OBJECTIVE TYPE QUESTIONS

For each of the following questions, four alternatives are given for the answer. Only one of them is correct. Choose the correct alternative:

1. Who is considered to be the father of Sociology :
   (a) Emile Durkheim
   (b) Kingsley Davis
   (c) Auguste Comte
   (d) George Payne

2. Sociology is the study of :
   (a) Human being
   (b) Customs
   (c) Values
   (d) Society

3. Sociology is the Science of :
   (a) Associations
   (b) Society
   (c) Customs
   (d) Co-operations

4. The Word ‘Socius’ means :
   (a) Associate or Companion
   (b) Member of Society
   (c) Member of an Association
   (d) None of the above

5. “Education Sociology is the interaction of the Individual and his Cultural Environment”. This was stated by :
   (a) Brown
   (b) Carter
   (c) Ottaway
   (d) George Payne

6. Who is regarded as the Father of Educational Sociology ?
   (a) George Payne
   (b) Brown
   (c) Emily Durkheim
   (d) Ottaway

7. The term ‘Sociology’ was coined by :
   (a) George Payne
   (b) Auguste Comte
   (c) Ottaway
   (d) Brown

8. Sociology emerged as an Independent Social Science in the :
   (a) 17th Century
   (b) 16th Century
   (c) 18th Century
   (d) 19th Century

9. Indian Society can be divided into various levels of people. Which of the following is not one of these ?
   (a) Upper class
   (b) Hindus
   (c) Middle class
   (d) Lower class

10. One important example of a primary group is :
    (a) Political party
    (b) Family
    (c) Church
    (d) YMA

11. The literacy percentage of Mizoram in the last census (2011) was :
    (a) 91.33
    (b) 95.51
    (c) 99.11
    (d) 98.76

12. Application of principles of sociology to education in known as :
    (a) Educational Sociology
    (b) Sociology of Education
    (c) Social Foundation of Education
    (d) Social Science of Education

13. Adopting oneself to the conditions and requirement of the community is called social :
    (a) adaptation
    (b) adjustment
    (c) behaviour
    (d) dynamic

14. The term Sociology is coined in the year :
    (a) 1798
    (b) 1829
    (c) 1839
    (d) 1818

15. Educational Sociology deals with which aspect of education :
    (a) Social
    (b) Political
    (c) Economic
    (d) Psychological

16. Society has been defined as a “web of social relationships” by :
    (a) Cooley
    (b) Durkheim
    (c) MacIver
    (d) Bronson

17. Which aim of education is most useful for the community ?
    (a) Cultural
    (b) Technological
    (c) Livelihood
    (d) Socialization

18. The individual and society are considered as :
    (a) Supplementary
    (b) Interdependent
    (c) Complimentary
    (d) Contradictory

19. “Education and society are two mutually supporting systems, interconnected, that one cannot thrive in the absence of the other.” What is the reason ?
    (a) Education sustains society, preserves culture, ushers in new one and incubates values.
    (b) Education helps to do away with social divisions and produces leaders for governance.
    (c) Education makes people employable.
    (d) Education modernizes and makes society civilized.

20. Education provided to the child by the schools is :
    (a) formal
    (b) informal
    (c) traditional
    (d) highly standardized

21. A society is a network of :
    (a) social attitudes
    (b) socio-political relationships
    (c) religions-cultural attitudes
    (d) inter-personal relationships

22. Educators must have a good understanding of the social forces because :
    (a) education is a social process
    (b) educators are social beings
    (c) education is influenced by social forces
    (d) education is one of the activities carried on in the social setting amidst social forces

23. Human nature develops in man as a :
    (a) member of a religion
    (b) citizen of a state
    (c) member of an organization
    (d) member of a society

24. It is implied in the ‘social nature’ of the education that it :
    (a) ensures desirable socialization of the child.
    (b) ensures the development of child’s potentialities.
    (c) educates the child for citizenship.
    (d) enables the individual to find a job himself.

