R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Sociology Sociology Objective Type question set 1

The term ‘sociology’ was coined by

1. Saint Simon
2. Herbert Spencer
3. Auguste Comte
4. Durkheim

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In which year the term ‘Sociology’ was coined?

1. 1798
2. 1815
3. 1839
4. 1857

✅ Correct Answer: 3

French Revolution took place in the year

1. 1789
2. 1776
3. 1798
4. 1898

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Sociology emerged in

1. America
2. Europe
3. Asia
4. Africa

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The word ‘Sociology’ is made up of two words. These are-

1. Societies and Logy
2. Societia and Logistia
3. Socious and Logos
4. Socia & Logos

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Society emerges out of

1. community’s existence
2. men’s existence
3. problem’s existence
4. relationship

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Society symbolises the network of

1. human relationships
2. social relationships
3. orientations
4. inter-connections

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Society is the web of social relationships’ whose definition is this?

1. Maclver
2. H. Maine
3. Pluto
4. Aristotle

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Society is the web of social relationships’ whose definition is this?

1. Maclver
2. H. Maine
3. Pluto
4. Aristotle

✅ Correct Answer: 1

There are two types of definition of society. These are-

1. Structural and interactional
2. Functional and structural
3. Evolutionary and diffusive
4. Structural and evolutionary

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Society is

1. Natural
2. Deliberate
3. Practical
4. Functional

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Marriage is a/an

1. important and universal social institution of society
2. important basis for group formation
3. helpful in strengthening the caste system
4. helpful in strengthening the caste system

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In the Industrialised western societies, the chief aim of marriage is not only procreation but

1. companionship
2. emotional and psychological support and companionship
3. emotional and psychological support
4. divorce

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Marriage is considered to be necessary because

1. This is the only way to acquire paternal property
2. This is the only way of sexual gratification
3. This provides societal sanction
4. It is regularised and provides socially sanctioned sex gratification

✅ Correct Answer: 4

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’.

1. Guha
2. Ghureye
3. Risley
4. Westermarck

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Risley have given this statement put in question No. 4 to support his views on _______, regarding marriage.

1. Exogamy
2. Acculturation
3. Preference and prohibition
4. Cousin marriage

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who among the following was on the opinion that” A gift is a social substitute for money among moneyless cultures.”?

1. Ogburn and Nimkoff
2. Mauss
3. Frazer
4. Polyan

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The importance of the social division of labour as a criterion of social development has been insisted by

1. Karl Marx
2. Emile Durkheim
3. F. Engels
4. Herbert Hyman

✅ Correct Answer: 2

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.”

1. M.N. Srinivas
2. Mandelbaum
3. Beidelman
4. H. Main

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Kula exchange is associated with

1. Tikopians
2. Trobriand Islanders
3. Krowe tribes
4. Azande tribes

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The basis of slave system is always?

1. Political
2. Economic
3. Custom
4. Social need

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following factors does not contribute to the growth of traditional societies?

1. Community and associational life is kept loose without any prescribed basis of social existence
2. Perpetuation of tribal and caste affiliation
3. Perpetuation of kinship and clanship
4. Continuation of agriculture as the dominant activity.

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following statements is correct?

1. The percentage of the world’s population that live in cities is indeed very large
2. Most of the world has been urban most of the time.
3. Most of the world has been rural most of the time
4. India is a highly urban country

✅ Correct Answer: 3

A characteristic feature of a rural community is

1. Formal relationship
2. Rational will
3. Community sentiment
4. A vast number of association

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who among the following was the first to distinguish between the state and the government?

1. Locke
2. R. Dahl
3. Marx
4. Max Weber

✅ Correct Answer: 1

‘The state originates and continues to exist for the sake of the best life’. Whose opinion is this?

1. Aristotle
2. C.W. Mills
3. R. Dahl
4. W. Pareto

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who among the following is associated with authority?

1. Hobbes
2. Rousseau
3. M. Weber
4. Locke

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The three-tier system of Panchayati Raj was recommended by (a) Kaka Kalekar Committee

1. Kaka Kalekar Committee
2. Simon Commission
3. Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
4. Jai Prakash Narain Committee

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Functional theory of stratification propounded by

1. Davis and Parsons
2. Davis and Moore
3. Parsons and Ross
4. Goode and Hatt

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who among the following has emphasized upon the functional aspects of stratification?

