1) When the researcher asks the respondent face to face question, this method is

called:
(a) Interview Schedule
2)
2) Power that people consider legitimate is known as:
(c) Authority

3) Social Structure of a society is the network of:

(d) Compliance to Norms

4) WID approach believes in:

(c) Incorporating women in development activities

5) Geronotology is the study of:

(c) Aged and Aging

6) The most pervasive of the social processes are:

(c) Competition
7) Abstract Sentiments are:
(b) Provide a focus for allegiance

8) The creative potential of personality is accounted for by:

(b) Drive psychology

9) The country with better record for gathering population statistics then any other
is:
(a) Japan

10) The exception to the typical application of endogamy is:

(b) Kinship

11) Stratified samples fall under:

(a) Probability sampling design

12) Egoistic, the special type of suicide presented by Emile Durkheim spring from:
(b) Excessive individualism

13) A close connection between religion and economic forces was presented by:
(a) Max Weber

14) A large kinship group whose members inhabit one geographic area and believe
they are descendent from a common area is known as:
(b) Tribe

15) A social condition in which values are conflicting, weak or absent is:
(d) Anomie
 16) In theoretical field social research aims at:
(b) identifying delinquent behaviour

17) Survey Means:

(b) Organizing social data

18) Independent variables are:

(a) Experimental Groups

19) Qualitative Data Means:

(b) Expressed in words
20) A Likert scale emphasizes:
(b) Uni-dimensinality

2009

1) Ferdinand Tonnies used the term --------------. To refer to societies dominated by

impersonal relationships, individual accomplishment and self-interests.
(b) Gesellschaft

2) When the researcher asks the respondent face to face questions, this method is called
(a) Interview Schedule

3) ----------- Is the process by which people learn all patterns of social life.
(c) Socialization

4) According to ------- all societies across the world are stratified.

(b) Sociologists

5) Biological characteristics distinguishing male from female is called ------

(c) Sex

6) A family consisting of step relations is called :

(C) Extended family

7) Power that people consider legitimate is known as

(C) Authority

8) Mugging, rape and burglary are examples of ------- crimes.

(b) general crimes
9) A norm is always enforced by sanctions.
(a) True
10) Society is the largest and most complex group that sociologists study.
(a) True

11) Endogamy is the marriage among certain relatives.

(a) True
12) Social structure of a society is the network of -------------
( (d) Compliance to norms

13) Polygamy means ------------------

(C) Several Marriages

14) Demography means -------------:

(b) Human Population

15) ------------ is striving for equal treatment of women and men and for abolishing
inequality.:
(a) Feminism

16) WID approach believes in:

c) Incorporating women in development activities

17) Is Pakistan a signatory of CEDAW?

(a) Yes

18) Human Rights pertain to caring for the rights of;

d) All of these.

19) Symbolic behavior of a person means ------------

a) Meaningful behavior

20) Gerontology is the study of ---------------

c) Aged and aging

2008

Q.1. Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet. (20)

i)Human and animal societies share all but one of the following characteristics:
b.Shared beliefs and collective destiny

ii)The essential function of punishment in society is:

c.Affirmation of moral standards

iii)The most pervasive of the social processes are:

a.Cooperation

iv)One of the following is alien to the concept of culture:

b.Changelessness

v)A human being deprived of all communication with other humans from birth would lack all
b.Self

vi)Abstract sentiments are :

c.Are compellers of action

vii)A person is consciously motivated primarily by his:

b.Real traits

viii)Role confusion in modern society is engendered by all but one of the following:
c.increase in number of achievable positions

ix)The creative potential of personality is accounted for by:

c.Trait psychology

x)Once formed the self is:

a.Interactive

xi)In modern society, cultural change is most likely to be the by product of:
b.Diffusion

xii)The country with better record for gathering population statistics than any other is:
a.Japan

xiii)The population of the world is expected to double in the next :

a.35 years

xv)Economic growth will keep pace with population growth only if there is :
a.Available acreage

xvi)The price paid for increased mobility includes a decrease in :

b.Loyalty to superior

xvii)The trend toward urbanization is most advanced in :

a.America

xviii)In a highly intra-competitive situation, individual can guarantee the trust of peers by :
b.Genuine goodwill

xix)The item alien to the concept of mass is

c.Responsibility

xx)The exception to the typical application of endogamy is :

d.None of these

2007

Q.8. Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question.

