SOCIOLOGY

Multiple choice Question

1) Who defined sociology as a web of social relationships?
a) cooley b)gidding c)Max Iver d)Lapier
2) Which of the following is weated by people for a specific goal Objective?
a)Society b)community c)Association d) Institution
3) Accommodation is essentially a process of ………
a)adjustment b)co-operation c)group formation d)competition
4) Social order is maintained largely by:
a) Division of labour b) law c)socialization d)state rules
5)………… is a reciprocal contact between two or more individual
a)Interaction b)co-operation c)”group formation d)competition
6) Who classified groups on the basis of kind of contact into primary and
secondary groups?
a) C.H. cooley b)W.G.Summer c)Sorokhein d)Elewood
7) Which of the following is not a unit of social structures?
a) groups b)social unity c)Association d)Institutions
8) Family is a ………..
a) Economic group b) Political group c) Religious group d) Kinship group
9) …… is a social group with some degree of ‘we feeding’ and ‘living in a
given area’?
a) Association b) Institution c) community d) society
10) The process of adjustment with one’s environment is
a) Accommodation b) co-operation c) Assimilation d) None of the above
11) Which of the following is a non-associative social process?
a) C-operation b) Assimilation c) Accommodation d) conflict
12) Society as a network based on ……between the people
a)social behavior b)social relationship c)social interaction d)co-operation
13) Which of the following sociologists gave the structural view of society?
a)cooley b)gidding c)Maclves d)Lapiere
14) Which refers to mutually working together for attainment of a woman
goal?
a) Competition b) group formation c) co-operation d) Assimilation
15) Competition is an interaction without social contact said by?
A) Park and Burgers b)Bogardas c)Mazumdas d)Dgburn
16) What is obtained at every level in the society?
a) Assimilation b) co-operation c) Competition d) Competition
17) Which of the following is an example of secondary group?
a) Family B0 Friends c) Peers d) Neighbors
18) Who defined functional view of society?
a) Gadding b) Cooley c) Lapeer d) Mac Ivor
19) Has a definite geographical boundaries
a) Institution b) Association c) Community D) society
20) Which characteristics of society lead to specialization?
a) Socialization b) state rules c) Division of labor d) law
21) Social stratification is based on:
a) Social understanding b) social inequality c) social harmony d) social
disorganization
22) The response of individuals to one another is
a) Social interaction b) culture c) ethos d) norm
23) The functions of socialization include cultural transmission, social
integration and ……..
a) force-fitting people into positions
b) Discouraging chellion
c) Providing emotional support
 d) Developmental of the individual personality
24) The process of copying the action of other individuals,
a) Co-operation b) competition c) Imitation d) conflict
25) Who told the ‘society is an artificial device of natural economy?
a)Fetcher b) Adam Smith c)Tan Robertson d)Antony Giddens
26) Who told that the; community is a set of interrelationship among social
institutions in a locality’
a) Bell and Newby b) Hawley c) Robert Stebbins d) Sutton and Kolaja
27) Name the scientist who defined ‘accommodation denotes acquired
changes in the behavior of individuals which help them to adjust to their
environment?
a) Hawley b) Robert Stebbins c) J.M. Baldwin d) Rudolf Gardenias
28) Which of the following is not the characteristics of primary group?
a) Co-operation b) instability c) common interest d) close contact
29) According to divine origin theory society is
a) Creation of God b) Result of superior and physical forces c) both a and b d)
all of the above
30) Which of the following is not a characteristics of tribal society
a) Common territory b) sense of unity c) Exogamous d) common culture
31) According to social contract theory, nature of society is
a) Like rules b) Like artisans c) Like an organism d) like a warrior
32) Language transmits the ……and mound’s the personality individual?
a) Co-operation b) Accommodation c) Culture d) Behavior
33) According to Hobe’s society originated to,
a)Increase in number b)control the people c)project against evil consequences
d)All the above
34) The example of dissociative process
a) Accommodation b) co-operation c) competition
35) Which conflict is known as intra- group conflict?
a) Freud b) War c) Litigation d) conflict of impersonal ideals.
