Objective Sociology: 120 + Questions and Answers for All Competitive Exam
1. Who can be labelled as a ‘historical sociologist’?
(a) Pareto
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Max Weber
(d) Lewis Coscer
Ans. (c)
2. The division of Sociology into social statics and social dynamics was done by
(a) F. Angel
(b) Auguste Comte
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Saint Simon
Ans. (b)
3. Which among the following is the youngest social science?
(a) Sociology
(b) Political Science
(c) Economics
(d) Statistics
Ans. (a)
4. Who among the following had observed that sociology is in its extreme infancy?
(a) Radcliffe Brown
(b) Emile Durkheim
(c) Malinowski
(d) Robert Redfield
Ans. (a)
5. Radcliffe Brown considers sociology as a science of
(a) human relationship
(b) human society
(c) human behaviour
(d) human interaction
Ans. (b)
6. Every culture contains a large number of guidelines which direct conduct in a particular situation. Such guidelines are known as-
(a) Norms
(b) Culture
(c) Folkways
(d) Mores
Ans. (a)
7. A norm is a
(a) Specific guide to action
(b) Culture of society
(c) Guideline for socialization
(d) Guideline for social interaction
Ans. (a)
8. Norms are enforced by
(a) Positive sanction
(b) Negative sanction
(c) Order
(d) Positive and negative sanction
Ans. (d)
9. Norms are imposed through_____ means of social control.
(a) formal and legal
(b) formal and informal
(c) cultural
(d) informal and legal
Ans. (b)
10. A value is a belief that something is
(a) Moral
(b) Very productive in society
(c) Good and desirable
(d) Cultural
Ans. (c)
11. A social position has two parts. They are
(a) Obligations and rights
(b) Rights and conflicts
(c) Cooperation and conflict
(d) Rights and statuses
Ans. (a)
12. The prestige of social position may change in
(a) status
(b) In time
(c) Never
(d) Society
Ans. (b)
13. Which among the following is correct?
The term role-set has been coined to refer-
(a) to the total complex of other social positions with which any particular social position is characteristically connected
(b) to the total number of occupants of the correlative social positions when a particular occupant of a particular position is taken as a point of reference,
(c) Both (a) and (b) are true
(d) Both (a) and (b) are false
Ans. (c)
14. _______ is a person who is taken as the point of reference in a discussion.
(a) Individual
(b) Id
(c) Ego
(d) Superego
Ans. (c)
15. Which of the following statements is true?
(a) Cooperation is based on emotional relationship, harmony and intimacy
(b) Accommodation is the situation of tolerating one another without interference.
(c) Both (a) and (b) are correct
(d) Both (a) and (b) are false
Ans. (c)
16. Polygamy is a term covering
(a) Levirate and sororate
(b) Endogamy and exogamy
(c) Polygyny and polyandry
(d) Cross cousin marriage and parallel cousin marriage
Ans. (c)
17. The Sharda Act of 1929
(a) permitted widow remarriage among Hindus
(b) Abolished child marriage
(c) Permitted women to earn ideas
(d) permitted lower castes to marry in higher caste.
Ans. (b)
18. Who holds that “marriage is rooted in the family rather than family in marriage”?
(a) Murdock
(b) Marx
(c) Morgan
(d) Wester Marck
Ans. (d)
19. Significant studies of the marriage system of the various societies have been carried out by
(a) Radcliffe Brown
(b) Malinowski
(c) Murdock
(d) Frazer
Ans. (c)
20. Who has to pay ‘Dower’ to whom?
(a) Wife to husband
(b) Husband to wife
(c) Bride’s father to groom
(d) Groom’s father to bride
Ans. (b)
21. Private property leads to
(a) The destruction of humane values
(b) Materialism
(c) Inequality
(d) It is not without its virtue
Ans. (d)
22. Market exchange is the exchange of goods at prices determined by
(a) The political diktats
(b) The social condition like war and peace
(c) The law of demand and supply
(d) Laissez faire
Ans. (c)
23. Barter is an exchange of
1. Service for service
2. Goods for goods
3. Service for goods
(a) 1, 2
(b) 1, 2, 3
(c) 3 only
(d) 1 only
Ans. (b)
