Question - 1
Which is the distinctive characteristic of human society in comparison to the animal society?
Interaction
Culture
Territory
Group life
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Answer- B
Question - 2
Which one of the following is important to differentiate between the social group and the social category?
Size of the groups
Reciprocal communication
Geographical location
Formal rules and regulations
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Solutions
Answer- D
Question - 3
Which one of the following sequence correctly represents the order of stages of development of personality as postulated by Sigmund Freud?
Anal, phallic, oral, latency, adolescence
Phallic, anal, oral, latency, adolescence
Oral, anal, phallic, latency, adolescence
Oral, anal, phallic, adolescence, latency
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Answer- C
Question - 4
The social distance scale as a technique for measuring attitudes was developed by
L. Thurstone
L. Guttman
A. L. Lundberg
E. Bogardus
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Answer- D
Question - 5
A process whereby the norms and rules in various social settings grow and crystallize is called:
Socialisation
Interaction
Sanskritisation
Institutionalisation
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Solutions
Answer- A
Question - 6
Weber’s typology of action include
Action and reaction
Rational action in relation to goal, rational action in relation to value, emotional action and traditional action
Traditional action, charismatic action and rational action
Class-based action and status-based action
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Answer- B
Question - 7
Which practice of bringing up children gives rise to the authoritarian personality in adult life?
Advice instead of domination
Matter of prestige instead of the situation
Encouragement instead of criticism
Withholding reward instead of punishment
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Answer- C
Question - 8
Training given to a person for acquiring membership in a non-membership group is called
Conformity
Deviance
Re-socialisation
Anticipatory socialisation
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Answer- D
Question - 9
Who called the village community a little community?
Max Mueller
Toennies
Henry Maine
Robert Redfield
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Answer- D
Question - 10
Communist societies are classified as
First world
Second world
Third world
Fourth world
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Answer- C
Question - 11
The feeling of ethnocentrism by a group in a multilateral society results in
Strengthening of loyalty to all cultures
Weakening of loyalty to all cultures
Cultural harmony
Cultural conflict
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Answer- D
Question - 12
The term kinship refers to a set of relationships between
Consanguineal relatives
Affinal relatives
Relatives of three generations
Consanguineal and affinal relatives
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Answer- D
Question - 13
If a married couple lives with a brother of the groom’s mother, then the couple follows which one of the following residency rules?
Uxorilocal
Neolocal residence
Avunculocal residence
Virilocal
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Answer- C
Question - 14
Through Tebhaga Movement, the sharecroppers demanded to retain
1/3 rd of their produce
3/4 rd of their produce
2/3 rd of their produce
1/2 of their produce
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Answer- C
Question - 15
Marriage occurring outside a certain group of relations is called?
Hypergamy
Endogamy
Exogamy
Hypogamy
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Answer- C
Question - 16
According to Hindu traditional belief, marriage is a
Contract
Sacrament
Bond
Formality
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Answer- B
Question - 17
Which one of the following is the characteristic feature of the classification of the family into the matrilineal and patrilineal family?
Residence of spouse
Sexual division of labour
Descendants of the same ancestor
Differential power of male and female
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Answer- C
Question - 18
Which one of the following is the characteristic feature of the classification of the family into the matrilineal and patrilineal family?
Caste stratification
Estate stratification
Class stratification
Ethnic stratification
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Answer- C
Question - 19
Upward or downward social mobility in a stratification system within the course of an individual's career is called?
Zero-sum mobility
Horizontal mobility
Inter-generational mobility
Intra-generational mobility
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Solutions
Answer- D
Question - 20
Which tribal group is not proto Austroloid?
Sannthals
Munda
Oraon
Garo
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Answer- D
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