(1) Ethnocentrisms means:

(c)No other society is like your's and your society or group is superior to
others.

(2) Social facts have thier independent existence and must be studied
likewise. Who remarked above when discussing scientific method:

(b)Emile Durkhiem
(3) An exploratory research design the major focus is on:
(b) Hypothesetesting

(4) Diffusion of innovations among cultures means:

(d) None of these

(5) Social institutions are ;

(c) Consultellation of folkways and moresaround some important functions(s)

of society.

(6)A counter culture:

(a) Has to be against the existing cultural ethos/values

(7) Family Laws Ordinance was passed for the first time in:

(a) 1961

(8) Demographic Transition exhibits:

(a) High birth rate and low death rate in its first phase.

(9) As a conquence of rural urban migration:

(c) ruralization of urban areas and ribbon growth seem to be the result

(10) In a patriarchal family the major decision are taken by the:

(c)The male head of the family who weilds all powers

(12)A double-barrelle question has the potential of having:

(a) Two acceptable responses/answers

(b)Two answers but incompatible with each other
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these .

(13) Those who cannot compete have no right for higher learning and must be refused
accordingly who believed in the above thesis?
(b)Spencer

(14) Whose theorizing social change is depicted/comes closer to Iqbal's verse

(b) Ibn-i-Khaldun
(15) The lowest density of population per square kilometer is found in:

(c)Baluchistan

(16) Alteration is the state of affairs in which:

(c) the worker is least emotionally related to the product that he develops, the co-
workers and the work emviorment.

(17) The rate of return for a mailed questionaire is usually:

(b) very low

(18) According to Emile Durkhiem the Mechanical Solidarity is based on:

(a) blood relations and neighbourhood

(19) Cultural Shock is caused by:

(c) Both (a) and (b)

(20) Standard deviation in statistics is the measure that indicates in essence the :

(a) Central tendency

(b) Spread of the sample means/values
(c) Both (a) and (b)
(d) None of these

2006

(1) Any method of data collection that directly removes the researcher from research site

(c) Unobtrusive measure

2. Commonly used measure of variability whose size indicates the dispersion of a

distribution is: .
(a) Standard deviation

3. In sample selection a threat that occurs when individuals have been assigned to the
experimental group on the basis of their extreme score on dependent variable is
referred.as:
(a) Experimental mortality
4. An overall scheme of scientific activities in which scientists engage in order to produce
knowledge is a:

(d) Research design

5. When there is an inherent causal link between dependent and independent variables, the
relationship is:
(c) Spurious

6. Questions that are relevant to some respondents, may be irrelevant to others are known
as:
(c) Contingency questions

7. Stratified sample falls under:

(a) Probability sampling design (b)Non probability sampling
(c) Multi-stage sample design (d) None of these

8)Egoistic, the special type of stucide presented by Emile Durkheim, springing from:
(b) Excessive individualism

9)To Simmel, a mean of maintaining or increasing integration within groups is:

(a) Co-operation (b) Competition
(c) Coercion (d) Conflict

10)Sociology is introduced as an academic discipline by:

(a) Ibn-e-Khaldun (b) Auguste Conte (c) George Simmel (d) Herbert Spencer

11)Society as a complex organization of parts that functions to fulfill the requirement a..'1d
promote the needs of the whole, is a concept of:
(a) Structural Functionalism (b) Interaction School of thought
(c) Phenomology (d) None of these

12)The concepts of "Protestant" and "Bourgeoise" were presented by:

(a) Talcat parson (b) Karl Marx
(c) Max Weber (d) Emile Durkheim

13)In "The Division of Labor in Society", Emile Durkheim presented the idea of:
(a) Mechanical & organic solidarity (b) Social & psychologica! solidarity
(c) Physical & social solidarity (dJ Psychological & mechanica.: solidarIty
(e) None of these

14)A large kinship group whose members inhibit one geographical area and believe the: are
descendent from a common anceStor is knOwn as:
(a) clan (b) Tribe
(d) class (e) None of these
(c) Kin group

15)The process by which cultural traits spread from one group or society to another is
called:
(a) Folkways
(b) cultural diffusion
(c) counter culture
( d) cultural complexes
(e) None of these