24. Jajmani system is exchange of service for goods or of service for service?
(a) According to value of goods and services
(b) According to social customs
(c) According to situation of market
(d) According to law and constitution
Ans. (b)
25. Economy is invariably non-monetized economy.
(a) Postindustrial
(b) Industrial
(c) Tribal
(d) Agricultural
Ans. (c)
26. ‘In a metamorphical sense the village communities of India were of many years beyond the frontiers of dynasties which ruled the great cities’. Who made this statement?
(a) S.C. Dubey
(b) M.N. Srinivas
(c) Biedleman
(d) G.S. Ghurye
Ans. (d)
27. Who among the following started decentralisation of rural areas?
(a) Lord Ripon
(b) Lord Wellesley
(c) Lord Mayo
(d) Lord Curzon
Ans. (a)
28. In the settlement pattern of villages in India which of the factor is the most important?
(a) Kinship
(b) Caste
(c) Religion
(d) Occupation
Ans. (a)
29. To identify the social with the political is to be guilty of grossest of all confusions which completely bars any understanding of either state or society.
(a) Bryan Wilson
(b) David Almonds
(c) Maclver
(d) Karl Marx
Ans. (c)
30. Who describes power as the determination of the behaviour of others in accordance with one’s own ends’?
(a) T. Parsons
(b) W. Moore
(c) M. Weber
(d) K. Davis
Ans. (d)
31. In simple society political institutions were based on the principle of
(a) Supremacy of the ruler
(b) Rule of law
(c) Code of conduct
(d) Hierarchy of power holding
Ans. (a)
32. For Marx, a Class is defined by the position of a person in the process of
(a) consumption
(b) production
(c) distribution
(d) technological development
Ans. (b)
33. Which among the following statements regarding Marx is true?
(a) Income provides an indication of class of production
(b) Occupation provides an indication of class of production
(c) Position in relation of production provides an indication of class of production
(d) Ownership of land provides an indication of class of production.
Ans. (c)
34. Who was of this opinion?
For understanding why Sanskritisation has gone such a short way in so long line in the festival of Kishan Garhi, the concept of primary or endogenous process of civilisation offers useful guidance. By definition, an endogenous civilisation is one whose great tradition originates by the universalization process.
(a) Milton Senger
(b) Oscar Lewis
(c) Mckim Marriott
(d) S.C. Dubey
Ans. (c)
35. Industrial revolution is
(a) A process by which drastic change has occurred in the European societies.
(b) An unique phenomenon.
(c) A process illustrates a pattern of change that has taken place in the past and is likely to be repeated in future in other societies.
(d) A unique occurrence
Ans. (c)
36. As pointed by Lowie who among the following, held property on feudal basis?
(a) Zulu of South Africa
(b) Hopi of North America
(c) Dahomey of Uganda
(d) Gonds of central India
Ans. (c)
37. With the emergence of the agricultural society
(a) belief in totemism grew
(b) belief in magic grew
(c) belief in animism grew
(d) temples becomes a place of Gods
Ans. (d)
38. Which among the following covers the study of population and social structure including social groups and institutions according to Ginsberg?
(a) Social institutions
(b) Social morphology
(c) Social anatomy
(d) Social processes
Ans. (b)
39. Which among the following is not an important factor for India’s rapidly growing population?
(a) Low death rate
(b) Immigration
(c) High birth rate
(d) Emigration
Ans. (b)
