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Compilation of most probable practice sociology questions and answers that might come in the upcoming civil services examination (2019,2020,2021,2022,2023,). This will also assist the students, teachers, Civil Services, UGC-NET, UPSC & IAS aspirants for cracking their competitive exams!
1. According to Iravati Karve, which of the following States constitute the Northern Zone of Kinship Organisation in India?
(a) Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Orissa
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(b) Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Bengal and Assam
(c) Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh
(d) Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Bengal
Ans. (c)
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2. Who among the following social reformers of the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century did not oppose child marriage in India?
(a) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(c) Jyotiba Phule
(d) Muthulakshmi Reddy
Ans. (d)
3. Patrilateral parallel cousin marriage is associated with which of the following?
(a) North East Indian Christian tribes
(b) The Bhil tribe of Central India
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(c) The Rajputs of North-West India
(d) The Dhund of Murree Hills
Ans. (c)
4. The religious texts of many communities in India outline the purpose, rights and duties involved in marriage. These texts clearly bring out that marriage in India has its location in which of the following?
(a) Hetero-normative, patriarchal family structure
(b) World view that takes the institutions like family and marriage without any change in their forms, types and nature
(c) Universal reference to application of the bundles of rights in marriage in a particular ethnographic context
(d) Social context that makes it necessary to understand marriage as polythetic with an open-ended checklist
Ans. (a)
5. Who among the following practice patrilineal and patrilocal family?
(a) Nayar
(b) Toda
(c) Namboodiri
(d) Khasi
Ans. (c)
6. Consider the following statements:
1. The study of the relationship between language culture hardly plays any role in leading understanding of the cognitive processes of societies.
2. Language does not function adoptively as a most assimilating new ideas and technologies.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (d)
7. Which of the following institutions have taken over the functions performed by the wider kin group in the context of the family in the industrial society?
1. Formal institutions.
2. Reformulated division of labour in society.
3. Conjugally bounded nuclear family.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 1 and 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (b)
8. Which of the following are associated with Robert Redfield’s research work?
1. Merida
2. Dzitas
3. Maya
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (c)
9. Which of the following statements reflects/reflect the cooperative conflict perspective to study the institution of family in India in terms of its sociological understanding?
1. Theories of procreation are related with differential power, rights and entitlements by age and Sex in the family in India.
2. The dialectical relationship at family level are explored in terms of capabilities, agency and perception dimension
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (a)
10. Filiation refers to which of the following?
1. The link between adjacent generations, that is between parents and children.
2. A residence pattern which allows a choice of an uxorilocal residence.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (a)
11. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the States/UTs according to female literacy rate in descending order as per Census 2001?
(a) Mizoram – Kerala – Lakshadweep – Goa
(b) Kerala – Mizoram – Lakshadweep – Goa
(c) Mizoram- Kerala – Goa – Lakshadweep
(d) Kerala – Mizoram – Goa – Lakshadweep
Ans. (b)
12. In which one of the following, the slogan “Development the best road to slowing population growth” was given by?
(a) 1974 World Population Conference
(b) World Population Plan of Action
(c) Fourth Enquiry on Population and Development
(d) Economic and Social Commission for Asia and Pacific
Ans. (a)
13. Which one of the following is correct?
Urban population of India constitutes (approximately) about:
(a) 5% of world’s urban population
(b) 20% of Asia’s urban population
(c) 33% of Asia’s urban population
(d) 50% of Asia’s urban population
Ans. (b)
14. Who among the following is known for his ideas on the effects of technology and has written the well-known book Future Shock?
(a) A. Tofflers
(b) R. Malthus
(c) V. Gordon Childe
(d) E. Durkheim
Ans. (b)
15. What does post-modern political sociology contribute to our understanding?
(a) We are ourselves political agents
(b) Political reasons transform into juridical problems
(c) Political reasons become scientific problems
(d) All the above three
Ans. (d)
16. The term “Techno-capitalism” used by Neo-Marxist sociologists denotes which of the following?
1. A configuration of capitalist society.
2. Use of technical and scientific knowledge in production.
3. Automation, computers and advanced technology in production.
4. Variable capital in production.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1, 3 and 4
(b) 1, 2 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 2, 3 and 4
Ans. (c)
