Sociology MCQ Quiz Hub

1. _________ is action that is oriented to social norms and falls within the band of behaviour permitted by the norm.
Value
Conformity
Integration
Accommodation

2. Mark the correct statement out of the following
Nearly everyone is deviant in society
Leaders are not deviant people
Thinkers are never deviants in the absolute sense of the word
Deviance does not cause and damage to the society

3. Which one of the following does not fall under the category of deviant behaviour?
Quarrel of a child with his father
Addiction to drugs
Prostitution
None of the above

4. Select the correct statement out of the following
Deviant behaviour helps in creating new norms
All forms of deviations are socially useful
Deviation from norms makes the society up to date
Deviance should be encouraged to the maximum

5. Which of the following is not a good point in deviant behaviour?
Deviant behaviour helps in creating new norms
Deviant behaviour helps in adopting a culture
Deviant behaviour shown by preceding generation may become the norms of the succeeding generation
Deviant behaviour helps in creating reshuffle which may be useful for a group

6. What is institutionalised evasion?
The evasion of norms established by some institutions
The evasion which is imported by some institution
When norms of evasion are recognised and sanctioned by a group it is institutionalised norm
When an institution is established to train the individuals to evade some norms

7. When Lord Buddha renounced his crown, he showed deviant behaviour. It was due to
Personal factors
Anomie
The causes explained by the physical type theories
Failures in the process of socialization

8. Which among the following is true of superego?
It is the internalization of custom and culture as a whole
It speaks of morality and social order
Superego is thoroughly developed by Parental rewards & parents
All the above

9. Generalized others? of Mead is meant
Parents of the children
Family members
Community as a whole
Nothing can be said of it

10. According to G.H. Mead, the child firstly learns to responds to his-
Generalised others
Significant others
Himself
Society as a whole

11. When the secondary sexual characters appear in boys and girls showing as inclination of freedom indication towards opposite sex and a feeling they ensure from Parental case is that of his
Oral stage
Anal Stage
Oedipal stage
Adolescence

12. The child when become aware of his membership is the family and his social roles assigned to and expected of him is according to Freud
Oral Stage
Anal Stage
Oedipal Stage
Adolescence

13. The concept of looking self-glass means
A man?s seeing himself in to a mirror
Self-evaluation in the period of crisis
The individual?s imagination of how others see him or her
All the above

14. What name is associated with the theory of looking self-glass?
C.H. Cooley
G.H. Mead
S. Freud
Maclver

15. Talking of different stages of socialization who among the following has brought the notion of oral stage, anal stage, oedipal stage and adolescence?
Sigmund Freud
G.H. Mead
C.H. Cooley
R.K. Merton

16. Socialisation is a learning process in which a child is influenced by
Cognitive learning
Evaluative learning
Effective learning
All the above

17. Which among the following elements work efficiently in the process of socialization?
Environmental condition
Physical and Psychological heritage
Cultural heritage
Family pattern in which one is born

18. Which factors do not hinder the assimilation of minority groups with the majority groups?
Sympathetic attitude on the part of the majority group
Misbehaviour of the minority
Minority insisting on its culture
Overbearing attitude of the dominating group

19. Integration of a community is
Acceptance
Assimilation
Accommodation
A matter of adjustment

20. Which among the following is not right?
Accommodation eliminates conflict
Accommodation leads to assimilation
Accommodation is a step towards integration
Accommodation is appeasement of an adamant group

21. Accommodation is ?the process in which man attains a sense of harmony with his environment?. Which of the following statements do you think is not correct?
Accommodation follows conflict
Accommodation may result in cooperation
Accommodation is an unconscious activity
It is assimilation

22. Immigrants in all societies are at first
Avoided
Accommodated
Accepted
Assimilated

23. The system under which the boys and the girls are allowed to test each other?s compatibility before marriage is known as
companionate
experimental
indogamy
exogamy

24. Which one of the following is NOT a disadvantage of Polygamy?
It creates jealousy among family members
The fullest development of members of the family becomes difficult
Living standard and status of women comes down
The women are treated respectfully in the family

25. Who has defined family as a group governed by a sex- relationship sufficiently precise and enduring to provide for the procreation and upbringing of children?
Murdock
Maclver
Tylor
Briffault

26. A Nambudri family is called
Tarwad
Machong
Mam
Delingson

27. ______ terms refer more to relationship rather than to kin.
Classificatory
Descriptive
Exploratory
Expressive

28. Who calls ?clan? a compromise ?kingroup??
Murdock
Frazer
Boas
Elwin

29. The first woman who called for International Women?s Day in 1910 was
Margret Cousin
Aruna Asaf Ali
Clara Zetkin
Lucy Stone

30. The SAARC Decade for the Girl Child was
1961 ? 1970
1991 ? 2000
1971 ? 1980
1975 ? 1985

31. Changes in social positions with regard to variations in occupations, prestige, income, wealth, power and social class are referred to as
social change
international mobility
social mobility
migration

32. Vertical mobility involves
change in role
change in occupation
change in group
change in social class position

33. ____________action involves a clear awareness of goal.
Affective
Ethical
Charismatic
Rational

34. ___________ is a feature of industrial society.
Capitalism
Joint family
Jajmani system
None of the above

35. _________ is possible only if surplus is large enough to make it worthwhile.
Reciprocity
Redistribution
Gimwali
Market economy

36. ____________ refers to goods, services or assistance freely given to kin, friends and neighbours without any explicit statement that anything is expected in return.
Reciprocity
Generalized reciprocity
Balanced reciprocity
Mutual exchange

37. Which one of the following is NOT one of the features of urban community?
contacts are non-segmental
in it there is anonymity
in it there is homelessness
in it there is social heterogeneity

38. A fundamental aim of _________ is the closer integration of the rural civilization and urban civilization.
sectionalism
regionalism
nationalism
communalism

39. Population explosion means_______
increased rate of births
high birth rates and high death rates
drastic shift in the balance between birth and death
none of the above

40. ____________ in a political system is based on the expectations that those who make the decisions will meet certain obligations
Legitimacy
Prestige
Power
Mobility

41. According to Pareto, all elites__________
decay in quality
increase their quality
become more stable with the lapse of time
gradually gain power

42. Which one of the following is NOT true of Art. 338 of the constitution?
It has made a provision for the appointment of special officer for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes
It says that the President shall be given a report on the working of constitutional safeguards
The president of India shall get the report placed before the Parliament
The report shall be placed after every five years

43. Which Art. of the constitution deals with the appointment of a Minister in charge of tribal welfare?
Art. 164
Art. 165
Art. 166
Art. 167

44. Who criticized certain aspects of Spencer?s evolutionary theory?
L.T. Hobhouse
Karl Marx
Sorokin
Durkheim

45. Who differentiated material and non-material culture in his discussion of social change?
Ogburn
Sorokin
Tarde
Maclver

46. Which one of the following is NOT a valid criticism against Syndicalist philosophy
It is unscientific
It is vague
It is negative in nature
It provides guarantee against misuse of authority

47. Wright Mills explains elite rule in _____________ terms rather than in_________ terms
institutional, psychological
economical, psychological
institutional, economical
none of the above

48. In India which of the following was true about caste system in the past?
it was based on birth
it was based on religion
it was based on the ability of the persons
it was based on feudal system

49. Which one of the following is true statement about the schedule castes and the scheduled tribes?
Socially they have been neglected
Socially they are being uplifted
Socially no change is being brought about among them
Socially the society is opposed to their coming up

50. Human society had passed through three stages, namely savagery, barbarism and civilization, according to
Tylor
Spencer
Auguste Comte
Morgan