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• The socialization process of the individual does not include
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  The environment

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  Culture

  গ

  Army

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  The physical, psychological heritage of the individual
• Which of the following is true of the Christian belief system?
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  It believes in worship in the open

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  It believes in the unity of God

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  It believes in the worship of God

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  It believes in Karma theory
• Which of the following defines latent conflict?
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  When a conflict exists but there is no open declaration

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  When a conflict is openly declared

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  When the conflict becomes more hostile

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  None of the above
• White collar crime is committed by those whom the rest of society views as
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  Delinquents

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  Respectable people

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  Murderers

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  Drun kards
• It is a mistake to suppose that . . . . . . . . is essential to society
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  Absolute fidelity to norms

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  Deviation from norms

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  No proscriptive norms

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  No operative norms
• Belief system of the individual:
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  Must be the same as that of the society

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  Must be opposite of the society

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  Can be different from that of the society

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  None of the above is true
• Which among the following is true of socialization.
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  It socializes the individuals

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  It makes society above individual

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  It brings individuals into the social

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  All the above
• . . . . . . . . is democratic and totalitarian both at the same time.
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  Custom

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  Law

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  Fashion

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  Culture
• The person who gives service to the Jajman is called
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  Parjan

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  Kamin

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  Karmin

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  Purohit
• From Marxian perspective, political power derives from
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  Economic power

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  Social prestige

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  Landed property

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  Religious sanction
• Which one of the following has not been given as a cause of competition by May and Doob?
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  Competition starts to achieve some goal that is scarce

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  When the people are not prevented by the rules of situation for achieving goals competition begins

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  People perform better when goals can be achieved

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  When people have relatively few psychologically affiliative contracts with each other competition starts
• In our society a normal individual:
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  Can never be deviant

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  Is usually deviant to a degree

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  Is always deviant to a degree

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  Is formed to became deviant by society
• Which one of the following is not correct about Daniel Bell's consideration of post-industrial society?
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  An analytical construct

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  A paradigm to identify new axes of social stratification

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  A picture of specific concrete society

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  A specification of new dimensions in the social structure
• According to Weber, . . . . . . . . refers to the unequal distribution of economic rewards where as . . . . . . . . refers to the unequal distribution of social honour
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  Class, caste

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  Power, prestige

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  Class, status

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  Caste, class
• Which of the following does not come under corporate class consciousness?
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  People share a similar social status

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  People develop uniting sentiments

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  The people share socially similar status but not uniting sentiments

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  The people share both similar social status and uniting sentiments
• According to Cooley, the concept of . . . . . . . . refers to an individual perception of self as determined by the way one imagines one appears to others or as others perceive us . . . . . . . .
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  Significant others

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  Generalised others

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  Looking-glass self

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  None of the above
• Which one of the following is the advantage of Social interaction? It helps
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  In understanding reaction of individual against social forces

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  In the study of the groups

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  In social disorganisation

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  In removing social cleavages
• Ceremonies that mark a critical transition in the life of an individual from one phase of life-cycle to another called
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  Role-taking

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  Rites of Passage

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  Status Crystallisation

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  Status set
• Who among the following defines socialization as the process of working together, and developing group responsibility, of being grounded by the welfare needs of others?
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  MacIver

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  Bogardus

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  H. Cooley

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  G. H. Mead
• In which of the following is the first literanytraces of caste system found?
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  Rigveda

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  Atharvaveda

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  Yajuraveda

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  Samaveda
• According to Durkheim all - begins with some form of deviance.
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  Revolution

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  Social change

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  Social solidarity

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  Collective representation
• What does the end-of-ideology theory refer to?
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  Loss of workers' dependence on political ideology

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  Decline in workers' political participation

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  Workers' disbelief in all ideologies

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  Workers' increasing participation in party politics and elections
• . . . . . . . . impinge directly upon a person's self conception.
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  Values

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  Customs

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  Norms

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  Folkways
• Which is most appropriate?
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  Animal do not learn

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  Learned behaviour is highly limited among animals and when it does occur it dies with the individual organism, and each generation must learn all over again

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  Learned behaviour is quite common among animals and is easily imparted through generations

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  None of these
• In society unless the people live up to the expected . . . . . . . . the social organization may not be effectively maintained.
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  Values

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  Norms

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  Status

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  Economy
• Conflict in the norms happens when:
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  The members of a group clash with each other for the exact interpretation of a norm

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  The individuals of the different group of different norms interact with each other

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  The norms are different for different groups

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  There is class struggle in the society only
• . . . . . . . . refers to movement in any or all of the three areas of living class, occuption and power
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  Horizontal mobility

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  Vertical mobility

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  Migration

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  Downward mobility
• Among the following, who has contributed much towards the development of modern theories of deviant behaviour?
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  Durkheim

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  Albert Cohen

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  Merton

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  John Bowlby
• When the groups show solidarity, it is called
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  Integration

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  Fusion

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  Diffusion

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  Erosion
• Deviant behaviour is linked with certain situations; which one of the following is not true?
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  Circumstances

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  Attitudes

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  Interests

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  Individual norms