Acculturation means:
1.Cross fertilisation of cultures
2.Merger of two cultures
3.Complete separation of the two cultures
4.Nothing to do with the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:28:04
Consider the following statements: 1. Auguste Comte proposed a theory of evolutionary social change dividing it into three stages of thought- the religious stage, the metaphysical stage and the scientific stage. 2. According the Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theory human societies evolve from “barbarian” to “civilized”. Which of the statements given above is / are correct?
1.1 only
2.2 only
3.Both 1 and 2
4. Neither 1 nor 2
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:01:09
Deviation means behaviour of a member in a society which:
1. does not conform to norms of morality
2.does not conform to social norms
3. is socially dangerous and harmful
4.injures the interests of an individual member
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:40:28
If a number of culture traits combine together to produce a meaningful Connery, a segment within the total culture, then the same is called a:
1.Culture complex
2.Culture unity
3.Culture area
4.None of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:30:03
If x? = 65, y? = 67, r = 0.8, ? x = 2.5 ? y = 3.5 the Regression Equation of y upon x will be:
1.Y = 1.12x – 5.8
2. Y = 1.21x – 8.5
3. Y = 1.21x – 5.8
4.Y = 0.21x – 8.5
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:06:58
In every society:
1. there are some contradictory norms
2. there can be no contradictory norms
3. there are contradictory norms but these support each other
4.contradictory norms can be obeyed without making any conflict with each other
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:36:31
In his/her study of human behaviour, sociologists
1. determine which values are of greatest importance
2. treat values as data which he studies
3.attempts to justify the values of his society if he/she is good at sociology
4. leaves values completely along since they have no place in human behaviour
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 16:04:56
In okka, children of_______ may not intermarry
1.Brothers
2.Sisters
3. Cross-cousins
4.Parallel-cousins
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:16:08
In our modern society ascribed status-
1.Is replacing achieved status
2. Controlling achieved status
3.Is being replaced by achieved status
4.Has not been at all affected by achieved status
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:35:47
In the Indian context, a sex ratio of______ and above can be considered as favourable to females.
1.980
2.1000
3.950
4.1010
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:54:45
India is the home of_________ percent of the world’s population. The country, however, accounts for percent of the total world area.
1.20 and 8
2.17 and 5
3.16 and 2.42
4. 16 and 5.2
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:52:46
Infancy is an _______ status.
1.Achieved
2.Integrated
3.Ascribed
4.Absolute
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:33:43
Katkari tribals are found in
1.Maharashtra
2.Karnataka
3.Manipur
4.Lakshadweep
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:38:50
Pick out the thinker whose name is associated with psychoanalytical theory about deviant behaviour:
1.Parsons
2.Lombrso
3. Max Weber
4.Freud
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:41:43
Social control has two aspects. These are-
1. Pressure oriented and value oriented
2.Pressure oriented and norms oriented
3.Culture oriented and customs oriented
4.Religion oriented and education oriented
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 16:12:00
Status is something which is-
1.Comparable
2.Non-comparable
3.Concrete
4.Absolute
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:35:05
The concept of ‘Looking-glass self’ has been given by:
1.Mead
2.Gidding
3.Cooley
4.Maclver
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:26:09
The group of thinkers who supported structural view of Caste is
1. Barth, F.G. Bailey
2.A. Beteille, F.G. Bailey
3.Barth, A. Beteille
4. E. Leach, A. Beteille
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:37:41
The okka or the patrilineal and patrilocal joint family is the basic group among
1.Coorgs
2.Namboodaris
3.Moplas
4.Kodagu
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:16:46
Which one of the following, best describes the pattern of age-sex structure of a population passing through a stage of high fertility and high mortality?
1.Population pyramid that represents a narrow base and gradually tapering top
2. The base of the pyramid is of medium size but the middle portion, particularly specified for male population is enlarged and gradually reduces at the top
3.Population pyramid that represents a broader base and gently sloping sides
4.The base of the pyramid is narrow than the immediate higher-age interval and gradually reduces at the top
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:24:41
Who is known as the French Sorokin?
1.Emile Durkheim
2.Georges Gurvitch
3.W.W. Rostow
4.Morris Ginsberg
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:55:55
A complex and rapidly changing society’s most important method of achieving social integration is-
1.Economic planning
2.Observance of social customs
3.Religious harmony
4.Social planning
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:43:24
A deviant behaviour at one time:
1.will remain so at all times to come
2.in one society will always be so in all other societies
3.can become a standard norm at another time
4.cannot become a standard behaviour at any time
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:39:35
A deviant behaviour at one time:
1.will remain so at all times to come
2.in one society will always be so in all other societies
3.can become a standard norm at another time
4.cannot become a standard behaviour at any time
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:39:36
A group whose membership is homogeneous in its class or caste composition is called:
1.Vertical group
2.Horizontal group
3.Genetic group
4.Voluntary group
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:31:09
A _______ is a collection of individuals two or more, interacting with each other, who have some common objects of attention and participate in similar activities.
