Principles of Sociology Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which branch of knowledge is related to “Science of society”
A. sociology
B. anthropology
C. economics
D. politics
Answer: A. sociology
2. Term ‘Sociology’ derived from ……………. Languages?
A. french and greek
B. latin and greek
C. italian and roman
D. latin and roman
Answer: B. latin and greek
3. The Latin word “Socius” means that ………………….?
A. community
B. arrangements
C. intimate relationship
D. companion or associate
Answer: D. companion or associate
4. Who coined the word ‘sociology’?
A. herbert spencer
B. durkheim
C. max weber
D. auguste comte
Answer: D. auguste comte
5. The term ‘Sociology’ firstly introduced in …………………….. Book?
A. first principle
B. sociology and philosophy
C. positive philosophy
D. principles of sociology
Answer: C. positive philosophy
6. ‘Positive philosophy’ published in …………………?
A. 1845
B. 1826
C. 1830
D. 1839
Answer: C. 1830
7. Auguste Comte is a …………………… Philosopher
A. italian
B. french
C. greek
D. american
Answer: B. french
8. The theory ‘Law of three stages’ proposed by……………………..?
A. karl marx
B. plato
C. auguste comte
D. herbert spencer
Answer: C. auguste comte
9. Who said “Sociology is science of structure and functions of social life”?
A. max weber
B. anthony giddens
C. morris ginsberg
D. j w bennet
Answer: D. j w bennet
10. Who defined “Sociology as the science of social institutions”?
A. h m johnson
B. emile durkheim
C. bogardus
D. mac iver and page
Answer: B. emile durkheim
11. Who defined “Sociology as science which attempts to interpretative understanding of social actions in order to arrive at causal explanation of its causes and effects”?
A. max weber
B. auguste comte
C. ogburn and nimkoff
D. e a ross
Answer: A. max weber
12. “It seems to be a study, first of the relationship and correlation between various classes of social phenomena” said by?
A. karl max
B. max weber
C. pitrim sorokin
D. hobhouse
Answer: C. pitrim sorokin
13. Who proposed the principle that “Study social facts as things”
A. emile durkheim
B. karl manheim
C. j f cuber
D. herbert spencer
Answer: A. emile durkheim
14. Who wrote the book ‘Division of labour in society’?
A. b malinowski
B. karl marx
C. emile durkheim
D. robert k merton
Answer: C. emile durkheim
15. The types of ‘Mechanical and Organic solidarity’ Proposed by ……………….?
A. radcliff brown
B. emile durkheim
C. e b tylor
D. c h cooley
Answer: B. emile durkheim
16. Which term coined by Emile Durkheim?
A. little community
B. positivism
C. anomie
D. naturalism
Answer: C. anomie
17. Who introduced the term ‘Egoistic Suicide’
A. c h cooley
B. w g sumner
C. pitirim sorokkin
D. emile durkheim
Answer: D. emile durkheim
18. According to Durkheim, Over integration lead to ……………….. type of suicide?
A. altruistic suicide
B. egoistic suicide
C. anomic suicide
D. individualistic
Answer: A. altruistic suicide
19. According to Marx, Working class is also referred to as ………………………?
A. bourgeoisie
B. feudalist
C. capitalsist
D. proletariat
Answer: D. proletariat
20. Who put forwarded the view point ‘Materialist conception of history’
A. kingsley davis
B. karl marx
C. weber
D. ralf dahrendorf
Answer: B. karl marx
21. Who wrote “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle”?
A. aguste comte
B. karl marx
C. ferdinand tonnies
D. herbert spencer
Answer: B. karl marx
22. ‘The protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism’ authored by ……………………..?
A. max weber
B. karl manheim
C. spencer
D. durkheim
Answer: A. max weber
23. Who proposed the idea that ‘Ideal type’?
A. aristotle
B. anthony gidddens
C. max weber
D. alfred schutz
Answer: C. max weber
24. Who contribute the concept ‘Verstehen’
A. peter berger
B. max weber
C. harold garifinkel
D. thomas luckman
Answer: B. max weber
25. Who proposed the concept of ‘Symbolic Interactionism’
A. robert k merton
B. c h cooley
C. g h mead
D. erving goffman
Answer: C. g h mead
26. Which theory proposed by Robert K Merton?
A. theories of middle range
B. folkways
C. power elite
D. religion of humanity
Answer: A. theories of middle range
27. Author of the book ‘Tearoom trade’?
A. talcott parson
B. linton
C. levi strauss
D. laud humphreys
Answer: D. laud humphreys
28. Find out a functionalist sociologist?
A. emile durkheim
B. karl marx
C. g h mead
D. ralf dahrendorf
Answer: A. emile durkheim
29. Which perspective asserts that “Society is a complex system, Whose various parts work together to produce stability and order”
