R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Sociology Indian Society-Introducing Indian Society Part 6

Weber believed humans could not be studied purely objectively because they were influenced by

1. drugs
2. their culture
3. their genetic makeup
4. the researcher

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of these theories is most likely to look at the social world on a micro level?

1. Structural functionalism
2. Conflict theory
3. Positivism
4. Symbolic interactionism

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Sociology is characterized by a perspective that places in the foreground

1. Individual
2. Man?s inborn instincts
3. Social interaction
4. Unique social events

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which statement is not acceptable to sociological perspective?

1. Man has always been in association with other men
2. Man is a social animal
3. Man is taught by society to exhibit hostility in some situations and friendliness in others
4. Man is most biologically determined species of all

✅ Correct Answer: 4

While studying human behaviour, the sociologist:

1. Attempts to justify the values of the society to which he belongs
2. Discards values as they are a source of bias
3. Determines which values are of greater worth
4. Treats values as data which he studies

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A sociologist is primarily interested in:

1. The way in which human being mutually influence each other
2. Anything which is related in a causal way to the behaviour of man
3. The individuals, since he is convinced that it is individual who make society
4. The similarities between human behaviour and the behaviour of other animals

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Most important goal of sociology is:

1. Understanding society
2. Prediction of future events that may occur in society
3. Control of events in societies
4. To bring about revolutionary changes in society

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Animal society is based on__________ whereas human society is based on

1. Instincts, Reason
2. Sex drives, Cultural needs
3. Strength, Knowledge
4. None of these above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Polyandry and transient marriage relations were more common in primitive times than monogamy or polygamy. This view is followed from

1. Patriarchal theory
2. Polyandry theory
3. Matriarchal theory
4. Metronymic theory

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Matriarchal theory about the origin of society was supported by

1. Hobbes
2. Sir Henry Maine
3. Herbert Spencer
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The process of imitation may be perceptual or

1. Conscious
2. Deliberate
3. Spontaneous
4. Ideational

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Patriarchal theory about the origin of society believes that

1. Society was given to man by God
2. Society resulted because of use of force
3. Society became possible as a result of expansion of family headed by mother
4. Society became possible as a result of expansion of family headed by father

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Individual defies society because society frustrates individual?s attempt for the sake of

1. Promoting group interests
2. Collective interests
3. Elite interests
4. Interests of weaker sections of society

✅ Correct Answer: 2

One of the important limitations on our social life in our modem times is

1. Growth of industry
2. Growth of science and technology
3. Growth of agriculture
4. Process of standardisation

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not essential characteristic of society?

1. It is concrete
2. It is abstract
3. In it no one is independent
4. It is well organised

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Social institutions exist or continue on account of

1. Differences
2. Likeness
3. Without care for differences
4. Without care for likeness

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Freud has compared _________ with the horse and with its rider

1. Id, Super ego
2. Ego, Super ego
3. Id, Ego
4. Super ego, Id

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Institutional structure of a political institution is

1. Form of government
2. Participation behaviour of voters
3. Extent of judicial impartiality
4. Relationship of executive with judiciary

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Institutional structure of religion is

1. Religious scriptures
2. Priest
3. Church
4. Rituals

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which one of the following is not true of institutional structures?

1. These are definite entries for social operation
2. These exist in concrete form
3. These exist in discrete form
4. These give expression to institutionalised complexes

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Society can be properly studied if latent and manifest functions are

1. Kept separate from each other
2. Allowed to come closer to each other
3. Are made contradictory to each other
4. Are not allowed to interfere with each other

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who has tried to divide the functions of an institution as manifest and latent?

1. K. Davis
2. Maclver
3. Gillin & Gillin
4. Merton

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A group is an_________.

1. organic whole
2. artificial creation
3. organized gathering
4. natural growth

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In group and out group is the classification of groups given by

1. Sumner
2. Giddings
3. Elword
4. Ward

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A culture group that has relinquished some of it traditions and separate identity and partially accepted the values and ways of another culture, is called _____.

