1. Marx called the distinctive method for the analysis of the historical development of
society as
Correct : C. Historical materialism
2. The Communist Manifesto was written in the year
Correct : A. 1848
3. Das Kapital was written by
Correct : D. Karl Marx
4. Das Kapital was written in the year
Correct : C. 1867
5. The Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 was written by
Correct : B. Karl Marx
6. ---- had a dominant intellectual influence on Karl Marx
Correct : B. Hegel
7. A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy is authored by
Correct : C. Karl Marx
8. ----- is the amount of socially necessary labour time needed to produce an article under the normal conditions of production and with the average degree of skill and intensity of the time.
Correct : C. Labour theory of value
9. In Marxist theory, the working class is called
Correct : A. The proletariat
10. According to Karl Marx the present state will
Correct : B. Will wither away
11. Marx’s focus on real, existing contradictions led to a particular method for studying
social phenomena called
Correct : A. Dialectical method
12. The theoretical foundation of Marxism is known as
Correct : A. Dialectical materialism
13. According to Karl Marx, the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of
Correct : C. Class struggles
14. According to Marx, the capacity to do a useful work that increases the value of the
products is called
Correct : C. Labour power
15. According to Marx, under capitalist mode of production, the surplus takes the form of
Correct : B. Profit
16. How many modes of production have been identified by Karl Marx during his study of
societies?
Correct : A. Four
17. The mode of production existed in primitive communities in which ownership of land
was communal is known as
Correct : D. Asiatic mode of production
18. The mode of production characterised by the emergence of private property is ---
Correct : A. Ancient mode of production
19. The relationship between those who own the means of production (the capitalists or
bourgeoisie) and those who do not (the workers or the proletariat) is called
Correct : B. Relations of production
20. According to Marx, history evolves through the interaction between
Correct : C. Mode of production and relations of production
21. The system in which the capitalists own the means of production is
Correct : B. Capitalism
22. A system in which the workers sell their labour power for wage is known as
Correct : B. Capitalism
23. ‘Goods are produced for sale rather than own use’ is a remarkable characteristic of
Correct : B. Capitalist societies
24. The concept of alienation is developed by
Correct : A. Karl Marx
25. The process by which a commodity takes on an independent, almost mystical external
reality is known as
Correct : C. Fetishism of commodities
26. Workers who sell their labour and do not own their own means of production are
Correct : B. Proletariat
27. The division of class in a capitalist society is based on
Correct : A. The ownership of property
28. In a feudal society, feudal lords exploit -------
Correct : D. Serfs
29. In a capitalist society, Bourgeoisie exploit ---
Correct : B. Proletariats
30. In capitalism who owns and controls the capital?
Correct : C. Bourgeoisie
31. ------ posits the idea that every economic order grows to a state of maximum efficiency, while at the same time developing internal contradictions/ weaknesses that contribute to its decay
Correct : B. Dialectical materialism
32. In feudalism, the oppressors are known as
Correct : D. Feudal lords
33. The term used to describe Marx’s main theoretical perspective for understanding society
and history
Correct : A. Historical materialism
34. According to Marx, anything in the external world that is used to produce material needs
and maintain existence is termed as
Correct : D. Means of production
35. Marx denotes land, animals, tools, machinery etc are examples for the
Correct : C. Means of production
36. In Marx’s view, the factor that binds one class to another is
Correct : D. Relations of production
37. The single most fundamental fact of the materialist theory of history is
Correct : B. The ownership over the means of production
38. In Marx’s view, the forces of production along with the relations of production define ---
Correct : A. Mode of production
39. In an economic system, the ------------ has the ability to determine the system of social
relations arising from it
Correct : A. Mode of production
40. The mode of production that encompasses a rudimentary system of production in which
people live together principally by hunting and gathering was
Correct : D. Asiatic mode of production
41. Of the four types of mode of production identified by Karl Marx, which one had a
communal ownership over the property with no system of class relations?
Correct : B. Asiatic mode of production
42. In a system of ancient mode of production the ‘oppressed’ were
Correct : A. Slaves
43. The feudal mode of production provided landholders with the powers of coercion over
the class of
Correct : C. Serfs
44. A contribution to the Critique of Political Economy was written in the year
Correct : D. 1859
45. According to Marx, a thing whose qualities are capable of satisfying human needs is
known as
Correct : C. Commodity
46. Marx called the quality of a commodity to serve a particular human need or function as
Correct : B. Use value
47. According to Marx. Exchange value is found only in
Correct : B. Capitalism
48. Marx called the capacity of human labour to bring about utility in a commodity and
produce simple use values as
Correct : A. Useful labour
49. Marx stated that the products of useful labour assumes the form of commodities only in
Correct : D. Capitalist societies
50. According to Marx, exploitation takes the form of surplus value in
Correct : B. Capitalist societies
51. The name Marx gave to the process whereby the means of production become the
private property of one class of persons and create the ‘pauperization of the direct producer’
Correct : C. Primitive accumulation
52. According to Marx, ------- breaks the fundamental connections human beings have to the
means of production in terms of economic subsistence and survival
Correct : A. Alienation
53. According to Marx, when workers become estranged from the things they produce, it is
called
Correct : B. Alienation from the product
54. The type of alienation in which human beings lose control over the capacity of their
labour to affirm their being and define their self-existence is
Correct : A. Alienation from the product activity
55. When a person is alienated from the human social community, it is called
Correct : D. Alienation from fellow humans.
