McqMate
These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (BA Sociology) .
Chapters
| 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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