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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (BA Sociology) , Sociology (CBCS) .
| 151. |
The name Marx gave to the process whereby the means of production become the private property of one class of persons and create the ‘pauperization of the direct producer’ |
| A. | Commoditization |
| B. | Surplus value |
| C. | Primitive accumulation |
| D. | Division of labour |
| Answer» C. Primitive accumulation | |
| 152. |
According to Marx, ------- breaks the fundamental connections human beings have to the means of production in terms of economic subsistence and survival |
| A. | Alienation |
| B. | Commoditization |
| C. | Production activity |
| D. | Exchange of goods |
| Answer» A. Alienation | |
| 153. |
According to Marx, when workers become estranged from the things they produce, it is called |
| A. | Alienation from the product activity |
| B. | Alienation from the product |
| C. | Alienation from the species |
| D. | Alienation from fellow-beings |
| Answer» B. Alienation from the product | |
| 154. |
The type of alienation in which human beings lose control over the capacity of their labour to affirm their being and define their self-existence is |
| A. | Alienation from the product activity |
| B. | Alienation from the product |
| C. | Alienation from the self |
| D. | Alienation from fellow-beings |
| Answer» A. Alienation from the product activity | |
| 155. |
When a person is alienated from the human social community, it is called |
| A. | Alienation from the product activity |
| B. | Alienation from the product |
| C. | Alienation from the species |
| D. | Alienation from fellow humans. |
| Answer» D. Alienation from fellow humans. | |
| 156. |
The term used by Durkheim to identify a system of social relations linking individuals to each other and to the society as a whole is |
| A. | Acculturation |
| B. | Association |
| C. | Social solidarity |
| D. | Social facts |
| Answer» C. Social solidarity | |
| 157. |
For Durkheim ------- describes the degree of social integration which links individuals to social groups outside them. |
| A. | Acculturation |
| B. | Association |
| C. | Social solidarity |
| D. | Social facts |
| Answer» C. Social solidarity | |
| 158. |
The type of social bonding that discourages individual autonomy in a society is termed as |
| A. | Mechanical solidarity |
| B. | Organic solidarity |
| C. | Homogenous solidarity |
| D. | Heterogeneous solidarity |
| Answer» A. Mechanical solidarity | |
| 159. |
When a society is with a homogeneous population which is small and isolated, it is characterised by the existence of |
| A. | Mechanical solidarity |
| B. | Organic solidarity |
| C. | Homogenous solidarity |
| D. | Heterogeneous solidarity |
| Answer» A. Mechanical solidarity | |
| 160. |
In a society where labour is specialized and individuals are linked more to each other than they are to society as a whole, it is characterised by |
| A. | Mechanical solidarity |
| B. | Organic solidarity |
| C. | Homogenous solidarity |
| D. | Heterogeneous solidarity |
| Answer» B. Organic solidarity | |
| 161. |
According to Durkheim, the primary characteristic of organic solidarity is the development of |
| A. | Social facts |
| B. | Suicide |
| C. | Division of labour |
| D. | Forced labour |
| Answer» C. Division of labour | |
| 162. |
According to Durkheim, when an industrial crisis breaks down the social solidarity existing between specialized functions and creates a decline in social cohesion, it is called |
| A. | The forced division of labour |
| B. | Poor division of labour |
| C. | Abnormal division of labour |
| D. | Anomic division of labour |
| Answer» D. Anomic division of labour | |
| 163. |
According to Durkheim, ----- are external to the individual |
| A. | Social facts |
| B. | Social solidarity |
| C. | Social justice |
| D. | Social sanction |
| Answer» A. Social facts | |
| 164. |
Durkheim maintained that in order to study social facts, it should be considered as |
| A. | Abstracts |
| B. | Things |
| C. | Facts |
| D. | Pathological |
| Answer» B. Things | |
| 165. |
According to Durkheim, the study of the form and structure of societies and its classification based on attributes can be called as |
| A. | Social pathology |
| B. | Social phenomenology |
| C. | Social morphology |
| D. | Social psychology |
| Answer» C. Social morphology | |
| 166. |
--------------- is the result of the weakening of the bonds which tie the individual to the society |
