Q1.

By social science we mean those bodies of knowledge compiled

through the use of scientific method which deal with the forms and contents
of man’s interaction.

A. Young and Mack

B. Auguste Comte
C. Herbert Spencer
D. Weber
Q2. Who contributed these in sociology - law of evolution and theory of
organic analogy?

A. Max Weber
B. Auguste Comte
C. Durkheim
D. Herbert Spencer
Q3. Who among the following belong to the formalistic school of sociology?

A. Tonnies
B. Sorokin
C. Durkheim
D. Ginsberg
Q4. Who defined society as a collection of individuals united by certain
relations or mode of behaviour which mark them off from others who do not
enter into these relations or who differ from them in behaviour.

A. MacIver
B. Morris Ginsberg
C. Giddings
D. Durkheim
Q5. Which among the following is not the characteristics of a community?

A. Locality or geographic area

B. Community Sentiment
C. Abstract
D. Stable
Q6. Which of the following example of association is incorrect?

A. Political Associations - BJP Party

B. Religious Associations - The Vishwa Hindu Parishad
C. Students Associations - The Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
D. Labourers Associations - The Communist Party
Q7. “Role is a dynamic or the behavioural aspects of status… A role is
what an individual does in the status he occupies.” Who said this?

A. Young and Mack

B. Robert Biersted
C. Duncan Mitchell
D. Kingsley Davis
Q8. When a person responds by putting himself mentally or imaginatively
in the role of the other person in order to regulate his own behaviour. What
it is called?

A. Role Conflict
B. Role Taking
C. Role Behaviour
D. Role Set
Q9. Which statement is incorrect about status?

A. Every status has its own rights, duties and obligations

B. Social statuses are governed by norms.
C. Statuses differ with their degree of importance
D. Statuses are not defined as position in society or group.
Q10. Schools are expected to educate the young in the knowledge and
skills that they need. It is its which function?

A. Manifest
B. Latent
C. Both A and B
D. None of the above
Q11. Who has written the book ‘Invitation to Sociology’

A. H.E. Barns
B. P.L. Berger
C. Bogardus
D. Nisbet
Q12. When the balance between the material and non-material culture is
disrupted by rapid social change, the material culture changes rapidly and
the non-material culture is left behind. This situation is called.

A. left culture
B. far-culture
C. cultural lag
D. taken culture
Q13. Socialisaton is the process of working together of developing group
responsibility or being guided by the welfare needs of others.

A. Bogardus
B. W.F Ogburn
C. Peter Worsley
D. Lundberg
Q14. Which among the following are the conditions of learning?

A. Discrimination
B. Reward and Punishment
C. Control of effects of frustration
D. All of the above
Q15. Which among the following is not the correct four stages of
socialisation?

A. The oral stage

B. The ego stage
C. The oedipal stage
D. The stage of adolescence
Q16. Who has classified culture into apollonian and dionysian culture?

A. Ruth Benedict
B. Mead
C. Freud
D. C H Cooley
Q17. Whenever two or more individuals come together and influence one
another, they may be said to constitute a social group?

A. Ogburn and Nimkoff

B. MacIver and Page
C. Harry M Johnson
D. None of the above
Q18. “A reference group is any group to which we refer when making
judgements-any group whose value judgements become our value
judgements.” Who said this?

A. Horton and Hunt

B. Muzafer Sherif
C. H.M Johnson
D. Ogburn and Nimkoff
Q19. According to Park and Burgess, two conditions that are important for
social interaction are?

A. Contact and communication

B. Cooperation and communication
C. Only contact
D. Only communication
Q 20. ____ implied not merely an appeal to science but almost reverence
for science?

A. Evolutionism
B. Humanitarianism
C. Positivism
D. None of the above
Q1. “Social process is the manner in which the relations of the members of
a group, once brought together, acquire a distinctive character.”

A. A W Green
B. MacIver
C. Ginsberg
D. Horton and Hunt
Q2. _____ is most basic, pervasive and continuous social processes. It
means working together for the pursuit of a common goal.

A. Competition
B. Conflict
C. Cooperation
D. Contravention
Q3. How many types of cooperation are there?

A. Four
B. Five
C. Six
D. Seven
Q4. “Cooperation is the process by which the individuals or groups
combine their effort, in a more or less organised way for the attainment of
common objective”

A. MacIver
B. Morris Ginsberg
C. A.W Green
D. Fairchild
Q5. Competition of this kind is mostly observed in open societies.
Wherever individual ability, merit, talent and capacities are recognized,
competition for status is acute.

A. Economic competition
B. Social competition
C. Cultural competition
D. Political competition
Q6. “Conflict may be defined as a process of seeking to monopolise
rewards by eliminating or weakening the competitions.”

A. Horton and Hunt

B. A W Green
C. Young and Mack
D. Gillin and Gillin
Q7. _____ is a process of getting along despite of differences. It is a way of
inventing social arrangements which help people to work together whether
they like it or not.

A. Competition
B. Cooperation
C. Assimilation
D. Accomodation
Q8. Who said that human social organisation is fundamentally the result of
an accommodation of conflicting elements.

A. Lundberg
B. MacIver
C. Baldwin
D. Park and Burgess
Q9. Which among the following is correct feature of accommodation?

A. Natural result of conflict

B. Conscious or an unconscious activity
C. Universal
D. All of the above
Q10. Which among the following is the incorrect method of
accommodation?

