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Indian Society-Introducing Indian Society Part 2
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1. Society is the web of social relationships whose definition is this?
Maclver
H. Maine
Pluto
Aristotle
2. There are two types of definition of society. These are-
Structural and interactional
Functional and structural
Evolutionary and diffusive
Structural and evolutionary
3. Society is
Natural
Deliberate
Practical
Functional
4. Marriage is a/an
important and universal social institution of society
important basis for group formation
helpful in strengthening the caste system
helpful in calming down the anger of two conflicting groups.
5. In the Industrialised western societies, the chief aim of marriage is not only procreation but
companionship
emotional and psychological support and companionship
emotional and psychological support
divorce
6. Marriage is considered to be necessary because
This is the only way to acquire paternal property
This is the only way of sexual gratification
This provides societal sanction
It is regularised and provides socially sanctioned sex gratification
7. 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.
Guha
Ghureye
Risley
Westermarck
8. Risley have given this statement put in question No. 4 to support his views on _______, regarding marriage.
Exogamy
Acculturation
Preference and prohibition
Cousin marriage
9. 16. Who among the following was on the opinion that? A gift is a social substitute for money among moneyless cultures.??
Ogburn and Nimkoff
Mauss
Frazer
Polyan
10. The importance of the social division of labour as a criterion of social development has been insisted by
Karl Marx
Emile Durkheim
F. Engels
Herbert Hyman
11. 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.?
M.N. Srinivas
Mandelbaum
Beidelman
H. Maine
12. Kula exchange is associated with
Tikopians
Trobriand Islanders
Krowe tribes
Azande tribes
13. The basis of slave system is always?
Political
Economic
Custom
Social need
14. Which of the following factors does not contribute to the growth of traditional societies?
Community and associational life is kept loose without any prescribed basis of social existence
Perpetuation of tribal and caste affiliation
Perpetuation of kinship and clanship
Continuation of agriculture as the dominant activity.
15. Which of the following statements is correct?
The percentage of the worlds population that live in cities is indeed very large
Most of the world has been urban most of the time.
Most of the world has been rural most of the time.
India is a highly urban country
16. A characteristic feature of a rural community is
Formal relationship
Rational will
Community sentiment
A vast number of association
17. Who among the following was the first to distinguish between the state and the government?
Locke
R. Dahl
Marx
Max Weber
18. The state originates and continues to exist for the sake of the best life. Whose opinion is this?
Aristotle
C.W. Mills
R. Dahl
W. Pareto
19. Who among the following is associated with authority?
Hobbes
Rousseau
M. Weber
Locke
20. The three-tier system of Panchayati Raj was recommended by
Kaka Kalekar Committee
Simon Commission
Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
Jai Prakash Narain Committee
21. Functional theory of stratification propounded by
Davis and Parsons
Davis and Moore
Parsons and Ross
Goode and Hatt
22. Who among the following has emphasized upon the functional aspects of stratification?
Durkheim, Weber, Parsons
Marx, Weber, Davis
Davis, Moore, Parsons
Lenski, C.W. Mills, Parsons
23. The society has passed through the three stages of its development-theological, metaphysical and the positive. This view was held by
Max Weber
H. Spencer
F. Tonnies
A. Comte
24. 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 conference at Shillong in 1962
Earth Summit at Rio in 1992
Radcliffe Brown
Indigenous People Conference, Sav Paulo 1937
25. Practice of welcoming guests, by spitting on their body is practiced by
Azande
Onges
Sherdukpens
Masai
26. Demographers do not take into account
Age, sex and racial composition of the population
Height and weight of the population
Birth and death rate
Density of population
27. What is meant by sex-ratio?
The relation between male and female
The ratio between the number of adult male and adult females in a population
The ratio between number of female and number of male in a population
The number of females per 1000 males in a population
28. The scheduled castes in India provide an example of a
Formal group
Reference group
Social category
Secondary group
29. Who gave the name Harijans to the untouchables?
Indian constitution
B.R. Ambdedkar
M.K. Gandhi
G.S. Ghurye
30. According to whom the self develops in a social context and is nurtured by primary groups?
Charles H. Cooley
Ruth Benedict
Mead
Freud
31. The value which cannot be determined graphically is:
Median
Mean
Frequency table
None of the above
32. The most frequent item of the series around which other items are densely populated is known as:
geometric mean
arithmetic mean
harmonic mean
mode
33. What is the theoretical framework that fo?cuses on the level of economic development as the determinant of birth and death rates, referred to as?
Malthusian Theory of population
Optimum Theory of population
Demographic Transition Theory
Theory of social capillarity
34. Which one of the following is the first stage of the evolution of an institution?
Tradition
Ideology
Collective Experience
Mores
35. Identify the particular element that domi?nates in the material culture:
Religion and Morality
Science and Technology
Custom and Tradition
Folkways
36. Which among the following is the indicator of open stratification system?
Ethnicity
Caste
Class
Religion
37. Who among the following authors initially used the term social physics for Sociology?
Spencer
Comte
Tonnies
Weber
38. An author thought of society to be consist?ing in the consciousness of kind. Identify from among the following:
Cooley
Ward
Simmel
Giddings
39. Which of the following best describes sociology as a subject?
The study of individual behavior
The study of cultures
The study of society and social interaction
The study of economics
40. C. Wright Mills once said that sociologists need to develop a sociological __________ to study how society affects individuals.
culture
imagination
method
tool
41. A sociologist defines society as a group of people who reside in a defined area, share a culture, and who:
interact
work in the same industry
speak different languages
practice a recognized religion
42. Seeing patterns means that a sociologist needs to be able to:
compare the behavior of individuals from different societies
compare one society to another
identify similarities in how social groups respond to social pressure
compare individuals to groups
43. Which of the following was a topic of study in early sociology?
Astrology
Economics
Physics
History
44. Sociology has been derived from the Latin word Societus and logos, which means:
Friend or companion and science
Society and laws
Sociability and science
Society and science
45. 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.
Auguste Comte
Saint Simon
Herbert Spencer
Emile Durkheim
46. Modem sociological thought and theory, as distinct from the purely contemplative or philosophical analysis of society, emerged in the:
Late 17th century
Late 19th century
Late 18th century and early 19th century
Early 18th century
47. Relationship central to sociology are those which involve:
Friendliness
Conflict
Mutual recognition and the sense of something shared in common
Kinship ties
48. One important advantage of socialisation is that it takes one:
Out of group life
Leave ones isolation
Member of political system
Realise the importance of wealth
49. Group Mind was written by:
Bonsanquest
Mac Dougall
Spencer
Hegel
50. Differences can be those of:
Capacity
Non-capacity
Non Interests
Lack of aptitude
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