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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 English (BA English) .
| 101. |
A man or woman marries outside of the group is known as ........................? |
| A. | hypergamy |
| B. | exogamy |
| C. | endogamy |
| D. | monogamy |
| Answer» B. exogamy | |
| 102. |
................... is a basic social system that bind people together on the basis of blood or marriage? |
| A. | peer group |
| B. | labour party |
| C. | school |
| D. | kinship |
| Answer» D. kinship | |
| 103. |
“Kinship is a structure system of relationship in which individuals are bound to one another by complex interlocking and ramifying ties” who said? |
| A. | t berten |
| B. | l h morgan |
| C. | g p murdock |
| D. | f g bailey |
| Answer» C. g p murdock | |
| 104. |
Kinship relations is based on marriage is known as ...................... ? |
| A. | affinal kinship |
| B. | symbolic |
| C. | corporate group |
| D. | consanguineous kinship |
| Answer» A. affinal kinship | |
| 105. |
Kinship system is based on blood relation is known as ...................? |
| A. | corporate group |
| B. | phatry |
| C. | consanguineous kinship |
| D. | affinal kinship |
| Answer» C. consanguineous kinship | |
| 106. |
In terms of degree of closeness, father and son relationship is an example for ................. kinship? |
| A. | secondary kinship |
| B. | primary kinship |
| C. | tertiary kinship |
| D. | bilateral |
| Answer» B. primary kinship | |
| 107. |
Find out an example for Secondary kinship? |
| A. | sister brother |
| B. | husband-wife |
| C. | wife of brother in law |
| D. | fathers brother |
| Answer» B. husband-wife | |
| 108. |
Which is not an example for Tertiary kinship? |
| A. | wife of brother in law |
| B. | sisters husband |
| C. | fathers brothers wife |
| D. | none of the above |
| Answer» B. sisters husband | |
| 109. |
It is a kinship behaviour, that impose some restriction to close interaction between kins is known as ...................? |
| A. | avoidence |
| B. | teknonymy |
| C. | joking relationship |
| D. | amitate |
| Answer» A. avoidence | |
| 110. |
Kinship usage which is husband and wife never addresses each other directly rather they referring through either the name of son or daughter or a symbol? |
| A. | respect |
| B. | joking relationship |
| C. | avanculate |
| D. | teknonymy |
| Answer» D. teknonymy | |
| 111. |
The maternal uncle occupy a important place in the kinship relations is known as |
| A. | teknonymy |
| B. | avanculate |
| C. | avoidence |
| D. | joking relationship |
| Answer» B. avanculate | |
| 112. |
In a kinship behaviour, which give more importance to one’s father’s sister is called ....................? |
| A. | respect |
| B. | teknonymy |
| C. | amitate |
| D. | joking relationship |
| Answer» C. amitate | |
| 113. |
Who defined “Economic institution means the production and distribution of goods and services and procedure of competition and bargain in exchange” |
| A. | mac iver and page |
| B. | g tarde |
| C. | fredrick barth |
| D. | frank notestein |
| Answer» A. mac iver and page | |
| 114. |
“Religion is a belief in supernatural being” who said? |
| A. | e goffman |
| B. | e b tylor |
| C. | b malinowski |
| D. | g h mead |
| Answer» B. e b tylor | |
| 115. |
Who propounded the theory of ‘Naturalism’? |
| A. | james frazer |
| B. | radcliffe brown |
| C. | p a sorokin |
| D. | t b bottomore |
| Answer» A. james frazer | |
| 116. |
The word Education is derived from ........................ language |
| A. | french |
| B. | spanish |
| C. | latin |
| D. | greek |
| Answer» C. latin | |
| 117. |
The word Education originated from .........................? |
| A. | educate |
| B. | educare |
| C. | eduzone |
| D. | nurture |
| Answer» B. educare | |
| 118. |
What is the meaning of ‘Educare’? |
| A. | cooperation |
| B. | intimate |
| C. | situations |
| D. | to bring up |
| Answer» D. to bring up | |
| 119. |
“Education is the manifestation of perfection already in man” who said? |
| A. | swami vivekananda |
| B. | plato |
| C. | m k gandhi |
| D. | jean piaget |
| Answer» A. swami vivekananda | |
| 120. |
“Education is the creation of sound mind in a sound body” who said? |
| A. | john dewey |
| B. | b f skinner |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» C. aristotle | |
| 121. |
Open school and correspondence courses are example for ..................? |
| A. | formal |
| B. | informal |
| C. | nonformal |
| D. | unformed |
| Answer» C. nonformal | |
| 122. |
“The political institution is concerned with the division of power and authority in society” who said? |
| A. | bottomre |
| B. | michel foucault |
| C. | garifinkel |
| D. | althuser |
| Answer» A. bottomre | |
| 123. |
......................... is the ability to control behaviour of other individual without their consent |
| A. | rationality |
| B. | attitude |
| C. | compliance |
| D. | power |
| Answer» B. attitude | |
| 124. |
Which is not an authority proposed by Max Weber? |
| A. | traditional authority |
| B. | rational- legal authority |
| C. | institutionalised authority |
| D. | charismatic authority |
| Answer» C. institutionalised authority | |
| 125. |
The theory ‘Circulation of elites’ Propounded by ..........................? |
| A. | s f nadel |
| B. | vilfredo pareto |
| C. | gardner murphy |
| D. | marcel mauss |
| Answer» B. vilfredo pareto | |
| 126. |
Who propounded the theory ‘Power elites’? |
| A. | c wright mills |
| B. | james frazer |
| C. | herbert blumer |
| D. | r collins |
| Answer» A. c wright mills | |
| 127. |
...................... means that transition from one social position to another |
| A. | social mobility |
| B. | norms |
| C. | social heterogeneity |
| D. | folkways |
| Answer» A. social mobility | |
| 128. |
The company manager transfer to another company without change in position is an example for.................... mobility |