1. Institutional group
2. Marginal group
3. Acculturated group
4. Trans-cultured group

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following is a quasi-group?

1. Nation
2. Political party
3. Status group
4. Tribe

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Find out the incorrect match

1. Sumner-In group and out group
2. Cooley-Ethnocentrism
3. Mead-Significant others
4. Simmel-Monad, Dyad and Triad

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Parsons called the distribution of various roles among the actor in a social system as:

1. division of labour
2. allocation
3. role-set
4. stratification

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Any action involving the collective pursuit of collective goals is called-

1. organization
2. labelling
3. politics
4. dysfunction

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The social action in which individuals strive against each other for the possession of some limited material or non- material good is called

1. struggle
2. accommodation
3. conflict
4. competition

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The process in the actor situation individual in the case of a group is called

1. Cooperation
2. Gratification
3. Action
4. Integration

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which was of the view that functions refer to the objective consequences of patterned elements, e.g. roles, customs, norms and modes of behaviour?

1. Durkheim
2. R. Firth
3. Merton
4. Parsons

✅ Correct Answer: 3

____________ refers to observance of social norms.

1. Goals
2. Integration
3. Value-orientation
4. Pattern-maintenance

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The motivational orientation which supplies energy to the actor, according to Parsons is

1. cognitive, adaptive, and evaluative
2. cognitive, cathectic and evaluative
3. cathectic, cognitive, and adaptive
4. cognitive, expressive and cathectic

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Social system, cultural, personality and biological system, according to Parsons are __________ of human action system.

1. need dispositions
2. goals
3. values
4. sub-systems

✅ Correct Answer: 4

According to Parsons, actor?s orientation to the situation is

1. both motivational and value-orientational
2. motivational
3. value-orientational
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Parsons, _________ is made up of the interaction of human individuals.

1. action
2. adaptation
3. social system
4. pattern-maintenance

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Belief system is a fact of life. Which among the following has contributed to its development?

1. the feeling of fear
2. the desire to understand the supernatural
3. man?s experiment with truth
4. all

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which one of the following is usually not adopted as method for convincing the people that religious belief system should be strong?

1. Which one of the following is usually not adopted as method for convincing the people that religious belief system should be strong?
2. that its violation will displease supernatural powers
3. that its violation will revolutionize their social system
4. that it will result in loss of money

✅ Correct Answer: 1

When religious belief systems come in conflict with each other, the result is:

1. violent religious outbursts
2. changes in trade systems
3. changes in marriage systems
4. changes in materialistic outlook

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Religious belief systems are usually based on

1. materialistic approaches
2. are closely linked with each other
3. moral approaches to the problems
4. none of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Social change and belief system

1. are loosely linked with each other
2. are closely linked with each other
3. are not linked with each other
4. are indirectly linked with each other

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Religious belief system

1. does not create frustrations at all
2. always creates frustrations
3. at times creates frustration
4. has nothing to do with frustration

✅ Correct Answer: 4

In the religious belief system of the Hindus which of the following is not true?

1. it believes in transmigration of the soul
2. it believes in karma theory
3. it believes in salvation
4. it does not believe in the theory of transmigration of soul

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In belief system the Hindus

1. believe in karma theory
2. do not believe in karma theory
3. believe but only partially in karma theory
4. completely disown karma theory

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Belief system is usually

1. linked with supernatural power
2. not linked with supernatural power
3. disassociated from the super-natural power
4. none of the above is true

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Belief system in all the societies

1. is imposed on the people by the rulers
2. is imposed on the people by the feudal lords
3. develops gradually and slowly
4. is exchanged between the societies

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following is not a sanction behind the norms?

1. Law
2. Religion and morality
3. Education
4. Customs and public opinion

✅ Correct Answer: 3

To a considerable extent the norms that apply to a particular actor are ranked in some order of procedure. This built- in-arrangement is called:

1. Conformity
2. Deviation
3. Hierarchy
4. Socialization

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Any conflict in norms that apply to the same actor, inevitable results in deviation. This is called

1. Insulation
2. Socialization
3. Conformity
4. Integration

✅ Correct Answer: 4