Concept of ‘symmetrical family’ was propounded by
1.Young and Willmott
2.T. Parsons
3.Robin Fox
4.Davis & Moore
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:20:19
Consider the following statements about socialization: 1. Through socialization the aims of social responsibility and individual autonomy are achieved 2. As an abstract concept society, culture and personality are closely related 3. Heredity is more important than society, so far as learning of behaviour is concerned 4. One finds more agents of child socialization than adult socialization Which of these statements are correct?
1.1 and 2
2. 2 and 3
3.3 and4
4.1 and4
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:21:43
Consider the following statements: 1. The extent to which a group can secure conformity to its norms depends upon the cohesiveness of the group 2. Primitive societies were normless societies 3. Norms are adhered to only because of the fear of sanctions 4. Norms do not apply equally to all members of all societies or to all members of a society Which of these statements are correct?
1.1 and 2
2.2 and 3
3. 1 and 4
4.2 and 4
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:22:15
Consider the following statements: According to the functionalist perspective of Talcott Parsons, all societies must solve the functional problems of- 1. pattern maintenance. 2. goal attainment. 3. adaptation. 4. integration. Which of the statements given is/are correct?
1.1 only
2.1 and 2
3.2 and 3
4.1, 2, 3 and 4
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:19:42
Cultural complex:
1.Is formed with the help of material culture
2.Is formed with the help of non-material culture
3.Is combination of cultural traits
4. Is combination of non-material culture
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:32:00
Elliot Smith and W.J. Perry were called:
1.Functionalists
2.Evolutionists
3.Egyptologists
4.Structuralists
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:31:18
For Talcott Parsons, the major function of the family in the industrial society is?
1.Stabilization of adult personality
2.Procreation
3.Unit of consumption
4.Unit of consumption and protection
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:18:42
Given below is the Charlier’s check of accuracy of computation of arithmetic mean: ?f (dx + 1) = ?fdx + X The letter x stands for:
1.? f
2.f (? dx)
3.? f (dx)
4.? f dx’
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:46:23
In a society conflict to norms occurs when:
1.there is deep rooted class struggle
2.groups tend to conform to different norms
3.there is no interpretation of norms
4.some norms are considered more important than the others
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:43:44
Real strength of Indian culture lives because:
1. The British patronised it
2. The British condemned it
3. During freedom struggle Indian leaders propagated it
4.It has deep roots in distant past
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:33:11
The book ‘Sociology of a Growing Town’ is written by
1.Bombwal
2.R.C. Sarikwal
3.M. Weber
4.Louis Wirth
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:24:51
The pressure group mainly concentrates itself towards
1.Demonstration
2.Retaliation and resistance
3.Revolution
4.Appeasement
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:25:23
The Primary civilisation of India is divided into
1. little tradition and great tradition
2.big tradition and small tradition
3.educated tradition and uneducated tradition
4.rural tradition and caste tradition
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:16:23
Which among the following is not true?
1.Varna defined the normative aspect of caste
2.Jatis shows the actual working
3.Normative aspect has clear distinction between Brahmin & Kshatriya
4.Jati follow the normative model of the varna and so mobility is not possible
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:36:01
Which of the following statements is correct? 1. Joint family is an institution of rural India associated with agrarian economy 2. There is no direct correlation between urbanisation and secularisation 3. There is no direct correlation between urbanisation and separate nuclear household 4. The traditional correlation between caste and occupation has weakened in urban areas. Codes:
1.1, 2 and 3
2.2 and 3
3.3 and 4
4.2, 3 and 4
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:23:20
While dealing with the problem of social Stratification M.G. Smith has cautioned sociologists to:
1. Pay attention to observable inequalities that are un-institutionalized
2. Pay close attention to societies that do not have favoured positions.
3.Be careful in asserting that simple inequality is inevitable on the grounds of biological differences since these grounds are not by themselves sufficient evidence of stratification
4.Ignore the overemphasis sometimes given to the principles by which the distribution of access and opportunities is regulated
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:23:28
Who among the following has thought of a large population as a source of political, economic and military power?
1.Abul Fazal
2.Kautilya
3.Megasthenese
4.Hiuen-Tsang
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:40:18
Who from among the following does not espouse ‘Group- mind’ theory:
1. Le Bon
2.Durkheim
3.Allport
4. Kingsley Davis
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:33:40
Who has argued that a modified version of traditional India joint family is consistent with urban and industrial setting?
