In a situation in which one party to the dispute accepts the view-point of the other without giving up its own basic policies, this type of accommodation is known as-
1.Rationalisation
2.Toleration
3.Conversion
4.Compromise
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Any doctrine that seeks to explain a higher order phenomenon in terms of a lower order one would be called
1.Nominalism
2.Reductionism
3.Methodological individualism
4.Formalism
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Family in the medieval ages used to perform only
1. religious functioneconomic function
2.economic function
3.educational function
4.religious economic and educational functions
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Functionalism regards society as a system, which means Functionalism regards society as a system, which means
1.that the terms, society and system are inter changeable.
2.that the parts of society are discrete and isolated.
3.that society is the only example of a category called system.
4. that society is divided into a number of parts which are inter-connected.
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Gender stratification means
1. Stratification based on religious value
2. Stratification in terms of sexual difference
3.Class difference
4. Stratification based on caste system
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If a person physically assaults another, it is an example of
1. affective action
2. brave action
3.rational action
4. fearful action
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In open system of marriage, there is no ___________ marriage.
1.preferential
2.prohibitive
3.love
4.Levirate
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In our times one of the causes of weakness in kinship is:
1.heredity
2.weakness in cultural ties
3. living away from the relatives
4. losing effect of morality
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Joint family system gives support to
1. Widow marriage
2.Widower marriage
3.Child marriage
4. Late marriage
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The changes from occupational role to retirement role is known as —
1.Role-discontinuity
2.Role conflict
3.Transitional role
4.Role insulation
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The industrial system of production is distinguished from other systems on the basis of availability of
1.skilled labour
2.means of production
3.capital
4. inanimate source of energy
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The institution of marriage these days has come under the heaviest strain from
1. democratic institutions
2. urbanisation
3. religion
4.unreasonable attitude of men folk
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The matriarchal type of families grew because-
1. males were not interested in the family life
2.males were in small number
3. males were dominated by religious and cultural intelligence of goddess
4.males went out for bunting and collecting means for livelihood and thus were generally away from the family.
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The modern western kinship system is a _________ system.
1.narrow range
2.broad range
3.limited
4.flexible
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:24:22
The Mundas, Santhals and Hos are identified as distinct tribes on the basis of their____ besides other attributes.
1.colour
2.dance
3.language
4.house pattern
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:06:30
The narratives pass down in oral transmission is termed as
1.legend
2.folkways
3. folklore
4.none of the above
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The process under which one culture merges itself with the other is called-
1.Adaptation
2.Accommodation
3.Assimilation
4.Acculturation
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:07:39
The word ‘family’ has been derived from the word ‘famulus’ which is
1.Latin
2.Greek
3.Roman
4.Spanish
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:47:27
Tick the right one
1. The social stratification theory of Marx and Weber are identical
2.Weber concentrates on class, party and status, while Marx concentrates on class only
3.Weber has not said anything on social stratification
4.Weber’s theory is based on caste, while Marx’s theory is on class
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:03:59
Vertical social mobility experienced by a family lineage over the course of two or more generations, is called
1.Co-lateral mobility
2.Procedural mobility
3. Inter-generational social mobility
4.Scale mobility
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:59:38
What is not applicable to social functions of group life?
1.It checks irrational actions of the people
2.It helps in evolving a code of conduct
3. It helps in appreciating requirements of the others
4. It helps in promoting sense of exclusiveness among members of the group
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:40:26
Which of the following is true of accommodation but does not apply to adaptation?
1.It is more concerned with biology
2.It is a social phenomenon
3.It is an evolutionary process
4. It is an outcome of natural competition
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Which one of the following is not a significant feature of accommodation?
1. It is an unconscious process
2. It is a never ending process
3.It is a conscious process
4.It is needed at all levels
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:09:07
Which one of the following is not functional problem of social structure?
1.pattern of maintenance
2.adaptation
3.environment
4.integration
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:46:42
Who has distinguished between ‘primary deviation and secondary deviation’?
1.Walter Miller
2.Edwin Lemert
3.Becker
4.Henry Mckay
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:04:22
Who has said “culture is life expressing itself in valuations and in styles”?
1. R.M. Maclver
2. Dewey J.
3.M.R. Gardner
4.G.S. Ghurye
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:42:16
Who understood religion as ‘a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and human life’?