40. Who among the following is empowered by the Indian constitution to specify a tribe as a scheduled tribe?
(a) President of India
(b) Chief Minister of the state
(c) Governor of the state
(d) District magistrate
Ans. (a)
41. ‘Untouchabiiity in Rural Gujarat’ is written by
(a) A.M. Shah
(b) I.P. Desai
(c) K.M. Kapadia
(d) G.S. Ghurye
Ans. (b)
42. Durkheim classified society into
(a) Mechanical and organic
(b) Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
(c) Literate and non-literate
(d) Open and closed
Ans. (a)
43. Identify the author who has concerned himself with a study of religion and social change.
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Max Weber
(c) Emile durkheim
(d) Radcliffe Brown
Ans. (b)
44. In a week the prices of a bag of rice were. 350, 280, 340, 290, 320, 310, 300. The range is:
(a) 60
(b) 70
(c) 60
(d) 100
Ans. (b)
45. The mean of 9 items is 16. One more value is added, the mean is now 17. The value of the 10th item is:
(a) 24
(b) 27
(c) 26
(d) 25
Ans. (c)
46. Which one of the following is the correct sequence in the decreasing order of Total Fertility Rate of the given regions?
(A) East Asia / Pacific countries – CIS / Baltic countries – South Asia – Latin America
(B) South Asia – Latin America – East Asia/ Pacific countries – CIS / Baltic countries
(C) South Asia – CIS / Baltic countries – East Asia / Pacific countries – Latin America
(D) East Asia / Pacific countries – Latin America – South Asia – CIS / Baltic countries
Ans. (B)
47. The prevalence of village exogamy in North India arises from which of the following highly interrelated factors?
1. Caste endogamy
2. Local fictive kinship
3. Territorial stabilization of kin groups
4. Gotra
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(A) 1 and 3 only
(B) 1, 2 and 4 only
(C) 2 and 4 only
(D) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Ans. (C)
48. Which one of the following is ascribed status?
(A) Priest
(B) Soldier
(C) Husband
(D) Son
Ans. (D)
49. Identify the term among the following which is not used by Max Weber as a sociological concept:
(A) Value Relevance
(B) Value Addition
(C) Value Neutrality
(D) Value Orientation
Ans. (D)
50. Meanings of the objects – concrete or abstract – according to the symbolic interactionist theory of Blumer are:
(A) Innate in the objects.
(B) Present in the culture.
(C) Emerge in interpretative process while handling the objects.
(D) Constructed by actors prior to the completion of the action.
Ans. (C)
51. Who has given the concept of atomistic family?
(A) Murdock
(B) Zimmerman
(C) Durkheim
(D) Warner
Ans. (B)
52. Which of the following is not a dysfunction of religion?
(A) Religion inhibits protests and impedes social changes
(B) Religion may foster dependence and irresponsibility
(C) Religion impedes the development of new identities
(D) Religion explains individual suffering and helps to integrate personality
Ans. (D)
53. Who coined the phrase symbolic interactionism?
(a) Herbert Blumer
(b) Max Weber
(c) Lester F. Ward
(d) W.I. Thomas
Ans. (a)
54. A symbolic interactionist may compare social interactions to:
(a) behaviors
(b) conflicts
(c) human organs
(d) theatrical roles
Ans. (a)
55. Which research technique would most likely be used by a symbolic interactionist?
(a) Surveys
(b) Participant observation
(c) Quantitative data analysis
(d) None of the above
Ans. (d)
56. Kenneth and Mamie Clark used sociological research to show that segregation was:
(a) beneficial
(b) harmful
(c) illegal
(d) of no importance
Ans. (b)
57. Studying Sociology helps people analyze data because they learn:
(a) interview techniques
(b) to apply statistics
(c) to generate theories
(d) all of the above
Ans. (d)
58. ‘Man is a social animal’ is the famous analysis of human nature. It was said by:
(a) Auguste Comte
(b) Socrates
(c) Plato
(d) Aristotle
Ans. (d)
59. Which one is known to be the youngest of the social sciences?
(a) Economics
(b) Sociology
(c) Anthropology
(d) Psychology
Ans. (b)
60. The first western philosopher who undertook a systematic study of the society and can be said to be the sociologist in the history, was:
(a) Plato
(b) Socrates
(c) Thomas Aquinas
(d) Comte
Ans. (d)
61. The study of the different definitions of sociology reveals that it is:
(a) The science of society
(b) A study of the forms of social relationship
(c) A study of social relationship
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)
