Basic of Sociology MCQs

Question. ………..is firstly apply the term reference group in social psychology
(a) Muzafer Sherif
(b) Herbert Mead
(c) Herbert Hyman
(d) C H Cooley

Answer: A

Question. Name the culturally based tendency to value other cultures more highly than one’s own.
(a) Ethnocentrism
(b) Cultural relativism
(c) Acculturation
(d) Xenocentrism

Answer: D

Question. Impersonal relationship is the hallmark of ……………….group
(a) Secondary group
(b) In group
(c) Tertiary group
(d) Vertical group

Answer: A

Question. What is the meaning if levir in the term levirate?
(a) Brother-in-law
(b) Sister
(c) Husband’s brother
(d) Mother

Answer: C

Question. Which are the words composing the term sociology
(a) Society and community
(b) Society and Science
(c) Socious and Logos
(d) Socious and science

Answer: C

Question. Which is the group constituted on the basis of the sweet will of individual?
(a) In group
(b) Primary group
(c) Voluntary group
(d) small group

Answer: C

Question. Sociology is the science of interpretative understanding of social ___________.
(a) Action
(b) Interaction
(c) Group
(d) Institution

Answer: A

Question. Name the expected behaviour of an individual occupying a particular social position.
(a) Role
(b) Norm
(c) Ritual
(d) Folkways

Answer: A

Question. __________ status requires special qualities.
(a) Achieved
(b) Social
(c) Ascribed
(d) None of the options

Answer: A

Question. “Whenever two or more individuals come together and influence one another, they may be said to constitute a social group.”Who defined so?
(a) MacIver & Page
(b) Green
(c) Simmel
(d) Ogburn & Nimkoff

Answer: D

Question. The Latin term ‘socius’ means
(a) Study
(b) Sociology
(c) Companion
(d) Science

Answer: C

Question. Modes of action which do not conform to the norms of a society.
(a) Violence
(b) Deviance
(c) Rejection
(d) Crime

Answer: B

Question. A role is the ---------- aspect of status.
(a) Counter
(b) Dynamic
(c) Static
(d) Latent

Answer: B

Question. What is the meaning of logos in the term sociology?
(a) Science/Study
(b) social
(c) Society
(d) Companion

Answer: A

Question. Where was Weber born?
(a) Erfurt
(b) Poitiers
(c) Paris
(d) Elbiar

Answer: A

Question. Who is the author of the book “the Social Order : An Introduction to Sociology.”
(a) Robert Bierstedt
(b) Robert K Merton
(c) E B Tylor
(d) Malinowski

Answer: A

Question. What is the main conceptualization of formalistic school about sociology?
(a) Analytic and special
(b) Rational and general
(c) Pure and independent science
(d) Experimental and specific

Answer: C

Question. From which language the term Gessellschaft derived?
(a) Greek
(b) Hindi
(c) Latin
(d) Sanskrit

Answer: C

Question. c. Wright Mills was a ……………..sociologist
(a) American
(b) British
(c) Russian
(d) French

Answer: A

Question. ……….is a family constituted by husband, wife and their unmarried children
(a) Nuclear family
(b) Extended family
(c) Joint family
(d) family of orientation

Answer: A

Question. Which is the basic characteristic of primary group?
(a) Impersonal relationship
(b) Indirect relationship
(c) Intimate face to face association
(d) temporary association

Answer: C

Question. __________ is the set of socially prescribed ways a role ought to be playe(d)
(a) Role performance
(b) Role set
(c) Role playing
(d) Role expectation

Answer: D

Question. Action oriented to a social norm or norms is known as ____________.
(a) Acceptance
(b) Control
(c) Conformity
(d) Approval

Answer: C

Question. _____________ accepts the value of all cultures.
(a) Cultural relativism
(b) Ethnocentrism
(c) Xenocentrism
(d) Pluralism

Answer: B

Question. The most important status a person occupies, the one that most defines a person’s social identity and general social position.
(a) Ascribed status
(b) Master status
(c) Social status
(d) Achieved status

Answer: B

Question. ___________ tell individuals how to behave in given situations.
(a) Values
(b) Laws
(c) Norms
(d) Rituals

