Social problem may be defined as conditions which:
1. effect a group of people
2. effect a class of people
3. favourable effect large number of people
4.adversely effect large number of people
Trade union is-
1. an occupational group
2.a business group
3.a competitive group
4. a familial group
Which one is NOT true of social disorganisation?
1.It is a malady
2. It is a process
3.It is relative to social organisation
4.Social organisation of today can he disorganisation of tomorrow
‘A condition in which individuals did not freely choose their occupations but were forced into them’. This type of division was called by Durkheim as-
1.anomie
2. forced
3.temporary
4.authoritarian
A condition in which there was a permanent division of labour between labour and capital was known as-
1.anomie
2.useless
3. illegitimate
4. improper
According to Polyani-
1.few empirical economies display more than one principle of allocation
2. most empirical economies display more than one principle of allocation
3.no economy displays more than one principle of allocation
4. none of the above
Basis of social stratification is:
1. social inequality
2.social harmony
3.social understanding
4.social problems
In post-agrarian society, as compared with the agrarian society, the life:
1.was simple
2.was less burdensome
3.more tedious
4.contacts were more personal and formal
In the beginning, in the world the type of society which existed was:
1.feudal
2.agrarian
3.industrial
4. religious
Life in agrarian society was based on:
1.strict division of labour
2. division of unavoidable labour
3.system in which there was no division of labour
4. iron law of wages
Trade unions grew-
1.in industrialized societies
2.in the ruralized societies
3. in the illiterate societies
4.in the primitive societies
When division is made into different occupations it is known as ____.
1.technical division of labour
2. social division of labour
3.territorial division of labour
4.all of the above
Which of the following classification of social problems has been given by Harold A. Phelps?
1.Physical, cultural and economic
2.Heritage-physical, biological and cultural
3.System-social, economic and political
4.Customs-new, outdated, continuing
Which of the following ideologies supports the institution of private property?
1.Syndicalism
2.Socialism
3.Communism
4. None of the above
Which of the following is another name of the territorial division of labour?
1.Social division of labour
2.Technical division of labour
3. Forced division of labour
4.Socialization of industries
Which of the following is NOT a form of division of labour?
1.social division of labour
2.technical division of labour
3. territorial division of labour
4.decentralized division of labour
Which of the following was NOT one of the characteristic of post-agrarian society?
1.Feudal system had begun
2.Cultivation system had developed
3.Formal contacts had strengthened
4.Neighbourhood contacts had become strong
Which one of the following does not influence kinship today?
1. Shift on urbanisation
2. Emergence of new occupational societies
3.Clash of interests
4.Disintegration of joint family system
Which one of the following is NOT a salient feature of social disorganisation?
1. It is conflict between the old and the new order
2.It is outcome of transfer of functions from one group to the other
3. It results in change in social structure
4. It is the outcome of rigid political party system
Which one of the following is true of industrial society?
1.controls are more informal than formal
2.crime rate is always high
3.the people believe in magic
4.the people live comfortably
Who said this? “The owners of mere labour-power, the owners of capital and the landlords whose respective sources of income are wages, profit, rent, in other words, wage labourers, capitalists, and landlords, form the three great classes of modern society resting upon the capitalist mode of production”.
1.Karl Marx
2. Max Weber
3.R. Dahrendorf
4.C.W. Mills
“The Puritan wanted work to be his’ vocation; we are forced to want it,” who said these words?
1.Ginsberg
2.Max Weber
3.W.E. More
4.J.A. Schumpeter