1.A.M. Shah
2. M.N. Srinivas
3.Milton Singer
4.Max Weber
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:21:03
Who holds that with increase in scientific and economic development, interest in reproduction tended to decrease?
1.Herbert Spencer
2.Karl Marx
3. F. Engels
4.Alexander Morris Carr – Saunders
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:41:31
A lower caste changes its customs, manners, practices, rituals and life styles in the direction of a higher caste in order to move up in the caste hierarchy. This practice may be termed as:
1.Emulation
2.Anticipatory socialization
3. Sanskritization
4.Culture adoption
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:23:57
A statue was raised in honour of a dead leader. It indicates that the people had _______ for him.
1.prestige
2.esteem
3.to remind the posterity of his deedsc
4.a status is ascribed to him
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:39:38
According to_________, Id, Ego and Super ego constitutes the three systems of mind.
1.Freud
2.Mead
3.Cooley
4.Boas
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:28:46
Acculturation means-
1.Cultural modification
2.Cultural lag
3.Cultural absorption
4. Cultural revolution
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:48:02
Among the following whose name is considered as the pioneer of ‘law of three stages’ of social development?
1.Karl Marx
2.Auguste Comte
3.Herbert Spencer
4. Max Weber
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:29:17
An auto-ride costs Rs.5 for the first 1.6 km and Re. 0.50 per each additional 100 metres. The cost for each distance unit is incurred at the beginning of the unit, so that the rider pays for the whole unit. The average cost for a 8 km ride is:
1.Rs.5.25
2.Rs.5.25
3.Rs.4.62
4.Rs.4.75
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:47:28
Any number of people, larger or smaller between whom such relations are discovered that they must be thought of together, can be viewed as a/an
1.group
2.organisation
3.association
4.community
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:44:28
Book, ‘Process and Institution in Urban India’ is written by
1. S. Sabarwal
2.M.S.A. Rao
3.A.M. Shah
4.R.C. Sarikwal
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:24:20
By deviant sub-culture we mean:
1. norms of a group of deviant persons
2. it has nothing to do with normal delinquent behaviour in a society
3. it usually constitutes an individual
4. it has nothing to do with the group
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:45:30
Cognitive culture consists of the_______, aspects of a cultural system.
1.Mental
2.Social
3.Economical
4.Religious
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:15:32
Consider the different ways in which caste enters into the political process: 1. By making appeals to caste loyalties in a general way 2. By activating networks of inter-personal relations both during elections and at other times for mobilising support along caste lines 3. By articulating caste interests in an organised manner Which of these described by Andre Beteile on the basis of his study of castes in Tamil Nadu?
1.1 and 2
2. 2 and 4
3.1, 2 and 3
4.1 and 4
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:25:03
Consider the following statements: 1. Crude death rate is very strongly affected by the age composition of the population. 2. The life expectancy at birth is a good measure of mortality conditions in a country because it adjusts for age composition by using prevailing birth rates at each age to estimate the average number of years a person may expect to live. 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:-2024-01-09 09:15:20
Deviation is relative to:
1. Pattern of particular behaviour at specified time
2.Pattern of particular behaviour at all times
3.Pattern of particular behaviour at all places
4.None of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:44:41
Earlier to the Malthusian view, views about population were more in nature of
1.Scientific fact
2. Observation method
3.Conjecture
4.Survey method
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:39:40
Empty-shell marriage’, means
1. Spouses live together, remain legally married, but their marriage exists in the name only
2.Spouses live together in a rented house.
3.Spouses live with their respective parents
4.Spouses are physically separated
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:19:11
Franklin Henry Giddings, and American sociologist, had many contributions to his credit. Identity which is NOT his contribution.
1.He distinguished between social statics, social kinetics and social dynamics
2.He formulated a law of social change
3.He helped to found the neo-positivist school
4.He helped to redefine Marxism
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:43:58
Graph of frequency distribution is called:
1.Frequency polygon
2.Curve
3.Histogram
4. None of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:45:34
In India it is difficult to achieve integration because-
1. The country is inhabited by poor people
2.There are many economic pressure groups
3.India is a multi-racial society
4.The country has adopted the system of universal adult franchise
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:51:55
Indicate out of the following which of the offices held by ‘A’ from time to time was prestigious to him?
