Sociological Theory MCQ

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• Malinowski is best known for emphasising the importance of which one of the following?
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  Oral history

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  Content analysis

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  Ethnography

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  Narratives
• Who defined religion in terms of a distinction between the sacred and the profane?
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  B. Malinowski

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  C. Levi Strauss

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  A. R. Radcliffe Brown

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  E. Durkheim
• Central to Durkheim's functionalism was a distinction between which forms of social organisation?
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  Normal and pathological

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  Normal and healthy

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  Average and abnormal

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  Forced and anomic
• The state exists and should aim at "the greatest good of all." Who is the author of these words?
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  Socrates

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  Gandhi

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  Laski

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  Sophists
• Who classified action in logical and non-logical categories?
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  Max Weber

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  T. Parsons

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  V. Pareto

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  G. H. Mead
• Which of these terms do Ethnomethodologists use in order to describe the ways social actors explain specific situations?
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  Recipes

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  Rituals

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  Emotions

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  Accounts
• Match the following in the term of Concepts and Authors:<br>
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  <table class="table-style-1"> <tr> <td><strong>List I (Concepts)</strong></td> <td><strong>List II (Authors)</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td>a. Social Morphology</td> <td>1. Levi-Strauss</td> </tr> <tr> <td>b. Reciprocity</td> <td>2. Ferdinand de Saussure</td> </tr> <tr> <td>c. Alliance Theory</td> <td>3. Radcliffe Brown</td> </tr> <tr> <td>d. Structural-Linguist</td> <td>4. Marcel Mauss</td> </tr></table> a-3, b-2, c-4, d-1

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  a-2, b-3, c-1, d-4

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  a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2

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  a-4, b-3, c-2, d-1
• Who said that the history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggle?
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  Karl Marx

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  Max Weber

  গ

  Ralf Dahrendorf

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  Lewis Coser
• Which one of the following statements does not derive from Emile Durkheim's exposition of social facts?
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  Social facts are collectively elaborated and therefore they are moral and constrain individual behaviour

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  Social facts must be understood, if they were things and can be explained only in relation to other social facts

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  Social facts are characteristics of social system that have an influences and authority that amount to more than the sum of the intentions and motivations of the people who happen to be part of that system

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  Social facts arise in the collective consciousness of a group and therefore influence individuals only when they are engaged with the group
• Which among the following thinkers have not accepted that the State has an ethical purpose?
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  Laski

  খ

  Gandhi

  গ

  Aristotle

  ঘ

  Marx
• Which of the following idea are considered at the core of Michel Foucault's methodology?<br>1. Genealogy of power<br>2. Micro-politics of power<br>3. Archaeology of knowledge<br>4. Power at the societal level<br>Select the correct answer:
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  1 and 2

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  2 and 3

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  1 and 3

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  2 and 4
• Kin categories of Indo European languages which systematised the rank and status of people are
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  Gotras

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  Charana

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  Both A and B

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  None of these
• "Society is a consciousness of the kind" is the definition of;
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  Giddings

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  Aristotle

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  Plato

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  Daves
• "Thus we should not think of the difference between magic and religion as a rigid dichotomy . . . ." Who said this?
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  Davis

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  Max Weber

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  Sir Frazer

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  Melinoucski
• Consider the following statements<br>1. Social action is a macro perspective of sociological theories.<br>2. Social action perspectives examine smaller groups within society.<br>Which of the statements given above is / are correct?
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  Only 1

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  Only 2

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  Both 1 and 2

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  Neither 1 nor 2
• Of the following, who has written on 'self-fulfilling prophecy'?
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  T. Parsons

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  R. K. Merton

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  Max Weber

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  V. Pareto
• Who is the author of the book "The Language of Post-Modern Architecture"?
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  Derrida

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  Jenek

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  Sontag

  ঘ

  Fiedler
• Consider the following statements<br>1. Ambedkar described himself as 'progressive radical'.<br>2. He considered similar to liberals and communist.<br>
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  Only 1

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  Only 2

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  Both 1 and 2

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  Neither 1 nor 2
• "Sociology is the science of understanding of the meaning of social action." The proceeding statement was made by
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  Max Weber

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  Auguste Comte

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  Herbert Spencer

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  Emile Durkheim
• A French Philosopher has influenced very much the sociological thinking by drawing a methodology of human language. Who is he?
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  A Giddens

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  J. Derrida

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  M. Foucault

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  None of these
• Whose words are, "O Faith, endow us with belief"?
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  Auguste Comete

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  Manu

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  Vedas

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  Maciver
• The book entitled 'Politics of the Kula Ring' was written by
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  A. R. Radcliffe Brown

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  B. K. Malinowski

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  Peter Blan

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  Malthus
• Who among the following observed that the Chief Executives and the very rich are one and the same group in the U.S.A.?
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  J. K. Galbraith

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  G. Mydral

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  W. Mills

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  N. Smelser
• Who did attributional and interactional analysis of caste system?
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  L. Dumont

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  Surajit Sinha

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  M. N. Srinivas

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  D. P. Mukherji
• Who made a distinction between 'class in-itself' and 'class for itself' to reflect the movement from a class's potential self-awareness to actual self-awareness?
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  Karl Marx

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  R. Dahrendorf

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  L. A. Coser

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  R. Collins
• Which of the following are characteristics of the social structure of the society?<br>1. A society has a structure of interrelated roles.<br>2. Society is a special type of group with a comprehensive social system.<br>3. A society tends to survive for a long period.<br>4. A society is economically self-sufficient.<br>Select the correct answer:
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  1, 2 and 3

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  1, 2 and 4

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  1, 3 and 4

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  2, 3 and 4
• Which of the following conducted the famous 'breaching experiments'?
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  H. Garfinkel

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  G. Simmel

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  G. Zimmerman

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  J. M. Altkinson
• Choose the correct stage in the evolution of human society.
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  Hunting and food gathering, hoe-culture and domestication of animals, agricultural economy based on plough and domesticated animals and modern industrial capitalistic production

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  Hunting and gathering, agricultural economy and domestication of animals and modern industrial capitalism

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  Gathering, hunting, pastoral, agrarian, mechanised agricultural production

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  Food gathering, hunting, pastoral, horticulture and agriculture
• Glimpses of World History' was written by
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  Nehru

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  Gandhiji

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  Tilak

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  Ambedkar
• When did the phenomenological perspective emerge?
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  1900s

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  1910s

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  1920s

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  1930s