A field of study that acknowledges that culture and learning affect human behaviour, although its central hypothesis is that many adaptive behaviours are linked to genetic characteristics is
1.Culturology
2.Cultural biology
3.Sociobiology
4.Ethnology
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:36:09
A residence area characterized by structural decay, overcrowding, lack of recreational space and neglect of neighbourhood facilities is called
1. Middle town
2.Worker’s residents
3.Slums
4.Zone in transition
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:49:28
Arguing with Weber, who has said that communist bureaucracy is as privileged as the capitalist class, on the basis of its monopoly of power?
1.M. Djilas
2.R. Dahrendorf
3.K. Marx
4.Marshal Sahlens
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:01:27
Based on the 1981-91 decennial growth rate of population, states with the highest and the lowest growth rates are respectively
1.Arunachal Pradesh and Goa
2.Nagaland and Kerala
3.Arunachal Pradesh and Kerala
4. Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:19:51
Beginning of new norms is usually due to:
1.unhappy family relations
2.resentment against existing socio-economic
3.deviant behaviour of few individuals
4. outdated educational system
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:07:46
Belief in Mana has been brought out as an important factor in the origin of the caste system in India by
1.Hutton
2.lbbetson
3.Nesfield
4.Risley
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:02:21
Culture is a __________ heritage of man:
1.Individual
2.Cultural
3.Social
4.None of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:54:38
Fill in the blanks. Inheritance rules therefore tend to indicate the________ a person has towards____
1. Obligations, relatives
2.Rights, sons only
3.Obligations, eldest son
4.Rights, eldest son
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:44:34
In a frequency distribution the last cumulative frequency is 300, Median shall lie in:
1.140th item
2.150th item
3.160th item
4.130th item
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:24:17
In rural society even now a family is like:
1.A society
2.A community
3. A group
4.An association
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:50:02
Which among the following tribes/castes has high standard and rate of marriage stability?
1.Nayars
2.Ho
3.Muria
4.Kharia
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:41:22
Which one of the following measures of fertility can be computed from date on sex and age alone from a single census?
1.Child-woman ratio
2.Total fertility rate
3.Crude birth rate
4.Age specific fertility rate
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:22:12
Who has codified and systematized functional analysis in terms of contemporary sociological theory __________?
1.Merton
2.Parsons
3.Davis
4.Moore
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:24:55
Who has codified and systematized functional analysis in terms of contemporary sociological theory __________?
1.Merton
2.Parsons
3.Davis
4.Moore
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:24:55
‘Pattern variables’ are________ in number
1.six
2.four
3.five
4.three
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:24:20
. Some form of ranking is universal and so presents in all societies including primitive societies. This observation is made by
1.E. Durkheim
2.K. Marx
3.M. Weber
4.Marshal Sahlins
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:09:33
. Which of the following factors, according to Durkheim, obstruct changeover from mechanical to organic solidarity? 1. Anomie 2. Inadequate organisation 3. Inequality of opportunities Select the correct answer from the codes given below- Codes:
1.1 and 2
2. 2 and 3
3. 1 and 3
4.1, 2 and 3
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:46:51
17. Concentric zones pattern of city growth was propounded by
1.Max Weber
2.Homer Whyte
3.Park and Burgess
4.Marris and Ulman
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:47:54
A group is said to be a ‘broad range’ or narrow range’, according to the number of persons it includes-
1. family
2.clan
3.bilateral descent
4.kinship
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:36:13
A group is said to be a ‘broad range’ or narrow range’, according to the number of persons it includes-
1. family
2.clan
3.bilateral descent
4.kinship
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:36:27
A Muslim can marry ________ wives at a time.
1. two
2.three
3.four
4. six
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:25:43
About social deviant behaviour it is believed that:
1. it has direct relationship with family atmosphere
2.family atmosphere has nothing to do with it
3.it has indirect relationship with parent-child relationship
4.none of the above statement is true
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:05:44
After Marx, the concept of alienation began more and more to be regarded as a socio-psychological condition of the individual. Who in this context isolated the concept of alienation into powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, isolation and self-estrangement?
