Practise Sociology MCQs
ย 1. Social Strain Theory associated with
a. Robert K. Merton
b. Karl Marx
c. Max Weber
d.ย Durkheim
2. Pattachitra is an old traditional art ofย
a. Telangana and Andhra Pradesh
b. Maharasthra and Gujurat
c. Kerala and Karnataka
d. Odisha and West Bengal
3.ย Patua Sangeetย orย Poter Ganย is a cultural tradition of
a. Bihar
b. West Bengal
c. Telangana
d. Andhra Pradesh
4. Chalchitra belongs to which state
a. Karnataka
b. Telangana
c. West Bengal
d. Maharashtra
5. what is โIโ in Talcott Parsons AGIL
a. Integration
b. Innovation
c. Innovative
d. Integrated
6. Which of the following is not example of a โWhite Collarโ worker
a.ย Doctor
b. Corporative executive
c. ย Manual labor
d. Stockbroker
7. ย manual scavenging work related to
a. White-collar
b. Pink Collar
c. Blue Collar
d. Green Collar
8. The Rules of Sociological Method( 1895) Book by
a. Max Weber
b. รmile Durkheim
c. Karl Marx
d. Auguste Comte
9.ย โReligion is the Opium of masses and an instrument of classesโ belongs to
a. รmile Durkheim
b. Max Weber
c. Karl Marx
d. Ambedkar
10. Who authored โ Citizenship and Social Classโ
a.ย Norbert Elias
b. Thomas Bottomore and Thomas Humphrey Marshall
c. G Murray
d. Adolf Hitler
11. The credit for founding both โthe Indian Sociological Societyโ and โthe Sociological Bulletinโ?
a. D P Mukerji
b. MN Srinivas
c. GSย Ghurye
d. Ambedkar
12.ย Theย Power Elite is a 1956 book by
a. C. Wright Mills
b. Irawati Karve
c. Karl Marx
d. Max Weber
13. โIf I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.โ by
a. MN ROY
b. BR AMBEDKAR
c. MAHATMA GANDHI
d. RAJENDRA PRASAD
14.ย โThose who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything.โ by
a. Joseph Stalin
b. Adolf Hilter
c. Napoleon Bonaparte
d. Ambedkar
15.ย Who authored โInterrogating Casteโ
a. VeenaDas
b. Dipankar Gupta
c. MN Srinivas
d. Irawati Karve
16. which of the following is NOT โ Peasants Pressure Groupsโ
a.Agri-Horticultural Society of India
b.Bharatiya Kisan Sangh
c. All India Kisan Congress
d. Indian Sugar Mills Association
17. The average size of operational holdings is highest and lowest inย ( agriculture census 2015-16)
a. Nagaland (6 hectares) and lowest in Kerala (0.19 hectares).
b. Nagaland (5 hectares) and lowest in Kerala (0.18 hectares).
c. Nagaland (15 hectares) and lowest in Kerala (0.17 hectares).
d. Uttar Pradeshย (5 hectares) and lowest in Kerala (0.18 hectares).
18. Which state is home to the largest number of landholders in India ( agriculture census 2015-16)
a. ย Uttar Pradesh constituting 16% of the total number.
b. Kerala constituting 19% of the total number.
c. Telangana constituting 10% of the total number.
d. Maharasthra constituting 16% of the total number.
19. Kaonde and Ngonde tribes belong to?
a. India
b. Australia
c. Africa
d. None
20. โStratification is an inevitable part of all human societies. If value consensus is an essential component of all societies, then it follows that some form of stratification will result from the ranking of individuals in terms of common value.โ