17. Who said that ‘A well-ordered society is effectively regulated by a public conception of justice’?
(a) R. N. Maclver
(b) L. Wittgenstein
(c) A. Etzioni
(d) John Rawl
Ans. (d)
18. Who has made legitimacy as the key subject in the study of power?
(a) K. Marx
(b) V. Pareto
(c) E. Durkheim
(d) M. Weber
Ans. (d)
19. What is meant by totalitarianism?
(a) A political system that allows freedom of speech
(b) A political system that extensively regulates people’s lives
(c) A political system that allows multi-party elections
(d) A political system that allows trade unionism
Ans. (b)
20. Which one of the following is often described as bureaucratic authority by Max Weber?
(a) Traditional authority
(b) Charismatic authority
(c) Rational-legal authority
(d) Moral authority
Ans. (c)
21. Solving a major problem in conceptualising the term of “descent”, who among the following scholars distinguished descent from inheritance and confined distinguished descent from inheritance and confined the term ‘descent” to “Membership of a group only”?
(a) A. I. Richards
(b) W. H. R. Rivers
(c) M. Fortes
(d) J. A. Barnes
Ans. (c)
22. Consider the following statements:
1. The Nuer are patrilineal, and the Khasi are matrilineal.
2. The Bedouin are patrilineal, and the Hopi are matrilineal.
3. The Garo are matrilineal, and the Toda are patrilineal.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (d)
23. Double descent or duolineal transmission of descent group membership involves which one of the following?
(a) Partilineal transmission of one set of attributes and materialineal transmission of another set
(b) Transmission equally through both parents
(c) Transmission in which descent lines are sex specific i.e., men transmit to their sons and women to their sons
Ans. (a)
24. Consider the following statements:
Without taking into account the complete sets of rules and practices governing the ownership, control and inheritance of property, it is not possible to fully understand and study
(a) family types
(b) marriage type
(c) marriage prestations
(d) prestations at funeral ceremonies
(e) rules governing divorce settlements
Ans. (b)
25. Which one of the following pairs of forms of marriage refer to polygyny?
(a) Monogamy and Polygyny
(b) Polygyny and Polyandry
(c) Polyandry and monogamy
(d) Monogamy and bigamy
Ans. (b)
26. Marriage with mother’s brother’s daughter is a form of which one of the following?
(a) Restricted exchange
(b) Direct exchange
(c) Discontinuous exchange
(d) Generalised exchange
Ans. (a)
27. Which of the following is the basis of the system of marriage followed by most parts of North India?
(a) Village endogamy and gotra exogamy
(b) Village exogamy and gotra exogamy
(c) Village exogamy and preferential kin marriage
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
28. Which of the following tribes practice polygyny?
1. Masai
2. Yoruba
3. Bantu
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 1 and 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (d)
29. The Prevalence of arranged marriages in India is related to:
(a) The rules of endogamy that confine marriage alliance within specified groups
(b) The rules of exogamy that disallow manage with one’s clan/village/neighbourhood
(c) Regulations about prescriptive (allowing) and proscriptive (prohibiting) nature of rules guiding marriage among parallel and cross cousins
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)
30. Which one of the following statements is correct?
(a) Hypergamy leads to status asymmetry between affinal group
(b) Hypergamy leads to affinal conflict
(c) Hypergamy leads to polygamy
(d) Hypergamy leads to polyandry
Ans. (a)
31. Which political system functions with least interference of pressure groups?
(a) Capitalist
(b) Socialist
(c) Liberal
(d) Oligarchic
Ans. (d)
32. Which of the following is/are correct of pressure groups?
(a) They are political groups
(b) They promote special interests
(c) They contest elections
(d) They influence the distribution and use of political power.
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 2 and 3
(b) 1 only
(c) 3 only
(d) 3 and 4
Ans. (c)
33. In which tribal political system, does a chieftain play in importance role in maintaining social order?
(a) Acephalous
(b) Celphalous
(c) Bureaucratic
(d) Oligarchy
Ans. (b)
34. Which Article of the Constitution of India provides for a National Commission for Scheduled Castes?
(a) Article 224
(b) Article 324
(c) Article 335
(d) Article 338
Ans. (d)
35. Which of the following criteria was/were formulated by the Kaka Kalekar Commission in 1953 for identifying social and educationally backward classes?
