NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sociology MCQs (Practice_Test 50 of 95)
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- Assertion (A) : Cities have larger number of voluntary associations.
- Reason (R) : Organic solidarity is a resultant of high moral density.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and Rare individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false But R is true
- Assertion (A) : At the time of framing of the constitution reservation of jobs for the Scheduled Castes was intended for an unspecified period.
- Reason (R) : Constitutional provisions in respect of reservation of jobs for the Scheduled Castes have not ensured their social and economic uplifiment within the period specified.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and Rare individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false But R is true
- Assertion (A) : The evolutionary model of social development has largely been abandoned by sociologists.
- Reason (R) : Social development implies increase in rationality.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and Rare individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false But R is true
- Assertion (A) : Tribal culture is losing its identity.
- Reason (R) : Assimilational forces are operating on tribes.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and Rare individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false But R is true
- Assertion (A) : The greater the urbanization, the larger the number of secondary groups.
- Reason (R) : The greater the social division of labour, the larger is the scope for individualism.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and Rare individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false But R is true
- Assertion (A) : People sometimes buy expensive goods not so much because of their superior quality but because they are expensive.
- Reason (R) : The purchase of expensive goods is a symbolic pointer to the high social status of the buyer.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and Rare individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false But R is true
- Assertion (A) : Crime rates are usually higher for cities than for villages.
- Reason (R) : There are more wealthy men in cities than in villages.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and Rare individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false But R is true
- Assertion (A) In American culture, the term ‘uncle’ is used to refer to four kinds of relatives. Reason (R) : For Americans, the distinction between different kinds of uncles is relatively unimportant.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and Rare individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false But R is true
- Assertion (A) : One՚s affinal relations may also be one՚s consanguineal relations.
- Reason (R) : Genealogical network in simple societies does not exhaust kinship network.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and Rare individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false But R is true
- Assertion (A) : Division of labour is very much limited in archaic societies.
- Reason (R) : Archaic societies are relatively isolated from the rest of the societies.
- Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and Rare individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false But R is true
- A unique feature of a mobile society is that is:
- possesses a number of automobiles
- passes through a series of changes
- contains opportunities for change of class position
- encourages movement from one place to another
- The Varnas, as Senart observed in a classical study, originally resembled feudal estate in certain respects. Which of the characteristic listed below have been emphasized by him?
- The possibility of upward mobility existed.
- They were machinery for the exchange of goods.
- There was hierarchical ordering of the groups.
- A strict segregation of groups existed.
- They had a status based on a complex of rights and duties.
- Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
- 2,3 and 5
- 1,3 and 5
- l, 2 and 4
- 3,4 and 5
- Aspirations for improvement in castestatus are common but it is not achieved unless a caste acquires:
- ritual purity
- group acceptance
- power privilege
- official connections
- Which one of the following is not an essential feature of the caste system?
- Endogamy
- Hierarchy
- Mobility
- Belief in re-birth
- Jajmani system indicates a set of:
- contractual relations
- political relations
- marital relations
- economic relations