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1. Social structure is a
(a) System of laws
(b) Collection of people
(c) Permanent patterned relationship between
units
(d) Social organization
2. A norm is a
(a) Standard pattern of behavior
(b) Culture of society
(c) Religious moral
(d) Method of looking one’s position
3. A number of persons interacting on only one
occasion with a low level of intensity may be
called
(a) Social group
(b) Social organization
(c) Crowd
(d) Association
4. Strictly speaking the term ‘race’ can be used in
(a) Cultural context
(b) Biological context
(c) Sociological context
(d) Demographic context
5. A collectivity of persons of all ages and both
sexes who share a common culture and reside in
a relatively limited space or locality is called
(a) Community
(b) Association
(c) Group
(d) Aggregate
6. Group consists of persons whether formally
organized or not, towards whom we feel a sense
of indifference, avoidance, disgust, competition
or outright conflict is termed as
(a) In-group
(b) Out- group
(c) Quasi group
(d) Reference group
7. Who defined society as a web of social
relationships?
(a) August Comte
(b) MacIver and Page
(c) Evans-Pritchard
(d) None of the above
8. “Culture is a complex whole which includes
knowledge, beliefs, art, morals, laws, customs
and any other capabilities and habits acquired by
man as a member of society”
Who forwarded this definition?
(a) MacIver and Page
(b) H.M. Johnson
(c) Kingsley Davis
(d) E.B. Tylor
9. Who was the author of the book ‘Folkways’
(a) W.G. Sumner
(b) R.K. Merton
(c) H.M. Johnson
(d) Georg Simmel
10. The book ‘Social Thought from Lore to Science’
was authored by
(a) Morris Ginsberg
(b) Becker and Barnes
(c) P.A. Sorokin
(d) Max Weber
11. Weber identified social action into
(a) Two types
(b) Three types
(c) Four types
(d) Five types
12. ‘Sociology is a value free science’ was advocated
by
(a) Emile Durkheim
(b) Talcott Parsons
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Max Weber
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13. A tribal chief enjoys
(a) Traditional authority
(b) Rational-legal authority
(c) Charismatic authority
(d) Democratic authority
14. Microsociology is the analysis of
(a) Large scale social system
(b) Small unit of social system
(c) Agrarian system
(d) Social cohesion
15. Present day industrial-urban society is
characterized by
(a) Repressive law
(b) Restitutive law
(c) Oligarchic law
(d) Customs and traditions
16. Acculturation is a process of
(a) Cultural change
(b) Cultural exchange
(c) Learning basic culture
(d) Cultural balance
17. The method by which different societies/cultures
are analyzed objectively without judging them
with reference to their culture is called
(a) Ethnocentrism
(b) Cultural reproduction
(c) Cultural relativism
(d) Cultural pluralism
18. The spread of elements of culture is called
(a) Innovation
(b) Diffusion
(c) Invention
(d) Cultural change
19. The example of ‘Quasi-group’ is
(a) Status group
(b) A family
(c) A trade union
(d) A political party
20. Who of the following has developed the concept
of ‘reference group’?
