1. A man or woman marries outside of the group is known as ........................?
Correct : B. exogamy
2. ................... is a basic social system that bind people together on the basis of blood or
marriage?
Correct : D. kinship
3. “Kinship is a structure system of relationship in which individuals are bound to one another
by complex interlocking and ramifying ties” who said?
Correct : C. g p murdock
4. Kinship relations is based on marriage is known as ...................... ?
Correct : A. affinal kinship
5. Kinship system is based on blood relation is known as ...................?
Correct : C. consanguineous kinship
6. In terms of degree of closeness, father and son relationship is an example for .................
kinship?
Correct : B. primary kinship
7. Find out an example for Secondary kinship?
Correct : B. husband-wife
8. Which is not an example for Tertiary kinship?
Correct : B. sisters husband
9. It is a kinship behaviour, that impose some restriction to close interaction between kins is
known as ...................?
Correct : A. avoidence
10. Kinship usage which is husband and wife never addresses each other directly rather they
referring through either the name of son or daughter or a symbol?
Correct : D. teknonymy
11. The maternal uncle occupy a important place in the kinship relations is known as
Correct : B. avanculate
12. In a kinship behaviour, which give more importance to one’s father’s sister is called
....................?
Correct : C. amitate
13. Who defined “Economic institution means the production and distribution of goods and
services and procedure of competition and bargain in exchange”
Correct : A. mac iver and page
14. “Religion is a belief in supernatural being” who said?
Correct : B. e b tylor
15. Who propounded the theory of ‘Naturalism’?
Correct : A. james frazer
16. The word Education is derived from ........................ language
Correct : C. latin
17. The word Education originated from .........................?
Correct : B. educare
18. What is the meaning of ‘Educare’?
Correct : D. to bring up
19. “Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man” who said?
Correct : A. swami vivekananda
20. “Education is the creation of sound mind in a sound body” who said?
Correct : C. aristotle
21. Open school and correspondence courses are example for ..................?
Correct : C. nonformal
22. “The political institution is concerned with the division of power and authority in society”
who said?
Correct : A. bottomre
23. ......................... is the ability to control behaviour of other individual without their consent
Correct : B. attitude
24. Which is not an authority proposed by Max Weber?
Correct : C. institutionalised authority
25. The theory ‘Circulation of elites’ Propounded by ..........................?
Correct : B. vilfredo pareto
26. Who propounded the theory ‘Power elites’?
Correct : A. c wright mills
27. ...................... means that transition from one social position to another
Correct : A. social mobility
28. The company manager transfer to another company without change in position is an
example for.................... mobility
Correct : A. vertical mobility
29. “Horizontal mobility means the transition of an individual or social object from one social
group to another situated on the same level” who said?
Correct : B. pitrim a sorokin
30. Change in income is an example for .................... Mobility?
Correct : D. vertical mobility
31. Which sociologist considers Horizontal mobility as the lateral mobility?
Correct : A. anthony giddens
32. “Horizontal mobility as lateral mobility involving geographical movement between
neighbours, towns or regions” who defined?
Correct : C. anthony giddens
33. Vertical social mobility “as the relations involved in a transition of an individual (Or a
Social object) from one social stratum to another” who said?
Correct : B. pitrim a sorokin
34. Ascending or descending mobility is related to ......................?
Correct : D. vertical mobility
35. Socio economic position changed into up or down in the hierarchical structure it is known
as ...................?
Correct : B. vertical mobility
36. Who proposed that downward mobility is less common than upward mobility?
Correct : A. anthony giddens
37. Occupational structure of society is changed due to mobility is called ................?
Correct : A. structural mobility
38. “The mobility occur during the lifespan of a single generation” is known as .................?
Correct : D. intragenerational mobility
39. ...................... refers to mobility within the time span of two or more generations?
Correct : B. intergenerational mobility
40. Which of the statement are false about commonsense?
Correct : B. based on scientific support
41. Who defined “Socialization is process by which the helpless infant gradually becomes self
aware, knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of culture into which he or she is born”?
Correct : C. anthony giddens
42. ....................... is the process of biological being into social being.
Correct : B. socialization
43. .................... socialization that the child satisfy primary needs from primary social
institutions.
Correct : D. primary socialization
44. Peer group is an agent of ..................... Socialization
Correct : A. primary socialization
45. Family and Neighbourhood play group is an example for ................. Socialization
Correct : C. micro level socialization
46. Which is the formal agency in the process of child socialization?
Correct : C. school
47. .................. refers to “process of leaving certain social behaviour patterns and role in order
to adopt new one as part of one’s evolution in life”
Correct : A. re socialization
48. In contemporary society,............................ play a greater role in the process of socialization
Correct : B. mass media
49. ................... is a process “in which someone is consciously socialized for future
occupations, positions and social relationships”
Correct : D. anticipatory socialisation
50. Which stage is characterised that, by means of crying the child establishes or involved in
communication with mother?