16)The phenomena when educated and highly skilled people emigrate to a new country,
their home country loses, is referred as:
(a) Chain migration (b) Life-time migration (c) Brain Drain
(d) Mover (e) None of these

17)A social condition in which values are conflicting, weak or absent is called:
(a) Assimilation (b) Hawthrne effect (c) invasion
(d) Anomie (e.) None of these

18)The psychological stress caused when a person faces rapid cultura: change is called~
(a) Cultural shock

2004

Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question.
(1) Man is a social animal, who said:

(a) Aristotle (b) Ibn-i-Khaldun (e) Max Weber (d) AI-Ghazali (e) None of these

(2) Who has written the book "Das KapitaP".

(a) Lewis Morgan (b) Max Weber (c) Karl Marx (d) August Comte (e) None of these

(3) Who mainly presented the idea of Social Conflict: < (a) Herbert Spencer(b) Emile
Durkheim (c) Karl Marx (d) Talcott Parsons (e) None of these

(4) Who advocated the philosophical approach called idealism for understanding society: (a)
August Comte (b) Max Weber (c) George Simmel (d) Robert Park (e) None of these

(5) Who is really the founder of Sociology:

(a) Amam Ghazali (b) Ibh-i-Khaldun (c) Parsons (d) Wright Mills (e) None of these

(6) In the division of labour in the society which one of two types of solidarity identified by
Durkheim:
(a) Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
(b) Mechanical and Physical Solidarity
(c) Physical and Spiritual Solidarity
(d) Physical and Organic Solidarity
(e) None of these

(7) Who mainly advocated that "the economic structure of the society is the real foundation
of the society":
(a) Karl Marx (b) Charlus Coaley (c) Robert Merton (d) August Comte (e) None of these
(8) Which one is first step of knowledge:
(a) Theory (b) Law
(c) Assumption (d) Intuitive (e) None of these

(9) Concept of Co-variation means:

(a) When two variables vary together
(b) Remain Unchanged
(c) One variable changes, other remains unchanged
(d) None of these

(mujhe C lag ra hai)

(10) Age is a:
(a) Nominal variable (b) Ordinal variable (c) Interval (d) Ratio (e) None of these

(11) Stratified Random Sampling technique is a:

(a) Probability Sampling technique
(b) Non-probability
(c) None of these

(12) Polyandry means:

(a) A form of marriage that joins one female with more than one male.
(b) A form of marriage that joins one female with one male.
(c) A form of marriage that joins more than one female with one male
(d) None of these

(13) Which one is a basic institution for socialization of children:

(a) School (b) Religion (c) Family (d) Community (e) None of these

(14) Population change is mainly based on:

(a) Fertility and Mortality
(b) Fertility and migration
(c) Mortality and migration
(d) Fertility, Mortality and migration
(e) None of these

(15) The infant mortality level in Pakistan is around:

(a) 10 (b) 25 (c) 60 (d) 160 (e) None of these

(16) Demography is a scientific study of human population with respect to:

(a) Size of population

(b) Structure of population

(c) Composition of population

(d) Size, structure and composition of population

(e) None of these

(17) Dispersion and Variation can be examined through calculating:

(a) Mean

(b) Standard deviation

(c) Correlation Co-efficient

(d) Regression Co-efficient

(e) None of these

(18) How many people in Pakistan are living below .poverty line, around:

(a) 10 percent (b) . 20 percent (c) 32 percent (d) 58 percent (e) None of these 4

(19) Norms and values are components of:

(a) Society (b) Religion

2003

Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question.

(1) The term society in sociology is used to refer to:

(a) The person living in an area

(b) The persons professing the same religion.

(c) The system of social relationship

(d) The organized relations between individuals

(e) None of the these.

(2) Herbert Spencer classified the society into:

(a) Four classes (b) Eight classes (c) Two classes (d) Three classes (e) None of these.

(3) 'The bourgeoisie type of society was compounded

by:

. (a) Max Weber (b) Karl Marx (c) Hegel (d) T.H. Green (e) None of these.

(4) Language is important to society because:

(a) It makes social contracts easy.

(b) It raised man from a savage to a noble being

(c) It is an invention of society

(d) It easily satisfies man's need of expression (e> None of these. .