25. High degree of inter-dependence between education and the rest of the society is very much emphasized, not because of :
    (a) increasing number of students, requiring increasing financial support.
    (b) dramatic changes in the role of the government in educational matters.
    (c) man’s social nature.
    (d) social nature of education.

26. The study of human society involves the study of :
    (a) man
    (b) mind
    (c) environment
    (d) heredity

27. All human beings have to interact with other human beings in order to :
    (a) survive
    (b) gossip
    (c) quarrel
    (d) compete

28. Society preserves our :
    (a) civilization
    (b) culture and transmits it to succeeding generation
    (c) philosophical ideas
    (d) interrelation

29. The schools helps the people to :
    (a) assimilate culture
    (b) ignore culture
    (c) protest against culture
    (d) enjoy culture

30. Individual and society are considered as :
    (a) interdependent
    (b) contradicting
    (c) complementary
    (d) supplementary

31. Human nature develop in man as a :
    (a) member of a religion
    (b) citizen of a state
    (c) member if an organization
    (d) member of a society

32. Man’s behaviour in society is determined mainly by two forces, namely :
    (a) formal and informal
    (b) natural and unnatural
    (c) physical and social
    (d) psychological and philosophical

33. Function of educational structure is :
    (a) replacement of population
    (b) socialization of new population
    (c) maintenance of a sense of purpose
    (d) system maintenance

34. The most important characteristic of a society is :
    (a) inter-communication
    (b) mutual influence
    (c) interpersonal relationship
    (d) individual approach

35. The fundamental unit of human society is known as :
    (a) social group
    (b) tribal group
    (c) individual
    (d) family

36. Characteristics of society is :
    (a) mutual awareness
    (b) specific aims
    (c) definite geographical area
    (d) interrelation

37. According to Aristotle, the nature of man is :
    (a) religious
    (b) social
    (c) isolate
    (d) culture

38. Both nature and necessity compel man to live in :
    (a) forest
    (b) society
    (c) church
    (d) college

39. The educational institution is a :
    (a) community
    (b) family
    (c) social institution
    (d) organization

40. Educational Sociology tries to search for suitable solution for problems related to education and :
    (a) politics
    (b) economics
    (c) society
    (d) religion

41. Irrespective of the form of the government, state control of education is imperative as :
    (a) No other institution can take such decisions as how much of the nation’s wealth can be used for educating people.
    (b) The state has better organization for doing this job.
    (c) The state is interested in the welfare of the people.
    (d) The state is the representative of the people.

42. In which situation the government should not unduly interfere with education of the people :
    (a) When the aim of education is to improve the quality of pupils.
    (b) When educational science uses certain methods, materials and techniques which are good.
    (c) When there are financial implications of certain programmes of education.
    (d) When the first duty of the teacher is to learner and he is trying his best of fulfil that.

43. Education is placed within the jurisdiction of the government because :
    (a) The government is also a social institution.
    (b) Education is a social institution affected by and affecting all other institutions; and hence, some more competent social institution must coordinate its activities.
    (c) Education is a sub-system of the larger social system.
    (d) It is the responsibility of the government to organize and manage the education of the people.

44. In organizing education, the proper role of government is :
    (a) To see that every individual in the society is educated to the maximum.
    (b) To see that there is no waste of resources in organizing education of the people.
    (c) To see that the schools discharge their duties in the best sense of the expression “mind their own business”.
    (d) To see that all communities are satisfied with the educational arrangements made.

45. Which of the following is not correct about the role of government in schooling ?
    (a) It will swell if schooling affects larger domains of the public interest and welfare.
    (b) It will diminish if schooling affects smaller domains of the public interest and welfare.
    (c) It will swell if the institutional arrangements in the society become more and more inter-dependent.
    (d) It will be affected by neither of the foregoing conditions.

46. Which of the following statements is not correct about the family as an institution ?
    (a) It is an economic unit as a means to the rearing of children.
    (b) All economic units are ultimately families.
    (c) It provides companionship the material parties and to the members of the household.
    (d) At times it is religious, political and even a recreational unit.