1.A’ was highly successful as an advocate
2.A’ had been an esteemed Member of Parliament
3.‘A’ remained a Minister but had to resign
4.A’ as the head of a statutory body
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:40:35
Indicate out of the following which of the offices held by ‘A’ from time to time was prestigious to him?
1.A’ was highly successful as an advocate
2.A’ had been an esteemed Member of Parliament
3.‘A’ remained a Minister but had to resign
4.A’ as the head of a statutory body
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:40:35
Kikuyu tribes were found in
1.Fiji
2.East Africa
3.Naureu
4.Jamaica
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:37:50
Little tradition refers to
1.Folk or unlettered peasants
2.Urban culture
3.Caste system
4.Village jajmani system
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:17:02
Median is:
1. least frequent value
2.most frequent value
3.centre of gravity
4.middle most value
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:48:48
Normative culture is that sub-division of non- material culture that consists of
1.Norms
2.Values
3.Mores
4.Standard way
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:14:55
Positive sanctions about social norms are those which are:
1.imposed by the elite of the society
2.imposed by political party in power
3.which is imposed by some legal authority
4.which is imposed by the conscience of the individual
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:44:13
Practical norms are those, about which society hopes that-
1. these may or may not be accepted
2.only few will accept these
3. these will be accepted by all in the society
4.these are the cherished goals.
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:41:50
Process of socialisation starts:
1. After birth of the child
2.Before child’s birth
3. After getting maturitycvcv
4. After getting maturity
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:27:23
Select group, which is group of lineal kinsmen:
1.Grandfather-grand mother, father-mother, son-daughter, and her husband
2.Grandfather-grand mother, father-mother, son-daughter, and her husband
3.Grandfather-grand mother, father- mother, son-daughter
4.Grandfather, maternal grandfather, maternal uncle, paternal uncle.
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:49:18
Shifting cultivation is also known as 1. Jhum 2. Podu 3. Rakai 4. Begar
1.1, 3 and 4
2.1 only
3.2 only
4.1 and 2
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:36:50
Social facts are ways of acting, thinking and feeling, external to the individual, endowed with a power of coercion.’ Whose statement is this?
1.Weber
2.Durkheim
3.Malinowski
4.Spencer
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:13:42
Social movement can be defined as: 1. an action on the part of members of certain organisation. 2. a radical social change to be sought for by the organised efforts of the people with set objectives. 3. a collective action to resist or promote changes with certain goals. 4. an evolutionary process of change from simple to complex settings. 5. a diffusions process of change. Select the correct answer using the codes given below: Codes:
1.2 and 3
2.2, 4 and 5
3. 1, 3 and 4
4.1, 2 and 4
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:21:00
Stage through which two cultures pass before they get completely merged is known as-
1.Adaptation
2.Accommodation
3.Assimilation
4.Acculturation
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:48:40
Tembe tribes are found on the bank of
1.Amazon
2.Nile
3.Congo
4.Missisipi
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:38:17
The approach to the concept of learning was different for Dewey and hite Head in the following sense:
1.Dewey thought of learning in pragmatic terms whereas White Head thought in terms of cultural aspects
2.Dewey approach was logical whereas White Head’s approach was philosophical
3. Dewey thought of learning as an end in itself whereas White Head thought about it as a means
4.Dewey thought of learning in experimental terms while White Head thought of it in more aesthetic terms.