(5) Socialization is a process involving:

(a) Setting up the social norms

(b) Gradual changing of an organism

(c) Declaring everything as belonging to society

(d) Training to adapt id society

(e) None of these.

(6) According to Hegel assimilation is:

(a) a person not a result

(b) a person as well a result

(c) a result and not a process

(d) All of these.

(e) None of these.

(7) *An association is characterized by:

(a) Norms (b) Customs (c) Folk ways (d) Usage (e) None of these.

(8) 'The research process occurs:

(a) Sometime quickly, sometimes slowly

(b)^ With a very high degree of familiarization and rigour

(c) Always through the interaction. of several scientists

(d) Only irf the scientist's imagination

(e) None of these.

(9) Operational definitions:

(a) Are composed of primitive and derived terms

(b) Represent concepts that can be directly observed

(c) Are sets of procedures that describe measurement activities

(d) Specify the meaning of concepts through obstensive definitions

(e) None of these.

(10) If we-develop a system that describe a cily}s. traffic flow by setting up a simulated
road network, traffic signals and vehicles, we have constructed a/an: .
(a) Axiomatic theory (b) Model (c) Ad-hoc classificatory system (cl) Taxonomy (e) None
of these.

(11) In principle, the age of a person is a:

(a) control variable

(b) continuous variable

(c) discrete variable

(d) spurious variable

(e) None of these.

(12) If a change in X produces a change in Y then:

(a) X is not casually related to Y

(b) X and Y do not ovary /

(c) X 'could he cause of Y

(d) Y is a cause of X (c) None of these.

(13) What is the lowest Level of measurement in which numbers or symbols are used to
classify objects:
(a) Nominal (b) Ordinal (c) Internal (d) Ratio
(e) None of these.

(14) Population of Pakistan is around:

(a) 150 million (b) 140 million (c) 160 million (d) 130 million (e) None of these.

(15) Population of Pakistan has been increasing at the rate of:

(a) 3 percent (b) 2.1 percent (c) 1.5 per cent (d) 2.6 percent (e) None of these.

(16) Average life of a Pakistani woman is:

(a) Equal to men (b) Shorter than man

(c) Longer than man

(d) None of these.

(17) Status may be:

(a) ascribed
(b) achieved

(c) Both ascribed and achieved

(d) None of these,

(18) An achieved status is: i

(a) shared by caste-minded people

(b) inherited from parents

(c) derived from abilities and skills

(d) dependent upon biological condition

(e) None of these.

(19) Role conflict -in society emerges out of the fact that:

(a) Performers do not know the nature of Vole performed «

(b) There is lack of balance in the system of the role performed

(c) They do not observe the desired standards, (d) They do not get adequate award -for the
roleperformed, . . (d) None of these.

(20). "Bourgeoisie is a.term used by:

(a) 'Aristotle (b) Karl MarX

(c) Max Weber (d) Maclur

(d) None of these

In 1998 census,what was literacy rate of Pakistan?_________45%

When material culture advances faster than the non material culture,it
is called?____Cultural lag

