NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sociology MCQs (Practice_Test 75 of 95)
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- There are three stages of development of Society, namely savagery arbarism and civilization, according to:
- Darwin
- Morgan
- Spencer
- Bachofen
- When cultural norms and values are transmitted from generation to generation, the process is called
- cultural reproduction
- acculturation
- cultural diffusion
- cultural stimulation
- Kroeber reported that an American Indian seeing the advantages of writing through contact with the whites invented a system called syllabary with eighty six symbols. This is an example of:
- discontinuous diffusion
- acculturation
- diffuseness
- stimulus diffusion
- When a person believes that his culture is superior to other cultures, it is called
- ethnicity
- ethnocentrism
- cultural snobbery
- 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 75 of 95) List-I List-II - A daughter-in-law covers her head in the presence of her father-in-law
- Action guided by ethical or aesthetic considerations
- Actions arising out of spontaneous excitement
- A worker lakes up a job in order to earn money with a view to meeting his needs
- Affectual
- Wert rational
- Zweck rational
- Traditional
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 1
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 2
- 1
- 3
- The subsystems of action as developed by Parsons include:
- social system, cultural system and personality system
- social system, political system and cultural system
- cultural system, political system and economic system
- economic system, social system and biological system
- Role conflict arises when:
- an individual has to perform a number of roles simultaneously
- an individual has to perform a role which is socially not approved
- an individual has to perform two roles incompatible with one another
- the performance of a role pushes the individual into conflict with other individuals
- The view that the tribal people should be allowed to retain their special characteristics while becoming a part of the mainstream, is known as:
- cultural relativism
- acculturation
- assimilation
- isolationism
- Who among the following used the distinction between the repressive and the restitutive law as the basis for classifying societies?
- Max Weber
- Henri Maine
- Montesque
- Emile Durkheim
- Which of the following characteristics used for defining a law?
- A rule
- Justice
- Political authority
- State power
- Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
- 1,2 and 3
- 2 and 4
- 1,3 and 4
- 2,3 and 4
- People who have similar incomes or are alike in other ways such as age, occupation and education are sociologically known as
- social categories
- quasi-groups
- social classes
- secondary groups
- Consider the following groups:
- A political party of one՚s choice
- One՚s religion
- One՚s enemy
- One՚s favourite teacher
- Among these groups, reference include group (s) would
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- 1,3 and 4
- 2 and 4
- 2 alone
- Which one of the following does not represent ascribed status?
- A father
- A priest
- A brahmin
- An eta
- The concept of recruitment roles was used by:
- Ralph Linton
- Talcott Parsons
- S F Nadel
- E Hoffman
- Which one of the following concepts implies that each social status involves not a single associated role but an array of roles?
- Multiple roles
- Status sequence
- Status-set
- Role-set