1. Which branch of knowledge is related to “Science of society”
A) Sociology B) Anthropology
C) Economics D) Politics
2. Term ‘Sociology’ derived from ................ Languages?
A) French and Greek B) Latin and Greek
C) Italian and Roman D) Latin and Roman
3. The Latin word “Socius” means that ......................?
A) Community B) Arrangements
C) Intimate Relationship D) Companion or Associate
4. Who coined the word ‘sociology’?
A) Herbert Spencer B) Durkheim
c) Max Weber D) Auguste Comte
5. The term ‘Sociology’ firstly introduced in .......................... Book?
A) First principle B) Sociology and Philosophy
C) Positive Philosophy D) Principles of sociology
6. ‘Positive philosophy’ published in .....................?
A) 1845 B) 1826
C) 1830 D) 1839
7. Auguste Comte is a ........................ Philosopher
A) Italian B) French
c) Greek D) American
UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT
SCHOOL OF DISTANCE EDUCATIONSGY1 (2) C01 - PRINCIPLES OF SOCIOLOGY
(Complementary Course of BA English)
II Semester (2019 Admn.)
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
8. Who coined the term ‘Social Physics’?
A) Durkheim B) Auguste Comte
C) Weber C) Aristotle
9. The theory ‘Law of three stages’ proposed by..........................?
A) Karl Marx B) Plato
C) Auguste Comte D) Herbert Spencer
10. Who said “Sociology is science of structure and functions of social life”?
A) Max Weber B) Anthony Giddens
C) Morris Ginsberg D) J W Bennet
11. Who defined “Sociology as the science of social institutions”?
A) H M Johnson B) Emile Durkheim
C) Bogardus D) Mac Iver and Page
12. Who defined “Sociology as science which attempts to interpretative understanding of social
actions in order to arrive at causal explanation of its causes and effects”?
A) Max Weber B) Auguste Comte
C) Ogburn and Nimkoff D) E A Ross
13. “It seems to be a study, first of the relationship and correlation between various classes of
social phenomena” said by?
A) Karl Max B) Max Weber
c) Pitrim Sorokin D) Hobhouse
14. Who proposed the principle that “Study social facts as things”
A) Emile Durkheim B) Karl Manheim
C) J F Cuber D) Herbert Spencer
15. Who wrote the book ‘Division of labour in society’?
A) B Malinowski B) Karl Marx
C) Emile Durkheim D) Robert K Merton
16. The types of ‘Mechanical and Organic solidarity’ Proposed by ...................?
A) Radcliff Brown B) Emile Durkheim
C) E B Tylor D) C H Cooley
17. Which term coined by Emile Durkheim?
A) Little Community B) Positivism
C) Anomie D) Naturalism
18. Who wrote the book ‘Suicide: A study in Sociology’?
A) Horton and Hunt B) Emile Durkheim
C) Max Weber D) C Wright Mills
19. Who introduced the term ‘Egoistic Suicide’
A) C H Cooley B) W G Sumner
C) Pitirim Sorokkin D) Emile Durkheim
20. According to Durkheim, Over integration lead to .................... type of suicide?
A) Altruistic Suicide B) Egoistic Suicide
C) Anomic Suicide D) Individualistic
21. According to Marx, Working class is also referred to as ...........................?
A) Bourgeoisie B) Feudalist
C) Capitalsist D) Proletariat
22. Who put forwarded the view point ‘Materialist conception of history’
A) Kingsley davis B) Karl Marx
C) Weber D) Ralf Dahrendorf
23. Who wrote “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle”?
A) Aguste comte B) Karl Marx
C) Ferdinand Tonnies D) Herbert Spencer
24. ‘The protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism’ authored by ..........................?
A) Max Weber B) Karl Manheim
C) Spencer D) Durkheim
25. Who proposed the idea that ‘Ideal type’?
A) Aristotle B) Anthony Gidddens
C) Max Weber D) Alfred Schutz
26. Who contribute the concept ‘Verstehen’
A) Peter Berger B) Max Weber
C) Harold Garifinkel D) Thomas Luckman
27. Who proposed the concept of ‘Symbolic Interactionism’
A) Robert K Merton B) C H Cooley
C) G H Mead D) Erving Goffman
28. Which theory proposed by Robert K Merton?
A) Theories of middle range B) Folkways
C) Power Elite D) Religion of humanity
29. Author of the book ‘Tearoom trade’?
A) Talcott Parson B) Linton
C) Levi Strauss D) Laud Humphreys
30. Find out a functionalist sociologist?
A) Emile Durkheim B) Karl Marx
C) G H Mead D) Ralf Dahrendorf
31. Which perspective asserts that “Society is a complex system, Whose various parts work
together to produce stability and order”
A) Conflict Approach B) Symbolic Interactionism
C) Functionalism D) Structuralism
32. Which sociologist distinguished ‘Manifest and Latent function’
A) Robert K Merton B) G H Mead
C) Sir Henry Maine D) Kingsley Davis
33. Functionalist perspective given significance to .............................. in maintaining order
stability in society?
