1. Find out the incorrect match

(A)Durkheim ... Sacred and Profane


Frazer ... Golden Bough


(C)Radcliffe Brown ... Trobriand Islanders


Taylor ... Animism


2. Which of the following is not the characteristic of religion

has strong hold over every society


It toucheseveryaspectof human society


upholds human moral and spiritual values


It isolates good from the evil


3. There is more religious diversity and less religious conflict in the

(A)Primitive Societies


Non-industrialized Societies


(C)Industrial Societies


Egalitarian Societies


4. What is common to Magic, Religion and Science

(A)Observation and Experimentation


Equal influence on human being


(C)Orientation towards the unknown


Orientation towards the supernatural


5. " Like Produces Like". Who said this

(A)Frazer


Morgan


(C)Tylor


Durkheim


6. ......... has been called the unwritten law of savage society.


(A)Totem


Fetishism


(C)Taboo


Custom


7. Classes, Estates and Castes are essentially

(A)Hierarchically arranged


(B)Hereditary groups which are heirachically arranged


(C)Income categories which are heirarchically arranged


(D)Horizontal strata typical of certain societies


8. Marx's objective class is a

(A)Social category


Prima group


(C)Social group


Aggregate


9. 'Matrilocal resident' refers to

(A)The residence where the wife lives with her own parents but the husband was like a visitor


(B)The residence where the husband used to live with the parents of his wife


(C)The place where the mother of the children lives lonely


(D)The place where the matriarchal family resides


10. The argument that,"Classes are stratified according to their relation to the Production and Acquistion of goods that is to say, Class is determined by a Person's Market situation" was made by

(A)Kingsley Davis


Moore


(C)Max Weber


H. Cooley


11. Who said that "in both society and organism an increase in size means an increase in complexity and differentiation"

(A)Ginsberg


Meyer


(C)Oscar


Spencer


12. Tonnies classification into Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft deeply rested on the difference in ..... in these two types.

(A)Culture


Moral order


(C)Religion


Political aspect


13. Which is true

(A)Tonnies saw both Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft equally important realities of modern age


(B)Tonnies saw an evolutionary trend from Gemeinschaft to Geselleschaft


(C)Tonnies saw an evolutionary trend from Geselleschaft to Gemeinschaft


(D)Tonnies saw a cyclical trend from Gemeinschaft to Geselleschaft to Gemeinschaft to Geselleschaft and so on


14. The earliest anthropological theory about primitive religion seeking to trace its origin and explain it was given by

(A)Tylor


Frazer


(C)Max Mueller


Marreet


15. Of the following which concept best explains the process of Sanskritization

(A)Acculturation


Reference group


(C)Cultural lag


Ethnocentrism


16. Who wrote "Structure and Function in Primitive Society"

(A)A.R. Radcliffe-Brown


B. Malinowski


(C)Talcott Persons


E.Durkheim


17. Who wrote the book Self and Society'

(A)Vilfredo Pareto


G.H. Mead


Freud


C.H. Cooley


18. The term 'Sanskritization' was used first by M.N. Srinivas after his study of

(A)Coorgs in Mysore


Sripuram in Tanjore


(C)Rampur near Delhi


Krimpur near Delhi


19. Who said marriage is the fountain-head of Kinship

(A)Westermarck


Briffault


(C)Malinowski


Merton


20. The concepts of role set and status set were introduced by

(A)I.F. Ward


Durkheim


(C)R.K. Merton


Burgess


21. What types of suicide occurs due to the inclination to sacrifice one's own life for some higher cause or for the group

(A)Altruistic


Anomic


(C)Egoistic


None of the above


22. Who has contributed much for the development of modern theories of deviant behavior

(A)Radcliffe Brown


David Ricardo


(C)Durkheim


Merton


23. The term 'Marginal Man' was introduced by

(A)S.C. Dube


F.G. Bailey


(C)Robert E. Park


V. Pareto


24. An example of social action is

wife reading her husband's letter


father admonishing his son for misbehavior


teacher correcting the scripts of his students


man writing a letter to his friend


25. The concept of laissez-faire establishes that

(A)There should be strict control of the government


(B)Everyone should be free and there should be very nominal supervision by the government