A. conflict approach
B. symbolic interactionism
C. functionalism
D. structuralism
Answer: C. functionalism
30. Which sociologist distinguished ‘Manifest and Latent function’
A. robert k merton
B. g h mead
C. sir henry maine
D. kingsley davis
Answer: A. robert k merton
31. Functionalist perspective given significance to ………………………… in maintaining order stability in society?
A. universalism
B. moral consensus
C. individualism
D. cooperation
Answer: B. moral consensus
32. The perspective emphasize to ‘symbol’ is known as ………………………..?
A. particularistic
B. functionalism
C. stigma
D. symbolic interactionism
Answer: D. symbolic interactionism
33. Find out the exponent of synthetic school of thought?
A. max weber
B. george simmel
C. vier kandt
D. pitirim sorokin
Answer: D. pitirim sorokin
34. Which school of thought forwarded the idea that “Sociology is pure and independent science”
A. synthetic school
B. frankfurt school
C. specialistic or formalistic school
D. social conflict theory
Answer: C. specialistic or formalistic school
35. The school of thought proposing that “Sociology is a general science, not a pure Science”
A. specialistic school
B. synthetic school of thought
C. frankfurt school
D. symbolic interactionism
Answer: B. synthetic school of thought
36. The author of Book ‘The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling’
A. hyman
B. robert e park
C. arlie hochschild
D. george simmel
Answer: C. arlie hochschild
37. Who wrote the book ‘The sociological Imagination’?
A. auguste comte
B. peter berger
C. c wright mills
D. ralf dahrendorf
Answer: C. c wright mills
38. Which sociologist made a distinction between ‘The personal trouble of milleu’ and ‘the Public issues of social structure’?
A. c wright mills
B. a. handerson
C. e s bogardus
D. n j smelser
Answer: A. c wright mills
39. The book ‘The Sociological imagination’ written on………………….?
A. 1969
B. 1959
C. 1955
D. 1970
Answer: B. 1959
40. The word ‘Society’ derived from ……………… language?
A. greek
B. latin
C. roman
D. french
Answer: B. latin
41. The book ‘society’ authored by……………. ?
A. talcott parson
B. saint siomn
C. mac iver and page
D. herbert spencer
Answer: C. mac iver and page
42. Which is not a characteristic of society?
A. the range of social relationships
B. society is concrete concept
C. society involves both likeness and difference
D. physical conditions of social relationships
Answer: B. society is concrete concept
43. …………………. has propounded the concept of ‘Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft’
A. g c homans
B. c h cooley
C. peter berger
D. ferdinand tonnies
Answer: D. ferdinand tonnies
44. Which is the characteristic of industrial society?
A. hunting and gathering
B. personal relationship
C. less division of labour
D. impersonal relationships
Answer: B. personal relationship
45. The book ‘Society, culture and personality’ authored by ………………..?
A. jeffrey alexander
B. d sanderson
C. pitirim sorokin
D. george mead
Answer: C. pitirim sorokin
46. Who said “Man is a social animal”?
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. saint simon
Answer: B. aristotle
47. Who introduce the concept ‘primary group’”?
A. c h cooley
B. w g sumner
C. g h mead
D. robert k merton
Answer: A. c h cooley
48. Who authored the book ‘Society in America’ in 1837?
A. charles h cooley
B. n mc clelland
C. patrick geddes
D. harriet martineau
Answer: A. charles h cooley
49. Who authored ‘Class and class conflict in industrial society’?
A. mckim marriot
B. ralph dahrendorf
C. howard becker
D. ernst troeltsch
Answer: B. ralph dahrendorf
50. The book, ‘Social organisation; a study of the larger mind’ authored by…………?
A. robert redfield
B. cohen
C. c h cooley
D. milton singer
Answer: C. c h cooley
51. In which book, C H Cooley introduced the concept ‘Primary group’?
A. human society
B. social organization; a study of the larger mind
C. social process
D. the roots of social knowledge
Answer: B. social organization; a study of the larger mind
52. Find out the example for ‘primary group’?
A. trade union
B. political parties
C. factory
D. family
Answer: D. family
53. Who divide social group into ‘Vertical and Horizontal Group’?
A. p a sorokin
B. evans pritchard
C. radcliffe brown
D. r k merton
Answer: A. p a sorokin
54. Who defines “A social group is a system of social interaction”?
A. oscar lewis
B. maxmuller
C. robert e park
D. harry m johnson
Answer: D. harry m johnson
55. Author of ‘Folkways’?
A. e b tylor
B. w g sumner
C. malinowski
D. a beteille
Answer: B. w g sumner
56. In which book, Sumner differentiate Groups into ‘In groups and Out groups’?
A. social static
B. social consciousness
C. folkways
D. human nature and social order
Answer: C. folkways
57. ……………….. is an example for Out group
A. family
B. sports team
C. caste group
D. friendship group
Answer: B. sports team
58. Who said “Organization is an effective group device for getting something done”
A. ogburn and nimkoff
B. robin fox
C. mac iver
D. ian robertson
Answer: A. ogburn and nimkoff
59. Who propound the concept of ‘Membership and Non membership’?
A. malinowski
B. robert h lowie
C. muzafer sherif
D. robert k merton
Answer: D. robert k merton
60. Find out an example for Membership group?
A. family
B. political parties
C. school
D. club
Answer: A. family
61. The individual acquire the membership of other group is known as …………………?
A. organised group
B. large group
C. vertical group
D. non membership group
Answer: D. non membership group
62. Who propound the concept of ‘Positive and Negative group’?
A. sumner
B. new comb
C. robertson
D. r k merton
Answer: B. new comb
63. The concept ‘Reference group’ introduced by ……………………?
A. muzafir sherif
B. c h cooley
C. robert k merton
D. radcliffe brown
Answer: A. muzafir sherif
64. ‘An outline of social psychology’ authored by …………….?
