PRACTICE QUESTIONS UGC NET (SOCIOLOGY)
Culture and Symbolic Transformations
UGC NET SOCIOLOGY
(UNIT 10)
Various Forms of Cultural Aspects
1. Which of the following elements are present in culture?
(a) Physical and Non Material Symbols
(b) Traditions
(c) Knowledge
(d) All of the above
2. Which of the following is not the characteristics of culture?
(a) Culture is continuous
(b) Culture is learned
(c) Culture is accumulative
(d) Culture is a mutual trade
3. Culture is formed by
(a) the rules
(c) by modus operandi
(b) from the rituals
(d) by collective ideals
4. Which of the following aspect is present in cultural mobilisation?
(a) Practice
(b) Customs and traditions
(c) Interests
(d) All of the above
5. Which author has given the definition of culture as, “that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, customs and other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”?
(a) Malinowski
(c) Robert Bierstedt
(b) Edward B Taylor
(d) Hurford
6. Malinowski has defined culture as
(a) “The integral whole consisting of implements and consumer goods, of constitutional character for various social groupings of human ideas and crafts, beliefs and customs.”
(b) The complex whole that consists of all the ways we think and do and everything we have as a members of society.
(c) Beliefs, behaviours, objects and other characteristics to the members of a particular group or society.
(d) A clusters of rules and cultural meanings associated with specific social activities.
7. Who has defined culture as, “the complex whole that consists of all the ways we think and do and everything we have as members of society”?
(a) Berger and Luckman
(b) Taylor
(c) Malinowski
(d) Robert Bierstedt
8. The classic definition of culture is given by which anthropologist?
(a) Taylor Reads
(b) Adam Smith
(c) Malinowski
(d) Edward B Taylor
9. Which one of the following is not the characteristics of culture?
(a) It preserves the features of the past
(b) It discards what is socially condemned
(c) It is found both in the animal and the human society
(d) It is only found in human society
10. Cultural traits are formed on the basis of
(a) needs of life
(b) needs of religion
(c) needs of economic development
(d) needs to political advancement
11. Cultural growth is
(a) an occasional process
(b) a continuing process
(c) not at all a process
(d) something very insignificant
12. Cultural diffusion means
(a) spread of cultural traits to other societies
(b) merger of cultural traits
(c) separation of two cultures
(d) differences between the two cultures
13. Material culture is always the product of
(a) ideas
(b) knowledge
(c) skill of mankind
(d) All of these
14. Culture refers to
(a) interwoven pattern of behaviour
(b) interrelationship of people
(c) traditions of society
(d) interrelationship among society
15. Culture and society are
(a) interlinked with each other
(b) integrated with each other
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of the above
Various forms of Cultural Aspects
| 1 (d) | 2 (d) | 3 (d) | 4 (d) | 5 (b) | 6 (a) | 7 (d) | 8 (a) | 9 (c) | 10 (a) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (b) | 12 (b) | 13 (d) | 14 (a) | 15 (a) | 16 (b) | 17 (a) | 18 (a) | 19 (c) | 20 (a) |
| 21 (d) | 22 (b) | 23 (c) | 24 (d) | 25 (a) | 26 (a) | 27 (a) | 28 (a) | 29 (c) | 30 (d) |
| 31 (c) | 32 (a) | 33 (b) | 34 (a) | 35 (c) | 36 (a) | 37 (b) | 38 (b) | 39 (c) | 40 (b) |
| 41 (b) | 42 (d) | 43 (d) | 44 (a) | 45 (c) | 46 (c) | 47 (b) | 48 (b) | 49 (b) | 50 (c) |
| 51 (c) | 52 (c) | 53 (b) | 54 (c) | 55 (a) | 56 (a) | 57 (c) | 58 (a) | 59 (d) | 60 (b) |
| 61 (b) | 62 (b) | 63 (b) | 64 (d) | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Communalism and Secularism
| 1 (a) | 2 (d) | 3 (b) | 4 (a) | 5 (b) | 6 (c) | 7 (a) | 8 (d) | 9 (d) | 10 (a) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (a) | 12 (c) | 13 (a) | 14 (d) | 15 (a) | 16 (c) | 17 (b) | 18 (b) | 19 (b) | 20 (a) |
| 21 (b) | 22 (d) | 23 (c) | 24 (d) | 25 (d) | 26 (a) | 27 (d) | 28 (a) | 29 (b) | 30 (a) |
| 31 (c) | 32 (d) | 33 (b) | 34 (a) | 35 (a) | 36 (a) | 37 (a) | 38 (d) | 39 (b) | 40 (b) |
| 41 (a) | 42 (a) | 43 (d) | 44 (a) | 45 (c) | 46 (a) | 47 (a) | 48 (a) | 49 (d) | 50 (b) |
| 51 (a) | 52 (b) | 53 (b) | 54 (b) | 55 (a) | 56 (c) | 57 (a) | 58 (b) | 59 (c) | 60 (d) |
| 61 (d) | 62 (c) | 63 (d) | 64 (d) | 65 (c) | 66 (a) | 67 (d) | 68 (d) | 69 (c) | 70 (c) |
| 71 (b) | 72 (b) | 73 (b) | 74 (d) | 75 (b) | 76 (c) | 77 (a) | 78 (c) | 79 (c) | 80 (a) |
| 81 (a) | 82 (b) | 83 (a) | 84 (a) | 85 (b) | 86 (a) | 87 (d) | 88 (b) | 89 (b) | 90 (c) |
Education, Art and Aesthetics, Ethics and Morality
| 1 (a) | 2 (b) | 3 (c) | 4 (b) | 5 (c) | 6 (a) | 7 (a) | 8 (d) | 9 (d) | 10 (a) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (b) | 12 (d) | 13 (b) | 14 (a) | 15 (d) | 16 (c) | 17 (a) | 18 (d) | 19 (b) | 20 (d) |
| 21 (a) | 22 (b) | 23 (c) | 24 (c) | 25 (a) | 26 (b) | 27 (c) | 28 (a) | 29 (a) | 30 (c) |
| 31 (d) | 32 (d) | 33 (c) | 34 (a) | 35 (c) | 36 (d) | 37 (b) | 38 (d) | 39 (a) | 40 (b) |
| 41 (a) | 42 (c) | 43 (c) | 44 (a) | 45 (c) | 46 (d) | 47 (a) | 48 (b) | 49 (a) | 50 (b) |
| 51 (a) | 52 (d) | 53 (c) | 54 (b) | 55 (b) | 56 (a) | 57 (c) | 58 (c) | 59 (d) | 60 (a) |
| 61 (d) | 62 (b) | 63 (a) | 64 (a) | 65 (b) | 66 (c) | 67 (a) | 68 (c) | 69 (a) | 70 (a) |