Population welfare program was implemented in?_____1981

Population density means?_____population per square mile

Population density of Balochistan Province?______18 person

Lynching is an example of?____collective behaviour

The "herd mentality" was the idea of?____Charles Mackay

Richard Berk coined the term?_____minimax strategy

The development of new norms to cope with a new situation

is?____emergent norms

A temporary pattern of behaviour that catches people's attention is

a?___Fad

Social movements that seek to change people totally

are______Redemptive social movements

Max Weber identified as the core reason for the development of

capitalism_____Religion

Three processes of cultural innovation were identified

by_____William Ogburn

The adaption of natural items for human use is_____Primitive

technology

According to Karl Marx,the change over to the factory system

produced____Alienation

Cyclical theories were developed by______Arnold Toynbee

Failure to fuction normally,and even fleeing is the result of____Panic

Sociologists refer to unfounded information spread among people

as____Rumor

Social change is a process of struggle between social classes over

control of the forces of production.This view is found in____Marx

Collective behaviour requires a background of______Social unrest

Introduction to Sociology Solved Multiple Choice Questions With Answers

Q 1: Which of the social philosophers called sociology ”Social
Physics?
(a) August (b) Wolfed Pareto
(c) Mac lver (d) Herbert Spencer
Q 2: ”Main is a social animal” are the famous word of:
(a) Aristotle (b) Cristo (c) Spencer (d) Plato
Q 3: Sociology is the study of:
(a) Socio-political institutions (b) Political system
(c) Human behavior (d) Society
Q 4: Who defined sociology as a science for scientific social
development?
(a) August Comte (b) G.D. Mitchell
(c) Montesquieu (d) J.B. Mckee
Q 5: Which of the following statements is more correct?
(a) Sociology is a natural science
(b) Sociology is a social science
(c)Sociology is an applied science
(d) Sociology is a normative science
Q 6 : Sociology ”attempts the interpretative understanding of
social man said so?
(a) Mac lver (b) Max Weber
(c) T. Abel (d) W.F. Ogburn
Q 7: Sociology is a ‘value free science’ who said so?
(a) August Comte (b) Emile Durkheim
(c) Herbert (d) Max Weber
Q 8: The word ”Sociology” is derived from..
(a) Latin Word (b) Greek word
(c) A. Latin & Greek word (d) None of these
Q 9 : Who has defined sociology as a branch of study attempting
the interpretative understanding of social action?
(a) Kimball (b) Raymond Aron
(c) L.F. Ward (d) Max weber
Q 10: Sociology is the study of.
(a) the individual (b) groups
(c) Society & social institution (d) the state
Q 11: The term ”Sociology” was first coined by..
(a) charls Darwin (b) Max weber
(c) Emile (d) Auguste Compte
Q 12: The principle of natural selection was first applied in
sociology by..
(a) Herbert Spencer (b) Radcliffe-Brown
(c) Von weise (d) Tonnies
Q 13: Which of the following does not belong to the
Synthetic School?
(a) Hobhouse (b) Mannheim
(c) J.B. Mekee (d) Von Weise
Q14: The Greek thinkers Plato and Aristotle gave primacy to…..
a) The individual b) Religion
c) society d) The state
Answers
1) a 2) a 3) d 4) a 5) b 6) a 7) b 8) c 9) a 10) a 11) d
12) c 13) d 1 4) c
1. Sociological perspective means
(A) Understanding human behavior in broader context of society
(B) Understanding human behavior in narrower context of society
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

2. Social Location is the group membership that people have because of their
(A) Status in society
(B) Location in history and society
(C) Location in a town
(D) None of these

3. Which of the following shape our ideas more than the other
(A) Hereditary traits
(B) Social groups interaction
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

4. Sociology is a
(A) Social science
(B) Natural science
(C) Behavioral science
(D) None of these

5. Which of the followings are included in primary goals of a social science?

(A) Experimentation
(B) Generalization
(C) Prediction
(D) All of these

6. Positivism was first proposed by

(A) Augustus Comte
(B) Emily Durkheim
(C) Herbert Spencer
(D) None of these

7. Positivism is applying which method in social world?

(A) Natural method
(B) Non-scientific method
(C) Scientific method
(D) None of these

8. Who is credited as founder of sociology?

(A) Herbert Spencer
(B) Augustus Comte
(C) Max Weber
(D) None of these

9. The concept of Social Darwinism was coined by

(A) Herbert Spencer
(B) Augustus Comte
(C) Max Weber
(D) None of these

10. Karl Marx gave the sociological concept of

(A) Social Darwinism
(B) Positivism
(C) Class conflict
(D) None of these

ANSWERS: SOCIOLOGY MCQS

1. A 2. B 3. B 4. A 5. D 6. A 7. C 8. B 9. A 10. C

11. Emily Durkheim is known for his work on

(A) Socialization
(B) Politics
(C) Suicide
(D) All of these

12. Which one of the following sociologists worked on religion in sociology?

(A) Max Weber
(B) Durkheim
(C) Augustus Comte
(D) None of these

13. ‘Replication’ in sociological research means

(A) Repetition of study to test the findings
(B) Cancelling the old findings
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

14. Durkheim’s term of ‘Social Facts’ means

(A) Factors determining socialization
(B) A group’s pattern behavior
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

15. In which university Sociology was first taught as a discipline?

(A) University of Cambridge
(B) Oxford University
(C) University of Kansas
(D) Punjab University