47. Today, the educative demand on, at least, the modern family has very much enlarged and many conscientious parents look about for someone to help them with it. This is not because of :
    (a) Better financial resources of the parents.
    (b) Steady infiltration of Freudian psychology into the thinking of the parents.
    (c) Disturbing realization that experiences in early infancy leave ineradicable traces on the record of life.
    (d) Parents frightening sense of responsibility and frustration springing from a realization that their every act is, somehow, significant.

48. Religious education in some forms is essential because it :
    (a) Develops essential values in children.
    (b) Provides children with desirable knowledge.
    (c) Makes good life in a good society.
    (d) It is foundation stone on which rests the success of a democratic society.

49. Which of the following statements is not correct about the role of religion in education ?
    (a) Religion is concerned with faith and spiritual knowledge based on that faith.
    (b) The school is concerned with knowledge based on human reason.
    (c) Religion and schools are always at daggers drawn.
    (d) The religion cannot, of right, insist that the schools should become a vehicle for their own orientation.

50. Caring for the cultivation of emotional health of children is as important for the schools as caring for the cultivation of their intellect, not because :
    (a) The family is not competent enough to do that.
    (b) The family, being ignorant of the principles of emotional health, can do nothing about it.
    (c) There cannot be any other social institution which can be entrusted with this job.
    (d) Rearing of children in most families is defective.

51. Formal religious education is not desirable as a part of the school curriculum because :
    (a) Teaching of a large number of religions that are there in every society is not possible due to time constraint.
    (b) Formal teaching of religion is not at all effective.
    (c) Teachers may not like to teach religion in the schools.
    (d) Religion is of no value in the context of education of the child.

52. Which is not correct about the school as a social institution ?
    (a) It has to teach about the social order and its institutions in its instructional activities.
    (b) As it stands for the good life in general, it is the critic of society and all its institutions.
    (c) It stands for the professional ideals of the community rather than the ideals it practises and tolerates.
    (d) It stands for the satisfaction of the needs of the pupils who come for schooling.

53. “Religion has an indispensable place in the good life and the good society”. This is not supported by the argument that religion :
    (a) Can teach values to the community which are essential for good life and good society.
    (b) Can provide for common worship and religious orientation to the universe as a whole bringing unity and peace.
    (c) Alone can make people more spiritual, more devoted, more loving and more perfect.
    (d) Alone can prevent wars in the world and bring peace as a consequence.

54. The nature of the differences in socioeconomic strata of the society such as the wealthy, middle class and the poor is that it :
    (a) Runs quite frequently, at cross purposes in the demands they make on education.
    (b) Affects adversely the quality of education.
    (c) Vitiates the socio-emotional climate of the schools.
    (d) Affects negatively the morale of the teachers.

55. Specialization and further distinctions in making a living within a given economy, with an industrial economy makes :
    (a) A greater demand for better education
    (b) Many kinds of pressures on the expansion of education
    (c) A demand for specialized courses and training programmes such as management training, etc.
    (d) A demand for better man-machine facilities.

56. Earlier educational values were lower and less wide-spread in an agrarian than in an industrial society. This was not because :
    (a) Education served no purpose for them as they needed no knowledge.
    (b) The agrarian society was always in need of hard physical labour and long hours of work instead of education.
    (c) The agrarian society would get little time to take off to attend school.
    (d) The agrarian society needed no employment for their members outside agriculture for which education is necessary.

57. With which aspect of education deals the educational sociology ?
    (a) Social
    (b) Political
    (c) Economic
    (d) Psychological
58. Dumb people are classed as a/an :
    (a) Social group
    (b) Societal group
    (c) Statistical group
    (d) Associational group

59. Example of secondary group is :
    (a) Family
    (b) Neighbourhood
    (c) Playgroup
    (d) Association of workers

60. Characteristic of secondary group is :
    (a) Specialisation of interest
    (b) Identity of ends
    (c) Spontaneity of religions
    (d) Emphasis on interest and competition

61. Socialization process in human beings takes place :
    (a) During childhood
    (b) During young age
    (c) For the whole life
    (d) At different intervals

