INSTRUCTIONS:

Carefully Read & Attempt all the questions. All the questions carry equal marks (i.e., 0.5
each)
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Time duration: 30 minutes.
Starting time: 8:30 am on Friday, April 23, 2021.
Cushioning period: 30 min (half an hour is granted to cater to the possibility of technical
malfunctioning)
Course Instructor: Dr. Sadiya Arif
Document Type: Computerized
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answer script with in the allocated time frame, i.e., before 9:30 am, on my official email
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SOCIOLOGY QUIZ 02
1. Biological inheritance, physical environment, culture & group experience are various
factors which play role in the development of:
a. Personality
b. Society
c. creeds
d. None of the above
2. Nonmaterial culture consists of:
a. Tools & domestic items
b. Books & written materials
c. Custom & Beliefs
d. Art & artefacts
3. Material & non material culture are:
a. Not related to each other
b. Complementary
c. Supplementary
d. Slightly related
4. Which of the following is true regarding culture?
a. Culture is genetic
b. Culture is passed down from generation to generation
c. Culture includes physical artefacts & abstract creations
d. All of the above
5. Which one of these doesn’t hold true for a society?
a. Society has its distinct way of social control.
b. Society is dynamic
c. A society only caters to the likeness and similarities of aspects like needs,
activities, ideals, values etc.
 d. It refers to continuous and mutual interrelationship among member
6. Formation of feudalism is the distinct feature of:
a. Industrial Society
b. Agrarian Society
c. Pastoral Society
d. Foraging Society
7. All the three theorists of societies are considered as structuralists. Which statement
holds true among these:
a. Marx thought about offices that contain bureaucracies that enforce norms
b. Weber thought about norms, but also about cities that house different kinds
of occupational specialists with different set of norms
c. Durkheim thought about about norms, but also factories that convert natural
resources into commodities through human labour
d. None of the above
8. Which theory presents two axes for understanding culture: one ranging from
objective to subjective; the other ranging from the macro-level to the micro-level.
a. Rationalization Theory
b. Integrative theory of social analysis
c. Theory of Functionalism
d. Theory of Social Solidarity
9. The major reason for people to engage in acts of ethnocentrism is:
a. People’s participation in ethnocentric behavior to fit into a particular group.
b. It is an outcome of the peer’s pressure.
c. Ethnocentric behavior comes out of a lack of understanding of other cultures
or a genuine fear of outsiders
d. The class consciousness that compels workers to become ethnocentric,
because of unfair attitude, poor economy or need for a scapegoat.
10. Values, traditions, and beliefs are all examples of
a. Customs
b. Popular culture
c. Non-material culture
d. Cultural relativism
11. Wall chalking would be considered to be a violation of a:
a. Cultural universal
b. Folkways
c. Mores
d. Customs
12. Tourism, immigration and globalization all mean that:
a. Cultural diversity is increasing
b. Cultural shock is increasing
c. Cultural relativism is now the norm
d. Cultural pluralism is at its peak
13. Europe’s colonization in the sixteenth century is an apt example of:
a. Ethnocentrism
b. Stereotyping
c. Xenophobia
d. Cultural imperialism
 14. Major dysfunction of ethnocentrism is that it leads to:
a. Group cohesion and centeredness
b. Prejudice and hatred of other groups
c. High respect for one’s own culture
d. Tendency to admire world from perspective of one’s own culture
15. Which of the following things would be cultural universals?
a. The language you speak
b. The kind of clothes that you wear
c. The specific knowledge that you acquired in school
d. None of the above
16. Human culture is:
a. Limited to relatively rich societies with modernized technologies
b. Partly inherited
c. Entirely learned
d. All of the above
17. Which statement holds true for a culture?
a. The artifacts dug out by archeologists in their excavations
b. A powerful tool for survival
c. Languages and signs are cultures
d. All of the above
18. Social norms are:
a. Creative activities such as modeling, cookery and craftwork
b. The symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media
c. Religious beliefs about how the world ought to be
d. Rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life
19. Values may be defined as something that:
a. Provide explicit indications of which behaviors are acceptable and which are
not?
b. Are narrow ideas about what is desirable correct and good
c. Sign, Symbols and languages
d. General and abstract and do not explicitly specify which behaviors are
acceptable
20. Durkheim classified society into:
a. Mechanical and organic
b. Ideal & real
c. Literate and non-literate
d. Open and closed

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