A) Universalism B) Moral Consensus
C) Individualism D) Cooperation
34. The perspective emphasize to ‘symbol’ is known as .............................?
A) Particularistic B) Functionalism
C) Stigma D) Symbolic Interactionism
35. Find out the exponent of synthetic school of thought?
A) Max weber B) George Simmel
C) Vier Kandt D) Pitirim Sorokin
36. Which school of thought forwarded the idea that “Sociology is pure and independent
science”
A) Synthetic School B) Frankfurt School
C) Specialistic or formalistic school D) Social Conflict Theory
37. The school of thought proposing that “Sociology is a general science, not a pure Science”
A) Specialistic school B) Synthetic School of thought
C) Frankfurt School D) Symbolic Interactionism
38. The author of Book ‘The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling’
A) Hyman B) Robert E park
C) Arlie Hochschild D) George Simmel
39. Who wrote the book ‘The sociological Imagination’?
A) Auguste Comte B) Peter Berger
c) C Wright Mills D) Ralf Dahrendorf
40. Which sociologist made a distinction between ‘The personal trouble of milleu’ and ‘the
Public issues of social structure’?
A) C Wright Mills B) A. Handerson
C) E S Bogardus D) N J Smelser
41. The book ‘The Sociological imagination’ written on......................?
A) 1969 B) 1959
C) 1955 D) 1970
42. The word ‘Society’ derived from .................. language?
A) Greek B) Latin
C) Roman D) French
43. Who defined “Society is a system of usages and procedures, of authority and mutual aid, of
many grouping and divisions, controls of human behaviour and liberties. This ever changing,
complex system we call society, it is the web of social relationship”
A) Mac Iver and Page B) Ogburn and Nimkoff
C) Robert Bierstedt D) Bronislaw Malinowski
44. The book ‘society’ authored by................ ?
A) Talcott Parson B) Saint Siomn
C) Mac Iver and Page D) Herbert Spencer
45. Which is not a characteristic of society?
A) The range of social relationships
B) Society is concrete concept
C) Society involves both likeness and difference
D) Physical conditions of social relationships
46. ...................... has propounded the concept of ‘Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft’
A) G C Homans B) C H Cooley
C) Peter Berger D) Ferdinand Tonnies
47. Which is the characteristic of industrial society?
A) Hunting and gathering B) Personal relationship
C) Less division of labour D) Impersonal Relationships
48. The book ‘Society, culture and personality’ authored by ....................?
A) Jeffrey Alexander B) D Sanderson
C) Pitirim Sorokin D) George Mead
49. The book ‘The social order’ authored by ..........................?
A) Robert Bierstedt B) E H Sutherland
C) Robert Redfield D) A G Frank
50. Who said “Man is a social animal”?
A) Plato B) Aristotle
C) Socrates D) Saint Simon
51. Who introduce the concept ‘primary group’”?
A) C H Cooley B) W G Sumner
C) G H Mead D) Robert K Merton
52. Who authored the book ‘Society in America’ in 1837?
A) Charles H Cooley B) N Mc Clelland
C) Patrick Geddes D) Harriet Martineau
53. Who authored ‘Class and class conflict in industrial society’?
A) McKim Marriot B) Ralph Dahrendorf
C) Howard Becker D) Ernst Troeltsch
54. The book, ‘Social organisation; a study of the larger mind’ authored by............?
A) Robert Redfield B) Cohen
C) C H Cooley D) Milton Singer
55. In which book, C H Cooley introduced the concept ‘Primary group’?
A) Human society B) Social Organization; a study of the larger mind
C) Social Process D) The roots of social Knowledge
56. Find out the example for ‘primary group’?
A) Trade union B) Political parties
C) Factory D) Family
57. Who divide social group into ‘Vertical and Horizontal Group’?
A) P A Sorokin B) Evans Pritchard
C) Radcliffe Brown D) R K Merton
58. Who defines “A social group is a system of social interaction”?
A) Oscar Lewis B) MaxMuller
C) Robert E Park D) Harry M Johnson
59. Author of ‘Folkways’?
A) E B Tylor B) W G Sumner
C) Malinowski D) A Beteille
60. In which book, Sumner differentiate Groups into ‘In groups and Out groups’?
A) Social static B) Social Consciousness
C) Folkways D) Human nature and social order
61. .................... is an example for Out group
A) Family B) Sports team
C) Caste group D) Friendship group
62. Who said “Organization is an effective group device for getting something done”
A) Ogburn and Nimkoff B) Robin Fox
C) Mac Iver D) Ian Robertson
63. Who propound the concept of ‘Membership and Non membership’?
A) Malinowski B) Robert H Lowie
C) Muzafer Sherif D) Robert K Merton
64. Find out an example for Membership group?
A) Family B) Political Parties
C) School D) Club
65. The individual acquire the membership of other group is known as .....................?
A) Organised Group B) Large Group
C) Vertical Group D) Non Membership Group
66. Who propound the concept of ‘Positive and Negative group’?
A) Sumner B) New Comb
C) Robertson D) R K Merton
67. The concept ‘Reference group’ introduced by ........................?
A) Muzafir Sherif B) C H Cooley
C) Robert K Merton D) Radcliffe Brown
68. ‘An outline of social psychology’ authored by ................?