A. w f ogburn
B. wilbert moore
C. muzafir sherif
D. kimball young
Answer: C. muzafir sherif
65. Who defined “Reference groups as those group to which individual relates himself as a part
or to which he relates himself psychologically”?
A. muzafer sherif
B. pitirim sorokin
C. talcott parson
D. wesetermark
Answer: A. muzafer sherif
66. Who defined “Institutions may be described as recognised and established usages governing
the relations between individual and groups”
A. j g frazer
B. g p murdock
C. patrick geddes
D. ginsberg
Answer: D. ginsberg
67. ………………. Is an primary institutions
A. constitution
B. family
C. law
D. education
Answer: B. family
68. Who made distinction between ‘Cressicive and Enacted’ institution?
A. sumner
B. pareto
C. spencer
D. charles metcalf
Answer: A. sumner
69. The institutions evolved or developed unconsciously are called ………………..?
A. enacted
B. reference
C. cressicive
D. organised
Answer: C. cressicive
70. The institution established consciously and planned are called …………………….?
A. enacted
B. ingroup
C. unorganised
D. cressicive
Answer: A. enacted
71. Who defined “Sociology as the study of social dynamic and Social static”
A. max weber
B. karl marx
C. herbert spencer
D. auguste comte
Answer: D. auguste comte
72. “In its basic sense social change means changing in social structure” said by
A. gunnar myrdal
B. h m johnson
C. gillin and gillin
D. a w green
Answer: B. h m johnson
73. The term Family derived from ……………… language?
A. greek
B. french
C. roman
D. latin
Answer: D. latin
74. The meaning of the word ‘Famulus’
A. association
B. servant
C. emotionality
D. co habiting
Answer: B. servant
75. Who defined “Family is a more or less durable association of husband and wife with or
without children, or of a man or women alone with children”
A. ogburn and nimkoff
B. george peter murdock
C. clare
D. horton and hunt
Answer: A. ogburn and nimkoff
76. ………………. is the basic or primary unit of society
A. education
B. family
C. law
D. political party
Answer: B. family
77. Which sociologist classified family function as an ‘Essential and Non essential function’?
A. talcott parson
B. elliot smith
C. mac iver
D. l h morgan
Answer: C. mac iver
78. It is a type of family that group of kins of two or more generation living together under the
same roof.
A. nuclear family
B. joint family
C. extended family
D. patriarchal family
Answer: B. joint family
79. The important characteristic of joint family are …………………….?
A. common residence
B. joint property
C. common kitchen
D. all of the above
Answer: D. all of the above
80. Which type of family consist of husband, wife and unmarried children?
A. nuclear family
B. extended family
C. joint family
D. neolocal family
Answer: A. nuclear family
81. ……………….. family consist of husband, wife, their children and either the parents of husband
and wife
A. matriarchal family
B. nuclear family
C. extended family
D. patrilocal family
Answer: C. extended family
82. The family, in which male is the head and ruling power is known as
A. matriarchal family
B. patriarchal family
C. patrilineal family
D. matrilocal
Answer: B. patriarchal family
83. ……………….. as the mother or female centred or dominated family?
A. matriarchal family
B. patriarchal family
C. neolocal family
D. nuclear family
Answer: A. matriarchal family
84. In this type of family, the wife live in the husband home is known as ……………….?
A. matrilocal family
B. matrilineal family
C. patrilocal family
D. neolocal family
Answer: C. patrilocal family
85. Which type of family characterised that, after the marriage husband goes to live in the home
of wife?
A. patriarchal family
B. matrilocal family
C. patrilineal family
D. matriarchal family
Answer: B. matrilocal family
86. The lineage or descent traces through the father is known as ………………..?
A. patriarchal family
B. matrilocal family
C. patrilineal family
D. neolocal family
Answer: C. patrilineal family
87. The lineage or descent traced through the mother is known as ……………..?
A. matrilineal family
B. matrilocal family
C. neolocal
D. patriarchal family
Answer: A. matrilineal family
88. ……………….. is the family constituted or established through marriage relationship?
A. consanguineous
B. affinal family
C. living together
D. extended family
Answer: B. affinal family
89. Blood relationships are constitutes or establish family is known as…………………?
A. consanguineous
B. extended family
C. affinal family
D. living together
Answer: A. consanguineous
90. ………………… is the social institution which is helped to control or regulate sexual life of man
A. kinship
B. economic institution
C. marriage
D. political institution
Answer: C. marriage
91. “Marriage is a contract for the production and maintenance of children” who said?
A. morris ginsberg
B. b. malinowski
C. c h cooley
D. robert redfield
Answer: B. b. malinowski
92. ………………. is the type of marriage in which one man marries only one women.
A. polygyny
B. endogamy
C. monogamy
D. hypogamy
Answer: C. monogamy
93. One individual marries more than one individual of opposite sex is called ………………..?
A. polygamy
B. monogamy
C. polyandry
D. exogamy
Answer: A. polygamy
94. It is a type of marriage practice, one man marries more than one woman is known
as……………..?
