Sociology Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers for Competitive Exams | Sociology Quiz Set 41

(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
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.
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
Answer: Durkheim
(5) Who among the following has developed interpretative understanding of social phenomena ?
(1) Marx
(2) Durkheim
(3) Parsons
(4) Weber
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
Answer: B. Malinowski
(7) According to Tonnies which term denoted ‘Community’ ?
(1) Gemeinschaftlich
(2) Gesellschaftlich
(3) Gemeinschaft
(4) Gesellschaft
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
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.
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
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
Answer: Coercion
(12) Persons related by blood are known as
(1) Affines
(2) Consanguine
(3) Brothers
(4) All of the above
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
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
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
Answer: Peter Blos

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