62. Of the following, which is a primary group ?
    (a) School
    (b) Factory
    (c) Family
    (d) Political party

63. Characteristic of Primary group is :
    (a) Inclusive relationship
    (b) Personal relationship
    (c) Impersonal relation
    (d) No identity of ends

64. The notion of ingroup and outgroup was first used by :
    (a) Summer
    (b) Freud
    (c) MacIver
    (d) Mead

65. The process of socialization ends with :
    (a) Childhood
    (b) Youth
    (c) Adulthood
    (d) Death

66. Cooley’s “face-to-face” group refers to :
    (a) An ingroup
    (b) A primary group
    (c) A formal group
    (d) An out group

67. Which of the following does not describe a norm ?
    (a) It is based on or more of society’s values.
    (b) It is behaviour that is most often followed.
    (c) It describes a value held by society.
    (d) It is society’s expectation for right and proper behaviour.

68. An individual who tends to withdraw from association with others is called :
    (a) Very suggestible
    (b) Well socialized
    (c) Poorly socialized
    (d) Hysterical

69. Morgan’s theory of early promiscuity is refuted because his :
    (a) Evidence are wrong.
    (b) Views are biased and are not based on scientific facts.
    (c) Entire explanation is based upon the theory of evolution.
    (d) Views are not accepted by some of the evolutionists like Westermark.

70. The rewards and punishments applied ensure conformity to group norms are called :
    (a) Ostracism
    (b) Laws
    (c) Deviations
    (d) Sanctions

71. Which of the following situations does not describe a conflict in norms ?
    (a) A newly married man who is visited by his bachelor buddies.
    (b) A policeman on duty comes across a thief who happens to be his son.
    (c) A boy hits his teacher.
    (d) Fellow students ask you to leave home and share a room with them to give them company.

72. The essence of secondary group experience is :
    (a) Intimate relationships
    (b) “Consciousness of kind”
    (c) Face-to-Face contacts
    (d) Casualness of contact

73. The role that an individual plays in the development of social phenomenon is studied by :
    (a) Social psychology
    (b) Sociology
    (c) Anthropology
    (d) Political sociology

74. The notion of the “I : me : Generalised other” was developed by :
    (a) Mead G.H.
    (b) Cooley Charles
    (c) Thomas William
    (d) Morton Robert

75. Which of the following is a norm ?
    (a) “Eat ice cream with a spoon.”
    (b) “I like to eat ice cream.”
    (c) Honesty is the best policy.
    (d) Simple living and high thinking is a great virtue.

76. Which of the following is not the process of socialisation ?
    (a) It is the way, culture is transmitted from one generation to the next.
    (b) It is the way, the individual is incorporated into the group.
    (c) It transforms the biological organisation into a social being.
    (d) It is exercised through the use of sanctions to keep the group from disintegration.

77. The process of acting in awareness of others and adjusting responses to the way others respond is called :
    (a) Role awareness
    (b) Social awareness
    (c) Social organisation
    (d) Social interaction

78. Which of the following factors is not very relevant among the factors to be examined to determine the extent of influence of a particular socialising agency ?
    (a) The physical and mental maturity of the individual.
    (b) The physical and social availability of the agency.
    (c) The support by other agencies.
    (d) The physical features of the individual.

79. The sociologist who called the self-image the looking-glass self was :
    (a) G.H. Mead
    (b) Jean Piaget
    (c) C.H. Cooley
    (d) A.H. Maslow

80. Which of the following is the best example of what Cooley referred to as a quasiprimary group ?
    (a) A mother and her child
    (b) A spontaneous play group
    (c) Columbia university
    (d) A boy-scout-troupe

81. Which of the following statement is not true about the members of a social group ?
    (a) They are aware of shared memberships.
    (b) They are a casual collection of people.
    (c) They are involved in close interaction.
    (d) They have distinct relations with one another.

82. There are several factors that contribute to the development of unique individuals within the society. Which of the following is not one of the them ?
    (a) By virtue of the self, the individual wards off some of the influences of the group.
    (b) A number of socialising agencies compete for influence.
    (c) One belongs to a national group having a unique genetic background.
    (d) Any other.

