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 ______