Sociology MCQ Quiz Hub

1. Lack of aptitude
Inborn
Adopted
Environmental
Both adopted and natura

2. Force theory about origin of society is not accepted because it is believed that:
It is not historically correct
State was given by God
It creates feat in the minds of the people
It is by now clear that state is expansion of families

3. According to_________, self and society are not identical
Cooley
Mead
Freud
Marx

4. Socialism is a _____ not a process.
Theory
Virtue
biological specialization
state of nature

5. In society differences grow due to:
Socialisation
Non-specialisation
Non-socialisation
Isolation

6. Force theory about origin of society makes us believes that:
Society was given by God
Force brought society into existence
Force has nothing to do with the emergence of society
Force has no relevance with the coming of society

7. In India, the institution of family has a trend towards:
Joint family
Single family
Patriarchal family
Matriarchal family

8. These days in India the institution of marriage is weakening because:
Our religious leaders are becoming rigid
women are becoming economically sell-sufficient
less number of people are liking to marry
people prefer small size family

9. Who among the following does not fall under the category of community?
Keralites in Delhi
Trade union movement
The people of U.S. origin
None of the above

10. Which one of the following is not correct about institutional structure?
There is rule to codify its working
There are no codified rules of its working
There are symbols which synthesize relationship
It is bound with the others

11. Industry is institutional structure of an institution which by nature is:
Political
Cultural
Economic
Social

12. Pick up one which is not true of an institution:
It is least concerned with customs and mores
Customs and mores are its distinguishing feature
It meets primary needs of the people
It is very stable

13. Which of the following is not the characteristic of an institution?
It must follow some well-established rules
Its strength is based on obedience to rules
These grow with the society
These have no definite objectives

14. Who of the following has defined institution by saying that, Institution is definite organisation pursuing some specific interest in a specific way?
R.M. Maclver
Ogbum
Ginsberg
E.A. Ross

15. Who of the following has said that A social institution is a functional configuration of culture pattern?
Kimball Young
Maclver
Ginsberg
Gillin and Gillin

16. Social institutions are sets of organised human relationships established by common will was said by:
C.H. Colley
E.A. Ross
Kingsley Davis
Sheriff and Sheriff

17. Which among the following constitutes a group?
Vegetables sellers following one another into a lane.
Members of a circus company engaged in performance.
Children running out of the school after it is closed for the day.
Partnership that has failed.

18. Indicate which of the following a group?
Some members of Bar Association discussing matters concerning their Association.
Some surgeons discussing an important subject of surgery.
An executive body of a trade union.
A horse-man, a cyclist, and a pedestrian going along the road.

19. Member of a small trade union is:
A social group
An associational group
A statistical group
A primary group

20. Which of the following is not a characteristic of social group?
Its members are conscious of shared membership.
Its members accept certain rights and obligations.
Its members are a casual collection of people
Its members have a distinctive set of interpersonal relations.

21. George Simmels classification of group as monad, dyad, triad etc. is based on:
physical proximity
nature of membership
social relations
size

22. Who among the following introduced the concept of imaginary reference group?
New Comb
Merton
Klinberg
Hyman

23. Who among the following have applied reference group theory in understanding sanskritization process in India?
Damle and Lynch
O. Lewis and Majumdar
Marriott and Singer
Srinivas and Beteille

24. Mark out the primary group among the following:
Members of a trade union
Family
Students of history
The social workers

25. Which among the following are reference groups?
College going students
Nuclear scientists
Marine engineers
All

26. Which among the following is not a secondary group?
Political party
A city
Labour union
Students in a class room

27. Which among the following do not constitute the reference group?
Cambridge scholars
Nov Ratans in the Court of Vikramaditya
Urchins on the road side
Members of the United Nations

28. Which among the following is secondary group?
Nurses attending upon patient
Production efficiency council in a factory
A picnic group
Cooperative Society

29. According to Tonnies, neighbourhood is types of_____________.
Community
Gesellschaft
Social group
Primary group

30. Find out the incorrect match-
Horizontal group ? craft union
Spatial groups ? corporation
Secondary group ? corporation
Primary group ? political party

31. Striving for admission is a ___________ behaviour.
reference group
primary group
in-group
secondary group

32. Which among the following is institutionalized and involves the right to take certain actions including decisions to issue commands?
confidence
strength
authority
force

33. According to Weber, the three types of leadership are:
rational, feudal and capitalistic
feudal, traditional and charismatic
legal, traditional and charismatic
none of the above

34. Social structure is a/an-
structural coherence
integration of ultimate values
ritualistic expression
functional arrangement

35. According to Parsons, society is a system having four basic functional prior conditions, they are-
adaptation, goal-orientation, integration and pattern maintenance
education, socialization, social control and religion
economic institutions, political institutions ideology and kinship
none of the above

36. When universalism is combined with achievement values, the result is a social structure of-
universalistic-achievement pattern
particularistic-ascription pattern
universalistic-ascription pattern
particularistic-achievement pattern

37. According to Weber the groups which are specifically concerned with influencing policies and making decisions in the interests of their membership are called_____________.
Parties
Communities
Political Parties
Relative Classes

38. According to H.M. Johnson, which one stands important for integration and pattern maintenance?
leadership
morality
marriage
kinship

39. According to Weber, which are stems from an individuals emotional stage at a particular time?
Affective action
Reflective action
Spring action
Rational action

40. With whose name will you associate the Voluntaristic theory of Action?
Parsons
Weber
Tonnies
Durkheim

41. Sociology is the interpretive understanding of social action. This definition was brought by-
Max Weber
Karl Marx
C. Levi Strauss
Henry Maine

42. Norms are
the conducts which incorporate value-judgments
the standardized generalisations
the conducts which are the guidelines of the expected behaviour
not pattern setting limits or the behaviour of an individual

43. Which of the following statements gives correct explanation of norms:
norms are those standards of group behaviour which the members must follow
norms are those standards which are obeyed to bring diffusion among the individuals
norms are certain rules which are adopted to keep the individuals away from any kind of interaction
norms act against the modes of behaviour of the individuals

44. Norm is:
actual behaviour
a culturally shared definition of desirable behaviour
behaviour desired by majority of the individuals
standard of behaviour

45. Social norms refer to:
all types of behaviour
the most frequently observed behaviour in a society
right type of behaviour
those standards or rules which specify appropriate and inappropriate behaviour

46. Which among the following has influenced mans faith and belief most?
the habitats
levels of culture achieved
the expanding experience
the in-born feeling

47. Institutional belief system:
cannot at all be changed
can be changed easily
can be changed rarely
can be changed only when few powerful in the society like that

48. Institutional belief system is one which is:
adopted by only one institution
adopted by few institution
adopted by a particular Society
discarded by all institution

49. Belief system in every religious system:
has some symbolic expressions
has nothing to do with symbols
adopts symbols when necessary
discards symbols at will