A) W F Ogburn B) Wilbert Moore
C) Muzafir Sherif D) Kimball Young
69. Who defined “Reference groups as those group to which individual relates himself as a part
or to which he relates himself psychologically”?
A) Muzafer Sherif B) Pitirim Sorokin
C) Talcott Parson D) Wesetermark
70. Who defined “Institutions may be described as recognised and established usages governing
the relations between individual and groups”
A) J G Frazer B) G P Murdock
C) Patrick Geddes D) Ginsberg
71. ................... Is an primary institutions
A) Constitution B) Family
C) Law D) Education
72. Who made distinction between ‘Cressicive and Enacted’ institution?
A) Sumner B) Pareto
C) Spencer D) Charles Metcalf
73. The institutions evolved or developed unconsciously are called ....................?
A) Enacted B) Reference
C) Cressicive D) Organised
74. The institution established consciously and planned are called .........................?
A) Enacted B) Ingroup
C) Unorganised D) Cressicive
75. Who defined “Sociology as the study of social dynamic and Social static”
A) Max Weber B) Karl Marx
C) Herbert Spencer D) Auguste Comte
76. “In its basic sense social change means changing in social structure” said by
A) Gunnar Myrdal B) H M Johnson
C) Gillin and Gillin D) A W Green
77. The term Family derived from ……………… language?
A) Greek B) French
C) Roman D) Latin
78. The meaning of the word ‘Famulus’
A) Association B) Servant
C) Emotionality D) Co Habiting
79. Who defined “Family is a more or less durable association of husband and wife with or
without children, or of a man or women alone with children”
A) Ogburn and Nimkoff B) George Peter Murdock
C) Clare D)Horton and Hunt
80. ………………. is the basic or primary unit of society
A) Education B) Family
C) Law D) Political Party
81. Which sociologist classified family function as an ‘Essential and Non essential function’?
A) Talcott Parson B) Elliot Smith
C) Mac Iver D) L H Morgan
82. It is a type of family that group of kins of two or more generation living together under the
same roof.
A) Nuclear Family B) Joint Family
C) Extended family D) Patriarchal Family
83. The important characteristic of joint family are .........................?
A) Common Residence B) Joint Property
C) Common Kitchen D) All of the above
84. Who defined “Joint family is a group of people who generally live under one roof, who eat
food cooked at one hearth, who hold property in common and who participate in common
family worship and are related to each other as some particular type of kindered”
A) D N Majumdar B) G S Ghurye
C) T N Madan D) Iravathi Karve
85. Which type of family consist of husband, wife and unmarried children?
A) Nuclear Family B) Extended Family
C) Joint Family D) Neolocal Family
86. .................... family consist of husband, wife, their children and either the parents of husband
and wife
A) Matriarchal Family B) Nuclear Family
C) Extended Family D) Patrilocal Family
87. The family, in which male is the head and ruling power is known as
A) Matriarchal Family B) Patriarchal Family
C) Patrilineal Family D) Matrilocal
88. .................... as the mother or female centred or dominated family?
A) Matriarchal Family B) Patriarchal Family
C) Neolocal Family D) Nuclear Family
89. In this type of family, the wife live in the husband home is known as ...................?
A) Matrilocal Family B) Matrilineal Family
C) Patrilocal Family D) Neolocal Family
90. Which type of family characterised that, after the marriage husband goes to live in the home
of wife?
A) Patriarchal Family B) Matrilocal Family
C) Patrilineal Family D) Matriarchal Family
91. The lineage or descent traces through the father is known as ....................?
A) Patriarchal Family B) Matrilocal Family
C) Patrilineal Family D) Neolocal Family
92. The lineage or descent traced through the mother is known as .................?
A) Matrilineal Family B) Matrilocal Family
C) Neolocal D) Patriarchal Family
93. .................... is the family constituted or established through marriage relationship?
A) Consanguineous B) Affinal Family
C) Living Together D) Extended Family
94. Blood relationships are constitutes or establish family is known as.....................?
A) Consanguineous B) Extended Family
C) Affinal Family D) Living Together
95. ..................... is the social institution which is helped to control or regulate sexual life of man
A) Kinship B) Economic Institution
C) Marriage D) Political Institution
96. “Marriage is a contract for the production and maintenance of children” who said?
A) Morris Ginsberg B) B. Malinowski
C) C H Cooley D) Robert Redfield
97. ................... is the type of marriage in which one man marries only one women.
A) Polygyny B) Endogamy
C) Monogamy D) Hypogamy
98. One individual marries more than one individual of opposite sex is called ....................?
A) Polygamy B) Monogamy
C) Polyandry D) Exogamy
99. It is a type of marriage practice, one man marries more than one woman is known
as.................?
A) Polygyny B) Endogamy
C) Hypergamy D) Polyandry
100. One woman marries more than one man is a ............... form of marriage?
A) Exogamy B) Hypergamy
C) Polygamy D) Polyandry
101. The lower caste or status woman marries a higher caste or status man is a ................. form
of marriage?