83. The key of understand the meaning of the group is the word interaction. A casual collection of people who are only vaguely aware of each other is called an aggregate. Which of the following is an aggregate ?
    (a) The party workers meeting with the party president to discuss the programme of work.
    (b) The meeting of the members of the trade union executive.
    (c) A thousand people at an industrial fair.
    (d) A meeting of the railway consulting committee.

84. A child develops a self-concept when he is able to see himself as an object. He develops a concept of himself as he :
    (a) Thinks about himself and his own behaviour.
    (b) Responds to the behaviour of his parents.
    (c) Reflects on objects that are not present.
    (d) Thinks as others do.

85. Which of the following is not the characteristics of a primary group ?
    (a) Socialisation of the members.
    (b) Small size.
    (c) Generations of norms that violate those of the larger society.
    (d) Personal interaction with emotional involvement.

86. Of the following, the definition of personality is, most appropriate, according to the text would be :
    (a) Qualities of a person.
    (b) The sum total of observed or observable characteristics of an individual.
    (c) Popularity with one’s peers.
    (d) The personal qualities which tend to emphasize how different people really are.

87. Which of the following is inevitably involved in the exercise of competent authority in any social group ?
    (a) Superior knowledge
    (b) The right to exact obedience
    (c) Superior skill
    (d) Superior memory

88. Which of the following statements is not a characteristic of social group ?
    (a) Its members have a distinctive set as interpersonal relations.
    (b) Its members are conscious of shared membership.
    (c) Its members accept certain rights and obligations.
    (d) Its members are a casual collection of people.

89. Which of the following statement is not true about a primary group ?
    (a) It is capable of generating behaviour that upholds social norms.
    (b) It is capable of generating behaviour that violates social norms.
    (c) Its membership carries with it neither obligations nor privileges.
    (d) It is a source of socialization.

90. The primary group is the most intimate of all small groups. Which of the following is an example of a primary group ?
    (a) An audience in a movie house.
    (b) Sociologist of India working on the problem of urbanisation.
    (c) Bombayites on a subway.
    (d) Long-standing friends assisting each other in need.

91. Sociologists have defined group as two or more persons who are interacting and are aware of shared understanding, rights, obligations and memberships. Which of the following is not an example of a group.
    (a) A street gang
    (b) A sports club
    (c) Persons in a given income bracket
    (d) A board meeting

92. Which of the following is an example of the social group ?
    (a) Family
    (b) Married people
    (c) Labour union
    (d) Church

93. A primary group is characteristically small and there is a high rate of personal interaction between its members. Which of the following has the characteristics of a primary group ?
    (a) Members of the Janata Party in Gujarat.
    (b) Next-door neighbours who are good friends.
    (c) Labourers of Tata Iron and Steel works.
    (d) People assembled as a cross road.

94. Which of the following is an example of a social group ?
    (a) Authors
    (b) Plumbers
    (c) Audience
    (d) The Rotary club members

95. Which of the following characteristics is essential in a primary group ?
    (a) Its members must be of the same age.
    (b) It should have large membership.
    (c) Its members must have a high rate of interaction with one another.
    (d) Its membership usually must be limited to one sex.

96. When we try to explain the behaviour of an individual, we find that his social environment is :
    (a) A sufficient total explanation.
    (b) A necessary but not sufficient total explanation.
    (c) Both a necessary and sufficient total explanation.
    (d) Neither a necessary nor sufficient explanation.

97. The preferential feeling which individuals have for their own group is called :
    (a) Egoism
    (b) Ethnocentrism
    (c) Primary
    (d) Fraternal

98. Leadership appears to be :
    (a) Not dependent on interpersonal relations.
    (b) Situational.
    (c) A general personality trait.
    (d) Not detectable by sociometric measures.

