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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) .
| 1. |
________ is large set of people regarded by themselves or others as sharing similar status with regard to wealth, power and prestige. |
| A. | group |
| B. | creed |
| C. | community |
| D. | class |
| Answer» D. class | |
| 2. |
The type of communalism characterized by a high degree of sharing and minimal social inequality. |
| A. | social |
| B. | premitive |
| C. | all of these |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. premitive | |
| 3. |
The system which involves great social inequality and the ownership of some persons by others. |
| A. | caste |
| B. | slavery |
| C. | none of these |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» B. slavery | |
| 4. |
The system in which an individual is permanently assigned to a status based on his or her parents' status is called. |
| A. | slavery |
| B. | community |
| C. | caste |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. caste | |
| 5. |
This stratification system is more open. |
| A. | community |
| B. | slavery |
| C. | class |
| D. | caste |
| Answer» C. class | |
| 6. |
The kind of stratification system which is more closed. |
| A. | community |
| B. | slavery |
| C. | class |
| D. | caste |
| Answer» D. caste | |
| 7. |
In________ societies the survival of the group is paramount and people will share their resources to ensure that the group survives. |
| A. | social |
| B. | premitive |
| C. | all of these |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. premitive | |
| 8. |
_________ is called the movement of a person from one status to another, either between generations or within a person's adult career. |
| A. | social mobility |
| B. | strectural mobility |
| C. | functional mobility |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. social mobility | |
| 9. |
_______ is called the mobility brought about by changes in the stratification hierarchy for instance as society becomes more technologically advanced. |
| A. | social mobility |
| B. | strectural mobility |
| C. | functional mobility |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» B. strectural mobility | |
| 10. |
Who said that in all stratified societies there are two major social groups: a ruling class and a subject class. |
| A. | john lennen |
| B. | fisher |
| C. | eugene |
| D. | karl marx |
| Answer» D. karl marx | |
| 11. |
According to _________Kingsley Davis and________ Moore stratification exists in every known human society. |
| A. | talcott and parson |
| B. | fisher ans eugene |
| C. | kingsley davis and moore |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. kingsley davis and moore | |
| 12. |
Who defined slave as a man whom law and custom regard as the property of another. |
| A. | karl marx |
| B. | kingsley davis |
| C. | talcott parson |
| D. | l.t.hobhouse |
| Answer» D. l.t.hobhouse | |
| 13. |
It is the extreme form of inequality in which some individuals are owned by others as their property. |
| A. | slavery |
| B. | creed |
| C. | caste |
| D. | class |
| Answer» A. slavery | |
| 14. |
According to the basis of slavery is always economic because with it emerged a kind of aristocracy which lived upon slave labour. |
| A. | h.j nieboer |
| B. | kingsley davis |
| C. | talcott parson |
| D. | l.t.hobhouse |
| Answer» A. h.j nieboer | |
| 15. |
The system which is synonymous with Feudalism is called. |
| A. | slavery system |
| B. | creed system |
| C. | caste system |
| D. | estate system |
| Answer» D. estate system | |
| 16. |
The system in which clergy, nobility and commoners functioned like three political groups. |
| A. | slavery system |
| B. | creed system |
| C. | caste system |
| D. | estate system |
| Answer» D. estate system | |
| 17. |
The type of social system which is closely connected with the Hindu philosophy and religion, custom and tradition .It is believed to have had a divine origin and sanction. |
| A. | slavery system |
| B. | creed system |
| C. | caste system |
| D. | estate system |
| Answer» C. caste system | |
| 18. |
The term caste is derived from the _____word, caste meaning breed or lineage.. |
| A. | french |
| B. | italian |
| C. | greek |
| D. | spanish |
| Answer» D. spanish | |
| 19. |
The caste stratification of the Indian society had its origin in the _______ system. |
| A. | gothic |
| B. | chathurvarna |
| C. | none of these |
| D. | all of these |
| Answer» B. chathurvarna | |
| 20. |
According to ___and____ when status is wholly predetermined so that men are born to their lot without any hope of changing it, then the class takes the extreme form of caste. |
| A. | maclver and page |
| B. | risely ans page |
| C. | talcott and parson |
| D. | hobhouse and davis |
| Answer» A. maclver and page | |
| 21. |
