MCQ SERIES

256. Physical coercion is without doubt the form of social control

(a) Highest

(b) Easiest

(c) Lowest

(d) Best

C.

257. If society has to depend on external force, it shows its______ rather than_____ in social control.

(a) Weakness, strength

(b) Strength, weakness

(c) Unity, separateness

(d) Separateness, unity

A.

258. Who among the following has divided people into two categories as reinters and speculators ?

(a) Pareto

(b) Mosca

(c) Maclver

(d) Von Wiese

A.

259. Speculators for Pareto are those

(a) Who like to follow tradition?

(b) Who like to take chances for attaining their goals?

(c) Who like to be governing elite?

(d) Who like to become non-governing elite?

B.

260. Who holds this: “Civilization is what we have, culture is what we are”?

(a) Alfred Weber

(b) MacIver

(c) Max Weber

(d) Herskovits

B.

261. Man does not simply want a thing but he wants a thing which may also be beautiful and appealing to his senses. This statement indicates that

(a) Civilization influences culture

(b) Man is by nature aesthetic

(c) Culture influences civilization

(d) Man is a consumer of material things

C .

262. Tribal culture is attached to

(a) Land, nature and rituals

(b) Folk tradition

(c) Their economy and customs

(d) Religion only

A.

263. Popular culture refers to the culture of

(a) Political class

(b) Culture of masses or of subordinate classes

(c) Culture of rich

(d) Culture of educated

B.

264. In a primary relationship_______ is involved in the interaction.

(a) Partial person

(b) Total person

(c) Total society

(d) A group in society

B.

265. “How expected behaviour is created and modified in interaction” is described by

(a) Role taking

(b) Role allotment

(c) Role making

(d) Role labeling

C.

266. Which among the following is not true, regarding role conflict?

(a) When a person has to play two or more roles at one time that make incompatible demands.

(b) When a person defines his or her role in one way while those in related roles define it differently

(c) When related roles have incompatible expectations of the local role

(d) When role and status are incompatible in a given situation.

D.

267. The concept of sick-role was first outlined by in 1935 and then elaborated by in 1951.

(a) L.J. Henderson and T. Parsons

(b) T. Parsons and L.J. Henderson’s

(c) T. Parsons and R.K. Merton

(d) L.J. Henderson and R.K. Merton

A.

268. The sick role has four major characteristics. Which among the following is not one of them?

(a) The incumbent is exempted from normal social responsibilities

(b) The sick person is not blamed for being sick

(c) The person is expected to seek out competent professional help.

(d) The sick person is appreciated for being sick.

D.

269. The sociology of law involves the study of how social conditions influence the

(a) Enforcement of law

(b) Making of law

(c) Making and enforcement of law

(d) Quick deliverance of justice.

C.

270. ‘Status crystallization’ denotes

(a) Consistency between an individual’s different roles

(b) Inconsistency between an individual’s various statuses

(c) Consistency between an individual’s various statuses.

(d) Individual moulds his/her personality according to status

C.

271. The concept of ‘status crystallisation’ is propounded by

(a) G. Lenski

(b) R.K. Merton

(c) R. Linton

(d) E.A. Ross

A.

272. The term ‘white collar crime’ was first used by

(a) E. Sutherland

(b) C.W. Mills

(c) Parsons

 (d) Roucek

A.

273. ‘Youth’ is a

(a) Group

(b) Congregation

(c) Age group

(d) Social category

D.

274. There exist three features which distinguish youth culture. Which among the following not a feature?

(a) It is a culture of leisure than work

(b) It is a culture of comfort than pain.

(c) Social relationships are organised around the peer groups, not families

(d) Youth groups are particularly interested in style

B.

275. Modern society is sometimes called as

(a) Organisational society

(b) Associational society

(c) Group society

(d) Cultured society

A.

276. Who has observed this while writing on culture: “Western social sciences had neglected cultural dimensions (arts, myths, symbols, etc.) under the rigid code of positivism or structural functionalism”?

(a) Taylor

(b) Karl Mannheim

(c) R.K. Merton

(d) Radcliffe Brown

B.

277. Who has based his theory of cultural evolution on the criteria of increasing per capital use of energy?

(a) T. Veblen

(b) Whyte

(c) Leslie White

(d) W.G. Sumner

C.

278. The distinction between ‘tribal’ and ‘open societies’ was made by

(a) W.H.R. Rivers

(b) Selegman

(c) K.R. Popper

(d)Hobhouse

C.

279. Who has suggested a term ‘ethnic group’ as a substitute for the term ‘race’?

(a) J. Huxley

(b) Risley

(c) Guha

(d) Majumdar

A.

280. ‘Gilded age’ stands for

(a) Age of gild – relation

(b) Age of gold

(c) Age of gladiators

(d) Age of gladness and happiness

B.

281. Which one of the following statements best describes an institution ?

(a) A prescribed set of moral principles

(b) An established form or conditions of procedure

(c) A socially established organisation

(d) A socially established system of values

B.

282. Which one of the following characteristics correctly explains the term institution?

(a) A place where many people do work

(b)An office complex where very important work is carried out

(c) A set of related Folkways and Mores integrated around a principle function.

(d) An organisation which is engaged in some important social function.

C.

283. The fact that institutions require specific association to sustain them is of importance

(a) For determining size of association

(b) For the institutions of religions only

(c) For complex societies only

(d) For understanding the basic distinction between institutions and other norms

C.