A. polygyny
B. endogamy
C. hypergamy
D. polyandry
Answer: A. polygyny
95. One woman marries more than one man is a …………… form of marriage?
A. exogamy
B. hypergamy
C. polygamy
D. polyandry
Answer: D. polyandry
96. The lower caste or status woman marries a higher caste or status man is a …………….. form
of marriage?
A. polygyny
B. hypergamy
C. endogamy
D. polygyny
Answer: B. hypergamy
97. Hypergamy is also known as ………………..?
A. pratiloma
B. polygyny
C. anuloma
D. monogamy
Answer: C. anuloma
98. The woman marrying a man, belonging to lower status of that woman is known as
A. hypogamy
B. polyandry
C. polygyny
D. monogamy
Answer: A. hypogamy
99. Hypogamy is also known as ……………………?
A. pratiloma
B. exogamy
C. anuloma
D. polyandry
Answer: A. pratiloma
100. ……………….. is a rule of marriage in which man or woman marry within the group?
A. polygyny
B. hypogamy
C. exogamy
D. endogamy
Answer: D. endogamy
101. A man or woman marries outside of the group is known as ……………………?
A. hypergamy
B. exogamy
C. endogamy
D. monogamy
Answer: B. exogamy
102. ………………. is a basic social system that bind people together on the basis of blood or
marriage?
A. peer group
B. labour party
C. school
D. kinship
Answer: D. kinship
103. “Kinship is a structure system of relationship in which individuals are bound to one another
by complex interlocking and ramifying ties” who said?
A. t berten
B. l h morgan
C. g p murdock
D. f g bailey
Answer: C. g p murdock
104. Kinship relations is based on marriage is known as …………………. ?
A. affinal kinship
B. symbolic
C. corporate group
D. consanguineous kinship
Answer: A. affinal kinship
105. Kinship system is based on blood relation is known as ……………….?
A. corporate group
B. phatry
C. consanguineous kinship
D. affinal kinship
Answer: C. consanguineous kinship
106. In terms of degree of closeness, father and son relationship is an example for ……………..
kinship?
A. secondary kinship
B. primary kinship
C. tertiary kinship
D. bilateral
Answer: B. primary kinship
107. Find out an example for Secondary kinship?
A. sister brother
B. husband-wife
C. wife of brother in law
D. fathers brother
Answer: B. husband-wife
108. Which is not an example for Tertiary kinship?
A. wife of brother in law
B. sisters husband
C. fathers brothers wife
D. none of the above
Answer: B. sisters husband
109. It is a kinship behaviour, that impose some restriction to close interaction between kins is
known as ……………….?
A. avoidence
B. teknonymy
C. joking relationship
D. amitate
Answer: A. avoidence
110. Kinship usage which is husband and wife never addresses each other directly rather they
referring through either the name of son or daughter or a symbol?
A. respect
B. joking relationship
C. avanculate
D. teknonymy
Answer: D. teknonymy
111. The maternal uncle occupy a important place in the kinship relations is known as
A. teknonymy
B. avanculate
C. avoidence
D. joking relationship
Answer: B. avanculate
112. In a kinship behaviour, which give more importance to one’s father’s sister is called
………………..?
A. respect
B. teknonymy
C. amitate
D. joking relationship
Answer: C. amitate
113. Who defined “Economic institution means the production and distribution of goods and
services and procedure of competition and bargain in exchange”
A. mac iver and page
B. g tarde
C. fredrick barth
D. frank notestein
Answer: A. mac iver and page
114. “Religion is a belief in supernatural being” who said?
A. e goffman
B. e b tylor
C. b malinowski
D. g h mead
Answer: B. e b tylor
115. Who propounded the theory of ‘Naturalism’?
A. james frazer
B. radcliffe brown
C. p a sorokin
D. t b bottomore
Answer: A. james frazer
116. The word Education is derived from …………………… language
A. french
B. spanish
C. latin
D. greek
Answer: C. latin
117. The word Education originated from …………………….?
A. educate
B. educare
C. eduzone
D. nurture
Answer: B. educare
118. What is the meaning of ‘Educare’?
A. cooperation
B. intimate
C. situations
D. to bring up
Answer: D. to bring up
119. “Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man” who said?
A. swami vivekananda
B. plato
C. m k gandhi
D. jean piaget
Answer: A. swami vivekananda
120. “Education is the creation of sound mind in a sound body” who said?
A. john dewey
B. b f skinner
C. aristotle
D. socrates
Answer: C. aristotle
121. Open school and correspondence courses are example for ………………?
A. formal
B. informal
C. nonformal
D. unformed
Answer: C. nonformal
122. “The political institution is concerned with the division of power and authority in society”
who said?
