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Urban Sociology | Set 1

1. Urban Sociology as a discipline emerged due to:

Correct : D. All of the above

2. Urban Sociology is the sociological study of

Correct : D. All of the above

3. Which school played the most prominent part in the development of Urban Sociology?

Correct : B. Chicago School

4. In the initial development of Urban Sociology the sociologists focused on

Correct : C. The new form of social relationship in cities

5. The Concentric Zone model was created by Ernest Burgess in –

Correct : A. 1925

6. Human Ecology is a term coined by

Correct : C. Robert E.Park

7. In the Concentric zone model of Burgess, the commuter zone lies in which zone?

Correct : D. Zone V

8. In which state of the USA were most of the initial works on urban society carried out?

Correct : A. Chicago

9. Which of the following is considered as the father of urban sociology?

Correct : C. George Simmel

10. Which of the following is responsible for the growth of cities in the 17th and 18th centuries?

Correct : B. Industrial revolution

11. Louis Wirth’s Urbanism as a Way of Life was published in which year?

Correct : C. 1938

12. Diffusion of urban culture is –

Correct : B. Urbanism

13. Which of the following is not an element of urbanism?

Correct : C. Homogeneity

14. What according to Wirth is the breeding ground of cultural hybrids?

Correct : C. Metropolitan cities

15. City people view their associates as

Correct : D. Means to pursue their goals

16. To make interaction simpler, urbanites normally

Correct : A. Standardize their behavior

17. The city effects are wider than the city itself. Who said this?

Correct : B. Kingsley Davis

18. Areas which resemble cities are known as

Correct : B. Sub-urban areas

19. The study of urban sociology is significant and helpful for

Correct : C. Understanding urban and rural societies so that development occurs in both at the same time.

20. Rural – urban convergence refers to

Correct : A. The area where similarities of both urban and rural way of life exists.

21. According to Wirth a city is –

Correct : B. An initiating and controlling centre of economic and political life

22. Which is an important pull factor of migration from rural to urban areas?

Correct : A. Job opportunities

23. The significance of the study of Urban Sociology lies in

Correct : B. Helping Urban policy makers solve urban social problems

24. Blasé attitude of urban dwellers means

Correct : A. Indifference

25. Secondary relations in cities tend to be

Correct : B. Calculative

26. Which of the following opines that modern cities had an impact not only on modes of behavior but on feelings and patterns of thought?

Correct : C. Anthony Giddens

27. Who said that urban sociology is that branch of sociology which deals with the city or the urban community, with urbanization and urbanism?

Correct : A. J.A Quinn

28. Which of the following is the scope of urban sociology?

Correct : D. All of the above

29. Anonymity of urban life means

Correct : A. A state of namelessness

30. Which of the following is responsible for the diffusion of urban culture to rural areas?

Correct : D. All of the above

31. Specialization in roles in urban society encourages

Correct : C. Diversity of life patterns

32. In India, urbanization maintained an upward trend during the

Correct : B. 1970’s

33. The city is an area distinguished by

Correct : A. Size, population and density

34. Satellite cities are built around

Correct : C. Metropolitan cities

35. Rural indices are moving nearer to urban indices in terms of

Correct : D. All of the above

36. Louis R.Wirth associated with Urban Sociology developed the

Correct : B. Cultural Approach

37. The large size of population in urban areas favour the development of

Correct : A. Specialization of roles

38. Satellite cities represent the

Correct : C. Mixture of rural and urban ways of life

39. People live alien and disparate lives in

Correct : A. Big cities

40. Louis Wirth says contacts between city dwellers are

Correct : C. Fleeting and partial

41. Loosing shared characters and the various absolute markers that existed between cities and villages is

Correct : B. Rurban

42. Visibility of more formal systems of institutions are in

Correct : C. Cities

43. The main aspect of urban and rural is mainly demarcated through -

Correct : A. Material things

44. Which of the following urban factors transformed rural life-world extensively?

Correct : B. Connectivity

45. Who is the author of “Decline of the West”?

Correct : A. Oswald Spengler

46. With the diffusion of urban culture to the rural areas; the extreme differences between rural and urban cultures has become

