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1. Which of the following is correct?
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1. Succession refers to transmission of office.
2. Inheritance refers to transmission of office.
3. Succession refers to transmission of property.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
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(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) 3 only
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
2. 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.
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(d) All the above three
Ans. (d)
3. What is the term used to understand the dominance of men over women in societies known as?
(a) Patrilineal
(b) Patrilocal
(c) Patriarchy
(d) Patrimony
Ans. (c)
4. Under which of the following articles of the Constitution of India does the State provide equal justice and free legal aid?
(a) Article 38
(b) Article 39
(c) Article 39A
(d) Article 41
Ans. (c)
5. Which of the following anti-carte movement was founded in Bombay in 1875 and was accepted in Punjab by the caste Hindus?
(a) BrahmoSamaj
(b) Satyashodak Samaj
(c) Ad-Dharmi movement
(d) Arya Samaj movement
Ans. (d)
6. In which one of the following, the slogan “Development is the best road to slowing population growth” was given?
(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)
7. The term ‘class’ signifies conflict groups that are generated by the differential distribution of authority in imperatively coordinated association, that is organisation in which orders are given and taken.
Who among the following has explained class in this way?
(a) K. Marx
(b) C.W. Mills
(c) L. Coser
(d) R. Dahrendorf
Ans. (d)
8. Studies on jajmani system address to which of the following?
1. Type of relationships and reimbursement.
2. Relative magnitude of traditional economic interaction.
3. Kind of ecological unit appropriate for a study of economic interaction –
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 2 and 3 only
Ans. (a)
9. What specific interpretation has been given by T. Beidelman in respect of the Jajmani system of Indian traditional society?
(a) Jajmani system provides socio-religious interdependence among the castes.
(b) Jajmani system provides inter change of good and services among the castes.
(c) Jajmani system provides welfare and economic interdependence among the castes.
(d) Jajmani system provides exploitative mechanism whereby upper castes exploit lower castes.
Ans. (d)
10. Who said that kA well-ordered society is effectively regulated by a public conception of justice’?
(a) R.M. Mclver
(b) L. Wittgenstein
(c) A. Etzioni
(d) John Rawl
Ans. (d)
11. Which of the following provisions of the Constitution of India deals with the administration of Scheduled Areas and Tribes Areas?
(a) Article 249
(b) Article 246
(c) Article 244
(d) Article 239
Ans. (c)
12. Who among the following has stressed that tribe should be defined in terms of a continuum, of which at the one end are tribes and at the other end are the castes?
(a) David Mandelbaum
(b) F.G Bailey
(c) N.K. Bose
(d) M.N. Srinivas
Ans. (b)
13. Consider the following:
1. Dhebar Commission (1960)
2. Thakkar Committee (1947)
3. Shilu Aao Committee (1969)
Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the above?
(a) 1, 2, 3
(b) 2, 3, 1
(c) 3, 1, 2
(d) 2, 1, 3
Ans. (d)
14. The Politics of Untouchability by O.M. Lynch was a study representing the socioeconomic and political mobility of which of the following?
1. Nadars of Tamil Nadu
2. Jatavs of Agra
3. Mahars of Maharashtra
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) None of the above.
Ans. (b)
15. Who among the following has pointed out “In a system of cumulative inequalities, privilege, property and power are combined in the same individuals and the socially underprivileged are also economically and politically deprived”?
(a) Anand Chakravarti
(b) Andare Betaille
(c) M.N. Srinivas
(d) S.C. Dube
Ans. (b)
16. 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)
17. Which Article of the constitution of India states that “No child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment?
(a) Article 368
(b) Article 330
(c) Article 45
(d) Article 24
Ans. (d)
18. What does the term ‘demographic transition’ stand for?
(a) Level of fertility and mortality are high
(b) Level of fertility and mortality are low
(c) Decline of mortality rate and rapid population growth
(d) All of the above.
Ans. (d)
19. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the State given below in descending order according to their level of urbanisation as per Census 2001?