1.Eric Fromm
2.R. Blauner
3.M. Seeman
4.R. K. Merton
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:43:30
Agriculture was evolved independently in Southeastern, South-western Asia and the New World. This is an example of:
1.Diffusion
2.Covergent evolution
3. Sub-culture
4.Culture area
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:51:34
Anomic arises due to:
1.normless confusion in norms
2. rigidity of norms
3.group harshnes
4.individual strictness
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:06:56
Choose the answer by using code to identify Malinowski’s work: 1. ‘Crime and Custom in Savage Society’ 2. ‘Argonants of Western Pacific 3. ‘Magic Science, Religion and Other Essays’ 4. Sex and Repression
1.1, 2
2.2 only
3.1, 2, 3, 4
4.1, 2, 4
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:31:13
Deviant behaviour of one generation:
1. is usually same for the other generation as well
2.can become norm for the other generation
3. is usually norm of another generation
4.cannot become norm of another generation
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:05:09
Female headed family are frequent among
1.agricultural communities
2.industrial communities
3.semi-nomadic pastoral communities
4. post-industrial communities
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:40:30
George Hasen has classified group as
1.competitive, conflicting, cooperative
2.unsocial, pseudo-social, antisocial, pro- social
3.organising, unorganised, pseudo- organised
4. socializing, internalizing, reference
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:35:23
Given below are the definitions of some forms of religion and magic. In these items one or more of the answers given may be correct. Decide which are correct and mark your answer sheet according to the codes given below – (1) Religion is the result of intellectual speculation of the primitive man (2) Animatism is a belief in the existence of material and natural force which resides in matter (3) Animism is a belief in spirits residing in animate and inanimate objects (4) Magical processes are the outcome of logical thinking and they aim at pleasing the deities Codes:
1. 1 and 3
2. 2 and 4
3.2 only
4. 4 only
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:05:44
Identify the sociologist- A social system basically consists of two or more individuals interacting directly or indirectly in a bounded situation. However, a more specific definition of social system has been given by a noted sociologist, who defines it as consisting in ‘a plurality of individual actor interacting with each other in a situation which has at least a physical or environmental aspect, actors who are motivated in terms of a tendency to the “optimization of gratification” and whose relations to their situations including each other is defined and mediated in terms of a system of culturally structured and shared symbols.’-
1.A. M. Henderson
2.Ralf Dahrendorf
3.Talcott Parsons
4.Max Weber
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:45:57
If a person is related to ‘ego’ directly, then he is ego’s_____
1.secondary kin
2.direct kin
3.primary kin
4. first kin
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:37:01
In India the institution of family has a trend towards:
1.Joint family
2.Single family
3.Patriarchal family
4.Matriarchal family
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:50:45
In our modern society which one of the following is not relevant factor in status?
1.Extent of distribution of rewards
2.Hereditary position of the ancestors
3.Accumulated wealth
4.Influence in administration
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:01:59
Khuntkatti Land system, which is joint holdings by khunts or tribal lineage were found in
1.Khasa
2.Munda
3.Bhil
4.Gond
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:15:15
Malinowski’s study of the Trobriand Island clearly shows that the prestige and power are related to the
1.Redistribution of wealth
2.Dissemination of knowledge
3.Mastery over boat making
4.Good at fishing
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:10:13
Maori’ tribes were found in
1.Australia
2.New Zealand
3.Brazil
4.Canada
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:14:17
Maori’ tribes were found in
1.Australia
2.New Zealand
3.Brazil
4.Canada
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:14:17
Marriage alliance between three or more persons is called
1.Polyandry
2.Trigamy
3.Polygamy
4.Exogamy
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:43:35
Naotia tribes are inhabitant of?
