According to whom the ‘self’ develops in a social context and is nurtured by primary groups?
1.Charles H. Cooley
2.Ruth Benedict
3.Mead
4.Freud
Industry is institutional structure of an institution which by nature is:
1.Political
2.Cultural
3.Economic
4.Social
Pick up one which is not true of an institution:
1.It is least concerned with customs and mores
2.Customs and mores are its distinguishing feature
3.It meets primary needs of the people
4. It is very stable
Society emerges out of
1.community’s existence
2.men’s existence
3.problem’s existence
4.relationship
The term ‘sociology’ was coined by
1.Saint Simon
2.Herbert Spencer
3.Auguste Comte
4.Durkheim
Which one of the following is not correct about institutional structure?
1.There is rule to codify its working
2.There are no codified rules of its working
3.There are symbols which synthesize relationship
4.It is bound with the others
Who among the following is associated with authority?
1.Hobbes
2.Rousseau
3.M. Weber
4.Locke
A characteristic feature of a rural community is
1.Formal relationship
2.Rational will
3.Community sentiment
4.A vast number of association
A social movement depends on 1. A goal 2. An Organisation 3. A programme 4. A set of value Codes:
1.1, 2, 3 and 4
2.1 and 4
3.1, 3 and 4
4.1, 2 and 3
A sociologist defines society as a group of people who reside in a defined area, share a culture, and who:
1.interact
2.work in the same industry
3.speak different languages
4.practice a recognized religion
According to_________, self and society are not identical.
1.Cooley
2.Mead
3.Freud
4.Marx
‘The state originates and continues to exist for the sake of the best life’. Whose opinion is this?
1.Aristotle
2. C.W. Mills
3.R. Dahl
4.W. Pareto
C. Wright Mills once said that sociologists need to develop a sociological __________ to study how society affects individuals.
1.culture
2.imagination
3.method
4.tool
Demographers do not take into account
1.Age, sex and racial composition of the population
2.Height and weight of the population
3.Birth and death rate
4.Density of population
Differences can be those of:
1.Capacity
2.Non-capacity
3.Non Interests
4.Lack of aptitude
Force theory about origin of society is not accepted because it is believed that:
1. It is not historically correct
2.State was given by God
3.It creates feat in the minds of the people
4.It is by now clear that state is expansion of families
Force theory about origin of society makes us believes that:
1.Society was given by God
2.Force brought society into existence
3.Force has nothing to do with the emergence of society
4.Force has no relevance with the coming of society
French Revolution took place in the year
1.1789
2.1776
3.1798
4.1898
Functional theory of stratification propounded by
1.Davis and Parsons
2.Davis and Moore
3.Parsons and Ross
4.Goode and Hatt
Group Mind’ was written by:
1.Bonsanquest
2.Mac Dougall
3.Spencer
4.Hegel
Identify the particular element that domiÂnates in the material culture:
1.Religion and Morality
2.Science and Technology
3.Custom and Tradition
4.Folkways
In his book ‘People of India’ who said ‘that probably there has existed in man a tendency to vary. This desire must have driven men to seek marital alliance with strangers, unfamiliar and unknown to him’.
1.Guha
2.Ghureye
3.Risley
4.Westermarck
In India, the institution of family has a trend towards:
1.Joint family
2.Single family
3.Patriarchal family
4.Matriarchal family
In society differences are always:
1.Inborn
2.Adopted
3.Environmental
4.Both adopted and natural
In the Industrialised western societies, the chief aim of marriage is not only procreation but
1.companionship
2.emotional and psychological support and companionship
3.emotional and psychological support
4.divorce
In which year the term ‘Sociology’ was coined?
1.1798
2.1815
3.1839
4.1857
Indicate which of the following a group?
1.Some members of Bar Association discussing matters concerning their Association.
2.Some surgeons discussing an important subject of surgery.
3.An executive body of a trade union.
4.A horse-man, a cyclist, and a pedestrian going along the road.
It was as the founder of “Positive†movement that- achieved recognition as a philosopher, and although modem sociologists do not consider his theories as anything other than a series of interesting speculations, they recognize that he was responsible for demonstrating the need for an objective systematic study of society.
