Sociology/Sociology Questions and Answers for Civil Services Examination Sample Test,Sample questions

Question:
  Bring out the features, which characterise urban social relations

1. Face to face contact

2. Impersonality

3. Informality

4. Superficiality

Codes:

1. 1, 2, 3 and 4

2. 2 and 4

3. 2 and 3

4. 2, 3 and 4


Question:
 A dominant caste is characterized by

1.Political power

2.Numerical superiority

3. Economically well off caste

4. All of the above


Question:
 A formally organised group having limited objectives that are specifically spelled out and well understood is known as

1.community

2.association

3. primary group

4.society


Question:
 All members of society occupy a number of social positions known as

1.Roles

2.Functions

3.Statuses

4.Placements


Question:
 Children produced by inter-caste marriages were called

1.Vratya

2.Mratya

3.Shankar

4.Mahav


Question:
 Given the following series, the value of mode is:

5, 6, 3, 2, 8, 4, 7, 9, 1, 10, 11, 12, 13

1.9

2.12

3.13

4.not defined


Question:
 In the Roman Empire, population was considered as a source of

1.Empire building

2. Slavery

3.Burden

4.Power


Question:
 Pseudo-kinship term is used to include those relationships in which:

1.kinship terms relate ego to nearest kins

2.persons are described or addressed by kin terms, but they do not stand in such a relationship by virtue of the principles of descent or marriage

3.kinship terms relate ego to distant kins

4.persons are described or addressed by kin terms other than the ones with which they are actually related


Question:
 Society is the total social heritage of folkways, mores and institutions, of habits, sentiments and ideals. This is view of society.

1.Structural

2.Cultural

3.Functional

4.None of the above


Question:
 The de-industrialisation of Indian economy took place because:

1. Indians refused to produce goods for the British

2. The Indian goods were not of very good quality

3. The Indian craftsmen became poverty stricken and were not able to get the raw material

4. The policy of British rulers was such that they exported raw materials from India and flooded the Indian market with their own manufactured goods

1.4 only

2.1 and 2

3. 3 and 4

4.2 and 3


Question:
 The santhals, who live in the area between, Bhagalpur and Rajmahal is known as?

1.Koh-i-koh

2.Khunt kati

3.Daman-i-koh

4.Barkatul


Question:
 they are filled through incidence of birth

1.head of an office

2.manager of a firm

3.director of an organisation

4.recipient of some money


Question:
 When a baby dies after it has survived beyond four weeks, but before the first year is completed it is known as?

1.Crude birth rate

2.Crude death rate

3.Post-neo-natal mortality

4.Fertility


Question:
 Which among the following factors do in­fluence the social organisation of the vil­lage?

1. The caste system

2. Its closeness to the towns

3. The existence of good means of com­munication and transport

Codes:

1.1, 2, 3

2.3 only

3.1, 2

4.2, 3


Question:
 Which among the following is not the element of social action according to Weber?

1.Actor

2.Situation

3.Organisation

4.Ends


Question:
 Which of the following criteria were used by Sorokin in distinguishing a rural society from an urban society?

1. Mobility

2. Heterogeneity

3. Size of population

4. System of interaction

5. Occupation

Codes:

1.1, 3 and 5

2. 1, 2 and 4

3.5 only

4.2, 3 and 4


Question:
 Which one of the following is not an achieved status?

1.engineer

2.landlord

3.brahmin

4.priest


Question:
 Who among the following have done significant work in developing Political Sociology as a special subject?

1.Hobhouse and Michael

2. Pareto and Max Weber

3.Lipset and Coser

4.C.W. Mills and T. Parsons


Question:
 Who is associated with this statement?

The main characteristic of the city is its com­plexity, “the city is very complicated sys­tem of religious, cultural, political, eco­nomic, recreational activities, with highly stratified organisations, its population is differentiated by origin, religion, status, edu­cation and behaviour pattern.”-

1. Louis Wirth

2.R. Redfield

3.Sehegal

4. R. Park


Question:
 Whose statement is this?

“Caste as status group is defined essentially in terms of styles of life. Property and occu­pation enter as important elements in the style of life of a status group, but they need not be decisive. Thus the Sri Vaishnava Brahmins of Sripuram, who constitute to status group or community, include people with different occupations and economic po­sitions.”