1.Tripura
2.Sikkim
3.Dadar
4.Andaman
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:11:54
Net reproduction rate (NRR) is equal to one – A stagnant population
1.traditional practices
2.maternal malnutrition
3.female illiteracy
4.insufficient health care
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:18:42
Organised Social Life emerges from
1.social organisation
2.social interaction
3. social culture
4.social group
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:37:58
Physical theory about socially deviant behaviour makes one believe that:
1.all types of bodies are equally receptive to deviant behaviour.
2.no body is inclined towards deviant behaviour
3.some bodies are more exposed to deviant behaviour than the others
4.some type of bodies will be receptive to deviant behaviour in the same manner
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:06:22
Primary groups are __________ whereas secondary groups are_______:
1.Non-contractual, Non-economic
2.Relationship-directed, goal-oriented
3.Formal, spontaneous
4.Non-political, Ideal
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:55:51
Raymond Aron treats this American concept of class presented by L. Warner as
1.Attributional
2.Interactional
3.Functional
4.Structural
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:06:24
Recent sociological studies of property in industrial society have been largely concerned with two aspects. Which are these two? 1. The distribution of property and its social effects 2. Mode of production 3. Relation of production 4. The ownership and control of industrial enterprises in modern capitalism.
1. 1 and 3
2.1 and 4
3.2 and 3
4.3 and 4
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:13:41
Status is essential-
1.For an individual only
2.For the society as a whole
3.Neither for the individual nor for the society
4.Both for the individual and the society
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:03:48
Step deviation method to estimate arithmetic mean can be applied only when:
1.it is a discrete series
2.it is an individual series we are examining
3.it is continuous series
4.deviations are divisible by a common factor
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:25:31
System of ’gerentocracy’ in tribals separated the
1.Old from young
2.Un-married youth from much married, polygynous elders.
3.Much powerful old with obedient youth
4.Economically rich and active youth with non-active and poor old
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:42:03
System of ’gerentocracy’ in tribals separated the
1.Old from young
2.Un-married youth from much married, polygynous elders.
3.Much powerful old with obedient youth
4.Economically rich and active youth with non-active and poor old
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:43:03
The bond between the blood relatives is called-
1.affinal kinship
2.consanguineal kinship
3.primary kinship
4.secondary kinship
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:34:54
The book ‘Caste in Indian Politics’ is written by
1.M.N. Srinivas
2.F.G. Bailey
3.Rajni Kothari
4.Andre Beteille
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:59:13
The book ‘Caste in Indian Politics’ is written by
1.M.N. Srinivas
2.F.G. Bailey
3.Rajni Kothari
4.Andre Beteille
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:59:17
The book ‘The Modernity of Tradition political Development in India’ is written by
1. Rudolph and Rudolph
2.M.N. Sriniva
3. F.G. Bailey
4. A. Beteille
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:00:52
The concept of ‘Cumulative Inequality’ is propounded by
1.Andre Beteille
2.M.N. Srinivas
3. Louis Dumont
4.Makimm Marriott
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:11:21
The concept of ‘reference-group’ was first given by:
1.Hayman
2. Merton
3.Sorokin
4.Robert Bierstod
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:56:22
The difference between the number of people coming into the area and those going out of that area is called
1. volume of migration
2.natural migration
3.net migration
4. gross migration
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:21:06
The formula for the calculation of the Mode is:
1. Mode = 3 Mean – 2 Median
2.Mode = 2 Mdn. – 2 Mean
3.Mode = 3 Mdn. – 2 Mean
4.Mode = 4 Mdn. – 3 Mean
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:28:25
The mean monthly salary paid to all employees of a company is Rs.5000. The mean monthly salary paid to male and female employees is Rs.5,250 and Rs.4,000 respectively. The percentage of females in total employees is:
1.60 percent
2.10 percent
3.20 percent
4.40 percent
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:26:19
The sum of deviations taken from actual arithmetic mean is:
1.zero
2.infinite
3.positive
4. negative
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:27:21
The system under which woman can marry more than one husband and keep all of them with herself is known as-
1.polyandrous
2.polygamous
3.patronymic
4.procreation
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:34:21
Those aspects of social life that have to do with order, stability, and social organization that allow societies and groups to hold together and endure are called:
1.social statics.
