PSC HSST Sociology Model Questions and Answers

26. An organization deliberately formed for collective pursuit of some interest, which its members share is called
(A) Institution
(B) Association
(C) Community
(D) Society
Answer: B

27. The borrowing of cultural elements from another society is known as
(A) Cultural lag
(B) Acculturation
(C) Cultural Invention
(D) Cultural Diffusion
Answer: D

28. The division of labour is the basis of …………… System of stratification.
(A) Varna System
(B) Caste System
(C) Class System
(D) Clan System
Answer: A

29. Social stratification means
(A) Classification of society into caste
(B) Classification based on class
(C) Classification based on power
(D) Classification of society into groups and in-groups
Answer: D

30. Who wrote ‘The Social System’?
(A) R. K. Merton
(B) Talcott Parson
(C) Karl Marx
(D) Max Weber
Answer: B

31. “Ethnocentrism” has been coined by
(A) G. H. Mead
(B) Lewis Coser
(C) W. N. Sumner
(D) Edmund Husserl
Answer: C

32. A Black Byzantium : Kingdom of Nupe in Nigeria was written by
(A) S. F. Nadel
(B) Levi Strauss
(C) Jeffry Alexander
(D) Durkheim
Answer: A

33. The concept life world is introduced by
(A) Harold Grafinkel
(B) Alfred Schutz
(C) Edmund Husserl
(D) Berger
Answer: C

34. Attributes refers to
(A) Quality of phenomena
(B) Quantity of the phenomena
(C) Representativeness
(D) All of these
Answer: A

35. Who introduced the term ‘Cyberspace’?
(A) Gilbert
(B) William Gibson
(C) William More
(D) Willman
Answer: B

36. The book “Asylums” was written by
(A) George Homans
(B) Peter Blau
(C) C. H. Cooley
(D) Ervin Goffman
Answer: D

37. The word ‘Varna’ means
(A) Colour
(B) Cloth
(C) Caste
(D) Clan
Answer: A

38. The term ‘Status Group’ was introduced by
(A) Durkheim
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Max Weber
(D) Robert Merton
Answer: C

39. The term Symbolic Interactionalism was coined by
(A) G. H. Mead
(B) Peter M. Blau
(C) Ervin Goffman
(D) Herbert Blumer
Answer: D

40. The Idea of ‘Public Sphere’ was introduced by
(A) Karl Marx
(B) J. Habermas
(C) Max Weber
(D) Durkheim
Answer: B

41. Histogram look like a
(A) Simple bar diagram
(B) Percentage bar diagram
(C) Multiple bar diagram
(D) Pie diagram
Answer: C

42. Among the following who developed ‘Capability Approach’ theory
(A) Jean Piaget
(B) Amerthya Sen
(C) Ivan Pavlov
(D) B. F. Skinner
Answer: B

43. Ethical issues in social research concerned with
(A) Privacy
(B) Confidentiality
(C) Emotional issues
(D) All of these
Answer: D

44. The circle in a pie diagram represents
(A) 360 degree
(B) 140 degree
(C) 60 degree
(D) 90 degree
Answer: A

45. What is the meaning of Latin word ‘Famulus’?
(A) Family
(B) Servant
(C) Group
(D) None of these
Answer: B

46. Positional average is called
(A) Median
(B) Deviation
(C) Mean
(D) All of these
Answer: A

47. The term ‘Uncle’ is an example of
(A) Positional term
(B) Relational term
(C) Descriptive term
(D) Classificatory term
Answer: D

48. Among the following Daniel Lerner is associated with
(A) Industrialization
(B) Secularization
(C) Modernization
(D) Globalization
Answer: C

49. In Statistics cumulative frequency curve is known as
(A) Ogive
(B) Histogram
(C) Frequency polygon
(D) Pie Diagram
Answer: A

50. The Untouchability Act (Offense) Act was passed in
(A) 1966
(B) 1955
(C) 1971
(D) 1985
Answer: B