62. Which one is the characteristic of sociology?
(a) It is empirical
(b) It is objective
(c) It is value-neutral
(d) It is conjectural
Ans. (a)
63. Patriarchal and matriarchal theories about the origin of society believe that society emerged as a result of:
(a) Social contract
(b) Expansion of family
(c) Evolution of several factors combined together
(d) Use of brute force
Ans. (b)
64. Socialization brings man into relation with others whereas _______ makes him autonomous or self-determining.
(a) Personification
(b) Identification
(c) Individualization
(d) Integration
Ans. (c)
65. Society is a system of:
(a) Usages and procedures
(b) Rigid rules
(c) Unbreakable customs
(d) Few groupings and divisions
Ans. (a)
66. Which of the following elements does not play a basic role in the socialization process of the individual?
(a) The physical and psychological heritage of the individual
(b) The environment
(c) Culture
(d) Army
Ans. (d)
67. Which of the following is not correct about Maclver’s view of society?
(a) Society exists among those who resemble one another
(b) In society the people should be near enough to each other
(c) People in society should appreciate facts of life
(d) People in society should or should not appreciate facts of life.
Ans. (b)
68. According to the theory of divine origin about society it is believed that:
(a) Society is handiwork of God
(b) Society is outcome of force
(c) Society has nothing to do with God
(d) Society grew slowly and steadily
Ans. (a)
69. Society helps to:
(a) Regularise social tensions
(b) Increase social tensions
(c) Ignore social tensions
(d) Undermine social tensions
Ans. (a)
70. By adopting towards himself the attitude that others take towards him, man comes to treat himself as an object as well as subject. This view can be related to______________.
(a) Freud
(b) Mead
(c) Cooley
(d) Maclver
Ans. (b)
71. Which one of the following is not the main cause responsible for bringing in the community?
(a) Desire to introduce new ideas
(b) Changing needs of the society
(c) Economic disparity of members
(d) Political differences
Ans. (d)
72. Which of the statements is true?
(a) The theories of Cooley and Mead presume a basic harmony between the self and the society, but Freud does not agree to this
(b) ‘Id’ is the organ of untamed passions whereas ‘superego’ acts with reason
(c) Both a and b are true.
(d) None of the above is true
Ans. (b)
73. Which one of the following is not true of an institution?
(a) It reforms foundational functions
(b) It is not concerned with foundational functions
(c) It is needed for maintaining social order
(d) It grows automatically
Ans. (a)
74. Which one of the following is true of an association but not of an institution?
(a) It represents human aspect
(b) It is abstract
(c) It is mode and nothing else
(d) It does not represent human aspect
Ans. (a)
75. Pick up one of the following which is not an essential element of community?
(a) Community sentiments
(b) Locality
(c) Individual interests
(d) Common way of life
Ans. (c)
76. Which one of the following is not strictly a function of social institution?
(a) Setting up social norms
(b) Regulating social activity of individual
(c) Promoting social culture
(d) Imposing morality and ethics
(e) Developing social etiquettes
Ans. (d)
77. Manifest functions of an institution are those which are:
(a) Unstable
(b) Unorganised
(c) Unplanned
(d) Unanticipated
(e) None of the above is true
Ans. (c)
78. “Social institutions are the very heart of a culture and culture of a community is undoubtedly its pride” was said by:
(a) Maclver
(b) Ginsberg
(c) K. Young
(d) K. Davis
Ans. (a)
79. Which of the following is true of a community but not of institution?
(a) It does not indicate procedures
(b) It indicates procedures
(c) It deals with one aspect of social life
(d) It grows with the passage of time
(e) None of the above is true
Ans. (a)
80. Which one of the following is true of institution but not of community?
(a) It has spontaneous origin
(b) It has concern with society as a whole
(c) It has no spontaneous origin
(d) It deals with social life of the people
Ans. (c)