36)………is a form of conflicts which is judicial in nature?
a)War b)Litigation c)Freud d)co-operation
37) Which is the social process in which two or more individuals or group
work together jointly to achieve common goal?
a) Co-operation b) Accommodation c) Assimilation d) Acculturation
38) Which is the social institutions that transmit social heritage like family,
school, and church?
a)Cultural institution b)Economic institution c)recreational institution d)social –
control institution.
39) In which type of society, people lived in a certain place and started to
pasture animals for transportation and permanent food?
a) Postural societies b) Foraging societies c) Horticultural societies d)
Agricultural societies
40) Which is the most fundamental or essential characteristics or element
of community
a) Group of people b) Definite locality c) Feeling of belongingness d) Grows
spontaneously
41) What is termed as the study of society?
a)Social science b) sociology c) social life d)social behavior
42) Who joined the term sociology?
a)Max Weber b) Gillian and gillin c)John B Watson d)Augustin comate
43) When was the term ‘sociology’ joined?
a)1839 b)1837 c) 1836 d)1831
44) From which word does the term ‘society’ came from?
a)Societus b)Societives c) societas d) societie
45) What does ‘Logos’ mean?
a) Understand b) To Know c) study or science d) None of above
46) Who is known as ‘Father of sociology’?
a)Mac Iver b)Sigmund Freud c)Auguste conite d) Lundberg
47) Whose disciple was Aristotle?
a) Greek philosophers b)Plato c) Max Weber d)Auguste conite
48) Whose publication was ‘origin of species?
a)Plato b)Darwin c)Giorsberg d)Hobhouse
49) When did the study of sociology start in India?
a)1919 b)1975 c) 1910 d)1925
50) Social behavior does not cover the whole field of……..
a)Human interaction b)Human relation c)Communication d) society
51) According to whom was the scope of sociology is the study of forms of
social relationship?
a)Small b) Tonnic c)vonuriese d)vierkandt
52) Which school wants to make sociology, a synthesis of social sciences?
a)Formalictic school b) synthetic school
53) Which subject is the mother of all social sciences?
a)society b)social life c)sociology d) None of the above
54) ‘Anthropo’ means
a)Women b)society c)Man d) Individual
55) Knowledge about the …….sociology is extremely useful for nurses
.a) Medical b) Criminal c) Industrial d) General
56) The ultimate purpose of sociology is the deliberate modification of ….
a)Behaviour b)social life c)society d) social group
57) According to whom was ‘Sociology does not undertake to study all the
activities of the society?
a) Small b) max webwer c) Darkening d) Vierkandt
58) According to whom sociology has two main sections: - (systematic
sociology Historical sociology)
a)Sorokin b)Kare manheian c)Hobhouse d)Giorsberg
59) Name the science of behavior of the individual in society
a)social psychology b)Moral sociology c)Industrial sociology d)General
sociology
60) Which is the family unit of human culture?
a) Society b) Family c) Community d) organization
61) The word family has been taken from
a)Families b) Societies c)Logy d) sansker
62)”Family is the institutionalized social group changed with duty of
population replacement” whose words are this
a) Mav Iver b) Nimkoff c) David defines d) Green and Arnold
63) In which type of family the husband goes to lives in the home of her
husbands?
a)Matrilocal family b)Matrilined family c)Patrilineal family d)Patrilocal family
64) In which kind of family, the authority and control of the family is
centered on the mother?
a)Patrilined family b) Patriarchal family c)Matriarchal family
d)Matrilocalfamily
65) In which kind of family in man marries many women and establish his
family?
a)Monogamous family b) Polygamous family c) Polyandrous family
d)Endogamous family
66) In which type of family the members are allowed to establish marital
relationship with outgrow members?
