answer
The term 'Sociological Imagination' was coined by whom?
  1. AP. Berger
  2. BC. W. Mills
  3. CA.  Giddens
  4. DJ. S. Mill
Question 34Single Answer
Every man in society occupies a number of statuses. Different statuses associated with a single person are known as :
  1. AStatus inconsistency
  2. BStatus sequences
  3. CStatus set
  4. DStatus succession
Question 35Single Answer
We gotcha of the following are the physical conditions of a primary group?
(i)   Physical proximity
(ii)   Attraction
(iii)  Smallness
(iv)  Endurance
  1. Ai,   ii,   iii,  &  iv
  2. Bi,   ii ,   &  iii
  3. Ci,   ii,   &   iv
  4. Di,  iii,   &  iv
Question 36Single Answer
Which of the following is not a primary group?
  1. AScouts
  2. BA  peer group
  3. CA  class of students
  4. DFamily 
Question 37Single Answer
Which of the following are fundamental features of a social group?
(i)   Organisation 
(ii)  We-feeling
(iii)  Self - sufficiency
(iv)  Explicit cultural  goals
  1. A(i)  and (ii )  
  2. B(ii)  and  (iii)
  3. C(iii)  and  (iv)   
  4. D(i)  and  (iii)
Question 38Single Answer
Given below are two statements labelled as Assertion (A),  and  the other labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion  (A) :  According to Durkheim education perpetuates and reinforces among neity in society  among itself members.
Reason (R)  :  Schools inclucate society's norms and  values providing link between individual and society.
  1. ACodes  :
    Both (A)  and  (R)  are true and (R)  is the correct explanation of (A).
  2. BBoth (A)  and  (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  3. C(A)  is true,  but  (R)  is false.
  4. D(A)  is false, but  (R)  is true.
Question 39Single Answer
Match List-I  with List-II.
List -I                                           List-II
(Books)                                       (Authors)
a. De-schooling Society           (i)  R. D. Laing
b. The Politics of Family          (ii)  S. Bowled and H. Gintis
c. Anti-social Family                 (iii)  Ivan Illich
d. Schooling in Capitalist        (iv)   M. Barrett & M. MacIn-tosh
      America
  1. ACodes  :
    a        b       c       d
    i         ii        iii      iv
  2. Biv       i         ii       iii
  3. Ciii       i         iv      ii
  4. Dii        i         iii      iv
Question 40Single Answer
Match  List-I  with  List-II
List-I                         List-II
(Terms)                   (Features)
a.  Church               (i)   Usually more individualistic and  lacks sharply defined belief system
b.  Sect                   (ii) Usually conservative but not closely related to State.
c.  Denomination (iii) Often closely related to State and claim promptly on religious truth
d.  Cult                    (iv)  Less conservative and connected with lower class
  1. ACodes : 
    a        b       c.     d
    iv       iii       ii       i
  2. Biii       iv       ii       i
  3. Cii        i        iv       iii
  4. Di         ii       iii       iv
Question 41Single Answer
A statement of relationship between variables to be tested is known as :
  1. AResearch question
  2. BHypothesis
  3. CObjective of the study
  4. DProblem of the study
Question 42Single Answer
For Marx, human potential is actualized :
  1. Awhen democracy is institutionalized
  2. Bin the objectication of products
  3. Cduring the capitalist stage
  4. Dduring the primitive stage
Question 43Single Answer
A relationship in which change in one variable always induce change in another variable is known  as :
  1. Apositive correlation
  2. Blinear correlation
  3. Cunfounding relation
  4. Dcause and effect relationship
Question 44Single Answer
When did the term sociology coined ?
  1. A1838
  2. B1732
  3. C1835
  4. D1650
Question 45Single Answer
Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A)  and  the other  labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : Both Lewis Coser and Randall Collins are grounded under the conflict school.
Reason (R) : Both of them highlight the function of conflict in maintaining the society..
  1. ACodes :
    Both (A)  and  (R)  are true.
  2. B(A)  is true, but (R)  is false.
  3. C(A) is false,  but (R)  is true.
  4. DBoth (A) and  (R)  false.
Question 46Single Answer
If in a family, the offspring’s inherit the mother’s name, the family is called -
  1. Amatronymic
  2. Bpatronymic
  3. Cmatripotestal
  4. Dmatrilineal
Question 47Single Answer
Assertion (A) : Townsend asserts that poverty can be defined objectively only in terms of the concept of relative deprivation.
Reason (R) :  Society determines people's needs,  patterns of food consumption.
  1. ACodes :
    Assertion (A) is true and Reason (R) is false.
  2. BBoth Assertion (A) and Reason (R)  are false.
  3. CBoth Assertion (A) and Reason (R)  are true and (R)  is the correct explanation of (A).
  4. DBoth Assertion (A) and Reason (R) are true, but (R)  is not the correct explanation of (A).
Question 48Single Answer
Who suggested that God is society divinized?
  1. AMax  Weber
  2. BE. E. Evans - Pritchard
  3. CAuguste Comte
  4. DEmile  Durkhein
Question 49Single Answer
In an Indian family the parents prepare their daughter to be a good wife/daughter in her in-laws,  home,  this is an example of  :
  1. ASocialization
  2. BRe-socialization
  3. CAdult socialization
  4. DAnticipatory socialization
Question 50Single Answer
Who among the following has distinguished between lions and foxes as types of elites ?
  1. APareto
  2. BShils
  3. CWeber
  4. DMannhiem
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