2.social dynamics.
3. social absolutes.
4.constructed reality.
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:41:52
Warner’s study of American class structure is close to
1. Marx’s class structure
2.Weber’s status group
3.D.P. Mukerjee’s class approach
4.Veblen’s conspicuous consumption
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:07:18
What is a matrilocal family?
1.A family in which the wife is chosen from the local caste
2.A family in which the wife is chosen from the local village
3. A family in which the husband lives at his wife’s parent’s house
4.A family belonging to one locality
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:28:09
When a slum is inhabited largely or exclusively by persons of a single ethnic or racial group, it may be called a
1.Concentration
2.Locality
3.Domination
4.Ghetto
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:50:40
When one woman marriages several men at a time, the form of marriage is called_______
1.polygamy
2.polygyny
3.polyandry
4.monogamy
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:26:53
Which among the following is most isolated tribe of India?
1.Sentinelese
2.Kadar
3.Apatanis
4.Sherdukpens
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:14:44
Which among the following statements is not correct?
1.In past communities used to be self-sufficient, politically, socially or economically.
2.No community can be self-sufficient these days
3.No community can be self-sufficient these days
4.The term community denotes almost uniformly and permanently shared lives of people over a definite range.
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:29:39
Which of the following does not hold true of the crowd?
1.There is no question of maintaining discipline
2.There is definite motive of the crowd
3.There is no definite motive of the crowd
4.No efforts are made to maintain interest of the people
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:59:51
Which of the following explains about the status of religion in rural society is not correct?
1.Village economy is dependent on nature
2.Religious outlook dominates other aspects of rural life
3.The priestly class does not succeed much in influencing the educated and scientifically awakened people
4.Religion occupies a core place in all the activities of rural life
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:42:38
Which of the following is an essential function of family according to Maclver?
1.Stable satisfaction of sexual need
2.Production of rearing of children
3.Provision of a home
4.All of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:29:01
Which of the following is not one of the criticisms against sociology having its own subject matter?
1. Sociology is merely a mixture of varied studies disciplines having social content
2. The subject matter of sociology is disintegrated into various other social sciences
3. Subject matter of sociology has been derived from many social sciences
4.The subject matter of sociology is a part of society.
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:49:25
Which of the following is not the characteristic of competition?
1. It is found among all the species
2. It is an inborn tendency
3.It differs in degree from one society to the other
4. Its degree is determined by social values
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:22:18
Which of the following is NOT the characteristic of family?
1.It is based on mating relationship
2.It is essentially based on duration of the marriage
3.It pre-supposes institution of marriage
4.Each family has some nomenclature
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:30:50
Which of the following is not the difference between a primary and a secondary group?
1.In primary group size is small whereas in secondary group it is large
2.In primary group members are spread in limited area whereas in secondary group over vast area
3. In primary group relationship between the members is indirect whereas in secondary group it is direct
4. In primary group members cooperate spontaneously whereas that is not the case with secondary group
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:00:56
Which of the following is not true of competition?
1.It is entirely un-restricted
2. It aims at banishing or destroying the enemy
3.It is not coercion
4.It helps in the elimination of force of fraud
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:23:16
Which one of the following factors is not responsible for cultural Jag?
1.Religion
2.Laws
3.Political upheavals
4.Traditionalism
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:53:21
Which one of the following has not been characterised as a negative function of competition by H.T. Mazumdar?
1. It may lead to neurosis
2.It may lead to monopoly
3.It may lead to conflicts
4. It may lead to social disharmony
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:08:33
Which one of the following is not a true statement about competition?
1.It enhances one’s ego
2.It enhances one’s ego
3.It prevents undue concentration of powers
4.It creates respect for rules of the game
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:20:38
Which one of the following is not an important function of competition? It helps-
1. In determining the status of an individual in the hierarchy
2.To stimulate economy
3.In promoting monopoly conditions
4. In inventiveness
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:21:42
Which one of the following is not relevant to status?