A. bottomre
B. michel foucault
C. garifinkel
D. althuser
Answer: A. bottomre
123. ……………………. is the ability to control behaviour of other individual without their consent
A. rationality
B. attitude
C. compliance
D. power
Answer: B. attitude
124. Which is not an authority proposed by Max Weber?
A. traditional authority
B. rational- legal authority
C. institutionalised authority
D. charismatic authority
Answer: C. institutionalised authority
125. The theory ‘Circulation of elites’ Propounded by ……………………..?
A. s f nadel
B. vilfredo pareto
C. gardner murphy
D. marcel mauss
Answer: B. vilfredo pareto
126. Who propounded the theory ‘Power elites’?
A. c wright mills
B. james frazer
C. herbert blumer
D. r collins
Answer: A. c wright mills
127. …………………. means that transition from one social position to another
A. social mobility
B. norms
C. social heterogeneity
D. folkways
Answer: A. social mobility
128. The company manager transfer to another company without change in position is an
example for……………….. mobility
A. vertical mobility
B. intergenerational mobility
C. upward mobility
D. horizontal mobility
Answer: A. vertical mobility
129. “Horizontal mobility means the transition of an individual or social object from one social
group to another situated on the same level” who said?
A. paul f lazersfeld
B. pitrim a sorokin
C. w f whyte
D. p v young
Answer: B. pitrim a sorokin
130. Change in income is an example for ……………….. Mobility?
A. horizontal moblity
B. intergenerational mobility
C. intragenerational mobility
D. vertical mobility
Answer: D. vertical mobility
131. Which sociologist considers Horizontal mobility as the lateral mobility?
A. anthony giddens
B. peter berger
C. thomas luckmann
D. j derrida
Answer: A. anthony giddens
132. “Horizontal mobility as lateral mobility involving geographical movement between
neighbours, towns or regions” who defined?
A. jeffry c alexander
B. oscar lewis
C. anthony giddens
D. n k bose
Answer: C. anthony giddens
133. Vertical social mobility “as the relations involved in a transition of an individual (Or a
Social object) from one social stratum to another” who said?
A. walter b miller
B. pitrim a sorokin
C. g tarde
D. g ritzer
Answer: B. pitrim a sorokin
134. Ascending or descending mobility is related to ………………….?
A. horizontal mobility
B. intergenerational mobility
C. downward mobility
D. vertical mobility
Answer: D. vertical mobility
135. Socio economic position changed into up or down in the hierarchical structure it is known
as ……………….?
A. upward mobility
B. vertical mobility
C. intergenerational mobility
D. horizontal mobility
Answer: B. vertical mobility
136. Who proposed that downward mobility is less common than upward mobility?
A. anthony giddens
B. wallerstein
C. robertson
D. ashish bose
Answer: A. anthony giddens
137. Occupational structure of society is changed due to mobility is called …………….?
A. structural mobility
B. upward mobility
C. intra mobility
D. inter mobility
Answer: A. structural mobility
138. “The mobility occur during the lifespan of a single generation” is known as ……………..?
A. downward mobility
B. vertical mobility
C. upward mobility
D. intragenerational mobility
Answer: D. intragenerational mobility
139. …………………. refers to mobility within the time span of two or more generations?
A. horizontal mobility
B. intergenerational mobility
C. downward mobility
D. structural mobility
Answer: B. intergenerational mobility
140. Which of the statement are false about commonsense?
A. formed on the basis of certain constraints
B. based on scientific support
C. commonsense knowledge is related to subjective
D. commonsense is particular and
Answer: B. based on scientific support
141. Who defined “Socialization is process by which the helpless infant gradually becomes self
aware, knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of culture into which he or she is born”?
A. samir amin
B. j c caldwell
C. anthony giddens
D. k davis
Answer: C. anthony giddens
142. ………………….. is the process of biological being into social being.
A. acculturation
B. socialization
C. diffusion
D. assimilation
Answer: B. socialization
143. ……………….. socialization that the child satisfy primary needs from primary social
institutions.
A. adult socialization
B. secondary socialization
C. gender socialization
D. primary socialization
Answer: D. primary socialization
144. Peer group is an agent of ………………… Socialization
A. primary socialization
B. re socialization
C. adult socialization
D. gender socialization
Answer: A. primary socialization
145. Family and Neighbourhood play group is an example for …………….. Socialization
A. adult socialization
B. re socialization
C. micro level socialization
D. macro level socialization
Answer: C. micro level socialization
146. Which is the formal agency in the process of child socialization?
A. family
B. peer group
C. school
D. neighbourhood
Answer: C. school
147. ……………… refers to “process of leaving certain social behaviour patterns and role in order
to adopt new one as part of one’s evolution in life”
A. re socialization
B. anticipatory socialization
C. adult socialization
D. de socialization
Answer: A. re socialization
148. In contemporary society,………………………. play a greater role in the process of socialization
A. folkways
B. mass media
C. traditional beliefs
D. individual conflicts
Answer: B. mass media
149. ………………. is a process “in which someone is consciously socialized for future
occupations, positions and social relationships”
A. adult socialization
B. re socialization
C. gender socialization
D. anticipatory socialisation
Answer: D. anticipatory socialisation
150. Which stage is characterised that, by means of crying the child establishes or involved in
communication with mother?
A. oedipal stage
B. anal stage
C. oral stage
D. adolescence
Answer: C. oral stage
151. Which stage is characterised that child taught to do some task such as toileting, keep
clothing etc.
A. anal stage
B. oral stage
C. oedipal stage
D. adolescence
Answer: A. anal stage
152. Who develop the concepts that “Oedipus complex and Electra complex”
A. b berelson
B. smelser
C. robert a dahl
D. freud
Answer: D. freud
153. …………. means that feeling of jealousy towards father and love towards mother?