1.Max Weber

2.Andre Beteille

3. F. G. Bailey

4. M. N. Srinivas


Question:
.Gemeinschaft was termed by Tonnies as ‘Community of Fate’. Can you recall the term used by Tonnies for Gesellschaft?

1. community of convenience

2.specific relationships

3. community of will

4.community of compromise


Question:
A crowd before the cinema booking window____________ type of crowd.

1.Homogeneous

2.Active

3.Acquisitive crowd

4.Expressive crowd


Question:
A local doctor will have role relations with patients, with the doctors of the local hospitals and with his fellow doctors as a member of his professional association and so on. It can be best categorised as

1.role set

2. role taking

3.role concurrence

4.plural role


Question:
A study by________ entitled ‘The Poor and the Poorest’ published in 1965, illustrates clearly that the extent of poverty depends upon the concept of poverty adopted and the measuring instruments employed.

1. Davis and Moore

2.Brian Abel-Smith and Peter Townsend

3.Parson and Merton

4.Goode and Halt


Question:
According to Group Mind Theory about crowd, a person after joining a crowd:

1.Maintains his identity

2. Loses his sense of suggestibility

3.Increases his sense of suggestibility

4.Does not allow his individuality to be adversely effected


Question:
Achieved status, means:

1.the status acquired by the individuals during the process of socialisation, on the basis of talent etc.

2. the status achieved during the process of cultural diffusion

3.the status acquired during the process of personality cult

4. the status acquired through the culture traits


Question:
Among the following mark out the one who enjoys prestige.

1.A rich businessman

2.A doctor in private practice

3.A broker

4.A magistrate


Question:
An average should be used to typify:

1.multimodal distribution

2.a bimodal distribution

3. U-shaped distribution

4. a distribution showing a clear, single concentration of observations.


Question:
Before the supremacy of the parliament in England, the French Revolution and the propounding of the social contract theory till the seventeenth century, it was believed that the state and monarchy were created by

1. General people

2. Nobles and clergy

3.King and Queen

4. Divine law


Question:
Consider the following statements about impact of the industrialization on society:

1. The methods and means of social con­trol have changed

2. The ancient institutions of marriage and family remain intact

3. The superstitions and blind faith have no place

4. The freedom of thought and individu­alism are the cornerstones of the indus­trial society

Choose the correct answer using the codes given below:

1. 1, 2 and 3

2.2, 3 and 4

3.1, 2 and 4

4.1, 3 and 4


Question:
Consider the following statements:

The significant characteristics of industrial society are–

1. profit orientation.

2. bureaucratic organization.

3. reliance on animate energy.

4. class segregation.

Which of the statements given above are correct?

1. 1, 2 and 3

2. 1, 2 and 4

3.1, 3 and 4

4.2, 3 and 4


Question:
Cultural diffusion can start only from:

1. Centres of cultures

2.Anywhere

3. Culturally neglected areas

4.Culturally backward areas


Question:
For Spencer society is a/an

1.Super organism

2. Organic whole

3.Organicism

4.Collective whole


Question:
From intellectual point of view which one is not the Spencer’s contribution?

1. Introduction and nature of Sociology

2.Evolutionary interpretation of society

3.Social structure and social functions

4.Social causation and socialisation


Question:
From ______ point of view, society is defined as a complex of groups in reciprocal relationships, interacting upon one another and helping each person to fulfill his wishes in association with his fellows:

1.Societal

2.Cultural

3.Functional

4.Structural


Question:
Given below are the four stages in the evo­lution of man in order, of man’s economic life. Which one of the following shows the correct order in which they appeared?

