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Sociology Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers for Competitive Exams | Sociology Quiz Set 3

(1) What is the correct sequence of understanding research methodology ?
(1) Nature of phenomena, methods of data collection, nature of social science, methods of data analysis.
(2) Nature of phenomena, nature of social science, method of data collection, methods data analysis
(3) Methods of data analysis, methods of data collection, nature of social science, nature of phenomena
(4) Methods of data collection nature of phenomena, nature of social science, methods of data analysis
Answer: Nature of phenomena, nature of social science, method of data collection, methods data analysis
(2) In case of doing a research which is the correct sequence ?
(1) Formulation of the problem, data collection, hypothesis, analysis of data
(2) Data collection, hypothesis, formulation of the problem,analysis of data
(3) Formulation of problem,hypothesis, data collection, analysis of data
(4) Hypothesis, analysis of data, Formulation of the problem, data collection
Answer: Formulation of problem,hypothesis, data collection, analysis of data

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(3) After data collection which is the correct sequence of the following steps ?
(1) Editing of filled in tool, coding, report writing, tabulation
(2) Coding, report writing, editing the filled in tool, tabulation
(3) Report writing, editing filled intool, tabulation, coding
(4) Editing filled in tool, coding,tabulation
Answer: Editing filled in tool, coding,tabulation
(4) Coefficient of correlation (r) indicates the extend of relationship between
(1) two qualitative variables
(2) two quantitative variables
(3) one qualitative variable and other quantitative variable
(4) all the above
Answer: two quantitative variables
(5) Which one of the following is correct about Ethno methodology ?
(1) Macro Sociology
(2) Micro Sociology
(3) Certainly not Macro Sociology
(4) Certainly not Micro Sociology
Answer: Micro Sociology
(6) Who has considered that ‘most often action is routine and relatively unreflexive’ ?
(1) Alfred Schultz
(2) H. Garfinkel
(3) Max Weber
(4) John Heritage
Answer: Alfred Schultz
(7) Who has argued that ethno methods are ‘reflexively accountable’ ?
(1) Orbuch
(2) Garfinkel
(3) Schultz
(4) Hilbert
Answer: Garfinkel
(8) Who was concerned with the composition of ‘self’ at the ‘micro’ level of social action and interaction ?
(1) Mead
(2) Goffman
(3) Berger
(4) Luckman
Answer: Berger
(9) Who has stated that neofunctionalism devotes roughly equal attention to ‘action and order’ ?
(1) J. Alexander
(2) P. Colomy
(3) G. Rhoades
(4) All the above
Answer: J. Alexander
(10) Who has defined neofunctionalism as“a self-critical strand of functional theory” ?
(1) Alexander & Giesen
(2) Colomy and Rhoades
(3) Rhoades & Giesen
(4) Alexander and Colomy
Answer: Alexander and Colomy
(11) Who has criticized the economic determinism to be implicit in parts of Marx’s original work ?
(1) Habermas
(2) Bottomore
(3) Morrow
(4) Althusser
Answer: Althusser
(12) What do the critical theorists state?
(1) Economic determinism was wrong.
(2) Economic determinism was not wrong.
(3) Economic determinism was not wrong but should be concerned with other aspects of social life as well.
(4) Economic determinism was wrong and should be concerned with other aspects of social life.
Answer: Economic determinism was not wrong but should be concerned with other aspects of social life as well.
(13) Who has contended, among the neo-Marxists, that mature Marx did not believe in any human nature?
(1) Habermas
(2) Harvey
(3) Dahrendorf
(4) Althusser
Answer: Althusser
(14) Who has observed a link between the structures of the mind and the structures of society ?
(1) Lemert
(2) Radcliffe-Brown
(3) Levi-Strauss
(4) Foucault
Answer: Levi-Strauss
(15) Among the post structuralists who has focussed on the ‘linkage between knowledge and power’
(1) Lemert
(2) Miller
(3) Levi-Strauss
(4) Foucault
Answer: Foucault

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