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Objective Questions Sociology Exams (With Answers)
1. Marriage by capture is prevalent among the ________ tribes of India.
(a) Gond
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(b) Santhal
(c) Khasi
(d) Jhang
Ans. (a)
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2. According to traditional Hindu law, marriage is a _____________.
(a) sacrament
(b) contract
(c) regulation of prostitution
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
3. ___________ is the marriage of a man with the childless widow of his deceased brother.
(a) Levirate
(b) Sororate
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(c) Sororal polygyny
(d) Polygyny
Ans. (a)
4. ______ may by described as a combination of polygamy and polyandry.
(a) monogamy
(b) Levirate
(c) Sororate
(d) group-marriage
Ans. (d)
5. Marriage within the class is known as —
(a) endogamy
(b) exogamy
(c) incest taboo
(d) Sororate
Ans. (d)
6. When after marriage husband lives in the residence of his wife the system is known as:
(a) patronymic family
(b) patriarchal family
(c) orientation family
(d) patrilocal residence family
Ans. (d)
7. Which one of the following is NOT true about the disintegration of joint family system?
(a) There is increased urbanisation
(b) People have desire to live in glamorous cities
(c) Cities provide more facilities than the villages
(d) It has failed to develop social virtues
Ans. (d)
8. The system under which woman can marry more than one husband and keep all of them with herself is known as:
(a) polyandrous
(b) polygamous
(c) patronymic
(d) procreation
Ans. (a)
9. Which of the following is NOT a feature of the joint family system?
(a) In it family size is very large
(b) In it each unit of the family has its own head
(c) In it the head of the family commands high respect
(d) In it all the members have common kitchen
Ans. (b)
10. J. L. Lubbock’s name is associated with one of the following theories. Identify it.
(a) Theory of primitive promiscuism
(b) Patriarchal theory
(c) Multi-factor theory
(d) Matriarchal theory
Ans. (a)
11. Who out of the following is the writer of these lines?
“It does not matter whether marital relations are permanent or temporary whether there is polygamy or polyandry or sexual licence, whether conditions are complicated by the additions of members not included in our family circle; the one fact stands out beyond all other that everywhere the husband, wife and immature children constitute a unit apart from the reminder of the community.” These words explain the universality of a family.
(a) Mack and Young
(b) Maclver and Page
(c) Robin Fox
(d) Lowie
Ans. (d)
12. The family in which spouses, their offspring and other relatives through marriage, live together, is called as-
(a) conjugal family
(b) consanguineous family
(c) monogamous family
(d) polyandrous family
Ans. (a)
13. Who of the following classified the functions of family into essential and non-essential?
(a) Maclver
(b) Ginsberg
(c) Lundberg
(d) Durkheim
Ans. (a)
14. Family system in which sex relationship was not definite was known as:
(a) Matrilineal
(b) Patronymic
(c) Punalun
(d) Patrilineal
Ans. (c)
15. The system in which one husband could marry one wife but married relations were not definite was known as-
(a) Syndas
(b) Orientation
(c) Procreation
(d) None of these
Ans. (a)
16. According to the rule of_________, the couple lives for a time with the bride’s parents, then go to live permanently with the groom’s parents.
(a) patrilocal residence
(b) matri-patrilocal residence
(c) bilateral residence
(d) double residence
Ans. (b)
17. When patrilineal and matrilineal descent is applied together, and not alternatively in combinations, the joint application is known as ___________.
(a) bilateral descent
(b) unilateral descent
(c) double descent
(d) none of the above
Ans. (c)
18. ______ term describes speaker’s exact relationship.
(a) Descriptive
(b) Classificatory
(c) Exploratory
(d) Expressive
Ans. (a)
19. Industrialisation has affected kinship relationship because:
(a) relatives have started living away from each other
(b) there have been income disparities
(c) there is shortage of dwelling units
(d) urban people have become more cultured
Ans. (a)
20. Which one of the following is NOT a characteristic of kinship?
(a) In some cases it is specific while in others it is not
(b) It is related to sex
(c) It usually indicates generation gap
(d) It has no affinity between two related persons
Ans. (d)
21. In the Marxian terminology the institutions and value system form the ____________of society.
(a) foundation
(b) superstructure
(c) core
(d) base
Ans. (b)
22. In the Marxian perspective _____________ forms the infrastructure of the society.
(a) economy
(b) religion
(c) politics
(d) belief systems
Ans. (a)