Answer: C

Question. __________ interaction consists of vocal or other gestures and language, spoken or written.
(a) Direct
(b) Symbolic
(c) Social
(d) Personal

Answer: B

Question. ………..is a type of marriage in which more than one man marry one woman at a time.
(a) Polyandry
(b) Hypergamy
(c) Polygyny
(d) Hypogamy

Answer: A

Question. Who coined the term reference group in social science?
(a) Herbert Mead
(b) Horton Cooley
(c) Sherif
(d) Herbert Hyman

Answer: D

Question. …………….. classifies group as small group and large group.
(a) Simmel
(b) Pareto
(c) Weber
(d) Homans

Answer: A

Question. ……………….is an impersonal way of control
(a) informal
(b) formal
(c) Kinship
(d) Family

Answer: B

Question. Who is the profounder of the classification of the group as in group and out group?
(a) W G Sumner
(b) H Spencer
(c) E B Tylor
(d) Williams

Answer: A

Question. …………….is the family in which authority vested in male member
(a) Patriarchy
(b) Polyandry
(c) Matriarchy
(d) Polygyny

Answer: A

Question. What is the meaning of the term ‘archy’ in the word patriarchy?
(a) Authority
(b) Lineage
(c) Ownership
(d) Descent

Answer: A

Question. ___________ was the first to throw light on the structure of society.
(a) Comte
(b) Durkheim
(c) Spencer
(d) Parsons

Answer: C

Question. ___________ help meet the basic needs of society.
(a) Associations
(b) Social Groups
(c) Social Institutions
(d) Interactions

Answer: C

Question. Who defined “ joint family as a group of people who generally lives under one roof, who eat food cooked at one hearth, who hold property in common and who participate in common worship and are related to each other as some particular type of kindred?”
(a) Nimcoff
(b) Karve
(c) Cooley
(d) Srinivas

Answer: B

Question. What is known as the marriage of one man or woman marries more than one man or woman?
(a) Polygamy
(b) Bigamy
(c) Isogamy
(d) Monogamy

Answer: A

Question. Inter- caste marriage is an example of …………..marriage
(a) Exogamous
(b) Polygamy
(c) Endogamous
(d) Polyandry

Answer: A

Question. ………………is the measure of goodness and desirability
(a) laws
(b) Conformity
(c) Values
(d) Norms

Answer: C

Question. …………….is a group to identify the group against which an individual evaluates his/her own situation
(a) Primary Group
(b) Secondary group
(c) Out group
(d) Reference group

Answer: D

Question. Who classified groups into in-group and out-group?
(a) Tonnies
(b) Cooley
(c) Homans
(d) Sumner

Answer: D

Question. Name the reciprocal influence human beings exert on each other through interstimulation and response.
(a) Social interaction
(b) Social relation
(c) Social groups
(d) Co-operation

Answer: A

Question. _______ denotes the functional significance of the actor for the social system.
(a) Status
(b) Action
(c) Mores
(d) Role

Answer: D

Question. Caste status is an example of ____________ status.
(a) Ascribed
(b) Achieved
(c) General
(d) Social

Answer: A

Question. Which of these statements best represents c Wright-Mills’s idea of ‘the sociological imagination’?
(a) understanding the differences between the classical theorists
(b) bringing together private troubles and public issues
(c) seeing the social world as one made up of ‘social facts’
(d) None of the options

Answer: B

Question. __________ provides a definite role and status to individual.
(a) Group
(b) Society
(c) Collectivity
(d) Institution

Answer: D

Question. Emile Durkheim was a ………………….sociologist
(a) French
(b) American
(c) German
(d) British

Answer: A

Question. Max Weber was a ………………….sociologist
(a) British
(b) American
(c) Hungarian
(d) German

Answer: D

Question. What is the approach that facilitates ability to evaluate the personal issues as a result of historical change?
(a) Functional
(b) Historical
(c) sociological imagination
(d) Socio-Cultural

Answer: C

Question. From which language the term Gemeinschaft derived?
(a) German
(b) Latin
(c) Spanish
(d) Greek

Answer: A

Question. George Simmel is a …………………..sociologist
(a) Austrian
(b) French
(c) British
(d) German

