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1. Which of the following factors led to emergence of 7. What defines Gemeinshaft?
Sociology as a scientific discipline?
(A) A spontaneously arising organic social
(A) French Revolution
relationship characterized by strong reciprocal
(B) Enlightenment
bonds of sentiment and kinship within a common
(C) Industrial Revolution
tradition.
(D) All of the above
(B) A type of society where people work together
2. Who wrote “Sociological Imagination?
for a common goal, for example, the employees
(A) Harold Garfinkel
working for their company to earn their monthly
(B) Pierre Bourdieu
salary and not to ensure the success of the
(C) Charles Wright Mills
company
(D) Emile Durkheim
3. Which famous sociologist said the function of (C) Both (A) and (B)
Sociology as of every science is to reveal that which (D) None of the above
is hidden?
8. Cultural products appreciated by a large number of
(A) Michel Foucault
ordinary people with no great pretensions to cultural
(B) Pierre Bourdieu
expertise denote which of the following?
(C) August Comte
(A) High Culture
(D) Max Weber
4. August Comte maintained that application of the (B) Sub Culture
methods and assumptions of natural sciences would (C) Popular Culture
produce
(D) Cultural lag
(A) A science of society
9. Open, Slated and conscious functions are called
(B) A positive science of society
(C) A negative science of society (A) Latent Functions
(D) All of the above (B) Non Functions
5. Which of the following is an aspect of culture? (C) Manifest Functions
(A) Dance Forms (D) Dysfunctions
(B) Slang words
10. When gestures and postures are used to convey a
(C) Attachment to national flag
feeling of respect and defiance this type of
(D) All of the above
communication is called
6. Society is
(A) Verbal Communication
(A) A social reality
(B) Composed of people (B) Written Communication

(C) A Web of social relationships (C) Listening
(D) All of the above (D) Non Verbal Communication

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11. Erving Goffman popularized a particular type of 16. The book Social and Cultural Mobility was written
interactionist method called as by which of the following authors?
(A) Dramaturgical Approach (A) Robert Merton
(B) Functionalist Approach
(B) Pitrim Sorokin
(C) Ethnomethodological Approach
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(D) Exogamy
established by ‘corner boys’, William F Whyte moved
into a low-income neighbourhood in Boston for nearly 18. In which of the below forms of marriage a person can
four years. What type of research technique did Whyte have several spouses in his or her lifetime but only

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material world is considered the ultimate or only reality
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21. Which of the following social scientists used the phrase 26. Through which type of research technique does a
looking glass self to emphasize that the self is a product sociologist ensure that data are statistically
of our social interactions with other people? representative of population being studied?
(A) George Herbert Mead (A) Sampling
(B) Charles Horton Cooley (B) Experiments
(C) Erving Goffman
(C) Validity
(D) Jean Piaget
(D) Control variables
22. George Herbert Mead is best known for his theory
27. The Metropolis and Mental life was written by
of ?
(A) Herbert Spencer
(A) Presentation of Self
(B) Pitrim Sorokin
(B) Cognitive development
(C) Ferdinand Tonnies
(C) The self
(D) Impression management (D) George Simmel

23. Society brings about acceptance of basic norms 28. The Study of an entire social setting through extended
through techniques and strategies for preventing systematic observation is called
deviant human behavior. This process is termed as (A) Correlation
(A) Stigmatization (B) Ethnography
(B) Social Change (C) Sampling
(C) Labelling (D) None of the above
(D) Social Control
29. The unintended influence that observers of
24. Karl Marx held that leaders of social movements must experiments can have on their subjects is called
help workers overcome feelings of
(A) Boomerang Effect
(A) Class consciousness
(B) Hawthrone Effect
(B) False consciousness
(C) Barnum Effect
(C) Resource mobilization
(D) Forer Effect
(D) Surplus Value
30. The concept Pseudo- Ideational was given by
25. The first step in sociological research is
(A) Collect Data (A) George Simmel

(B) Define the problem (B) Morris Ginsberg

(C) Review previous research (C) Pitrim Sorokin

(D) Formulate a hypothesis (D) Ferdinand Tonnies

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31. Which of the following is a method of selecting a 36. In which of the following methods the research
sample from a finite population in such a way that participants are all aware of the researcher’s presence
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and his role as an observer?
of being selected?
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41. Solidarity based upon homogeneity of values and 46. In Marxian terminology, the difference between the
behaviour is called amount raised through a sale of a product and the
(A) Mechanical Solidarity amount it cost to the owner of that product to
manufacture it is called?
(B) Organic Solidarity
(A) False consciousness
(C) False Solidarity
(B) Class Consciousness
(D) None of the above
(C) Surplus Value
42. Which tribe did Emile Durkheim study?
(D) None of the above
(A) Neur 47. Which of the following is Karl Marx’s important
(B) Arunta work?
(C) Coorg (A) Das Capital
(D) Bishnoi (B) Communist Manifesto
43. Which of the following sociologists used the concept (C) The German Ideology
of Moral density of society? (D) All of the above
(A) August Comte 48. Who said “Workers of the world unite; you have
(B) Max Weber nothing to lose but your chains”?
(A) Karl Marx
(C) Karl Marx
(B) Max Weber
(D) Emile Durkheim
(C) George Simmel
44. Which one of the following types of suicide reflects
(D) George Herbert Mead
an individual’s moral turmoil and lack of social
orientation associated with dramatic social and 49. According to Weber, which type of authority stems
from an individual’s extraordinary personal qualities
economic upheavals?
and hold over followers because of these qualities?
(A) Egoistic Suicide
(A) Rational Leal Authority
(B) Altruistic Suicide
(B) Traditional Authority
(C) Anomic Suicide
(C) Religious Authority
(D) Fatalistic Suicide
(D) Charismatic Authority
45. Karl Marx’s view of the struggle between social 50. Economy and Society is the work of which of the
classes inspired the contemporary following sociologists?
(A) Functionalist Perspective (A) Karl Marx
(B) Conflict Perspective (B) August Comte
(C) Interactionist Perspective (C) Max Weber
(D) Dramaturgical Approach (D) Emile Durkheim

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51. In which of the following social actions, goal and 56. The relative lack of access to latest technologies
means of achieving end is derived and determined by among low income groups is called
values? (A) Feminization of Poverty
(A) Goal Rational Action
(B) Digital Divide
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53. Who authored Social Background of Indian phenomenon is called
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54. As per Census of India 2011, how much percentage
(A) A R Desai
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(A) 43.63% (B) Antony Gramsci

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