(C)There should be restricted trade policy


(D)There should be collectivism in the use and distribution of income


26. Whose work is 'Caste Old and New'

(A)Mazumdar


Hutton


(C)M.N. Srinivas


Andre Beteile


27. Funcitonalism is concerned with

(A)The problems of social progress and development


(B)The changes that have occured in society over time


(C)The relative contributions of parts to the whole


(D)The processes of cultural borrowing


28. Max Weber's concept of stratification is

(A)Essentially Marxian


Asupplement to Marx's view


(C)Contrary to Marx's view


More comprehensive than Marx's view


29. The term 'Sociology' replaced another term (or phrase) called

(A)Social physics


Ideology


(C)Moral Studies


Social History


30. Role is a ........term.

31. The basic components of all religions are

Attitude and Myth


Priest and Ritual


Ritual and Magic


Belief and Ritual

32. Mahatma Gandhi in India exercised most prominently

(A)Rational legal authority


Traditional authority


(C)Charismatic authority


Power


33. According to Weber, the crucial distinction between power and authority is the presence or absence of

Legitimacy


Bureaucracy


(C)Hierarchy


Rationality


34. 'Possession of sacred properties' is a criteria, according to Weber, in

(A)Rational-legal authority


Charismatic


(C)Traditional



None of the above


35. Of the three forms of authority that Weber talked of charismatic authority is

(A)Most virtuous


Most temporary


(C)Most influential


Most permanent


36. condition in which individuals did not freely choose their occupations but were forced into them'. This type of division was called by Durkheim as

(A)Anomic


Forced


(C)Temporary


Authoritarian


37. On which of the following principles the institution of division of labour is based

(A)Co-operation


Independence


(C)Individualism


Disintegration


38. Who opined that 'religion is the opiate of masses'

(A)Tylor


Laski


(C)Karl Marx


Lenin


39. Who studied Andaman Islanders

(A)Murdock


Radcliffe-Brown


(C)Levi-Strauss


Weber


40. "Status is a position in the general institutional system, recognized and supported by the entire society, spontaneously evolved rather than deliberately created, rooted in the folkways and mores" —who is associated with this idea

(A)Ogburn


Nimkoff


(C)Davis


H.T. Majumdar


41. Sanskritization is a specific case of the universal motivation towards

Revolution


Acculturation


Anticipatory socialization


Imitation

42. Elite theory was propounded by

Pareto


Manheim


August Comte


Marx
43. Tribe is a group.

Political


Religious


Territory


Social

44. Alienation denotes a condition of the individual.

(A)Psychological


Socio-psychological


(C)Social


Economic


45. Which of the following has made lengthy study of the development of major world religions

(A)Karl Marx


(B)Max Weber


(D)Bluntschli


(C)Burke


46. Mores refer to

(A)Moral values

(B)Folkways


(D)Ideal behavior


(C)Approved ways of doing things


47. Histogram is used to portray

(A)Standard deviation


(B)Frequency distribution


(D)Sampling


(C)Standard score


48. What is not true of Westernization

is a form of group not individual mobility


a process it denotes imitation of the style introduced by Western mode


breaks with traditional bonds in favour of new patterns of behavior


repudiates fixed hierarchy in favour of equality of opportunity


49. Which of the following is not a feature of capitalism

(A)Private property


Large scale production


(C)Profit institution


Absence of competition


50. If the descent is traced through father then it is called

(A)Partrilocal family


Patrilineal family


(C)Patriarchal family


None of the above


51. An exogamous family is the family which

(A)Permits marriage with the individuals from the other groups


(B)Does not permit marriage with the members of an out group


(C)Does not permit marriage at all


based on the monolithic social structure


52. Which of the following is an important distinction between caste and social class

(A)Caste involves superiority-inferiority feelings but class does not


(B)Caste is traditionally endogamous whereas class is not so


(C)Caste permits vertical mobility but class permits horizontal mobility


(D)Caste is divided into sub-castes while class is not divided into sub-classes


53. The term life chances refer to

(A)The chances for either horizontal upward mobility


(B)The likelihood that an individual attain or fail to attain important experiences and goals in life


(C)The chances for horizontal mobility


(D)The chances for upward mobility


54. 'Urbanism is a way of life whereas urbanization is a process'. This distinction was made by

(A)Homer Hyot


Burgess


(C)Wirth


Galpin


55. Status Groups according to Weber are identified by

(A)Education


Styles of life


(C)Occupation


Family background


56. Men dress differently from women. This is an example of

(A)Role performance


Role taking


(C)Role symbol


Role set


57. Some demographers are of the opinion that technology may have effects on modern social systems if it succeeds in creating disproportionately greater number of old people than have existed in the past.

(A)Latent


Manifest


(C)Dysfunctional


None of the above


58. Positivism presumes that

(A)Social and natural worlds are two overlapping aspects of reality


(B)Social and natural worlds are governed by same principles


(C)Social and natural worlds are two distinct and unconnected aspects of reality


(D)Social and natural worlds are somewhat similar


59. 'Polyandry' means

(A)Love marriage


(B)Marriage of one man with many women


(C)Marriage of one woman to several men


(D)Marriage by elopement


60. McKim Marriot used the term for a process of change when some elements of the Great Tradition circulate downward to become organic part of Little Tradition, and lose much of their original form in the process.