1. Low social position in the traditional caste hierarchy of Hindu society.
2. Lack of general educational and advancement.
3. Lack of representation in government services
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 1 and 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (d)
36. Chipko movement is predominantly directed against which one of the following?
(a) Alcohol consumption
(b) Forest degradation
(c) Domestic violence
(d) Engagement of bonded labour
Ans. (b)
37. Valfredo Pareto has used which of the following terms in his theory of the circulation of elites?
(a) Governing elite
(b) Speculators
(c) Rentires
(d) Landlords
Ans. (a)
38. What type of unit is a family in an industrial society?
(a) Economic
(b) Consumption
(c) Production
(d) Profit
Ans. (b)
39. Assertion (A)- In spite of the economic development in rural India and its Green Revolution programmes, the people from the agrarian areas are increasingly found migrating to the towns and cities for better education and jobs.
Reason (R)- The ‘Green Revolution’ in India has provided better life style and improved economic status to villagers which in turn increases their literacy rate and educational standards
(a) Both A and R are individually true but R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
Ans. (b)
40. Assertion (A)- The nuclear family is an important source of affection, love and social interaction.
Reason (R)- The anonymity of modern life intensifies the need for a place where personal emotional needs are met.
(a) Both A and R are individually true but R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
Ans. (d)
41. Which one of the following is an example of a society of intermediate complexity in which family arrangements of other types are common?
(a) Trobriand Islanders
(b) Todas
(c) Nadars
(d) Nayars
Ans. (d)
42. Consider the following statements:
1. Sir Henry James Summer did not subscribe to the view that legal basis of primitive societies lay in ties of blood and kinship.
2. Kinship classification system developed by Lewis Henry ultimately led to Fredrich Engel’s work on the origins of the family and the State.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (b)
43. Which one of the following Articles of the Constitution of India recognises the State’s role in providing help to aged population along with other needy categories?
(a) Article 46
(b) Article 43
(c) Article 41
(d) Article 47
Ans. (c)
44. In which one of the following tribes does the youngest daughter inherit the property?
(a) Toda
(b) Khasa
(c) Khasi
(d) Bhil
Ans. (c)
45. What are the persons descended from the common ancestor, whether through males or females known as?
(a) Clans
(b) Agnates
(c) Cognates
(d) Moieties
Ans. (c)
46. What is a descent system in which membership of the group is traced through both mother and father, without any restriction on the male or female line?
(a) Double unilineal descent
(b) Cognatic system
(c) Complementary filiations
(d) None of the above
Ans. (d)
47. Which one of the following rules of residence are followed in societies with matrilineal descent?
1. Neolocal
2. Matrilocal
3. Vunculocal
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 2 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (d)
48. In which State of India is the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) successfully working to uplift the status of women workers in the unorganised sector?
(a) Rajasthan
(b) Uttar Pradesh
(c) Gujarat
(d) Maharashtra
Ans. (c)
49. Which one of the following is the correct sequence in the decreasing order of Total Fertility Rate of the given regions?
(a) East Asia/Pacific countries – CIS/Baltic countries – South Asia – Latin America
(b) South Asia-Latin America – East Asia/Pacific countries – CIS/Baltic countries
(c) South Asia – CIS/ Baltic countries – East Asia/Pacific countries – Latin America
(d) East Asia/Pacific countries – Latin America-South Asia – CIS/Baltic countries
Ans. (b)
50. Consider the following statements:
Strategy or approach to control population growth through National Family Planning Programme in India has undergone following changes in different 5-year Plan periods:
1. Clinical approach
2. Target orientation
3. Awareness creation
4. Extension education
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 3, 1, 4 and 2
(b) 4, 2, 3 and 1
(c) 3, 2, 4 and 1
(d) 4, 1, 3 and 2
Ans. (d)
51. What does the constant sum concept of power mean?
(a) Power changes constantly from one group to another
(b) Power is equally distributed among the people
(c) Power is fixed, if some hold power, others do not
(d) People enjoy power depending upon their popularity
Ans. (c)
52. Which one of the following structures mostly performs the functions of political socialisation in a democracy?
(a) Pressure Groups
(b) Bureaucracy
(c) Government
(d) Political Parties
Ans. (d)