Answer: D

Question. Who coined the term sociology
(a) Herbert Spencer
(b) Auguste Comte
(c) Emile Durkheim
(d) Karl Marx

Answer: B

Question. ___________ is the basic ingredient of social relationships.
(a) Group
(b) Awareness
(c) Bonding
(d) Interaction

Answer: D

Question. ____________ are general abstract moral principles defining what is right or wrong.
(a) Values
(b) Folkways
(c) Sanctions
(d) Rules

Answer: A

Question. ___________ is a negative social sanction.
(a) Praise
(b) Suggestion
(c) Reward
(d) Punishment

Answer: D

Question. Cultural __________ are nothing but larger clusters of traits organized about some nuclear point of reference.
(a) Complex
(b) Patterns
(c) Elements
(d) Traits

Answer: A

Question. Specific guidelines for behavior are termed as ____________.
(a) Customs
(b) Norms
(c) Laws
(d) Traditions

Answer: B

Question. The society maintains its order by means of __________ system.
(a) Normative
(b) Interaction
(c) Cultural
(d) Conventional

Answer: A

Question. What is the meaning of the term Famulus?
(a) Owner
(b) Servant
(c) Collection
(d) Group

Answer: B

Question. When did the book ‘The Sociological Imagination’ was published?
(a) 1959
(b) 1911
(c) 1905
(d) 1922

Answer: A

Question. ……. is a general type of marriage with one man and one woman.
(a) Single marriage
(b) Polygamy
(c) Monogamy
(d) Polygyny

Answer: C

Question. One man marries more than one woman known as ……….
(a) Polygyny
(b) Monogamy
(c) Polygamy
(d) Polyandry

Answer: D

Question. When did Comte was born?
(a) 1722
(b) 1760
(c) 1798
(d) 1792

Answer: C

Question. What is the meaning of soror in the word sororate?
(a) Sister
(b) Mother
(c) Brother
(d) sister-in-law

Answer: A

Question. Who was the prominent thinker belongs to synthetic school of thought?
(a) Bourdieu
(b) Karl Mannheim
(c) Comte
(d) Montesquieu

Answer: B

Question. “Culture is the sum total of knowledge, belief, art morals, law, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society.” Who define so?
(a) Linton
(b) Spencer
(c) Redfield
(d) Tylor

Answer: D

Question. ___________ represent the most superficial manifestation of culture.
(a) Symbols
(b) Rituals
(c) Values
(d) Norms

Answer: A

Question. ………………is a group of individual who is not a member in that group.
(a) Out group
(b) Horizontal group
(c) We group
(d) In voluntary group

Answer: A

Question. Which is the control implementing through officials?
(a) Family
(b) non-formal
(c) Kinship
(d) Formal

Answer: D

Question. ……….is a lower class man marries higher class woman
(a) Hypergamy
(b) Sororate
(c) Hypogamy
(d) Levirate

Answer: C

Question. What is the meaning of ‘pater’ in the word patriarchy?
(a) Mother
(b) Male and female
(c) female
(d) Male

Answer: D

Question. Where was Irawati Karve born?
(a) Germany
(b) England
(c) Britain
(d) Burma

Answer: D

Question. Where was Comte born?
(a) Epinal
(b) Renish
(c) Trier
(d) Montpellier

Answer: D

Question. The core of a culture is formed by ___________.
(a) Art
(b) Values
(c) Technology
(d) Traditions

Answer: B

Question. Status and role are two building blocks of social _________.
(a) Structure
(b) Action
(c) Interaction
(d) Control

Answer: A

Question. The parts of social structure are _________ everywhere.
(a) The same
(b) Different
(c) Irregular
(d) Distinct

Answer: A

Question. In ___________ interaction, interaction occurs among people who are present in the same setting, but are not engaged in face- to- face communication.
(a) Focused
(b) Formal
(c) Unfocused
(d) Informal

Answer: C

Question. Name the recurring patterns of behavior and interaction which are invisible, pervasive, enduring, constraining and yet, render social life predictable and orderly form.
(a) Social structure
(b) Social control
(c) Social group
(d) Social interaction

Answer: A

Question. Contradictory demands of the same role is termed as
(a) Role Strain
(b) Role Playing
(c) Role Conflict
(d) None of the Above

