Chapter: Culture,Personality and Society
1.

Culture has two essential qualities. They are

A. transmitted and shared
B. learned and shared
C. learned and forgotten
D. Shared and communicated.
Answer» A. transmitted and shared
2.

The process by which an individual learns the culture of their society is known as

A. Socialisation
B. Internalisation
C. Sanskritisation
D. Modernization
Answer» A. Socialisation
3.

The study of a society becomes incomplete without a proper understanding of

A. The culture of that society
B. Rules and Regulations of that society
C. Arts and literature of that society
D. Education and government system of that society
Answer» A. The culture of that society
4.

Only man is born and bought up in a

A. Natural environment
B. Cultural environment
C. Artificial environment
D. Original environment
Answer» B. Cultural environment
5.

Who defined culture is the “realm of styles, of values, of emotional attachment, of intellectual adventures”

A. Morgan
B. Edward Tylor
C. Maclver and Page
D. Sir James Frazer
Answer» C. Maclver and Page
6.

Peer group is a group whose numbers share

A. Similar values
B. Similar play ground
C. Similar circumstances
D. Similar study circle and books
Answer» C. Similar circumstances
7.

Peer groups are often of a

A. Similar culture
B. Similar race and colour
C. Similar height
D. Similar age
Answer» D. Similar age
8.

Every culture contains a large number of guideline which direct conduct in a particular situation. Such guidelines are known as

A. Culture
B. Folkways
C. Mores
D. Norms
Answer» D. Norms
9.

A norm is a

A. Specific guide to action
B. Culture of society
C. Guideline for socialization
D. Guide for social interaction
Answer» A. Specific guide to action
10.

Norms are enforced by

A. Positive sanction
B. Negative sanction
C. Order
D. Positive and negative sanction
Answer» D. Positive and negative sanction
11.

Norms are imposed through _________ means of social control

A. Formal and legal
B. Formal and informal
C. Cultural
D. Informal and illegal
Answer» A. Formal and legal
12.

A value is a belief that something is

A. Moral
B. Very productive in society
C. Good and desirable
D. Cultural
Answer» C. Good and desirable
13.

All numbers of society occupy a number of social positions known as

A. Role
B. Prestige
C. Esteem
D. Status
Answer» D. Status
14.

A group involves some degree of _________ among its members for the attainment or common goals

A. Cooperation
B. Conflict
C. Competition
D. Association
Answer» A. Cooperation
15.

Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs and other capabilities acquired by man as

A. member of society – it is said by
B. Talcott Parsons
C. W F Green
D. Tylor
Answer» C. W F Green
16.

To prepare one for future roles is

A. Futurisation
B. Prediction
C. Anticipatory socialization
D. Internalisation
Answer» C. Anticipatory socialization
17.

Personality is expressed through

A. Habits, tendencies and thinking
B. Habits and behavior
C. Thinking
D. Tendencies and thinking
Answer» A. Habits, tendencies and thinking
18.

The unification of individuals socio psychological behavior is reflected in

A. The way individual behaves
B. His personality
C. His social interaction
D. His culture
Answer» B. His personality
19.

____________ is a person who is taken as the point of reference in a discussion

A. Individual
B. Id
C. Ego
D. Superego
Answer» C. Ego
20.

Which is the following statements is true

A. Cooperation is based on emotional relationship harmony and intimacy
B. Accommodation is the situation of tolerating one another without
C. Cooperation
D. Accommodation
Answer» C. Cooperation
21.

When the individual stand up against the group the process is called

A. Conflict
B. Completion
C. Alienation
D. Un socialization
Answer» C. Alienation
22.

When the individual is ex-communicated or the membership of the group is prohibited for him/her the process is called

A. Isolation
B. Cooperation
C. Tolerance
D. Discrimination
Answer» A. Isolation
23.

The process of learning that takes place in group situation is called

A. Socialisation
B. Culturisation
C. Routinisation
D. Acculturation
Answer» A. Socialisation
24.

Whose definition is this “Personality indicates the individual organized tendency of working, seeing, thinking and feeling”?