(a) Maharashtra – Tamil Nadu – Gujarat – Punjab
(b) Tamil Nadu – Maharashtra – Gujarat – Punjab
(c) Maharashtra – Tamil Nadu – Punjab – Gujarat
(d) Tamil Nadu – Maharashtra – Punjab – Gujarat
Ans. (b)
20. What is the most appropriate explanation of political socialization?
(a) Internalizing the value system and ideology.
(b) Political ideas and behaviour
(c) Creation of new political institutions.
(d) More stable polities.
Ans. (a)
21. Which one of the following States has higher proportion of Scheduled Castes population than the national average?
(a) Maharashtra ( 10.2%)
(b) Tamil Nadu (19.6%)
(c) Madhya Pradesh (15.17%)
(d) Bihar (15.72%)
Ans. (b)
22. Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the State/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)
23. In which of the following States of India are the Jarawa, Shompens and Onges tribes found?
(a) Andaman and Nicobar Islands
(b) Arunachal Pradesh
(c) Chhattisgarh
(d) Uttrakhand
Ans. (a)
24. Who among the following is known for his work on unified theory of human ecology?
(a) A.H. Hawley
(b) M. Chastells
(c) K. Carley
(d) T. Fararo
Ans. (a)
25. Which one of the following statements is correct?
(a) Eco-efficiency means use of high technologies for economic growth.
(b) Eco-efficiency is economic development with full employment opportunities.
(c) Eco-efficiency implies industrial development with incompatible Ecological protection.
(d) Eco-efficiency means technology for economic growth with minimal environmental costs
Ans. (d)
26. What is meant by totalitarianism?
(a) A political system that allows freedom of speech.
(b) A political system that extensively regulates people’s live.
(c) A political system that allows multi-party elections.
(d) A political system that allows trade unionism.
Ans. (b)
27. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of the Folk Society?
(a) It is small, isolated, non-literate.
(b) The sacred prevails over the secular.
(c) The economy is one of status rather than of the market.
(d) The status is achieved one.
Ans. (d)
28. Which of the following are associated with Robert Redfield’s research work?
1. Merida
2. Dzitas
3. Maya
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1,2 and 3
Ans. (c)
29. When percentage of urban population remains the same over a period of time in a country but there is increase of population in town and cities, what is the process known as?
(a) Urbanisation
(b) Urban growth
(c) Urbanism
(d) Pseudo-urbanisation
Ans. (b)
30. 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)
31. What is the concrete fusion of the economic system with the other sub-systems of society, called?
(a) Non-economic social structure.
(b) The crumbling and shrinking of economic.
(c) Embeddedness of the economy
(d) Economic production of some kind.
Ans. (c)
32. What is an economic system in which technicians and professionals are the preeminent social group and in which service industries are more important than the manufacturing, known as?
(a) Achieving society.
(b) Socialist society,
(c) Post-industrial society,
(d) Late-capitalist society.
Ans. (c)
33. Which among the following is not the defining feature of the concept of peasant?
(a) They are small producers
(b) They produce primarily for their own consumption.
(c) They produce with the help of their’own and that of the family labour
(d) They enjoy privileged position in state centred society
Ans. (d)
34. Appropriation of surplus through extra economic coercion is the characteristics of which of the following societies?
1. Capitalist society
2. Feudal society
3. Ancient society
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 1 and 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (c)
35. Who has defined a post-industrial society as a “game between persons” in which an intellectual technology based on information rises?
(a) Daniel Bell
(b) Malcolm Waters
(c) Harold Garflnkel
(d) Talcott Parsons
Ans. (a)
36. Who among the following has provided the concept of “Flow of space” having tremendous significance for understanding information society?