| A. | vertical mobility |
| B. | intergenerational mobility |
| C. | upward mobility |
| D. | horizontal mobility |
| Answer» A. vertical mobility | |
| 129. |
“Horizontal mobility means the transition of an individual or social object from one social group to another situated on the same level” who said? |
| A. | paul f lazersfeld |
| B. | pitrim a sorokin |
| C. | w f whyte |
| D. | p v young |
| Answer» B. pitrim a sorokin | |
| 130. |
Change in income is an example for .................... Mobility? |
| A. | horizontal moblity |
| B. | intergenerational mobility |
| C. | intragenerational mobility |
| D. | vertical mobility |
| Answer» D. vertical mobility | |
| 131. |
Which sociologist considers Horizontal mobility as the lateral mobility? |
| A. | anthony giddens |
| B. | peter berger |
| C. | thomas luckmann |
| D. | j derrida |
| Answer» A. anthony giddens | |
| 132. |
“Horizontal mobility as lateral mobility involving geographical movement between neighbours, towns or regions” who defined? |
| A. | jeffry c alexander |
| B. | oscar lewis |
| C. | anthony giddens |
| D. | n k bose |
| Answer» C. anthony giddens | |
| 133. |
Vertical social mobility “as the relations involved in a transition of an individual (Or a Social object) from one social stratum to another” who said? |
| A. | walter b miller |
| B. | pitrim a sorokin |
| C. | g tarde |
| D. | g ritzer |
| Answer» B. pitrim a sorokin | |
| 134. |
Ascending or descending mobility is related to ......................? |
| A. | horizontal mobility |
| B. | intergenerational mobility |
| C. | downward mobility |
| D. | vertical mobility |
| Answer» D. vertical mobility | |
| 135. |
Socio economic position changed into up or down in the hierarchical structure it is known as ...................? |
| A. | upward mobility |
| B. | vertical mobility |
| C. | intergenerational mobility |
| D. | horizontal mobility |
| Answer» B. vertical mobility | |
| 136. |
Who proposed that downward mobility is less common than upward mobility? |
| A. | anthony giddens |
| B. | wallerstein |
| C. | robertson |
| D. | ashish bose |
| Answer» A. anthony giddens | |
| 137. |
Occupational structure of society is changed due to mobility is called ................? |
| A. | structural mobility |
| B. | upward mobility |
| C. | intra mobility |
| D. | inter mobility |
| Answer» A. structural mobility | |
| 138. |
“The mobility occur during the lifespan of a single generation” is known as .................? |
| A. | downward mobility |
| B. | vertical mobility |
| C. | upward mobility |
| D. | intragenerational mobility |
| Answer» D. intragenerational mobility | |
| 139. |
...................... refers to mobility within the time span of two or more generations? |
| A. | horizontal mobility |
| B. | intergenerational mobility |
| C. | downward mobility |
| D. | structural mobility |
| Answer» B. intergenerational mobility | |
| 140. |
Which of the statement are false about commonsense? |
| A. | formed on the basis of certain constraints |
| B. | based on scientific support |
| C. | commonsense knowledge is related to subjective |
| D. | commonsense is particular and |
| Answer» B. based on scientific support | |
| 141. |
Who defined “Socialization is process by which the helpless infant gradually becomes self aware, knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of culture into which he or she is born”? |
| A. | samir amin |
| B. | j c caldwell |
| C. | anthony giddens |
| D. | k davis |
| Answer» C. anthony giddens | |
| 142. |
....................... is the process of biological being into social being. |
| A. | acculturation |
| B. | socialization |
| C. | diffusion |
| D. | assimilation |
| Answer» B. socialization | |
| 143. |
.................... socialization that the child satisfy primary needs from primary social institutions. |
| A. | adult socialization |
| B. | secondary socialization |
| C. | gender socialization |
| D. | primary socialization |
| Answer» D. primary socialization | |
| 144. |
Peer group is an agent of ..................... Socialization |
| A. | primary socialization |
| B. | re socialization |
| C. | adult socialization |
| D. | gender socialization |
| Answer» A. primary socialization | |
| 145. |
Family and Neighbourhood play group is an example for ................. Socialization |
| A. | adult socialization |
| B. | re socialization |
| C. | micro level socialization |
| D. | macro level socialization |
| Answer» C. micro level socialization | |
| 146. |
Which is the formal agency in the process of child socialization? |
| A. | family |
| B. | peer group |
| C. | school |
| D. | neighbourhood |
| Answer» C. school | |
| 147. |
.................. refers to “process of leaving certain social behaviour patterns and role in order to adopt new one as part of one’s evolution in life” |
| A. | re socialization |
| B. | anticipatory socialization |
| C. | adult socialization |
| D. | de socialization |
| Answer» A. re socialization | |
| 148. |
In contemporary society,............................ play a greater role in the process of socialization |
| A. | folkways |
| B. | mass media |
| C. | traditional beliefs |
| D. | individual conflicts |
| Answer» B. mass media | |
| 149. |
................... is a process “in which someone is consciously socialized for future occupations, positions and social relationships” |
| A. | adult socialization |
| B. | re socialization |
| C. | gender socialization |
| D. | anticipatory socialisation |
| Answer» D. anticipatory socialisation | |
| 150. |
Which stage is characterised that, by means of crying the child establishes or involved in communication with mother? |
| A. | oedipal stage |
| B. | anal stage |
| C. | oral stage |
| D. | adolescence |
| Answer» C. oral stage | |
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