99. Socialisation is a process of converting a biological organism into :
    (a) Human being
    (b) Super human being
    (c) Modern man
    (d) Social man

100. Who said, “Acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures comes into continuous first hand contact with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups”.
     (a) M.J. Herskovits
     (b) Robert Redfield
     (c) W.H. Holmes
     (d) A.L. Kroeber

101. Who made the statement : “Cultural relativism is an essence in approach to the question of the nature and role of values in culture” ?
     (a) C. Wright Mills
     (b) M.J. Herskovits
     (c) R. Linton
     (d) A.L. Kroeber

93. A primary group is characteristically small and there is a high rate of personal interaction between its members. Which of the following has the characteristics of a primary group ?
    (a) Members of the Janata Party in Gujarat.
    (b) Next-door neighbours who are good friends.
    (c) Labourers of Tata Iron and Steel works.
    (d) People assembled as a cross road.

94. Which of the following is an example of a social group ?
    (a) Authors
    (b) Plumbers
    (c) Audience
    (d) The Rotary club members

95. Which of the following characteristics is essential in a primary group ?
    (a) Its members must be of the same age.
    (b) It should have large membership.
    (c) Its members must have a high rate of interaction with one another.
    (d) Its membership usually must be limited to one sex.

96. When we try to explain the behaviour of an individual, we find that his social environment is :
    (a) A sufficient total explanation.
    (b) A necessary but not sufficient total explanation.
    (c) Both a necessary and sufficient total explanation.
    (d) Neither a necessary nor sufficient explanation.

97. The preferential feeling which individuals have for their own group is called :
    (a) Egoism
    (b) Ethnocentrism
    (c) Primary
    (d) Fraternal

98. Leadership appears to be :
    (a) Not dependent on interpersonal relations.
    (b) Situational.
    (c) A general personality trait.
    (d) Not detectable by sociometric measures.

99. Socialisation is a process of converting a biological organism into :
    (a) Human being
    (b) Super human being
    (c) Modern man
    (d) Social man

100. Who said, “Acculturation comprehends those phenomena which result when groups of individuals having different cultures comes into continuous first hand contact with subsequent changes in the original cultural patterns of either or both groups”.
     (a) M.J. Herskovits
     (b) Robert Redfield
     (c) W.H. Holmes
     (d) A.L. Kroeber

101. Who made the statement : “Cultural relativism is an essence in approach to the question of the nature and role of values in culture” ?
     (a) C. Wright Mills
     (b) M.J. Herskovits
     (c) R. Linton
     (d) A.L. Kroeber

102. The essence of secondary group experience is :
     (a) Intimate relationships
     (b) Face-to-Face contact
     (c) Casualness of contacts
     (d) “Consciousness of kind”

103. A group of individuals having essentially the same social status in a given society is called a :
     (a) Social group
     (b) Social class
     (c) Social class
     (d) Secondary group

104. A role conflict occurs when :
     (a) The roles of two persons different with one another.
     (b) The ego occupies two conflicting roles.
     (c) There is a mental conflict over the choice from a set of roles.
     (d) The role being played is questioned.

105. In sociometric studies, the correspondence between egos perceptions of the choices and actual choices of others could be best employed as a measure of, which of the following ?
     (a) Group cohesion
     (b) Identification
     (c) Social empathy
     (d) Social empathy

106. The term “oral dependency” means :
     (a) Depending on words
     (b) Unwritten promise
     (c) A stage of child’s dependency on mother
     (d) Depending on eating

107. The study of society is nothing but the study of :
     (a) Mores
     (b) Conventions
     (c) Laws
     (d) Folkways

108. Implicit in Freud’s discussion of the resolution of the Oedipus complex is the assertion that identification with the same-sex parent is more difficult for :
     (a) Boys than for girls; the same thing
     (b) Middle-class children; the opposite
     (c) Boys than for girls; the opposite
     (d) Girls than for boys; the opposite

109. George Simmel classified human aggregates units :
     (a) Societies
     (b) Communities
     (c) Groups
     (d) Institutions

110. Socialization is a processes involving :
     (a) Gradual changing or organism.
     (b) Training to adapt to the society.
     (c) Declaring everything as belonging to the society.
     (d) Setting up the social norms.