Answer: A

Question. Who defines “sociology as the science of social institutions?”
(a) Cooley
(b) Durkheim
(c) Foucault
(d) Weber

Answer: B

Question. Rationalism is a school of thought based on……………….
(a) experience
(b) words
(c) thought
(d) reason

Answer: D

Question. Who was the prominent sociologist classifies group as horizontal and vertical?
(a) Sorokin
(b) Sherif
(c) Cooley
(d) Mead

Answer: A

Question. Which School of thought opined that sociology is a general science?
(a) Synthetic School
(b) Formalistic School
(c) Vienna School
(d) Scientific School

Answer: A

Question. Who is called the founding father of sociology?
(a) August Comte
(b) Emile Durkheim
(c) Marie Augustus
(d) Spencer

Answer: A

Question. Which is the best example of primary group?
(a) Family
(b) Association
(c) Caste
(d) College

Answer: A

Question. Non-conformity to a set of norms is known as __________.
(a) Crime
(b) Habit
(c) Deviance
(d) None of the options

Answer: C

Question. In which book Ogburn coined the term cultural lag.
(a) Technology and the Changing Family, 1953
(b) Social Characteristics of Cities, 1937
(c) Social Change with Respect to Culture and original Nature, 1922
(d) None of the options

Answer: C

Question. Those sanctions which inflict pain or threaten to do so are termed as ________ sanctions.
(a) Direct
(b) Negative
(c) Legal
(d) Positive

Answer: B

Question. A social relationship in society involves __________ awareness.
(a) Personal
(b) Reciprocal
(c) Self
(d) Social

Answer: B

Question. “Role is the sum total of the culture patterns associated with a particular status.” Who defined so?
(a) Ogburn
(b) Merton
(c) Cooley
(d) Linton

Answer: D

Question. Which is the thought system conceptualizes the sociology is the combination of different branches of knowledge?
(a) Formalistic School
(b) Specialistic School
(c) Synthetic school
(d) Chicago School

Answer: C

Question. …………………is a group that a man is member
(a) primary group
(b) In group
(c) Reference group
(d) voluntary group

Answer: B

Question. ………. is a marriage within one’s own group
(a) inter-caste
(b) Intra- caste
(c) Peculiarity of culture
(d) Endogamy

Answer: D

Question. The hypergamous marriage known as ………..
(a) Anuloma
(b) Pratiloma
(c) Sorrorate
(d) Levirate

Answer: A

Question. Who defined “family as more or less durable association of husband and wife with or without children or of a man or woman alone with children”?
(a) Ogburn & Nimcoff
(b) MacIver & Page
(c) Karve & Desai
(d) Srinivas &Yogendra Singh

Answer: A

Question. Who divides the group into voluntary and involuntary group?
(a) Charles Abram Ellwood
(b) George Herbert Mead
(c) Charles Horton Cooley
(d) Allan Rose

Answer: A

Question. Which is the classification of family based on lineage?
(a) Matrilocal & Patrilocal
(b) Matrilineal & Patrilineal
(c) Nuclear & Extended
(d) Joint & Nuclear

Answer: B

Question. Name the blending or fusing of minority groups into the dominant society.
(a) Acculturation
(b) Diffusion
(c) Evolution
(d) Assimilation

Answer: D

Question. ___________ is the vehicle of culture.
(a) Technology
(b) Man
(c) Society
(d) Language

Answer: D

Question. ……………..is a control of society over individual through some official ways
(a) court
(b) Informal
(c) punishment
(d) Formal

Answer: D

Question. Which is the theory analyzes about the concepts like personal troubles of milieu and public issues of social structure?
(a) Sociological Imagination
(b) Chicago School
(c) Synthetic School
(d) Formalistic School

Answer: A

Question. Who authored the book ‘The Psychology of Social Norms’?
(a) Robert Bierstdt
(b) M F Nimcoff
(c) Muzafer Sherif
(d) W G Ogburn

Answer: C

Question. __________ is a socially defined position in a group or society.
(a) Role
(b) Interaction
(c) Status
(d) Deviance

Answer: C

Question. Sociological ___________ allows people to see the relationship between their personal experiences and broader social and historical events.
(a) Consciousness
(b) Imagination
(c) Questions
(d) Theory