1. Sir James Frazer
2. Emile Durkheim
3.Bronislaw Malinowski
4.Karl Marx
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:28:58
Whose statement is this? ‘A social relationship will be called ‘communal’ in and so far as the orientation of social action – whether in the individual case, on the average, or in the pure type, is based on a subjective feeling of the parties, whether effectual or traditional, that they belong together. A social relationship will be called ‘associative’ if the orientation of social action within it rests on a rationally motivated adjustment of interest?
1. T. Parsons
2. K. Marx
3.M. Weber
4.F. Tonnies
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 09:15:49
‘Franks’ were inhabitants of
1.Northern Alps
2.Rocky mountains
3.Indes mountains
4. Mount Fiji
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:04:33
. Socialisation takes place through various motivational processes which may be called too___________ of socialization.
1.Ends
2.Mechanisms
3.Modes
4.Elements
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:45:03
A family remained an economic unit of production before
1. the Muslim rule in India
2.the communist revolution of soviet Russia
3.India became free
4. The industrial revolution
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:48:11
A little boy pushes out his undeveloped belly and pompously swings an imaginary club in copy of the policeman who walks past his house every day. Which of the following explains this best?
1. Role set
2.Role playing
3.Role
4.Socialization
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A person who participates in a group without ever becoming a member of that group is called
1.Marginal man
2.Distance man
3.Distant man
4.Symbolic man
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:44:40
A view of sociology which emphasises the importance of the analysis of the form of a social relationship and the comparative study of cases which differ whilst the form remains constant is:
1.Formalism
2.Symbolic interactionism
3.Comparative sociology
4.Synthetic view of sociology
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:16:26
Absorption of culture is similar to
1.Integration
2.Assimilation
3.Adjustment
4.Accommodation
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:44:01
According to functionalist school of thought human nature is just like
1.natural gas
2.water
3.mirror
4.wax
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 09:15:04
According to Levi Strauss, no society is _________ if by that, total neglect of one side in favour of the other is implied.
1.bilateral
2.unilateral
3.patrilineal
4.matrilineal
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:22:44
According to ____, deviance has certain positive functions to perform.
1.Durkheim
2.John Bowlby
3.Merton
4.Malinowski
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:07:09
After marriage come the children’. This statement signifies
1.Post-nuptial stage
2.Formative stage
3.Nuptial stage
4.Pre-nuptial stage
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:46:51
An acephalous society is one in which
1. members have low intelligence
2. there is no formal head
3.there is no political system
4. anarchy prevails
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An extended family may be defined as-
1.a family in which all brothers, their wives and children live together
2. a family in which only elder brother, his wife and his bachelor brothers live together
3.a family which is extended due to social upliftment
4.a family extended due to legal injecture
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:20:27
Attributes of objects, events or things which can be measured are called:
1.data
2.qualitative measure
3.variables
4. None of the above
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Children of the same parents are called___________.
1.offsprings
2.cousins
3.brothers
4.siblings
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:26:14
Consanguineous kinship is the one which is between:
1.mother-in-law and father-in-law
2.uncle and nephew
3.husband and wife
4. lover and beloved
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During our freedom struggle some of our leaders could bring politics near to our people because:
1.They reminded the people of India about their past glory
2.They were rich and the people were afraid of them
3.They had been educated abroad and masses loved them
4. They led western life style
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:42:50
For Weber, all human action is directed by
1. individual
2.rationality
3.meaning and motive
4.society
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 09:16:19
Hippie culture is an example of-
1. deviant sub-culture
2.western influence
3.drug-addiction
4.escapism
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Identify the school to which the following sociologists belong – Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse, Freidrich Pollock, Karl Wittfogel, Leo, Lowenthal, and J. Habermas.
1.Formal school
2.Frankfurt school
3. Synthetic school
4.Chicago school
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:17:16
In a positively skewed distribution the value of:
1.Mean is maximum
2.Mode is maximum
3.Mean and mode are same
4. None of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:12:12
In any research one should:
1.know everything in the area without bothering to learn the details if any
2. know more and more about less and less in certain specific sub areas
3. not try out anything blindly but wait until a sudden flash appears in his mind
4.None of the above
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Individual Extreme values cannot influence:
1.Median
2.Mean
3.Average
4.None of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:12:41
Individuals are unlikely to have high levels of political participation if they believe that the outcome of events will be satisfactory without their involvement. Who has suggested this?
1.C.W. Mills
2.R. Dahl
3.B. Wilson
4.Lester Milbrath
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:53:31
Joint family system is on the decline- Which one of the following is NOT the main cause for its disintegration?