| A. | Anomic suicide |
| B. | Fatalistic suicide |
| C. | Egoistic suicide |
| D. | Altruistic suicide |
| Answer» C. Egoistic suicide | |
| 167. |
They type of suicide resulting from too much social integration is known as |
| A. | Anomic suicide |
| B. | Fatalistic suicide |
| C. | Egoistic suicide |
| D. | Altruistic suicide |
| Answer» D. Altruistic suicide | |
| 168. |
The suicide of older men threatened with severe illness is an example for |
| A. | Altruistic suicide |
| B. | Anomic suicide |
| C. | Fatalistic suicide |
| D. | Egoistic suicide |
| Answer» A. Altruistic suicide | |
| 169. |
----------- is at the opposite pole of social integration to altruistic suicide |
| A. | Altruistic suicide |
| B. | Anomic suicide |
| C. | Fatalistic suicide |
| D. | Egoistic suicide |
| Answer» D. Egoistic suicide | |
| 170. |
The type of altruistic suicide in which society imposes an explicit duty on individuals to take their own life but lacking specific coercive pressure from the community is known as |
| A. | Optional altruistic suicide |
| B. | Obligatory altruistic suicide |
| C. | Acute altruistic suicide |
| D. | Mystic altruistic suicide |
| Answer» B. Obligatory altruistic suicide | |
| 171. |
The type of suicide occurring due to excess of social regulation is called |
| A. | Altruistic suicide |
| B. | Anomic suicide |
| C. | Fatalistic suicide |
| D. | Egoistic suicide |
| Answer» C. Fatalistic suicide | |
| 172. |
The doctrine that holds the view that historical circumstances are determined by a sequence of economic events connected to the act of production is known as |
| A. | Historical materialism |
| B. | Rationalization |
| C. | Economic determinism |
| D. | Economic materialism |
| Answer» C. Economic determinism | |
| 173. |
Weber placed ----------- as the key to understand the pattern of historical development |
| A. | Power |
| B. | Ideal types |
| C. | Bureaucracy |
| D. | Rationalization |
| Answer» D. Rationalization | |
| 174. |
According to Weber, the process by which nature, society and individual actions are increasingly mastered by an orientation to planning, technical procedure and rational action is called |
| A. | Rationalization |
| B. | Rationality |
| C. | Social causation |
| D. | Individual autonomy |
| Answer» A. Rationalization | |
| 175. |
The term Weber used to refer to the capacity of social action to be subject to calculation in the means and ends of action is |
| A. | Rationalization |
| B. | Rationality |
| C. | Social causation |
| D. | Calculation |
| Answer» B. Rationality | |
| 176. |
According to Weber, the amount of quantitative calculation and accounting procedure that goes into an action or decision is called |
| A. | Practical rationality |
| B. | Theoretical rationality |
| C. | Formal rationality |
| D. | Substantive rationality |
| Answer» C. Formal rationality | |
| 177. |
Weber refers practical rationality as |
| A. | The amount of quantitative calculation and accounting procedure that goes into an action or decision. |
| B. | A way of looking at the world in which the meaning of an act is believed to lie in its function or utility. |
| C. | The one that imposes order on reality by conceptual reasoning |
| D. | A practical orientation of action regarding outcomes or results. |
| Answer» B. A way of looking at the world in which the meaning of an act is believed to lie in its function or utility. | |
| 178. |
Which perspective advocated society as a system with balance and boundaries? |
| A. | Structuralism |
| B. | Functionalism |
| C. | Interactionism |
| D. | Conflict perspective |
| Answer» B. Functionalism | |
| 179. |
Weber’s theory of social class appears in his work |
| A. | The Sociology of Religion |
| B. | The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism |
| C. | The Capitalist society |
| D. | Economy and Society |
| Answer» D. Economy and Society | |
| 180. |
August Comte defined sociology as a |
| A. | Comparative science |
| B. | Historical method |
| C. | Positive science |
| D. | General Science |
| Answer» C. Positive science | |
| 181. |
Evolutionary theory is often regarded as the greatest contribution of British Sociologist |
| A. | Herbert Spencer |
| B. | Auguste Comte |
| C. | Karl Marx |
| D. | Emile Durkheim |
| Answer» A. Herbert Spencer | |
| 182. |
The building blocks of a theory is called |
| A. | Definitions |
| B. | Concepts |
| C. | Propositions |
| D. | Variables |
| Answer» B. Concepts | |
| 183. |
