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UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT

School of Distance Education

III SEMESTER
(2019 Admission onwards)

BA SOCIOLOGY
CORE PAPER (SGY3 B04)

SOCIAL STRATIFICATION AND INEQUALITY

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS (MODULE I & II)

1. …………..means the things are not the same in its appearance or characteristics
A. Differentiation
B. Variation
C. Dissimilarity
D. Discrimination
2. ……………means the state of distributing the valued resources, rewards and
positions in society
A. Unequal
B. Peculiar
C. Inequality
D. Unequality
3. ……………is the ordering of social unity as higher or lower, superior or inferior
A. Ranking
B. Pyramid
C. Discrimination
D. Hierarchy
4. What is the dividing of people in a society on the basis of differentiation, inequality
and hierarchy
A. Social classification
B. Social stratification
C. Social differentiation
D. Hierarchy

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5. Who are the prominent sociologists mainly analyzed the functionalist perspective of
social stratification?
A. Kingsley Davis &Wilbert E Moore
B. Ghurye& Thomas Moore
C. Max Weber& Karl Marx
D. Parson & Coser
6. ……….means the way of perceiving something
A. Perspective
B. Looking
C. Analyzing
D. Gazing
7. In which part of the Indian Constitution, special provisions have been made for
National Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Classes and Anglo
Indians
A. Part XV
B. Part XIV
C. Part XIII
D. Part XVI
8. Who has the right to decide that who will be included in the list of Scheduled Caste
and Scheduled Tribes?
A. Governor
B. Vice-President
C. President
D. Chief Minister
9. Which article envisages the establishment of the National Commission for Scheduled
Castes?
A. Article 330A
B. Article 332
C. Article 335
D. Article 338
10. Which of the following is the constitutional body?
A. National commission for Scheduled Castes
B. National Child Rights Protection Commission
C. National Backward Classes Commission

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D. National Minorities Commission

11. What is the highlight of the theory of Kingsley Davis and Wilbert E Moore about the
theory of stratification
A. Equal value to all work
B. Valuing all works
C. Unequal value of different work
D. Valuing the work on the basis of nature
12. Which determines the importance of a job
A. The degree of training required for a job
B. The degree of skill required for a job
C. The education qualification necessary for a job
D. The degree of education qualification necessary for job
13. Which is the paper of Davis and Moore referred the functional perspective of
stratification?
A. Principle of inequality
B. Principle of division
C. Principle of classification
D. Principle of Stratification
14. Which is the insistence of Davis and Moore about the arising of social stratification?
A. Social inequality
B. Social divisioning
C. Similarity
D. classification
15. Max Weber was a……………….sociologist
A. American
B. British
C. England
D. German
16. What is Weber’s conceptualization about the base of stratification?
A. Power, mobility & Community
B. Power, status group, class & Party
C. Power, Political party, group & Class
D. Status group, community & Class

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17. Which are the three dimensions of social stratification as referred by Weber?
A. Class, caste & estate
B. Occupation. Hierarchy & income level
C. Power, Prestige & Property
D. Class, ethnicity & gender
18. In opinion of Weber stratification is an organized manifestation of ……… in society
A. Power
B. Inequality
C. Prestige
D. Caste
19. …………..is a collection of individual who occupy comparable economic positions
A. Caste
B. Class
C. Estate
D. Group
20. ……is made up of individuals who are awarded a similar amount of social honour
A. Class
B. Economic group
C. Status group
D. Party
21. …………..is a kind of organization which is set up specifically to compete for power
and which organizes primarily in pursuit of power.
A. Class
B. Country
C. Parliament
D. Party
22. ……………contribute to the formation of strata in society
A. Inequality, division & classification
B. Economic, social & political factors
C. Class, power structure & authority
D. Psychological factors, inequality & development
23. Class symbolizes……………
A. Social factors
B. Political factors

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C. Psychological factors
D. Economic factors
24. Status symbolizes …………….
A. Mobility
B. Class stratification
C. Social factors
D. Political factors
25. Party symbolizes…………
A. Political factors
B. Authority
C. Administration
D. Status
26. Karl Marx is a………………..thinker
A. German
B. British
C. England
D. Russian
27. Kingsley Davis is a………………..sociologist
A. Indian
B. American
C. Russian
D. British
28. Wilbert E Moore was a…………sociologist
A. Hungarian
B. Italian
C. American
D. Indian
E. French
29. Where Kingsley Davis was born?
A. Trier
B. Erfurt
C. Tuxedo
D. Montpellier

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30. When was Kingsley Davis born?

A. 1857
B. 1905
C. 1858
D. 1908
31. What is the basic idea behind the stratification theory of society put forwarded by
Davis and Moore?
A. Functional necessity
B. Inequality
C. The degree of skill necessary for a position
D. Structural-functional necessity
32. ………is the way a society is organized to produce goods and services
A. Forces of production
B. Production process
C. On the basis of machines
D. Modes of production
33. Which are the two elements constitute the modes of production
A. Base structure & super structure
B. External structure & Internal structure
C. Class & Class conflict
D. Machines & labour
34. How Karl Marx conceptualizes the stratification theory of society?
A. On the basis of economic system
B. On the basis of forces of production
C. On the basis of different modes of production
D. On the basis of economic organization
35. What are the different modes of production?
A. Ancient, Asiatic, Primitive & socialist
B. Primitive, Ancient, Feudal& Capitalist
C. Communal, Capitalist & socialist
D. Primitive, capitalist & Modern
36. Which are the stratification found in primitive communism
A. Two classes
B. Multi classes

