Top 100 Plus UGC NET Sociology MCQ Quiz: Boost Your Exam Prep

Sociology Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

Challenge yourself with these multiple-choice questions on various sociological concepts and thinkers. Click the button to reveal the correct answer!

1. Sociology is considered as a :

• (1) Normative Science
• (2) Objective Science
• (3) General Science
• (4) Not a science at all

Answer: (2) Objective Science

2. The concept of 'positivism' was coined by which one of the following ?

• (1) Karl Marx
• (2) C.H. Cooley
• (3) Auguste Comte
• (4) Emile Durkheim

Answer: (3) Auguste Comte

3. Methods of Sociology include :

• (1) Ideal Method
• (2) Comparative Method
• (3) Statistical Method
• (4) All the above

Answer: (4) All the above

4. An example of community is :

• (1) A Trade Union
• (2) Varna
• (3) A political party
• (4) Tribal group

Answer: (4) Tribal group

5. Which one is an example of Social Institution?

• (1) Caste
• (2) Family
• (3) Marriage
• (4) All the above

Answer: (4) All the above

6. The book "social structure of values" was written by

• (1) M.N. Srinivasan
• (2) Radhakamal Mukherjee
• (3) S.C. Dube
• (4) Yogendra Singh

Answer: (2) Radhakamal Mukherjee

7. Who among the following defined social structure as : 'Abstraction from the concrete population and its behaviour, the pattern or network (or 'system') of relationships obtaining between actors in their capacity of playing roles relative to one another'.

• (1) C.W. Mills
• (2) S.F. Nadel
• (3) H. Gerth
• (4) R.K. Merton

Answer: (2) S.F. Nadel

8. Who said that "Social change was the result of natural process of adaption" ?

• (1) Darwin
• (2) Spencer
• (3) Marx
• (4) Hegel

Answer: (2) Spencer

9. Match the items in List - I with List - II :

List - I (Books)
(a) White Collar : The American Middle Class
(b) The Ruling class
(c) Social Structure
(d) Social structure of a planned city

List - II (Authors)
i. G.P. Murdock
ii. Victor. S, D'Souza
iii. G. Mosca
iv. C.W. Mills

Options:

• (1) (ii) (iv) (ii) (i)
• (2) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
• (3) (ii) (iv) (iii) (i)
• (4) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)

Answer: (2) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)

10. Match the items in List - I with List - II :

List - I (Concepts)
(a) Militant and Industrial Society
(b) Little Community
(c) Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
(d) Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

List - II (Authors)
(i) Tonnies
(ii) H. Spencer
(iii) R. Redfield
(iv) E. Durkheim

Options:

• (1) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
• (2) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
• (3) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
• (4) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

Answer: (3) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

11. 'Sociology of Economic life' is authored by :

• (1) Weber
• (2) Parsons
• (3) Merton
• (4) Smelser

Answer: (4) Smelser

12. Cognates mean kins through :

• (1) Female line
• (2) Male line
• (3) Both (1) and (2)
• (4) None of the above

Answer: (3) Both (1) and (2)

13. Who regarded the state as "a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie" ?

• (1) Robert A. Dahl
• (2) V. Pareto
• (3) K. Marx
• (4) C.W. Mills

Answer: (3) K. Marx

14. A biological being is transformed into a social being with the help of the following ?

• (1) Socialization
• (2) Resocialization
• (3) Desocialization
• (4) Anticipatory socialization

Answer: (1) Socialization