Answer: B

Question. A process by which cultural borrowing and lending take place
(a) Assimilation
(b) Acculturation
(c) Enculturation
(d) Diffusion

Answer: B

Question. Social status based on an individual’s effort.
(a) Achieved
(b) Ascribed
(c) Merit
(d) None of the options

Answer: A

Question. The term sociology was coined by ____________.
(a) Spencer
(b) Comte
(c) W.Thomson
(d) Durkheim

Answer: B

Question. Interaction without social contact
(a) Conflict
(b) Competition
(c) Co-operation
(d) Exchange

Answer: B

Question. What is the base of classification of family as matriarchal and patriarchal?
(a) lineage
(b) residence
(c) Descent
(d) Authority

Answer: D

Question. When did the term sociology coined
(a)1839
(b) 1732
(c) 1835
(d) 1650

Answer: A

Question. What is intended by norm?
(a) Specific Guide to action
(b) framework
(c) Discipline
(d) Deviance

Answer: A

Question. Who was the main advocator of Formalistic school?
(a) Simmel
(b) Durkheim
(c) Comte
(d) Karl Marx

Answer: A

Question. Who is put forward the concept primary group in social science?
(a) G H Mead
(b) C H Cooley
(c) C W. Right
(d) M N Roy

Answer: B

Question. Contradictory demands of different roles individuals perform is termed as
(a) Role strain
(b) Role identity
(c) Role conflict
(d) Role playing

Answer: C

Question. Human beings organize themselves into groups called ___________, for the achievement of some object or goal.
(a) Institutions
(b) Community
(c) Society
(d) None of the options

Answer: A

Question. The long established habits and usages of people
(a) Norms
(b) Rituals
(c) Customs
(d) Manners

Answer: C

Question.………… is a higher class man marries lower class woman
(a) Hypergamy
(b) Polyandry
(c) Hypogamy
(d) Polygyny

Answer: A

Question. Auguste Comte was a ………………sociologist
(a) French
(b) American
(c) British
(d) German

Answer: A

Question. What is the type of control organized through primary social institutions?
(a) Non-formal
(b) Formal
(c) Abnormal
(d) Informal

Answer: B

Question. Which is the idea analyzed in social morphology as a branch of sociology?
(a) Social structure
(b) social action
(c) Social function
(d) social behavior

Answer: A

Question. The term famulus derived from which language?
(a) Latin
(b) German
(c) British
(d) Greek

Answer: A

Question. ………………is an example of formal control
(a) law
(b) Value
(c) rule
(d) Norms

Answer: A

Question. _____________ is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one’s own culture.
(a) Universalism
(b) Ethnocentrism
(c) Xenocentrism
(d) Racism

Answer: B

Question. They group means……………….
(a) Small group
(b) In group
(c) out group
(d) Vertical group

Answer: C

Question. What is the type of control organized through bureaucracy?
(a) officials
(b) informal
(c) Formal
(d) Court

Answer: C

Question. Who among the following is classical sociologists?
(a) Foucault and Derrida
(b) Merton and Karl Mannheim
(c) Comte and Durkheim
(d) Morris and Hobhouse

Answer: C

Question. The term sociology is derived from the ________ word socius and __________ word logos.
(a) Latin, Greek
(b) Greek, Latin
(c) Hebrew, Latin
(d) Hebrew, Greek

Answer: A

Question. Human interaction is essentially _____________ interaction.
(a) Competitive
(b) Co-operative
(c) Communicative
(d) Deliberate

Answer: C

Question. Gemeinschaft is translated into English as ________.
(a) Association
(b) Community
(c) Corporation
(d) Institution

Answer: B

Question. Sociology has been said to be the product of ____________ revolution.
(a) Chinese
(b) Russian
(c) French
(d) American

Answer: C

Question. When did Durkheim was born in?
(a) 1520
(b) 1858
(c) 1850
(d) 1700

Answer: B

Question. What is the meaning of the term socious in the word sociology?
(a) Companion
(b) collection
(c) Herd
(d) consensus

Answer: A

Question. The degree to which people are tied to a social group is called social ________.
(a) Integration
(b) Interaction
(c) Contact
(d) We-feeling