53. Which of the following elements are critical to the success of a modern liberal democratic political system?
1. Civic culture
2. Functioning judicial system
3. Periodic elections
4. Stable government
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 4
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 2, 3 and 4
Ans. (d)
54. Which of the following a part and parcel of political modernisation according to liberal theory?
1. Citizens communicate their desires to their leaders
2. Government is responsive to the wishes of the citizens
3. Justice is retributive
4. Regular holding of elections
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 4
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 4
Ans. (d)
55. Which one of the following concepts is appropriate for the understanding of a trade union?
(a) Primary group
(b) Interest group
(c) Anomic group
(d) Quasi group
Ans. (b)
56. Assertion (A)- Politicians calculate along caste lines and candidates are chosen on this basis.
Reason (R)- Voters are always cast along this logic.
(a) Both A and R are individually true but R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
Ans. (c)
57. Which one of the following is provided in Article 16(4) of the Constitution of India?
(a) Equality before law to all members of society
(b) Free and compulsory primary education to children of all Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes
(c) Reservation of appointments or posts in favour of backward class of citizens
(d) Special protection to women of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes in all matters
Ans. (c)
58. What did the ‘Satya Shodhak Samaj’ established in 1873 aim at?
(a) To bring all castes together
(b) To create a non-idol-worshipping, reason-based faith anchored to truth
(c) To fight against British rule
(d) To fight for women’s rights
Ans. (b)
59. The scientific stage of society began in the 19th century and it corresponded to the industrial society. Who among the following used the term “industrial society” in this context?
(a) Auguste Comte
(b) Emile Durkheim
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Max Weber
Ans. (b)
60. Who among the following has proposed a model to explain the differentiation of social system, based on an analysis of the way in which a particular system responds to forces for change?
(a) N. J. Smelser
(b) Talcott Parsons
(c) Daniel Bell
(d) Ulrich Beck
Ans. (b)
61. Which of the following concepts are applied to analyse the process of civilisational change?
(a) Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
(b) Zweckrationalitat and Wertrationalitat
(c) Mechanical and organic solidarity
(d) Sensate and ideational culture
Ans. (d)
62. A particular social status involves not a single associated role, but an array of associated roles. What was this termed as by R.K. Merton?
(a) Status set
(b) Multiple statuses
(c) Multiple roles
(d) Role set
Ans. (d)
63. Who divided the Science of Sociology into two major parts – Social statics and Social dynamics?
(a) Max Weber
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Saint Simon
(d) Auguste Comte
Ans. (d)
64. Assertion (A)- Ascribed social status acquired from one’s family of orientation does not automatically persist throughout one’s life.
Reason (R)- Social training acquired in the family of orientation fosters a continuity of status when a family of procreation is established.
(a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
Ans. (a)
65. A family falls in the category of primary group. What are the other terms sociologists use to indicate family as a primary group?
(a) Genetic, involuntary, in-group, blood relations
(b) Genetic, voluntary, in-group, associations
(c) Genetic, involuntary, out-group, institution
(d) Involuntary, institutional, blood relations, associations
Ans. (c)
66. What is the marriage of a widow to her deceased husband’s brother termed as?
(a) Widow marriage
(b) Sororate
(c) Polyandry
(d) Levirate
Ans. (d)
67. Which of the following social groups practiced the custom of visiting husbands as a form of marriage?
(a) Bhils
(b) Santhals
(c) Nayars
(d) Nagas
Ans. (c)
68. Among the following implements, which one led to “silent revolution” from nomadic to agricultural society?
(a) First stone
(b) Catapult
(c) Hand axe
(d) Hoe
Ans. (d)
69. People in the cybernetic age are categorised into ‘Alpha’ and ‘Beta’. Which one of the following belongs to ‘Alpha category’?