1.community
2. social group
3.organization
4.aggregate
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:33:20
A ‘loosely woven’ society is one-
1.Which is not integrated
2.Which is poorly integrated
3.In which there are no rigid social norms
4.In which people do not have wide range of alternative modes
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:44:38
According to Lester Milbrath gradiatorial activities comprise of
1.standing for and holding public and party offices
2.contributing for political parties financially and physically
3.taking part in debate and confrontation on behalf of party
4. voting and taking part in discussion about politics
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:31:51
According to Maclver, large scale organizations may be organizations on two principles __________, and _________.
1.Federation, integration
2.Compromise, accommodation
3.Federation, official responsibility
4.None of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:32:46
According to whom does city consisted of middle classes and groups engaged in trade and commerce?
1.Pirenne
2.Coulanges
3.Toynbee
4.Geddes
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:27:59
According to whom, the decline of semi-autonomous groups within a society, such as voluntary associations, local communities and neighbourhoods gives rise to feelings of alienation and making such people more available for the appeals of extremist groups?
1.R. Blauner (in Alienation and Freedom)
2. E. Fromm (in the Sane Society)
3.W. Kornhauser (in the Politics of Mass Society)
4.None of these
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:08:05
Activities which contribute to the survival of social system patterns are known as eufunctions. What are dysfunctions Activities?
1.which contribute to the disturbance of the social system patterns
2.which contribute to the disturbance of the social system patterns
3. both (A) and (B)
4.neither (A) nor (B)
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:20:57
Among the following who is not associated with heredity theory about the origin of State?
1.Kingsley Davis
2.Karl Parson
3.Maclver
4.C.C. North
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:25:14
Andre Beteille is the exponent of
1.Structural view of caste
2.Functional view of caste
3.Cultural view of caste
4.Geographical view of caste
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:38:13
Ascribed status in society is one which an individual gets-
1. After hard labour
2.Based on birth
3.Based on marriage
4.On the basis of his ability
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:34:09
C.H. Cooley distinguished between primary and secondary groups. Another noted sociologist associated with group studies explored the implication of dyadic relationships and compared them with tradic ones. He also discussed the nature of superordinate and subordinate relationships, the characteristics of secret societies and other social phenomena at the micro- sociological level.
1.Kurt Lewin
2.J.C. Moreno
3.J. Klein
4.George Simmel
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:55:25
Closely Woven’ type of integration is common in-
1. Communistic societies
2.Theocracies
3.Bureaucracies
4. Liberal democracies
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:45:41
Cultural view of caste is consider caste to be
1.Basis for development of societal culture
2.Basis on which culture of discrimination is inherent
3.System of stratification unique to India
4.Differentiate between culture of twice born castes with those of ‘untouchables’
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:33:58
Customs are also called
1.Culture
2.Value
3.Folkways
4.Mores
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 16:12:55
First-hand study of a small group is called
1.Ethnography
2.Ethnomethodology
3.Biography
4.Sampling
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 16:04:10
For advancement of society ascribed and achieved statuses should-
1.Conflict with each other
2. Try to subordinate each other
3.Former should get superiority over the later
4.Both should go hand in hand
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:34:39
Government must rest on a social bond between rulers and ruled. Who holds this?
1.T. Hobbes
2.Rousseau
3.Machiavelli
4. Plato
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:30:38
he given series: 71, 72, 64, 68, 70, 76, 73, 75 The median is:
1.72
2.71.5
3.71
4.72.5
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:58:32
Hermeneutics means
1.explaining
2.ordering
3.classification
4.organisation
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:56:31
Identify the person: He felt that there was in social life a change from simple to complex forms—from the homogeneous to the heterogeneous and that there was with society an integration of the ‘whole’ and a differentiation of the parts. He developed many of Comte’s ideas in his ‘principles of sociology’-
1.Herbert Spencer
2.Emile Durkheim
3. Henry Maine
4.E. B. Tylor
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:16:43
In a positively skewed distribution the value of mode is:
1.Maximum
2.Minimum
3.Same
4.Zero
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:58:58
In ‘loosely woven’ societies quote often there is variation in-
1.Individual behaviour only
2. National behaviour only
3.Neither in individual nor in national behaviour
4.Both in the individual and national behaviour
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:45:14
Just as the picture in the mirror gives an image of the physical self, so the perception of others gives an image of the social self. This view is related to:
1.Imitation
2. Looking glass self
3.Consciousness of kind
4.Self-identification
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:26:58
lf x? = 18, y? = 100, ? x = 14, ? y = 20, r = 0.8. Refression line of y on x =
1.Y = 1.341x + 72.49
2.Y = 1.143x + 79.42
3.Y = 1.134x + 72.92
4. Y = 1.341x + 74.29
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:59:38
Mohammedan societies permit polygyny, but Christian ones do not. From this which of the following can be deduced?