(a) A. Gouldner
(b) A. Toffler
(c) A. Giddens
(d) M. Castells
Ans. (b)
37. Which of the following are the main features of a secondary group?
1. Members have intimate and cooperative relationships.
2. Its members maintain relatively limited, formal and impersonal relationships with one another.
3. It is generally a specific or specialized group with a well-defined division of labour.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1,2 and 3
Ans. (b)
38. Which of the following, according to R. Merton, is the basis for the formation of reference group?
(a) Relative similarity
(b) Relative Dissimilarity
(c) Relative deprivation
(d) Wealth and property
Ans. (c)
39. Consider the following statements:
According to Raymond Firth, a social organisation is concerned with choices and decisions involved in actual social relations; while the concept of social structures deals with –
1. Social facts which are distinct from individual facts and are external to the individual.
2. An arrangement of parts related to one another in some sort in a larger unity.
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)
40. One of the critical ideas inherent in the concept of social system is that social system has emergent properties of its own over and above the properties of its elements. Who among the following has criticized the idea?
(a) C. Wright Mills
(b) A. Giddens
(c) A.R. Radcliff Brown
(d) R. Merton
Ans. (b)
41. Which of the following statements refers/refer to the meaning of a social system?
1. Social system consists of a plurality of all actors interacting directly or indirectly with each other in a bounded situation.
2. Such diverse sets of relationships as families, political parties, kinship groups and even whole societies can be regarded as social system.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (c)
42. Under which of the following conditions does behaviour become an action?
1. When behaviour is oriented to attainment of goals.
2. When behaviour occurs in situations that require the behaviour to be regulated by norms and values of society.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (c)
43. When do role conflicts arise?
(a) When one performs multiple roles.
(b) When one’s roles are ill-defined.
(c) When the role assigned is not in agreement with one’s status.
(d) All of the above three.
Ans. (a)
44. Which one of the following is correct? Sanctions are the
(a) Means of controlling human behaviour through rewards and punishment.
(b) Means of controlling human behaviour only through punishments.
(c) Means of controlling human behaviour only through rewards.
(d) Behavioural controls which involve neither rewards nor punishments.
Ans. (a)
45. Which one of the following sociologists argued that deviance is a consequence of gap between cultural goals and institutional means of achieving them?
(a) R.Merton
(b) Emile Durkheim
(c) Auguste Comte
(d) Talcott Parsons
Ans. (a)
46. Which of the following denotes/denote the concept of primary group?
1. A social group whose members interact frequently with one another on a face-to-face basis, have intimate knowledge of one another and share emotional ties.
2. A group or category that people use to evaluate themselves and their behaviour.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (a)
47. Which one of the following statements refers to the process of re-socialisation?
(a) Family is the group that satisfies and meets all the needs of its member.
(b) A school meets the desired needs of the children and the school teachers are socialising agents.
(c) In a work-place, a person is often required to alter one’s behaviour pattern and imbibe new social values.
(d) Individuals learn new norms and values as they become adults.
Ans. (c)
48. What is the term given to the process whereby an individual or a group emulates the values, norms and behaviour patterns of a group other than to which one belongs before becoming its member?
(a) Secondary socialisation
(b) Anticipatory socialisation
(c) Re-socialisation
(d) Intensive socialisation
Ans. (b)
49. Which of the following statements refers/refer to the process of assimilation?
1. An evaluation or opinion regarding a person or thing that affects one’s thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
2. Social condition characterized by the gradual building up of norms and values governing social interaction.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (d)
50. In functionalist theory, the term ‘social integration’ is fundamental and describes which mode?
(a) Mode of incorporating productive forces.
(b) Mode of relation of the units of a system so that units act collectively.
(c) Mode of relation between different parts of a structure.
(d) Mode of institutionalising citizenship rights and equality of opportunity.
Ans. (b)
51. What is the term given to the struggle over values and resources between disparate social groups?
(a) Social control
(b) Social disintegration
(c) Social conflict
(d) Social change
Ans. (c)
52. Which of the following refers/refer to social distance?
1. A mode of working out varying degrees of intimacy, understanding and influence between individuals and groups in a society.
