Introduction to Sociology Multiple Choice Questions
1. The term society is derived from which word
A. greek
B. latin
C. french
Answer: B. latin
2. Man is a social animal
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. comte
Answer: A. aristotle
3. ‘Sociology is the science of social institutions’
A. durkheim
B. weber
C. comte
Answer: A. durkheim
4. Sociology is a general science not a pure science- said by
A. synthetic school
B. specialistic school
C. frankfurt school
Answer: A. synthetic school
5. Sociology is a pure and independent science- said by
A. synthetic school
B. specialistic school
C. frankfurt school
Answer: B. specialistic school
6. ‘Society is a web of social relationships’- said by
A. maciver
B. comte
C. spencer
Answer: A. maciver
7. _________ refers to the organised way of doing things.
A. institution
B. association
C. community
Answer: A. institution
8. _________ consists of two or more individuals among whom we find an established pattern of interaction.
A. social system
B. social structure
C. social relationship
Answer: A. social system
9. Positive philosophy is the famous work of___________.
A. comte
B. weber
C. durkheim
Answer: A. comte
10. __________ is the system of social interaction
A. social system
B. social processes
C. social group
Answer: C. social group
11. __________ introduced small groups and large groups
A. p.a sorokin
B. f.q giddings
C. george simmel
Answer: C. george simmel
12. ___________ has divided groups into horizontal and vertical
A. p.a sorokin
B. h cooley
C. ferdinand tonnies
Answer: A. p.a sorokin
13. The author of folkways
A. w.g sumner
B. bogardus
C. george simmel
Answer: A. w.g sumner
14. ___________ has introduced the term primary groups.
A. kingsley davis
B. g.h mead
C. c.h cooley
Answer: C. c.h cooley
15. A social group characterised by face-to-face relationship
A. primary group
B. secondary group
C. in-group
Answer: A. primary group
16. Groups which provide experience lacking in intimacy
A. secondary groups
B. primary groups
C. organised groups
Answer: A. secondary groups
17. Groups which serve as points of comparison
A. in-group
B. reference group
C. ideal group
Answer: B. reference group
18. A social unit of which individuals are not a part or with which they do not identify.
A. secondary groups
B. out groups
C. unorganised groups
Answer: B. out groups
19. The ————– perspective was the earliest theoretical perspective in Sociology
A. evolutionary
B. functionalist
C. structuralist
Answer: A. evolutionary
20. ————— theories assume that societies are in constant state of change, in which conflict is a permanent feature.
A. functionalist
B. conflict
C. interactionalist
Answer: B. conflict
21. —————– refers to the enduring orderly and patterned relationships between the elements of a society.
A. social system
B. social interaction
C. social structure
Answer: C. social structure
22. The systematic ordering of social relations by facts of choice and decision
A. social structure
B. social system
C. social organization
Answer: C. social organization
23. Law of three stages is the one of the major theories of —————–.
A. comte
B. spencer
C. durkheim
Answer: A. comte
24. ——————- has divided sociology into social statics and social dynamics.
A. comte
B. spencer
C. weber
Answer: A. comte
25. ———— are merely the characteristic ways in which interaction occurs.
A. social processes
B. social interaction
C. social relationships
Answer: A. social processes
26. ——————- is a process whereby men interpenetrate the minds of each other
A. social interaction
B. social network
C. social process
Answer: A. social interaction
27. ————— refer to any recurring pattern of social behaviour
A. social function
B. social structure
C. social system
Answer: B. social structure
28. ———— refer to the interdependence of parts in groups
A. social organizational
B. social groups
C. social system
Answer: A. social organizational
29. ——————- is a unique possession of man
A. custom
B. culture
C. folkways
Answer: B. culture
30. ————— implies statuses and division of labour
A. social organization
B. informal organization
C. formal organization
Answer: C. formal organization
31. ————————was considered the Father of Sociology
A. herbert spencer
B. max weber
C. auguste comte
Answer: C. auguste comte
32. Comte introduced the word “Sociology” for the first time in his famous work———-
A. positive philosophy
B. positive polity
C. system of positive politics
Answer: A. positive philosophy
33. ————-has classified communities into Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
A. ferdinand tonnies
B. max weber
C. karl max
Answer: A. ferdinand tonnies
34. The study of every day behaviour in situations of face-to –face interaction is usually called ———-Sociology
A. macro
B. micro
C. general
Answer: B. micro
35. ———————-is the analysis of large social systems
A. micro sociology
B. macro sociology
C. general sociology
Answer: B. macro sociology
36. It was————– who for the first time made a sociological analysis of formal organisation
A. emile durkheim
B. karl marx
C. max weber
Answer: C. max weber
37. The main advocate of the theory ‘Social Darwinism’
A. herbert spencer
B. charles darwin
C. emile durkheim
Answer: A. herbert spencer
38. Sociology emerged as an independent and separate discipline around the middle of the ——————-
A. 17th century
B. 18th century
C. 19th century
Answer: C. 19th century
39. ——————-refers to the reciprocal contact between two or more persons.
