1. Impersonal and transitory interaction exists in ___________ groups.
Correct : D. secondary
2. The Enlightenment was in many respects a renaissance of __________
Correct : A. scientific thought
3. _____ granted citizens individual freedoms and removed old established orders such as the church
and crown, and gave people a new perspective of
the worldand the society in which they live
Correct : A. french revolution
4. Amalgamation favors the process of ____________.
Correct : C. assimilation
5. Urbanisation and ______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. industrialisation
6. Sociological ___________ allows people to see the relationship between their personal
experiences and broader social and historical events.
Correct : B. imagination
7. The second Estate in the Estate system
Correct : B. nobles
8. The material and non-material components of culture are often referred to as the
_________ of culture.
Correct : C. content
9. The power of _______ was based on the Church
Correct : A. clergy
10. ___________ culture is communicated mostly to the like-minded.
Correct : A. non-material
11. ____ served as councillors to the royalty, diplomats and governors
Correct : B. nobles
12. Surplus extraction was carried out by the impersonal laws of the market in ___
Correct : B. capitalism
13. Identify a slow and gradual process from the following.
Correct : A. assimilation
14. A group to which individuals refer when making judgments.
Correct : D. reference group
15. The intellectual movement called ―The Enlightenment‖ is usually associated
with the ______
Correct : D. 18th century
16. The Enlightenment is associated with which of the following thinkers
Correct : D. diderot
17. ―Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. Those who think
themselves the masters of others are indeed greater slaves than they.‖
Name the book which opens with these lines
Correct : C. the social contract
18. The basic unit of cultural reality is the cultural __________.
Correct : B. trait
19. In a democracy, the ______ are sovereign
Correct : A. people
20. Cultural __________ are nothing but larger clusters of traits organized about some nuclear
point of reference.
Correct : A. complex
21. ____________ is the spread of a culture pattern from one culture area to another.
Correct : D. culture diffusion
22. Non-conformity to a set of norms is known as __________.
Correct : C. deviance
23. The spirit of extreme _____ arises when the people are no longer content to be
equal as citizens, but want to be equal in every respect
Correct : B. equality
24. __________ constitute the treasury of our social heritage.
Correct : C. customs
25. In _____ , one part of the people governs the rest
Correct : A. aristocracy
26. The _____________ status is the position assigned to an individual without reference to
his innate differences and abilities.
Correct : B. ascribed
27. The opinion held by people on any issue for the welfare of the whole community.
Correct : B. public opinion
28. _____________ is the integrated system of learned behavior patterns.
Correct : A. culture
29. _______ is the virtue which leads those who govern in an aristocracy to
restrain themselves both from oppressing the people and from trying to
acquire excessive power over one another
Correct : C. moderation
30. The components of material culture are __________ and objective.
Correct : B. internal
31. _____________ is judging another culture solely by the values and standards of one‘s own
culture.
Correct : B. ethnocentrism
32. The principle of democracy is _______
Correct : A. political virtue
33. The study of large scale organizations or social systems belongs to _________ sociology.
Correct : C. macro
34. Who was the first to use the term sociology as a way of studying the world
in terms of society?
Correct : A. comte
35. Name the culturally based tendency to value other cultures more highly than one‘s own.
Correct : D. xenocentrism
36. For Tonnies, ___________ is the form of social cohesion prevalent in pre-industrial
societies.
Correct : C. gemeinschaft
37. Which is not a characteristic of groups?
Correct : C. antagonism
38. Who among the following could be considered as an enlightenment
philosopher?
Correct : D. montesquieu
39. The principle of despotism is _____
Correct : D. fear
40. Knowledge is an example of ______________ culture.
Correct : B. non-material
41. Functionalism and conflict theories tend towards ________ sociological analysis.
Correct : C. macro
42. __________ implies a value-judgement about the folkways.
Correct : D. mores
43. ______ had introduced the concept of ―industrialization‖
Correct : A. saint-simon
44. Saint-Simon is a primary figure of ______
Correct : A. socialism
45. The long established habits and usages of people
Correct : C. customs
46. The society maintains its order by means of __________ system.
Correct : A. normative
47. ________ claimed that human beings enjoy natural rights over the political
ones
Correct : A. ethical socialism
48. Modes of action which do not conform to the norms of a society.
Correct : B. deviance
49. A social relationship in society involves __________ awareness.
Correct : B. reciprocal
50. _______ postulated everyone‘s right to a decent living standard and the right to
human relations in the emerging urban and industrial society
Correct : A. ethical socialism
51. Which of the following events was integral to the emergence of sociology?
Correct : A. french revolution
52. Which of the following laid the foundation for French Revolution?
Correct : C. enlightenment
53. A role is the ————— aspect of status.
Correct : D. latent
54. Under __________, land was the main means of production
Correct : A. feudalism
55. According to _____ , the force of human Reason replaced established
authority, such as the Church and the King
Correct : A. enlightenment
56. _________ represent ‗standardized generalization‘ concerning expected modes of
behavior.