23. Who wrote the Communist Manifesto?
(a) Marx
(b) Lenin
(c) Engels
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
24. The choice of mates in caste system is generally-
(a) exogamous
(b) endogamous
(c) limited
(d) open
Ans. (b)
25. In feudal society one factor which was responsible for social stratification was-
(a) estate
(b) religion
(c) approach to the centre of power
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
26. In an agrarian society social controls were exercised with the help of:
(a) Feudal lords
(b) Religious priests
(c) Folkways and mores
(d) Superior sovereign
Ans. (c)
27. An agrarian society began when the people began:
(a) hunting
(b) started worshipping same gods
(c) to obey the same over lord
(d) to domesticate the animals
Ans. (d)
28. In an agrarian society main occupation of the people was:
(a) hunting
(b) food gathering
(c) tool making
(d) small scale industries
Ans. (b)
29. Which one of the following was one of the characteristics of agrarian society?
(a) agriculture was the main occupation of the people
(b) people used scientific techniques for cultivation
(c) small scale industries were making dent in the society
(d) the society had weak neighbourhood bonds
Ans. (a)
30. Type of family system which was common in agrarian society was:
(a) single
(b) joint
(c) more joint than single
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
31. Increase in population-
(a) developed the era of scientific agriculture
(b) developed the era of intensive cultivation
(c) did not affect the old techniques of agriculture
(d) had nothing to do with the life of individuals
Ans. (a)
32. The feeling to lead settled life established-
(a) the village communities
(b) the urban communities
(c) the semi-rural communities
(d) the semi-urban communities
Ans. (a)
33. With the specialization due to the division of labour in the agricultural stage-
(a) more industries expanded
(b) volume of trade increased
(c) level of employment went up
(d) more conflict arose in the society
Ans. (b)
34. Which of the following become the centres of trade owing to the Industrial Revolution?
(a) Villages
(b) Cities
(c) Towns
(d) Dales
Ans. (b)
35. In the large scale unit-
(a) the relationship between labour and employer became more sweet
(b) the relationship between the labour and employer became more impersonal
(c) the relationship between the employer and employees did not undergo any change
(d) none of the above things happened
Ans. (b)
36. Mark out among the following, the reasons for the existence of largest number of villages in the Ganga Yamuna Valley.
(a) The people are not interested in town or city life
(b) Illiteracy makes the people live in the villages
(c) The two rivers are holy
(d) The soil is fertile and good for cultivation
Ans. (d)
37. Who defined ‘city’ as a relatively large, dense and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals?
(a) Le Play
(b) Louis Wirth
(c) Murdock
(d) Burgess
Ans. (b)
38. Which one of following is correct about agrarian society?
(a) The people had impersonal contacts with each other
(b) The society was conflict ridden
(c) Neighbourhood relations were weak
(d) The people worshipped nature and not nature’s gods
Ans. (d)
39. One of the significant features of post-agrarian period was:
(a) cultivation become more scientific
(b) people began to live comparatively simple life
(c) land got divided into small fragments
(d) land holdings became big
Ans. (d)
40. Which of the following was NOT true of the agrarian society?
(a) It gave place to feudal system
(b) It gave a setback to feudal system
(c) It challenged feudal system
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
41. In an agrarian society the people:
(a) had no faith in religion
(b) were busy in economic activities
(c) were religiously awakened
(d) had blind faith in religion
Ans. (d)
42. In agrarian society the people in the beginning had:
(a) no desire to possess private property
(b) had craze for having private property
(c) did not allow any other person to possess land once cultivated by him
(d) frequent conflicts over the possession of private property
Ans. (a)
43. Due to the rise of agriculture, men-
(a) changed the flesh diet of nomadism to the diet of more vegetables
(b) did not change the diet at all
(c) started eating roasted flesh
(d) abandoned flesh eating and started eating milk products
Ans. (a)
44. People started leading a more settled life in the-
(a) agricultural stage
(b) pastoral stage
(c) hunting stage
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
45. Some trades were developed during the agricultural stage of development. Which of the following is such a trade?
(a) Pottery making
(b) Weaving of wool
(c) Wearing of cotton
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)
46. Agriculture was the leading occupation till-
(a) mid eighteenth century
(b) mid nineteenth century
(c) mid seventeenth century
(d) end of nineteenth century
Ans. (a)
47. In the agricultural stage of development the people were-
(a) aware of the group activity and joint work
(b) not aware of the group activity and joint work
(c) aware of the group activity but not joint work
(d) not aware of the group activity but worked jointly
Ans. (a)
48. Peace and simplicity characterises the village life. Mark out among the following which you think is the real reason for it?
(a) The unambitious character of the village
(b) Their ignorance of the world outside
(c) The blind faith in the traditions
(d) They take their vocations as the way of life
Ans. (d)
49. What among the following does not contribute to the rural economy?
(a) Cottage industry
(b) Animal husbandry
(c) Availability of better equipments
(d) Private money lending practice
Ans. (d)
50. The “history of all hitherto existing society is a history of class struggle”. To whom is this statement attributed?
(a) Engels
(b) Lenin
(c) Ralph Dahrendorf
(d) None of the above
Ans. (d)
51. The feeling of class consciousness is necessary to constitute a _____________ but not _____________.
(a) class, caste
(b) caste, class
(c) status group, class
(d) caste, status group
Ans. (a)