1. The term ‘sociology’ was coined by

(a) Saint Simon
(b) Herbert Spencer
(c) Auguste Comte
(d) Durkheim
Ans. (c)

2. In which year the term ‘Sociology’ was coined?

(a) 1798
(b) 1815
(c) 1839
(d) 1857
Ans. (c)

3. French Revolution took place in the year

(a) 1789
(b) 1776
ADVERTISEMENTS:
(c) 1798
(d) 1898
Ans. (a)

4. Sociology emerged in
(a) America
(b) Europe
(c) Asia
(d) Africa
Ans. (b)

5. The word ‘Sociology’ is made up of two words. These are-

(a) Societies and Logy
(b) Societia and Logistia
(c) Socious and Logos
(d) Socia & Logos
Ans. (c)

6. Society emerges out of

(a) community’s existence
(b) men’s existence
(c) problem’s existence
(d) relationship
Ans. (b)

7. Society symbolises the network of

(a) human relationships
(b) social relationships
(c) orientations
(d) inter-connections
Ans. (b)

8. ‘Society is the web of social relationships’ whose definition is this?

(a) Maclver
(b) H. Maine
(c) Pluto
(d) Aristotle
Ans. (a)

9. There are two types of definition of society. These are-

(a) Structural and interactional
(b) Functional and structural
(c) Evolutionary and diffusive
(d) Structural and evolutionary
Ans. (b)

10. Society is
(a) Natural
(b) Deliberate
(c) Practical
(d) Functional
Ans. (b)

11. Marriage is a/an

(a) important and universal social institution of society
(b) important basis for group formation
(c) helpful in strengthening the caste system
(d) helpful in calming down the anger of two conflicting groups.
Ans. (a)

12. In the Industrialised western societies, the chief aim of marriage is not only procreation but
(a) companionship
(b) emotional and psychological support and companionship
(c) emotional and psychological support
(d) divorce
Ans. (b)

13. Marriage is considered to be necessary because

(a) This is the only way to acquire paternal property
(b) This is the only way of sexual gratification
(c) This provides societal sanction
(d) It is regularised and provides socially sanctioned sex gratification
Ans. (d)

14. In his book ‘People of India’ who said ‘that probably there has existed in man a tendency to vary.
This desire must have driven men to seek marital alliance with strangers, unfamiliar and unknown to
him’.
(a) Guha
(b) Ghureye
(c) Risley
(d) Westermarck
Ans. (c)

15. Risley have given this statement put in question No. 4 to support his views on _______, regarding
marriage.
(a) Exogamy
(b) Acculturation
(c) Preference and prohibition
(d) Cousin marriage
Ans. (d)

16. Who among the following was on the opinion that” A gift is a social substitute for money among
moneyless cultures.”?
(a) Ogburn and Nimkoff
(b) Mauss
(c) Frazer
(d) Polyan
Ans. (a)

17. The importance of the social division of labour as a criterion of social development has been
insisted by
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Emile Durkheim
(c) F. Engels
(d) Herbert Hyman
Ans. (b)

18. Whose statement is this?

“Jajmani relationships is the means by which the rich and powerful exploit the poor and coerce the
workers into sustaining the power of those who have the upper hand and the higher rank.”
(a) M.N. Srinivas
(b) Mandelbaum
(c) Beidelman
(d) H. Maine
Ans. (c)

19. Kula exchange is associated with

(a) Tikopians
(b) Trobriand Islanders
(c) Krowe tribes
(d) Azande tribes
Ans. (b)

20. The basis of slave system is always?

(a) Political
(b) Economic
(c) Custom
(d) Social need
Ans. (b)

21. Which of the following factors does not contribute to the growth of traditional societies?
(a) Community and associational life is kept loose without any prescribed basis of social existence
(b) Perpetuation of tribal and caste affiliation
(c) Perpetuation of kinship and clanship
(d) Continuation of agriculture as the dominant activity.
Ans. (a)