A. social system
B. society
C. social process
Answer: B. society
40. The process of moulding and shaping the personality of the human infant is called ______
A. Individualisation
B. Socialisation
C. Shaping
D. Humanisation
Answer: B. Socialisation
41. Who says man is a social animal?
A. Aristotle
B. Max Weber
C. Mead
D. Karl Max
Answer: A. Aristotle
42. The development self is closely associated with ______________
A. Internalisation of Norms
B. Analysis of the culture
C. Categorisation of values
D. rejection of bad habits
Answer: A. Internalisation of Norms
43. ________refers to the process in which the norms become a part of the personality
A. Culture
B. Aculturation
C. Universalisation
D. Internalisation of norms
Answer: D. Internalisation of norms
44. Who defined socialization is the process of working together, of developing group responsibility, or being guided by the welfare needs of others?
A. Ogburn
B. Lundberg
C. Johnoson
D. Bogardus
Answer: D. Bogardus
45. Who put forward the proposition that society is mental?
A. CH Cooley
B. GH Mead
C. Max Weber
D. Spencer
Answer: A. CH Cooley
46. Ian Robeston wrote the book titled “sociology” in the year
A. 1977
B. 1987
C. 1897
D. 1967
Answer: A. 1977
47. The most essential and basic type of socialization is______________
A. Primary socialization
B. Secondary socialization
C. Adult socialization
D. Re socialization
Answer: A. Primary socialization
48. In which state the primary socialization is take place
A. Adult stage
B. Pre natal stage
C. Childhood stage
D. Adolescent stage
Answer: C. Childhood stage
49. Internalization of norms is the most important aspect of ———socialisation
A. Primary socialisation
B. Developmental socialisation
C. Re socialization
D. Adult socialization
Answer: A. Primary socialisation
50. The term anticipatory socialization is developed by ————–
A. Merton
B. Roberston
C. Sheriff
D. Hayman
Answer: A. Merton
51. ———–refers to the process where men learn the culture of groups to which they do not belong
A. Re socialization
B. Developmental socialization
C. Primary socialization
D. Anticipatory socialization
Answer: D. Anticipatory socialization
52. “A person who intends to join the army may start doing physical exercise to toughen his body and learning the manners of army personnel to become one with them later” is an example of
which type of socialization.
A. Primary socialization
B. Developmental socialization
C. Re Socialization
D. Anticipatory socialisation
Answer: B. Developmental socialization
53. Who defines socialization is the process by which the individual learns to conform to the
norms of the groups
A. Westermarck
B. Obgurn
C. Malinowski
D. Lowie
Answer: B. Obgurn
54. ————is a kind of learning based on the achievement of primary socialization
A. Developmental socialization
B. Development of personality
C. Re socialization
D. Adult socialization
Answer: A. Developmental socialization
55. In which stages of life the developmental socialization takes place
A. Childhood
B. Adult hood
C. Adolescence
D. Oldage
Answer: B. Adult hood
56. ————-is the process where is the stripping away of learned patterns and substitution of
new ones for them
A. Primary socialization
B. Developmental socialization
C. Re socialization
D. Anticipatory socialisation
Answer: C. Re socialization
57. A newly wedded house wife may be forced to become a prostitute in a brothel is an example of
———— socialization
A. Secondary socialization
B. Primary socialization
C. Anticipatory socialization
D. Re socialization
Answer: D. Re socialization
58. Who is remarked as “for the new born child there is no objective reality, no space, no time and
no casualty?