1.Hunting and good gathering, pastoral, agricultural, industrial

2.Agricultural, hunting and food gath­ering, pastoral, industrial

3. Pastoral, hunting and food gathering, agricultural, industrial

4.Hunting and food gathering, indus­trial, pastoral, agricultural


Question:
Graphically, mode can be estimated from:

1.ogive

2. bar diagram

3. histogram

4. historigram


Question:
Herbert Spencer favoured Pestalozzi’s learning theory as a process of:

1. Serving the cause of nation

2. Self activity

3.Programmed instructional material

4.Internal self-instruction


Question:
If a group of students recreating by the sea-shore listen to a film actor, they become:

1.Organized

2.Congregate group

3.Crowd

4.None of the above


Question:
If the variables are varying in the opposite directions, it is called:

1. Positive correlation

2.Negative correlation

3.Linear correlation

4.None of the above


Question:
In a race traits are transmissible by:

1.Political system

2.Biological inheritance

3. Economic institutions

4.Historical events


Question:
In an________ the element of interaction is lacking and so it differs from a group within which observable interaction is present:

1.Association

2.Aggregation

3.Integration

4. None of the above


Question:
In the article ‘America against Poverty’, who states that direct aid was the least popular anti-poverty strategy in America?

1.Elinor Graham

2.Edward James

3.Halsey

4.Floud


Question:
In the early 19th century which of the following people proclaimed the presence of Superior and Inferior races?

1.Ruth Benedict

2.Darwin

3. Gobinean, Chamberlian and Lapouge

4.Spencer


Question:
Merton has proposed his theory of role-set in his book

1.Social Theory and Social Structure’

2.Sociological Theories’

3.New Trends in Sociology’

4.Challenges before Sociology’


Question:
National Population Policy underwent some modification in the year

1.1981

2.1979

3.1977

4.1991


Question:
Nuclear family in its volarized form consists of the

1.Parents of the same children and children of the same parents

2.Parents of the different children and children of the same parent

3.Parents of the same children and children of the different parents

4. None of the above mentioned relation exists in nuclear family.


Question:
One of the important hindrances on the way of cultural diffusion is:

1.Quick means of transportation

2.Slow means of transportation

3.Open mind of the society

4.Adaptability by the society of new cultures


Question:
Poverty will only be eradicated with the removal of inequality in general which requires the transformation of the economic structures in which it is embedded. Who holds this?

1.Ralph Miliband

2.Halt

3.Goode

4.Wilkinson


Question:
Poverty will only be eradicated with the removal of inequality in general which requires the transformation of the economic structures in which it is embedded. Who holds this?

1.Ralph Miliband

2.Halt

3.Goode

4.Wilkinson


Question:
Rao M.S.A classifies urban studies into three categories. Which of the following is not a one? 

1. Those which formulate the cultural role of cities in the context of social organisation of the great tradition

2.Those concerned with the institutional approaches

3. Those treating cities and their growth in the general context of history of civi­lization.

4.Those concerned with the little tradi­tion.


Question:
Role maybe called:

1.As the behaviour of an individual which is expected by the community

2.The particular post assigned to an individual to be played

3.The contribution of the individual in innovating a culture

4.The performance of certain duties by an individual in his interest


Question:
Stem family’ stands for

1.Small extended family

2. Joint family

3.Nuclear family

4. Family of corporate business houses


Question:
Suggestibility, leadership and emotion influence crowd behaviour”; which theory lays stress on this aspect of crowd?

1.Group Mind Theory

2.Lebon Theory

3.Multiple Factors Theory

4.McDougall Theory


Question:
The average monthly production of a factory for the first 8 months is 2,500 units, the next 4 months 1,200 units, the average monthly production of the year will be:

1.2066.55 units

2. 5031.10 units

3.4021.12 units

4.3012.11 units


Question:
The average monthly production of a factory for the first 8 months is 2,500 units, the next 4 months 1,200 units, the average monthly production of the year will be:

1.2066.55 units

2. 5031.10 units

3.4021.12 units

4.3012.11 units


Question:
The book “The Theory of Social and Economic Organisation” is written by

1.Marx

2.Max Weber

3.Karl

4.Shapiro


Question:
The concept of role handicap was introduced by

1.R.K. Merton

2.R. Linton

3.H.D. Kirk

4.Malinowski


Question:
The contrasts between people in certain kind of situation, where the culture provides in the one case for behavioural expectations and in the other case it does not do so or does inadequately. This phenomena may be explained by the concept of-

1.role expectation

2. role handicap

3.role relations

4.role maturity


Question:
The crucial feature of a city is the presence of a market and a specialised class of traders in it. Who holds this?