16. What jeopardized the work of women sociologists in history?

(A) Sexism
(B) Racism
(C) Feudalism
(D) None of these

17. Which of the following sociologist was victim of racism?

(A) Hebert Spencer
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Augustus Comte
(D) W. E. B. Du Bios

18. Use of sociology to solve the problems of society is

(A) Basic sociology
(B) Applied sociology
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

19. Public Sociology is the sociology used for

(A) Public good
(B) Private good
(C) Individual good
(D) None of these

20. Identify the type(s) of culture

(A) Material Culture
(B) Non-Material Culture
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

ANSWERS: SOCIOLOGY QUIZ

11. C 12. A 13. A 14. B 15. C 16. A 17. D 18. B 19. A 20. C

21. ‘Clothes’ being wore in a society is an example of

(A) Material culture
(B) Non-material culture
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

22. Non-Material culture is also called

(A) Apparent culture
(B) Implicit culture
(C) Symbolic culture
(D) None of these

23. Taking one’s own culture as standard of judging others’ cultures is

(A) Ethnocentrism
(B) Xenocentrism
(C) Cultural shock
(D) None of these

24. People face cultural shock when they

(A) Practice old customs
(B) Come in contact with different culture
(C) Don’t practice norms
(D) None of these

25. Judging another’s culture can lead a person to

(A) Ethnocentrism
(B) Xenocentrism
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

26. Language is an example of

(A) Material culture
(B) Symbolic culture
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

27. Which one of the following is not an example of material culture?

(A) Buildings
(B) Cars
(C) Arts
(D) Norms

28. Which one of the following is not an example of symbolic culture?

(A) Norms
(B) Gestures
(C) Clothes
(D) Language

29. Sanction is the way to enforce

(A) Values
(B) Norms
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these
30. A sanction can be
(A) Positive
(B) Negative
(C) Only negative
(D) Both positive and negative

ANSWERS: SOCIOLOGY QUIZZES

21. A 22. C 23. A 24. B 25. C 26. B 27. D 28. C 29. B 30. D

31. ‘Folkway’ is an example of

(A) Social Norm
(B) Social value
(C) Social sanction
(D) None of these

32. Which is from the following is the least strictly enforced?

(A) Folkway
(B) Mores
(C) Taboos
(D) None of these

33. Which one of the following is most strictly enforced?

(A) Folkway
(B) Mores
(C) Taboos
(D) None of these

34. A group which has its values contradicting with the broader culture forms
(A) Subculture
(B) Counterculture
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

35. A society with different cultural values is

(A) Pluralistic
(B) Singular
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

36. Values shaped together from a larger whole forms

(A) Value Group
(B) Value Cluster
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these
37. Values that run opposite to each other forms
(A) Value contradictions
(B) Value clusters
(C) Value groups
(D) None of these

38. Ideal culture is

(A) Norms being manifested
(B) Norms ought to be manifested
(C) Norms violation
(D) None of these

39. The way in which people actually follow norms is

(A) Manifest culture
(B) Ideal culture
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

40. The spread of cultural traits and patterns in space is called

(A) Assimilation
(B) Acculturation
(C) Diffusion
(D) None of these

ANSWERS: SOCIOLOGY QUESTIONS

31. A 32. A 33. C 34. B 35. A 36. B 37. A 38. B 39. A 40. C

41. A Stimulus-Response Condition between two persons is called

(A) Exchange
(B) Dialogue
(C) Interaction
(D) None of these

42. Polyandry is a form of marriage in which

(A) Many women marry one man
(B) Many men are husbands of one woman
(C) One man marries a woman
(D) None of these

43. A verified and verifiable proposition is

(A) Hypothesis
(B) Design
(C) Fact
(D) None of these
44. Who strongly believed in social DARWINISM particularly the “survival of the fittest”?
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Spencer
(C) Ibn-i-Khaldun
(D) George Hegel

45. Fact may be defined as

(A) A commonly shared reality
(B) What everyone knows as true
(C) That speaks itself
(D) Verified and verifiable statement

46. Research design is

(A) The developing of techniques of data collection
(B) An overall outline of the procedures and operations that includes methods,
techniques and tools of the study
(C) The decisions that a researcher makes/takes to verify the data
(D) The way to participate in an ongoing research project

