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Sociology BS-17 Past Paper MCQs
Sociology Mcqs
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(1) Affinal Kin
means:
Individuals who
are related through blood
Individuals who
are legally related through marriage
Descendants of a
common ancestor in the male line
None of these
(2) Culture
Complex means
A cluster of
related culture traits
Artifacts used by
primitive people
Originally an
approach to culture
None of these
(3) Double descent
refers to
(a) Maternal
descent system
(c) The existence
of a paternal and a maternal descent system within the same culture
(d) None of
these
(4) By endogamy we
mean
The rule that
requires the mates e chosen within some specified group
Mates may be
chosen within the same group
Mates be chosen
within the same family
None of these
(5) Ethnography
refers to
A branch of study
devoted to observation studies
A division of
Anthropology undertakes descriptive recording at culture
None of these
(6) Feral man
means:
A socialized
individual
Individual
supposedly reared apart from human society and hence imperfectly socialized.
An individual
rears in a cultural society
None of these
(7) By
gerontocracy we mean:
(a) A society
dominated by the old men
(c) A mixed
society of aged
(d) None of these
(8) Java man
refers to
Fossil man of
Neolithic period
A lover
Pleistocene fossil
A fossil man found
in Paleolithic Age
None of these
(9) Monotheism
refers to
The worship of one
God
The worship of
many gods
The followers of a
magician
None of these
(10) By Sorcery we
mean
General practice
to cure sick
Magic in a more
neutral term
None of these
(11) By Penology
we mean
Studies of social
structure
Study of
Punishments
Alternative
methods of social control
None of these
(12) Mills,
C.Wright wrote book
White Collar
The Language of
Social Research
Value in Social
Theory
None of these
(14) Probation
refers to
(a) Dealing with
offenders while at liberty to a specified period of supervision by an officer
of the court
(b) Absconded offender
(c) Murder of a
criminal
(d) None of these
(15) Social
mobility means
Change in the
closeness to members of other groups
Movement from one
class to another
None of these
(16) By social
status we refer to
(a) This is the
position occupied by a person in a social system relative to others.
A person gets the
position by marriage only
None of these
(17) Social
evolution means
The process of
gradual change taking place in all societies from simple to complex
Decay in social
system
None of these
(18) Hypergamy
refers to
Position holds in
lower classes
Marriage upward
from a lower social class to caste into a higher one
A society
dominated by wealthy people
None of these
19) Leveret means
(c) None of these
20) Totem refers to
High regards
between the members of the Community
An object, often
an animal or plant, held in special regard by an individual or social group
Children are
looked after with great care
None of these
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1. Socialization is:
1. Socialization is:
(a)Instinctive
process (b)Personal social learning (c) Building up of norms and values in the
personality by groups (d)None of these
2. Who can be
taken as early pure sociologist among the social thinkers?
(a)August comte
(b)Ibn-e-Khaldun (c) Durkheim (d)None of these
3.Ascribed social
status of a person is determined by:
(a)Biological
inheritance (b)What he achieves (c) Contacts abroad (d)None of these
4. In Cultural Lag
the part that moves slowly is called:
(a)Material
culture (b)Symbolic culture (c) Sub-culture (d)None of these
5. The spread of
cultural traits and patterns in spaceis called:
(a)Assimilation
(b)Acculturation (c) Diffusion (d)None of these
6. A Stimulus-Response
Condition between two persons is called:
(a)Exchange
(b)Dialogue (c) Interaction (d)None of these
7.Polandry is a
form of marriage in which:
(a)Many women
marry one man (b)Many men are husbands of one woman (c) One man marries a woman
(d)None of these
8. A verified and
verifiable proposition is called:
(a)Hypothesis
(b)Design (c) Fact (d)None of these
9. Urbanism is:
(a)A process of
migration (b)An attitude (c) Equal to urbanization (d)None of these
10. An operational
definition of a concept is:
(a)Mediating variable
(b)Guideline for the researcher in the field (c) A formal or lexiographic
(d)None of these
11. Culture is:
(a)What has been
given to us by our fore fathers (b)Man-made part of environment (c) Music,
drama, dance etc. (d)None of these
12. Innovation is:
(a) Invention
(b)Discovery (c) Both (a) and (b) (d)None of these
13. Emphasis in
quantitative data is on:
(a)Validity
(b)Reliability (c) Formal procedures (d)None of these
14. A sample is:
(a)A process of
selecting items. (b)A smaller part representing the universe. (c) Giving a few
examples from population. (d)None of these
15. When two or
more persons interact with each other, they form:
(a)Community
(b)Group (c) Society (d)None of these
16. A social caste
is always:
(a)Exogamous and
open (b)Endogamous and closed (c) Both (a) and (b) (d)None of these
17. A cricket
match is an example:
(a)Truce
(b)Accomodation (c) Competition (d)None of these
18. A socially
expected and approved behaviour is called:
(a)Folkway
(b)Social norm (c) More (d)None of these
19. A push factor
in migration means:
(a)People
attracted by urban facilities (b)People forced by circumstances leaving (c)
Both (a) and (b) (d)None of these
20. An Interview
Guide is:
(a) The person who
guides the interview.