Correct : C. oral stage
51. Which stage is characterised that child taught to do some task such as toileting, keep
clothing etc.
Correct : A. anal stage
52. Who develop the concepts that “Oedipus complex and Electra complex”
Correct : D. freud
53. ............. means that feeling of jealousy towards father and love towards mother?
Correct : B. oedipus complex
54. The feeling of jealousy towards the mother and love towards the father is an ..................
complex?
Correct : C. electra complex
55. ‘The boys and girls try to become free from parental control’ is an feature of ..............
stage?
Correct : A. adolescence stage
56. Who introduced the concepts “Social control”?
Correct : B. e a ross
57. The concept ‘social control’ introduced in ................ books
Correct : A. social control
58. The book “Social control: a survey of the foundations of order” published in ................?
Correct : D. 1901
59. “Social control refers to the system of devices whereby society brings its members into
conformity with the accepted standards of behaviour” who said?
Correct : B. e a ross
60. The term ................. Concerned with the maintenance of order and stability in society
Correct : A. social control
61. Find out which is not a goal or purpose of social control?
Correct : D. differentiation
62. Social controlling methods which are deliberately formed and interactions are impersonal in
nature?
Correct : B. formal social control
63. Find out an informal means of social control?
Correct : B. religion
64. Which is not included in the formal means of social control?
Correct : D. folkways
65. The formal means of social control characterised by uniformity, unhealed by political
authority and penal sanction?
Correct : A. law
66. Who said that “Education as the socialization of the younger generation”
Correct : D. durkheim
67. Folkways and More are .............. forms of social control
Correct : A. informal
68. Who compared societies to a living organism?
Correct : C. herbert spencer
69. Who defined “Social structure of an arrangement of person in institutionally controlled or
defined social relationship?
Correct : A. radcliff brown
70. Social structure is based on .....................
Correct : D. role and status
71. ............... is a socially defined position or rank with in a group or society
Correct : B. status
72. The process of socialization is a ................... process?
Correct : B. life long
73. According to Radcliff Brown, Social structure refers to an ......................
Correct : C. arrangement of person
74. Status based on irrespective of efforts is called ......................
Correct : A. ascribed
75. Find out an example for ascribed status?
Correct : D. age
76. The status acquired on the basis of effort or abilities?
Correct : B. achieved status
77. Which status is an example for achieved status?
Correct : C. engineer
78. ................. Expected behaviour one individual hold a certain status or position
Correct : A. role
79. ................... is an orderly and systematic arrangement of social interaction.
Correct : B. social system
80. .................. refers to classification and placement of people with in society?
Correct : A. social stratification
81. ‘Feeling of superiority and inferiority among the members of different strata’ is an
characteristics of ........................
Correct : C. social stratification
82. Who defined “The process by which individuals and groups are ranked in a more or less
enduring hierarchy of status is known as stratification?”
Correct : B. ogburn and nimkoff
83. Vertical social mobility is possible in ......................... stratification system
Correct : D. open
84. Class is an example for .......................... stratification
Correct : A. open
85. The Book ‘Social and cultural mobility’ authored by
Correct : C. pitirim sorokin
86. Caste based society is a ............. system of stratification
Correct : B. closed
87. What are the major types of stratification?
Correct : D. all the above
88. The term ‘Caste’ derived from ................. Language?
Correct : B. spanish
89. The Spanish word ‘Casta’ means................. ?
Correct : A. breed or lineage
90. Who said, “Caste is a closed social group”
Correct : D. dn majumdar and t n madan
91. According to Chathurvarna system, Hindu society divided into ………………….. varnas
Correct : C. four
92. “Culture is that complex whole which include knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom
and other capabilities acquired by man as a member of society” said by?
Correct : B. edward tylor
93. Who defined “Culture as the cumulative creation of man”?
Correct : C. b. malinowski
94. Which is not a characteristic of culture?
Correct : B. culture is static
95. Who proposed the concept of ‘Material and Non material Culture’?
Correct : A. ogburn and nimkoff
96. Non material culture consist of ....................?
Correct : D. religion, folkways, social values, believes
97. Who formulated the concept of ‘Cultural Lag’?
Correct : B. ogburn and nimkoff
98. Knowledge is an example for ……………………..?
Correct : D. non material culture
99. The borrowing of cultural elements from another society is called ……………………..
Correct : B. acculturation
100. The term ‘Social norm’ firstly used by …………………………?