A. electra complex
B. oedipus complex
C. id
D. ego
Answer: B. oedipus complex
154. The feeling of jealousy towards the mother and love towards the father is an ………………
complex?
A. oedipus complex
B. super ego
C. electra complex
D. id
Answer: C. electra complex
155. ‘The boys and girls try to become free from parental control’ is an feature of …………..
stage?
A. adolescence stage
B. oedipal stage
C. anal stage
D. oral stage
Answer: A. adolescence stage
156. Who introduced the concepts “Social control”?
A. g mosca
B. e a ross
C. h h hyman
D. g p murdock
Answer: B. e a ross
157. The concept ‘social control’ introduced in ……………. books
A. social control
B. fundamentals of sociology
C. the idea of social science
D. economy and society
Answer: A. social control
158. The book “Social control: a survey of the foundations of order” published in …………….?
A. 1910
B. 1908
C. 1905
D. 1901
Answer: D. 1901
159. “Social control refers to the system of devices whereby society brings its members into
conformity with the accepted standards of behaviour” who said?
A. levi strauss
B. e a ross
C. g h mead
D. dahrendorf
Answer: B. e a ross
160. The term …………….. Concerned with the maintenance of order and stability in society
A. social control
B. social movement
C. social conflict
D. social structure
Answer: A. social control
161. Find out which is not a goal or purpose of social control?
A. conformity
B. solidarity
C. continuity of group
D. differentiation
Answer: D. differentiation
162. Social controlling methods which are deliberately formed and interactions are impersonal in
nature?
A. informal social control
B. formal social control
C. unorganised social control
D. unconscious social control
Answer: B. formal social control
163. Find out an informal means of social control?
A. political party
B. religion
C. trade union
D. factory
Answer: B. religion
164. Which is not included in the formal means of social control?
A. student association
B. trade union
C. office
D. folkways
Answer: D. folkways
165. The formal means of social control characterised by uniformity, unhealed by political
authority and penal sanction?
A. law
B. family
C. education
D. peer group
Answer: A. law
166. Who said that “Education as the socialization of the younger generation”
A. d cooper
B. r h turner
C. g h mead
D. durkheim
Answer: D. durkheim
167. Folkways and More are ………….. forms of social control
A. informal
B. organised
C. formal
D. direct
Answer: A. informal
168. Who compared societies to a living organism?
A. emile durkheim
B. talcott parson
C. herbert spencer
D. malinowski
Answer: C. herbert spencer
169. Who defined “Social structure of an arrangement of person in institutionally controlled or
defined social relationship?
A. radcliff brown
B. g homans
C. c h cooley
D. herbert blumer
Answer: A. radcliff brown
170. Social structure is based on …………………
A. values
B. custom
C. more
D. role and status
Answer: D. role and status
171. …………… is a socially defined position or rank with in a group or society
A. role
B. status
C. sanction
D. conformity
Answer: B. status
172. The process of socialization is a ………………. process?
A. tentative
B. life long
C. unsure
D. halting
Answer: B. life long
173. According to Radcliff Brown, Social structure refers to an ………………….
A. interaction
B. standard of behaviour
C. arrangement of person
D. mutual relationships
Answer: C. arrangement of person
174. Status based on irrespective of efforts is called ………………….
A. ascribed
B. constructed
C. achieved
D. none of the above
Answer: A. ascribed
175. Find out an example for ascribed status?
A. lawyer
B. college professor
C. doctor
D. age
Answer: D. age
176. The status acquired on the basis of effort or abilities?
A. voluntary status
B. achieved status
C. ascribed status
D. none of the above
Answer: B. achieved status
177. Which status is an example for achieved status?
A. age
B. caste
C. engineer
D. religion
Answer: C. engineer
178. …………….. Expected behaviour one individual hold a certain status or position
A. role
B. custom
C. rituals
D. ideals
Answer: A. role
179. ………………. is an orderly and systematic arrangement of social interaction.
A. social mobilisation
B. social system
C. social consensus
D. sanction
Answer: B. social system
180. ……………… refers to classification and placement of people with in society?
A. social stratification
B. social pattern
C. social integration
D. adaptation
Answer: A. social stratification
181. ‘Feeling of superiority and inferiority among the members of different strata’ is an
characteristics of ……………………
A. social mobility
B. social control
C. social stratification
D. social homogeneity
Answer: C. social stratification
182. Who defined “The process by which individuals and groups are ranked in a more or less
enduring hierarchy of status is known as stratification?”