(a) G.C. Homans
(b) Kingsley Davis
(c) Hayman
(d) C.H. Cooley
21. Students union in a college is an example of:
(a) Primary group
(b) Political party
(c) Association
(d) Trade union
22. A family in which an individual is born is called
(a) Family of procreation
(b) Family of orientation
(c) Matrilineal family
(d) Nuclear family
23. People married to our consanguines are called as
our:
(a) Primary kin
(b) Consanguines
(c) Cognates
(d) Affines
24. Marriage between high caste man and low caste
woman is called
(a) Hypogamy
(b) Hypergamy
(c) Endogamy
(d) Polygamy
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25. Development of one’s positive attitudes towards
own ethnic or racial group is usually termed as
(a) Groupism
(b) Cultural relativism
(c) Ethnocentrism
(d) Localism
26. A clan is a
(a) Bilineal descent group
(b) Unilineal descent group
(c) Colateral group
(d) None of the above
27. Which of the following is the example of a
matrilineal society:
(a) Mundas
(b) Nicobarese
(c) Trobriand islanders
(d) Eskimos
28. The terms ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’ were coined by
(a) Mallinowski
(b) Emile Durkheim
(c) Radhakrishnan
(d) M.N. Srinivas
29. Inequality is the basic principle of
(a) Social class
(b) Social stratification
(c) Social integrity
(d) Social equilibrium
30. The word ‘caste’ is derived from
(a) The Latin word
(b) The Greek word
(c) The Portuguese word
(d) The Indian word
31. A dynamic or behavior aspects of status is called
(a) Culture
(b) Value
(c) Norms
(d) Role
32. The concept of relative deprivation was
formulated by:
(a) Parsons
(b) Stouffer
(c) Marx
(d) Merton
33. Habitual behavior of not keeping appointment
with other is an example of:
(a) Illegal action
(b) Deviant behavior
(c) Unethical practice
(d) None of the above
34. Practice of dowry by economically advanced
society is an example of
(a) Cultural learning
(b) Cultural pattern
(c) Cultural lag
(d) Cultural relativism
35. Norms which can be violated without severe
punishment are called
(a) More
(b) Folkways
(c) Etiquette
(d) Culture
36. An assigned position to an individual regardless
of his ability or performance is called
(a) Ascribed status
(b) Achieved status
(c) Status discrepancy
(d) Role set
37. The ‘Theory of natural Selection’ was
(a) Herbert Spencer
(b) Galileo
(c) Charles Darwin
(d) Newton
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38. It is the functional importance in society which
determines social stratification. This was the core
concern of
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Max Weber
(c) Davis and Moore
(d) P. Sorokin
39. According to Luis Dumont, caste hierarchy is
determined by the principle of
(a) Purity and pollution
(b) Repulsion
(c) Individualism
(d) Socio-economic compression
40. The book ‘Indian Village’ was authored by
(a) M.N. Srinivas
(b) S.C. Dube
(c) Yogendra Singh
(d) Andre Beteille
41. While developing ‘Sociology’ as scientific
discipline, August Comte first termed it as-
(a) Social Engineering
(b) Social Morphology
(c) Social Physics
(d) Social Analogy
42. The Science Sociology should be the ‘Queen of
the Sciences’, who made this statement?
(a) August Comte
(b) Karl Marx
(c) L.T. HobHouse
(d) Talcot Parsons
43. The Nuer tribe was studied by:
(a) Durkheim
(b) Radcliffe - Brown
(c) Evans – Pritchard
(d) Malinowski
44. British Colonialism in India among others gave
rise to
(a) Tribal integration
(b) Emergence of middle class
(c) Village development scheme
(d) New political culture
45. Changes occurring in underdeveloped societies
as a result of Western technology could be
termed as
(a) Endogamous change
(b) Exogenous change
(c) Structural change
(d) Cultural change
46. Social reformer Jotiba Phule emphasized what
type of reformation attempt in India?
(a) To abolish Sati pratha
(b) To abolish Child Marriage
(c) To abolish Caste discrimination
(d) To initiate women’s education
47. Sanskritisation refers to
(a) A process of caste grouping
(b) A process of identity consciousness
(c) A low caste/tribe adopts high caste norms
(d) A process of dominance
48. According to M.N. Srinivas, westernization
involves
(a) Imitation of western forms of culture
(b) Accepting parliamentary system of
government
(c) Rejecting western culture
(d) Increasing inequality among castes
49. The book ‘Social Background of Indian
Nationalism’ was written by
(a) Rajani Kothari
(b) G.S. Ghurye
(c) A.R. Desai
(d) Mahatma Gandhi
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50. The concept of ‘village republic’ was introduced
by
(a) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(b) Mahatma Gandhi
(c) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
(d) Jotiba Phule
51. According to Weber, groups stratified according
to the principles of their ‘consumption pattern’ in
industrial society are referred to as:
(a) Social class
(b) Consumers
(c) Status groups
(d) Industrial workers
52. Liberalization of economy is meant
(a) Removal of government control relating
trade and finance
(b) Establishment of cottage industry
(c) Establishment of roads/communication
(d) Decrease of educational fees
53. Brahmo Samaj was founded by
(a) Vinoba Bhabe
(b) Jotiba Phule
(c) Ranade
(d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy
54. What is the minimum size of population to
declare a particular urban area as ‘town’
according to Indian Census?