According to Hindu caste system which is the major upper caste. |
| A. | brahmins |
| B. | nairs |
| C. | thiyyas |
| D. | namboothiris |
| Answer» A. brahmins | |
| 22. |
According to _____the chief criteria of domination of a caste are Economic strength,Political power,Ritual purity and numerical strength. |
| A. | m.n.srininvas |
| B. | risely ans page |
| C. | talcott and parson |
| D. | hobhouse and davis |
| Answer» A. m.n.srininvas | |
| 23. |
According to Hindu caste system which caste is the lowest in the caste hierarchy. |
| A. | brahmins |
| B. | shudras |
| C. | thiyyas |
| D. | namboothiris |
| Answer» B. shudras | |
| 24. |
According to Hindu caste system how many varnas there as part social stratification. |
| A. | 5 |
| B. | 6 |
| C. | 7 |
| D. | 4 |
| Answer» D. 4 | |
| 25. |
According to______ a more complex division of labour made the class more heterogeneous. |
| A. | marx |
| B. | weber |
| C. | parson |
| D. | davis |
| Answer» B. weber | |
| 26. |
Who has classified classes into six types. |
| A. | warner |
| B. | weber |
| C. | marx |
| D. | parson |
| Answer» A. warner | |
| 27. |
An institution in the estate system where a sum of money or some property was given to a slave by his master is called. |
| A. | peculium |
| B. | offering |
| C. | barter system |
| D. | cartel sytem |
| Answer» A. peculium | |
| 28. |
A group of industrialists who together monopolize or gain complete control over the market is called. |
| A. | peculium |
| B. | offering |
| C. | barter |
| D. | cartel |
| Answer» D. cartel | |
| 29. |
A process takes place when the changes that caste has and undergoing carries it beyond the traditional ascriptive definition. |
| A. | social mobility |
| B. | strectural mobility |
| C. | functional mobility |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» A. social mobility | |
| 30. |
_______held that the differential distribution of authority leads to class formation and class conflict. |
| A. | marx |
| B. | srinivas |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | hiller |
| Answer» C. dahrendorf | |
| 31. |
______observed that when a class system becomes closed to vertical mobility, it becomes a caste. |
| A. | marx |
| B. | srinivas |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | hiller |
| Answer» D. hiller | |
| 32. |
________ was the first one to introduce the concept of alienation into sociological theory. |
| A. | marx |
| B. | srinivas |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | hiller |
| Answer» A. marx | |
| 33. |
___________ classified the society into three strata- guardians, auxiliaries and workers. |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | srinivas |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | hutton |
| Answer» A. aristotle | |
| 34. |
Who characterized caste as a closed status group. |
| A. | max weber |
| B. | srinivas |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | hutton |
| Answer» A. max weber | |
| 35. |
_______ held that society would rank highly and reward those who perform successfully in terms of society's values |
| A. | max weber |
| B. | parson |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | hutton |
| Answer» B. parson | |
| 36. |
According to________in estate system inequality is not primarily economic but judicial. |
| A. | max weber |
| B. | tawney |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | hutton |
| Answer» B. tawney | |
| 37. |
_______categorized India under the Asiatic Mode of Production. |
| A. | max weber |
| B. | tawney |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | marx |
| Answer» D. marx | |
| 38. |
Who stated that the higher the class one belongs the lessen is the pretence because there is less to pretend to.This is chief reason why our manners are better than other persons. |
| A. | pelham |
| B. | tawney |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | marx |
| Answer» A. pelham | |
| 39. |
________ stated property is theft. |
| A. | proudhon |
| B. | tawney |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | marx |
| Answer» A. proudhon | |
| 40. |
Who advocated a form of guild socialism. |
| A. | proudhon |
| B. | tawney |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | durkheim |
| Answer» D. durkheim | |
| 41. |
Utilitarianism is a theoretical outlook associated with the name of _______. |
| A. | j benthem |
| B. | tawney |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | durkheim |
| Answer» A. j benthem | |
| 42. |
Who advocated the religious theory of the origin of caste. |
| A. | senart |
| B. | tawney |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | durkheim |
| Answer» A. senart | |
| 43. |
Who gave the concept of occupational theory of caste. |
| A. | nesfield |
| B. | tawney |
| C. | dahrendorf |
| D. | durkheim |
| Answer» A. nesfield | |
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