1.Mohammedans are conservative people
2.Christians have a healthy conception of marriage
3. A social norm operative in one social system may not be operative in another
4.In Mohammedan societies, the ratios of girls are higher than boys
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:36:57
Most effective way of making the group to observe social norms is:
1.to give rewards to the observers
2.to impose fines on the violators
3.to create awe in the minds of the people
4. to educate people about their necessity
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:38:55
Most effective way of making the group to observe social norms is:
1.to give rewards to the observers
2.to impose fines on the violators
3.to create awe in the minds of the people
4. to educate people about their necessity
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:38:55
Norms are of several types. Which one of the following is not the type of social norms?
1.formal
2.informal
3.persuasive
4.positive
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:38:17
Nuclear family in its volarized form consists of the:
1.Parents of the same children and children of the same parents
2.Parents of the different children and children of the same parent
3.Parents of the same children and children of the different parents
4.None of the above mentioned relation exists in nuclear family.
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:05:50
On the north-west coast of the U.S.A and the west coast of Canada, tribes such as Nootka, built
1.Oblong houses
2. Spherical houses
3.Triangular houses
4.Cubical houses
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:39:47
Pick out one of the following which is characteristic of a crowd:
1.There is always polarisation of attention
2.In it emotions are consistent
3.In it role of leader is insignificant
4.In it people do not get unnecessarily excited
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:31:40
Pluralism begins from the observation that industrial society is increasingly differentiated into a variety of
1. Social groups and sectional interests
2.Political groups
3.Association group
4. Business and professional group
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:49:18
Social organisation means
1. Planned activities
2.Organised activities
3. Calculated activities
4.Defined activities
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 16:11:29
Social values primarily concern themselves with
1.organised social life as a whole
2.disorganised social life
3.organised social groups
4.organized institutions
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:37:38
Structural view of caste, considers caste to be a/an
1. Structure on which principle of stratification is based
2.Universal principle of stratification which can be applied to all society.
3.Equivalent to varna and jati.
4. Structure on which caste system is based.
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:32:36
The Apache of Arizona and New Mexico lived in houses made of
1.Brush wood and scrub
2.Grass
3.Unbaked bricks
4. Long and pointed woods
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:48:22
The Book ‘Invitation to Sociology’ is written by
1.H.E. Barns
2.P.L. Berger
3.Bogardus
4.Nisbet
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 16:06:05
The concept of contra-culture was given by:
1.Robert Redfield
2.Milton Inger
3.Malinowski
4.Linton
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:28:51
The crux of the population policy is the
1. settlement of more people in urban areas
2.reduction of the national birth rate
3. to reduce the sex-ratio
4.to increase the number of women
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:51:22
The experimental study is based on the law of:
1.single variable
2.occupation
3.replication
4. interest of the subject
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:58:02
The group of thinkers supported cultural view of caste were
1.Weber, Barth, Bailey
2.Srinivas Barth, Bailey
3.Weber, Srinivas, Dumont
4.Dumont, Weber, Bailey
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:35:41
The Indian City, old or modern, is Indian just as an American city is American. Nothing is gained by imagining that the word ‘city’ automatically implies certain comparable features.” Whose opinion is this?
1.D.F. Pocock’s
2.Oscar Lewis
3.Robert Redfield
4. Louis Wirth
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:26:30
The method employed for measuring socioeconomic status of the people where maximum importance attached to the occupation of a person is
1.Differential scale
2.Edward method
3.Scale analysis
4. Role distance
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 16:10:51
The one method which satisfies the factor reversal test under the price index method is:
1.Paasche’s Method
2.Laspeyres Method
3.Fisher’s Ideal Method
4.None of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:00:10
The organised forms of social behaviour and their repetition are called
1.Culture
2.Value
3.Customs
4.Norms
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 16:12:28
The questionnaire method of data collection is not applicable if there is
1.an illiteracy
2.an overpopulation
3.a big area
4.a heterogeneous area
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 16:05:24
The social distance method is developed by
1.Bogardus
2.Goode & Hyatt
3.Likert
4.Guttman
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 16:06:32
The solidarity of independent nuclear family is greater where it includes
1. loving wife
2. caring husband
3.young children
4.better economic prospects
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:24:46
The ‘Dugum Dani’ live in the highlands of
1. New Guinea
2. TrobriandFijiFiji
3.Fiji
4.Nauru
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:50:18
Those who follow philosophy of ‘new order’ in integration believe in the-
1.Abolition of existing social system
2. Improvement of existing social order
3.Method of half-way improvement
4.None of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:43:51
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
1.left culture
2.far-culture
3.cultural lag
4.taken culture
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:15:04
Which among the following has added to the strength of the okka?