(A)Parochialization


Sanskritization


(C)De-Sanskritization


Universalization


61. According to Weber, all human action is directed by

(A)Society


Meanings and motives


(C)Individuals psychology


Rationality


62. A feministic association is a

(A)Social group


Quasi group


(C)Category


Aggregate


63. Redfield defined marked by characteristics of distinctiveness, smallness, homogeneity and self-sufficiency.

(A)Little community


Great community


(C)Society


Social group


64. Tonnies Gesellschaft is comparable to Durkheim's

(A)Mechanical solidarity


Organic solidarity


(C)Collective consciousness


None of the above


65. Aim of social control is

(A)Normative conformity


Total harmony


(C)Use of sanctions


To enhance similarity of purpose


66. The term 'exchange marriage' means

marries sister and Y in turn marries sister


marries Y for exchange of dowry


marries for exchange of bride-wealth


(D)Marriage of X to Y involves exchange of gifts on both sides


67. The relationship of brother-in-law and sister-in-law is a type of

(A)Affinal Kinship


Consanguineous Kinship


(C)Blood-bond Kinship


None of the above


68. Freud's can best be translated as

(A)Reason


Desire


(C)Hostility


Social conscience


69. According to the Muslim law is

(A)The amount fixed at marriage to be paid to the bride in case of divorce


(B)The charges for the marriage ceremony paid to the religious priest


(C)Penalty paid to the community for ill-treating the wife


(D)Penalty paid by the wife for deserting the husband


70. Which one of the following does not explain why domestic violence is so common place

(A)Emotional instability within the family


(B)Good deal of violence within the family is even tolerated and approved


(C)Social approval of wife battering


(D)Violence within the family reflects broader patterns of violent beahvior in society


71. Which one of the following religions does not have an exclusive and unique text

(A)Judaism


Christianity


(C)Hinduism


Islam


72. Who among the following attributes the emergence of housewife as the most dominant and mature feminine role to industrialization

(A)Viola Klien


Ann Oakley


(C)Ernestine Friedl


Theodore-Caplow


73. What did McKim Marriot call the process of change when indigenous customs, deities and rites spread from the local village setting to the larger societal level

(A)Parochialization


Sanskritization


(C)Diffusion


Universalization


74. The theory that there exists an indefinite number of histories and forms of knowledge is best known as

(A)Postmodernism


Existentialism


(C)Historicism


Phenomenology


75. Which one of the following is a definition of cultural lag

(A)Inability of one culture to adopt traits of another culture


(B)Gap between material and non-material culture


(C)Incompatibility between individual culture and group culture


(D)Sharing between material and non-material culture


76. Which one of the following statements correctly defines the term 'ethnocentrism'

(A)Judging other cultures with the help of cultural 'ideal types'


(B)Judging other species by comparing them with human species


(C)Looking at other cultures with a sense of inferiority


(D)Judging other cultures by comparison with one's own


77. Which of the following are the basic characteristics of social group

(A)Physical presence of two or more persons


(B)Interaction between two or more persons


(C)Definite pattern of relationship


(D)Consciousness of members for belonging to the group


78. The complement of role relationships which a college teacher has with pupils, colleagues, principal and ministerial staff refers to his

(A)Multiple roles


Role conflict


(C)Role performance


Role set


79. Which one of the following combinations is true regarding 'modernization' in India

(A)Diffusion and acculturation


Evolution and acculturation


(C)Evolution and diffusion


Evolution and regeneration


80. Two tribes living in a geographical area may result in the mutual exchange of cultural traits and a minimization of differences. This process is called

(A)Adult socialization


Co-operation


(C)Accommodation


Assimilation


81. The term 'Protective Discrimination' is best described as

(A)The provision of better opportunities only for the Scheduled Castes


(B)Encouragement of a spirit of competition among various Scheduled Tribes


(C)Providing only educational facilities to weaker sections


(D)Providing correctional and welfare measures for the weaker sections


82. Which one of the following pairs is not properly matched

(A)Organic solidarity Mechanical solidarity


(B)Restitutive law Repressive law


(C)Segmentary society Organized society


(D)Specialized function Reciprocal function


83. Who among the following opines that it is the being that determines the consciousness and not the consciousness that determines the being

(A)Karl Marx


Max Weber


Hegel


H. Spencer


84. Which one of the following best describes 'science'

(A)Method of understanding and explaining a phenomenon


(B)Way of making things


(C)Method of making a phenomenon work


(D)Way of gaining acquaintance with nature


85. A basic distinction between culture and civilization is

(A)Culture is what we have achieved and civilization is what we aspire to achieve


(B)Culture is what comes out of intelligence and civilization is not


(C)Culture is secondary and civilization is primary


(D)Culture is what we are and civilization is what we have


86. Who among the following marked three stages of the development of human society as savagery, barbism and civilization