(a) Illiterate tribal
(c) Village shopkeeper
(d) Trained scientist and professional
Ans. (d)
70. Which one of the following tribes initiated the Jharkhand movement?
(a) Bhil
(b) Bodo
(c) Santhal
(d) Birhor
Ans. (c)
71. Which one of the following statements correctly describes Wergild?
(a) An ordeal performed by the culprit to prove himself not guilty
(b) A kind of bride price arranged by a groom among the tribals
(c) A fine by which homicide and other heinous crimes against the person were expiated among the Teutonic people
(d) A kind of sacrificial and sacramental meals among the tribes
Ans. (d)
72. Which one of the following statements is correct?
Industrial society refers to-
(a) Durkheim’s concept of mechanical solidarity
(b) Tonnies’ model of Gesellschaft
(c) Parsons’s model of collective orientation
(d) Redfield’s type of archaic society
Ans. (b)
73. Consider the following statements:
The significant characteristics of industrial society are-
1. Profit orientation
2. Bureaucratic organisation
3. Reliance on animate energy
4. Class segregation
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 1, 2 and 4
(c) 1, 3 and 4
(d) 2, 3 and 4
Ans. (b)
74. Lewis worth used the term “container” to characterise the city of
(a) Neolithic period
(b) Palaeolithic period
(c) Mesolithic period
(d) Feudal period
Ans. (d)
75. Assertion (A)- Forces of urbanisation induce family disorganisation.
Reason (R)- Urban Values are hostile to abiding relationships.
(a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
Ans. (a)
76. Consider the following statements:
1. Crude death rate is very strongly affected by the age composition of the population
2. The life expectancy at birth is a good measure of mortality conditions in a country because it adjusts for age composition by using prevailing birth rates at each age to estimate the average number of years a person may expect to live
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (c)
77. Who expressed the view that demographic density is a major determinant of societal evolution?
(a) Talcott Parsons
(b) Emile Durkheim
(c) George Simmel
(d) L. Coser
Ans. (b)
78. Which one of the following principles is not related to P.A. Sorokin’s cultural theory of change?
(a) The principle of cyclical change
(b) The principle of immanent change
(c) The principle of limit
(d) The principle of social equilibrium
Ans. (d)
79. Which of the concepts given below are concerned with analysis of cyclical change?
(a) Social statics and social dynamics
(b) Morphostatics and morphogenesis
(c) Social talesis and social genesis
(d) Residues and derivations
Ans. (d)
80. Who among the following is regarded as technological determinist of social change?
(a) E. Durkheim
(b) W. F. Ogburn
(c) Pitrim A. Sorokin
(d) Thorstein Veblen
Ans. (d)
81. Who held the view that group size, homogeneity and physical segregation affect the group behaviour?
(a) Peter M. Blau
(b) GC. Homans
(c) Kingsley Davis
(d) Robert K. Merton
Ans. (b)
82. Which one of the following justifies nation as a group?
(a) Transitory interests and temporary groups
(b) Most inclusive range of interests and possession of a definite territory
(c) Like attitudes of group members and indefinite social organisation
(d) Limited range of interests and definite social organisation
Ans. (b)
83. The human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent is called ethnic group by:
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Talcott Parsons
(c) Max Weber
(d) Y. Bromley
Ans. (d)
84. ‘Celebrity status’ is high status that accrues from:
(a) High family background
(b) High income
(c) High achievement
(d) High occupational background
Ans. (c)
85. Machine model, goal model, equilibrium model and professional model are the approaches used in the analysis of:
(a) Institutions
(b) Organisations
(c) Associations
(d) Social facts
Ans. (b)
86. Which one of the following best defines the term “kinship”?
(a) The grouping of relatives
(b) A socially recognised relationship
(c) The recognition of culturally-conditioned relationship
(d) The social recognition and expression of genealogical relationship.
Ans. (d)
87. Which one of the following pairs is correctly matched?
(a) Paisacha- Form of marriage
(b) Sororate- Sub-caste
(c) Primary- Levirate
(d) Polyandry- Religious
Ans. (a)
88. Consider the following statements:
Marriage is an important social institution because
1. It is a sacred and permanent bond between husband and wife
2. It aims at procreation and maintenance of children
3. It is conductive to sex discipline and social harmony
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 2 and 3
Ans. (d)
89. Consider the following:
1. Common property
2. Common residence
3. Common ancestors
4. Flexible authority
Which of the above are included in the major features of a joint family?