Correct : C. norms
57. The power of _______ was based on the feudal seigniorial system
Correct : B. nobles
58. _______ was a period of intellectual development and change in philosophical
thought beginning in the eighteenth century
Correct : A. enlightenment
59. Social status based on an individual‘s effort.
Correct : A. achieved
60. In Europe, ______ was one of the torchbearers of Enlightenment literature and
philosophy
Correct : A. rousseau
61. Conformity implies behaving in accordance with the _________.
Correct : D. norms
62. Auguste Comte was a _______ philosopher
Correct : A. french
63. _______ coined the term sociology as a social science to study about society
Correct : A. comte
64. Emotional warmth and spontaneity exist in __________ group.
Correct : B. primary
65. ________ proposed the doctrine of Positivism
Correct : A. comte
66. __________ interaction consists of vocal or other gestures and language, spoken or
written.
Correct : B. symbolic
67. Who defined Sociology as a positive science?
Correct : A. comte
68. _______ is the search for ―invariant laws of the natural and social world.‖
Correct : C. positivism
69. In ___________ interaction, interaction occurs among people who are present in the same
setting, but are not engaged in face- to- face communication.
Correct : C. unfocused
70. _______ consists of the investigations of laws of action and reaction of different
parts of the social system
Correct : B. social statics
71. The French revolution led to the emergence of ______
Correct : A. nationalism
72. Which among the following is an indirect method of social control?
Correct : B. propaganda
73. ________ focuses on whole societies as the unit of analysis and how they
developed and changed through time
Correct : A. social dynamics
74. ___________ is a negative social sanction.
Correct : D. punishment
75. In ________ stage, people come to believe that all phenomena are created and
influenced by gods and supernatural forces
Correct : A. theological
76. The group which is more influential than family among the adolescents is __________.
Correct : B. peer group
77. _______ signaled the beginning of sociology as a discipline
Correct : D. enlightenment
78. ____________ are general abstract moral principles defining what is right or wrong.
Correct : A. values
79. The type of social stratification that existed in France during the time of
French revolution
Correct : C. estate system
80. Name the expected behaviour of an individual occupying a particular social position.
Correct : A. role
81. The French Revolution began in _____
Correct : C. 1789
82. The most important status a person occupies, the one that most defines a person‘s social
identity and general social position.
Correct : B. master status
83. The ________ stage is a transitional stage in which mysterious, abstract forces
replace supernatural forces as the powers that explain the workings of the
world
Correct : B. metaphysical
84. Which of the following is a work of Rousseau?
Correct : C. the social contract
85. Group in which individuals interact over a long period of time on a direct and personal
basis
Correct : D. primary group
86. In ____ stage, people search for invariant laws that govern all of the phenomena of the world.
a) Theological b) Metaphysical c) Positivist d) Revolutionary
92. ____________ makes possible the ―conversation of gestures.‖
Correct : C. physical proximity
87. Who proposed sociology to be studied in two main parts- social statics and
social dynamics?
Correct : A. comte
88. The system in which all the means of production belonged to the capitalist
Correct : C. capitalism
89. Segmented personality involvement exists in ____________ group.
Correct : B. secondary
90. The ______ stage is the last and highest stage in Comte‘s work
Correct : C. positivist
91. The distinction between in-group and out-group is ____________.
Correct : D. overlapping
92. ______ seeks empirical regularities, which are correlations between two
variables
Correct : C. positivism
93. The transference of cultural elements from one sphere to another is called ________.
Correct : C. diffusion
94. The _____ saw massive changes in society by the destruction of the feudal
system and the establishment of capitalism
Correct : C. industrial revolution
95. Comte says that method to study about society must be _______
Correct : A. scientific
96. ―Man is a social animal.‖ Who said so?
Correct : B. aristotle
97. The first social thinker who developed Darwinian evolutionism in the society
Correct : B. spencer
98. Culture bound or culture specific traits are known as ________ culture.
Correct : A. emic
99. The third Estate in the Estate system
Correct : C. commoners
100. ―A social group is a system of social interaction.‖ Who defined so?