(A)A.L. Kroeber


C. Darwin


Spencer


L.H. Morgan


87. Everything is right somewhere but not everywhere. This refers to

(A)Cultural universals


Cultural relativity


(C)Counter- culture


Cultural pluralism


88. When cultural traits spread from one society to another, the process is called

89. Ethnocentrism is dysfunctional to

Intra-group relations


Inter-group relations


Peer-group relations


Community relations

90. A society characterized by the absence of barriers to social mobility is called

(A)Ideal society


Dynamic society


(C)Closed society


Open society


91. A change in social position that does not alter a person's status is

(A)Social immobility


Horizontal mobility


(C)Vertical mobility


Structural mobility


92. One of the explanations of role is that it is a

(A)Micro level aspect of status


Static aspect of status


(C)Dynamic aspect of status


Macro aspect of status


93. Which of the following statements associated with status and role are correct

(A)Status is a recognized social position within a society


(B)Role is the behavior appropriate to a society


(C)Role is a guide to status expected from a person


(D)Status is ascribed to a person as the person achieves


94. Students saying 'Good Morning' to the teacher is an example of

(A)Folkways


Mores


(C)Laws


Morals


95. Who among the following defines deviance as a gap between cultural goals and institutionalized means of achieving them

(A)Durkheim


Merton


(C)Taylor


Becker


96. When two cultural groups come in contact with each other and consequently, in due course of time, one group borrows so heavily from the other that it loses its own identity and gets itself finally absorbed in the other group. This process is known as

(A)Enculturation


Socialization


(C)Integration


Assimilation


97. Competition has been described as 'peaceful conflict' by

(A)Spencer


Coser


(C)Weber


Frazer


98. Socialization takes place

(A)During childhood


During young age


(C)During the whole life


At different intervals


99. The term 'Status Group' was coined by

(A)Robert Merton


Max Weber


(C)Talcott Parsons


Ralph Linton


100. The death of children below one year of life is known as

(A)Child mortality


Intra-uterine mortality


(C)Neo-natal mortality


Infant mortality


101. Who among the following launched educational reform movements among Muslims in India

(A)Sir Syed Ahmed Khan


Sir W.W.Hunters


(C)Shah Waliullah


Zakir Hussain


102. Which of the following tribes practice couvades

(A)Khasi


Toda


(C)Chenchu


Ho


103. Sociology emerged as a response to

(A)The issues, controversies and problems associated with 19th century American society


(B)The revolutionary social change stemming from the effects of the Industrial Revolution and the philosophical debates of the 19th century Europe


(C)The French Revolution


(D)The after-effects of World War I


104. Sociology as a discipline has gained in reputation due to

(A)Its universalistic theories


(B)Its ideals of scientific objectivity and value-free analysis


(C)Its evolutionary bias


(D)Its emphasis on a study of all aspects of social life


105. Which one is known to be youngest of the social sciences

(A)Economics


Sociology


(C)Anthropology


Psychology


106. Who said that 'Culture is the product of agrofacts, artifacts, socifacts and menifacts

(A)Bidney


Robert Redfield


(C)Geza Roheim


C.H.Cooley


107. Which one distinguishes human society from animal society

Culture


Organization


Territory


Self-perpetuation
108. A sociologist aims to be

A reformer


A revolutionary


An objective inquirer


A preacher
109. A sociologist is primarily interested in


(A)The way in which human beings mutually influenced each other


(B)Anything which is related in a casual way to the behavior of man


(C)The individual since he is convinced that it is individuals who make society


(D)The similarities between human behavior and the behavior of other animals


110. What does Maclver define to be an 'area of social living marked by some degree of social coherence'

(A)Country


Society


(C)Community


Nation


111. Individuals attain proper places in society through

(A)Accommodation


Socialization


(C)Competition


Interaction


112. The method is a form of qualitative analysis involving the very useful and complete observation of a
person, a situation or an institution.

Inverse deductive


Case study


Social survey


Historical method
113. The term race is applied to a group of people

Speaking same language


Professing same religion


Having similar biological heritage


Having same living standards
114. All human beings are members of same

Species


Race


Ethnic group


Society
115. Who is the author of 'The Golden Bough'

Hpesoj Yllappiyok


Evonspritchard


Malinowski


Sir James Frazer

116. Herbert Spencer thought that natural selection was the key to

(A)Social evolution


Social adaptation


(C)Social invention


Unemployment


117. According to W.G. Summer, institutions and laws were produced out of

Mores


Culture


Group


Norms
118. Norms are mostly

Particular


Generalized


Universalized


None of the above
119. A group is an

Aggregation


Organized amalgamation


Artificial creation


Organic whole
120. In India, caste system is the outcome of

Urbanization


Economic instability


Competition


Social stagnancy