1. In a feudal society, feudal lords exploit -------
Correct : D. serfs
2. In a capitalist society, Bourgeoisie exploit ---
Correct : B. proletariats
3. In capitalism who owns and controls the capital?
Correct : C. bourgeoisie
4. Marx called the quality of a commodity to serve a particular human need or
function as
Correct : B. use value
5. According to Marx. Exchange value is found only in
Correct : B. capitalism
6. Marx called the capacity of human labour to bring about utility in a
commodity and produce simple use values as
Correct : A. useful labour
7. Marx stated that the products of useful labour assumes the form of
commodities only in
Correct : D. capitalist societies
8. According to Marx, exploitation takes the form of surplus value in
Correct : B. capitalist societies
9. 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
10. According to Marx, when workers become estranged from the things they
produce, it is called
Correct : B. alienation from the product
11. 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
12. When a person is alienated from the human social community, it is called
Correct : D. alienation from fellow humans.
13. 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
14. For Durkheim ------- describes the degree of social integration which links
individuals to social groups outside them.
Correct : C. social solidarity
15. The type of social bonding that discourages individual autonomy in a society
is termed as
Correct : A. mechanical solidarity
16. When a society is with a homogeneous population which is small and isolated,
it is characterised by the existence of
Correct : A. mechanical solidarity
17. 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
18. According to Durkheim, the primary characteristic of organic solidarity is the
development of
Correct : C. division of labour
19. According to Durkheim, ----- are external to the individual
Correct : A. social facts
20. Durkheim maintained that in order to study social facts, it should be
considered as
Correct : B. things
21. 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
22. Weber placed ----------- as the key to understand the pattern of historical
development
Correct : D. rationalization
23. 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
24. According to Weber, the amount of quantitative calculation and accounting
procedure that goes into an action or decision is called
Correct : C. formal rationality
25. Who among the following said that ‘Sociology is the science of understanding
the meaning of social action?
Correct : D. max webber
26. Who among the following analysed the impact of religious beliefs on the
economic growth for the first time?
Correct : C. max webber
27. Who advocated the social action approach in sociology for the first time?
Correct : A. max webber
28. Weber’s concept, the Verstehen stands for
Correct : D. understanding social world from the point of view of the actors
29. What distinguishes Calvinism from Lutheranism?
Correct : B. predestination
30. The authority based on the exceptional qualities of a leader remarks