(a) Karlย Marx
(b) Max Weber
(c) Durkheim
(d) T. Parsons
21.ย How many Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in India
a. 77
b.84
c.76
d.75
22.ย Who authored the Book โThe Elementary Structures of Kinshipโ
a. Evans-Pritchard
b. Claude Lรฉvi-Strauss
c. David M. Schneider
d. a and b
23. International Literacy Day is celebrated every year on?
a. 8th August
b. 8th July
c. 8th September
d. 8th November
24. Which of the following is/are Nomadic Tribes in India
a. Changpa
b. Bharwad
c. Bedia
d. All of the above
25. โ Kotaโ Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) in Which state
a. Rajasthan
b. Uttar Pradesh
c. TamilNadu
d. Gujarat
26. who is the โfather of modern anthropologyโ
a. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
b. Claude Levi-Strauss
c. Franz Boas
d. Margaret Mead
27.ย Who introduced the โcapability approachโ
a. Abiy Ahmed Ali
b. Akira Yoshino
c. Abhijit Banerjee
d. Amartya sen
28. Who used the โseed and earthโ metaphor to understand gendered power
A. Nandini Sundar
B. Leela Dube
C. Patricia Uberoi
D. lrawati Karve
29. The Concept โRelatedness โ related to
a. lrawati Karve
b. Karl Polanyi
c. Janet Carsten
d. Patricia Uberoi
30. โExchange of womenโ Concept by
a. Claude Lรฉvi-Strauss
b. L Dousset
c. PS Bearman
d. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
31. โGay and lesbian kinshipโ related to
a.Patricia Uberoi
b.ย E Lewin
c. Kath Weston
d. Anthony Giddens
32. โTheory of Practiceโ belongs to
a. EM Power
b. Adebayo
c. Pierre Bourdieu
d. Levi Strauss
33. Who defined โcaste is superimposition of endogamy over exogamyโ?
a. Periyar
b. MN Roy
c. Ambedkar
d. MN Srinivas
34. Who authored โJustice as Fairness: A Restatementโ
a. Ambedkar
b. Adam Smith
c. John Rawls
d. Karl Marx
35. Who authored โWhat Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalismโ
a. Fred Magdoff and John Bellamy Foster
b. Atef Abu Saif
d. Paul Burkett
36. Which of the following Environmental Activist is associated with this statement:
โSeed freedom (bija swaraj) is our birthrightโย
a. Christine Shearer
b.ย Kari Marie Norgaard.
c. Dr. Vandana Shiva
d. Greta Thunberg.
37. Who is knownย for her research and theory that sits at the intersection of race, gender, class, sexuality, and nationality.ย
a. ย Angela Davis
b. Alice Walker
c. Audre Lorde.
d. Patricia Hill Collins
38. Who authored โWorld Risk Societyโ
a. Barbara Adam
b. Ulrich Beck
c. Atef Abu Saif
d. Auguste Comte
39. Global Wage Report 2018-19 published by ?
a. International Labour Organization (ILO)
b. United Nations Development Programme
c. International Organization for Migration
d. United Nations Capital Development Fund
40. United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME), Report 2019 published by ?
a. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
b. The United Nations Childrenโs Fund
c. World Health Organizatio
d. None of the Above
41. What is โHโ in WASH ( WHO and UNICEF )
a. Hands
b. Hygiene
c. Hydration
d. None of the Above.
42. Sociology and social anthropology in lndia
a. Are often synonymous
b.Have intellectual roots in Heidegger
c. Are never in the same department
d. Have no relationship to British Anthropology
43. Social Protection Floor has been defined by
A. International Centre for Trade Union Rights
B. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
C. International Labour Organization
D. World Health Organisation
44. Recently which of the following state proposed a census of indigenous Muslim groups in India
A. Kerala
B. Assam
C. Gujarat
D. Telangana
45. The concept of โNew Ethnographyโ is associated with
a. Floyd Loundsbury
b. Robert F. Murphy
c. WC Sturtevant
d. Alfred Radcliffe-Brown
46. ย โGlass Ceiling Effectโ means
a. The glass Ceiling is a metaphor for an artificial barrier preventing women from being promoted to top jobs in management.
b. Providing reservation to the Backward Classes
c. Reservation for Women in corporate offices
d. Women are restricted due to social norms and family responsibilities.
