SOCIAL PROCESSES & PROBLEMS
(UNIT IV)
CUET PG – SOCIOLOGY
PRACTICE QUESTIONS
Total MCQs: 120
1. Rousseau’s statement “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” primarily highlights the tension between:
A. Nature and culture
B. Individual freedom and social constraints
C. Biology and society
D. Equality and hierarchy
Answer: B
2. The impossibility of absolute freedom in society is mainly due to:
A. Economic inequality
B. Political authority
C. Necessity of collective life
D. Moral weakness of individuals
Answer: C
3. Social control becomes necessary because individual happiness is best achieved through:
A. Unlimited choice
B. Isolation
C. Restrained behaviour
D. Economic success
Answer: C
4. By granting society power over his actions, the individual primarily seeks:
A. Domination
B. Security and welfare
C. Prestige
D. Cultural superiority
Answer: B
5. Social control, in its most basic sense, refers to:
A. Legal punishment
B. State authority
C. Society’s regulation of behaviour
D. Moral preaching
Answer: C
6. Social harmony does not develop automatically because:
A. Humans are irrational
B. Norms are absent
C. Individual impulses conflict with group needs
D. Society lacks power
Answer: C
7. The precedence of group welfare over individual pleasure reflects which core idea of social control?
A. Anomie
B. Conformity
C. Innovation
D. Retreatism
Answer: B
8. E.A. Ross introduced the concept of social control mainly to explain:
A. Class struggle
B. Social order beyond instincts
C. Religious authority
D. Political domination
Answer: B
9. Ross believed that sentiments like sympathy and sociability are:
A. Sufficient for social order
B. Irrelevant to society
C. Necessary but insufficient
D. Artificially created
Answer: C
10. Which of the following was NOT emphasised by Ross as a mechanism of social control?
A. Law
B. Public opinion
C. Ceremony
D. Technology
Answer: D