NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sociology MCQs (Practice_Test 53 of 95)
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- Who among the following held the view that in authority is the basis of division in differentiation society?
- Manc
- Dahrendorf
- Weber
- Coser
- Reservation for Scheduled Castes is provided in proportion to their:
- social backwardness
- economic necessities
- population
- low ritual positions
- The five fundamental principles (Panchasheel) forth tribal uplifitnent were presented for the first time by
- Varrier Elwin
- N K Bose
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Jaipal Singh
- The main provision of the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of India deals with
- reservation in government jobs
- preservation of tribal lands
- autonomy in administration in the tribal areas of north-east India
- reservation in educational institutions
- Tribals in a scheduled area demanded special care for the education of their children under their constitutional rights. They demanded such care under:
- Article 21
- Article 46
- Article 52
- Article 73
- Article 164 of the Constitution of India provides for separate ministers for tribal welfare in
- Rajasthan, Kerala and Nagaland
- Orissa Bihar and Meghalaya
- Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Orissa
- Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Orissa
- Which one of the following terms is used to describe the governing of a group by its own members on their own authority?
- Autochthonous
- Autocratic
- Autocephalous
- Autonomous
- When there is a correspondence between the normative order and the existential order in a society, it is known as:
- homogenous system
- harmonic system
- homologous system
- synchronic system
- Ralph Linton codified cultural items to:
- elements and themes
- elements, structures and functions
- universals, alternatives and specialities
- converging uniformities
- Which one of the following is not a racial myth?
- African forests enabled the blacks to have natural rhythm in their music
- Desert life of the Jews has provided them with a natural talent for finance
- Social environment has a substantial effect on intelligence among different racial groups
- The blacks are more sensuous than the whites
- Kroeber reported that an American Indian, seeing the advantage of writing, invented a system called a syllabary with eighty six symbols to put the ‘Cherokee language’ into written form. It can be called a process of:
- innovation
- diffusion
- imitation
- discourse
- The process of borrowing cultural items from other cultures is known as
- acculturation
- socialization
- enculturation
- acquisition
- The principle that a culture must be understood and judged on its own terms without references to the values of another culture is known as:
- cultural specificity
- cultural pluralism
- cultural hegemony
- cultural relativism
- Which of the following are at tributes of archaic societies?
- Mechanical solidarity
- Predominance of kinship
- Contractual relationships
- Social differention
- Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
- 1 and 2
- 1 and 3
- 2 and 3
- 3 and 4
- When a number of ethnic groups, each with its distinctive culture exist in a society, it is best known as:
- a plural society
- a differentiated society
- a mixed society
- a primitive society