CBSE Class 11 Sociology and Society MCQs

Question :  Which one of the following is so important for the society that its violation calls for severe punishment?
(a) Customs
(b) Ideologies
(c) Mores
(d) Folkways

Answer :  B

Question :  Society is looked upon as
(a) caste and class
(b) social stratification
(c) simple society
(d) system of parts

Answer :  D

Question : Who gave the ‘looking glass self theory’ of socialization?
(a) Emile Durkheim
(b) Charles Cooley
(c) R. K. Merton
(d) Sigmund Freud

Answer :   B

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

Answer :  A

Question :  A system of economic enterprise based on the economic exchange is known as
(a) capitalism
(b) industrialization
(c) modernization
(d) westernization

Answer :  A

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

Answer :  C

Question : Society is looked upon as
(a) caste and class.
(b) social stratification.
(c) simple society.
(d) system of parts.

Answer :  D

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

Answer :  D

Question :  Which one of the following kinship terms indicates that father’s sisters is given greater importance than the mother?
(a) Amitate
(b) Avunculate
(c) Couvade
(d) Teknonymy

Answer :  A

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

Answer :  C

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

Answer :  D

Question : The basis of ‘common sense’ knowledge is _____
(a) rational thinking
(b) general understanding
(c) objective
(d) has a body of facts

Answer :  A

Question : Social problems can be understood in the realm of
(a) Chemistry
(b) Physics
(c) Sociology
(d) Psychology

Answer :  C

Question :  Which of the social philosophers called sociology ”Social Physics?
(a) August
(b) Wolfed Pareto
(c) Mac lver
(d) Herbert Spencer

Answer :  A

Question :  Industrial Revolution was characterised by ________
(a) migration to cities
(b) the emergence of clock time
(c) bad sanitation and general squalor
(d) All the above

Answer :  D 

Question : Macro-sociology is the study of:
(a) small groups
(b) large groups
(c) minorities
(d) tribal groups

Answer :  B

Question : Questions on common sense knowledge lead to the
(a) sociological knowledge.
(b) social differentiation.
(c) common sense knowledge.
(d) sociological imagination.

Answer :  A

Question :  In which year central land reform committee was established.
(a) 1969
(b) 1970
(c) 1971
(d) 1972

Answer :  B

Question : Social control brings _____ to society.
(a) social order
(b) deviance
(c) disobedience
(d) violence

Answer :  A

Question :  The Course of Positive Philosophy published between
(a) 1730 and 1742
(b) 1630 and 1642
(c) 1830 and 1842

Answer :  C

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

Answer :  B

Question :  The formula ‘Place, Work and People’ was postulated for the study of family by–
(a) Frederic Le Play
(b) C.H. Cooley
(c) E. Demolins
(d) Henri de Tourville

Answer :  A

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

Answer :  A

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

Answer :  B

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

Answer :  A