Conclusions drawn about the relationship among concepts based on the logical interrelationship is called |
| A. | Definitions |
| B. | Concepts |
| C. | Propositions |
| D. | Variables |
| Answer» C. Propositions | |
| 184. |
Specified expectations about empirical reality derived from propositions are called |
| A. | Definitions |
| B. | Propositions |
| C. | Variables |
| D. | Hypotheses |
| Answer» D. Hypotheses | |
| 185. |
A concept having two or more values or categories that can vary and be measured is known as |
| A. | Definitions |
| B. | Concepts |
| C. | Propositions |
| D. | Variables |
| Answer» D. Variables | |
| 186. |
The theoretical perspective that holds that society is a complex system whose various parts work together to produce stability is |
| A. | Structuralism |
| B. | Functionalism |
| C. | Conflict perspective |
| D. | Interactionism |
| Answer» B. Functionalism | |
| 187. |
A prominent exponent of functionalism in the United States |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Durkheim |
| C. | Talcott Parsons |
| D. | Wilfredo Pareto |
| Answer» C. Talcott Parsons | |
| 188. |
The concept of ‘dysfunction’ is a major contribution of |
| A. | Durkheim |
| B. | Robert K Merton |
| C. | Talcott Parsons |
| D. | Wilfredo Pareto |
| Answer» B. Robert K Merton | |
| 189. |
The theoretical perspective that emphasises the importance of moral consensus in maintaining order and stability in a system is called |
| A. | Structuralism |
| B. | Functionalism |
| C. | Conflict perspective |
| D. | Interactionism |
| Answer» B. Functionalism | |
| 190. |
What are manifest functions? |
| A. | Unrecognised and intended consequences of a social action |
| B. | Recognised and unintended consequences of a social action |
| C. | Unrecognised and Unintended consequences of a social action |
| D. | Recognised and intended consequences of a social action |
| Answer» D. Recognised and intended consequences of a social action | |
| 191. |
Robert K Merton is a |
| A. | Structuralist |
| B. | Structural-Functionalist |
| C. | Conflict theorist |
| D. | Interactionist |
| Answer» B. Structural-Functionalist | |
| 192. |
Middle-range theories is a great contribution by |
| A. | Robert K Merton |
| B. | Talcott Parson |
| C. | Ralph Dahrendorf |
| D. | Wright Mills |
| Answer» A. Robert K Merton | |
| 193. |
The evolutionary perspective holds the idea that |
| A. | The social system is in a state of equilibrium |
| B. | Change in one part of a system affects other parts |
| C. | Societies gradually change from simple to complex systems |
| D. | The social system consists of interrelated parts |
| Answer» C. Societies gradually change from simple to complex systems | |
| 194. |
Auguste Comte believed that human societies can evolve only in a |
| A. | Stagnant state |
| B. | Polylinear way |
| C. | Multi-linear way |
| D. | Uni-linear way |
| Answer» D. Uni-linear way | |
| 195. |
Latent functions are always |
| A. | Unrecognised and intended consequences of a social action |
| B. | Recognised and unintended consequences of a social action |
| C. | Unrecognised and Unintended consequences of a social action |
| D. | Recognised and intended consequences of a social action |
| Answer» C. Unrecognised and Unintended consequences of a social action | |
| 196. |
The study of everyday behaviour in situations of face to face interaction is usually called |
| A. | Microsociology |
| B. | Public sociology |
| C. | Macrosociology |
| D. | Political sociology |
| Answer» A. Microsociology | |
| 197. |
Theories that deal with the analysis of large-scale social structures and long-term processes of change is called |
| A. | Micro level theories |
| B. | Macro level theories |
| C. | Middle-range theories |
| D. | Symbolic interactionism |
| Answer» B. Macro level theories | |
| 198. |
Levi-Strauss is a prominent |
| A. | Functionalist |
| B. | Interactionist |
| C. | Structural- functionalist |
| D. | Structuralist |
| Answer» D. Structuralist | |
| 199. |
Who introduced the term sociological imagination? |
| A. | Lewis Coser |
| B. | C H Cooley |
| C. | C Wright Mills |
| D. | Max Weber |
| Answer» C. C Wright Mills | |
| 200. |
The Sociological paradigm that focuses on the way each part of society functions together to contribute to the whole is called |
| A. | Structuralism |
| B. | Structural-functionalism |
| C. | Conflict theory |
| D. | Symbolic interactionism |
| Answer» B. Structural-functionalism | |
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