(a) 1 and 4
(b) 2, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 4
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (d)
90. Consider the following:
1. Marital
2. Parental
3. Consanguineal
4. Ritualistic
Which of the above are socially defined specified relationships in the family?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1, 3 and 4
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (d)
91. De-facto census method is related to:
(a) Counting of the population oft the basis of its permanent residential status
(b) Counting of the population according to where it is for a fortnight preceding the census
(c) Counting of the population according to where it is on the night preceding the census
(d) None of the above three
Ans. (a)
92. If both fertility and mortality decline, then
(a) Proportion of dependent children will increase
(b) Proportion of active population will increase
(c) Proportion of dependent aged will increase
(d) Proportion of dependent aged will decrease
Ans. (c)
93. Which of the following combination of births, deaths and migration does not result in zero population growth?
(a) 400 births, 200 deaths and 200 net out-migration
(b) 0 net out-migration, 400 births and 400 deaths
(c) 200 births, 400 deaths and 200 net in-migration
(d) 1100 births, 150 deaths, 25 out-migration and 175 in- migration.
Ans. (d)
94. Largest component of internal migration in India is:
(a) Rural-urban migration
(b) Urban-rural migration
(c) Marriage migration
(d) Rural-rural migration
Ans. (a)
95. Who has said that “Demography is concerned with the behaviour of the aggregate and not with the behaviour of individual”?
(a) Donald J. Bogue
(b) Peter R. Cox
(c) H. Strenford
(d) W.G Barclay
Ans. (c)
96. Who postulated that fertility increases in response to the progress of society?
(a) Herbert Spencer
(b) Corrado Gini
(c) E.M. Hoover
(d) C.P. Blacker
Ans. (b)
97. Human population can
(a) Exist apart from cultural interaction
(b) Exist apart from social interaction
(c) Exist apart from socio-cultural interaction
(d) Not exist apart from socio-cultural interaction
Ans. (d)
98. When over a period of time, the death rate in society reduces due to overall developments of life style and at the same time the birth rate does not fall down; population increases very fast as a result of it. This leads to overpopulation. This theory is known as
(a) Demographic theory
(b) Population explosion theory
(c) Theory of demographic transition
(d) Demographic explosion theory
Ans. (c)
99. Low birth rate and pregnancy wastage in the population are primarily due to:
(a) Traditional practices
(b) Maternal malnutrition
(c) Female illiteracy
(d) Insufficient health care
Ans. (b)
100. Who gave the concept of social capillarity?
(a) A. Bose
(b) L. Wirth
(c) L. Durnont
(d) R. K. Mukherjee
Ans. (c)
101. Which of the following characteristics are associated with social movement?
1. Collective enterprise
2. To establish new social order
3. Definite goals
4. Formal action
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 3 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 2, 3 and 4
Ans. (c)
102. The history of the women’s movement is usually dated to:
(a) The social reform movements of the nineteenth century
(b) The liberal feminist movements of the twentieth century
(c) The radical feminist movements of the twenty-first century
(d) The democratic political movements of the post- colonial era
Ans. (d)
103. The functional theory of social change is based on the basic ideology related to which of the following?
1. Consensus
2. Integration
3. Dynamics
4. Dialectics
5. Conflict
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 4
(b) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 2, 4 and 5
(d) 2, 3 and 4
Ans. (b)
104. Select the correct sequence of the given four stages through which a social movement progresses:
(a) Popular excitement-Formalisation-Institutionalisation-Social unrest
(b) Formalisation-Social unrest-Popular excitement- Institutionalisation
(c) Institutionalisation – Formalisation – Popular excitement-Social unrest
(d) Social unrest-Popular excitement-Formalisation- Institutionalisation
Ans. (d)
105. Which of the following need not be elements of political socialisation?
1. Inducing mutual trust and cooperation at the place of work
2. Making citizens out of individuals
3. Promoting intense interpersonal interaction among colleagues
4. Providing distinct identity to territorial units
Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
(a) 1 and 3
(b) 2 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 2 and 3
Ans. (a)
106. Consider the following statements: Social change basically originates from:
1. Discovery
2. Religion
3. Inventions
4. Cultural traits
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 3 and 4
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 2 and 4
Ans. (b)
107. A pressure group is generally referred to as a/an:
(a) Ethnic group
(b) Informal group
(c) Special interest group
(d) Caste group
Ans. (c)
108. What is a society of rationally coordinated unequals in pursuit of large-scale tasks?
(a) Bureaucracy
(b) Oligarchy
(c) Aristocracy
(d) Monarchy
Ans. (a)