Community And Society-Multiple Choice Questions and Answers
Society
1. In Sociology, 'Society' refers to the ——
a) Members of a specific in-group
b) Pattern of the norms of interaction
c) Congregation of people
d) People with laws and customs
2. Society is the total social heritage of folkways, mores and Institutions, of habits, sentiments and
ideals. This is a —— view of society.
a) Structural b) Cultural
c) Functional d) None of the above
3.Who among the following has given the structural view of society?
a) Durkheim b) Giddings
c) MacIver d) Cooley
4.Who among the following has given the functional view of society?
a) Giddings b) August Comte
c) Parsons d) Spencer
5.According to ............. society is a web of social relations.
a) Cooley b) MacIver
c) Parsons d) Leacock
6.The relation existing between a type writer and a desk can be called—
a) Material b) Cultural
c) Physical d) Structural
7.The relationship between fire and smoke is not a social one as the very relationship is not in any
way determined by ———
a) Co-operation b) Mutual awareness
c) Integration d) Social compulsion
8. According to Giddings, society rests on —
a) Mutual co-operation
b) Altruism
c) Consciousness of kind
d) Folkways and mores
9. Find out the incorrect match
a) Giddings ——structural view of society
b) Cooley —— society is a web of social relationships
c) Parsons — functional view of society
d) Cooley— 'we' feeling.
10. 'Man is a social animal.' Who said this?
a) MacIver b) Freud
c) Aristotle d) Rousseau
11. — is a system of relationship between cells
a) Society b) Aggregation
c) Organism d) Group
12. Who has compared society with an organism?
a) Darwin b) Durkheim
c) Spencer d) MacIver
13. Patriarchal theory has been propounded by —
a) Tylor b) Henry Maine
c) Aristotle d) Morgan
14.According to — theory, individuals made a mutual agreement and created society
a) Patriarchal b) Social contract
c) Agreement d) Divine origin
15. According to ——, the life of man was solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'
a) Rousseau b) Locke
c) Plato d) None of the above
16. Society is not a make, but a growth. This view is related to ——
a) Patriarchaltheory
b) Matriarchal theory
c) Divine origin theory
d) Evolutionary theory
17. Animal society is based on —— whereas human society is based on ——
a) Instincts, reason
b) Sex drives, cultural needs
c) Strength, knowledge
d) None of the above
18. ———the process by which the individual learns to conform to the norms of the group
a) Integration b) Socialization
c) Conformity d) Assimilation
19. Socialization is a matter of ——
a) Learning
b) Biological inheritance
c) Socialising
d) Division of labour
20. Sociality is a —— and socialization is a ——
a) Quality, Process
b) Principle, biological Inheritance
c) Cultural process, virtue
d) None of the above
21.The social order is maintained largely by ——
a) Division of labour b) Law
c) Socialization d) State
22. The process of imitation may be perceptual or ———
a) Conscious b) Deliberate
c) Spontaneous d) Ideational
23. —— is the process of communicating information which has no logical or self-evident
basis
a) Suggestion b) Imitation
c) Transculturation d) Accommodation
24.When the child attempts to walk with a stick like his father, he is following —— a factor
responsible in the process of socialization?
a) Identification b) Suggestion
c) Imitation d) Conformity
25. —— is the means of cultural transmission
a) Education b) Society
c) Language d) Archaeology
26.The —— of a person is that he consciously or unconsciously conceives himself to be
a) Self b) Personality
c) Culture d) Worth
27.The concept of 'Looking-glass self' has been given by ——
a) Mead b) Giddings
c) Cooley d) MacIver
28.The concept of 'Looking –glass self' revolves around
a) Our perception of how we look to other
b) Out perception of their judgment of how we look
c) Our feeling about these judgments
d) All of the above
29.According to ——, Id, Ego and Super ego constitutes the three systems of mind
a) Freud b) Mead
c) Cooley d) Boas
30.According to Freud, —represents untamed passions and instinctive desires.
a) Id b) Ego
c) Child d) Self
31.When a father relieves his aggression by beating the child, — finds expression in disguised form?
a) Id b) Ego
c) Super ego d) Real self
32.According to ——, self and society are not identical
a) Cooley b) Mead
c) Freud d) Marx
33. Match both the groups
1. Id, Ego and Super Ego
2. Significant others
3. Looking glass self-
4. Consciousness of kind
(A) Mead (B) Cooley
(C) Giddings (D) Freud
a) A=1, B=2, C=3, D=4
b) A=2, B=3, C=4, D=1
c) A=4, B=3, C=4, D=1
d) A=3, B=4, C=1, D=2
34. Socialization brings man into relation with others whereas—, makes him autonomous or self-
determining
a) Personification b) Identification
c) Individualization d) Integration
Social Group
35.A— is a collection of individuals two or more, interacting with each other, which have some
common objects of attention and participate in similar activities
a) Community b) Social group
c) Organization d) Aggregate
36. —— is an aggregate which lacks organization and whose members may be unaware of the
existence of the grouping
a) Social group
b) Secondary group
c) Quasi-group
d) Spatial group
37. Which of the following is a Quasi-group?
a) Nation b) Political Party
c) Status group d) Tribe
38. Who has coined the term 'Quasi-group'?
a) MacIver b) Ginsberg
c) Ogburn d) Sorokin
39.Which of the following is not a characteristic of social group?