A. Johnson
B. Freud
C. Allport
D. Mead
Answer: A. Johnson
59. According to ———— the child goes through some six stages before he is able to understand
that there are external objects with an existence of their own
A. Bruner
B. Piaget
C. Vygoski
D. Norm Chomsky
Answer: B. Piaget
60. —————–refers to the objects that the child construct in his own mind
A. Constructed images
B. Developed concepts
C. Internalised objects
D. Comprehended symbols
Answer: C. Internalised objects
61. The cognitive aspect of socialization refers to the development of ———-abilities
A. Psychomotor
B. Affective
C. Conative
D. Cognitive
Answer: A. Psychomotor
62. Who opines that the individual as actively trying to make sense of the world rather than being
passively conditioned by it?
A. Durkheim
B. Johnson
C. Piaget
D. Lundburg
Answer: C. Piaget
63. ——————-Defined socialization as the process of transmission of culture the process
whereby men learn the rules and practices of social groups
A. Bogardus
B. Ogburn
C. Worsely
D. Johnson
Answer: C. Worsely
64. The heart of the process of socialization is the emergence and gradual development of ———-
—–
A. Idea
B. Self
C. Belief
D. Values
Answer: B. Self
65. Who stated the self might be regarded as the internalized object representing one’s own
personality
A. Freud
B. Mead
C. Cooley
D. Bogardus
Answer: B. Mead
66. From the sociological point of view the two main internal objects are
A. Society &culture
B. Self and social roles
C. Believes and attitudes
D. Roles and status
Answer: B. Self and social roles
67. ————implies a person’s conception of himself as a totality
A. A social roles
B. Behaviour
C. Attitudes
D. Self
Answer: D. Self
68. Who among states that self arises only in interaction with the social and non social
environment
A. Murphy
B. MacIver
C. Maxweber
D. Mead
Answer: D. Mead
69. ————develops out of child’s communicative contact with others
A. Learning
B. Attitude
C. Self
D. Concept
Answer: C. Self
70. Who developed the theory “Looking –Glass Self”
A. Mead
B. Cooley
C. W I Thomas
D. Freud
Answer: B. Cooley
71. Who has placed before us the proposition “society is mental”
A. Freud
B. Mead
C. Cooley
D. Thomas
Answer: C. Cooley
72. The auther of the book “Human Nature and Social Order” is………
A. Borgardus
B. MacIver
C. Cooley
D. Westermack
Answer: C. Cooley
73. Which theory states that the individual develops the idea of self through the contact with the
primary group particularly with the members of the family?
A. Collective representation
B. Definition of the situation
C. Theory of self
D. Looking Glass Self
Answer: D. Looking Glass Self
74. Who says “I am not what I think I am, I am not what you think I am, I am What I think you think I am”
A. C.H Cooley
B. W.I Thomas
C. Freud
D. G.H Mead
Answer: A. C.H Cooley
75. Who opines that individual comes to know about himself by what is known as role playing
A. GH Mead
B. Ginsberg
C. Gidding
D. Lapiere
Answer: A. GH Mead
76. “ In seeing himself as others see him, the individual is actually putting himself in the place of
others, and imaging what their response might be” is called as ——————
A. Acquisition of behaviour
B. Role playing
C. Internalisation of roles
D. Game analysis
Answer: B. Role playing
77. The members who satisfy the immediate needs of newborn infants are called
A. Generalised others
B. Significant others
C. Strangers
D. All the above
Answer: B. Significant others
78. G H Mead says ———-is the product of social interaction
A. Culture
B. Values
C. Self
D. All the above
Answer: C. Self
79. Who is the founder of “Psychoanalysis?”
A. Jean Piaget
B. Cooley
C. Durkheim
D. Sigmund Freud
Answer: D. Sigmund Freud
80. —————refers to the animal impulses of man
A. Ego
B. Super ego
C. Id
D. Personality
Answer: C. Id
81. Super ego based on the ———— principle
A. Pleasure principle
B. Reality principle
C. Moral principle
D. Cultural principles
Answer: C. Moral principle
82. Who developed the “theory of definition of the situations?”
A. Herbert Spencer
B. Max weber
C. Comte
D. W I Thomas
Answer: D. W I Thomas
83. The theory of collective representations is developed by ————-
A. Karl Marx
B. Durkheim
C. Anna Freud
D. Cattel
Answer: B. Durkheim
84. ————– refers to the ideas and ideals of a growth up on which the individual unconsciously depends for his ideas, attitudes and behaviour
A. Shared behaviour
B. Collective representation
C. Group Morale
D. Group responsibility
Answer: B. Collective representation
85. The agents of socialization are
A. Family
B. Parents
C. Pear group
D. All the above
Answer: D. All the above
86. Who says that socialization consists of the “complex process of interaction though which the individual learns the habits, believes, skills and standards of judgment that are necessary for his effective participation in social groups and communities?”