56. The term used by Durkheim to identify a system of social relations linking individuals to
each other and to the society as a whole is
Correct : C. Social solidarity
57. For Durkheim ------- describes the degree of social integration which links individuals to
social groups outside them.
Correct : C. Social solidarity
58. The type of social bonding that discourages individual autonomy in a society is termed
as
Correct : A. Mechanical solidarity
59. When a society is with a homogeneous population which is small and isolated, it is
characterised by the existence of
Correct : A. Mechanical solidarity
60. In a society where labour is specialized and individuals are linked more to each other
than they are to society as a whole, it is characterised by
Correct : B. Organic solidarity
61. According to Durkheim, the primary characteristic of organic solidarity is the
development of
Correct : C. Division of labour
62. According to Durkheim, when an industrial crisis breaks down the social solidarity
existing between specialized functions and creates a decline in social cohesion, it is called
Correct : D. Anomic division of labour
63. According to Durkheim, ----- are external to the individual
Correct : A. Social facts
64. Durkheim maintained that in order to study social facts, it should be considered as
Correct : B. Things
65. According to Durkheim, the study of the form and structure of societies and its
classification based on attributes can be called as
Correct : C. Social morphology
66. --------------- is the result of the weakening of the bonds which tie the individual to the
society
Correct : C. Egoistic suicide
67. They type of suicide resulting from too much social integration is known as
Correct : D. Altruistic suicide
68. The suicide of older men threatened with severe illness is an example for
Correct : A. Altruistic suicide
69. ----------- is at the opposite pole of social integration to altruistic suicide
Correct : D. Egoistic suicide
70. The type of altruistic suicide in which society imposes an explicit duty on individuals to
take their own life but lacking specific coercive pressure from the community is known as
Correct : B. Obligatory altruistic suicide
71. The type of suicide occurring due to excess of social regulation is called
Correct : C. Fatalistic suicide
72. The doctrine that holds the view that historical circumstances are determined by a
sequence of economic events connected to the act of production is known as
Correct : C. Economic determinism
73. Weber placed ----------- as the key to understand the pattern of historical development
Correct : D. Rationalization
74. According to Weber, the process by which nature, society and individual actions are increasingly mastered by an orientation to planning, technical procedure and rational action is called
Correct : A. Rationalization
75. The term Weber used to refer to the capacity of social action to be subject to calculation
in the means and ends of action is
Correct : B. Rationality
76. According to Weber, the amount of quantitative calculation and accounting procedure
that goes into an action or decision is called
Correct : C. Formal rationality
77. Weber refers practical rationality as
Correct : B. A way of looking at the world in which the meaning of an act is believed to lie in its function or utility.
78. Which perspective advocated society as a system with balance and boundaries?
Correct : B. Functionalism
79. Weber’s theory of social class appears in his work
Correct : D. Economy and Society
80. August Comte defined sociology as a
Correct : C. Positive science
81. Evolutionary theory is often regarded as the greatest contribution of British Sociologist
Correct : A. Herbert Spencer
82. The building blocks of a theory is called
Correct : B. Concepts
83. Conclusions drawn about the relationship among concepts based on the logical
interrelationship is called
Correct : C. Propositions
84. Specified expectations about empirical reality derived from propositions are called
Correct : D. Hypotheses
85. A concept having two or more values or categories that can vary and be measured is known as
Correct : D. Variables
86. The theoretical perspective that holds that society is a complex system whose various
parts work together to produce stability is
Correct : B. Functionalism
87. A prominent exponent of functionalism in the United States
Correct : C. Talcott Parsons
88. The concept of ‘dysfunction’ is a major contribution of
Correct : B. Robert K Merton
89. The theoretical perspective that emphasises the importance of moral consensus in
maintaining order and stability in a system is called
Correct : B. Functionalism
90. What are manifest functions?
Correct : D. Recognised and intended consequences of a social action
91. Robert K Merton is a
Correct : B. Structural-Functionalist
92. Middle-range theories is a great contribution by
Correct : A. Robert K Merton
93. The evolutionary perspective holds the idea that
Correct : C. Societies gradually change from simple to complex systems
94. Auguste Comte believed that human societies can evolve only in a
Correct : D. Uni-linear way
95. Latent functions are always
Correct : C. Unrecognised and Unintended consequences of a social action
96. The study of everyday behaviour in situations of face to face interaction is usually called
Correct : A. Microsociology
97. Theories that deal with the analysis of large-scale social structures and long-term
processes of change is called
Correct : B. Macro level theories
98. Levi-Strauss is a prominent
Correct : D. Structuralist
99. Who introduced the term sociological imagination?
Correct : C. C Wright Mills
100. The Sociological paradigm that focuses on the way each part of society functions
together to contribute to the whole is called