Sociology Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers - Set 49

Questions

1 Indological perspective does not include :

1 A Book View

2 A Static View

3 A Great Traditional View

4 A Field View

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Answer: A Field View

2 Who has coined the concept ‘culture of poverty’ ?

1 Oscar Lewis

2 Gunnar Myrdal

3 M.N. Srinivas

4 A.R. Desai

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Answer:Oscar Lewis

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3 Who conducts the periodical study for estimating poverty line in India ?

1 National Census Organization

2 National Sample Survey Organization

3 Sample Survey Organization

4 Anthropological Survey of India

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Answer:National Sample Survey Organization

4 In which census year, increase of total urban population was more than the increase in rural population of India ?

1 2001

2 1951

3 2011

4 1991

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Answer:2011

5 Which State among the special category of States in India has highest growth rate of gross domestic product ?

1 Sikkim

2 Arunachal Pradesh

3 Uttarakhand

4 Himachal Pradesh

View Answer

Answer:Sikkim

6 Which type of development projects have displaced minimum number of persons ?

1 Industrial

2 Mining

3 Wild Life Sanctuaries

4 Dams

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Answer:Wild Life Sanctuaries

7 Suicide caused by excessive individualization in modern societies is called :

1 Anomic

2 Egoistic

3 Altruistic

4 Fatalistic

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Answer:Egoistic

8 Who defined deviance as “the tendency on part of one or more of the component actors to behave in such a way as to disturb the equilibrium of interactive process” ?

1 R.K. Merton

2 T. Parsons

3 C.H. Cooley

4 G.H. Mead

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Answer:T. Parsons

9 Who among the following was the first sociologists to systematically study what has come to be known as “White collar crime” ?

1 C. Shaw and H.D. Mckay

2 M.B. Clinard

3 E.H. Sutherland

4 F. Carson

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Answer:E.H. Sutherland

10 According to whom, from the following scholars, deviant behaviour is the result of conflict between the ‘id’ and the ‘ego’ ?

1 Bottomore

2 Durkheim

3 Freud

4 Lombroso

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Answer:Freud

11 Who among the following argued that deviance results not from ‘pathological personalities’ but from the culture and structure of society itself ?

1 A.K. Cohen

2 R.K. Merton

3 E.M. Lemert

4 Karl Marx

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Answer:R.K. Merton

12 Which State, among the following is known for higher consumption of drugs ?

1 Himachal Pradesh

2 Punjab

3 Kerala

4 Mizoram

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Answer:Punjab

13 The ‘quest of identity’ in a plural society on the basis of race and language is known as :

1 Diversity

2 Ethnicity

3 Plurality

4 Sociability

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Answer:Ethnicity

14 The ‘Compression of time and space’ is attributed to which one of the following ?

1 Industrialisation

2 Modernisation

3 Globalization

4 Urbanisation

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Answer:Globalization

15 Who, on the basis of empirical data from Maharashtra and Punjab, has stated that ‘ethnicized politics is communalism and not fundamentalism’ ?

1 M. Mohanty

2 C.P. Bhambri

3 T.K. Oommen

4 Dipankar Gupta

View Answer

Answer:Dipankar Gupta

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