A. Kingsley Davis
B. HE Barnes
C. Lundberg
D. CA Ellwood
Answer: C. Lundberg
87. The process where the adult members learns the rules and values of society is called
A. Adult socialization
B. Child socialization
C. Personality
D. None of the above
Answer: A. Adult socialization
Culture,Personality and Society
88. Culture has two essential qualities. They are
A. transmitted and shared
B. learned and shared
C. learned and forgotten
D. Shared and communicated.
Answer: A. transmitted and shared
89. The process by which an individual learns the culture of their society is known as
A. Socialisation
B. Internalisation
C. Sanskritisation
D. Modernization
Answer: A. Socialisation
90. The study of a society becomes incomplete without a proper understanding of
A. The culture of that society
B. Rules and Regulations of that society
C. Arts and literature of that society
D. Education and government system of that society
Answer: A. The culture of that society
91. Only man is born and bought up in a
A. Natural environment
B. Cultural environment
C. Artificial environment
D. Original environment
Answer: B. Cultural environment
92. Who defined culture is the “realm of styles, of values, of emotional attachment, of
intellectual adventures”
A. Morgan
B. Edward Tylor
C. Maclver and Page
D. Sir James Frazer
Answer: C. Maclver and Page
93. Peer group is a group whose numbers share
A. Similar values
B. Similar play ground
C. Similar circumstances
D. Similar study circle and books
Answer: C. Similar circumstances
94. Peer groups are often of a
A. Similar culture
B. Similar race and colour
C. Similar height
D. Similar age
Answer: D. Similar age
95. Every culture contains a large number of guideline which direct conduct in a particular
situation. Such guidelines are known as
A. Culture
B. Folkways
C. Mores
D. Norms
Answer: D. Norms
96. A norm is a
A. Specific guide to action
B. Culture of society
C. Guideline for socialization
D. Guide for social interaction
Answer: A. Specific guide to action
97. Norms are enforced by
A. Positive sanction
B. Negative sanction
C. Order
D. Positive and negative sanction
Answer: D. Positive and negative sanction
98. Norms are imposed through _________ means of social control
A. Formal and legal
B. Formal and informal
C. Cultural
D. Informal and illegal
Answer: A. Formal and legal
99. A value is a belief that something is
A. Moral
B. Very productive in society
C. Good and desirable
D. Cultural
Answer: C. Good and desirable
100. All numbers of society occupy a number of social positions known as
A. Role
B. Prestige
C. Esteem
D. Status
Answer: D. Status
101. A group involves some degree of _________ among its members for the attainment or
common goals
A. Cooperation
B. Conflict
C. Competition
D. Association
Answer: A. Cooperation
102. Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs
and other capabilities acquired by man as
A. member of society – it is said by
B. Talcott Parsons
C. W F Green
D. Tylor
Answer: C. W F Green
103. To prepare one for future roles is
A. Futurisation
B. Prediction
C. Anticipatory socialization
D. Internalisation
Answer: C. Anticipatory socialization
104. Personality is expressed through
A. Habits, tendencies and thinking
B. Habits and behavior
C. Thinking
D. Tendencies and thinking
Answer: A. Habits, tendencies and thinking
105. The unification of individuals socio psychological behavior is reflected in
A. The way individual behaves
B. His personality
C. His social interaction
D. His culture
Answer: B. His personality
106. ____________ is a person who is taken as the point of reference in a Answer: A. Individual
B. Id
C. Ego
D. Superego
Answer: C. Ego
107. Which is the following statements is true
A. Cooperation is based on emotional relationship harmony and intimacy
B. Accommodation is the situation of tolerating one another without
C. Cooperation
D. Accommodation
Answer: C. Cooperation
108. When the individual stand up against the group the process is called
A. Conflict
B. Completion
C. Alienation
D. Un socialization
Answer: C. Alienation
109. When the individual is ex-communicated or the membership of the group is prohibited for
him/her the process is called
A. Isolation
B. Cooperation
C. Tolerance
D. Discrimination
Answer: A. Isolation
110. The process of learning that takes place in group situation is called
A. Socialisation
B. Culturisation
C. Routinisation
D. Acculturation
Answer: A. Socialisation
111. Whose definition is this “Personality indicates the individual organized tendency of
working, seeing, thinking and feeling”?