1. Durkheim, Weber, Parsons
2. Marx, Weber, Davis
3. Davis, Moore, Parsons
4. Lenski, C.W. Mills, Parsons

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The society has passed through the three stages of its development-theological, metaphysical and the positive. This view was held by

1. Max Weber
2. H. Spencer
3. F. Tonnies
4. A. Comte

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A social movement depends on 1. A goal 2. An Organisation 3. A programme 4. A set of value Codes:

1. 1, 2, 3 and 4
2. 1 and 4
3. 1, 3 and 4
4. 1, 2 and 3

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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.’

1. A conference at Shillong in 1962
2. Earth Summit at Rio in 1992
3. Radcliffe Brown
4. Indigenous People Conference, Sav Paulo 1937

✅ Correct Answer: 1

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.’

1. A conference at Shillong in 1962
2. Earth Summit at Rio in 1992
3. Radcliffe Brown
4. Indigenous People Conference, Sav Paulo 1937

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Practice of welcoming guests, by spitting on their body is practiced by

1. Azande
2. Onges
3. Sherdukpens
4. Masai

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Demographers do not take into account

1. Age, sex and racial composition of the population
2. Height and weight of the population
3. Birth and death rate
4. Density of population

✅ Correct Answer: 2

What is meant by sex-ratio?

1. The relation between male and female
2. The ratio between the number of adult male and adult females in a population
3. The ratio between number of female and number of male in a population
4. The number of females per 1000 males in a population

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The scheduled castes in India provide an example of a

1. Formal group
2. Reference group
3. Social category
4. Secondary group

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who gave the name ‘Harijans’ to the untouchables?

1. Indian constitution
2. B.R. Ambdedkar
3. M.K. Gandhi
4. G.S. Ghurye

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to whom the ‘self’ develops in a social context and is nurtured by primary groups?

1. Charles H. Cooley
2. Ruth Benedict
3. Mead
4. Freud

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who viewed corporate group in relation to authority and termed it as Verband?

1. Hobsbawm
2. Sir Henry Maine
3. Weber
4. None

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The value which cannot be determined graphically is:

1. Median
2. Mean
3. Frequency table
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The most frequent item of the series around which other items are densely populated is known as:

1. geometric mean
2. arithmetic mean
3. harmonic mean
4. mode

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What is the theoretical framework that focuses on the level of economic development as the determinant of birth and death rates, referred to as?

1. Malthusian Theory of population
2. Optimum Theory of population
3. Demographic Transition Theory
4. Theory of social capillarity

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following determine India’s fertility rate? 1. Religious importance of the male child. 2. Social security value of children 3. Economic value of children 4. Intrinsic value of children Select the correct answer using the code given below:

1. 1 and 2 only
2. 3 and 4 only
3. 1, 2 and 3 only
4. 2, 3 and 4 only

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which one of the following is the first stage of the evolution of an institution?

1. Tradition
2. Ideology
3. Collective Experience
4. Mores

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Identify the particular element that dominates in the material culture:

1. Religion and Morality
2. Science and Technology
3. Custom and Tradition
4. Folkways

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which among the following is the indicator of open stratification system?

1. Ethnicity
2. caste
3. Class
4. Religion

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who among the following authors initially used the term ‘social physics’ for Sociology?

1. Spencer
2. Comte
3. Tonnies
4. Weber

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which of the following best describes sociology as a subject?

1. The study of individual behavior
2. The study of cultures
3. The study of society and social interaction
4. The study of economics

✅ Correct Answer: 4

C. Wright Mills once said that sociologists need to develop a sociological __________ to study how society affects individuals.

1. culture
2. imagination
3. method
4. tool

✅ Correct Answer: 2

A sociologist defines society as a group of people who reside in a defined area, share a culture, and who:

1. interact
2. work in the same industry
3. speak different languages
4. practice a recognized religion

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Seeing patterns means that a sociologist needs to be able to:

1. compare the behavior of individuals from different societies
2. compare one society to another
3. identify similarities in how social groups respond to social pressure
4. compare individuals to groups

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which of the following was a topic of study in early sociology?