A. W F Green
B. New Comb
C. Herskovits
D. R E Park
Answer» B. New Comb
25.

The groups from which the individual extracts his behavior and cultural norms are called

A. Cultural groups
B. Homogenous groups
C. Reference groups
D. Ought to be groups
Answer» C. Reference groups
26.

Discrimination refers to __________ against any individual group

A. Negative action
B. Negative attitude
C. Negative labeling
D. Negative Report
Answer» C. Negative labeling
27.

Trait is

A. Social trend at present
B. Social trend af the past
C. The smallest unit of culture
D. The smallest unit of personality
Answer» C. The smallest unit of culture
28.

Non material culture may consist of

A. Words people use, the ideas, customers and belief they hood and the habits they follow.
B. Non Manufactured items
C. Manufactured items which people use in cultural way
D. Culture which teaches a particular behavior for particular situation
Answer» A. Words people use, the ideas, customers and belief they hood and the habits they follow.
29.

The material culture is always the outgrowth of the non material culture. The statement is

A. True
B. False
C. Partially true
D. Can happen provided with stimuli
Answer» A. True
30.

A cluster of related traits is called

A. Culture norms
B. Culture complex
C. Cultural collectively
D. Cultural uniformity
Answer» C. Cultural collectively
31.

Who has propounded the theory of cultural lag?

A. W F Ogburn
B. Nim Koff
C. Bogardus
D. Oscar Lewis
Answer» A. W F Ogburn
32.

The acquisition of foreign culture by the subject people is called

A. Assimilation
B. Acculturation
C. Colonisation
D. Subjectisation
Answer» A. Assimilation
33.

Cultural relativism means

A. Function and meaning of a trait are relative to its cultural setting
B. Culture is relatively rare
C. Culture evolution is relative
D. Cultural diffusion is relative
Answer» A. Function and meaning of a trait are relative to its cultural setting
34.

Which among the following is not true about assimilation?

A. It brings about cultural diffusion
B. It is historical process
C. Culture contact is there
D. Cultural conflict is there.
Answer» D. Cultural conflict is there.
35.

Established modes of thought and action is called

A. Culture
B. Personality
C. behavior
D. Customs
Answer» D. Customs
36.

“A scientific theory of culture” is the work of

A. Frazer
B. Radcliffe Brown
C. Malinowski
D. Redfield
Answer» C. Malinowski
37.

Who considered culture as essentially a response to human needs?

A. Redfield
B. Radcliffe Brown
C. Malinowski
D. Herskowitz
Answer» C. Malinowski
38.

The book ‘The folk culture of Yucatan’ is written by

A. Oscar Lewis
B. R.E.Park
C. Redfield
D. Max Muller
Answer» C. Redfield
39.

Who has defined culture as a body of shared understandings’?

A. Redfield
B. Tylor
C. Frazer
D. Herskowitz
Answer» A. Redfield
40.

Normative culture is that sub-division of non material culture that consists of

A. Norms
B. Values
C. Mores
D. Standard Way
Answer» A. Norms
41.

When the balance between the material and non-material culture is disrupted by rapid social change, the material culture is left behind This situation is called

A. left culture
B. far-culture
C. Cultural lag
D. Taken culture
Answer» C. Cultural lag
42.

Culture treats all human products and learned abilities

A. Equally
B. differently
C. Insignificant
D. great
Answer» A. Equally
43.

Some norms within a culture are explain out in the open, everyone in the culture is able to formulate the rule’ This may be defined as

A. Explicit culture
B. Explicit Norm
C. Implicit culture
D. Implicit Worm
Answer» B. Explicit Norm
44.

Explicit norms are learned through

A. Formal means
B. Informal means
C. inbuilt in human
D. Human beings learn it automatically
Answer» A. Formal means
45.

Organized social life emerges from

A. Social Organization
B. Social Interaction
C. Social Culture
D. Social Group
Answer» B. Social Interaction
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