NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sociology MCQs (Practice_Test 86 of 95)
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- Which of the following are features of reference group behaviour?
- Comparison
- Appraisal
- Emulation
- Rejection
- Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
- 1,2 and 3
- 1 and 2
- 1,3 and 4
- 3 and 4
- When those who have risen above the lowest poverty levels indulge in civic unrest against the privileged, it is an expression of:
- relative deprivation
- social inequality
- social mobility
- factionalism
- Which of the following are the characteristics of Society?
- Territory
- State
- Individuals
- System of interrelationships
- Common culture
- Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
- 1,2 and 3
- 3,4 and 5
- 2,3, 4 and 5
- 1,4 and 5
- Which one of the following is the minimal pre-requisite of a social relationship?
- Physical contact
- Face-to-Face contact
- Mutual awareness
- Harmony
- Which of the following are the characteristics of a modern urban society?
- Organic solidarity
- Mechanical solidary
- Strong collective consciousness
- Weak collective consciousness
- Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
- 2 and 3
- 2 and 4
- 1 and 3
- 1 and 4
- What does acculturation signify?
- Growing up an internalizing the values and norms of one՚s society
- Spread of a cultural element from the centre of origin to other societies
- Interchange of elements of culture between societies
- Incorporation of an element of culture from another culture, while retaining its identity
- Who among the following identified and analysed spatial and temporal dimensions of human interaction?
- Erving Goffman
- Robert A. Nisbet
- George Simmel
- Lewis Coser
- The statement that ‘Indian culture is superior to Western culture’ is an example of:
- culture relativity
- ethnocentrism
- fundamentalism
- xenophobia
- A group which does not allow a person to join similar other groups at one and the same time is called:
- disjunctive group
- ingroup
- closed group
- congregate group
- Who among the following developed the concept of ‘Primordial primary’ group?
- Edward Shils
- CH Cooley
- Erich Fromm
- George Homans
- Which one of the following scholars has propounded that ‘command over resources and benefits’ is an organising principle of large social structures?
- M Fortes
- F G Bailey
- M J Levy
- S F Nadel
- Who among the following has argued that a social structure cannot change?
- Levi Bruhl
- Levi Strauss
- Pierre Bordien
- Raymond Aron
- According to T Parsons, the cardinal process in the formation and continuity of the social system is:
- goal attainment
- institutionalization
- integration
- adaptation
- If a gang is involved in conflict with a rival gang, the intragroup conflict usually tends to:
- increase
- decrease
- disappear
- remain unaffected
- ‘An association is a group of individuals united for specific purpose or purposes or held together by a recognized or sanctioned mode of procedure or behaviour’ according to:
- Maclver
- Gillin and Gillin
- T. B. Bottomore
- Horton and Hunt