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Foundations of Sociology | Set 2

1. The characteristic trait of militant societies is ______

Correct : A. compulsion

2. A friendship group composed of individuals of similar age and social status.

Correct : C. in-group

3. Who is the author of ‗Spirit of the Laws‘?

Correct : B. montesquieu

4. In _____________, interaction between individuals engaged in a common activity or a direct conversation with one another happens.

Correct : D. focused

5. _____ type of society is based on voluntary cooperation and individual selfrestraint

Correct : B. industrial

6. In which book has Spencer observed some similarities between biological and social organism?

Correct : A. principles of sociology

7. Features of social life that challenges or creates tensions in a social system.

Correct : A. dysfunction

8. Who introduced the concept of Social Class?

Correct : D. marx

9. Gemeinschaft is translated into English as ________.

Correct : B. community

10. ________ is one of the most distinctive properties of human social association.

Correct : A. culture

11. Who introduced the concept of Alienation?

Correct : D. marx

12. According to Marx, ____ forces are the keys to underestimating society and social change

Correct : D. economic

13. Who introduced the Social Conflict perspectives in Sociology?

Correct : D. marx

14. The first Estate in the Estate system

Correct : A. clergy

15. A social group is ______________ in nature.

Correct : B. dynamic

16. Who believed that the history of human society has been that of class conflict?

Correct : D. marx

17. _________ is any act that contravenes the laws established by a political authority.

Correct : C. crime

18. The system in which the labourer had nothing to sell but his/her own labour power.

Correct : C. capitalism

19. Name the reciprocal influence human beings exert on each other through interstimulation and response.

Correct : A. social interaction

20. Which of the following books is authored by Marx?

Correct : D. das kapital

21. Which of the following books is authored by Marx?

Correct : D. the poverty of philosophy

22. Relative deprivation is central to ____________ behavior.

Correct : D. reference group

23. Which of the following books is authored by Marx?

Correct : D. the german ideology

24. Human beings organize themselves into groups called ___________, for the achievement of some object or goal.

Correct : A. institutions

25. ______ includes everything that goes into the production of the necessities of life

Correct : A. mode of production

26. Structure is useless without __________.

Correct : C. function

27. Name the control of society over individual.

Correct : B. social control

28. ______ refers to the relationship between those who own the means of production and those who do not

Correct : C. relations of production

29. The concept of ______was based on the ideology that society will gradually improve on the basis that the ‗fittest‘ will be the most successful and therefore ‗survive‘.

Correct : D. social darwinism

30. Any form of social encounter between individuals is termed as ____________.

Correct : B. social interaction

31. ______ refers to the physical means and techniques of production to which laborers add value and transform capital into products for sale

Correct : B. forces of production

32. Which of the following modes of production is said to be classless?

Correct : A. primitive communism

33. The core of a culture is formed by ___________.

Correct : B. values

34. The Enlightenment is associated with which of the following thinkers

Correct : D. voltaire

35. In which of the following modes of production is the primary form of property possession of land in reciprocal contract relations?

Correct : C. feudalism

36. In which of the following modes of production is the primary form of property the possession of objects and services through state guaranteed contract?

Correct : D. capitalism

37. ______________ is a characteristic of in-group.

Correct : D. ethnocentrism

38. Which of the following books is authored by Marx?

Correct : D. the communist manifesto

39. Name one American sociologist, who is known as the founder of behavioral sociology and exchange theory.

Correct : D. g. c. homans

40. Who defined sociology as the study of societal evolution?

Correct : B. spencer

41. _______are the sum total of social relations which human beings establish among themselves in the production of their material lives

Correct : C. relations of production

42. The __________ groups are characterized by sympathetic contact.

Correct : D. primary

43. For Marx, the analysis of social order and the causes of social change must be discovered in the specific _______that a society has

Correct : A. mode of production

44. _____ shapes the mode of distribution, circulation and consumption, and is regulated by the state

Correct : A. mode of production

45. The ruling class in Feudalism is usually _______

Correct : B. nobility

46. Contradictory demands of different roles individuals perform is termed as

Correct : C. role conflict

47. In which mode of production is the primary form of exploitation wage labour?

Correct : D. capitalism

48. Social exchange theory was introduced by _____________.

Correct : A. g. homans

49. The ruling class in Capitalism is________

Correct : A. bourgeoisie

50. In Capitalism, it is the _______ who exploit the proletariat

Correct : A. bourgeoisie

51. The German sociologist Simmel considered _________ as a criterion for classifying groups.

Correct : C. size

52. Capitalism may produce _____ who possess the means of production for the whole of society

Correct : A. bourgeoisie

53. In Capitalism, the Bourgeoisie exploits the _______

Correct : B. proletariat

54. Institution is comparatively ___________.

Correct : A. permanent

55. Fredrick Engels hypothesized that ______ would emerge as the final form of capitalism before the contradictions reach a point where capitalism cannot sustain itself and socialism emerges as its successor

Correct : C. state capitalism

56. Who presented the idea of ‗cultural lag‘?

Correct : A. ogburn

57. In which book did Marx and Engels comment that the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles

Correct : D. the communist manifesto

58. According to Talcott Parsons, all the units of social structure are __________.

Correct : C. abstract

59. Who are the owners of capital in Capitalism?

Correct : A. bourgeoisie

60. A class is defined by the ownership of ________

Correct : A. property

61. Human interaction is essentially _____________ interaction.

Correct : C. communicative

62. ___________ help meet the basic needs of society.

Correct : C. social institutions

63. ___________ is the basic ingredient of social relationships.

Correct : D. interaction

64. Name the system adopted by a given society to guide family or blood relationship.

Correct : C. kinship

65. Studies of social interaction, groups etc. belong to ——-——— sociology.

Correct : D. micro

66. The components of material culture are __________ and objective.

Correct : D. both a&c

67. ―Contact & communication are the two main conditions of social interaction.‖ Who said so?

Correct : B. park & burgess

68. __________ is a socially defined position in a group or society.

Correct : C. status

69. ―Culture is the man-made part of environment.‖ Who said so?

Correct : B. m.j. herskovits

70. Who has described ―society as a web of social relationships.‖?

Correct : D. maciver

71. Who coined the term primary group?

Correct : C. cooley

72. Studies of social interaction, groups etc. belong to —————— sociology.

Correct : D. micro

73. The principle of an aristocratic government is _______

Correct : C. moderation

74. Comte argued that the human mind, individual human beings, all knowledge, and world history develop through ____ successive stages

Correct : B. three

75. In Capitalism, ______ class possess only their own labour power, which they must sell in order to survive

Correct : B. proletariat

76. Which among the following is an informal method of social control?

Correct : A. customs

77. ______ in Europe followed the stage of feudalism

Correct : B. capitalism

78. Name the author of the book ‗Primitive Culture‘

Correct : C. tylor

79. _______ and industrialisation led to the emergence of the working class as a large and powerful body, which led to the birth of Marxism, and gave people a new perspective and relationship with the society they lived in

Correct : A. urbanisation

80. The principle of monarchical government is ______

Correct : B. honour

81. A role is the ————— aspect of status.

Correct : B. dynamic