2. Any alteration in social behaviour or institutions of a society that results in long-term consequence.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (a)
53. What is the term used to refer to institutionalized inequalities and people’s awareness of them known as?
(a) Material deprivation
(b) Dynamics of deprivation
(c) Relative deprivation
(d) Neurotic deprivation
Ans. (c)
54. What exists when there is a gap between expectations and objective conditions experience by members of society?
(a) Cultural lag
(b) Relative deprivation
(c) Relative poverty
(d) Cultural disintegration
Ans. (b)
55. 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
(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. (b)
56. 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)
57. Which of the following groups is best classified by the feature of an in-group?
(a) Primary group
(b) Secondary group
(c) Tertiary group
(d) Reference group
Ans. (a)
58. Where was Parityakta Mukti Morcha (a women’s movement) launched by the deserted women?
(a) Rural Andhra Pradesh
(b) Rural Maharashtra
(c) Rural Kerala
(d) Rural West Bengal
Ans. (d)
59. Patrilateral parallel cousin marriage is associated with which of the following?
(a) North East Indian Christian tribes
(b) The Bhil tribe of Central India
(c) The Rajputs of North-West India
(d) The Dhund of Murree Hills
Ans. (b)
60. 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 openended checklist.
Ans. (a)
61. Who among the following practice patrilineal and patrilocal family?
(a) Nayar
(b) Toda
(c) Namboodiri
(d) Khasi
Ans. (c)
62. Which of the following statements refers/refer to the concept of acculturation?
1. Groups of individuals with different cultural traditions coming into contact and as a result experiencing changes in their original cultural patterns.
2. The situation that occurs when, a technological invention, device or process is developed but the social setting cannot keep pace with changes.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (a)
63. Which one of the following States, (in comparison amongst them) has the highest percentage of its population as Scheduled Tribes?
(a) Arunachal Pradesh (64.22%)
(b) Mizoram (94.46%)
(c) Meghalaya (85.94%)
(d) Nagaland (89.15%)
Ans. (b)
64. 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 code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 1 and 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (a)
65. ‘Peasantry lacks inter connection, common polities’ identity and organisation and represent barbarism in the midst of civilization”. Who said it?
(a) V.I.Lenin
(b) J.Stalin
(c) K.Marx
(d) Mao-Tse-Tung
Ans. (c)
66. Which one of the following is the correct statement? Conformity is tied closely to the issue of the pressure of –
(a) Parents
(b) Peer group
(c) Market forces
(d) Current fashion trends
Ans. (b)
67. In the context of relativity of change who said “a socialization process within a particular family is a process of orderly change”?
(a) Wilbert Moore
(b) Anthony Giddens
(c) Talcott Parsons
(d) Peter Blau
Ans. (c)
68. Which one of the following statements is not correct?
(a) Social change is essentially a process of alteration with no reference to the quality of change.
(b) Social change is a value-laden concept.
(c) Social change can vary in its scope and in speed.
(d) Social change originates from endogenous as well as exogenous sources.
Ans. (a)
69. Which one among the following is not the basis of a category of conflict?
(a) The field or object of conflict.
(b) The number of mediators.
(c) The number of parties involved in the conflict.
(d) The balance of power of the parties involved.
Ans. (b)
70. What is the term given by sociologists to a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and are handled by administrative staff?
(a) Prison
(b) Hospital
(c) Total institution
(d) Social institution
Ans. (c)
71. The term “Techno-capitalism” used by Neo-Marxist sociologist 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 code given below:
(a) 1, 3 and 4
(b) 1, 2 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 3
(d) 2, 3 and 4
Ans. (c)
72. What was the state of existence of developing societies (Third World Societies) during the eighteenth century?
(a) Industrial production
(b) Agriculture with traditional technology
(c) Centrally planned industrial system
(d) Distinct political communities or nation-states
Ans. (b)