(a) 20,000-49,999
(b) 10,000-19,999
(c) 5001-9999
(d) 5000
55. Whose name from the list below was popularly
associated with the theory of ‘Urbanism as a Way
of Life’?
(a) Robert Park
(b) E.W. Burgess
(c) Louis Wirth
(d) R.D. Mackenzie
56. Concentric Zone hypothesis was forwarded by-
(a) Robert Park
(b) Devid Ullman
(c) E.W. Burgess
(d) Walter Firey
57. ‘Folk-urban Ideal Type’ as a model for social
change was originally hypothesized by
(a) Robert Redfield
(b) Oscar Lewis
(c) Mackim Marriot
(d) R.D. Mackenzie
58. Who wrote the book ‘Little Community and
Peasant Society and Culture’?
(a) S.C. Dube
(b) D.N. Majumdar
(c) A.R. Desai
(d) Robert Redfield
59. According to which article, Parliament of India
can include or exclude any group from the list of
scheduled caste (S.C)?
(a) Article 341(2)
(b) Article 342(2)
(c) Article 343(2)
(d) Article 344(2)
60. The term ‘Stratification’ has been borrowed from
the discipline of
(a) Archaeology
(b) Geology
(c) Astronomy
(d) Psychology
61. The term ‘connurbation’ is associated with the
writings of
(a) Robert Park
(b) Patrick Giddes
(c) M.S.A. Rao
(d) Robert Redfield
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62. Which of the aspect is not taking into account in
the science of demography?
(a) Birth and death rate
(b) Height and weight of population
(c) Density of population
(d) Age and sex composition
63. Rampur village was studied by
(a) F.G. Bailey
(b) Oscar Lewis
(c) M.N. Srinivas
(d) D.N. Majumdar
64. Who authored the book ‘Arunachal Panorama’?
(a) Verrier Elwin
(b) J.N. Choudhury
(c) Talom Rukbo
(d) Oshong Ering
65. ‘Andaman Islanders’ a community case study was
the work of
(a) Malinowski
(b) Verrier Elwin
(c) Raymond Firth
(d) Radcliffe Brown
66. ‘Demography’ the term was first coined by
(a) Robert Malthus
(b) Achile Guillard
(c) Edward Tylor
(d) Aristotle
67. A division of Sociology called ‘Formal Sociology’
was introduced by
(a) Morris Ginsberg
(b) Georg Simmel
(c) Robert Merton
(d) August Comte
68. E.S. Bogardus introduced the concept
(a) Sociometry
(b) Role-Set
(c) Social Distance
(d) Sociography
69. Chipko movement raised the issue relating to
(a) Abolition of Zamindary system
(b) Ecological sustainability
(c) Dowry system
(d) Caste panchayat
70. The former President of India V.V. Giri’s name
was famous for
(a) Peasant’s struggle
(b) Dalit movement
(c) Backward class movement
(d) Trade union movement
71. A range of policy decisions that Indian state book
to open Indian economy to world market. This
process is often referred to as
(a) Modernization
(b) Universalisation
(c) Westernization
(d) Liberalization
72. Emile Durkheim explained the factors of social
change as a cause of
(a) Population growth
(b) Change of social status
(c) Change in the bond of morality
(d) Technology
73. Ideational and Sensate culture as cycles of
historical change in society was advocated by
(a) Arnold Toynbee
(b) P.A. Sorokin
(c) Talcot Parsons
(d) Vilfredo Pareto
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74. Borrowing of technology to bring about change in
Arunachal Pradesh may be regarded as
(a) Indigenous factor
(b) Exogenous factor
(c) Cultural factor
(d) Political factor
75. In describing social change who coined the terms
‘Challenge and Response’?
(a) Arnold Toynbee
(b) Oswald Spengler
(c) Robert Malthus
(d) P.A. Sorokin
76. Telengana Movement was originated in
(a) Orissa
(b) West Bengal
(c) Andhra Pradesh
(d) Bihar
77. The relationship between religious values and
economic activities was brought out clearly by
(a) Adam Smith
(b) Simmel
(c) Weber
(d) Durkheim
78. Anonymity, Heterogeneity and superficiality are
some important characteristics of urban life.
