R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Sociology Sociology Objective Type question set 2

George Simmel’s classification of group as monad, dyad, triad etc. is based on:

1. physical proximity
2. nature of membership
3. social relations
4. size

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who among the following introduced the concept of ‘imaginary reference group’?

1. New Comb
2. Merton
3. Klinberg
4. Hyman

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who among the following have applied reference group theory in understanding sanskritization process in India’?

1. Damle and Lynch
2. O. Lewis and Majumdar
3. Marriott and Singer
4. Srinivas and Beteille

✅ Correct Answer: 4

According to Tonnies, neighbourhood is types of_____________.

1. Community
2. Gesellschaft
3. Social group
4. Primary group

✅ Correct Answer: 1

According to Weber, which are stems from an individual’s emotional stage at a particular time?

1. Affective action
2. Reflective action
3. Spring action
4. Rational action

✅ Correct Answer: 1

With whose name will you associate the ‘Voluntaristic theory of Action’?

1. Parsons
2. Weber
3. Tonnies
4. Durkheim

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Norms are:

1. the conducts which incorporate value-judgments
2. the standardized generalisations
3. the conducts which are the guidelines of the expected behaviour
4. not pattern setting limits or the behaviour of an individual

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which among the following has influenced man’s faith and belief most?

1. the habitats
2. levels of culture achieved
3. the expanding experience
4. the in-born feeling

✅ Correct Answer: 4

I__ is spontaneous, _____ is artificial.

1. Fashion, culture
2. Mores, custom
3. Custom, fashion
4. Culture, habit

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Public opinion as a means of social control is- (a)

1. A weak sanction
2. An uncertain sanction, since no one can be sure of its unified stand
3. Useless since nobody is ready to follow it
4. Has no relation with social control

✅ Correct Answer: 2

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-

1. W.G. Sumner
2. Emile Durkheim
3. R.K. Merton
4. Talcott Parsons

✅ Correct Answer: 4

A motivated tendency of an actor to behave in contravention of one or more institutionalised normative patterns” is a definition of-

1. Deviant Behaviour
2. Customary obedience
3. Refusal-tendency
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Freud’s ‘Id’ can best be translated as_______

1. Reason
2. Hostility
3. Desire
4. Social conscience

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The concept of T and ‘Me’ is attributed the name of-

1. C.H. Cooley
2. G.H. Mead
3. Sigmund Freud
4. Maclver

✅ Correct Answer: 3

In adelphic polyandry form of marriage the children are treated as the offspring of the-

1. youngest brother
2. eldest brother
3. maternal uncle
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 2

According to Morgan, which of the following is the correct order of evolution of family?

1. Monogamian family, consanguine family, punaluan family, syndasmian family and patriarchal family
2. Punaluan family, syndyasmian family, consanguineal family, patriarchal family and monogamian family
3. Consanguine family, punaluan family, syndayasmian family, patriarchal family and monogamian family
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

One is not born but rather becomes a woman”. Who said this?

1. John Stuart Mill
2. Betty Friedan
3. Simone de Beauvoir
4. Shulamith Firestone

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Marx believed that western society had developed through the following main epochs. They are –

1. primitive communism, ancient society, feudal society and capitalist society
2. savagery, feudalism and capitalism
3. slavery, barbarism and feudalism
4. feudalism, capitalism and’ socialism

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A social movement depends on:A. A goal B. A organisation C. A programmeD. A set of values Codes:

1. A and B
2. A and C
3. A and D
4. A, B, C and D

✅ Correct Answer: 4