111. Individual and society are considered as :
     (a) Interdependent
     (b) Contradictory
     (c) Complimentary
     (d) Supplementary

112. The concepts of “Significant others” and “generalised others” were given by :
     (a) Jean Piaget
     (b) G.H. Mead
     (c) A.H. Maslow
     (d) C.H. Cooley

113. One of the primitive types of social group is known as :
     (a) Family
     (b) Tribe
     (c) Marriage
     (d) Religion

114. Identify a social group among the following :
     (a) Nation
     (b) Crowd
     (c) Individual
     (d) Audience

115. One of the basic principles of socializing individuals is :
     (a) Religion
     (b) Caste
     (c) Education
     (d) Imitation

116. Identify a quasi-group among the following :
     (a) Status groups
     (b) Trade union
     (c) Mob
     (d) Crowd

117. Human nature develops in man as a ?
     (a) Member of a religion
     (b) Citizen of a state
     (c) Member of an organisation
     (d) Member of a society

118. Man’s behaviour in society is determined mainly by two forces, namely :
     (a) Formal and Informal
     (b) Nature and unnatural
     (c) Physical and social
     (d) Psychological and philosophical

119. The term Group is defined as “any collection of human being who are brought into social relationships with one another” by :
     (a) Herbert Spencer
     (b) MacIver and Page
     (c) Max Waber
     (d) Hobhouse

120. An individual starts learning from :
     (a) Mother’s womb
     (b) Adulthood
     (c) Childhood
     (d) Adolescence

121. The concept of the looking-glass self may be summarised as follows :
     (a) What ego thinks ego is.
     (b) What alter thinks ego is.
     (c) What ego thinks, alter thinks, ego is.
     (d) What ego thinks after is.

122. When a group of clans get merged together, then the resultant grouping is called :
     (a) Lineage
     (b) Siblings
     (c) Family
     (d) Gotra

123. The social nature of the human personality is :
     (a) Partially innate and partially acquired
     (b) Innate
     (c) Acquired
     (d) None of the above

124. If in a social set up people are working against others in order to obtain possession, they are said to have :
     (a) Conflict
     (b) Cooperation
     (c) Competition
     (d) Accommodation

125. The technique of measurement of the patterns of social behaviour in a group is known as :
     (a) Sociogram
     (b) Interactional analysis
     (c) Social distance scale
     (d) Sociometry

126. The process which aims to destroy the opponent is :
     (a) Co-operation
     (b) Conflict
     (c) Competition
     (d) Accommodation

127. The socializing process through which an individual places oneself in the position of another person and feels that same way is known as :
     (a) Limitation
     (b) Identification
     (c) Sympathy
     (d) Empathy

128. Socializing principles help in maintaining :
     (a) Social attitudes
     (b) Social behaviour
     (c) Social norms
     (d) None of the above

129. When two or more people come under the influence of each other, they are said to have :
     (a) Social interaction
     (b) Competition
     (c) Conflict
     (d) Cooperation

130. A socialized group, according to Bogardus, is a group in which members :
     (a) Actively engage themselves in building up the welfare and increasing the freedom of all the people in a large society of which it is a member.
     (b) Interact in anyway with reference top any idea, procedure of cause.
     (c) Take part in the large social life but chiefly for the fulfilment of their own gain attached.
     (d) Act against the welfare of the large social unit of which they are members.

131. Internalization means that the individual :
     (a) Conforms to group norms.
     (b) Has identity, social location, aspiration and values.
     (c) Has adopted the norms and values of the group and uses them.
     (d) Has standards to judge his own behaviour.

132. The preferences and aversions amongst the various members of a group is shown by :
     (a) Sociogram
     (b) Sociological analysis
     (c) Social psychology
     (d) Interactional analysis

133. Any collection of human beings who are brought into social relationship with one another, is called a/an :
     (a) Family
     (b) Office
     (c) Institution
     (d) Group

134. The difference between the social groups, in the degree of cultural development; or the degree of antipathy manifested by individuals belonging to one group towards individuals belonging to the other is known as social :
     (a) Apathy
     (b) Disorder
     (c) Distance
     (d) Selection

135. Out of the following four branches of psychology, with which sociology has got maximum linkage is :
     (a) Child Psychology
     (b) Industrial Psychology
     (c) Social Psychology
     (d) General Psychology

136. What role education should play in achieving the objective that every citizen contributes his best to defence of freedom :
     (a) Helping the country to achieve self-sufficiency in food.
     (b) Helping in achieving economic growth and full employment.
     (c) Developing in the citizens a strong sentiment and identification with country's freedom through the process of education.
     (d) Helping in the development of bold and competent political leadership.