These were the contentions in the writings of
(a) E.E. Bergel
(b) Roy Turner
(c) Louis Wirth
(d) Robert Park
79. The concept of ‘Culture of Poverty’ was
forwarded by
(a) Milton Singer
(b) MSA Rao
(c) Ashish Bose
(d) Oscar Lewis
80. ‘Achievement motivation’ as a theory of
modernization was discussed by
(a) Deniel Lerner
(b) McClelland
(c) R.N. Bellah
(d) Alex Inkeles
81. The book ‘The Wealth of Nations’ was written by
(a) Arnold Toynbee
(b) Adam Smith
(c) W.W. Rostow
(d) Simon Kuznet
82. Describing social change in village life Mackim
Marriot used a typology known as
(a) Traditionalism vs modernism
(b) Universalisation vs parochialisation
(c) Static vs dynamic
(d) Nationalization vs globalization
83. Elite theory of social change was proposed by
(a) V. Pareto
(b) Mosca
(c) C.W. Mills
(d) Talcot Parsons
84. Who wrote the book ‘Caste in Indian Politics’?
(a) Rajani Kothari
(b) Gail Omvedt
(c) Ramchandra Guha
(d) S.A. Dange
85. The first trade union was established in Madras
by-
(a) V.V. Giri
(b) S.A. Dange
(c) George Fernandez
(d) B.P. Wadia
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86. The concept of ‘Dominant Caste’ was first
systematically developed by
(a) N.K. Bose
(b) Andre Beteilie
(c) M.N. Srinivas
(d) S.C. Dube
87. Guild system as a form of occupation was
associated with
(a) Ancient nomadic society
(b) Peasant society
(c) Feudal society
(d) Capitalist society
88. ‘Slums and Urbanization’ a book written by-
(a) David Popenoe
(b) Patrick Giddes
(c) Desai and Pillai
(d) I.P. Desai
89. “Property, power and prestige are three separate
but interacting bases for creating hierarchy in
society”. Who advocated this?
(a) Max Weber
(b) Karl Marx
(c) C.W. Mills
(d) R. Bendix
90. “Freeman and slave, patrician and plebian, lord
and serf, guildmaster and …………….” Fill up the
blanks of the sentence from the phrases given
below
(a) hunters
(b) zamindars
(c) peasants
(d) journeyman
91. ‘Value free sociology’ was proposed by
(a) Arnold Green
(b) Georg Simmel
(c) Max Weber
(d) Ferdinand Tonnies
92. “Society is a reality sui-generis” who made this
statement?
(a) August Comte
(b) Emile Durkheim
(c) Plato
(d) Alexis De Tocqueville
93. Who is the author of the book ‘Organisation
Man’?
(a) Elton Mayo
(b) William W. Whyte
(c) V.V. Giri
(d) N.R. Seth
94. The concept ‘Pre-Industrial city’ was primarily
associated with the name of
(a) Gideon Sjoberg
(b) Ralph Dahrendorf
(c) Anthony Giddens
(d) Sorokin
95. Whose name is associated with the concept of
‘post industrial society’?
(a) Schneider
(b) Anthony Giddens
(c) Deniel Bell
(d) Bill Gates
96. Industrialisation is primarily a
(a) Way of life
(b) A process
(c) A style of life
(d) A value system
97. Who edited the book ‘India’s Village’?
(a) M.N. Srinivas
(b) D.N. Majumdar
(c) Mackim Marriot
(d) S.C. Dube
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98. Three classes of people in society- ‘very rich, very
poor, mean or moderate’ who made such
classifications?
(a) Voltaire
(b) Rousseau
(c) John Bodin
(d) Aristotle
99. Tado Hage is an L.D.A. He is pursuing a course on
business management with a hope to become a
marketing manager. This process is called-
(a) Educational change
(b) Educational difference
(c) Educational achievement
(d) Educational and occupational mobility
100. Which caste formed the backbone of Dr.
Ambedkar’s Movement?