Answer: A

Question. “Social structure is concerned with the principal forms of social organization….” Who said so?
(a) Miller
(b) Ginsberg
(c) Green
(d) Ogburn

Answer: B

Question. Knowledge is an example of ______________ culture.
(a) Material
(b) Non-material
(c) Explicit
(d) None of the options

Answer: B

Question. The term logos derived from which language?
(a) American
(b) Roman
(c) Greek
(d) Latin

Answer: C

Question. What is the base of classification of family as Patrilocal and Matrilocal?
(a) Pattern of residence
(b) Descent
(c) locality
(d) authority

Answer: A

Question. Where was Emile Durkheim born?
(a) Epinal
(b) Erfurt
(c) Rhenish
(d) Hungary

Answer: A

Question. Which among the following is an informal method of social control?
(a) Customs
(b) Coercion
(c) Law
(d) Education

Answer: A

Question. According to Talcott Parsons, all the units of social structure are __________.
(a) Concrete
(b) Tangible
(c) Abstract
(d) Explicit

Answer: C

Question. _____________ is the integrated system of learned behavior patterns.
(a) Culture
(b) Group
(c) Institution
(d) Society

Answer: A

Question. Which are suitable factors enforce the norms?
(a) Positive and Negative Sanction
(b) religion and caste
(c) punishmen’t and arrest
(d) reinforcement and recognition

Answer: A

Question. Which is the social institution control and regulates the sex life of man?
(a) Family
(b) Marriage
(c) Religion
(d) Community

Answer: B

Question. Who propounded the theory of Sociological Imagination?
(a) Mills
(b) Schutz
(c) Garfinkel
(d) Domer

Answer: A

Question. Society is rooted in which concept.
(a) Action
(b) Interaction
(c) Roles
(d) Culture

Answer: B

Question. _________ represent ‘standardized generalization’ concerning expected modes of behavior.
(a) Values
(b) Customs
(c) Norms
(d) Sanctions

Answer: C

Question. Identify a slow and gradual process from the following.
(a) Assimilation
(b) Acculturation
(c) Integration
(d) Diffusion

Answer: A

Question. The term socious derived from which language?
(a) German
(b) Latin
(c) Greek
(d) Roman

Answer: B

Question. Who is the author of the book ‘Kinship organization in India?’
(a) Irawati Karve
(b) A R Desai
(c) M N Srinivas
(d) I P Desai

Answer: A

Question. When did the book ‘Social Organization: A Study of the Larger Mind’ was published
(a) 1908
(b) 1909
(c) 1905
(d) 1910

Answer: B

Question. ………..is a family in which the descent passes through father
(a) Neo local
(b) Matrilineal
(c) Patrilineal
(d) Matrilocal

Answer: C

Question. Who has described “society as a web of social relationships.”?
(a) Mead
(b) Ogburn
(c) Leacock
(d) MacIver

Answer: D

Question. Hypogamy is also known as………….
(a) Pratiloma
(b) Biagamy
(c) Anuloma
(d) Monogamy

Answer: A

Question. Which one of the following will you categories as achieved status
(a) Sex
(b) Age
(c) Marital
(d) Caste

Answer: C

Question. Features of social life that challenges or creates tensions in a social system.
(a) Dysfunction
(b) Problems
(c) Anarchy
(d) Anomie

Answer: A

Question. The book “The Sociological Imagination” is written by
(a) Parsons
(b) Brewer
(c) Elliot
(d) Wright Mills

Answer: D

Question. Which is the book firstly refer the term primary group?
(a) Social Organization
(b) Asylum
(c) Self, Mind and Society
(d) The First principles

Answer: A

Question. Which among the following is a youngest science?
(a) History
(b) Geography
(c) Sociology
(d) Philosophy

Answer: C

Question. ………………. means the people’s innate ability to understand and asses the things they see and regular basis.
(a) Commonsense
(b) critical ability
(c) Instinct
(d) reasoning

Answer: A

Question. _____________ culture refers to the intangible elements of culture.
(a) Material
(b) Non-material
(c) Explicit
(d) Mass