A) Polygyny B) Hypergamy
C) Endogamy D) Polygyny
102. Hypergamy is also known as ....................?
A) Pratiloma B) Polygyny
C) Anuloma D) Monogamy
103. The woman marrying a man, belonging to lower status of that woman is known as
A) Hypogamy B) Polyandry
C) Polygyny D) Monogamy
104. Hypogamy is also known as ........................?
A) Pratiloma B) Exogamy
C) Anuloma D) Polyandry
105. .................... is a rule of marriage in which man or woman marry within the group?
A) Polygyny B) Hypogamy
C) Exogamy D) Endogamy
106. A man or woman marries outside of the group is known as ........................?
A) Hypergamy B) Exogamy
C) Endogamy D) Monogamy
107. ................... is a basic social system that bind people together on the basis of blood or
marriage?
A) Peer Group B) Labour Party
C) School D) Kinship
108. “Kinship is a structure system of relationship in which individuals are bound to one another
by complex interlocking and ramifying ties” who said?
A) T Berten B) L H Morgan
C) G P Murdock D) F G Bailey
109. Kinship relations is based on marriage is known as ...................... ?
A) Affinal kinship B) Symbolic
C) Corporate Group D) Consanguineous Kinship
110. Kinship system is based on blood relation is known as ...................?
A) Corporate Group B) Phatry
C) Consanguineous Kinship D) Affinal kinship
111. In terms of degree of closeness, father and son relationship is an example for .................
kinship?
A) Secondary Kinship B) Primary Kinship
C) Tertiary Kinship D) Bilateral
112. Find out an example for Secondary kinship?
A) Sister Brother B) Husband-wife
C) Wife of brother in law D) Fathers brother
113. Which is not an example for Tertiary kinship?
A) Wife of brother in law B) Sisters husband
C) Fathers brothers wife D) None of the above
114. It is a kinship behaviour, that impose some restriction to close interaction between kins is
known as ...................?
A) Avoidence B) Teknonymy
C) Joking Relationship D) Amitate
115. Kinship usage which is husband and wife never addresses each other directly rather they
referring through either the name of son or daughter or a symbol?
A) Respect B) Joking Relationship
C) Avanculate D) Teknonymy
116. The maternal uncle occupy a important place in the kinship relations is known as
A) Teknonymy B) Avanculate
C) Avoidence D) Joking Relationship
117. In a kinship behaviour, which give more importance to one’s father’s sister is called
....................?
A) Respect B) Teknonymy
C) Amitate D) Joking Relationship
118. Who defined “Economic institution means the production and distribution of goods and
services and procedure of competition and bargain in exchange”
A) Mac Iver and Page B) G Tarde
C) Fredrick Barth D) Frank Notestein
119. “Religion is a belief in supernatural being” who said?
A) E Goffman B) E B Tylor
C) B Malinowski D) G H Mead
120. Who propounded the theory of ‘Naturalism’?
A) James Frazer B) Radcliffe Brown
C) P A Sorokin D) T B Bottomore
121. The word Education is derived from ........................ language
A) French B) Spanish
C) Latin D) Greek
122. The word Education originated from .........................?
A) Educate B) Educare
C) Eduzone D) Nurture
123. What is the meaning of ‘Educare’?
A) Cooperation B) Intimate
C) Situations D) To bring up
124. “Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man” who said?
A) Swami Vivekananda B) Plato
C) M K Gandhi D) Jean Piaget
125. “Education is the creation of sound mind in a sound body” who said?
A) John Dewey B) B F Skinner
C) Aristotle D) Socrates
126. Open school and correspondence courses are example for ..................?
A) Formal B) Informal
C) Nonformal D) Unformed
127. “The political institution is concerned with the division of power and authority in society”
who said?
A) Bottomre B) Michel Foucault
C) Garifinkel D) Althuser
128. ......................... is the ability to control behaviour of other individual without their consent
A) Rationality B) Attitude
C) Compliance D) Power
129. Which is not an authority proposed by Max Weber?
A) Traditional Authority B) Rational- Legal Authority
C) Institutionalised Authority D) Charismatic Authority
130. The theory ‘Circulation of elites’ Propounded by ..........................?
A) S F Nadel B) Vilfredo Pareto
C) Gardner Murphy D) Marcel Mauss
131. Who propounded the theory ‘Power elites’?
A) C Wright Mills B) James Frazer
C) Herbert Blumer D) R Collins
132. ...................... means that transition from one social position to another
A) Social Mobility B) Norms
C) Social Heterogeneity D) Folkways
133. The company manager transfer to another company without change in position is an
example for.................... mobility
A) Vertical Mobility B) Intergenerational Mobility
C) Upward Mobility D) Horizontal Mobility
134. “Horizontal mobility means the transition of an individual or social object from one social
group to another situated on the same level” who said?