1.Difficulty of partition
2. Preference of levirate unions
3.Both (a) and (b)
4.Ancestor worships
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:17:23
Which among the following is not true? Solidarity of the autonomous nuclear family depends largely upon-
1.sexual attraction between husband and wife
2. companionship between parents and children
3. economic tie up among its members
4.both (A) and (B) leave
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:02:13
Which among the following statement regarding Agrarian society is incorrect?
1.Agrarian society place a high value on inherited status
2.The social order in agrarian society is more or less fixed
3.It is a close-knit society despite economic disparity
4. Even the slightest economic disparity among people in agrarian society is reflected in their style of life
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:21:42
Which of the following is an essential element for the existence of a society?
1.High level of education
2.Belief in common political ideology
3.Sociability among the members
4.Share in private property
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:25:48
Which of the following is not a means of culture contact?
1.Migration
2.Trade
3.Tourism
4.Ethnocentrism
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:29:29
Which of the following is the most populous city of India according to 1991 census?
1.Bombay
2.Calcutta
3.Delhi
4.Bangalore
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:54:21
Which of the following statements about impact of modernisation is not correct?
1.Modernisation has improved the standards of living of the people and has helped them to overcome their fear of new things
2.Modernisation has destroyed traditional patterns of life which through centuries had evolved many human values
3.Modernisation has generated many stresses as people have to cope with industrialisation, urbanisation, secularisation and rapid changes
4.Modernisation is a simple process, which only deals with the social dimension of people of a given society
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:23:00
Which of the following statements about legitimacy is not correct?
1.Legitimate power is ultimately a psychological concept
2. The most effective method of assuring legitimacy today is the creation of the belief that the government is being run to promote and safeguard the interests of the common people
3. The canon of legitimacy is applicable to only democratic political system
4. Elections are primarily the means of legitimising the right of the rules to govern
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:23:51
Which of the following states of India registered the highest growth rate of population during 1981-91?
1.Uttar Pradesh
2.Madhya Pradesh
3.Nagaland
4.West Bengal
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:53:15
Which one of the following is not a sanction behind norms?
1.Religion
2.Education
3.Property
4.Customs
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:42:29
Which one of the following is not the characteristic of culture?
1. It is not related to individual behaviour
2.It is communicated from one generation to the other
3. It is communicated in physical form
4. It has link with the past
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:30:39
Which term describes a theory according to which the essence of the phenomena of society and culture consists in their dynamic and developmental character?
1.historicism
2.existential
3.cultural specific
4.rationality
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:57:05
Who among the following has rejected the notion of dichotomy between rural and urban and also the view that urbanisation is an independent variable?
1.R.K. Mukherjee
2.Louis Wirth
3. K. Ishwaran
4. Milton Singer
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:27:04
Who among the following has suggested that members of society can be divided into four categories in terms of their degree of political participation?
1.C.W. Mills
2.Lester Milbrath
3.W. Pareto
4.Mosca
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:31:14
Who among the following studied the degeneration of forms of government and stressed the need for a middle class as a stabilizing force in the political order?
1. Karl Marx
2.Max Weber
3.Aristotle
4.C.W. Mills
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:29:02
Who wrote The Poverty of Historicism (1957)?
1.Karl Popper
2. Karl Marx
3.Karl Manheim
4.William Dilthey
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 10:57:37
Whose view is this? Man always strived to arrive at an optimum population. Man took all the factors including environment, skill, customs etc., into account to attain this number. The optimum number is not fixed for all times. It depends upon the changes that occur in a given country or context.-
1.Herbert Spencer
2.D. Ricardo
3.Adam Smith
4. Alexander Morris Carr – Saunders
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:22:20
_____ has divided crowd into homogeneous and heterogeneous.
1.Blumer
2.Le Bon
3.Lepoid
4.Miller
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:32:06
“The state or process of adjustment to a conflict situation in which overt expressions of hostility are avoided and certain compensatory advantages, economic, social or psychological, are gained by both sides, while leaving the source of conflict unresolved and allowing the structural inequalities giving rise to minority subordination to persist.” This is the definition of:
1.accommodation
2.assimilation
3.cooperation
4.both (A) & (C)
Posted Date:-2024-01-10 11:07:32