Sociology Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers - Set 41

Questions

1 A method of historical research in which the recollections of living persons are collected, is called

1 Case study

2 Content analysis

3 Oral history

4 Conjectural history

Answer:Oral history

2 Which method involves counting of the incidence of particular items belonging to a set of usually pre-determined categories ?

1 Case Study

2 Content Analysis

3 Both (1) and (2)

4 None of the above

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Answer:Content Analysis

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3 Sociology as a scientific discipline has emerged during

1 Chinese and agricultural revolution.

2 French and industrial revolution.

3 American and democratic revolution.

4 Russian and scientific revolution.

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Answer:French and industrial revolution.

4 Who has promoted sociology as the ‘science of society’ and treated society as a distinct object ?

1 Comte

2 Weber

3 Durkheim

4 Merton

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Answer:Durkheim

5 Who among the following has developed interpretative understanding of social phenomena ?

1 Marx

2 Durkheim

3 Parsons

4 Weber

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Answer:Weber

6 According to whom-culture stands for a total way of life which secures for an individual the satisfaction of the bio-psychic drives and the fulfilment of other wants and cravings

1 E.B. Tylor

2 B. Malinowski

3 James Frazer

4 Ruth Benedict

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Answer:B. Malinowski

7 According to Tonnies which term denoted ‘Community’ ?

1 Gemeinschaftlich

2 Gesellschaftlich

3 Gemeinschaft

4 Gesellschaft

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Answer:Gemeinschaft

8 Which of the following refers to ‘the complex of roles associated, not with a single social status, but with the various statuses’ ?

1 Status sequence

2 Role Relationship

3 Multiple Roles

4 Role Conflict

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Answer:Multiple Roles

9 Which one of the following sets refers to the modes of adaptation mentioned by Merton in the context of social structure ?

1 Conformity, Innovation, Reformation, Ritualism, Rebellion.

2 Innovation, Ritualism, Naturism, Reformation, Rebellion.

3 Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion.

4 Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion, Reformation, Reunion.

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Answer:Conformity, Innovation, Ritualism, Retreatism, Rebellion.

10 Who among the following has given three characteristics – face to face relationship, we feeling and small size-of

1 K. Davis

2 C.H. Cooley

3 F. Tonnies

4 G. Simmel

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Answer:C.H. Cooley

11 Exercise of power through force or threat of force is known as

1 Terrorism

2 Vandalism

3 Coercion

4 Authority

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Answer:Coercion

12 Persons related by blood are known as

1 Affines

2 Consanguine

3 Brothers

4 All of the above

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Answer:Consanguine

13 Which one of the following is not an example of domestic violence ?

1 Wife battering

2 Child abuse

3 Elderly abuse

4 Abusing a domestic helper

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Answer:Abusing a domestic helper

14 Which of the following is not an agency of primary socialization ?

1 Family

2 Peer group

3 State

4 Neighbourhood

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Answer:State

15 Who among the following is the author of ‘The Adolescent Personality’ ?

1 Peter Blos

2 Susan Isaacs

3 ean Piaget

4 T.B. Bottomore

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Answer:Peter Blos

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