A) Paul F Lazersfeld B) Pitrim A Sorokin
C) W F Whyte D) P V Young
135. Change in income is an example for .................... Mobility?
A) Horizontal Moblity B) Intergenerational Mobility
C) Intragenerational Mobility D) Vertical Mobility
136. Which sociologist considers Horizontal mobility as the lateral mobility?
A) Anthony Giddens B) Peter Berger
C) Thomas Luckmann D) J Derrida
137. “Horizontal mobility as lateral mobility involving geographical movement between
neighbours, towns or regions” who defined?
A) Jeffry C Alexander B) Oscar Lewis
C) Anthony Giddens D) N K Bose
138. Vertical social mobility “as the relations involved in a transition of an individual (Or a
Social object) from one social stratum to another” who said?
A) Walter B Miller B) Pitrim A Sorokin
C) G Tarde D) G Ritzer
139. Ascending or descending mobility is related to ......................?
A) Horizontal Mobility B) Intergenerational Mobility
C) Downward Mobility D) Vertical mobility
140. Socio economic position changed into up or down in the hierarchical structure it is known
as ...................?
A) Upward Mobility B) Vertical Mobility
C) Intergenerational Mobility D) Horizontal Mobility
141. Who proposed that downward mobility is less common than upward mobility?
A) Anthony Giddens B) Wallerstein
C) Robertson D) Ashish Bose
142. Occupational structure of society is changed due to mobility is called ................?
A) Structural Mobility B) Upward Mobility
C) Intra mobility D) Inter Mobility
143. “The mobility occur during the lifespan of a single generation” is known as .................?
A) Downward Mobility B) Vertical Mobility
C) Upward Mobility D) Intragenerational Mobility
144. ...................... refers to mobility within the time span of two or more generations?
A) Horizontal Mobility B) Intergenerational Mobility
C) Downward Mobility D) Structural Mobility
145. Which of the statement are false about commonsense?
A) Formed on the basis of certain constraints B) based on scientific support
C) Commonsense knowledge is related to subjective D) commonsense is particular and
localized
146. Who defined “Socialization is process by which the helpless infant gradually becomes self
aware, knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of culture into which he or she is born”?
A) Samir Amin B) J C Caldwell
C) Anthony Giddens D) K Davis
147. ....................... is the process of biological being into social being.
A) Acculturation B) Socialization
C) Diffusion D) Assimilation
148. .................... socialization that the child satisfy primary needs from primary social
institutions.
A) Adult Socialization B) Secondary Socialization
C) Gender Socialization D) Primary Socialization
149. Peer group is an agent of ..................... Socialization
A) Primary Socialization B) Re socialization
C) Adult Socialization D) Gender Socialization
150. Family and Neighbourhood play group is an example for ................. Socialization
A) Adult Socialization B) Re socialization
C) Micro Level socialization D) Macro level socialization
151. Which is the formal agency in the process of child socialization?
A) Family B) Peer Group
C) School D) Neighbourhood
152. .................. refers to “process of leaving certain social behaviour patterns and role in order
to adopt new one as part of one’s evolution in life”
A) Re Socialization B) Anticipatory Socialization
C) Adult Socialization D) De socialization
153. In contemporary society,............................ play a greater role in the process of socialization
A) Folkways B) Mass media
C) Traditional Beliefs D) Individual conflicts
154. ................... is a process “in which someone is consciously socialized for future
occupations, positions and social relationships”
A) Adult Socialization B) Re socialization
C) Gender socialization D) Anticipatory Socialisation
155. Which stage is characterised that, by means of crying the child establishes or involved in
communication with mother?
A) Oedipal stage B) Anal stage
C) Oral stage D) Adolescence
156. Which stage is characterised that child taught to do some task such as toileting, keep
clothing etc.
A) Anal Stage B) oral stage
C) Oedipal stage D) Adolescence
157. Who develop the concepts that “Oedipus complex and Electra complex”
A) B Berelson B) Smelser
C) Robert A Dahl D) Freud
158. ............. means that feeling of jealousy towards father and love towards mother?
A) Electra complex B) Oedipus complex
C) id D) Ego
159. The feeling of jealousy towards the mother and love towards the father is an ..................
complex?
A) Oedipus complex B) Super ego
C) Electra Complex D) Id
160. ‘The boys and girls try to become free from parental control’ is an feature of ..............
stage?
A) Adolescence Stage B) Oedipal Stage
C) Anal stage D) Oral Stage
161. Who introduced the concepts “Social control”?
A) G Mosca B) E A Ross
C) H H Hyman D) G P Murdock
162. The concept ‘social control’ introduced in ................ books
A) Social control B) Fundamentals of sociology
C) The idea of social science D) Economy and society
163. The book “Social control: a survey of the foundations of order” published in ................?
A) 1910 B) 1908
C) 1905 D) 1901
164. “Social control refers to the system of devices whereby society brings its members into
conformity with the accepted standards of behaviour” who said?
A) Levi strauss B) E A Ross
C) G H Mead D) Dahrendorf
165. The term ................. Concerned with the maintenance of order and stability in society
A) Social Control B) Social movement
C) Social conflict D) Social Structure
166. Find out which is not a goal or purpose of social control?
A) Conformity B) Solidarity
C) Continuity of group D) Differentiation
167. Social controlling methods which are deliberately formed and interactions are impersonal in
nature?