73. Which one of the following organisations was founded by Dr. Annie Besant in Madras in 1917?
(a) National Council of Women in India
(b) Young Women’s Christian Association of India
(c) Women’s Indian Association
(d) All India Women’s Conference
Ans. (c)
74. Which of the following parties organised backward class movement in Madras in 1916?
(a) Republican Party
(b) Socialist Party
(c) Justice Party
(d) Revolutionary Party
Ans. (c)
75. The idea of social structure came to sociology from which of the following?
1. Architecture
2. Anatomy
3. Grammar
4. Language
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1, 3 and 4 only
(b) 2, 3 and 4 only
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
Ans. (c)
76. Which one of the following pairs of Articles of the Constitution of India pertains to specialising the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes by public notification by the President of India?
(a) Articles 328 and 329
(b) Articles 331 and 332
(c) Articles 341 and 342
(d) Articles 343 and 344
Ans. (c)
77. Which of the following are the sources of funding for State Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP)?
1. State Plan outlay
2. Special Central Assistance (SCA)
3. Institutional Finance
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) 1 and 3 only
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (a)
78. Who among the following is the author of “Untouchability in Rural Gujarat”?
(a) A.M. Shah
(b) I.P Desai
(c) K.M. kapadia
(d) G.S. Ghurye
Each of the next 5 (Five) items consists of two statements, one labelled as the “Assertion (A)’ and the other as ‘Reason (R).
You are to examine these two statements carefully and select the answers to these items using the codes given below:
Code:
(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. (b)
79. Who among the following has coined the term ‘ethnocentrism’?
(a) A. Giddings
(b) W.G. Sumner
(c) E. Durkheim
(d) Max Weber
Ans. (b)
80. Ethnocentrism is the tendency of individuals to judge which one of the following?
(a) Their own culture in terms of other’s culture.
(b) Other’s cultures in terms of their own culture having belief of its superiority over the other cultures.
(c) Other societies in terms of values existing in those societies.
(d) Their own society in terms of restrictions imposed on the physical and social contact.
Ans. (a)
81. Which of the following statements refers/refer to the idea of cultural relativism?
1. The coming into contact of two or more cultures generally leads to transformation in different measures in the interacting cultures.
2. A culture influences people to attach a special meaning to certain objects, things and colours.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (b)
82. Cultural lag is the difference between which of the following?
(a) Material cultures of the same society.
(b) Non-material cultures of different societies
(c) Material and non-material culture of a society
(d) Economic and political culture of a society
Ans. (c)
83. Cultural lag is the difference between which of the following?
(a) Material cultures of the same society.
(b) Non-material cultures of different societies
(c) Material and non-material culture of a society
(d) Economic and political culture of a society
Ans. (c)
84. On the basis of the data of the Census 2001, which one of the following States (in comparison to each other) has the lowest ratio of its population of Scheduled Tribes to its total population?
(a) Rajasthan (12.56%)
(b) Uttar Pradesh (0.06%)
(c) Bihar (0.91%)
(d) West Bengal (5.50%)
Ans. (b)
85. Which one of the following descent systems traces its membership through both the mother and the father?
(a) Unilineal
(b) Bilineal
(c) Parallel
(d) Ambivalent
Ans. (b)
86. What is spread of cultural attributes from one culture to another through contact between different cultural groups known as?
(a) Acculturation
(b) Diffusion
(c) Inter-culturation
(d) Relativism
Ans. (b)
87. What does virilocality in a patrilineal society serve?
1. Keeps the men of a group in the same place.
2. Breaks apart any potential unilinear kin grouping. Select the correct answer using the code given below?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (a)
88. While patrilineal descend systems correlate with either neolocal or patrivirilocal residence patterns, matrilineal descend systems correlate with which of the following residence patterns?
1. Neolocal
2. Matrilocal
3. Avunculocal
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 2 and 3 only
(d) 1 and 3 only
Ans. (a)
89. Which one of the following patterns of residence reflects the ambilocal type?
(a) This type permits a couple to reside with the wife’s parents for several years following their marriage
(b) This type occurs when young married couples go to live in new places of residence.
