R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Sociology Indian Society-Introducing Indian Society Part 5

These two words were from which language

1. Latin and Greek
2. Arabic and Persian
3. German and French
4. Spanish and Greek

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Auguste Comte was of the opinion that sociology is very near to

1. Anthropology
2. Social Anthropology
3. Biology
4. Physics

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Emile Durkheim?s doctoral thesis was

1. Division of labour
2. Suicide
3. Hierarchy of Sciences
4. Elementary forms of religious life

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Anne Sociologique was founded in 1898 by

1. Saint Simon
2. Thomas Hobbes
3. Herbert Spencer
4. Emile Durkheim

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who among the following had made a distinction between societies based on status and those based upon contract?

1. E. Tylor
2. Sir Henry Maine
3. Sir James Frazer
4. M. N. Srinivas

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Sociologists have divided society into hierarchical stages on the basis of

1. technology, instruments, means of living
2. technology, use of fire, use of wheel
3. means of living
4. economy, means of living

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The first stage of human society was that of

1. Agriculture
2. Pastoralist
3. Hunting and food gathering
4. Cottage industries

✅ Correct Answer: 3

8. Prehistorians, anthropologists and sociologists believe that hunting and food gathering stage existed

1. 2,000 years ago
2. 2,600 years ago
3. 36,000 years ago
4. 5,000 years ago

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The hunting and food gathering stage is further divided into simple and developed stages on the basis of

1. Use of tools and the animals hunted
2. Use of stone and no use of stone
3. Use of fire and no use of fire
4. Use of wheel and no use of wheel.

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who classified societies into ?simple, compound, doubly compound, trebly compound??

1. Marx
2. Comte
3. H. Spencer
4. Sorokin

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The rule whereby the married couple establish their own residence is called

1. Avunculocal residence
2. Bilocal residence
3. Patrilocal residence
4. Neolocal residence

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The system in which a women is shared by the whole group is called

1. Group marriage
2. levirate
3. Polyandry
4. Endogamy

✅ Correct Answer: 3

It is difficult to determine biological father of the child in

1. Polyandry
2. Cross-cousin marriage
3. Exogamy
4. Polygyny

✅ Correct Answer: 1

To marry a women of a higher caste is called

1.
2.
3.
4.

✅ Correct Answer: 0

Identify one major reason for polyandry:

1. women?s high sexual demand
2. population explosion
3. scarcity of women
4. particular type of economy

✅ Correct Answer: 3

When two individuals compete peacefully for the control of limited resources we speak of competition and when two individuals with conflicting interest haggle over the terms of an exchange we speak of this situation as

1. Contradiction
2. Conflicting interests
3. Bargaining
4. Contradiction

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The policy of Laissez faire is associated with

1. Karl Marx
2. Adam Smith
3. David Ricardo
4. Badden Powel

✅ Correct Answer: 2

French sociologist Mauss has done studies on Eskimos regarding

1. Political structure
2. Marriage
3. Gift
4. Totemism

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which among the following has not stimulated the economic activities of man most?

1. The dangers around
2. According to law living / paying taxes
3. Sense of enterprise
4. Domestication of animals

✅ Correct Answer: 1

?Property consists of the rights and duties of one person or group as against all other persons and groups with respect to some scarce goods.? Whose view is this?

1. Hobhouse
2. Adam Smith
3. K. Davis
4. W. Moore

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which among the following was the most important condition for the growth of the early cities?

1. Surplus food production
2. Increase in population
3. Discoveries of new trades
4. Technological innovations

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Cities and towns came into existence due to

1. Movement of population
2. Growth of agriculture
3. Industrialisation
4. Development of commerce

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The essential characteristic of the rural society is

1. Individualism
2. Parochialism
3. Heterogeneity
4. Face-to-face relation

✅ Correct Answer: 4

?The political master always finds himself vis- a-vis the trained official in the position of a dilettante facing the expert. Whose opinion is this?

1. Harold Laski
2. Max Weber
3. Mosca
4. W. Pareto

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The local governments are generally entrusted with

1. The administration of local subjects
2. Performance of various functions
3. Developmental functions
4. Responsible to state government

✅ Correct Answer: 1

What differentiates state from nation?