Correct : B. Diluted

47. The influence of the city or urban areas varies with

Correct : B. Size of City

48. Big urban areas are characterised by

Correct : A. Sub-centers

49. At present, rural area and urban area features are increasingly

Correct : A. Similar

50. Who mentioned that Urbanization refers to a process of urban values diffusing and transforming behavior patterns?

Correct : C. Patrick Geddes

51. Who edited the classic book, “Urban Sociology of India”?

Correct : A. MSA Rao

52. Urbanization is a process that is

Correct : A. Continuous

53. The rate of Urbanization in India differs in time, space and

Correct : A. Regions

54. According to P. Sainath, which of the following is the key role in Urban growth in India?-

Correct : A. Migration

55. Which among the following indicate that Urban growth in India is mainly due to?-

Correct : A. Increase of population

56. Migration’s main cause is due to

Correct : A. Push and pull factor

57. Who wrote the essay, “Urbanization and Social Transformations”?

Correct : A. Ramkrishna Mukherjee

58. Expansion of urban areas result in alterations of

Correct : A. Satellite towns

59. Who is the author of “Six Decades of Urbanization in India”?

Correct : A. Ashish Bose

60. Who among the following defined city as a large space, dense and heterogeneity of groups?

Correct : A. R.E. Park

61. The most common feature of every city is

Correct : B. Labour force

62. Who is the author of the text “The City”?

Correct : A. Max Weber

63. Which is the oldest city in India, from the choices below?

Correct : A. Banaras

64. Which is the oldest city of the world, from the choices below?

Correct : A. Jerusalem

65. Social mobility occurs on a larger scale at -

Correct : A. City

66. Who is the author of the book “Pre-industrial City”?-

Correct : A. Gideon Sjoberg

67. Level of Technology is low at

Correct : A. Industrial City

68. Who classified Consumer city and Producer city?

Correct : B. Max Weber

69. According to Max Weber, Plebian cities are the outcome of

Correct : B. Revolutions

70. Who among the following is associated with Ecological Approach on urban growth?

Correct : B. Ernest W Burgess

71. Urban studies at University of Chicago came up during

Correct : B. 1840- 1880

72. Who among the following is associated with Cultural Approach of urban studies?

Correct : A. E.W Burgess

73. Louis R Wirth’s “Urbanism as a way of life” was first published as a researched paper during

Correct : C. 1938

74. Which among the following is true for Ecological Approach in urban studies?

Correct : C. Communities interact, estimate and depend on their environment

75. Which urban studies approach clarify that societies grows not in random but in relation to the advantageous features of the environment?

Correct : C. Industrial Approach

76. Who subscribed to the “Darwinian Web of Life” in understanding urban studies?

Correct : B. Robert E. Park

77. Concentric Zone theory in urban studies was introduced by

Correct : B. Louis R Wirth

78. Who is the author of “Metropolis and Mental Life”?

Correct : B. George Simmel

79. Who mentioned “relations in urban are always changing and fleeting, but in rural areas, it is always absolute and communitarian”?

Correct : B. V. Pareto

80. The pace of life is faster in cities because of the existence of-

Correct : C. Strong bonds

81. Urbanisation is generally related with –

Correct : D. Industrialisation

82. Family in India is generally of Joint family and –

Correct : B. Nuclear family

83. It is generally assumed that the process of urbanisation leads to –

Correct : C. Decline in family

84. The institutions of family, kinship and caste are closely –

Correct : B. Interrelated

85. The Khasi society is –

Correct : B. Matrilineal in nature

86. In matrilineal society, the head of the family is the –

Correct : C. The Youngest female

87. The sociologist who dispel the breakdown of joint family in India is

Correct : C. G.S Ghurye

88. The family system which emerge in association with modern industrial societies is –

Correct : A. Nuclear family

89. Rural society is associated with –

Correct : A. Joint family

90. Ram Krishna Mukherjee is associated with the study of –

Correct : A. West Bengal

91. A.H Shah made a study of family system and changes in –

Correct : A. Gujarat

92. S. Vatuk in his study of kinship system laid emphasis to –

Correct : A. North Indian kinship

93. Urban culture is the culture found in –

Correct : B. Urban area

94. Urban areas are the symbol of cultural –

Correct : A. Heterogeneity

95. The Joint family system is being replaced by –

Correct : B. Nuclear family

96. Nuclear families are more popular in –

Correct : A. Urban areas

97. In urban areas, the major occupations are –

Correct : A. Professional in nature

98. Social distance is the result of –

Correct : A. Anonymity and heterogeneity

99. The urbanites attach supreme importance to their –

Correct : D. Welfare and happiness

100. George Simmel held that social structure of urban communities is based on –

Correct : C. Interest groups