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:22:46
The best example of status group for Weber is
1.Class
2.Land lords
3.ElitesCasteCasteCasteCasteCasteCasteCasteCasteCasteCaste
4.Caste
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:33:32
The Book ‘The Death of the Family’ is written by
1.Oscar Lewis
2. David Cooper
3.Robert Redfield
4.T. Parsons
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:17:28
The book ‘The Passing of Traditional Society’ is written by:
1.Daniel Thorner
2.Daniel Lerner
3. Francis Abraham
4.Percy Cohen
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:25:42
The earliest Indian religious and philosophical thinking concerning society is found in
1.Vedas
2.Puranas
3.Mahabharata
4.Ramayana
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:12:18
The initiation ceremonies in primitive societies are functional because they are:
1.The initiation ceremonies in primitive societies are functional because they are:
2. a customary and folk expression of the supreme power and value of the tradition
3. a traditional and religious expression of the supreme power and value of tradition
4. a superstitions and kinship expression supreme power and value of tradition
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:20:29
The investigation of the manner in which adjustive changes occurring in a small social group as a whole are the product of the changes in any part of the group is known as
1.group dynamics
2.social interaction
3.group solidarity
4.social change
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:45:09
The pioneers of sociological functionalism, Durkheim, Radcliffe Brown, Parsons and Merton state that
1.needs are based on cultural and biological mechanism
2. society fulfils the individual needs
3.needs are basically biological and the satisfied by cultural mechanisms
4.institutions function in mutuality to satisfy one’s social needs and necessary conditions of existence.
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:13:03
The relation existing between a typewriter and a desk can be called:
1.Material
2.Cultural
3.Physical
4.Structural
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:28:17
The term _______ is applied to designate those groups which not only differ from the prevailing patterns but sharply challenge them.
1.Sub-culture
2. Non-conformists
3.Contra-culture
4.Culture specialities
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:30:36
What does not constitute a social role in the following?
1.A worker on the field
2.A person committing a dacoity
3. A policeman pursuing a dacoit
4.A teacher in his class
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:39:01
What happens: “When changes in material culture precede changes in adaptive culture, adjustments cannot start before change requiring them has taken place. But old customs persist and bring about quite harmful consequences”?
1. Cultural deprivation
2.Cultural lag
3. Cultural diffusion
4. Cultural determinism
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:17:29
What is common between crowd and audience? In both:
1.Physical presence is required
2.Discipline is unavoidable
3.There is definite motive
4. Efforts are made to maintain interest of the people.
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:36:56
What is not the social role in the following?
1.A priest performing a ceremony
2.A politician preaching the cult of violence
3. A lawyer preparing his witness
4.An actor involved in an act of violence on the screen
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:41:23
Which among the following is the best form of family structure for a society based on achieved status, according to Talcott Parsons?
1.Isolated nuclear family
2. Interactive nuclear family
3.Joint family
4.Extended family
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:18:10
Which among the following is untrue regarding Max Weber?
1.Status group depends on the consumption of goods and services
2. Classes depend on the production of goods and services
3.When the basis for production of goods and services is stable stratification by status group become important
4.When the basis for production of goods and services is stable stratification by class become important.
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:34:56
Which is not the way to achieve a status?
1.Manifestation of unusual talent
2.High class professional education
3.High appreciation gained for the work done
4. Raising a fortune by uncivic means and giving away a good part of it as charity
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:38:18
Which of the following is characterised as negative sanction about social norms?
1. imposition by conscience
2. imposition by denial of incentive
3.imposition by force
4.imposition by a group of people
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:43:02
Which of the following statements is true in the case of norms?
1. these are based on value judgements
2.these are value neutral
3.these cannot be standardised
4.these have no links with expected standards.
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:42:31
Which one of the following does not suit the crowd behaviour? It is:
1.Hasty in judgment
2.Easily swayed
3.Careless in deliberations
4.Consistent in thinking
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:37:46
Which one of the following is not a cause of deviant behaviour? It can be-
1.the result of physical defect
2. the result of mental defect
3. the result of social rigidity
4. due to involvement in social life
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:46:52
Which one of the following is not a characteristic of deviant sub-culture?
1.It gives emotional protection to group members
2.It helps in the reinforcement of social norms
3.It helps in providing legal protection
4.It emotionally discourages the members
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:46:08
Which one of the following is not the nature and character of assimilation?
1.It is complete social integration
2. It is partial social integration
3.It is not confined to cultures alone
4.It covers family life
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:49:21
Which one of the following is not true about deviation?
1. It is seen more in a complex society
2.It disturbs social equilibrium
3.It is something relative and not absolute
4. It is not subjected to rigid norms
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:47:31
Which one of the following is not true regarding the nature of assimilation?
1.It is evolutionary
2.It is a slow process
3. It is a quick and fast process
4.It is the outcome of coming into contact with outsiders
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:51:18
Which part of the Rigveda has given only four castes called Varnas?