81. Which one of the following is true of an association but not of an institution?
(a) In it there is much of rationalism and less of dogmatism
(b) In it there is less of rational and more of dogmatism
(c) It comes into being for specific purpose
(d) It comes into existence to meet secondary needs of the people
Ans. (b)
82. Which of the following is true of an institution but not of an association?
(a) It is optional for members to accept its rules
(b) It is compulsory for the members to accept its rules
(c) It can be created at any time
(d) It has evolutionary character
Ans. (b)
83. Ethnocentrism is a characteristic of:
(a) large group
(b) secondary group
(c) out group
(d) in group
Ans. (d)
84. When a group of people decides to replace the old means and goals of society by new means and goals it is known as:
(a) innovation
(b) ritualism
(c) retreatism
(d) rebellion
Ans. (d)
85. It is an endogamous groups based on the principle of purity and pollution. This group is called:
(a) tribe
(b) band
(c) caste
(d) estate
Ans. (b)
86. “Community is the smallest territorial group that can embrace all aspects of social life”. Whom do you attribute this statement to?
(a) Ogbum and Nimkoff
(b) K. Davis
(c) M. Ginsberg
(d) P. Sorokin
Ans. (b)
87. In a good social structure each group and institution is expected to perform-
(a) Specific functions
(b) Un-scheduled functions
(c) No function of any consequence
(d) Only few limited functions
Ans. (a)
88. Which is the root cause of the social relationships and help the social structure to move?
(a) custom
(b) normative pattern
(c) economic system
(d) action
Ans. (d)
89. The actions expected of the occupant QT a position are called-
(a) role perceptions
(b) role enactments
(c) role adaptations
(d) role expectations
Ans. (d)
90. According to Weber, Charismatic authority is-
(a) the most influential
(b) the most temporary
(c) the most permanent
(d) the most virtuous
Ans. (b)
91. Which sociologist views that the components of social structure are human beings, the structure itself being an arrangement of persons in relationships, institutionally defined and regulated?
(a) Radcliffe Brown
(b) Kroeber
(c) Hutton
(d) Durkheim
Ans. (a)
92. “The structure of social action” was written by:
(a) Weber
(b) Merton
(c) Parsons
(d) Radcliffe Brown
Ans. (c)
93. ______ consists of structures and processes by which human beings form meaningful intentions and implement them in concrete situations.
(a) Action
(b) Need disposition
(c) Goal-attainment
(d) Adaptation
Ans. (a)
94. Parsons takes________ as the building block of the social system.
(a) integration
(b) action
(c) need-disposition
(d) value-orientation
Ans. (b)
95. Parsons ‘Social System’ is an___________.
(a) analytical conceptual framework
(b) empirical referent
(c) integral need
(d) inadequate system
Ans. (a)
96. Who has written the book, ‘Social System’?
(a) Merton
(b) Parsons
(c) Levistrauss
(d) Weber
Ans. (b)
97. Parsons recognizes_________ as the fundamental integrative mechanism of social system.
(a) action
(b) institutionalization
(c) goal
(d) need-disposition
Ans. (b)
98. In the Hindu belief system, salvation means:
(a) temporary from life and death circle
(b) permanent relief from life and death circle
(c) struggle for better life
(d) struggle for becoming human beings again
Ans. (c)
99. In the Hindu belief system transmigration of soul means:
(a) after death soul also dies
(b) after death soul remains in the same body
(c) after death it gets into another body
(d) after death it gets destroyed
Ans. (d)
100. Belief system in a society:
(a) never creates conflicts
(b) always creates conflicts
(c) only encourages conflicts
(d) partly creates as well as partly settles conflicts
Ans. (c)
101. Belief system of the individual:
(a) must be the same as that of the society
(b) must be opposite of the society
(c) can be different from that of the society
(d) none of the above is true
Ans. (d)