22. Which of the following statements is correct?

(a) The percentage of the world’s population that live in cities is indeed very large
(b) Most of the world has been urban most of the time.
(c) Most of the world has been rural most of the time.
(d) India is a highly urban country
Ans. (c)

23. A characteristic feature of a rural community is

(a) Formal relationship
(b) Rational will
(c) Community sentiment
(d) A vast number of association
Ans. (a)

24. Who among the following was the first to distinguish between the state and the government?
(a) Locke
(b) R. Dahl
(c) Marx
(d) Max Weber
Ans. (a)

25. ‘The state originates and continues to exist for the sake of the best life’. Whose opinion is this?
(a) Aristotle
(b) C.W. Mills
(c) R. Dahl
(d) W. Pareto
Ans. (a)

26. Who among the following is associated with authority?

(a) Hobbes
(b) Rousseau
(c) M. Weber
(d) Locke
Ans. (c)
27. The three-tier system of Panchayati Raj was recommended by
(a) Kaka Kalekar Committee
(b) Simon Commission
(c) Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
(d) Jai Prakash Narain Committee
Ans. (c)

28. Functional theory of stratification propounded by

(a) Davis and Parsons
(b) Davis and Moore
(c) Parsons and Ross
(d) Goode and Hatt
Ans. (b)

29. Who among the following has emphasized upon the functional aspects of stratification?
(a) Durkheim, Weber, Parsons
(b) Marx, Weber, Davis
(c) Davis, Moore, Parsons
(d) Lenski, C.W. Mills, Parsons
Ans. (c)

30. The society has passed through the three stages of its development-theological, metaphysical and
the positive. This view was held by
(a) Max Weber
(b) H. Spencer
(c) F. Tonnies
(d) A. Comte
Ans. (d)

31. A social movement depends on

1. A goal
2. An Organisation
3. A programme
4. A set of value
Codes:
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(b) 1 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (a)

32. Whose definition is this?

‘Tribe is an indigenous unit speaking a common language, claiming a common descent, living in a
particular geographical area, backward in technology, pre-literate, loyally observing social and political
customs based on kinship.’
(a) A conference at Shillong in 1962
(b) Earth Summit at Rio in 1992
(c) Radcliffe Brown
(d) Indigenous People Conference, Sav Paulo 1937
Ans. (a)

33. Practice of welcoming guests, by spitting on their body is practiced by

(a) Azande
(b) Onges
(c) Sherdukpens
(d) Masai
Ans. (d)

34. Demographers do not take into account

(a) Age, sex and racial composition of the population
(b) Height and weight of the population
(c) Birth and death rate
(d) Density of population
Ans. (b)

35. What is meant by sex-ratio?

(a)The relation between male and female
(b) The ratio between the number of adult male and adult females in a population
(c)The ratio between number of female and number of male in a population
(d) The number of females per 1000 males in a population
Ans. (d)

36. The scheduled castes in India provide an example of a

(a) Formal group
(b) Reference group
(c) Social category
(d) Secondary group
Ans. (c)

37. Who gave the name ‘Harijans’ to the untouchables?

(a) Indian constitution
(b) B.R. Ambdedkar
(c) M.K. Gandhi
(d) G.S. Ghurye
Ans. (c)

38. According to whom the ‘self’ develops in a social context and is nurtured by primary groups?
(a) Charles H. Cooley
(b) Ruth Benedict
(c) Mead
(d) Freud
Ans. (a)

39. Who viewed corporate group in relation to authority and termed it as Verband?
(a) Hobsbawm
(b) Sir Henry Maine
(c) Weber
(d) None
Ans. (c)

40. The value which cannot be determined graphically is:

(a) Median
(b) Mean
(c) Frequency table
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)

41. The most frequent item of the series around which other items are densely populated is known as:
(a) geometric mean
(b) arithmetic mean
(c) harmonic mean
(d) mode
Ans. (d)