1. Astrology
2. Economics
3. Physics
4. History

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Sociology has been derived from the Latin word ‘Societus’ and ‘logos’, which means:

1. Friend or companion and science
2. Society and laws
3. Sociability and science
4. Society and science

✅ Correct Answer: 2

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.

1. Auguste Comte
2. Saint Simon
3. Herbert Spencer
4. Emile Durkheim

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Modem sociological thought and theory, as distinct from the purely contemplative or philosophical analysis of society, emerged in the:

1. Late 17th century
2. Late 19th century
3. Late 18th century and early 19th century
4. Early 18th century

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Relationship central to sociology are those which involve:

1. Friendliness
2. Conflict
3. Mutual recognition and the sense of something shared in common
4. Kinship ties

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Underlying seemingly unconnected, contradictory, chaotic happenings, there are patterns and regularities. It is the focus of a sociologist to:

1. Find and study them
2. Try and change them
3. Make them perfectly regular and patterned
4. Study the best patterns

✅ Correct Answer: 1

One important advantage of socialisation is that it takes one:

1. Out of group life
2. Leave one’s isolation
3. Member of political system
4. Realise the importance of wealth

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Group Mind’ was written by:

1. Bonsanquest
2. Mac Dougall
3. Spencer
4. Hegel

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Differences can be those of:

1. Capacity
2. Non-capacity
3. Non Interests
4. Lack of aptitude

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In society differences are always:

1. Inborn
2. Adopted
3. Environmental
4. Both adopted and natural

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who of the following had defined society as union in itself?

1. Giddings
2. A.W. Green
3. R.M. Maclver
4. John F. Cuber

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Force theory about origin of society is not accepted because it is believed that:

1. It is not historically correct
2. State was given by God
3. It creates feat in the minds of the people
4. It is by now clear that state is expansion of families

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to_________, self and society are not identical.

1. Cooley
2. Mead
3. Freud
4. Marx

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Force theory about origin of society makes us believes that:

1. Society was given by God
2. Force brought society into existence
3. Force has nothing to do with the emergence of society
4. Force has no relevance with the coming of society

✅ Correct Answer: 2

In India, the institution of family has a trend towards:

1. Joint family
2. Single family
3. Patriarchal family
4. Matriarchal family

✅ Correct Answer: 2

These days in India the institution of marriage is weakening because:

1. Our religious leaders are becoming rigid
2. women are becoming economically sell-sufficient
3. less number of people are liking to marry
4. people prefer small size family

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who among the following does not fall under the category of community?

1. Keralites in Delhi
2. Trade union movement
3. The people of U.S. origin
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which one of the following is not correct about institutional structure?

1. There is rule to codify its working
2. There are no codified rules of its working
3. There are symbols which synthesize relationship
4. It is bound with the others

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Industry is institutional structure of an institution which by nature is:

1. Political
2. Cultural
3. Economic
4. Social

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Pick up one which is not true of an institution:

1. It is least concerned with customs and mores
2. Customs and mores are its distinguishing feature
3. It meets primary needs of the people
4. It is very stable

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Which of the following is not the characteristic of an institution?

1. It must follow some well-established rules
2. It must follow some well-established rules
3. These grow with the society
4. These have no definite objectives

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who of the following has defined institution by saying that, “Institution is definite organisation pursuing some specific interest in a specific way”?

1. R.M. Maclver
2. Ogbum
3. Ginsberg
4. E.A. Ross

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who of the following has said that “A social institution is a functional configuration of culture pattern”?

1. Kimball Young
2. Maclver
3. Ginsberg
4. Gillin and Gillin

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Social institutions are sets of organised human relationships established by common will” was said by:

1. C.H. Colley
2. E.A. Ross
3. Kingsley Davis
4. Sheriff and Sheriff

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Which among the following constitutes a group?

1. Vegetables sellers following one another into a lane.
2. Members of a circus company engaged in performance.
3. Children running out of the school after it is closed for the day.
4. Partnership that has failed.

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Indicate which of the following a group?

1. Some members of Bar Association discussing matters concerning their Association.
2. Some surgeons discussing an important subject of surgery.
3. An executive body of a trade union.
4. A horse-man, a cyclist, and a pedestrian going along the road.

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Member of a small trade union is:

1. A social group
2. An associational group
3. A statistical group
4. A primary group

✅ Correct Answer: 2