Competitive Exams: Sociology MCQs (Practice_Test 4 of 95)
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- Consider the following statements: Social stratification is
- a hierarchical division of society
- based on cultural background of the people
- a contractual system of division of society into groups
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 3
- 1 alone
- 3 alone
- Consider the following sociologists:
- Pierre Vander Berghe
- Kingsley Davis
- Melvin Tumin
- Gerhard Lenski
Who among these sociologists aft emptied a reconciliation between the Marxist and the functionalist theories of social stratification?
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 3
- 1 and 4
- 3 and 4
- Consider the following statements:
- Language is the basis of bio-social form of differentiation
- Age is the basis of the socio-cultural form of differentiation
- Sex is the basis of bio-social form of differentiation
- Religion is the basis of socio-cultural form of differentiation
Which of these statements are correct?
- 1,2 and 3
- 1 and 3
- 2,3 and 4
- l, 2 and 4
- Who is the author of the book ‘White Collar: American Middle Class’
- John H Goldthorpe
- William Foote Whyte
- Barbara Wooten
- C Wright Mills
- Which one of the following theories supports the view that inequality is not only endemic but also necessary?
- Conflict
- Functionalist
- Indological
- Structuralist
- Which one of the following helps to maintain the structural distance between castes?
- Economic status
- Political power
- Land ownership
- Purity and pollution
- Consider the following features:
- Numerical strength
- Economic status
- Ritual status
- Political power
- Legal status
Which of these is/are not feature (s) of a dominant caste?
- 2 and 5
- 1 alone
- 5 alone
- 3,4 and 5
- In modem society, if a peasant՚s son becomes a skilled worker in a city, then it is a case of:
- horizontal mobility
- upward mobility
- downward mobility
- geographical mobility
- Consider the following caste groups:
- Jat Silchs of Punjab
- Nadras of Tamil Nadu
- Jatavas of Uttar Pradesh
- Vokkaligas of Kamataka
Which of these groups have experienced upward mobility in the caste system?
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- 1 and 3
- 2 and 3
- 1,2 and 4
- Consider the following characteristics:
- Segmental division of society
- Unrestricted division of occupations
- Civil and religious disabilities and privileges
Which of these are the characteristics of the caste system?
- 1,2 and 3
- 1 and 2
- 2 and 3
- 1 and 3
- The view that the Varna system is an order the Jati system a classificatory scheme, was held by:
- Mckim Marriot
- Milton Singer
- Andre Beitelle
- Dipankar Gupta
- Which one of the following pairs of sociologists said that classes develop on the basis of different positions which individuals occupy in the productive system of the society?
- Karl Marx and Talcott Parsons
- Karl Marx and Max Weber
- Max Weber and Dahrendorf
- Max Weber and Talcott Parsons
- The Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Chinese Revolution of 1949 took place in:
- highly rural peasant societies
- high industrialized and less urbanized societies
- less urbanized and less industrialized societies
- highly urbanized and less industrialized societies
- Which one of the following tribes is a pastoral community?
- Apatani
- Baiga
- Mishmi
- Toda
- That socialism could completely avoid the organisational characteristics of industrialism was denied by:
- Daniel Bell
- Max Weber
- Gunnar Myrdal
- David Harvey