SOCIOLOGY SHORT TYPE QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER SET-D

SOCIOLOGY SHORT TYPE QUESTIONS WITH ANSWER SET-D

Q1,“Sociology is a Science which attempts an interpretative understanding of social action.” Who defined Sociology in this manner?

ANS .Max Weber

Q2“Culture is man’s guide, it liberates as well as enslaves him as all guides do.” Which of the following school represents this view?

ANSCulture-personality School

Q3The term ‘Sociological Imagination’ was coined by whom?

ANS C.W. Mills

Q4 Every man in society occupies a number of statuses. Different statuses associated with a single person are known as

ANS Status set     

Q5Which of the following are the physical conditions of a primary group?

ANS  i. Physical proximity    ii. Attraction     iii. Smallness

Q6 write FEW example of the  primary group?

ANS:- A peer group,A class of students,Family

Q7Give few the  fundamental features of a social group?

ANS  Organisation   ,We-feeling

Q8  The variable sum concept of power is based on the assumption that

ANS  value consensus is essential for society.

Q9The State moderates between different groups ensuring that all of them have some influence on public policy, is best manifested in

ANS     Pluralist democracy

Q10   The appropriate example of a social institution?

ANS  Market

Q11   According to Dahrendorf, Marx’s Theory of Class Conflict is

ANS to be rejected, accepted and modified contextually

Q12The process whereby the helpless human infant gradually becomes a self-aware, knowledgeable person, skilled in the ways of the culture into which he or she was born is known as

ANS Socialization

Q13 Stages of cognitive-development related socialization was proposed by
ANS J. Piaget
Q14 In a system of social stratification social rankings are based on certain attributes which may
ANS:-either be ascribed, acquired or constructed
Q15  The social positions of
ANS:-caste, gender and ethnic groups are culturally determined.
Q16,According to Marx and Dehrendorf unequal class position of a social group is determined by which of the following forms and extent of one’s control over

ANS    economic and political resources respectively.

Q17  Who among the following sociologists analysed social classes in terms of market and property situation?

ANS:- M . Weber

Q18  Transmission of traits from one culture to another is sociologically termed as

ANS   Diffusion

Q19Who among the following is a proponent of cyclical theory of evolution?

ANSO. Spengler

Q20Identify the social processes which are linked to change of social structure:

ANS Industrialisation, Modernisation, Globalisation

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