102. Which of the following is true of the Christian belief system?
(a) it believes in worship the open
(b) it believes in the unity of God
(c) it believes in the worship of God
(d) it believes in Karma theory
Ans. (c)
103. Belief system is concerned with:
(a) only religion
(b) only politics
(c) only culture
(d) all aspects of social life
Ans. (c)
104. Which of the following punishments cannot be awarded to the violators of a norm?
(a) withdrawal of friendly and co-operative interaction by others
(b) loss of honour and prestige
(c) ridicule and fines
(d) expulsion from the society
Ans. (c)
105. Conflict in the norms happens when:
(a) the members of a group clash with each other for the exact interpretation of a norm
(b) the individuals of the different groups of different norms interact with each other
(c) the norms are different for different groups
(d) there is class struggle in the society only
Ans. (a)
106. Individuals generally deviate from norms due to many reasons. One of the following mentioned factors does not cause the deviation form norms. Point out such a factor:
(a) some norms are so difficult that common member cannot understand them
(b) some norms are weakly enforced
(c) some norms are considered less important than others
(d) some norms are clear in explanation and interpretation
Ans. (a)
107. Mark the correct statements out of the following-
(a) a member of a group may deviate from the norms because he is aware that the norms are loosely enforced
(b) a member may deviate from the norms because he thinks that by doing so he will be given a place of distinction
(c) both of them
(d) none of them
Ans. (a)
108. If a person is deviant in certain activities-
(a) He will be deviant in all other activities
(b) He will not be deviant in all other activities
(c) He will be held as an anti-social element
(d) He will become a saint
Ans. (b)
109. Who of the following was a social deviant?
(a) Socrates
(b) Christ
(c) Galileo
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)
110. Mark the correct statement out of the following-
(a) When the society changes norms also change
(b) When norms change society is bound to Change
(c) Change in society has nothing to do with the change in norms
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
111. Mark the correct statement out of the following-
(a) Deviation is absolute
(b) Deviation is relative
(c) Deviation is less absolute and more relative
(d) Deviation is relative and not absolute
Ans. (d)
112. Which of the following type of activities are the products of deviant behaviour?
(a) Activities of cheating and malingering
(b) Unfair activities
(c) Immorality
(d) Activities not leading to betrayal of any kind
Ans. (d)
113. “When there is a sudden change, the normative structure of the regulating norms of society is slackened, hence man does not know what is wrong and what is right, his impulses are excessive, to satisfy them he seeks anomie,” is a definition given by-
(a) Durkheim
(b) Hellace
(c) Tonnies
(d) Weber
Ans. (a)
114. If cultural conflicts arise-
(a) The cases of deviance may also increase
(b) The cases of deviance may also decrease
(c) It has no effect on deviance
(d) The individual’s tendency to conformity with norms increases
Ans. (a)
115. Mark the correct statement out of the following-
(a) If the process of socialization fails the individual becomes more deviant
(b) If the process of socialization fails the individuals become less deviant
(c) The process of socialization is not related to deviance at all
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
116. White collar crime is committed by those whom the rest of society views as-
(a) Delinquents
(b) Respectable people
(c) Murderers
(d) Drunkards
Ans. (b)
117. Like Shakespeare, sociologist ___________ views society as a theatre stage.
(a) Emile Durkheim
(b) Talcott Parsons
(c) Robert Merton
(d) Erving
Ans. (d)
118. Which among the following is a true statement?
(a) The Id and superego fight in the battle field of ego
(b) Ego is governed by the reality principle
(c) Ego fulfills the social demands
(d) The superego of Freud resembles to that of Mead’s Me
(e) All the above
Ans. (e)
119. Which is true of ‘Me’ of G.H. Mead?
(a) It is the part within the individual which is socialised
(b) It is the passive and conforming part of the individual
(c) It brings coherence in social order
(d) All the above
Ans. (d)
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120. Which is true of T of G.H. Mead?
(a) It is the active and creative part of an individual
(b) It brings social change or progress
(c) T resembles to the Freudian concept ‘Id’
(d) All the above
Ans. (d)
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