47.ย Who authored โBlack Feminist Thoughtโ
a. Audre Lorde
b. Patricia Hill Collins
c. ย EM Simien
d. None
48. The phrase โfetishism of commoditiesโ is associated with
a. Malinowski
b. Karl Marx
c. Max Weber
d. None
49. โEpistemologyโis the study of
a. Ethics
b.Knowledge
c. Values
d. Contradictions
50.ย โTheory of Ideologyโ is related to
a. Louis Althusser
b. Karl Marx
c. Max weber
d. None
51. Who argues that โKinship is both infrastrucfure and superstructureโ
a. Maurice Godelier
b. M Martin
c.ย AF Saifuddin
d. Irawati Karve
52. โCulturologyโ is a term coined by
a. Radcliff Brown
b. Leslie White
c. M Mautner
d. Levi Strauss
53. Who coined the term โOppositional gazeโ
a. Gloria Watkins
b.ย Steve Fiffer
c. ย Laura Mulvey
d. None
54. The Gramscian concept of hegemony refers to
A) coercion
B) dominance
C) coercion and consent
D) legitimacy
55. โGolden Triangleโ is associated with
A) illegal anns trade
B) drugs trade
C) human trafficking
D) sea piracy
56. The term โsocial capitalโ refers to
A) water tanks and temples
B) networks of reciprocity and trust
C) economic resources owned by social groups
D) intellectual assets
57. The phrase โdialectic of enlightenmentโ is associated with the work of
A) Adorno and Horkheimer
B) Karl Marx
C) Herbert Marcuse
D) Eric Fromm
58. โThree waves of democratisationโ is a usage associated with
A) Gabriel Almond
B) Samuel Huntington
C) David Easton
D) Aristotle
59. Islam and Democracy: Fear of the Modern World written by?
a. Fatema Mernissi
b. Amina Wadud
c. Durkhiem
d. None
60.ย The terms โlangueโ and โparoleโ used by
a. Levi Struass
b. ย Pierre Bourdieu
c. Harold Garfinkel
d. Alfred Schutz
61. who insisted that โit is not enough that an Indian Sociologist be a sociologist, but must be an Indian firstโ?
a. MN Srinivas
b. GS Ghurye
c. DP Mukerji
d. Radhakamal Mukerji
62. Who authored the Book โTools of convivialityโ
a. W Schinkel
b. R Hasan
c. Ivan Illich
d. None
63. Who strated the Journal โContributions to Indian Sociologyโ
a. G. S. Ghurye and A.R. Desai
b. Louis Dumont and David Francis Pocock.
c. MN Srinivas and Louis Dumont
d. None
64. Who authored โReading Capitalโ
a. Karl Marx
b. Antonio Gramsci
c. Louis Guttm
d. Louis Althusser
65. โThe labelling theoryโ was developed and popularised by
a. Howard S. Becker
b. Antonio Gramsci
C. Mendel
d. Max Weber
66.ย โThe Ministry of Utmost Happinessโ wrote by ?
a. Satish Deshpande
b. Patricia Uberoi
c. Nandini Sundar
d. Arundhati Roy
67. Who Proposed the world systems theory
a. Charles Perrow
b. Iain Wilkinson
c. Ulrich Beck
d. Immanuel Wallerstein
68. Who introduced The โ Looking Glass Theoryโ
a. Patricia Hill Collins
b. Charles Horton Cooley
c. Audre Lorde
d. Alfred Adler,
69. Which of the following is correct meaning to โ Sociology of Consumptionโ
a. Sociologists who study consumption look at how what we buy relates to our values, emotions, and identities.
