UNIT-2, Community And Society

Multiple Choice Questions-1

Society
1. In Sociology, ‘Society’ refers to the ——
     a)      Members of a specific in-group
     b)      Pattern of the norms of interaction
     c)      Congregation of people     
     d)      People with laws and customs
Ans :- B

2. Society is the total social heritage of folkways, mores and Institutions, of habits, sentiments and ideals. This is a —— view of society.
     a)      Structural
     b)      Cultural
     c)      Functional
     d)      None of the above
Ans :- A

3. Who among the following has given the structural view of society?
     a)      Durkheim
     b)      Giddings 
     c)      MacIver
     d)      Cooley
Ans :- B

4. Who among the following has given the functional view of society?
     a)      Giddings
     b)      August Comte
     c)      Parsons
     d)      Spencer
Ans :- C

5. According to ............. society is a web of social relations.
     a)      Cooley
     b)      MacIver
     c)      Parsons
     d)      Leacock
Ans :- B

6. The relation existing between a type writer and a desk can be called--
     a)      Material
     b)      Cultural   
     c)      Physical
     d)      Structural
Ans :- C

7. The relationship between fire and smoke is not a social one as the very relationship is not in any way determined by ——--
     a)      Co-operation 
     b)      Mutual awareness
     c)      Integration
     d)      Social compulsion
Ans :- B

8. According to Giddings, society rests on --
     a)      Mutual co-operation 
     b)      Altruism  
     c)      Consciousness of kind 
     d)      Folkways and mores
Ans :- C

9. Find out the incorrect match
     a)      Giddings ——structural view of society
     b)      Cooley —— society is a web of social relationships
     c)      Parsons — functional view of society
     d)      Cooley— ‘we’ feeling.
Ans :- B

10. ‘Man is a social animal.’ Who said this?
     a)      MacIver
     b)      Freud       
     c)      Aristotle
     d)      Rousseau
Ans :- C

11. — is a system of relationship between cells
     a)      Society
     b)      Aggregation
     c)      Organism
     d)      Group
Ans :- C

12. Who has compared society with an organism?
     a)      Darwin
     b)      Durkheim   
     c)      Spencer
     d)      MacIver
Ans :- C

13. Patriarchal theory has been propounded by --
     a)      Tylor  
     b)      Henry Maine   
     c)      Aristotle 
     d)      Morgan
Ans :- B

14. According to — theory, individuals made a mutual agreement and created society
     a)      Patriarchal
     b)      Social contract
     c)      Agreement
     d)      Divine origin
Ans :- B

15. According to ——, the life of man was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short’
     a)      Rousseau
     b)      Locke           
     c)      Plato
     d)      None of the above
Ans :- D

16. Society is not a make, but a growth. This view is related to —--
     a)      Patriarchaltheory
     b)      Matriarchal theory
     c)      Divine origin theory
     d)      Evolutionary theory
Ans :- D

17. Animal society is based on —— whereas human society is based on —--
     a)      Instincts, reason
     b)      Sex drives, cultural needs
     c)      Strength, knowledge
     d)      None of the above
Ans :- A

18. ———the process by which the individual learns to conform to the norms of the group
     a)      Integration
     b)      Socialization
     c)      Conformity
     d)      Assimilation
Ans :- B

19. Socialization is a matter of —--
     a)      Learning  
     b)      Biological inheritance
     c)      Socialising
     d)      Division of labour
Ans :- A

20. Sociality is a —— and socialization is a —--
     a)      Quality, Process
     b)      Principle, biological Inheritance
     c)      Cultural process, virtue
     d)      None of the above
Ans :- A

21.The social order is maintained largely by —--
     a)      Division of labour
     b)      Law
     c)      Socialization
     d)      State
Ans :- C

22. The process of imitation may be perceptual or ——--
     a)      Conscious
     b)      Deliberate        
     c)      Spontaneous
     d)      Ideational
Ans :- D

23. —— is the process of communicating information which has no logical or self-evident basis
     a)      Suggestion
     b)      Imitation      
     c)      Transculturation
     d)      Accommodation
Ans :- A

24.When the child attempts to walk with a stick like his father, he is following —— a factor responsible in the process of socialization?
     a)      Identification
     b)      Suggestion        
     c)      Imitation
     d)      Conformity
Ans :- C

25. —— is the means of cultural transmission
     a)      Education
     b)      Society         
     c)      Language
     d)      Archaeology
Ans :- C

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