A. g lenski
B. ogburn and nimkoff
C. talcott parson
D. a giddens
Answer: B. ogburn and nimkoff
183. Vertical social mobility is possible in ……………………. stratification system
A. closed
B. horizontal
C. ascribed
D. open
Answer: D. open
184. Class is an example for …………………….. stratification
A. open
B. ascribed
C. endogamous
D. closed
Answer: A. open
185. The Book ‘Social and cultural mobility’ authored by
A. james frazer
B. e b tylor
C. pitirim sorokin
D. max muller
Answer: C. pitirim sorokin
186. Caste based society is a …………. system of stratification
A. open
B. closed
C. vertical
D. none of the above
Answer: B. closed
187. What are the major types of stratification?
A. caste
B. social class
C. estate
D. all the above
Answer: D. all the above
188. The term ‘Caste’ derived from …………….. Language?
A. french
B. spanish
C. roman
D. greek
Answer: B. spanish
189. The Spanish word ‘Casta’ means…………….. ?
A. breed or lineage
B. grouping
C. category
D. classification
Answer: A. breed or lineage
190. Who said, “Caste is a closed social group”
A. s c roy
B. g s ghurye
C. m n srinivas
D. dn majumdar and t n madan
Answer: D. dn majumdar and t n madan
191. According to Chathurvarna system, Hindu society divided into ………………….. varnas
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five
Answer: C. four
192. “Culture is that complex whole which include knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom
and other capabilities acquired by man as a member of society” said by?
A. herbert spencer
B. edward tylor
C. h d laswell
D. robert redfield
Answer: B. edward tylor
193. Who defined “Culture as the cumulative creation of man”?
A. radcliffe brown
B. evans pritchard
C. b. malinowski
D. durkheim
Answer: C. b. malinowski
194. Which is not a characteristic of culture?
A. culture is social
B. culture is static
C. culture is transmitive
D. culture is learned
Answer: B. culture is static
195. Who proposed the concept of ‘Material and Non material Culture’?
A. ogburn and nimkoff
B. r a nisbet
C. robert e park
D. l h morgan
Answer: A. ogburn and nimkoff
196. Non material culture consist of ………………..?
A. technological objects
B. manmade objects
C. products produced from factory
D. religion, folkways, social values, believes
Answer: D. religion, folkways, social values, believes
197. Who formulated the concept of ‘Cultural Lag’?
A. ralph linton
B. ogburn and nimkoff
C. evans pritchard
D. a l krober
Answer: B. ogburn and nimkoff
198. Knowledge is an example for ……………………..?
A. material culture
B. organizational culture
C. concrete
D. non material culture
Answer: D. non material culture
199. The borrowing of cultural elements from another society is called ……………………..
A. assimilation
B. acculturation
C. integration
D. diffusion
Answer: B. acculturation
200. The term ‘Social norm’ firstly used by …………………………?
A. muzafer sherif
B. henry maine
C. herskovits
D. westermarck
Answer: A. muzafer sherif
201. The book “The psychology of social norms” authored by ……………………….?
A. muzafer sherif
B. howard s becker
C. albert cohen
D. max weber
Answer: A. muzafer sherif
202. ……………. Are certain shared standard of behaviour or expected mode of behaviour to
maintain social order
A. rituals
B. values
C. norm
D. deviance
Answer: C. norm
203. Who defined “a norm is an abstract pattern held in mind that sets certain limits of
behaviour”
A. n j smelser
B. h m johnson
C. ulrich beck
D. daniel bell
Answer: B. h m johnson
204. ……………… are assumptions or cultural standard set by society and it is desirable for an
organised social life
A. lineage
B. consent
C. coercion
D. values
Answer: D. values
205. “Values are assumptions largely unconscious of what is right or important” who said?
A. talcott parson
B. herbert spencer
C. young and mack
D. levi strauss
Answer: C. young and mack
206. …………….. are assumptions or cultural standard that define it is right or wrong.
A. values
B. diffusion
C. adaptation
D. acculturation
Answer: A. values
207. …………….. is a common standard or ideas which guide members to behave in given
situations
A. culture complex
B. esteem
C. prestige
D. norm
Answer: D. norm
208. …………………… is a process of learning one’s own culture, to be a member of society?
A. assimilation
B. accommodation
C. enculturation
D. acculturation
Answer: C. enculturation
209. ………………. refers to cultural change that occurs due to the contact with the new culture
A. cooperation
B. assimilation
C. acculturation
D. integration
Answer: C. acculturation
210. The view point that, each culture evaluated on the basis of their own values and norms as
well as all cultures are taken as equal and that should not compared to the other culture
A. cultural relativism
B. multiculturalism
C. cultural integration
D. multidimensionalism
Answer: A. cultural relativism
211. ………………. is a system or pattern where different culture co exist and all work or live
together without losing their own cultural identity.
A. culture contact
B. cultural integration
C. cultural pluralism
D. cultural relativism
Answer: C. cultural pluralism
212. ……………….. admit the values of all culture
A. cultural disparity
B. cultural relativism
C. cyber culture
D. modernity
Answer: B. cultural relativism
213. ………………. is something such as ark, sign or gestures, images, words that stand for or
representing something or have some meaning
A. status
B. roles
C. esteem
D. symbols
Answer: D. symbols
214. ……………….. is a cultural practice that group of people hold specified customs,
languages, values and behaviour with in a multicultural society
A. organizational culture
B. normative culture
C. similar culture
D. dominant culture
Answer: D. dominant culture
215. ……………… refers to that group of people with in a culture who follows different values,
beliefs and norms with in a larger culture
A. dominant culture
B. universalisation
C. subculture
D. organised culture
Answer: C. subculture
216. The term ………….. refers to that the culture of masses
A. popular culture
B. high culture
C. subculture
D. ideal culture
Answer: A. popular culture
217. …………. means that the pattern of cultural experience and practices existed in mainstream
society
A. popular culture
B. high culture
C. cultural relativism
D. subculture
Answer: A. popular culture
218. ………………. refers to that small group engage in cultural practices with in a specific
identity on a large culture
A. multiculturalism
B. simulation
C. cultural pluralism
D. subculture
Answer: D. subculture
219. ……………… is a term refers to that process of integration or interconnection between
