Top UGC NET Sociology MCQ: Master Key Concepts for JRF & NET

Sociology Quiz

1. The awareness of common interest and situation amongst the members of a social class is known as ______.

1. (1) Class formation
2. (2) Class consciousness
3. (3) Class domination
4. (4) Class dealignment

Answer: (2) Class consciousness

2. Which of the following is not a characteristic feature of the caste system?

1. (1) Hierarchical ranking
2. (2) Endogamous strata
3. (3) Vertical mobility
4. (4) Ascribed status

Answer: (3) Vertical mobility

3. A study design involving the collection of data at different points of time is known as:

1. (1) Cohort study
2. (2) Trend study
3. (3) Cross-sectional study
4. (4) Longitudinal study

Answer: (4) Longitudinal study

4. The movement of people or groups from lower positions to higher ones is known as ______.

1. (1) Vertical mobility
2. (2) Horizontal mobility
3. (3) Downward mobility
4. (4) Upward mobility

Answer: (4) Upward mobility

5. An inductive approach to research in which theories are generated solely from an examination of data is known as:

1. (1) Grounded theory
2. (2) Cross-case analysis
3. (3) Constant comparative method
4. (4) None of the above

Answer: (1) Grounded theory

6. A hypothesis that suggests that there is no relationship among the variables under study is known as:

1. (1) Conflict hypothesis
2. (2) Comfort hypothesis
3. (3) Null hypothesis
4. (4) None of the above

Answer: (3) Null hypothesis

7. What perspective did Auguste Comte use in the study of society?

1. (1) Structural Perspective
2. (2) Historical Perspective
3. (3) Conflict Perspective
4. (4) Functional Perspective

Answer: (2) Historical Perspective

8. Match List - I with List - II:

(a) India through Hindu Categories - (v) Mckim Marriot

(b) Indian Sadhus - (iii) G.S. Ghurye

(c) Contemporary India and Its Modernisation - (iv) S.C. Dube

(d) Homo Hierarchies - (ii) L. Dumont

Answer: (1) (v) (iii) (iv) (ii)

9. Match List - I with List - II:

(a) Positive philosophy - (ii) A. Comte

(b) A contribution to the critique of political economy - (iii) Karl Marx

(c) Synthetic philosophy - (i) H. Spencer

(d) The structure of social action - (iv) T. Parsons

Answer: (1) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)

10. Who stated that ‘by treating to embrace all phenomena connected with human life one pursues a will-o-the-wisp’?

1. (1) A. Comte
2. (2) H. Spencer
3. (3) G. Simmel
4. (4) E. Durkheim

Answer: (4) E. Durkheim

11. Who suggests that the community is synonymous to class?

1. (1) G. Simmel
2. (2) Lowe
3. (3) A. Etzioni
4. (4) E. Ettore

Answer: (2) Lowe

12. Who uses ethnology as a method of study of ‘peoples and cultures within their environments’?

1. (1) H. Garfinkel
2. (2) B. Malinowski
3. (3) Radcliffe-Brown
4. (4) T. Parsons

Answer: (2) B. Malinowski

13. Assertion (A) and Reason (R) about N.K. Bose:

(1) Both (A) and (R) are correct, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

(2) Both (A) and (R) are correct, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer: (1) Both (A) and (R) are correct, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

14. Who is the author of the book ‘The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State’?

1. (1) F. Engels
2. (2) K. Marx
3. (3) G.P. Morgan
4. (4) L.T. Hobhouse

Answer: (1) F. Engels

15. Who is the author of the book ‘World Revolution and Family Patterns’?

1. (1) G.P. Murdock
2. (2) William J. Goode
3. (3) C. Levi-Strauss
4. (4) R.H. Lowie

Answer: (2) William J. Goode

16. Cohabitation among young in western societies is largely a:

1. (1) Alternative to marriage
2. (2) Prelude to marriage
3. (3) Gay phenomena
4. (4) Cost-cutting strategy

Answer: (2) Prelude to marriage

17. Which among the following is not a total institution?

1. (1) A Convent School
2. (2) A Boarding School
3. (3) A Mental Asylum
4. (4) A Cruise

Answer: (4) A Cruise

18. Who distinguished between normal and pathological functioning of institutions?

1. (1) Herbert Spencer
2. (2) Emile Durkheim
3. (3) Radcliffe-Brown
4. (4) Robert Merton

Answer: (2) Emile Durkheim

19. Which of the following is an agency of resocialization?

1. (1) Primary school
2. (2) Peer group
3. (3) Training institute
4. (4) Military Academy

Answer: (4) Military Academy

20. Media communication is an agency of which of the following?

1. (1) De-Socialization
2. (2) Secondary Socialization
3. (3) Anticipatory Socialization
4. (4) Adult Socialization

Answer: (2) Secondary Socialization