SOCIETY, CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
(UNIT II)
CUET PG – SOCIOLOGY
PRACTICE QUESTIONS
Total Questions: 320
1. Which statement best captures the sociological meaning of culture as distinct from popular usage?
A. Culture refers mainly to refinement and higher education
B. Culture is identical with national identity
C. Culture includes only art, literature, and philosophy
D. Culture consists of all learned ways of thinking, feeling, and acting
Answer: D
2. Which idea most directly challenges the claim that culture is biologically inherited?
A. Culture is superorganic
B. Culture is cumulative
C. Culture is learned through social interaction
D. Culture is adaptive
Answer: C
3. The statement “Man is a cultural being” primarily emphasizes that humans:
A. Possess advanced instincts
B. Are shaped by learned social heritage
C. Are governed by biological drives
D. Live only in organized societies
Answer: B
4. Which feature of culture explains why inventions from the past remain available to the present generation?
A. Adaptability
B. Integration
C. Transmissiveness
D. Idealism
Answer: C
5. MacIver and Page’s definition of culture stresses mainly:
A. Material artifacts
B. Political institutions
C. Styles, values, and intellectual adventures
D. Legal and economic systems
Answer: C
6. The sociological rejection of defining culture as “higher achievements” is mainly because:
A. Such achievements are rare
B. They ignore everyday life practices
C. They are biologically determined
D. They belong only to elites
Answer: B
7. Which characteristic of culture explains why values, religion, and morality form a coherent whole?
A. Culture is cumulative
B. Culture is integrated
C. Culture is idealistic
D. Culture is universal
Answer: B
8. When a society considers its own culture as the best and most desirable, it reflects culture as:
A. Dynamic
B. Superorganic
C. Ideal
D. Diffused
Answer: C
9. According to Ralph Linton, the key difference between society and culture is that:
A. Society is biological, culture is social
B. Society is organized people, culture is patterned behavior
C. Society is static, culture is dynamic
D. Society creates culture automatically
Answer: B
10. Gillin and Gillin describe culture as the “cement” of society because it:
A. Produces economic goods
B. Encourages biological survival
C. Regulates individual behavior
D. Promotes political unity
Answer: C
11. Which of the following best illustrates culture as superorganic?
A. Hunger for food
B. National flag symbolizing unity
C. Reflex action
D. Genetic inheritance
Answer: B
12. Cultural variation across societies primarily exists because culture is:
A. Learned
B. Symbolic
C. Relative
D. Dynamic
Answer: D
13. The distinction between material and non-material culture was systematically used by:
A. Malinowski
B. Tylor
C. Ogburn
D. Durkheim
Answer: C
14. Banks, parliaments, and currency systems are classified as material culture because they are:
A. Ideational systems
B. Tangible social arrangements
C. Biological necessities
D. Moral institutions
Answer: B
15. Which element of culture mainly reflects “ways of acting, feeling, and thinking”?
A. Material culture
B. Non-material culture
C. Civilization
D. Technology
Answer: B