A) Informal social control B) Formal social control
C) Unorganised social control D) Unconscious social control
168. Social controlling types which are not formed purposefully?
A) Organised control B) Conscious social control
C) Informal control D) Formal social control
169. Find out an informal means of social control?
A) Political party B) Religion
C) Trade union D) Factory
170. Which is not included in the formal means of social control?
A) Student Association B) Trade union
C) Office D) Folkways
171. The formal means of social control characterised by uniformity, unhealed by political
authority and penal sanction?
A) Law B) Family
C) Education D) Peer group
172. Who said that “Education as the socialization of the younger generation”
A) D Cooper B) R H Turner
C) G H Mead D) Durkheim
173. Folkways and More are .............. forms of social control
A) Informal B) Organised
C) Formal D) Direct
174. Who compared societies to a living organism?
A) Emile Durkheim B) Talcott Parson
C) Herbert Spencer D) Malinowski
175. Who defined “Social structure of an arrangement of person in institutionally controlled or
defined social relationship?
A) Radcliff Brown B) G Homans
C) C H Cooley D) Herbert Blumer
176. Social structure is based on .....................
A) Values B) Custom
C) More D) Role and status
177. ............... is a socially defined position or rank with in a group or society
A) Role B) Status
C) Sanction D) Conformity
178. The process of socialization is a ................... process?
A) Tentative B) Life long
C) Unsure D) Halting
179. According to Radcliff Brown, Social structure refers to an ......................
A) Interaction B) Standard of Behaviour
C) Arrangement of person D) Mutual Relationships
180. Status based on irrespective of efforts is called ......................
A) Ascribed B) Constructed
C) Achieved D) None of the above
181. Find out an example for ascribed status?
A) Lawyer B) College Professor
C) Doctor D) Age
182. The status acquired on the basis of effort or abilities?
A) Voluntary status B) Achieved status
C) Ascribed Status D) None of the above
183. Which status is an example for achieved status?
A) Age B) Caste
C) Engineer D) Religion
184. ................. Expected behaviour one individual hold a certain status or position
A) Role B) Custom
C) Rituals D) Ideals
185. ................... is an orderly and systematic arrangement of social interaction.
A) Social Mobilisation B) Social system
C) Social Consensus D) Sanction
186. .................. refers to classification and placement of people with in society?
A) Social stratification B) Social Pattern
C) Social Integration D) Adaptation
187. ‘Feeling of superiority and inferiority among the members of different strata’ is an
characteristics of ........................
A) Social Mobility B) Social Control
C) Social Stratification D) Social Homogeneity
188. Who defined “The process by which individuals and groups are ranked in a more or less
enduring hierarchy of status is known as stratification?”
A) G Lenski B) Ogburn and Nimkoff
C) Talcott Parson D) A Giddens
189. Vertical social mobility is possible in ......................... stratification system
A) Closed B) Horizontal
C) Ascribed D) Open
190. Class is an example for .......................... stratification
A) Open B) Ascribed
C) Endogamous D) Closed
191. The Book ‘Social and cultural mobility’ authored by
A) James Frazer B) E B Tylor
C) Pitirim Sorokin D) Max Muller
192. Caste based society is a ............. system of stratification
A) Open B) Closed
C) Vertical D) None of the above
193. What are the major types of stratification?
A) caste B) Social class
C) Estate D) All the above
194. The term ‘Caste’ derived from ................. Language?
A) French B) Spanish
C) Roman D) Greek
195. The Spanish word ‘Casta’ means................. ?
A) Breed or Lineage B) Grouping
C) Category D) Classification
196. Who said, “Caste is a closed social group”
A) S C Roy B) G S Ghurye
C) M N Srinivas D) DN Majumdar and T N madan
197. According to Chathurvarna system, Hindu society divided into ………………….. varnas
A) Two B) Three
C) Four D) Five
198. “Culture is that complex whole which include knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom
and other capabilities acquired by man as a member of society” said by?