1.Milton Singer

2.Gordon Childe

3.George Simmel

4.Robert Park


Question:
The difference between a natural change and a telic change is that:

1.Natural change is the change that oc­curs without attention, while telic change is the product of human direc­tion

2.Natural change is change we notice in nature, while telic change is the prod­uct of change we notice in human soci­ety

3.Natural change is geographic and cli­matic change, while telic change is so­cial change.

4.Natural change is due to human atten­tion, while telic change is without hu­man attention.


Question:
The expectations between a focal position and a number of different counter positions make up

1.Multiple role

2.Plural role

3. Role set

4.Role relation


Question:
The first step for making a statistical investigation is:

1.Organisation

2.Collection of data

3.Samples

4.None of the above


Question:
The mean age of 40 students is 16 years and the mean age of another group of 60 students is 20 years. The mean age of all the 100 students is:

1.16.8 years

2.18 years

3. 18.4 years

4.18.8 years


Question:
The right to give a maiden in marriage is held by which one group in orderly man­ner?

1.Grandfather, father, mother, brothers/ kinsmen.

2.Father, grandfather, brothers, kinsmen, mother

3. Father, mother, grandfather, kinsmen, brother

4.Father, grandfather, mother, brother kinsmen


Question:
The simplest definition of Urban Social structure has been given in terms of

1.Demographic

2.Industry

3.Education

4.Professions


Question:
The standard of living in the villages is mostly of the same pattern whereas it varies in the towns because:

1.There are no industries in the villages

2.There is no social disintegration in the villages

3.From agriculture the villagers obtain the same type of economic satisfaction and face the same problems

4. Villages are dependent upon land and the same profession creates similar standard of living.


Question:
The ________ of a person is that he consciously or unconsciously conceives himself to be.

1.Self

2.Personality

3.Culture

4.Worth


Question:
There cannot be any politics among equal individuals. This is the view of

1.C.W. Mills

2.Max Weber

3.Karl Marx

4.R. Dahrendorf


Question:
Weber interprets economic structure in the context of the conduct of

1.Polity

2.Religion

3.Education

4.Kinship


Question:
What does the term ‘Eidos’ imply?

1.Formal appearance of a culture derived from its constituents

2.Disposition of a culture which determines its quality, its main themes and interest

3.Cultural borrowing

4.Civilization always advances, but not culture


Question:
What is according to exponents of Group Mind true about the origin of society?

1.Society was aggregate of individuals

2.In content and kind society was not superior to minds of individuals

3.Society has common substance of minds of all citizens

4.Group mind in society disunited indi­viduals


Question:
What is not true about the usefulness of language?

1.It has helped in the increase of knowledge

2.It has made social contacts easy

3.It has helped in preservation of cultures

4. It has helped in reducing social tensions


Question:
When a baby dies within the first four weeks of life. It is known as

1.Mortality

2.Neo-natal mortality

3.Post-neo-natal mortality

4.Fertility


Question:
Which among the following statement is not true?

1.Small rural or big urban communities vary greatly in character and size

2.Communities either rural or small vil­lage are based on contractual relation­ship

3.Small rural or village communities are likely to enlist the greatest degree of unity and homogeneity in cultural pat­tern

4.Once a community becomes estab­lished, it tends to develop a common culture.


Question:
Which among the following states have registered a maximum increase of population of tribals?

1.Manipur

2.Nagaland

3.Kerala

4.Bihar


Question:
Which among the following tribes witnessed decrease in their number?

1.Santhal

2.Onge

3.Munda

4.Bhil


Question:
Which average is affected most by extreme observations?

1.median

2.mode

3.arithmetic mean

4. geometric mean


Question:
Which one is not a character of ‘ascribed’ status?

1.they are assigned to individuals without preference to their innate differences or abilities

2.they can be predicted and trained from the moment of birth

3.they require special qualities

4. they are filled through incidence of birth


Question:
Which state registered minimum increase of tribal?