Answer: B

Question. c. H. Cooley is a prominent sociologist in ………………….school of thought
(a) formalistic
(b) Mercandalism
(c) Vienna
(d) Chicago

Answer: D

Question. c.H. Cooley is a………………Sociologist
(a) Italian
(b) American
(c) Indian
(d) African

Answer: B

Question. Who wrote the book ‘Power Elite?’
(a) C Wright Mills
(b) Karl Mannheim
(c) Saussure
(d) Saint Simon

Answer: D

Question. How many generations constituted the joint family?
(a) Five
(b) One
(c) two
(d) Three

Answer: D

Question. Who pioneered the idea of scientific study of society?
(a) Plato
(b) Adam Smith
(c) Auguste Comte
(d) John Graunt

Answer: C

Question. What is the base of classification of family as endogamy and exogamy?
(a) Peculiarity of group membership
(b) Peculiarity of status
(c) Peculiarity of culture
(d) Peculiarity of language

Answer: A

Question. The components of material culture are __________ and objective.
(a) External
(b) Internal
(c) Tangible
(d) Both A&C

Answer: D

Question. Structure is useless without __________.
(a) Role
(b) Order
(c) Function
(d) Status

Answer: C

Question. “Culture is the man-made part of environment.” Who said so?
(a) E. b. Tylor
(b) M.J. Herskovits
(c) R.Brown
(d) K. Davis

Answer: B

Question. …………are the important sociologists belong to formalistic school of sociology
(a) Alfred Vierkandt and Leopol Vonwiese
(b) Durkheim and Karl Marx
(c) Comte and Spencer
(d) Foucault and Derrida

Answer: A

Question. What is meaning of the term ‘mater’ in the word matriarchal?
(a) Female
(b) Both male and female
(c) Male
(d) father

Answer: A

Question. _________ is a larger group to which any individual belongs.
(a) State
(b) Society
(c) Crowd
(d) Category

Answer: B

Question. Who wrote the book “The Sociological Imagination?”
(a) Comte c
(b) Spencer
(c) Wright Mills
(d) Karl Marx

Answer: C

Question. ……………….is the control practiced through personal or non-official way
(a) Informal control
(b) community control
(c) Formal
(d) law

Answer: A

Question. Who presented the idea of ‘cultural lag’?
(a) Ogburn
(b) Malinowski
(c) MacIver
(d) Risley

Answer: A

Question. What is the prime function of marriage?
(a) Regulation of sex life
(b) Regulation of communication
(c) Regulation of behavior
(d) Regulation of residence

Answer: A

Question. __________ of individuals is an important feature of social group.
(a) Contact
(b) Interaction
(c) Communication
(d) Relation

Answer: B

Question. Patterns of interaction between individuals or groups.
(a) Social group
(b) Social interaction
(c) Social structure
(d) Social control

Answer: C

Question. What is the term for family in which authority is held females?
(a) Matriarchal
(b) Monarchy
(c) Polygamy
(d) Patriarchy

Answer: A

Question. Who authored the book ‘White Collar’?
(a) C H Cooley
(b) (c) Wright Mills
(c) Charles Montesquieu
(d) G H Mead

Answer: B

Question. “A status is a socially defined position in a group or society that an individual occupies.” Who defined so?
(a) Merton
(b) Linton
(c) Ginsberg
(d) Johnson

Answer: B

Question. Who authored the book ‘Social Organization: A Study of the Larger Mind’?
(a) c. H Cooley
(b) E. b Tylor
(c) F. Tonnies
(d) F D Saussure

Answer: A

Question. Who wrote the book ‘Mind, Self and Society’?
(a) Homans
(b) Giddens
(c) Mead
(d) Gramsci

Answer: C

Question. “Sociological imagination is the vivid awareness of the relationship between experience and the wider society."Who said so?
(a) Giddens
(b) Berger
(c) Mills
(d) Goffman

Answer: C

Question. Any form of social encounter between individuals is termed as ____________.
(a) Conflict
(b) Social interaction
(c) Deviance
(d) None of the options

Answer: B

Question. Weber conceived of sociology as a comprehensive science of social --------------.
(a) Groups
(b) Action
(c) Interaction
(d) Institutions

Answer: B

Question. Which branch of sociology deals with the problems in society?
(a) Social Morphology
(b) Criminology
(c) social Pathology
(d) Law

