🧪 Sociology MCQ Quiz Hub

1. Which one of the following cannot be the cause of frustration in the belief system?
untimely death of a relation
heavy loss of property
failure in meeting a group of friends
more reward for less work

2. In religious belief system which one of the following is not true about Muslim system:
it believes in one supreme God
it believes in the theory of held and heaven
it believes in truth and falsehood
it believes in transmigration of soul

3. _____ is spontaneous, _____ is artificial.
Fashion, culture
Mores, custom
Custom, fashion
Culture, habit

4. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of deviant behaviour?
It disturbs social equilibrium
It contravenes social norms
It is a departure from usual mode of behaviour
It is a departure from newly developed set of behaviour

5. Public opinion as a means of social control is-
A weak sanction
An uncertain sanction, since no one can be sure of its unified stand
Useless since nobody is ready to follow it
Has no relation with social control

6. It is believed that conformity with the customs is-
An automatic process
An indifferently imposed process
An artificial process in the sense that people follow customs to showoff
With some conceivable amount of deviation.

7. Customs are those sanctions-
Which are relegated by a single authority
Which are regulated by the eldest person in the group
Which are simply accepted by the members of the society
Which are regulated by law

8. Which of the following cannot be called as the deviant individuals?
Delinquent
Saint
Miser
Hippie

9. Which of the following statements is correct?
Deviance is in contradiction to social norms
Deviance is the negation of the social behaviour and decency
Deviance means the performance of activities which are not approved by the society
All of the above

10. Deviant behaviour-
Brings the disintegrating forces in equilibrium
Disturbs the equilibrium in the social life of the people
Acts in contradiction to deviance
Means the behaviour which is shown by diligent individuals

11. The tendency on the part of one or more of the component factors to behave in such a way as to disturb the equilibrium of interactive process is the definition given by-
W.G. Sumner
Emile Durkheim
R.K. Merton
Talcott Parsons

12. A motivated tendency of an actor to behave in contravention of one or more institutionalised normative patterns is a definition of-
Deviant Behaviour
Customary obedience
Refusal-tendency
None of the above

13. Freuds Id can best be translated as____________.
Reason
Hostility
Desire
Social conscience

14. According to Cooley, the concept of____________ refers to an individual perception of self as determined by the way one imagines one appears to others or as others perceive us______.
Significant others
Generalised others
Looking-glass self
None of the above

15. Which among the following is true of socialization?
It socializes the individuals
It makes society above individual
It brings individuals into the social
All the above

16. Whose name is associated with the process of Socialization?
C.H. Cooley
G.H. Mead
Sigmund Freud
All the above

17. Which is true of socialization?
It highlights values & manners within individuals.
Socialisation includes both learning of new things and unlearning of maladaptive behaviours
Socialization is both intentional and unintentional
All the above

18. Who among the following has brought the concept of ID, Ego and Superego?
Sigmund Freud
G.H. Mead
C.H. Cooley
Maclver

19. The concept of T and Me is attributed the name of-
C.H. Cooley
G.H. Mead
Sigmund Freud
Maclver

20. Who has tabled the process of socialization through the process of playing at a role?
O.H. Mead
C.H. Cooley
S. Freud
T. Mazumdar

21. Whose name is associated with concept of significant others?
C.H. Cooley
G.H. Mead
S. Freud
Maclver

22. Whose name associated with the concept of generalized other?
G.H. Mead
C.H. Cooley
Maclver
S. Freud

23. Which among the following involves secondary cooperation?
Trade Union
Countries which joined to defeat Hitler in the Second World War
The referee, players and spectators on the play ground
All the above

24. Which among the following does not involve secondary cooperation?
Religious organization
Industry
Trade Union
Teacher-student relations

25. Which among the following involves secondary cooperation?
Family
Cabinet
The Party Executive
Trade Union

26. Which among the following is based on direct cooperation?
Family
Government
Parliament
General Assembly

27. In which of the following the principle of cooperation is not involved?
Cooperative society
United Nations
Family Planning
A intending to organise opposition against the cricket club

28. Which one of the following is NOT the advantage of Polygamy?
(a) in it, it is possible to have healthy children
in it the chances of sex corruption are reduced
in it the fragmentation of property is saved
in it there is harmony in the family

29. In adelphic polyandry form of marriage the children are treated as the offspring of the-
youngest brother
eldest brother
maternal uncle
none of the above

30. According to Morgan, which of the following is the correct order of evolution of family?
Monogamian family, consanguine family, punaluan family, syndasmian family and patriarchal family
Punaluan family, syndyasmian family, consanguineal family, patriarchal family and monogamian family
Consanguine family, punaluan family, syndayasmian family, patriarchal family and monogamian family
None of the above

31. The marriage relations in the matriarchal type of family are-
transient in nature
permanent in nature
of double coincidence in nature
similar to that of the patriarchal society

32. Primitive societies are characterised more by___________ terms in kinship.
classificatory
ambiguous
descriptive
deceptive

33. The descendants of common male ancestor are called__________.
agnates
cognates
lineal kins
collateral kins

34. One is not born but rather becomes a woman. Who said this?
John Stuart Mill
Betty Friedan
Simone de Beauvoir
Shulamith Firestone

35. One of the major causes of high maternal mortality rate in India is:
Anaemia among Women
Carelessness of doctors
Illiteracy
Adolescent pregnancies

36. Marx believed that western society had developed through the following main epochs. They are ?
primitive communism, ancient society, feudal society and capitalist society
savagery, feudalism and capitalism
slavery, barbarism and feudalism
feudalism, capitalism and socialism

37. Who first introduced the concept of alienation into sociological theory?
Hegel
August Comte
Marx
Herbert Spencer

38. In which of the following is there a reciprocal relationship and interaction among men and groups within a cultural framework?
Society
Community
Social group
None of the above

39. Weber has identified various types of action which are distinguished by the meanings on which they are based. They are-
affective, emotional, and rational action
emotional, traditional and rational action
traditional, legal and charismatic action
none of the above

40. Division of labour into occupations is called ____________.
social division of labour
occupational division of labour
technical division of labour
territorial division of labour

41. Division of labour within a particular enterprise is called-
social division of labour
technical division of labour
occupation division of labour
territorial division of labour

42. In large cities, the neighbourhood is largely a group ______ of characterised chiefly by the fact that the members reside within a geographical area.
loose families
neigh-dwellers
close relatives
slum dwellers

43. A scientific distinction between the urban and the rural community can be made on the basis of-
density of population
area covered
occupation followed by the people
none of the above

44. Dependency groups are____________
14 years and younger and 65 years and above
16 years and below and 60 years and above
18 years and younger and 60 years
None of the above

45. Natural increase of population means___________
the net difference between births and deaths
population explosion
the difference between migration and immigration
the difference between birth rate and mortality rate

46. Rights which are given to the citizens by the constitution but which cannot be touched by the state are known as
legal rights
moral rights
political rights
fundamental rights

47. Whereas for Marx history ultimately leads to, and ends with the communist Utopia for Pareto history is a never ending
process
circulation of elites
process of producing lion elites
process of producing fox elites

48. Which Article of the constitution deals with specifying a particular tribe as a scheduled tribe?
Art. 342
Art. 343
Art. 344
Art. 345

49. Article________ provides for a commissioner for scheduled castes and scheduled tribes
338
339
340
342