47. Social Mobility Means

(A) Traveling of groups from one place to another
(B) Participation in the cultural activities of modern age
(C) Migration from rural to urban areas
(D) Movement of people between positions on different levels

48. Monotheism refers to

(A) The worship of one God
(B) The worship of many gods
(C) The followers of a magician
(D) None of these

49. By Sorcery we mean

(A) General practice to cure sick
(B) Magic in a more neutral term
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

50. Who coined the term “residues”?

(A) Robert K. Merton
(B) V.F.D. Pareto
(C) A.R. Radcliffe Brown
(D) None of these

ANSWERS: SOCIOLOGY MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS

41. C 42. B 43. C 44. B 45. D 46. B 47. D 48. A 49. B 50. B
51. By Penology we mean
(A) Studies of social structure
(B) Study of Punishments
(C) Alternative methods of social control
(D) None of these

52. Mills, C.Wright wrote the book

(A) White Collar
(B) The Language of Social Research
(C) Value in Social Theory
(D) None of these

53. The sex ratio is

(A) The number of women per hundred men
(B) The number of children a woman has
(C) The number of men per hundred women
(D) The number of children biologically possible for a woman

54. The term used to refer to the biological maximum number of birth is
(A) Sex ratio
(B) Fertilitys
(C) Fecundity
(D) Natural increase

55. From the stand point of its role in society, one of the great potential capability of
religion is
(A) Lessening confusion by providing a system of beliefs
(B) Taking over the socialization process of children
(C) Strengthening the other institutions in society
(D) The promotion of group cohesion

56. Children assumed to have raised by animals are called

(A) Abnormal children
(B) Feral children
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

57. The case of ‘Jack & Oscar’ was helpful in studying

(A) Impact of environment on socialization
(B) Impact of hereditary on socialization
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

58. Children reared in special centers of care are

(A) Feral children
(B) Institutionalized children
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

59. A social position inherited by an individual is a status called

(A) Achieved Status
(B) Ascribed Status
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

60. A social position earned in life shapes

(A) Achieved Status
(B) Ascribed Status
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

ANSWERS: SOCIOLOGY MCQS PAGE-6

51. B 52. A 53. C 54. C 55. A 56. B 57. C 58. B 59. B 60. A

61. Position occupied by someone in society is recognized as his

(A) Status
(B) Post
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

62. Things used to identify one’s social status are called

(A) Status determinants
(B) Social indignation
(C) Status symbols
(D) None of these

63. The behavior attached to social status is described as

(A) Role
(B) Performance
(C) Duties
(D) None of these

64. People of society who share commonness in several things form

(A) Cluster
(B) Gathering
(C) Group
(D) None of these

65. Social integration is level to which members of a society feel

(A) United
(B) Alienated
(C) Separated
(D) None of these

66. Specifying a task for a person is

(A) Social integration
(B) Social alienation
(C) Division of labor
(D) None of these

67. Stereotype is an
(A) Habit
(B) Assumption
(C) Custom
(D) None of these

68. Stereotype is an assumption that is

(A) Always true
(B) Always false
(C) Either true or false
(D) None of these

69. Collaboration of two or more people in a work is called

(A) Teamwork
(B) Division of labor
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

70. Dyad is
(A) Social custom
(B) Norm
(C) The smallest possible group
(D) The largest possible group

ANSWERS: PAGE-7 SOCIOLOGY MCQS

61. A 62. A 63. A 64. C 65. A 66. C 67. B 68. C 69. A 70. C

71. Emigration means

(A) Going out of home country
(B) Going out of home district
(C) Going out of home village
(D) None of these

72. Life span means

(A) Passing form one year to next year
(B) Maximum number of years that one can live
(C) Average life that one can life
(D) None of these

73. Within the year group, the major emphasis is upon

(A) Achievement
(B) Conformity
(C) Individual conviction
(D) None of these

74. “Brain washing” consists of extreme and intensive

(A) Reciprocal roles
(B) Identification
(C) Disorientation
(D) Re-socialization

75. The sociogram is best described as a sociological

(A) Concept
(B) Fact
(C) Theory
(D) Technique

76. A caste system as a pure theoretical type is based upon

(A) Ascribed status
(B) Social status
(C) Achieved status
(D) Both Achieved and Ascribed status

