NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sociology MCQs (Practice_Test 1 of 95)
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- Which one of the following statements is not correct?
- Racial inter-mixture leads to degeneration
- The concept of pure race is a myth
- Inter-mixture of races is universal
- No race is superior or inferior to any other race
- Consider the following theories:
- Evolutionist
- Diffusionist
- Functionalist
- Phenomenologist
- Which of these theories adopt a holistic view of culture?
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 4
- 1 and 3
- 3 and 4
- When inherent superiority of a people over another is legitimized in terms of biological attributes, it is called:
- racism
- ethnicity
- society
- cultural pride
- Which one of the following is an example of role-set?
- A teacher՚s relationship with his pupils, colleagues, the principal and parents
- A teacher as husband, father, sportsman and social activist
- A teacher becoming later a head of the department, a principal and a registrar
- A student becoming a husband, a father and a grandfather over a period of time
- Pronatalism refers to the:
- view that a person should not have as many children as possible
- view that only the child can provide sustenance and salvation to the family
- strong positive value a society places on having children
- view that vitality of the family depends upon the strong physique of the child
- The view that without using the values of one՚s own cultured to judge all others is known as:
- individualism
- ethnocentrism
- culture of objectivity
- cultural relativism
- Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists:
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Sociology MCQs (Practice_Test 1 of 95) List-I List-II - Pan-Egyptian Cultural Approach
- Cultural Historical Approach
- Structural Approach
- Evolutionary Approach
- L H Morgan
- Elliot Smith
- F Graebner
- C Levi Strauss
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 1
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 4
- 1
- According to T Parsons, there are three modes of the following motivational orientation. Which one is not included in these modes?
- Cognitive orientation
- Cathertic orientation
- Appreciative orientation
- Evaluative orientation
- Clark Wissler demonstrated that in each restricted area of a culture, a central of dispersal could be identified, People living on the borders of two culture areas share the features of both. Such areas are called:
- areas of cultural parallels
- areas of cultural similarities
- areas of cultural amalgamation
- marginal areas
- The fact that diffusion is possible shows that:
- evolution is a mistaken doctrine
- societies have fixed genetic constitutions
- evolution cannot be precisely unilinear
- progress is inevitable
- Which one of the following covers the situation where a TV commentator would?
- Diffusion
- Cultural lag
- Communication gap
- Technological lag
- Ethnocentrism refers to:
- appreciating cultural traits of other groups
- the tendency of a cultural group to uphold and sustain traditional culture
- the attitude that one՚s own culture or group is superior to another
- the attempt to modernize traditional cultural values
- According to T Parsons behaviour becomes action when four conditions are present. Which among the following conditions is not one of them?
- Orientation to attainment of ends
- Occurrence in particular situations
- Being regulated by norms and values of the individual actor
- Involvement of an emotional investment of energy
- Which one of the following is social relationship?
- Two armies facing each other
- Thirty candidates seated in an examination hail
- People running for shelter during a sudden downpour
- Cinema viewers and actors on the screen
- A man, who has accumulated a lot of black money, constructs a hospital for cancer patients and poses himself as a saviour of the downtrodden. This is an example of:
- role insulation
- counterfeit role
- false role
- role-set