(c) This type permits a couple to reside either uxorilocally or virilocally.
(d) This type refers to residence in the wife’s natal home.
Ans. (c)
90. When relatives are merged or equated under the same identifying label, then the system of kinship terminology is called as which one of the following?
(a) Classificatory type
(b) Denotative type
(c) Descriptive type
(d) Bifurcate merging type
Ans. (a)
91. Consider the following statements:
1. Advocates of capitalism argue that business enterprises, even large ones, are voluntary associations of autonomous individuals who think they can do better for themselves if they work together cooperatively.
2. According to the concession theory of the corporation, the corporation’s unique legal status is a govern mental creation.
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)
92. Which one of the following pairs of terms denotes cultural change?
(a) Cultural traits and cultural complex.
(b) Cultural symbols and cultural ethos.
(c) Acculturation and diffusion
(d) Cultural relativism and ethnocentrism.
Ans. (c)
93. Which of the following is not a harbinger of cultural change?
(a) Contact with other cultures
(b) Revolution
(c) Spread of cultural traits
(d) Cultural conditioning.
Ans. (d)
94. Who among the following is known for his ideas on the effects of technology and has written the vveUknown book Future Shock?
(a) A. Tofflers
(b) R. Malthus
(c) V. Gordon Childe
(d) E. Durkheim
Ans. (a)
95. Filiation refers to which of the following?
The link between adjacent generations, that is between parents and children.
A residence pattern which allows a choice of virilocal and uxorilocal residence.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
Ans. (a)
96. Consider the following statements:
The study of the relationship between language and culture hardly plays any role in leading to an understanding of the cognitive process of various societies.
Language does not function adoptively as a means of 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)
97. What is the term given to stable social patterns and relationships that emanate from the norms, values, roles and status that govern activities which fulfill the needs of the society?
(a) Integration
(b) Institution
(c) Homogamy
(d) Hegemony
Ans. (b)
98. Which one of the following statements refers to the concept of community?
(a) A geopolitical phenomenon in which one nation’s state power is imposed upon another territory.
(b) Members of a society or group following norms and values compatible to those practiced in the society.
(c) A relatively large, densely populated and diverse human settlement.
(d) Any stable group, sharing a geographical area, common traits and a sense of belonging.
Ans. (d)
99. According to the supporters of the idea of Social Atomism individual:
(a) And society is separable
(b) Has nothing to fear from society
(c) And society must merge
(d) Has a right to revolt against society
Ans. (a)
100. In an aggregation, the individuals collected lack:
(a) Mutual responsiveness
(b) Desire to respond to external stimulus
(c) Socialization
(d) Social norms
Ans. (a)
101. ______ consists of individuals collected together merely because of their passive subjection to the same external conditions.
(a) Public
(b) Aggregation
(c) Group
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
102. _______ refers to practices that have been repeated by a multitude of generations, practices that tend to be followed simply because they have been followed in the past.
(a) Custom
(b) Culture
(c) Fashion
(d) Conventions
Ans. (a)
103. ______________ are inherited whereas_________ are learnt.
(a) Culture, customs
(b) Custom, habits
(c) Habits, fashion
(d) Mores, etiquettes
Ans. (b)
104. The concept of ‘folkways’ was introduced by-
(a) Sumner
(b) Simmel
(c) Mead
(d) Cooley
Ans. (a)
105. Individuals are the members of the:
(a) Community
(b) Institution
(c) Both of them
(d) None of them
Ans. (a)
106. Which of the following is a correct statement regarding institution’?
(a) Institution is a collection of human beings
(b) Institution is an artificial creation
(c) Institution is marked by cooperation
(d) Institution consists of certain folkways and mores
Ans. (d)
107. What is not applicable to cultural lag?
(a) Rate of change is not uniform
(b) Rate of change varies from society to society
(c) Change does not occur at a uniform rate
(d) It is possible to find out whether the change had occurred or not
Ans. (d)