1.It helps in specialisation of functions
2.It is essential for promotion of responsibility
3. It is needed for balanced personality development
4. It helps in developing honesty and integrity.
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:02:40
Which one of the following is NOT the characteristic of family?
1. It can be reckoned either from male or female like
2.In it the head of the family is expected to meet economic needs of the members
3.In it there need not be common habitation
4. It can consist of any type of marriage
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:31:34
While analysing the development of ‘self’ who has used the concept ‘significant others’?
1.Maclver
2. Cooley
3.Mead
4.Giddings
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:48:48
Who called magic as the ‘bastard sister’ of science?
1.Tylor
2.Frazer
3.Marret
4.Malinowski
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:02:51
Who called magic as the ‘bastard sister’ of science?
1.Tylor
2.Frazer
3.Marret
4.Malinowski
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:02:51
Who has categorised groups on the basis of their relations to other groups?
1.E.A. Ross
2.Mauss
3.Fairchild
4.George Hasen
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:34:02
Who has defined marriage as “a ‘contract’ for the production and maintenance of children”?
1.Malinowski
2. Westermarck
3.Murdock
4. Tylor
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:27:27
Who has propounded the multiple centre pattern in 1945?
1.Morris and Ulman
2.Robert Redfield
3.Toynbee
4.Louis Wirth
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:48:39
Who has said in relevance to status that, “Every society, no matter how simple or complex, must differentiate persons in terms of both prestige and esteem.”
1.Ginsberg
2. Gillin and Gillin
3.Kingsley Davis
4.Merton
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:03:15
Who of the following has said about herd that ‘It is not mode of life but an incident, an eruption, sometimes a disturbance of an established social pattern’?
1.Gillin and Gillin
2.K. Young
3.Kingsley Davis
4.Maclver
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:59:07
Who of the following is the author of the book entitled ‘The Decline of the West’?
1.Oswald Spengler
2.R.M. Maclver
3.Nimkoff and Ogbum
4.Arnold J. Toynbee
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:54:03
Who was the person, who deliberated upon the above views? He introduced the distinction between the law of public delicts and the law of private delict which allowed for a sociological discussion of the different types of sanctions aroused by offences of each type, even when the actual offence may in one society be socially regarded as of a different category from that in another. Murder for instance is a public delict in modern western societies but among some people it is private delict-
1.R. Brown
2.B. Malinowski
3.Maclver
4.Anthony Giddens
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:44:28
_ are in short, rules that you know without knowing that you know them.
1.Implicit norm
2.Explicit norm
3.Culture
4.Customs
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:37:03
_ has provided a comprehensive historical account of conflict theory beginning with Kautilya’s Arthashashtra?
1.Martindale
2.M.N. Srinivas
3. A.R. Desai
4.D P. Mukherjee
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:33:00
____ is the rule that restricts marriages to persons outside of specific groups.
1.Exogamy
2.Endogamy
3. Incest taboo
4.Levirate
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:26:22
____ treats functionalism as a perspective which stops the motions of the system at a fixed point of time.
1.Alex Inkles
2. Bottomore
3.Coser
4.Dahrendorf
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:30:36
_____ refers to formally designated position in a group with officially specified rights and duties.
1.Formal status
2. Legal status
3.Role-making
4.Functional status
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:04:29
_____is a kind of kinship usages.
1.Avoidance
2.Promiscuity
3.Incest Taboo
4.Seduction
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:35:28
______ equates functional analysis with sociological analysis
1.Kingsley Davis
2. Wilbert Moore
3.R.E. Park
4. Parsons
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 15:29:55
______ is a form of marriage in which men of lower caste marry women of superior caste.
1.Anuloma
2.Pratiloma
3.Levirate
4.Sororate
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 17:23:52
‘Style of life’ concept which attempts to explain culture integration was given by:
1.Hadden
2.Redcliffe Brown
3.Redfield
4.Linton
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 16:52:23