1. Kerala

2.Karnataka

3.Assam

4.Meghalaya


Question:
While taking deviations the signs are ignored in:

1.Quartile deviation

2.Range

3.Mean deviation

4.All of the above


Question:
While taking deviations the signs are ignored in:

1.Quartile deviation

2.Range

3.Mean deviation

4.All of the above


Question:
Who among the following has differentiated between the ‘class in itself’ and ‘class for itself’?

1. Max Weber

2.Karl Marx

3.Veblen

4.Stouffer


Question:
Who among the following has propounded two definition of class namely objective and subjective?

1.Max Weber

2.R.K. Merton

3.Stouffer

4.Karl Marx


Question:
Who among the following is the smallest backward tribal community of west Bengal

1.Totos

2.Kotos

3.Lado

4.Sema


Question:
Who founded the Sociology Society of London?

1.Patrick Geddes

2.Radcliffe Brown

3.Victor Branford

4.Herbert Spencer


Question:
Who has pointed out that when there is some serious illness and people need to utilise the hospital facilities not available locally, member of the family and close kin residing in the bigger cities are called in for help?

1.M.N. Srinivas

2.A. Beteille

3. I.P. Desai

4.Milton Singer


Question:
Who is/are concerned with this statement?

Whatever the degree of fusion or differen­tiation in the economy, the process of pro­duction requires four factors, which have been named, respectively, land, capital, labour and entrepreneurship. Just as the total society is composed of four functional subsystems, of which the economy is one, so the economy itself has four functional subsystems-

1.Parsons and Merton

2. Parsons and Shils

3.Parsons and K. Davis

4.Parsons and Smelser


Question:
Who made a distinction between community and association in his book ‘Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft’, 1887?

1.C.P. Loomis

2. F. Tonnies

3.Theodor Geiger

4.Max Weber


Question:
Who were the first to develop the elite theory?

1.Pareto and Mosca

2.Mills and David Lane

3.Mitchell and Mosca

4.Pareto and Mills


Question:
Whom of the following wrote the book ‘Principles of Population Studies’?

1.Bhende and Kanitkar

2.Jagannath Pathy

3.Yogendra Singh

4.Leela Dubey


Question:
Whose observation is this?

“Caste – riots are frequent in those areas where the caste-wise social deprivation are manifestly correlated with the class-wise economic deprivations, such as in Bihar, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu etc.”

1.B.R. Ambedkar

2.A. Beteille

3.Jyotibha Phule

4.Ramkrishna Mukherjee


Question:
Whose statement is this?

“It is not permitted to contact marriage with a person of another caste, nor to change from one profession or trade to another, nor for the same persons to undertake more than one, except if he is of the caste of philo­sophers, when permission is given on account of dignity.

1.Hiuen-Tsang

2.Al-brunie

3.Megasthenese

4.Thomas Roe


Question:
Whose view is this?

Hospitals, the catering trade, large sections of agriculture and parts of the garment in­dustry are dependent on low wage labour. Raising wages would increase costs with obvious dysfunctional consequences for more affluent people. Thus at one and the same time, poverty ensures that ‘dirty jobs’ are done and, by getting them done cheaply, subsidizes the non-poor section of the popu­lation-

1. Edward James

2. Pamela Roby

3.Herbert J. Gans

4.Head Start


Question:
Why did the upper castes have a better edu­cation during colonial period?

1.Because of the fact that they were bet­ter off in all fields including caste hier­archy and property relations.

2.Because they were ritually superior to other castes

3.Because of their racial superiority over the backward sections.

4.Because of their psychological and mental superiority.


Question:
‘Lubra’ stands for

1.Aboriginal women or wife

2.Educated Women

3.Woman who is training another woman/ girl for house keeping

4.Mentally retarded women


Question:
‘Matrifocal families’

1. Emphasize female roles in society

2.are headed by women

3. Focus on maternity

4. are matrilineal


Question:
“People who live close to one another, who interact with one another frequently, and who feel they have some common traits or values they share with one another,” constitute

1. social group

2. social institution

3.association

4.community


Question:
“The state originated as the result of economic structure, classes and their mutual conflicts.” Who holds this?

1.Marx and Weber

2. Marx and Morgan

3.Marx and H. Spencer

4. Marx and T. Veblen


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