a)Endogamous family b)Exogamous family c)Monogamous family
d)Polyandrous family
67) In which type family the mother holds the supreme power and other
male members in the family become her subordinates including her
husband
a) Matriarchal family b) Patriarchal family c) Nuclear family d) joint family
68) ----------are more in the joint family?
a)Unity b)membership c) we feeling d)Achievements
69) ----------- is the strength of Joint family?
a)Unity b)membership c) same pattern d)ownership
70) The Joint Family act as an agent of -------
a)Social virtues b)cooperation c)needs d)socialization
71) ------------is a problem of the joint family?
a)Freedom b) privacy c) earnings d)control
72) --------family plays an important role in the development of personality
of individual
a)Joint family b) Patriarchies family c) nuclear family d)Matriarchal family
73) Which act prevent sati Act and save the life of windows?
a) Sati act b) Hindu Widow remarriage Act c) Special marriage act
74) Which act provide legal permission for inter religious, inter caste and
registered marriage?
a) Hindu Marriage act b) special Marriage act c) Sati act
75) Which act is not applicable for Kashmir Hindus?
a)Hindu Marriage act b) Hindu Widow remarriage c) special marriage act
76) In which years, dowry Prohibition Act was released?
a)1972 b)1961 c)1960
77) Which condition is when the husband has to severe in the name of god
to obtain from sexual relations with his wife for four months?
a)Lian b) Illa c) Zihar
78) Which condition is husband accuses his wife, being guilty of?
a)Illa b)Lian c) Zihar
79) Which way is the divorce can be obtained by mutual consent of both the
partners?
a)Kheela b) Zihar c)Talaq
80) ----------- is the three times pronouncement of Talaq made during three
consecutive menstrual periods and no several contact in this period
a)Talaq-e-Hasan b)Talaq-e-ul-Bidas c)Talaq-Ashasan
81) Which act provides the criteria of childless women to adopt a child?
a) Child Marriage restraint Act b) Hindu adoption and Maintenance act
c) Muslim marriage act
82) ----------is a contract for the production and maintenance of children.
a)Family b) Marriage c)Society d) Community
83) In which type of marriage one man marries one woman at a time.
a)Monogamy b)Polygamy c) Exogamy d) endogamy
84) Which kind of marriage is known as marriage outside the group?
a) Endogamy b) Monogamy c) Polygamy d) Exogamy
85) ----------- is considered as one of the social evil
a) Marriage b) child labour c) Dowry d) Child abuse
86) Dowry is also called as -------------
a)Kanyadan b)Sati c) Zihar d)Talaq
87) Gay marriage is a form of
a) udogamy marriage b) Exogamy marriage c)Polygamy marriage
d)Homosexual marriage
88) Secularism is a feature of -----------family
a) Blended family b) modern family c) joint family d) Extended family
89) Polygamy family is also called --------
a)Monogamy d) Polyandry c)Polygyny d)Endogamy
90) -------is the gateway of family life
a)Religion b)Marriage c)Status d)Occupation
91) -------- is the earliest and the most universal of all social institutions
a) Tribe b) Community c) Family
92) --------- is defined as ‘the total organization of social life within a limited
area”
a) Community b) clan c) Family
93) ----------- is the capacity to control others
a) Power b) Rank c) status and role
94) Who classified the social system on the basis of cultural system?
a) Durkheim b) Sorokin c) Morgan
95) How many primary institutions are there in the society?
a) 3 b) 6 c) 5
96) --------- is the basic aspect of human life.
a) Educational System b) Religion c) Economical system
97) Advancements in a community are determined by -------------
a) Norms b) Folkways c) Technological growth
98) --------- is the most powerful, formal means of social control in the
modern times
a) Customs b) Law c) Mores
99) ---------is a specific guide to action acceptable and an appropriate
behavior in particular situation”
a) Mores b) Customs c) Social Norms
100) ------------ are more powerful and effective than the folkways
a) Customs b) Mores c) Norms