different countries caused to change material and nonmaterial aspect of society
A. evolution
B. globalisation
C. privatisation
D. conflicts
Answer: B. globalisation
220. Which of the statements are false about globalisation?
A. increase free trade between nations
B. caused to create a uniform culture
C. only related to economic phenomenon
D. it is a multidimensional process
Answer: C. only related to economic phenomenon
221. Which of the statement are true about the causes of globalisation?
A. technological innovation
B. increased facility to access information
C. economic interdependence
D. all the above
Answer: D. all the above
222. Which of the statement are true about globalisation?
A. faster economic growth
B. spread of information and knowledge
C. influence on social, economic, political sphere of the people
D. all the above
Answer: D. all the above
223. The term …………………… refers to that co-existence of diverse or different culture with
in a society
A. subculture
B. multiculturalism
C. dominant culture
D. high culture
Answer: B. multiculturalism
224. …………………. is the tendency of judging other culture through one’s own cultural
values?
A. dramaturgy
B. ethnocentrism
C. low culture
D. high culture
Answer: B. ethnocentrism
225. ……………….. is the view that one’s own culture is better than all other culture?
A. ethnocentrism
B. popular culture
C. multiculturalism
D. cultural relativism
Answer: A. ethnocentrism
226. ……………….. is a geographical unit or social system with distinct identity, language and
traditions
A. regionalism
B. regional disparity
C. sectionalism
D. region
Answer: D. region
227. Who defined “Religion as a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things
that is to way, things set apart and forbidden”
A. e m hover
B. herbert spencer
C. durkheim
D. habermas
Answer: C. durkheim
228. Which of the statement are false about impact of religions?
A. promote social upliftment of a particular group
B. promote groupism
C. feeling of superiority creates conflicts in society
D. obstruct to social change or progress
Answer: D. obstruct to social change or progress
229. Which is not a characteristic of religion?
A. religion is not a recent emerged phenomenon
B. science and modern education didn’t bring any change in our religious perception
C. religion is an instrument for social control
D. function as a political pressure group
Answer: B. science and modern education didn’t bring any change in our religious perception
230. “India presents a spectacle of museum or tongue” who said?
A. surajit sinha
B. d p mukherji
C. s c dube
D. a r desai
Answer: D. a r desai
231. The term …………….. refers to that social, cultural and psychological distinctions
associated with category of male (masculine) or female (feminine)
A. feminism
B. gender
C. gerontocracy
D. andro centrism
Answer: B. gender
232. The term sex is biological construction, but ……………… is a social construction
A. gender
B. technological change
C. psychoanalytic
D. colonialism
Answer: A. gender
233. The distribution of works on the basis of Gender in the family is called ………………?
A. class based
B. anuloma
C. gender division of labour
D. gerontocracy
Answer: C. gender division of labour
234. In terms of the arrangement of relationship, the male member is the head and supreme
authority in family is called?
A. polygamy
B. patriarchy
C. polybyny
D. hypogamy
Answer: B. patriarchy
235. The female headed households is called…………………?
A. hypergamy
B. polyandry
C. exogamy
D. matriarchy
Answer: D. matriarchy
236. ……………… is a social institution that is primary source of gender discrimination?
A. education
B. family
C. religion
D. state
Answer: B. family
237. Son and daughter are socialised in to their gender role is called……………….?
A. separatist
B. liberal
C. genderism
D. gender biased socialisation
Answer: D. gender biased socialisation
238. Which article in Indian constitution prohibits gender discrimination?
A. article 14
B. article 16
C. article 15 (1)
D. article 17
Answer: C. article 15 (1)
239. The word “Media” derived from ……………….?
A. medio
B. medium
C. modem
D. none of the above
Answer: B. medium
240. Which of the statement are false about functions of media?
A. spreading information or knowledge
B. not working as a agent of socialisation
C. entertainment
D. interpretations and explanation of situations or events
Answer: B. not working as a agent of socialisation
241. Who introduced the concept of “Hyperreality”
A. s a stouffer
B. m m tumin
C. e ravenstein
D. jean baudrillard
Answer: D. jean baudrillard
242. The concept “Hyperreality” introduced in ……………………….. Book
A. simulacra and simulation
B. symbolic exchange and death
C. the system of objects
D. simulations
Answer: A. simulacra and simulation
243. ‘Simulacra and simulation’ authored by …………………….?
A. s m lipset
B. e zelliot
C. jean baudrillard
D. b friedman
Answer: C. jean baudrillard
244. Which term refers to that “Virtual or unreal nature of contemporary culture is an age of mass communication and mass consumption”?
A. hyperreality
B. hyperactive
C. hypoactive
D. reality
Answer: A. hyperreality
245. Which term refers to that in modern technological period, the individual can’t differentiate what is real from the simulation of reality?
A. conservativism
B. hyperreality
C. spatiality
D. stylisation
Answer: B. hyperreality