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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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