1.Purushsukta
2.Suruti
3.Vaisakha
4.Mimamsa
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:35:23
Who among the following does not belong to nineteenth century?
1.Auguste Comte
2. Herbert Spencer
3.George Simmel
4.Malinowski
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:11:39
Who among the following has distinguished between diffused and organised sanctions?
1. Radcliffe Brown
2.Sutherland
3. Malinowski
4.Talcott Parsons
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:14:17
Who among the following has traced the connection between the integrity of statesmen and their social circumstances, holding that a degree of social isolation is necessary to protect the philosopher guardians of an ideal state from the temptations and involvement of ordinary men?
1.Locke
2.T. Parsons
3.D. Ricardo
4.Plato
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:31:06
Who had studied municipal elections in the town of Dewas, and found that political party and its units were main bases of support for one of the candidates, and the management of local leaders and their kinsmen for the other?
1.Adrian Mayer
2.Robert G. Wirsing
3. A. Gupta
4.Rosenthal
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:30:06
Who has shown that there has not been any marked change in the traditional family and kinship system in the urban areas?
1.Pauline Kolenda
2.Sylvia Vatuk
3.M.S.A. Rao
4.I.P. Desai
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:21:52
Who of the following has said about primary group that “Each must have something to contribute, to give as well as to take, or his presence encumbers the group”?
1.Kingsley Davis
2. Cooley, C. H.
3.Maclver
4.Gillin and Gillin
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:35:45
Who of the following has said that ‘Socialisation is a process by which the individual learns to conform to the norms of group’?
1.Gillin and Gillin
2.Ogbum
3.Cooley
4.Bogardus
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:26:41
Who was of the opinion that “man’s increase in numbers was inversely related to his food supply”?
1. Thomas Doubleday
2.Thomas Malthus
3.Karl Marx
4.H. Spencer
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:40:58
Who was of the view that ‘classes are not communities’?
1. Karl Marx
2.Max Weber
3.F. Tonnies
4.Veblen T.
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:31:51
Whose definition is this? Tribe is an indigenous unit speaking a common language, claiming a common descent, living in a particular geographical area, backward in technology, pre-literate, loyally observing social and political customs based on kinship.”
1.A conference at Shillong in 1962
2.Earth Summit at Rio in 1992
3.Radcliffe Brown
4.Indigenous People Conference, Sav Paulo 1937
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:26:16
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:-2024-01-09 08:42:06
With which of the following propositions about research you do not agree?
1.Research is a joy in itself
2.Research contributes to social progress of the country
3.Research leads to finding solution to many problems of the society
4. Research improves the quality of teaching
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:48:04
Zeimbeks are a
1.coastal tribe of Asia minor
2.coastal tribe of Afghanistan
3.coastal tribe of Australia
4.coastal tribe of Fiji
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:37:21
__ is a term used to denote the organic structures as it is determined by heredity, precisely the genes
1.genotype
2.phenotype
3.selective breeding
4.b or c
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:42:38
___ has classified groups into “Gemeinschaft” and Gesellschaft.
1.Simmel
2.Ferdinand Tonnies
3.Milton Inger
4.Giddings
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:36:15
____may be the intermarriage of several sisters, own and collateral, with each other’s wives, in a group.
1.Group-marriage
2.Adelphic polyandry
3. Levirate
4.Polygamy
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:53:23
_____ is a term used to denote the organic structures as determined by genetic factors and other factors, which will be environmental.
1.genotype
2.phenotype
3.selective breeding
4. a or c
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:43:12
_____ refers to any change, by the process of addition, subtraction or modification of culture traits or complexes.
1.Trans-culturation
2. Cultural change
3.Normative change
4.Cultural contact
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 09:29:52
‘Bizhu’ term is used for
1.Festival of Chakmas
2. Festival of Santhal
3.Festival of Kuki
4.Festival of Garo
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:39:05
‘The means of studying power or status that asks people to identify others as influential members of the group, community, Organisation and so on’ is called?
1. Social scale method
2.Bogardus scale
3.Reputational method
4. Guttman method
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:28:24
‘The means of studying power or status that identifies influentials by actual activity in specific decision – making cases’ is called
1.Decision-making method
2.Bogardus Scale
3.Sociometry
4.Interactional method
Posted Date:-2024-01-09 08:29:29