284. Which one of the following is not an example of integration?

(a) Introducing the three languages formula in education

(b) Enacting various legislations for various religious groups

(c) The merging of princely status into Indian Union after independence

(d) Providing reservations to SC/ST communities

B.

285. Which among the following is not a difference between culture and civilization?

(a) Culture is a slow process whereas civilization is a quick process

(b) Culture is internal but civilisation is external

(c) Culture consists of ideals, values mental and emotional groups of life

(d) Culture-can be adopted without effort but civilization cannot

D.

286. Which among the following may be considered as the foundation of the Indian culture?

(a) The railway system

(b) Spiritualism

(c) The scriptures

(d) The English language

B.

287. The phenomenon of’ Cultural Relativism’ is based on the assumption that

(a) All cultures are equal and respectable

(b) Culture is acquired through learning

(c) Culture is genetically transmitted

(d) Culture determines the makeup of human being

A.

288. Ethnic groups are also known as

(a) Deprived groups

(b) different groups

(c) Separate groups

(d) Primordial collectivities

D.

289. 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?

(a) Hunting and good gathering, pastoral, agricultural, industrial

(b) Agricultural, hunting and food gathering, pastoral, industrial

(c) Pastoral, hunting and food gathering, agricultural, industrial

(d) Hunting and food gathering, industrial, pastoral, agricultural

A.

290. An example of sub-culture may be

(a) American culture

(b) Indian culture

(c) Nepali culture

(d) Andamani culture

D.

291. Who holds that ‘culture is the handiwork of man and the medium through which he achieves his/her ends’?

(a) G.H. Mead

(b) F. Boas

(c) Kroeber

(d) Malinowski

D.

292. The relationship between the individual and culture is one in which

(a) The individual is simultaneously the product, the carrier and the creator of culture.

(b) Society and culture accounts for similarities of personality among the individuals but not the individuality of personality.

(c) The total complex of culture determines the behaviour of the individuals.

(d) Neither the individual creates culture nor does culture create the individual.

A.

293. Lower-class culture illustrates

(a) Sub-culture

(b) Counter culture

(c) Dominant culture

(d) Contra culture

A.

294. Herskovits used the term ‘enculturation’ for

(a) Socialisation

(b) Assimilation

(c) Transculturation

(d) Contra-acculturation

A.

295. Culture is the matrix of everything else. It is itself governed by its own laws of growth and operation. Neither human biology, nor human society is regarded as capable of explaining its reality. The above view of cultural determinism is

(a) Kroeber

(b) E.B. Tylor

(c) P. Sorokin

(d) Herskovits

A.

296. According to Margaret Mead’s finding in the Tehambuli tribe of New Guinea, the sex role seems to be revised. There women are dominant, they earn the living, handle business transactions, take the initiative in courtship, and head the family. Men are submissive, graceful, and prone to gossip and are expected to be good home makers. This difference is due to

(a) Political conditions

(b) Geographical conditions

(c) Cultural conditions

(d) Customary way of life

C.

297. Which is not a correct match?

(a) Linton – Contra culture

(b) Leslie White – Cultural determinism

(c) Kroeber – ethos and eidos

(d) Kluckhon – implicit and explicit elements

A.

298. Who was of the opinion that culture is social heritage; it is the gift of society to individual?

(a) Taylor

(b) Malinowski

(c) Herskovits

(d) W.B. Green

A.

299. While analysing the development of ‘self  has used the concept ‘significant others’

(a) MacIver

(b) Cooley

(c)Mead

(d)Giddings

C.

300. On which grounds heredity theory about the origin of society is being criticised?

(a) It is not concrete

(b) It is wrong to believe that heredity and environments are separable

(c) It is not possible to under-estimate the influence of environments

(d) On all these grounds

D.

301. Naturalistic theory about society was expounded by

(a) Max Weber

(b) Herbert Spencer

(c) August Comte

(d) None of the above

B.

302. The concept of ‘Looking-glass self has been given by

(a) Mead

(b) Giddings

(c) Cooley

(d) Maclver

C.

303. Which of the following is not one of the criticisms against sociology having its own- subject matter?

(a) Sociology is merely a mixture of varied study disciplines having social content

(b) The subject matter of sociology is disintegrated into various other social sciences

(c) Subject matter of sociology has been derived from so many social sciences

(d) The subject matter of sociology is a part of social studies.

D.

304. Who of the following has said that language is a ‘complex medium of oral expression of speech of community’?

(a) Gillin and Gillin

(b) Ginsbert

(c) Jacobs and Stem

(d) Charles Winick

C.

305.  Just as the picture in the mirror gives an image of the physical self, so the perception of others gives an image of the social self. This view is related to

(a) Imitation

(b) Looking glass self

(c) Consciousness of king

(d)Self-identification

B.

Answers

251(c) 252. (a) 253. (a) 254. (b) 255. (b)

256. (c) 257. (a) £58. (b) 249. (b) 260. (c)

261(d) *262. (a) 263. (8> 264. (c) 265. (c)

266. (a) 267. (a) 268. (dj 249. (b) 270. (a)

271(b) 272. (c) 273. (c) 274. (a) 275. (b)

276. (b) 277. (c) 278. (c) 279. (b) 280. (d)

281(b) 282. (a) 283. (d) 284. (a) 285. (d)

286. (d) 287. (a) 288. (a) 289. (a) 290. (a)

291(c) 292. (a) 293. (a) 294. (c) 295. (d)

296. (b) 297. (c) 298. (d) 299. (c)