1. people
2. government
3. territory
4. sovereignty

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who among the following were advocates of the conflict theory of stratification?

1. C.W. Mills, R. Dahrendorf, G. Lenski
2. C.W. Mills, Parsons, R. Dahrendorf
3. Goode, Hatt, C.W. Mills
4. C.W. Mills, R. Dahrendorf, Goode

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The statement ?there are some people who are more able than others? may be attributed to

1. Davis and Moore
2. Goode and Hatt
3. Parsons and Merton
4. Durkheim and Weber

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following is the oldest?

1. Cyclical view of social change
2. Linear view of social change
3. Evolutionary model of social change
4. Dialectical model of social change

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who was of the opinion that ?revolutions are locomotives of history??

1. E. Kant
2. K. Marx
3. Hegel
4. F. Engels

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Tribe may be an example of

1. Family
2. Association
3. Community
4. Caste

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which among following is rightly matched?

1. Samoans ? Radcliffe Brown
2. Taiga ? M.S.A Rao
3. Italian-American ? W.F. Whyte
4. Hopi ? Madan

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In which type of societies are the kings usually defied?

1. Where literacy prevails
2. Where much of illiteracy prevails
3. Where people have got a religious attitude
4. Where religion is far advanced than the prevailing time.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which of the following statements is correct?

1. Demographic studies do not forecast future population movement
2. Demographic studies attempt to forecast future population movement
3. Demographic studies only take present stock of population?s size and its structure
4. Demographic studies only take past account of a population in terms of age, sex and occupation of a population

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Demography is derived from a

1. Latin word
2. Greek word
3. Spanish word
4. Polynesian word

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Whom of the following has considered Indian tribes as backward Hindus?

1. Risley
2. Hutton
3. Ghurye
4. T.N. Madan

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Harijans are excluded from the chaturvarna system

1. as they are out-castes
2. as they are too inferior to be included in the varna scheme
3. by the Hindu religious texts
4. by villagers

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who introduced the term cross cousin?

1. Morgan
2. Tylor
3. Radcliffe-Brown
4. Levi Strauss

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Society has been defined as a ?web of social relationships? by

1. Talcott Parsons
2. Emile Durkheim
3. R.M. Maclver
4. R.K. Merton

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The square of standard deviation is called

1. variance
2. co-efficient
3. mean
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

After passing your B.Ed. examination, you go back to the same school where you were working before. Which of the following changes should your students notice in your teaching?

1. They find you better respected among your colleagues
2. You appear more stylish and better behave than before
3. There is a feeling of superiority in your movement and treatment of students
4. They find your giving more opportunities to them to learn themselves

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Durkheim was the first to establish ?functionalism? as a distinct approach in sociology. Identify the correct group of sociolo?gists, who further contributed to this ap?proach?

1. Malinowski, Radcliffe brown, Merton, Parsons
2. Weber, Marx, Dukheim, Parsons
3. Weber, Marx, Dukheim, Parsons
4. Parsons, Durkheim, Merton, Frazer

✅ Correct Answer: 1

How can the transformation from feudal?ism to capitalism be understood?

1. Change in values
2. Change in system
3. Change of system
4. Change of political system

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Identify the characteristic of community among the following

1. Collective life
2. Voluntary membership
3. Temporary membership
4. Definite goal

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which among the following is not an ex?ample of social institution?

1. Church services
2. Marriage
3. Tradition of dowry
4. Procession

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What does the social relationship primarily involve?

1. Institutions
2. Religion
3. Consciousness of other people
4. Associations

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A group organised to achieve a certain purpose is known as which among the following?

1. Institution
2. Community
3. Association
4. State

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which founder of sociology believed societies changed due to class struggle?

1. Emile Comte
2. Karl Marx
3. Plato
4. Herbert Spencer

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The difference between positivism and anti-positivism relates to:

1. whether individuals like or dislike their society
2. whether research methods use statistical data or person- to-person research
3. whether sociological studies can predict or improve society
4. all of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which would a quantitative sociologists use to gather data?

1. A large survey
2. A literature search
3. An in-depth interview
4. A review of television programs

✅ Correct Answer: 1