SOC 101- INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY

1. _______ views family as comprising members who are linked by blood

relations Ans: kinship
2. _______ type of family can be considered as everyone who lives under the
same roof and expresses love and solidarity. Ans: Ideal family
3. _______ types of the family explains that two or more people living under a
procreation arrangement which is recognized by the law Ans: Legal ties
4. ______ defined family as a social group characterized by common residence,
economic cooperation, and procreation of children Ans: G.P MURDOCK
5. A family that is created through marriage is called ________
Ans: Family of procreation
6. _______ is defined as a group of people related by blood, marriage, adoption,
and quasi-marital commitment. Ans: Family
7. Based on structure and size, the family can be classified as ______ Ans:
nuclear and joint or extended family
8. G.P Murdock divides the family into __________ Ans: family of
orientation and procreation
9. A family in which one is born, reared, and socialized is called ______
Ans: a family of orientation
10.______ family consists of husband wife and children Ans: monogamy
11.________ is a family in which power is equally shared between husband and
wife Ans: egalitarianism
12. Those in power in religion are able to (a) Dictate practices(b) Rituals (c)
Beliefs(d) All of the above Ans: All of the above
13.A system of belief, value, and practice that a person holds spiritually is called
(a) Divinity (b) Worship(c) Faith (d) Religion Ans: RELIGION
14._____ type of marriage in which one marries outside his group Ans:
Exogamous Family
15. Polygyny symbolizes the marriage of __________
Ans: A man with many wives
16. When kinship is determined along the female line, it is considered to be ( a)
patrilineal (b) matrilineal (c) matriarchal (d) patriarchal Ans: Matrilineal
decent
17. The family in which the married couple resides the family the husband
is_______ Ans: Patrilocal
18. ______ is the family in which the married couple resides in the maternity
uncle’s house Ans: Avunculocal family
19.________ teaches moral values and social values like cooperation, tolerance,
sympathy, affection love, and respect. Ans: Education
institution
20. The function of education can be classified as all but one (a) individual (b)
society (c) state (d) nation Ans: state
21. All this is the function of education to the nation except (a) developing inborn
potentials (b) inculcation of social and civic responsibility (c) national
integration (d) training for leadership Ans: a) developing inborn potentials
22.______ is the social institution through which the society children are taught
basic academic knowledge, learning skills, and cultural norms and values they
need. In other to become a good, productive member of society. Ans:
Education institution
23. Education is an important part of socialization and it includes_______ Ans:
formal and informal.
24. Culture as two distinctive components and they are________
Ans: material and non-material culture
25. ______ defines culture as the complex whole which includes knowledge,
beliefs, arts, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired
by a man as a member of the society Ans: Edward Taylor.
26. All except one is not a category of religious organizations (a) sects (b)
church (c) cult (d) mosque Ans: Mosque
27. The secondary institutions of religion include all except one (a) church (b)
mosque (c) totem (d) temple (e) taboo (f) sect Ans: Sect
28. Functions of the economic institution include all but one (a) regulations of
economic activities (b) regulations of economic exchange (c) monitoring of
 economic activities (d) freedom of expression Ans: Freedom of
expression
29. All except one is not a function of political institution (a) condition and
regulate political life (b) regulating economics activities (c) exercise social
control (d) meeting proposed objectives Ans: Regulating economics
activities.
30. All but one is not a sociological theory (a) Dalton’s theory (b) structural
functionalist theory (c) feminist theory (d) functionalist theory Ans:
Dalton’s theory
31. conflict theory originated from the work of _________ Ans:
Karl Marx
32. according to conflict theory the owners of the means of production and the
capitalist are called the _________ Ans: Bourgeoisie
33. In the words of Karl Marx the working and the poor are otherwise known as
the __________ Ans: Proletariats
34. The functionalist theory was propounded by _______ Ans:
French sociologist Emile Durkheim
35. _________ proposed that the various parts of society are interrelated and
interconnected. Ans: functionalists
36. Conflict theorist holds that the means of production are______ (a) closely
associated (b) interrelated (c) unequally distributed (d ) divided Ans:
Unequally distributed.
37. _______ explains social institutions as a collective means to meet
individuals and social needs. Ans: Functionalists
38. All these are characteristics of culture except the (a) culture is learned (b)
culture is dynamics (c) culture is universal (d) culture is inborn abilities
Ans: culture is in born abilities
39. Knowledge, skills, values, norms, customs, dance, and philosophy are
examples of ______ (a) unlearned culture (b) universal culture (c) static culture
(d) non-material culture Ans: non-material culture
40. All these are elements of culture except ______ (a) language (b) symbols (c)
universality (d) norms Ans; UNIVERSALITY