Answer: C

Question. ___________ culture is communicated mostly to the like-minde(d)
(a) Non-material
(b) Explicit
(c) Material
(d) Utilitarian

Answer: A

Question. The term family derived from Latin word………
(a) Familis
(b) Famli
(c) Famulus
(d) Family

Answer: C

Question. Who coined the terms ‘public issues’ & ‘private troubles’ in sociology?
(a) Durkheim
(b) Wright mills
(c) Garfinkel
(d) None of the options

Answer: B

Question. ___________ sociology focuses upon large-scale and long-term social processes `of organizations, institutions, and broad social patterns.
(a) General
(b) Micro
(c) Classical
(d) Macro

Answer: D

Question. What is the meaning of the term Gessellschaft in social science?
(a) Group
(b) Society
(c) kin
(d) Community

Answer: B

Question. In Tonnies classification of groups, __________ is defined as ‘public life’.
(a) Gesellschaft
(b) Gemeinschaft
(c) Community
(d) None of the options

Answer: A

Question. …………… is the family extends beyond the nuclear family
(a) Extended family
(b) Joint family
(c) Nuclear family
(d) Neo local family

Answer: A

Question. What is the base of classification of marriage as hypergamy and hypogamy?
(a) Peculiarity of social status
(b) Peculiarity of authority
(c) Peculiarity of group
(d) Peculiarity of culture

Answer: A

Question. __________ is a natural growth.
(a) Association
(b) Institution
(c) Organization
(d) None of the options

Answer: B

Question. Who defined “sociology as the science of social phenomena subject to natural and invariable laws?”
(a) Spencer
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Durkheim
(d) Comte

Answer: D

Question. __________ are relatively stable structures which meet the basic social needs of people.
(a) Groups
(b) Interactions
(c) Institutions
(d) Roles

Answer: C

Question.……………….. is a group with the members has no individual concern about the membership of group.
(a) In group
(b) Voluntary group
(c) Out group
(d) Involuntary group

Answer: D

Question. _________ theory states that people are motivated by self-interest in the interactions with other people.
(a) Conflict
(b) Exchange
(c) Interaction
(d) Structural

Answer: B

Question. The _____________ status is the position assigned to an individual without reference to his innate differences and abilities.
(a) Social
(b) Ascribed
(c) Group
(d) Achieved

Answer: B

Question. Who was the proponent of the terms Gemeinschaft and Gessellschaft in social science?
(a) Fredinand Saussure
(b) Ferdinand Tonnies
(c) Nicos Paulantz
(d) Jacques Lacan

Answer: B

Question. The strain that exists between two correlated parts of culture that change at unequal rates of speed is termed as ____________.
(a) Mental strain
(b) social deviance
(c) Cultural lag
(d) Culture construct

Answer: C

Question. ………………is the rule or standard that governs out conduct in the social situation in which we participate
(a) Values
(b) Norms
(c) Rule
(d) laws

Answer: B

Question. Conformity implies behaving in accordance with the _________.
(a) Groups
(b) Culture
(c) Situations
(d) Norms

Answer: B

Question. Name one micro sociologist.
(a) Durkheim
(b) Comte
(c) Simmel
(d) None of the options

Answer: C

Question. …………………….is a permanent group
(a) Fedaral group
(b) Primary group
(c) Association
(d) Secondary group

Answer: B

Question. Empiricism is a school of thought based on……………
(a) Theory
(b) Reason
(c) Experience
(d) thought

Answer: C

Question. Who was firstly to deal with the concept of social control?
(a) E A Ross
(b) E D Husserl
(c) P M Blau
(d) H Garfinkel

Answer: A

Question. Who wrote the famous book ‘Folkways’?
(a) Merton
(b) MacIver
(c) Sumner
(d) Albert

Answer: C

Question. What is the meaning of the term Gemeinschaft?
(a) Community
(b) Caste
(c) Group
(d) Clan

Answer: A

Question. Who said “Contact & communication are the two main conditions of social interaction" ?
(a) Horton & Hunt
(b) Park & Burgess
(c) Ogburn & Nimkoff
(d) MacIver & Page

Answer: B