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 SOCIAL THEORY MCQ QUESTION BANK WITH ANSWER
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1. The term ‘sociology’ was coined by

 (a) Saint Simon 

(b) Herbert Spencer 

(c) Auguste Comte 

(d) Durkheim 

Ans. (c) 

2. In which year the term ‘Sociology’ was coined? 

(a) 1798 

(b) 1815 

(c) 1839 

(d) 1857

 Ans. (c) 

3. French Revolution took place in the year 

(a) 1789 

(b) 1776 

(c) 1798 

(d) 1898

 Ans. (a) 

4. Sociology emerged in 

(a) Asia 

(b) Europe 

(c) Africa 

(d) America 

Ans. (b) 

5. The word ‘Sociology’ is made up of two words. These are- 

(a) Societies and Logy 

(b) Societia and Logistia 

(c) Socious and Logos 

(d) Socia & Logos 

Ans. (c) 

6. Society emerges out of 

(a) community’s existence 

(b) men’s existence 

(c) problem’s existence 

(d) relationship 

Ans. (b) 

7. Society symbolises the network of 

(a) human relationships 

(b) social relationships 

(c) orientations 

(d) inter-connections 

Ans. (b) 

8. ‘Society is the web of social relationships’ whose definition is this? 

(a) Maclver 

(b) H. Maine 

(c) Pluto 

(d) Aristotle 

Ans. (a) 

9. There are two types of definition of society. These are- 

(a) Structural and interactional 

(b) Functional and structural 

(c) Evolutionary and diffusive 

(d) Structural and evolutionary 

Ans. (b)

10. Society is 

(a) Natural 

(b) Deliberate 

(c) Practical 

(d) Functional 

Ans. (b) 

11. Marriage is a/an 

(a) important and universal social institution of society 

(b) important basis for group formation  

(c) helpful in strengthening the caste system 

(d) helpful in calming down the anger of two conflicting groups. 

Ans. (a) 

12. In the Industrialised western societies, the chief aim of marriage is not only procreation but 

(a) companionship 

(b) emotional and psychological support and companionship 

(c) emotional and psychological support 

(d) divorce 

Ans. (b) 

13. Marriage is considered to be necessary because 

(a) This is the only way to acquire paternal property 

(b) This is the only way of sexual gratification 

(c) This provides societal sanction 

(d) It is regularised and provides socially sanctioned sex gratification 

Ans. (d)

 14. In his book ‘People of India’ who said ‘that probably there has existed in man a tendency to vary. This desire must have driven men to seek marital alliance with strangers, unfamiliar and unknown to him’. 

(a) Guha

(b) Ghureye 

(c) Risley 

(d) Westermarck 

Ans. (c) 

15. Risley have given this statement put in question No. 4 to support his views on , regarding marriage. (a) Exogamy 

(b) Acculturation 

(c) Preference and prohibition 

(d) Cousin marriage 

Ans. (d) 

16. Who among the following was on the opinion that” A gift is a social substitute for money among moneyless cultures.”? 

(a) Ogburn and Nimkoff 

(b) Mauss 

(c) Frazer 

(d) Polyan 

Ans. (a) 

17. The importance of the social division of labour as a criterion of social development has been insisted by 

(a) Karl Marx 

(b) Emile Durkheim 

(c) F. Engels 

(d) Herbert Hyman 

Ans. (b) 

18. Whose statement is this? “Jajmani relationships is the means by which the rich and powerful exploit the poor and coerce the workers into sustaining the power of those who have the upper hand and the higher rank.” 

(a) M.N. Srinivas 

(b) Mandelbaum 

(c) Beidelman 

(d) H. Maine 

Ans. (c) 

19. Kula exchange is associated with 

(a) Tikopians 

(b) Trobriand Islanders 

(c) Krowe tribes 

(d) Azande tribes 

Ans. (b) 

20. The basis of slave system is always? 

(a) Political 

(b) Economic 

(c) Custom 

(d) Social need 

Ans. (b) 

21. Which of the following factors does not contribute to the growth of traditional societies? 

(a) Community and associational life is kept loose without any prescribed basis of social existence 

(b) Perpetuation of tribal and caste affiliation 

(c) Perpetuation of kinship and clanship 

(d) Continuation of agriculture as the dominant activity. 

Ans. (a) 

22. Which of the following statements is correct? 

(a) The percentage of the world’s population that live in cities is indeed very large 

(b) Most of the world has been urban most of the time. 

(c) Most of the world has been rural most of the time. 

(d) India is a highly urban country 

Ans. (c) 

23. A characteristic feature of a rural community is 

(a) Formal relationship 

(b) Rational will 

(c) Community sentiment 

(d) A vast number of association 

Ans. (a)

24. Who among the following was the first to distinguish between the state and the government? 

(a) Locke 

(b) R. Dahl 

(c) Marx 

(d) Max Weber 

Ans. (a) 

25. ‘The state originates and continues to exist for the sake of the best life’. Whose opinion is this? 