a) Sense of unity b) We-feeling
c) Common interests d) Common territory
40. A group is an ———
a) Organic whole
b) Artificial creation
c) Organized gathering
d) Natural growth
41.In group, membership is ——whereas in case of society it is——
a) Compulsory, Limited
b) Voluntary, compulsory
c) Spontaneous, deliberate
d) Involuntary, regulative
42.Group is a —, society is a system of relationship
a) Collection of human beings
b) Structure
c) Functional relationship
d) None of the above
43. Group is formed for a —— purpose but society involves —— purposes.
a) Philanthropic, legal
b) Specific, general
c) Limited, altruistic
d) Voluntary, specific
44. Society is marked by———
a) Co-operation
b) Conflict
c) Acculturation
d) Cooperation and Conflict
45.A social group is ———
a) Static b) Dynamic
c) Involuntary d) Altruistic
46.According to Tonnies, Neighbourhood is a type of ———
a) Community b) Gesellschaft
c) Social group d) Primary group
47.The classification of group into Primary and secondary group has been done by———
a) Cooley b) Tonnies
c) Summer d) MacIver
48. ............ is characterized by intimate face-to face relation.
a) Secondary group b) Spatial group
c) Primary group d) Gemeinschaft
49.Impersonal relations characterize..................
a) Society b) Association
c) Secondary group d) Neighbourhood
50. ................has classified groups into in-group and out-group.
a) Cooley b) Summer
c) Kingsley Davis d) Simmel
51.The groups with which the individual identifies himself by virtue of his consciousness of kind
are his............................
a) In-groups b) Primary group
c) Social groups d) Marginal groups
52. Find out the incorrect match
a) Sumner————— In group and out group
b) Cooley ————— Ethnocentrism
c) Mead—————— Signification others
d) Simmel————— Monad, dyad and triad
53.According to Sumner, the assumption that the values, the ways of life and the attitudes of one's
own group are superior to others is called............
a) Sub-nationalism b) Ethnocentrism
c) Racial superiority d) In-group superiority
54. Match the groups
(A) Sumner 1. Consciousness of kind
(B) Tonnies 2. Gesselshaft
(C) Cooley 3. Ethno Centrism
(D) Giddings 4. Looking-glass self
(a) A = 1, B= 3, C= 4, D=2
(b) A=3, B=2, C=4, D=1
(c) A = 4, B= 3, C=2, D=1
(d) A=2, B=1, C=4, D=3
55. .................... is referred to as a temporary collection of people reacting together to a stimuli
a) Public b) Gathering
c) Group d) Crowd
56.A group of students recreating by the sea shore are an———
a) Aggregate b) Public
c) Mob d) Community
57.If a group of students recreating by the sea-shore listen to a film actor, they become..................
a) Organized b) Congregate group
c) Crowd d) None of the above
58. ................. has divided crowd into homogeneous and heterogeneous
a) Biumer b) Le Bon
c) Lepoid d) Miller
59. Stimulus in the crowd is——whereas in public it is——
a) Voluntary, hidden
b) Unorganized, organized
c) Simultaneous, diffused
d) instant, delayed
60.Crowd is influenced by—— whereas public is influenced by————
a) Rumour, Speech
b) Spoken word, Printed word
c) Community, Association
d) Leader, state
61.Ideally, a primary relationship is regarded by the parties as ———
a) A means to amend b) Sacred
c) An end in itself d) Altruistic
62. Primary relationship are——————
a) Non-contractual b) Non-economic
c) Non-specialized d) All the above
63.To achieve consensus, primary group followsmethods of————
a) Compromise b) Enumeration
c) Integration d) All the above
64. ——— groups are characterized by impersonal relations and specialization of functions
a) Primary b) Secondary
c) Out-group d) Neighbourhood
65. ——— is the most conspicuous example of secondary group
a) Army
b) Nation
c) Neighbourhood
d) Modern large scale organization
66.Which of the following is not a secondary group?
a) Political party b) Corporation
c) Neighbourhood d) Labour-union
67.In secondary group, membership is—————
a) Compulsory
b) Voluntary
c) Spontaneous
d) None of the above
68. ................. is the characteristic of large scale organization
a) Indirect co-operation
b) Face-to-face relation
c) Deliberate conflict
d) Accommodation
69.Dominance of.................relation characterize secondary group
a) Non-economic b) Contractual
c) Legal d) Profit and loss
70.Primary groups are————whereas secondary groups are—————
a) Non-contractual, Non-economic
b) Relationship-directed, goal-oriented
c) Formal, spontaneous
d) Non-political, Ideal
71.The concept of 'reference-group' was first given by—————
a) Hayman b) Merton
c) Sorokin d) Robert Bierstod
72.When the individual or group compares himself or itself with the other individual or group, this is
called——
a) Imitation
b) Reference group behavior
c) Identification
d) Acculturation
73. Striving for admission is behaviour
a) Reference group
b) Primary group
c) In-group
d) Secondary group
74. ................. groups are usually unibonded groups, that is, they are united by only one purpose
a) Marginal b) Primary
c) Functional d) Spatial
75. A group whose membership is homogeneous in its class or caste composition is called———
a) Vertical group
b) Horizontal group
c) Genetic group
d) Voluntary group
Answers
1 B
2 A
3 B
4 C
5 B
6 C
7 B
8 C
9 B
10 C
11 C
12 C
13 B
14 B
15 D
16 D
17 A
18 B
19 A
20 A
21 C
22 D
23 A
24 C
25 C
26 A
27 C
28 D
29 A
30 A
31 A
32 C
33 B
34 C
35 B
36 C
37 C
38 B
39 D
40 B
41 B
42 A
43 B
44 D
45 A
46 A
47 C
48 C
49 C
50 B
51 A
52 B
53 B
54 D
55 A
56 C
57 C
58 B
59 C
60 B
61 C
62 D
63 D
64 B
65 D
66 C
67 B
68 A
69 B
70 B
71 A
72 B
73 A
74 C
75 B
