Sociology Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers - Set 7

1 The State moderates between different groups ensuring that all of them have some influence on public policy, is best manifested in

1 Socialist democracy

2 Republic democracy

3 Pluralist democracy

4 Traditional democracy

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Answer: Pluralist democracy

2 Which of the following is appropriate example of a social institution ?

1 Market

2 Trade Union

3 Political Party

4 N.G.O.

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Answer:Market

3 According to Dahrendorf, Marx’s Theory of Class Conflict is

1 to be rejected universally

2 to be accepted universally

3 to be accepted and modified generally

4 to be rejected, accepted and modified contextually

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Answer:to be rejected, accepted and modified contextually

4 The process whereby the helpless, human infant gradually becomes a self-aware, knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of the culture into which he or she was born is known as

1 Re-socialization

2 Social position

3 Socialization

4 Shared understanding

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Answer:Socialization

5 Stages of cognitive-development related socialization was proposed by

1 H. Mead

2 S. Freud

3 C.H. Cooley

4 J. Piaget

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Answer:J. Piaget

6 In a system of social stratification social rankings are based on certain attributes which may Which is the correct one ?

1 either be inherited or socially constructed

2 either be ascribed or acquired

3 either be acquired or socially constructed

4 either be ascribed, acquired or constructed

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Answer: either be ascribed, acquired or constructed

7 The social positions of Which one of the above is correct ?

1 caste, gender and ethnic groups are biologically determined.

2 caste biologically, but gender and ethnic groups are economically determined.

3 gender is biologically, while the ethnic and caste groups are culturally determined.

4 caste, gender and ethnic groups are culturally determined.

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Answer:caste, gender and ethnic groups are culturally determined.

8 According to Marx and Dehrendorf unequal class position of a social group is determined by which of the following forms and extent of one’s control over

1 economic and cultural resources respectively.

2 culturaland economic resources respectively.

3 economicand political resources respectively.

4 political and cultural resources respectively

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Answer:economicand political resources respectively.

9 Dultural diffusion means

1 spread of cultural traits to other societies.

2 merger of cultural traits.

3 separation of two cultures.

4 differences between the two cultures

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Answer:merger of cultural traits.

10 Transmission of traits from one culture to another is sociologically termed as

1 Acculturation

2 Diffusion

3 Assimilation

4 Enculturation

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Answer:Diffusion

11 Who among the following is a proponent of cyclical theory of evolution

1 T. Parsons

2 E. Durkheim

3 O. Spengler

4 H. Spencer

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Answer:O. Spengler

12 According to R.K. Merton, those observed consequences which lessen the adaptation or adjustment of the system are

1 Functions

2 Non-functions

3 Dysfunctions

4 Functional alternatives

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Answer: Dysfunctions

13 In which of the book has Mannheim propounded the idea of Sociology of Knowledge ?

1 The End of Ideology

2 The End of History

3 Ideology and Utopia

4 The German Ideology

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Answer:Ideology and Utopia

14 A statement of prediction that sets forth the basis for testing the relationship between variables in an attempt to link theory to reality is called

1 Random sampling

2 Questionnaire

3 Hypothesis

4 Assumption

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