(b) A booklet that explains the dynamics of
an interview.
(c) The list of
topics to be covered in an interview.
(d)None of these
21) When the
researcher asks the respondent face to face question, this method is called
________.
(a) Interview
schedule (b) Questionnaire (c) Observation (d) Interview guide (e) None of
these
22) Power that
people consider legitimate is known as ____________.
(a) Force (b)
Right (c) Authority (d) Privilege (e) None of these
23) Social
structure of a society is the net work of ____________.
(a) Institutional
Relations (b) Values System (c) Traditions (d) compliance to norms (e) None of
these
24) WID approach
believes in:
(a) Gender
mainstreaming (b) Gender Segregation
(c) Incorporating
women in development activities (d) None of these
25) Gerontology is
the study of _____________:
(a) Human beings
(b) Special groups (c) Aged and Aging (d) All of these
26) The most
pervasive of the social processes are:
(a) Cooperation
(b) Overt conflict (c) Competition (d) None of these
27) Abstract
sentiments are:
(a) Closer to the
centre of the self than moral rules (b) Provide a focus for allegiance (c) Are
compellers of action (d) None of these
28) The creative
potential of personality is accounted for by:
(a)
Stimulus-response psychology (b) Drive psychology (c) Trait psychology (d) None
of these
29) The country
with better record for gathering population statistics than any other is:
(a) Japan (b)
Sweden
(c) USA (d) None
of these
30) The exception
to the typical application of endogamy is:
(a) Tribe (b)
Kinship
(c) Race (d) None
of these
31) Stratified
Samples fall under:
(a) Probability
sampling design (b) Non-probability sampling design
(c) Multi stage
sampling design (d) None of these
32) Egoistic, the
special type of suicide presented by Emile Durkkim springing from:
(a) Excessive
regulation (b) Excessive individualism (c) Over migration with group (d) None
of these
33) A close
connection between religion and economic forces was presented by:
(a) Max Weber (b)
Karl Max (c) Emile Durkkim
(d) C. Wright Mill
(e) None of these
34) A large
kinship group whose members inhabit one geographic area and believe they are
descendent from a common area is known as:
(a) Clan (b) Tribe
(c) Kin group (d) Class (e) None of these
35) A social
condition in which values are conflicting, weak or absent is:
(a) Assimilation
(b) Hawthorne effect (c) invasion (d) Anomie
36) In theoretical
field social research aims at:
(a) finding
problems of human being (b) identifying delinquent behaviour
(c) reducing
social conflicts (d) None of these
37) Survey means:
(a) Overlooking
(b) Organizing social data (c) Observation (d) None of these
38) Independent
variables are:
(a) Experimental
Groups (b) Study of social investigation (c) Study of social life (d) None of
these
(39) Qualitative
Data Means:
(a) Expressed in number
(b) Expressed in words (c) Both of these (d) None of these
40) A Likert scale
emphasizes:
(a)
Reproducibility (b) Uni-dimensionality (c) None of these
41) Ferdinand
Tonnies used the term ________ to refer to societies dominated by impersonal
relationships, individual accomplishment and self-interests.
(a) Society (b)
Gesellschaft
(c) Community (d)
Gemeinschaft
42) When the
researcher asks the respondent face to face questions, this method is called
________.
(a) Interview
Schedule (b) Questionnaire (c) Observation (d) Interview guide
43) ________ is the process by which people learn
all patterns of social life.
(a) Interaction
(b) Communication
(c) Socialization
(d) Dissemination
44) According to
_______ all societies across the world are stratified.
(a)
Anthropologists (b) Sociologists
(c) Economists (d)
Political Scientists
45) Biological
characteristics distinguishing male from female is called ________.
(a) Hetrosexuality
(b) Gender (c) Sex (d) Homosexuality
46) A family
consisting of step relations is called ________.
(a) Plural family
(b) Joint family
(c) Extended
family (d) Compound family
47) Power that
people consider legitimate is known as _________.
(a) Force (b)
Right
(c) Authority (d)
Privilege
48) Mugging, rape
and burglary are examples of _________ crimes.
(a) Organized
crimes (b) General crimes
(c) Street crimes
(d) Modern crimes
49) A norm is
always enforced by sanctions.
(a) True (b) False
Submitted by: Asan Mcqs