1.Auguste Comte
2.Saint Simon
3.Herbert Spencer
4.Emile Durkheim
Kula exchange is associated with
1.Tikopians
2.Trobriand Islanders
3.Krowe tribes
4.Azande tribes
Marriage is a/an
1.important and universal social institution of society
2.important basis for group formation
3.helpful in strengthening the caste system
4.helpful in strengthening the caste system
Marriage is considered to be necessary because
1.This is the only way to acquire paternal property
2.This is the only way of sexual gratification
3.This provides societal sanction
4.It is regularised and provides socially sanctioned sex gratification
Member of a small trade union is:
1.A social group
2.An associational group
3.A statistical group
4.A primary group
Modem sociological thought and theory, as distinct from the purely contemplative or philosophical analysis of society, emerged in the:
1. Late 17th century
2. Late 19th century
3.Late 18th century and early 19th century
4.Early 18th century
One important advantage of socialisation is that it takes one:
1.Out of group life
2.Leave one’s isolation
3.Member of political system
4.Realise the importance of wealth
Practice of welcoming guests, by spitting on their body is practiced by
1.Azande
2.Onges
3.Sherdukpens
4.Masai
Relationship central to sociology are those which involve:
1.Friendliness
2.Conflict
3.Mutual recognition and the sense of something shared in common
4.Kinship ties
Risley have given this statement put in question No. 4 to support his views on _______, regarding marriage.
1.Exogamy
2.Acculturation
3.Preference and prohibition
4.Cousin marriage
Seeing patterns means that a sociologist needs to be able to:
1.compare the behavior of individuals from different societies
2.compare one society to another
3.identify similarities in how social groups respond to social pressure
4.compare individuals to groups
Social institutions are sets of organised human relationships established by common will†was said by:
1.C.H. Colley
2.E.A. Ross
3.Kingsley Davis
4.Sheriff and Sheriff
Society is
1.Natural
2.Deliberate
3.Practical
4.Functional
Society is the web of social relationships’ whose definition is this?
1.Maclver
2. H. Maine
3.Pluto
4.Aristotle
Society is the web of social relationships’ whose definition is this?
1.Maclver
2. H. Maine
3.Pluto
4.Aristotle
Society symbolises the network of
1.human relationships
2.social relationships
3.orientations
4.inter-connections
Sociology emerged in
1. America
2.Europe
3.Asia
4.Africa
Sociology has been derived from the Latin word ‘Societus’ and ‘logos’, which means:
1.Friend or companion and science
2.Society and laws
3.Sociability and science
4.Society and science
The basis of slave system is always?
1.Political
2.Economic
3.Custom
4.Social need
The importance of the social division of labour as a criterion of social development has been insisted by
1.Karl Marx
2.Emile Durkheim
3.F. Engels
4.Herbert Hyman
The most frequent item of the series around which other items are densely populated is known as:
1.geometric mean
2.arithmetic mean
3.harmonic mean
4.mode
The scheduled castes in India provide an example of a
1.Formal group
2.Reference group
3.Social category
4.Secondary group
The society has passed through the three stages of its development-theological, metaphysical and the positive. This view was held by
1.Max Weber
2.H. Spencer
3.F. Tonnies
4.A. Comte
The three-tier system of Panchayati Raj was recommended by (a) Kaka Kalekar Committee
1.Kaka Kalekar Committee
2.Simon Commission
3.Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
4.Jai Prakash Narain Committee
The value which cannot be determined graphically is:
1.Median
2.Mean
3.Frequency table
4.None of the above
The word ‘Sociology’ is made up of two words. These are-
1. Societies and Logy
2.Societia and Logistia
3.Socious and Logos
4.Socia & Logos
There are two types of definition of society. These are-
1.Structural and interactional
2.Functional and structural
3.Evolutionary and diffusive
4.Structural and evolutionary
These days in India the institution of marriage is weakening because:
1.Our religious leaders are becoming rigid
2.women are becoming economically sell-sufficient
3.less number of people are liking to marry
4.people prefer small size family
Underlying seemingly unconnected, contradictory, chaotic happenings, there are patterns and regularities. It is the focus of a sociologist to:
1.Find and study them
2.Try and change them
3.Make them perfectly regular and patterned
4.Study the best patterns
What is meant by sex-ratio?
1.The relation between male and female
2.The ratio between the number of adult male and adult females in a population
3.The ratio between number of female and number of male in a population
4.The number of females per 1000 males in a population
What is the theoretical framework that foÂcuses on the level of economic development as the determinant of birth and death rates, referred to as?