137. Expansion of educational facilities in Indian after independence a as result of the "explosion of expectations" of the masses demanding education, equality, higher standard of living and better civic amenities is an example of :
     (a) The psychology of people influence the course of social progress.
     (b) The schools and colleges change the life and values of the people.
     (c) Importance in the political and national life of a country is its system of education.
     (d) The social change affects the system of education of a country.

138. Education contributes to the efforts made b a traditional society on its economic development by :
     (a) Bringing about "human change on a grand scale" leading to a pervasive social transformation consisting of change in values, habits and fabric of existing life of the people.
     (b) Teaching the subject of "Economic Growth and Development" in the universities and colleges.
     (c) Establishing agricultural universities in the country.
     (d) Strengthening its programs of science and technology.

139. To meet the purposes of a modernizing democratic and socialistic society, like India it is more important to have :
     (a) An economic revolution
     (b) A social revolution
     (c) A revolution in education
     (d) Industrial revolution

140. The Indian education should ensure primarily with reference to religion :
     (a) Development of national religion in some form, like the national language.
     (b) Promotion of religious tolerance and an active reverence for all religions.
     (c) Sufficient financial support to religious schools.
     (d) Effective administration of religious schools.

141. Besides abolishing fees progressively, it is desirable to provide free books, stationery and even school meals in Indian schools because :
     (a) India is a socialistic democracy.
     (b) Many people in India want the government to do this.
     (c) It may reduce the level of inequality of educational opportunities due to poverty of the people.
     (d) No other country charges fees and many have introduced the system of free books and free school meals.

142. "Women are human beings and have as much right to full development as men have". This was stated by :
     (a) Mahatma Gandhi
     (b) Dr. Radhakrishnan
     (c) Ravindranath Tagore
     (d) Smt. Hansa Mehta

143. Being a multi-religious country, India needs to :
     (a) Define the attitude of the state to religion, religious education and the concept of secularism.
     (b) Provide instruction in religious dogmas in the school of the country.
     (c) Allow freedom to all schools to adopt their own policy in this matter.
     (d) Utilize different religions and faiths and instruments of propagation of values and morals.

144. One possible way of arresting the growing of inequality of educational opportunities is to :
     (a) Have widest dispersal of educational institutions throughout the country.
     (b) Motivate the people to educate their children.
     (c) Make reservation of seats in all institutions for the talented students.
     (d) Force the communities to open their own institution.

145. Adoption of a secularist policy in the field of education means :
     (a) That all people, irrespective of their religious faith will enjoy equality of rights in political, economic and social matters.
     (b) That religious minorities should be given certain privileges in regard to certain matters.
     (c) All religious sects should have some freedom to run their own schools.
     (d) That the government adopt a policy of no intervention in matters of any faith.

146. The education of girls in India should receive emphasis because :
     (a) It is based on Social justice.
     (b) It accelerates social transformation.
     (c) It needs social justice and social transformation.
     (d) None of these.

147. Mark the incorrect statement among the following :
     (a) Racial inter-mixture leads to degeneration.
     (b) All races stand equal on the scale of evolution.
     (c) The concept of pure race is a fallacy.
     (d) Inter-mixture of races is a universal phenomenon.

148. Culture is "the socially transmitted system of idealised ways in knowledge, practice, and belief along with the artifacts that knowledge and practice produce and maintain as they change in time". In view of this definition, which among the following constitutes an element of culture ?
     (a) Making other person accept your views on religion by force
     (b) Marrying out of caste
     (c) Interest in music
     (d) Disciplining the public opinion

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