PRACTICE QUESTIONS UGC NET (SOCIOLOGY)
Sociological Concepts
UGC NET SOCIOLOGY
Basic Concepts and Institutions (UNIT 3)
1. “Society is a system of usages and procedures, authority and mutual aid of many grouping and divisions, of control of human behaviour and of liberties.” Who gave this term of society?
(a) Giddings
(b) Ginsberg
(c) Parsons
(d) MacIver and Page
2. According to which view, “Society is a web of social relationship”?
(a) Structural
(b) Functional
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of these
3. According to which perspective, “Society is viewed as a complex whole of the reciprocal relationships and various interaction that take place due to such relationship.”?
(a) Functional
(b) Structural
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of these
4. Which one of the following is an attribute of society from sociological perspective?
(a) Interdependance
(b) Difference
(c) Likeness
(d) None of these
5. One institution of society cannot fulfil all the requirement of society, so one unit depends on another hence all are
(a) difference
(b) interdependance
(c) cooperation
(d) likeness
6. Who defined “An area of social living marked by some degree of social coherence”?
(a) CJ Galpin
(b) MacIver
(c) Sutherland
(d) None of these
7. Who made the statement that “Society is union in itself”?
(a) Adam Smith
(b) CW Mills
(c) FH Giddings
(d) C Cooley
8. ‘Society means likeness’ was given by
(a) CW Mills
(b) FH Giddings
(c) Adam Smith
(d) MacIver
9. ‘Self and society are twin born’ is a statement given by which of the following?
(a) Adam Smith
(b) H Maine
(c) C Cooley
(d) None of these
10. “The state is an essential part, but never the whole of social structure”, this statement is given by which of the following?
(a) Linton
(b) MacIver
(c) H Maine
(d) Cooley
11. Which of the following are units of social structure?
(a) Groups
(b) Institutions
(c) Association
(d) All of these
12. Who propounded the ‘Law of three stages’ of social development?
(a) Cooley
(b) MacIver
(c) FH Giddings
(d) Auguste Comte
13. Sociology is the study of
(a) society
(b) political system
(c) socio-political system
(d) None of these
14. Society has no definite boundary as it is pervasive and universal.
(a) Statement is true
(b) Statement is partially true
(c) Statement is false
(d) Statement is partially false
15. Which among the following is said to be a ‘social structure?
(a) Association
(b) Community
(c) Institution
(d) Society
16. A social institution is a structure of society that is organised to meet the needs of people chiefly through well established procedure is given by
(a) Bogardus
(b) Gillin and Gillin
(c) MacIver
(d) None of these
17. Which element does not include in society?
(a) Differences
(b) Likeness
(c) Reciprocity
(d) Time boundness
18. Who gave the concept of ‘Virtual Society?
(a) Zimmerman
(b) Rheingold
(c) Frampton
(d) Moore
19. Who among the following held the view that “we cannot talk of social structure in the singular”?
(a) Talcott Parsons
(b) SF Nadel
(c) Meyer Fortes
(d) Levi Strauss
20. “This is conceived, as the pattern of interrelated statuses and roles found in a society, consisting a relatively stable set of social relations. It is the organised pattern of the interrelated rights and obligations of persons and groups in a system of interaction”. Identify the term given below?
(a) Status
(b) Social structure
(c) Value pattern
(d) Social system
| 1 (d) | 2 (a) | 3 (a) | 4 (d) | 5 (b) | 6 (b) | 7 (c) | 8 (d) | 9 (c) | 10 (b) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (d) | 12 (d) | 13 (a) | 14 (a) | 15 (c) | 16 (a) | 17 (d) | 18 (b) | 19 (c) | 20 (b) |
| 21 (c) | 22 (d) | 23 (a) | 24 (c) | 25 (c) | 26 (c) | 27 (d) | 28 (d) | 29 (c) | 30 (c) |
| 31 (d) | 32 (a) | 33 (d) | 34 (a) | 35 (c) | 36 (b) | 37 (d) | 38 (c) | 39 (c) | 40 (a) |
| 41 (d) | 42 (b) | 43 (a) | 44 (a) | 45 (b) | 46 (a) | 47 (d) | 48 (c) | 49 (b) | 50 (a) |
| 51 (a) | 52 (c) | 53 (d) | 54 (b) | 55 (c) | 56 (b) | 57 (b) | 58 (c) | 59 (b) | 60 (b) |
| 61 (d) | 62 (d) | 63 (d) | 64 (b) | 65 (d) | 66 (b) | 67 (b) | 68 (c) | 69 (b) | 70 (d) |
| 71 (a) | 72 (b) | 73 (b) | 74 (d) | 75 (a) | 76 (c) | 77 (c) | 78 (c) | 79 (a) | 80 (d) |
| 81 (b) | 82 (a) | 83 (d) | 84 (b) | 85 (a) | 86 (b) | 87 (c) | 88 (d) | 89 (c) | 90 (a) |
| 91 (c) | 92 (c) | 93 (b) | 94 (b) | 95 (a) | 96 (c) | 97 (c) | 98 (d) | 99 (d) | 100 (b) |
| 101 (d) | 102 (a) | 103 (a) | 104 (b) | 105 (a) | 106 (a) | 107 (c) | 108 (b) | 109 (d) | 110 (c) |
| 111 (b) | 112 (a) | 113 (c) | 114 (d) | 115 (c) | 116 (b) | 117 (c) | 118 (a) | 119 (a) | 120 (a) |
| 121 (d) | 122 (d) | 123 (a) | 124 (a) | 125 (b) | 126 (b) | 127 (c) | 128 (d) | 129 (c) | 130 (a) |
| 131 (b) | 132 (a) | 133 (c) | 134 (d) | 135 (b) | 136 (a) | 137 (a) | 138 (d) | 139 (c) | 140 (c) |
| 141 (b) | 142 (a) | 143 (a) | 144 (d) | 145 (a) | 146 (a) | 147 (b) | 148 (d) | 149 (c) | 150 (d) |
| 151 (b) | 152 (c) | 153 (a) | 154 (c) | 155 (b) | 156 (d) | 157 (b) | 158 (c) | 159 (a) | 160 (d) |
| 161 (d) | 162 (b) | 163 (a) | 164 (d) | 165 (b) | 166 (a) | 167 (c) | 168 (a) | 169 (b) | 170 (a) |
| 171 (d) | 172 (a) | 173 (a) | 174 (c) | 175 (a) | 176 (d) | 177 (a) | 178 (b) | 179 (a) | 180 (a) |
| 181 (a) | 182 (a) | 183 (c) | 184 (b) | — | — | — | — | — | — |