(a) Mahars
(b) Nadars
(c) Rajputs
(d) Nayars
101. Rourkela city is known for
(a) Mining industry
(b) Iron and steel industry
(c) Coal industry
(d) Fertilizers industry
102. A subjective assessment of social status was
forwarded by-
(a) Ralf Dahrendorf
(b) Max Weber
(c) Melvin Tumin
(d) Mayer and Buckley
103. Kingsley Davis and W.E. Moore developed
(a) Concentric Zone theory
(b) Conflict theory
(c) Functional theory of stratification
(d) Theory of anomie
104. The groups of people consisting of the clergy, the
nobility and the commoners during the middle
age in Europe were referred to as-
(a) Aboriginal tribes
(b) Slavery
(c) Estate
(d) Zamindars
105. The terms ‘harmonic’ and ‘disharmonic’ model of
social stratification was used by
(a) Yogendra Singh
(b) S.C. Dube
(c) Andre Beteille
(d) K.L. Sharma
106. The book ‘Social and Cultural Mobility’ was
written by
(a) V. Pareto
(b) P.A. Sorokin
(c) R. Bendix
(d) Kingsley Davis
107. Who among the following sociologists wrote
about India’s caste system?
(a) Max Weber
(b) Louis Wirth
(c) A.B. Hollingshed
(d) Talcot Parsons
108. The concept ‘Manifest and Latent’ functions was
developed by-
(a) Malinowski
(b) Radcliffe Brown
(c) M.J. Levy
(d) R.K. Merton
109. Who wrote the book ‘Mind, Self and Society’?
(a) Marx
(b) Mead
(c) Weber
(d) Durkheim
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110. Who wrote the book ‘Political Man’?
(a) Aristotle
(b) S.M. Lipset
(c) Gerald Lenski
(d) Rajani Kothari
111. Quit India movement started in the year-
(a) 1941
(b) 1942
(c) 1943
(d) 1944
112. The term ‘democracy’ is derived from
(a) Greek word
(b) Latin word
(c) Portuguese word
(d) French word
113. When was the Human Rights Commission
established?
(a) 1944
(b) 1945
(c) 1946
(d) 1947
114. Which one of the following is not a characteristic
feature of the bureaucratic organization?
(a) Rational legal authority
(b) Democratization
(c) Hierarchy
(d) Role-segmentation
115. Who placed emphasis on population volume and
density as causes of social differentiation:
(a) Marx
(b) Malthus
(c) Durkheim
(d) Spencer
116. The MacMohan line demarcates the border
between
(a) India and China
(b) British India and Outer Tibet
(c) India and Pakistan
(d) India and Bhutan
117. Arunachal Pradesh as a full fledged state was
established in the year
(a) 1986 - 20 February
(b) 1987 - 20 February
(c) 1988 - 20 February
(d) 1989 - 20 February
118. A way of life and culture represented by folk or
unlettered peasants constitute
(a) Little tradition
(b) Great tradition
(c) Multiple tradition
(d) Sanskrit tradition
119. A system of tax collection in Colonial Indiain
which the government settled the revenue
directly with the cultivators is called –
(a) Zamindary System
(b) Raiyatwari System
(c) Panchayat System
(d) Middle man
120. The 73rd and 74th amendment of the Constitution
of India 1992 deals with
(a) Right to Information Act
(b) Panchayati Raj
(c) Education for All
(d) Land Reforms
121. In India, the genuine period of globalization was
mainly started in the
(a) post 1970
(b) post 1980
(c) post 1990
(d) post 2000
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122. Demographically speaking the number of live
birth per 1000 population is called
(a) Birth rate
(b) Death rate
(c) Rate of Natural increase
(d) Life expectancy
123. In terms of land area which state of northeast
India is the largest?
(a) Assam
(b) Arunachal Pradesh
(c) Meghalaya
(d) Manipur
124. ‘Pabitara Wild Life Sanctuary’ is located in
(a) Arunachal Pradesh
(b) Assam
(c) Meghalaya
(d) Manipur
125. Arunachal Pradesh is popularly known as the
“Land of the Dawn lit mountains”. This meaning
is rooted in which language?
(a) Assamese
(b) Hindi
(c) Parsi
(d) Sanskrit
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