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C. One class
D. Classless society
37. Which is the prominent stratification system commonly found in ancient society?
A. Serf & Feudal Lords
B. Workers & labourers
C. King & People
D. Master& Slave
38. Is the stratification found in feudalist system?
A. Yes
B. No
39. Which are the predominant classes commonly found in feudalist economic system
A. Capitalist & Workers
B. Lord & serf
C. King & People
D. Feudal Lord & King
40. Which are the strata predominantly found in capitalist society?
A. Bourgeoisie & Lumban Proletariats
B. Bourgeoisie& Proletariats
C. Workers & Masters
D. Capitalist & common
41. Karl Marx opined that………….is the byproduct of class inequality
A. Classless society
B. Class struggle
C. Stratification
D. Class conflict
42. …………..is the forerunner of caste system
A. Jati system
B. Caste divisioning
C. Entry of Aryans
D. Varna system
43. When was Louis Dumont born?
A. 1911
B. 1910
C. 1858

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D. 1775
44. Who wrote the book Homo Hierarchicus: The caste system and its Implications’?
A. G S Ghurye
B. Irawati Karve
C. M N Srinivas
D. Louis Dumont
45. When did the book of ‘Homo Hierarchicus: The caste system and its Implications’?
A. 1911
B. 1987
C. 1970
D. 1950
46. Who introduced the concept of purity and impurity related with caste system?
A. M N Srinivas
B. Louis Dumont
C. G S Ghurye
D. Ambedkar
47. Who opined that ‘caste is a special form of inequality’?
A. Louis Dumont
B. G S Ghurye
C. David Hardiman
D. Herbert Risely
48. Who is the father of Indian sociology?
A. G S Ghurye
B. M N Srinivas
C. August Comte
D. S C Dube
49. Who authored the book Caste and Race in India?
A. G S Ghurye
B. Irawati Karve
C. S C Dube
D. D P Mukherjee
50. Ghurye opined that the membership in caste is based on………
A. Residence
B. Birth

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C. Occupation
D. Colour of Skin
51. Which work of Ghurye analyzes the caste system in India?
A. Homo Hierarchicus: The caste system and its Implications
B. Untouchable
C. Caste and class in India
D. Caste and Race in India
52. ………….is the step by step classification of a phenomena
A. Ranking
B. Stratification
C. Hierarchy
D. Differentiation
53. Who wrote the book ‘Annihilation of caste’?
A. G S Ghurye
B. Jyothiba Phule
C. Periyar
D. B R Ambedkar
54. Who formed the organization Sathyasodhak Samaj?
A. Jyothiba Phule
B. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
C. E V Ramasami
D. Colonel Olcott & H P Blavedsky
55. Who wrote the book Brahmanache Kasab?
A. E V Ramasami
B. Ambedkar
C. Jyothiba Phule
D. Kesav Chandra Vidhya Sagar
56. Which work of Phule analyzed the historical survey of the slavery of lower caste?
A. Gulamgiri
B. Brahnanache Kasab
C. Annihilation of Caste
D. Caste and Race in India

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57. ……….was a Dravidian social reformer

A. Phule
B. Periyar
C. Ambedkar
D. Ram Mohan Roy
58. Who propounded the Self-Respect Movement?
A. Phule
B. Sree Narayana Guru
C. Periyar
D. Ambedkar
59. Who called Scheduled Caste as Harijans?
A. Simon Commission
B. Mahatma Gandhi
C. Ambedkar
D. British People
60. The term Scheduled Caste was coined by………….
A. Colonial administration
B. British administrators
C. Constitution
D. Simon Commission
61. What is the Scheduled Caste population as per 2011 census?
A. 16.6%
B. 10.2%
C. 11.8%
D. 18.2%
62. Which is the measure taken by Government to protect downtrodden to discriminate
from
other communities?
A. Reservation Policy
B. Financial help
C. Protective discrimination
D. Isolation
62. Which Article related with the abolition of untouchability?
A. Article 16

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B. Article 11
C. Article 17
D. Article 18
63. …………..is mobilizing caste for political purpose
A. Politicization of Caste
B. Casteicisation of politics
C. Political caste
D. Exploitation
64. The singular form of strata
A. One strata
B. Stratas
C. Statue
D. Stratum

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ANSWER KEYS

Question Answer 21 D 43 A
Number Key 22 B 44 D
1 A 23 D 45 C
2 C 24 C 46 B
3 D 25 A 47 A
4 B 26 A 48 A
5 A 27 B 49 A
6 A 28 C 50 B
7 B
29 C 51 D
8 C
30 D 52 C
9 D
31 A 53 D
10. A
32 D 54 A
11 C
33 A 55 C
12 B
34 C 56 A
13 D
35 B 57 B
14 A
36 D 58 C
15 D
37 D 59 B
16 B
38 A 60 D
17 C
39 B 61 A
18 A
40 B 62 C
19 B
41 C 63 A
20 C
42 D 64 D

Prepared by:
Smt. Ranjini. P T,
Assistant Professor,
School of Distance Education, University of Calicut
Calicut University, Malappuram, 673635

Sri. Biju. K
Assistant Professor
School of Distance Education, University of Calicut
Calicut University, Malappuram, 673635

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