OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

Fill in the Blanks 23. Study of population is known as Demography

24. Family is the fundamental unit of society
1. The term Sociology is derived from Latin word
socious and Greek word logos 25. Average income per person in a year is called as
2 Man is a social Animal. Percapita income
3. Face to face relation will be seen in primary 26. Dowry prohibition act is passed on 1961
groups 27. Prostitution is a social-problem
4 The country which has highest population is china 28. People living in cities and towns with non agricultural
Society is formed by group of people occupation are a type of URBAN community.
Diference on social phenomenon over a period is 29. Toddler period is from 1 TO 3 YEARS
termed as phenomenological sociology 30. One man marries only one woman at one time is
7. Equal share to daughters on father's property monogamy
A type of marriage outside thegroup is called 31. Agriculture is the main occupation of Rural
exogamy community.
9. Embryonic period means 6 weeks 32. Society is the web of social relationship
10. In caste system the membership is determined by 33. The process of learning to as socialization
birth
34. Leaming from family is part ofprimary socialization
11. The exploitation and maltreatment of children is 35. Language is considered as the vehicle of culture
called CHILD ABUSE
36. The mob is a participating or active crowd
12. An individual becomes accultured to the society is
Acculteration State whether the following statements are
13. Aguste comte is referred as Father of Sociology TRUE or FALSE
14. MARRIAGE is the Institution which admits the 1. Socialization is a learning process True
man & woman to family life. 2 Growth and development are not related False
15. The group of people living ina common area with 3. Polygamy is practiced in all religions False
common cultural patterns is termed as 4. Family is a smallest unit of society True
COMMUNITY
5. Scientific study of population is termed as
16. Sociology is the study of SOCIETY demography True
17. Dowry Prohibition act was passed by central 6. In India maximum of population lives in urban
Government in the year 1961
community False
18. Large number of people gathered in one place is 7.
Economics deals with the human relationship in
called COMMUNITY
production, distribution and consumption. True
19. Father of sociology is August comte 8. Family is one of the agencies of socialization. True
20. In patriarchal family father is the head of the 9. Social problems are conditions
family. promoting social
wellbeing. False
21. Scientific study of human population is 10. Sociology originated in 1839. False
Demography 11. Socialization helps to prepare a person to fulfill
22. Gathering of unorganized people is called as Mob social roles. True
 12. Sociology is an applicd scicnce False
13. Sociology is an gencralizing science True 7. Society symbolises the network of
14. Class system is a a
Human relationships
15. Family is a
closed system False
universal b. Social relationships
institution True C. Orientations
Multiple choice questions d.
Inter-connections
1. The term
a.
'sociology
Saint Simon
was coined by Ans: b
8.
b. Herbert Spencer 'Society is the web of social
whose definition is this? relationships'
C.
Auguste Comte a. Maclver
d. Durkheim b. H. Maine
C. Pluto d. Aristotle
Ans: c Ans: a
2 In which year the term Sociology' was 9. There are two types
a. 1798 coined? These are
of definition of society.
b. 1815
c. 1839 a. Structural and interactional
d. 1857
Ans: c b. Functional and structural
3. Sociology emerged c. Evolutionary and diffusive
in
a. America d. Structural and evolutionary
b. Europe
C. Asia Ans. b
d. Africa
Ans: b 10. Society is
a. Natural b. Deliberate
4. The word 'Sociology' is made up of two words.
These are c. Practical d. Functional
a. Ans: b
Societies and Logy
b. Societia and Logistia 11. Human development is dependent upon
c. Socious and Logos a. Family environment b. School
d. Socia & Logos c. Society d. All of the above
Ans: c Ans: b
12. Socialization is
5. The scope of sociology includes study of
a. Culture a) Process of learning b) A social system
c) A social institution d) None of the above
b. Social problem
Ans: a
C. Social change
d. Allof the above 13. Social disorganization is caused by
Ans: d a) Lack of social solidarity in society
6. b) Loosening of social control
Society emerges out of
a. c) Extreme disparity in society
Community's existence
b. Men's existence d) Allof the above
Ans: d
c. Problem's existence
d. Relationship
Ans: b
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14. Marriage is a/an 20. Who gave the name 'Harijans' to the
a. important and universal social institution of untouchables?

society a. Indian constitution b. B.R. Ambdedkar

b. important basis for group formation c. M.K. Gandhi d. GS.Ghurye
c. helpful in strengthening the caste system Ans: c

d. helpful in calming down the anger of two 21. Which among the following is the indicator of
conflicting groups. open stratification system?
Ans: a a. Ethnicity b. Caste
15. Marriage is considered to be necessary C. Class d. Religion
because Ans: c
a. This is the only way to acquire paternal property 22. Which of the following best describes sociology
This is the only way of sexual gratification as a subject?
This provides societal sanction a. The study of individual behavior
d. Itis regularised and provides socially sanctioned b. The study of cultures
sex gratification C. The study of society and social interaction
Ans: d
d. The study of economics
16. The basis of slave system is always? Ans: c
a. Political b. Economic 23. Sociology has been derived from the Latin
c. Custom d. Social need word 'Societus' and logos', which mneans:
Ans: b a. Friend or companion and science
17. A characteristic feature of arural community b. Society and laws
is c. Sociability and science
a. Formal relationship d. Society and science
b. Rational will Ans: d

c. Community sentiment 24. In society differences grow due to:

d. A vast number of association a. Socialisation b. Non-specialisation
Ans: a c. Non-socialisation d. Isolation
Ans: a
18. Demographers do not take into account
a. Age, sex and racial composition of the 25. In India, the institution of family has a trend
population towards:
b. Height and weight of the population a. Joint family b. Single family
c. Birth and death rate c. Patriarchal family d. Matriarchal family
d. Density of population Ans: b
Ans: b 26. These days in India the institution of marriage
19. The scheduled castes in India provide an is weakening because:
example of a a. Our religious leaders are becoming rigid
a. Formal group b. Reference group b. Women are becoming economically sell
sufficient
c. Social category d. Secondary group
c. Less number of people are liking to marry
Ans: c
d. People prefer small size family
Ans: b
 trade union is:
33. Which among the following is true of
Member of a small sociallzation?
27.
a
A
social group a. It socializes the individuals
An associational group b. It makes society above individual
Astatistical group c. It brings individuals into the social
d. Aprinmary group d. All the above
Ans: b Ans: d
following is not a secondary
28. Which among the 34. Which one of the following is NOT the
group? advantage of Polygamy?
a. Political party a. In it, it is possible to have healthy children
b. Acity b. In it the chances of sex corruption are reduced
C.
Labour union
c. In it the fragmentation of property is saved
d. Students in a class room d. In it there is harmony in the family
Ans: d Ans: d
following is secondary of marriage the
29. Which among the 35. In adelphic polyandry formoffspring of the
group'? children are treated as the
patient
a. Nurses attending upon a. Youngest brother
council in a factory
b. Production efficiency b. Eldest brother
c. A picnic group c. Matermal uncle
d. Cooperative Society d. None of the above
Ans: d Ans: b
30. Social structure is a/an 36. According to Morgan,
which of the following
a. Structural coherence evolution of family?
is the correct order of
ultimate values consanguine family,
b. Integration of a. Monogamian family, and
c. Ritualistic expression punaluan family, syndasmian family
d. Functional arrangement patriarchal family
syndyasmian family,
Ans: d b. Punaluan family, patriarchal family and
consanguineal family,
31. Norm is: monogamian family
a
Actual behaviour Consanguine family, punaluan family,
ofdesirable behaviour c. family and
b. Aculturally shared
definition syndayasmian family, patriarchal
Behaviour desired by majority of the individuals monogamian family
c. above
d. Standard of behaviour d. None of the
Ans: c Ans: c type
relations in the matriarchal
32. Social norms refer to: 37. The marriage
behaviour of family are
a. All types of in nature
most frequently observed behaviour in a a. Transient
b. The in nature
society b. Permanent
Ofdouble coincidence in nature
behaviour c.
c. Right type of specify of the patriarchal society
Those standards or rules which d. Similar to that
d. behaviour
appropriate and inappropriate Ans. b

Ans. b
 38. Primitive societies are characterised more 46. Which is from the following is the least strictly
terms in kinship. enforced?
by
a. Folkway b. Mores
a. Classificatory b. Ambiguous d. None of these
d. Deceptive c. Taboos
c. Descriptive
Ans: a
Ans: a.

39. Rights which are given to the citizens by

the 47. Which one ofthe following is most strictly enforced?
constitution but which cannot be touched by a. Folkway b. Mores
the state are known as c. Tab0os d. None of these
a. Legal rights b. Moral rights Ans: c
c. Political rights d. Fundamental rights
48. A group which has its values contradicting with
Ans: d the broader culture forms
40. Non-Material culture is also called a. Subculture b. Counterculture
a Apparent culture b. Implicit culture c. Both 'a &b' d. None of these
c. Symbolic culture d. None of these Ans: b
Ans: c 49. Culture comprises of
41. Sociology is a a) Norms b) Values and beliefs
a. Social science b. Natural science c) Knowledge d) None of the above
c. Behavioral science d. None of these Ans: d
ANS: a 50. A society with different cultural values is
42. Use of sociology to solve the problems of a. Pluralistic b. Singular
society is c. Both 'a & b d. None of these
a. Basic sociology b. Applicd sociology Ans: a
c. Both 'a & b' d. None of these
51. Values shaped together from a larger whole
Ans: b forms
43. Public Sociology is the sociology used for a. Value Group b. Value Cluster
a Public good b. Private good c. Both 'a & b' d. None of these
c. Individual good d. None of these Ans: b
Ans: a
52. Values that run opposite to each other forms
44. Identify the type(s) of culture a. Value contradictions b. Value clusters
a. Material Culture c. Value groups d. None of these
b. Non-Material Culture Ans: a
c. Both a & b'
53. Ideal culture is
d. None of these
a. Norms being manifested
Ans: c
b. Norms ought to be manifested
45. 'Folkway' is an example of c. Norms violation
Social Norm b. Social value d. None of these
C Social sanction d. None of these Ans: b
Ans: a
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actually follow norms 59. In urban area there is

54. The way in which people
is a. Secondary social control
a. Manifest culture b. ldeal culture b. Formal law
d. None of these
c. Both 'a &b c. Greater division
d. All of the above
Ans: a
patterns in
55. The spread of cultural traits and
Ans: d
space is called 60. Social change refers to
Assimilation b. Acculturation
a. a. Change in the individual values
c. Diffusion d. None of these
b. Change in values of society
Ans: c c. Change in technology
S6. Acculturation is d. None of the above

a. Rejecting culture of other groups Ans: b

b. Adopting culture of other groups 61. Social control is achieved by
c. Enthnocentrism a. Laws b. Mores
d. None of the above C. Education d. All of the above
Ans: b Ans: d
57. Assimilation is a 62. Norms are rules and regulations that
a. Govern behavior
a. Social process
b. Historical process b. Derived from laws

Conflict between people c. Are not based on values

c.
d. Political adaptation d. All of the above
Ans:
Ans: a
characterized by 63. Family is a
58. A rural area is b. Religious group
a. Formal relationship a. Economic group
c. Kinship group d. Private group
b. Secondary organizations
Ans: c
c. Primary relations
d. Allof the above
Ans: C