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(1) According to whom, role is the dynamic aspect of status, where ‘status’ refers to the position and ‘role’ to its performance ?
(1) Ralph Linton
(2) R.K. Merton
(3) Max Weber
(4) P.L. Kendall
Answer: Ralph Linton
(2) By what term Merton designated the range of role relationships which persons have by virtue of occupying a particular social status ?
(1) Multiple Roles
(2) Role Set
(3) Role Networks
(4) Status Role
Answer: Role Set

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(3) Type of authority in a religious sect is :
(1) Traditional
(2) Bureaucratic
(3) Rational
(4) Legal
Answer: Traditional
(4) What an individual, as an organism, does not have at birth that is relevant to the process of socialization ?
(1) Instincts
(2) Capacities
(3) Reflexes
(4) Attitude
Answer: Attitude
(5) Who among the following is the author of ‘Mind, Self and Society’ ?
(1) Talcott Parsons
(2) Margaret Mead
(3) George H. Mead
(4) Gardner Murphy
Answer: George H. Mead
(6) The Functional Theory of social stratification was expounded in the writings of :
(1) Davis & Black
(2) Davis & Moore
(3) Parsons & Bales
(4) Wiser & Wiser
Answer: Davis & Moore
(7) In a family, the grandfather was a potter in a village and father taught in a school of a town and now son is an engineer in a multi-national company in a metro city. This illustrates :
(1) Cultural Mobility
(2) Horizontal Mobility
(3) Intra-generational Mobility
(4) Inter-generational Mobility
Answer: Inter-generational Mobility
(8) Which view among the following is the oldest view of social change ?
(1) Cyclical
(2) Linear
(3) Evolutionary
(4) Dialectical
Answer: Evolutionary
(9) Who said that revolutions are locomotives of history ?
(1) G.W.F. Hegel
(2) E. Kant
(3) K. Marx
(4) F. Engels
Answer: K. Marx
(10) Who used the phrase ‘necessary conditions of existence’ as an important component of social structure ?
(1) S.F. Nadel
(2) C. Levi-Strauss
(3) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
(4) R.K. Merton
Answer: A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
(11) Who supports the view that social structure is more or less stable and unchangeable, while its qualitative character is dynamic and changeable ?
(1) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
(2) S.F. Nadel
(3) B. Malinowski
(4) C. Levi-Strauss
Answer: S.F. Nadel
(12) Who gave the ‘mechanical’ and ‘statistical’ models in his study of kinship structure ?
(1) C. Levi-Strauss
(2) James Frazer
(3) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
(4) S.F. Nadel
Answer: C. Levi-Strauss
(13) Who among the following talked about moving equilibrium in the process of progressive growth in the social system ?
(1) T. Parsons
(2) R.K. Merton
(3) Max Weber
(4) B. Malinowski
Answer: T. Parsons
(14) To E. Durkheim, Moral density means :
(1) Sheer increase in the number of individuals
(2) Individuals working morally
(3) Individuals feeling sobriety
(4) Increased interaction between the individuals
Answer: Increased interaction between the individuals
(15) Self-fulfilling prophecy was the concept explained by :
(1) Max Weber
(2) R.K. Merton
(3) T. Parsons
(4) None of the above
Answer: R.K. Merton

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