A) Herbert Spencer B) Edward Tylor
C) H D Laswell D) Robert Redfield
199. Who defined “Culture as the cumulative creation of man”?
A) Radcliffe Brown B) Evans Pritchard
C) B. Malinowski D) Durkheim
200. Which is not a characteristic of culture?
A) Culture is social B) Culture is static
C) Culture is transmitive D) Culture is learned
201. Who proposed the concept of ‘Material and Non material Culture’?
A) Ogburn and Nimkoff B) R A Nisbet
C) Robert E Park D) L H Morgan
202. Non material culture consist of ....................?
A) Technological objects
B) Manmade objects
C) Products produced from factory
D) Religion, Folkways, Social values, Believes
203. Who formulated the concept of ‘Cultural Lag’?
A) Ralph Linton B) Ogburn and Nimkoff
C) Evans Pritchard D) A L Krober
204. Knowledge is an example for ……………………..?
A) Material Culture B) Organizational Culture
C) Concrete D) Non Material culture
205. The borrowing of cultural elements from another society is called ……………………..
A) Assimilation B) Acculturation
C) Integration D) Diffusion
206. The term ‘Social norm’ firstly used by …………………………?
A) Muzafer Sherif B) Henry Maine
C) Herskovits D) Westermarck
207. The book “The psychology of social norms” authored by ……………………….?
A) Muzafer Sherif B) Howard S Becker
C) Albert Cohen D) Max Weber
208. ……………. Are certain shared standard of behaviour or expected mode of behaviour to
maintain social order
A) Rituals B) Values
C) Norm D) Deviance
209. Who defined “a norm is an abstract pattern held in mind that sets certain limits of
behaviour”
A) N J Smelser B) H M Johnson
C) Ulrich Beck D) Daniel Bell
210. ……………… are assumptions or cultural standard set by society and it is desirable for an
organised social life
A) Lineage B) Consent
C) Coercion D) Values
211. “Values are assumptions largely unconscious of what is right or important” who said?
A) Talcott Parson B) Herbert Spencer
C) Young and Mack D) Levi Strauss
212. …………….. are assumptions or cultural standard that define it is right or wrong.
A) Values B) Diffusion
C) Adaptation D) Acculturation
213. …………….. is a common standard or ideas which guide members to behave in given
situations
A) Culture Complex B) Esteem
C) Prestige D) Norm
214. …………………… is a process of learning one’s own culture, to be a member of society?
A) Assimilation B) Accommodation
C) Enculturation D) Acculturation
215. ………………. refers to cultural change that occurs due to the contact with the new culture
A) Cooperation B) Assimilation
C) Acculturation D) Integration
216. The view point that, each culture evaluated on the basis of their own values and norms as
well as all cultures are taken as equal and that should not compared to the other culture
A) Cultural relativism B) Multiculturalism
C) Cultural Integration D) Multidimensionalism
217. ………………. is a system or pattern where different culture co exist and all work or live
together without losing their own cultural identity.
A) Culture Contact B) Cultural Integration
C) Cultural Pluralism D) Cultural relativism
218. ……………….. admit the values of all culture
A) Cultural Disparity B) Cultural relativism
C) Cyber culture D) Modernity
219. ………………. is something such as ark, sign or gestures, images, words that stand for or
representing something or have some meaning
A) Status B) Roles
C) Esteem D) Symbols
220. ……………….. is a cultural practice that group of people hold specified customs,
languages, values and behaviour with in a multicultural society
A) Organizational Culture B) Normative Culture
C) Similar culture D) Dominant Culture
221. ……………… refers to that group of people with in a culture who follows different values,
beliefs and norms with in a larger culture
A) Dominant Culture B) Universalisation
C) Subculture D) Organised Culture
222. The term ………….. refers to that the culture of masses
A) Popular Culture B) High Culture
C) Subculture D) Ideal Culture
223. …………. means that the pattern of cultural experience and practices existed in mainstream
society
A) Popular Culture B) High culture
C) Cultural Relativism D) Subculture
224. ………………. refers to that small group engage in cultural practices with in a specific
identity on a large culture
A) Multiculturalism B) Simulation
C) Cultural Pluralism D) subculture
225. ……………… is a term refers to that process of integration or interconnection between
different countries caused to change material and nonmaterial aspect of society
A) Evolution B) Globalisation
C) Privatisation D) Conflicts
226. Which of the statements are false about globalisation?
A) Increase free trade between nations
B) Caused to create a uniform culture
C) Only related to economic phenomenon
D) It is a multidimensional process
227. Which of the statements true about the impact of globalisation?
A) Encouraged commercialisation B) Create a homogeneous culture
C) Improved technology and telecommunication infrastructure has caused to reduce distance
between people
D) All the above
228. Which of the statement are true about the causes of globalisation?
A) Technological innovation B) increased facility to access information
C) Economic interdependence D) all the above
229. Which of the statement are true about globalisation?
A) Faster economic growth B) spread of information and knowledge
C) Influence on social, economic, political sphere of the people
D) all the above
230. The term …………………… refers to that co-existence of diverse or different culture with
in a society
A) Subculture B) Multiculturalism
C) Dominant Culture D) High Culture
231. …………………. is the tendency of judging other culture through one’s own cultural
values?
A) Dramaturgy B) Ethnocentrism
C) Low Culture D) High Culture
232. ……………….. is the view that one’s own culture is better than all other culture?
A) Ethnocentrism B) Popular Culture
C) Multiculturalism D) Cultural relativism
233. .................... is a geographical unit or social system with distinct identity, language and
traditions
A) Regionalism B) Regional disparity
C) Sectionalism D) Region
234. Who defined “Religion as a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things
that is to way, things set apart and forbidden”
A) E M Hover B) Herbert Spencer
C) Durkheim D) Habermas
235. Which of the statement are false about impact of religions?
A) Promote social upliftment of a particular group
B) Promote groupism
C) Feeling of superiority creates conflicts in society
D) Obstruct to social change or progress
236. Which is not a characteristic of religion?
A) Religion is not a recent emerged phenomenon
B) Science and modern education didn’t bring any change in our religious perception
C) Religion is an instrument for social control
D) Function as a political pressure group
237. “India presents a spectacle of museum or tongue” who said?