1.Malthusian Theory of population
2.Optimum Theory of population
3.Demographic Transition Theory
4.Theory of social capillarity
Which among the following constitutes a group?
1.Vegetables sellers following one another into a lane.
2.Members of a circus company engaged in performance.
3.Children running out of the school after it is closed for the day.
4.Partnership that has failed.
Which among the following is the indicator of open stratification system?
1.Ethnicity
2.caste
3.Class
4.Religion
Which of the following best describes sociology as a subject?
1.The study of individual behavior
2.The study of cultures
3.The study of society and social interaction
4.The study of economics
Which of the following determine India’s fertility rate? 1. Religious importance of the male child. 2. Social security value of children 3. Economic value of children 4. Intrinsic value of children Select the correct answer using the code given below:
1.1 and 2 only
2.3 and 4 only
3.1, 2 and 3 only
4.2, 3 and 4 only
Which of the following factors does not contribute to the growth of traditional societies?
1.Community and associational life is kept loose without any prescribed basis of social existence
2.Perpetuation of tribal and caste affiliation
3.Perpetuation of kinship and clanship
4.Continuation of agriculture as the dominant activity.
Which of the following is not the characteristic of an institution?
1.It must follow some well-established rules
2.It must follow some well-established rules
3.These grow with the society
4.These have no definite objectives
Which of the following statements is correct?
1.The percentage of the world’s population that live in cities is indeed very large
2.Most of the world has been urban most of the time.
3.Most of the world has been rural most of the time
4.India is a highly urban country
Which of the following was a topic of study in early sociology?
1.Astrology
2.Economics
3.Physics
4.History
Which one of the following is the first stage of the evolution of an institution?
1.Tradition
2.Ideology
3.Collective Experience
4.Mores
Who among the following authors initially used the term ‘social physics’ for Sociology?
1.Spencer
2.Comte
3.Tonnies
4.Weber
Who among the following does not fall under the category of community?
1.Keralites in Delhi
2.Trade union movement
3.The people of U.S. origin
4.None of the above
Who among the following has emphasized upon the functional aspects of stratification?
1.Durkheim, Weber, Parsons
2.Marx, Weber, Davis
3.Davis, Moore, Parsons
4.Lenski, C.W. Mills, Parsons
Who among the following was on the opinion that†A gift is a social substitute for money among moneyless cultures.�
1.Ogburn and Nimkoff
2.Mauss
3.Frazer
4.Polyan
Who among the following was the first to distinguish between the state and the government?
1.Locke
2.R. Dahl
3.Marx
4.Max Weber
Who gave the name ‘Harijans’ to the untouchables?
1.Indian constitution
2.B.R. Ambdedkar
3.M.K. Gandhi
4.G.S. Ghurye
Who of the following had defined society as union in itself?
1.Giddings
2.A.W. Green
3.R.M. Maclver
4.John F. Cuber
Who of the following has defined institution by saying that, “Institution is definite organisation pursuing some specific interest in a specific way�
1.R.M. Maclver
2.Ogbum
3.Ginsberg
4.E.A. Ross
Who of the following has said that “A social institution is a functional configuration of culture pattern�
1.Kimball Young
2.Maclver
3.Ginsberg
4.Gillin and Gillin
Who viewed corporate group in relation to authority and termed it as Verband?
1.Hobsbawm
2.Sir Henry Maine
3.Weber
4.None
Whose definition is this? ‘Tribe is an indigenous unit speaking a common language, claiming a common descent, living in a particular geographical area, backward in technology, pre-literate, loyally observing social and political customs based on kinship.’
1.A conference at Shillong in 1962
2.Earth Summit at Rio in 1992
3.Radcliffe Brown
4.Indigenous People Conference, Sav Paulo 1937
Whose definition is this? ‘Tribe is an indigenous unit speaking a common language, claiming a common descent, living in a particular geographical area, backward in technology, pre-literate, loyally observing social and political customs based on kinship.’
1.A conference at Shillong in 1962
2.Earth Summit at Rio in 1992
3.Radcliffe Brown
4.Indigenous People Conference, Sav Paulo 1937
Whose statement is this? Jajmani relationships is the means by which the rich and powerful exploit the poor and coerce the workers into sustaining the power of those who have the upper hand and the higher rank.â€
1.M.N. Srinivas
2.Mandelbaum
3.Beidelman
4.H. Main