1. There is change from agricultural to industrial economy
2.There is increased western influence
3.There is increased pressure on land
4. There is increased agricultural production
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:19:54
Not only individuals but also whole groups may experience upward or down ward mobility. This phenomenon may be called
1. Caste mobility
2.Occupational mobility
3.Group mobility
4. Societal mobility
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:00:39
Stating that only particular races are capable of making culture, other have to survive as parasites, is to reinforce the values of:
1.Racial inequality
2.Biological inequality
3.Racial capabilities
4.Cultural relativism
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:41:42
The area in which similar cultural traits are found may be called as
1.cultural state
2. cultural region
3.cultural area
4.cultural territory
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:45:16
The average weekly wages of a group of 50 workers were Rs.400. It was later discovered that two entries were misread as Rs.230 and Rs.140 instead of Rs.320 and Rs.410. The correct average is:
1.Rs.409.3
2.Rs.407.2
3.Rs.395.6
4.Rs.409.7
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:13:16
The characteristics of peasant societies was outlined by
1.M.N. Srinivas
2.P.C. Joshi
3.Theodore Shanin
4. Henry Maine
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:07:32
The concept of urban recycling refers to
1.pollution control mechanisms
2. relocation of industries in the city
3.renovation of old buildings and construction of new units
4. relocation of the city at another site
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:51:59
The Industrial Revolution in England took place through
1.wool industry
2.mining industry
3. cotton industry
4.lumbering industry
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:50:24
The instance of joking relationship has been reported from-
1.Vedda tribe of Ceylon
2.Nuers of Sudan
3. Matrilineal Hopi
4.Andaman Islanders
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:22:09
The institution of marriage cannot come to an end because-
1.It performs the basic function of procreation of children
2.The people have become more romantic
3.The people desire to lead a family life
4.Every state feels that the people must marry
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:17:17
The principle of social change for the interpretation of the synchronous changes of diverse human life was used by:
1.Kroeber
2. F.S. Chapin
3.Oswald Spengler
4. None of the above
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:41:07
The regular movement of pastoral nomads with their livestock in search of fresh pastorage may be termed as
1.Migration
2.Exodus
3.Transhumance
4.Movement
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The regular movement of pastoral nomads with their livestock in search of fresh pastorage may be termed as
1.Migration
2.Exodus
3.Transhumance
4.Movement
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:45:43
The relatives by marriage are called___________.
1.tertiary kin
2.primary kin
3.secondary kin
4.affinal kin
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:27:07
The term denotes thought and action which are conscious in accord with the rules of logic and empirical knowledge, where objective are coherent, mutually consistent and achieved by the most appropriate means. Which term is referred to here?
1.Behaviour pattern
2.Rationality
3.Empiricism
4.Methodology
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:08:48
The urban conditions of life and the extreme division of labour has made possible the
1.Ascription of status
2. Institutionalization of status
3.Achievement of status
4.Status comparison
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:48:51
Under_______ system, material happiness is given primary importance whereas under______________ system spiritual happiness is regarded more important.
1.Marxist, Idealistic
2. Sensate, Ideational
3.Ideational, Idealistic
4. Sensate, Idealistic
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:47:16
Vandls and Moors were found in
1.Indonesia
2.Ethiopia
3.North Africa
4. North America
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:05:07
Weber’s concept of power is
1.Idealistic’ power
2. ‘Idiosyncratic’ power
3.‘Zero-Sum’ power
4.Rationalistic’ power
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:58:06
What is a patriarchal family?
1.A family which is looked after by the father of the children
2. A family in which a child bears his father’s family name
3.A family in which the inclusive powers are with the male head of the family
4. A family based on the concept of fraternity
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:19:19
When in kinship special role is given to father’s sister, the system is known as:
1.amitate
2.couvade
3.avunclate
4.avoidance
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:23:39
When inherent superiority of a people over another is legitimised in terms of biological attributes, it is called
1.racism
2.ethnicity
3.society
4.cultural pride
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:56:24
When role occupants divide themselves into subgroups, the latter:
1.live shorter life than the individual members
2.live longer life than the individual members
3.has as much life as the individual members
4. has nothing to do with the life of individual members
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:45:47
Which book has a good account of the influence of factions, caste and other forces upon state politics?
1. Social structure
2. Factional politics in an Indian state. The congress party in Uttar Pradesh
3.Indian social structure
4.Caste and politics: A case study of Tamil Nadu Assembly
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:55:18
Which is correct?
1.Sibs are generally exogamous and therefore a family contains members of several sibs.