A. Compromise
B. Intoleration
C. Conversion
D. Rationalisation
Q11. ______ is the fusion or blending of two previously distinct groups into
one.

A. Accommodation
B. Acculturation
C. Assimilation
D. None of the above
Q12. Which among the following factors are hindrance to assimilation?

A. Isolation
B. Cultural differences
C. Physical and racial differences
D. All of the above
Q13. Which among the following is not the correct characteristics of a
social group?

A. Mutual awareness
B. No interaction among members
C. Group norms
D. Stability
Q14. Who has given the concept of In-groups and Out-groups?

A. W. G Sumner
B. Charles Ellwood
C. Von Wiese
D. Sorokin
Q15. Which type of groups are given by CH Cooley?

A. Horizontal and Vertical

B. Primary and Secondary
C. Genetic and Congregate
D. Small and Large
Q16. ______ is a form of marriage in which one man marries more than
one woman at a given time.

A. Polygyny
B. Polyandry
C. Monogamy
D. Endogamy
Q17. How many functions of family are given by Ogburn and Nimkoff ?

A. Seven
B. Six
C. Five
D. Four
Q18. ______ refers to the social recognition of the biological relationship
that exists between individuals.

A. Descent
B. Lineage
C. Clan
D. Phratry
Q19. “In almost all societies __________ prescribe that men and women
must maintain certain amount of modesty in dress, speech, gait and
gesture in a mixed company.”

A. Rule of Avoidance
B. Joking Relationships
C. Teknonymy
D. Amitate
Q 20. “Social control refers to those patterns of pressure which a society
exerts to maintain order and established rules.”

A. Fairchild
B. Ogburn and Nimkoff
C. G.A Lundberg
D. Manheim
Q1.____ refers to any form of society whose main subsistence comes from
tending flocks and herds of domesticated animals. In practice, subsistence
needs are often met by a combination of herding with hunting and
gathering and other forms of agriculture.

A. Pastoral societies
B. Hunting and Gathering societies
C. Horticulture societies
D. Agricultural societies
Q2. Morgan has classified societies into ___ types.

A. one
B. two
C. three
D. none
Q3. ____ societies employ animal drawn ploughs to cultivate the land.

A. Hunting and gathering societies

B. Industrial societies
C. Agricultural societies
D. Post industrial societies
Q4. Unstratified society with real equality of its members is a myth that has
never been realised in the history of mankind. Who said this?

A. MacIver
B. Morris Ginsberg
C. P.A Sorokin
D. Fairchild
Q5. Talcott Parsons mentions three causal factors of social differentiation.
Which among them is incorrect?

A. Possession
B. Qualities
C. Performance
D. None of the above
Q6. “Social stratification is the division of society into permanent groups of
categories linked with each other by the relationship of superiority and
subordination”

A. Gisbert
B. Ogburn and Nimkoff
C. Lundberg
D. Melvin Tumin
Q7. _______refers to the movement of people of groups from one status to
another. It involves change in class, occupation and power. Ex - Poor class
to middle class.

A. Horizontal
B. Vertical
C. Circular
D. None of the above
Q8. _______ is a process by which individuals or households experience
deprivation, either of resources such as income, or of social links to the
wider community or society.

A. Social stratification
B. Social Pressure
C. Social Exclusion
D. Social mobility
Q9. When a class is somewhat strictly hereditary, we may call it a caste.
Who said this?

A. D N Majumdar
B. MacIver and Page
C. Herbert Risley
D. C H Cooley
Q10. According to whom - social classes are aggregates of individuals who
have same opportunities of acquiring goods, the same exhibited standard
of living.

A. Lapire
B. Max Weber
C. MacIver and Page
D. Gisbert
Q11.”Social change refers to a process responsive to many types of
changes; to changes in the manmade conditions of life;to changes in the
attitudes and beliefs of men, and to the changes that go beyond the human
control to the biological and the physical nature of things.”
A. Kingsley Davis
B. Majumdar
C. MacIver and Page
D. M E Jones
Q12. Which of the following is not the feature of caste system?

A. Hierarchy
B. Hereditary occupation
C. Exogamous marriages
D. Untouchability
Q13. Ethnicity refers to

A. Achieved socio cultural attributes

B. Inherited socio cultural attributes
C. Inherited political position and achieved economic activities
D. Inherited and achieved socio cultural attributes
Q14. By connecting countries, globalization has resulted into:

A. Lesser competition among producers

B. Greater competition among producers
C. Making a country dependent on others
D. No competition among the producers
Q15. Who has given the concept of World System Theory?

A. G Watson
B. Mahbub Ul Haq
C. I Wallerstein
D. MK Gandhi
Q16. Who is the author of the book - Ethnic Plurality in India

A. R A Schermerhorn
B. M N Srinivas
C. Robert Bierstadt
D. A R Desai
Q17. Which of the following instances may not be considered as a
reference group behaviour?

A. Proletarianization
B. Embourgeoisment
C. Sanskritization
D. Modernization
Q18. Who argues that ‘classes should be defined as imperatively
coordinated associations’

A. M Weber
B. R Dahrendorf
C. K Marx
D. R Collins
Q19. Who among the following used the concept of interaction ritual in his
theory?

A. R Collins
B. L Coser
C. E Durkheim
D. H Blumer
Q 20. Who has classified social mobility into two ways : Social climbing and
social sinking.

A. P.M Blau
B. SM Miller
C. P.A Sorokin
D. S.M Lipset