A. W F Green
B. New Comb
C. Herskovits
D. R E Park
Answer: B. New Comb
112. The groups from which the individual extracts his behavior and cultural norms are called
A. Cultural groups
B. Homogenous groups
C. Reference groups
D. Ought to be groups
Answer: C. Reference groups
113. Discrimination refers to __________ against any individual group
A. Negative action
B. Negative attitude
C. Negative labeling
D. Negative Report
Answer: C. Negative labeling
114. Trait is
A. Social trend at present
B. Social trend af the past
C. The smallest unit of culture
D. The smallest unit of personality
Answer: C. The smallest unit of culture
115. Non material culture may consist of
A. Words people use, the ideas, customers and belief they hood and the habits they follow.
B. Non Manufactured items
C. Manufactured items which people use in cultural way
D. Culture which teaches a particular behavior for particular situation
Answer: A. Words people use, the ideas, customers and belief they hood and the habits they follow.
116. The material culture is always the outgrowth of the non material culture. The statement is
A. True
B. False
C. Partially true
D. Can happen provided with stimuli
Answer: A. True
117. A cluster of related traits is called
A. Culture norms
B. Culture complex
C. Cultural collectively
D. Cultural uniformity
Answer: C. Cultural collectively
118. Who has propounded the theory of cultural lag?
A. W F Ogburn
B. Nim Koff
C. Bogardus
D. Oscar Lewis
Answer: A. W F Ogburn
119. The acquisition of foreign culture by the subject people is called
A. Assimilation
B. Acculturation
C. Colonisation
D. Subjectisation
Answer: A. Assimilation
120. Cultural relativism means
A. Function and meaning of a trait are relative to its cultural setting
B. Culture is relatively rare
C. Culture evolution is relative
D. Cultural diffusion is relative
Answer: A. Function and meaning of a trait are relative to its cultural setting
121. Which among the following is not true about assimilation?
A. It brings about cultural diffusion
B. It is historical process
C. Culture contact is there
D. Cultural conflict is there.
Answer: D. Cultural conflict is there.
122. Established modes of thought and action is called
A. Culture
B. Personality
C. behavior
D. Customs
Answer: D. Customs
123. “A scientific theory of culture” is the work of
A. Frazer
B. Radcliffe Brown
C. Malinowski
D. Redfield
Answer: C. Malinowski
124. Who considered culture as essentially a response to human needs?
A. Redfield
B. Radcliffe Brown
C. Malinowski
D. Herskowitz
Answer: C. Malinowski
125. The book ‘The folk culture of Yucatan’ is written by
A. Oscar Lewis
B. R.E.Park
C. Redfield
D. Max Muller
Answer: C. Redfield
126. Who has defined culture as a body of shared understandings’?
A. Redfield
B. Tylor
C. Frazer
D. Herskowitz
Answer: A. Redfield
127. Normative culture is that sub-division of non material culture that consists of
A. Norms
B. Values
C. Mores
D. Standard Way
Answer: A. Norms
128. When the balance between the material and non-material culture is disrupted by rapid social change, the material culture is left behind This situation is called
A. left culture
B. far-culture
C. Cultural lag
D. Taken culture
Answer: C. Cultural lag
129. Culture treats all human products and learned abilities
A. Equally
B. differently
C. Insignificant
D. great
Answer: A. Equally
130. Some norms within a culture are explain out in the open, everyone in the culture is able to formulate the rule’ This may be defined as
A. Explicit culture
B. Explicit Norm
C. Implicit culture
D. Implicit Worm
Answer: B. Explicit Norm
131. Explicit norms are learned through
A. Formal means
B. Informal means
C. inbuilt in human
D. Human beings learn it automatically
Answer: A. Formal means
132. Organized social life emerges from
A. Social Organization
B. Social Interaction
C. Social Culture
D. Social Group
Answer: B. Social Interaction
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