77. Social class position in a true “open class” structure is based upon
(A) Ascribed criteria
(B) Race
(C) Family position
(D) Achieved criteria

78. A close connection between religion and economic forces was presented by
(A) Max Weber
(B) Karl Max
(C) Emile Durkheim
(D) Wright Mill

79. A large kinship group whose members inhabit one geographic area and believe they
are descendant from a common area is known as
(A) Clan
(B) Tribe
(C) Kin group
(D) Class
80. A social condition in which values are conflicting, weak or absent is
(A) Assimilation
(B) Hawthorne effect
(C) Invasion
(D) Anomie

ANSWERS: SOCIOLOGY QUIZ PAGE-8

71. A 72. B 73. D 74. C 75. D 76. A 77. D 78. A 79. C 80. D

81. In theoretical field social research aims at

(A) finding problems of human being
(B) identifying delinquent behaviour
(C) reducing social conflict
(D) None of these

82. WID approach believes in

(A) Gender mainstreaming
(B) Gender Segregation
(C) Incorporating women in development activities
(D) None of these

83. Is Pakistan a signatory of CEDAW?

(A) Yes
(B) No
(C) Both ‘a & b’
(D) None of these

84. Human Rights pertain to caring for the rights of

(A) Women
(B) Men
(C) Minorities
(D) All of these

85. The essential function of punishment in society is

(A) Reform
(B) Revenge
(C) Affirmation of moral standards
(D) None of these

86. The most pervasive of the social processes are

(A) Cooperation
(B) Overt Conflict
(C) Competition
(D) None of these
87. The trend toward urbanization is most advanced in
(A) America
(B) England
(C) Japan
(D) None of these

88. In a highly intra-competitive situation, individual can guarantee the trust of peers by
(A) Self modesty
(B) Genuine goodwill
(C) Withholding praise of superior
(D) None of these

89. A counter culture

(A) Has to be against the existing cultural ethos/values
(B) May not be against the existing cultural ethos/values
(C) If different from the existing culture may never succeed to survive
(D) None of these

90. Family Laws Ordinance was passed for the first time in
(A) 1961
(B) 1973
(C) 1985
(D) None of these

ANSWERS: SOCIOLOGY QUIZ

81. B 82. C 83. A 84. D 85. C 86. C 87. A 88. B 89. A 90. A

91. Those who cannot compete have no right for higher learning and must be refused
accordingly who believed in the above thesis? (Social Darwinism)
(A) Augustus Comte
(B) Spencer
(C) Karl max
(D) None of these

92. Cultural Shock is caused by

(A) Playing is different role and getting role strain
(B) finding values, norms and customs against ones cultural socialization usually
opposite to what one has been socialized in and they turn out to be dysfunctional
(C) Both (a) and (b)
(D) None of these

93. Society as a complex organization of parts that functions to fulfill the requirement
a..’1d promote the needs of the whole, is a concept of
(A) Structural Functionalism
(B) Interaction School of thought
(C) Phenomenology
(D) None of these

94. The concepts of “Protestant” and “Bourgeoise” were presented by

(A) Talcat parson
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Max Weber
(D) Emile Durkheim

95. In “The Division of Labor in Society”, Emile Durkheim presented the idea of
(A) Mechanical & organic solidarity
(B) Social & psychological solidarity
(C) Physical & social solidarity
(D) Psychological & mechanical solidarity

96. The phenomena when educated and highly skilled people emigrate to a new
country, their home country loses, is referred as
(A) Chain migration
(B) Life-time migration
(C) Brain Drain
(D) Mover

97. A social condition in which values are conflicting, weak or absent is called
(A) Assimilation
(B) Hawthorne effect
(C) Invasion
(D) Anomie

98. The item alien to the concept of mass is

(A) Vastness
(B) Anonymity
(C) Responsibility
(D) None of these

99. The exception to the typical application of endogamy is

(A) Tribe
(B) Kinship
(C) Race
(D) None of these

100. One of the following is alien to the concept of culture

(A) Religious ritual
(B) Changelessness
(C) Idealized ways of thinking and doing
(D) None of these
ANSWERS: SOCIOLOGY QUIZZES
91. B 92. B 93. A 94. B 95. A96. C 97. D 98. C 99. B100. B

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