2. Sibs are generally endogamous and therefore a family contains members of several sibs
3.Sibs are generally endogamous and therefore a family contains members of one sib
4. Sibs are generally exogamous and therefore a family contains members of one sib
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:18:14
Which of the following is not the basis for natural inequality?
1.Colour
2.Education
3.Race
4.Gender
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:01:36
Which one of the following is not needed for the working of an association?
1.There should be group of people
2.The people should be well-organised
3.They should observe code of conduct
4.They should have common ideology
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:36:59
Which one of the following is true of institution but not of community?
1.It has spontaneous origin
2.It has concern with society as a whole
3.It has no spontaneous origin
4.It deals with social life of the people
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:38:33
Which one of the following refers to the capacity to take independent action in the face of resistance and confrontation?
1.Self-esteem
2.Power
3.Authority
4.Influence
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:59:06
Whilst those who own and control the forces of production, including labour, may have a rational perception of the relationship between their, aims and the ways of accomplishing them, those who are subordinate do not.’ Which concept do you think is implied in the above statement of Karl Marx?
1.Alienation
2.Praxis
3.False consciousness
4.Social revolution
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:14:59
Who defined family in this way? The family is a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption; constituting a single household, interacting and intercommunicating with each other in their respective social role of husband and wife, mother and father, brother and sister; creating a common culture’-
1.L. H. Morgan
2.MacIver and Page
3.E.W. Burgess and H. J. Locke
4.Park and Burgess
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:15:35
Who do you think has been responsible for the most extensive use of the term in sociology? In British sociology L.T. Hobhouse incorporated the notion of rationality in its widest sense into his theory of human development as an organic principle which harmonised all aspects of individual and social life.
1.Marx Weber
2. W.G. Sumner
3.Karl Marx
4.Talcott Parsons
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:09:53
Who had mentioned five mechanisms of socialization, viz., reinforcement, extinction inhibition, substitution, imitation and identification?
1.Radcliffe Brown
2.Nadel
3.Parsons
4.Merton
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:46:13
Who has written the book “The White Umbrella – Indian Political thought from Manu to Gandhi”?
1.B.R. Ambedkar
2. Jyotiba Phule
3. D.M. Brown
4.Mountbatten
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:54:18
Who introduced the term kinship for consanguineal relationships, and distinguished it from affinal relationships?
1.B. Malinowski
2.A.R. Radcliffe Brown
3.S.F. Nadel
4.Kroeber
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:08:17
Who of the following has said that “A social role is pattern of behaviour expected of an individual in certain group or situation”?
1.Maclver
2.K. Young
3.Kingsley Davis
4. Lundberg
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:48:16
Who of the following is of the view that in sociological parlance an institution is net of folk ways and mores?
1.Ginsberg
2. H. E. Barnes
3.Maxwell
4.Gillin and Gillin
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:36:14
Who _____ incorporated the ‘cultural transmission approach’ into Merton’s theory of anomie and sought to provide a coherent framework for the analysis of deviant behaviour?
1.John Bowlby
2. Cesare Lombroso
3.Richard Cloward
4.Albert Cohen
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:06:41
_ refer to those rewards, objectives and ambitions which the individual is encouraged to regard as worthwhile ends through socialization.
1.Cultural goals
2.Material goals
3.Spiritual goals
4.Ethical goals
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:06:03
__ are repeated offenders who neither learn to avoid detection nor are deterred from committing further offences either by conviction or the sentences they receive
1.Juvenile Delinquents
2.Criminals
3.Recidivists
4.Terrorists
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:10:43
__ says that “avoidance” is a mechanism to preserve peace.
1.Tylor
2.Tumey-High
3. Frazer
4.Freud
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:25:18
___ is primarily a means of regularising sex relations.
1.Family
2.Marriage
3.Incest taboo
4.Kinship
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 14:15:16
______ tends to reinforce individual’s own particular role perspective and decrease his understanding of others’ points of view.
1. Ethnocentrism
2.Role-insulation
3.Ethical role
4.Role-model
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:50:11
‘Cultural ethos’ stands for
1.The world – view of society
2.The world – view of a people
3.The world – view of culture
4.The world-view of transaction
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 12:46:18
“In tribal life the principal links for the whole society are based on Kinship,” Whose opinion is this?
1. Mandelbaum
2. Lucy Mair
3.Evans Petchand
4. Radcliffe Brown
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:06:00
“Social institutions are sets of organised human relationship; established by common will” was said by-
1.C.H. Cooley
2. E. A. Ross
3.Kingsely Davis
4.Sheriff and Sheriff
Posted Date:-2024-01-08 13:37:49