A) Surajit Sinha B) D P Mukherji
C) S C Dube D) A R Desai
238. The term …………….. refers to that social, cultural and psychological distinctions
associated with category of male (masculine) or female (feminine)
A) Feminism B) Gender
C) Gerontocracy D) Andro centrism
239. The term sex is biological construction, but ……………… is a social construction
A) Gender B) Technological change
C) Psychoanalytic D) Colonialism
240. The distribution of works on the basis of Gender in the family is called ………………?
A) Class based B) Anuloma
C) Gender division of labour D) Gerontocracy
241. In terms of the arrangement of relationship, the male member is the head and supreme
authority in family is called?
A) Polygamy B) Patriarchy
C) Polybyny D) Hypogamy
242. The female headed households is called…………………?
A) Hypergamy B) Polyandry
C) Exogamy D) Matriarchy
243. ……………… is a social institution that is primary source of gender discrimination?
A) Education B) Family
C) Religion D) State
244. Son and daughter are socialised in to their gender role is called……………….?
A) Separatist B) Liberal
C) Genderism D) Gender biased socialisation
245. Which article in Indian constitution prohibits gender discrimination?
A) Article 14 B) Article 16
C) Article 15 (1) D) Article 17
246. The word “Media” derived from ……………….?
A) Medio B) Medium
C) Modem D) None of the above
247. Which of the statement are false about functions of media?
A) Spreading information or knowledge
B) Not working as a agent of socialisation
C) Entertainment
D) Interpretations and explanation of situations or events
248. Who introduced the concept of “Hyperreality”
A) S A Stouffer B) M M Tumin
C) E Ravenstein D) Jean Baudrillard
249. The concept “Hyperreality” introduced in ............................. Book
A) Simulacra and Simulation B) symbolic exchange and death
C) The system of objects D) Simulations
250. ‘Simulacra and simulation’ authored by .........................?
A) S M Lipset B) E Zelliot
C) Jean Baudrillard D) B Friedman
251. Which term refers to that “Virtual or unreal nature of contemporary culture is an age of
mass communication and mass consumption”?
A) Hyperreality B) Hyperactive
C) Hypoactive D) Reality
252. Which term refers to that in modern technological period, the individual can’t differentiate
what is real from the simulation of reality?
A) Conservativism B) Hyperreality
C) Spatiality D) Stylisation
ANSWER KEY
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1. A 26. B 51. A 76. B
2. B 27. C 52. A 77. D
3. D 28. A 53. B 78. B
4. D 29. D 54. C 79. A
5. C 30. A 55. B 80. B
6. C 31. C 56. D 81. C
7. B 32. A 57. A 82. B
8. B 33. B 58. D 83. D
9. C 34. D 59. B 84. D
10. D 35. D 60. C 85. A
11. B 36. C 61. B 86. C
12. A 37. B 62. A 87. B
13. C 38. C 63. D 88. A
14. A 39. C 64. A 89. C
15. C 40. A 65. D 90. B
16. B 41. B 66. B 91. C
17. C 42. B 67. A 92. A
18. B 43. A 68. C 93. B
19. D 44. C 69. A 94. A
20. A 45. B 70. D 95. C
21. D 46. D 71. B 96. B
22. B 47. B 72. A 97. C
23. B 48. C 73. C 98. A
24. A 49 A 74. A 99. A
25. C 50. B 75. D 100. D
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101. B 126. C 151. C 176. D
102. C 127. A 152. A 177. B
103. A 128. B 153. B 178. B
104. A 129. C 154. D 179. C
105. D 130. B 155. C 180. A
106. B 131. A 156. A 181. D
107. D 132. A 157. D 182. B
108. C 133. A 158. B 183. C
109. A 134. B 159. C 184. A
110. C 135. D 160. A 185. B
111. B 136. A 161. B 186. A
112. B 137. C 162. A 187. C
113. B 138. B 163. D 188. B
114. A 139. D 164. B 189. D
115. D 140. B 165. A 190. A
116. B 141. A 166. D 191. C
117. C 142. A 167. B 192. B
118. A 143. D 168. C 193. D
119. B 144. B 169. B 194. B
120. A 145. B 170. D 195. A
121. C 146. C 171. A 196. D
122. B 147. B 172. D 197. C
123. D 148. D 173. A 198. B
124. A 149. A 174. C 199. C
125. C 150. C 175. A 200. B
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201. A 226. C 251. A
202. D 227. D 252. B
203. B 228. D
204. D 229. D
205. B 230. B
206. A 231. B
207. A 232. A
208. C 233. D
209. B 234. C
210. D 235. D
211. C 236. B
212. A 237. D
213. D 238. B
214. C 239. A
215. C 240. C
216. A 241. B
217. C 242. D
218. B 243. B
219. D 244. D
220. D 245. C
221. C 246. B
222. A 247. B
223. A 248. D
224. D 249. A
225. B 250. C