(a) Aristotle 

(b) C.W. Mills 

(c) R. Dahl 

(d) W. Pareto 

Ans. (a) 

26. Who among the following is associated with authority? 

(a) Hobbes 

(b) Rousseau

(c) M. Weber 

(d) Locke 

Ans. (c) 

27. The three-tier system of Panchayati Raj was recommended by 

(a) Kaka Kalekar Committee

(b) Simon Commission 

(c) Balwant Rai Mehta Committee 

(d) Jai Prakash Narain Committee 

Ans. (c)

 28. Functional theory of stratification propounded by 

(a) Davis and Parsons 

(b) Davis and Moore 

(c) Parsons and Ross 

(d) Goode and Hatt 

Ans. (b) 

29. Who among the following has emphasized upon the functional aspects of stratification? 

(a) Durkheim, Weber, Parsons 

(b) Marx, Weber, Davis 

(c) Davis, Moore, Parsons 

(d) Lenski, C.W. Mills, Parsons 

Ans. (c) 

30. The society has passed through the three stages of its development-theological, metaphysical and the positive. This view was held by 

(a) Max Weber 

(b) H. Spencer 

(c) F. Tonnies 

(d) A. Comte 

Ans. (d) 

31. A social movement depends on 

1. A goal 

2. An Organisation 

3. A programme 

4. A set of value 

Codes: (a) 1, 2, 3 and 4 

(b) 1 and 4 

(c) 1, 3 and 4 

(d) 1, 2 and 3 

Ans. (a) 

32. Whose definition is this? ‘Tribe is an indigenous unit speaking a common language, claiming a common descent, living in a particular geographical area, backward in technology, pre-literate, loyally observing social and political customs based on kinship.’ 

(a) A conference at Shillong in 1962 

(b) Earth Summit at Rio in 1992 

(c) Radcliffe Brown 

(d) Indigenous People Conference, Sav Paulo 1937 

Ans. (a) 

33. Practice of welcoming guests, by spitting on their body is practiced by 

(a) Azande 

(b) Onges 

(c) Sherdukpens 

(d) Masai 

Ans. (d) 

34. Demographers do not take into account 

(a) Age, sex and racial composition of the population 

(b) Height and weight of the population 

(c) Birth and death rate 

(d) Density of population 

Ans. (b) 

35. What is meant by sex-ratio? 

(a)The relation between male and female 

(b) The ratio between the number of adult male and adult females in a population 

(c)The ratio between number of female and number of male in a population 

(d) The number of females per 1000 males in a population

 Ans. (d) 

36. The scheduled castes in India provide an example of a 

(a) Formal group 

(b) Reference group 

(c) Social category 

(d) Secondary group 

Ans. (c) 

37. Who gave the name ‘Harijans’ to the untouchables? 

(a) Indian constitution 

(b) B.R. Ambdedkar 

(c) M.K. Gandhi 

(d) G.S. Ghurye 

Ans. (c) 

38. According to whom the ‘self’ develops in a social context and is nurtured by primary groups? 

(a) Charles H. Cooley 

(b) Ruth Benedict 

(c) Mead 

(d) Freud 

Ans. (a) 

39. Who viewed corporate group in relation to authority and termed it as Verband? 

(a) Hobsbawm 

(b) Sir Henry Maine 

(c) Weber 

(d) None 

Ans. (c) 

40. The value which cannot be determined graphically is: 

(a) Median 

(b) Mean 

(c) Frequency table 

(d) None of the above 

Ans. (a) 

41. The most frequent item of the series around which other items are densely populated is known as: 

(a) geometric mean 

(b) arithmetic mean 

(c) harmonic mean 

(d) mode

 Ans. (d) 

42. What is the theoretical framework that focuses on the level of economic development as the determinant of birth and death rates, referred to as? 

(A) Malthusian Theory of population 

(B) Optimum Theory of population 

(C) Demographic Transition Theory 

(D) Theory of social capillarity 

Ans. (B) 

43. Which of the following determine India’s fertility rate?

 1. Religious importance of the male child. 

2. Social security value of children 

3. Economic value of children 

4. Intrinsic value of children

 Select the correct answer using the code given below: 

(A) 1 and 2 only 

(B) 3 and 4 only 

(C) 1, 2 and 3 only 

(D) 2, 3 and 4 only 

Ans. (C) 

44. Which one of the following is the first stage of the evolution of an institution? 

(A) Tradition 

(B) Ideology 

(C) Collective Experience 

(D) Mores 

Ans. (B) 

45. Identify the particular element that dominates in the material culture:

(A) Religion and Morality 

(B) Science and Technology 

(C) Custom and Tradition 

(D) Folkways 

Ans. (D) 

46. Which among the following is the indicator of open stratification system? 

(A) Ethnicity 

(B) Caste 

(C) Class 

(D) Religion 

Ans. (C) 

47. Who among the following authors initially used the term ‘social physics’ for Sociology? 

(A) Spencer 

(B) Comte 

(C) Tonnies 

(D) Weber 

Ans. (B) 

48. An author thought of ‘society to be consisting in the consciousness of kind’. Identify from among the following:

(A) Cooley 

(B) Ward 

(C) Simmel 

(D) Giddings 

Ans. (D) 

49. Which of the following best describes sociology as a subject? 

(a) The study of individual behavior 

(b) The study of cultures 

(c) The study of society and social interaction 

(d) The study of economics 

Ans. (c) 

50. C. Wright Mills once said that sociologists need to develop a sociological to study how society affects individuals. 

(a) culture 

(b) imagination 

(c) method 

(d) tool 

Ans. (b)

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