b. Sociologists who study consupmtion in the economic perspective only
c. a & b
d. None of the correct
70. Which of the following is/are example of โTotal Institutionโ
a. prisons and jails
b. refugee camps,
c. military compounds or bases
d. All of the Above
71. โLate Capitalismโ is associated with
a. Fredric Jameson
b. ย Jonathan Crary
c. both of them
c. none
72. Who developed โthe theory of reificationโ
a. ย Jonathan Crary
b. Gilad Soffer
c. Gyorgy Lukacs
d. none
73. Who labeled peasantry as the awkward class?
a. Stalin
b. Mirza Sultan
c. Theoder Shanin
d. Steven Sideman
74. Mind, Self and Society Book by ?
a. Charles Cooley
b. George Herbert Mead
c. ย G Baggio
d. Erving Goffman
75. Who among the following is considered as the Father of Local Self Government in India?
A. Warren Hastings
B. The Lord Minto
C. Lord Lytton
D. Lord Ripon
76. The Pamphlet titled โwhy I am atheistโ was written by
A. Barindra Kumar Ghosh
B. Santokh Singh
C. Joglekar
D. Bhagat Singh
77 Who among the following wrote the book โHistory of Hindu Chemistryโ?
A. Prafulla Chandra Ray
B. Sunetra Gupta
C. Sampa Das
D. Anirban Basu
78. Bodo-Kachari, Hajong, Koch, Mann and Rabha tribes predominantly found inย which of the following
Indian state?
A. Meghalaya
B. Tripura
C. Mizoram
D. Assam
79. Consider the following Statements regarding Hantaviruses
1. No treatments or vaccines are available
2. It is transmitted to humans who inhale the virus from the urine, faeces, or saliva of infected rodents
3. It was first identified in the year 1993.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
a. 1 only
b. 2 and 3 only
c. 3 only
d 1, 2 and 3
80. Kovvada is a new nuclear plant to be set up in the State of
a. Telangana, India
b. Andhra Pradesh, India
c.Kerala, India
d. Tamil Nadu, India
81. Social Protection Floor has been defined by
a. International Centre for Trade Union Rights
b. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
c. World Health Organization
d. International Labour Organization
82. Global Economic Prospects is released by
a. World Bank
b. International Monetary Fund
c.World Economic Forum
d. United Nations
83. Which of the following organization releases Word Economic Situation Report?
A. International Monetary Fund
B. World Bank
C. United Nations
D. Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
84. Which of the following is/are the correct examples of role conflict?
a. when a parent is a class teacher and their son is studying in the same class, the role conflict can occur when a teacher doesnโt treat all students equally.
b. Another role conflict can occur if the parentโs career impacts the time he can commit to teaching as well as parenting.
c. Both a & b
d. None
85. Which of the following is/are common examples of Durkheimโs Social Facts
a. Marriage
b. Religion
c.ย language
d. all of the above.
86. Which of the following is/are a correct example of Reliability in Research?
a. If someone is a kind-hearted man, if he is asked 100 times for a charity, he will not refuse. This counts how reliable a person is.
b. The reliability of a person is checked constantly by asking him the same question in different ways. Accurate the answers, more reliable are the person.
c. a is correct and b is incorrect
d. Both a and b are correct.
87. which of the following is/are disadvantages of โProbability Samplingโ
a. Itย is more time consuming and expensive than non-probability sampling.
b. ย It is not mandatory that every person will be interested in the research process.
c. a is correct and b is incorrect
d. Both a and b are correct.
88. Which of the following is/are correct statements regarding โHypothesisโ in Research methods
a. A hypothesis is generally verified to check whether it can be formulated as a theory or not.
b. The previous happenings are taken into account first then a relationship is established.
c. a and b are correct
d. only a is correct
89. Which of the following is/are correct statements regarding โ Snowball Sampling โย
a. It is considered as a representative sample.
b. Itโs a purposive sample and a non-probability sample.
c. Its purposive sample and probability sample.
d.ย a and c are correct.
90. The term โThe Internal Consistency Procedureโ related to
a. Opportunity Structure
b. Social Stratification
c. Reliability
d. None
91. Which of the following statements is/are correct regarding โSociobiologyโ
a. Sociobiology is based on the premise that some behaviours are at least partly inherited and can be affected by natural selection
b. sociobiologists believe that evolution includes not just genes, but also psychological, social, and cultural features.
c. sociobiologists believe that evolution includes genes only.
d.ย a and b are correct.
92. which of the following is/are examples of white-collar crime.
a.Tax fraud
b. false advertising
c. Insider trading in stock market trading.
d. All of the above.
93. who used the term โAltruism โ in their study.
a. Max Weber
b. Durkheim
c. Karl Marx
d. Talcott Parsons.
94. Who developed the concept of โcultural hegemonyโ?
a. Alexis-Charles Tocqueville
b. Antonio Gramsci
c. Juergen Habermas
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