42. What is the theoretical framework that focuses on the level of economic development as the
determinant of birth and death rates, referred to as?
(A) Malthusian Theory of population
(B) Optimum Theory of population
(C) Demographic Transition Theory
(D) Theory of social capillarity
Ans. (B)

43. Which of the following determine India’s fertility rate?

1. Religious importance of the male child.
2. Social security value of children
3. Economic value of children
4. Intrinsic value of children
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(A) 1 and 2 only
(B) 3 and 4 only
(C) 1, 2 and 3 only
(D) 2, 3 and 4 only
Ans. (C)

44. Which one of the following is the first stage of the evolution of an institution?
(A) Tradition
(B) Ideology
(C) Collective Experience
(D) Mores
Ans. (B)

45. Identify the particular element that dominates in the material culture:
(A) Religion and Morality
(B) Science and Technology
(C) Custom and Tradition
(D) Folkways
Ans. (D)

46. Which among the following is the indicator of open stratification system?
(A) Ethnicity
(B) Caste
(C) Class
(D) Religion
Ans. (C)

47. Who among the following authors initially used the term ‘social physics’ for Sociology?
(A) Spencer
(B) Comte
(C) Tonnies
(D) Weber
Ans. (B)

48. An author thought of ‘society to be consisting in the consciousness of kind’. Identify from among
the following:
(A) Cooley
(B) Ward
(C) Simmel
(D) Giddings
Ans. (D)

49. Which of the following best describes sociology as a subject?

(a) The study of individual behavior
(b) The study of cultures
(c) The study of society and social interaction
(d) The study of economics
Ans. (c)

50. C. Wright Mills once said that sociologists need to develop a sociological __________ to study how
society affects individuals.
(a) culture
(b) imagination
(c) method
(d) tool
Ans. (b)

51. A sociologist defines society as a group of people who reside in a defined area, share a culture, and
who:
(a) interact
(b) work in the same industry
(c) speak different languages
(d) practice a recognized religion
Ans. (a)
52. Seeing patterns means that a sociologist needs to be able to:
(a) compare the behavior of individuals from different societies
(b) compare one society to another
(c) identify similarities in how social groups respond to social pressure
(d) compare individuals to groups
Ans. (c)

53. Which of the following was a topic of study in early sociology?

(a) Astrology
(b) Economics
(c) Physics
(d) History
Ans. (b)

54. Sociology has been derived from the Latin word ‘Societus’ and ‘logos’, which means:
(a) Friend or companion and science
(b) Society and laws
(c) Sociability and science
(d) Society and science
Ans. (d)

55. It was as the founder of “Positive” movement that- achieved recognition as a philosopher, and
although modem sociologists do not consider his theories as anything other than a series of
interesting speculations, they recognize that he was responsible for demonstrating the need for an
objective systematic study of society.
(a) Auguste Comte
(b) Saint Simon
(c) Herbert Spencer
(d) Emile Durkheim
Ans. (a)

56. Modem sociological thought and theory, as distinct from the purely contemplative or
philosophical analysis of society, emerged in the:
(a) Late 17th century
(b) Late 19th century
(c) Late 18th century and early 19th century
(d) Early 18th century
Ans. (c)

57. Relationship central to sociology are those which involve:

(a) Friendliness
(b) Conflict
(c) Mutual recognition and the sense of something shared in common
(d) Kinship ties
Ans. (c)
58. Underlying seemingly unconnected, contradictory, chaotic happenings, there are patterns and
regularities. It is the focus of a sociologist to:
(a) Find and study them
(b) Try and change them
(c) Make them perfectly regular and patterned
(d) Study the best patterns
Ans. (a)

59. One important advantage of socialisation is that it takes one:

(a) Out of group life
(b) Leave one’s isolation
(c) Member of political system
(d) Realise the importance of wealth
Ans. (b)

60. ‘Group Mind’ was written by:

(a) Bonsanquest
(b) Mac Dougall
(c) Spencer
(d) Hegel