115 QUESTIONS AND ANSWER D.

Structuralist
ON SSC 101.
6. Karl Marx proposed that society would
COMPILED BY A
be better if all classes would rise up and
DEMOGRAPHY STUDENT. fight until there was only one class of
NOTE: THIS QUESTIONS ARE people. This is ____theory.
JUST TO GUILD US ON OUR A. Conflict.
B. Functionalist
READING.
C. Structuralist
D. Interactionist
1. Which of the following is not an abiotic
component of the Ecosystem? 7. If I define teacher as a responsible
individual who wears fuzzy sweaters
A. Energy
and drinks coffee all day, and so I
B. Temperature behave that way, then that is an
C. Bacteria and fungi. example of which sociological theory in
D. Rainfall practice?
A. Symbolic Interactionalism.
2. The forest is a type of which B. Functionalist Perspective
ecosystem? C. Conflict Theory
D. Feminist Analysis
A. Natural Ecosystem
B. Man-made Ecosystem 8. The sociological perspective allows
C. Aquatic Ecosystem sociologists to focus on the common
D. Terrestrial Ecosystem. behaviors of a group of people, rather
than their individual differences.
3. Which of the following is a Biotic A. True.
component of the Ecosystem? B. False
A. Autotrophs.
B. Carnivorous 9. Social norms are:
C. Energy A. Creative activities such as gardening,
D. Atmosphere
cookery and craftwork
B. The symbolic representation of social
4. Which perspective is the creation of E.
groups in the mass media
Durkheim?
A. Functionalism. C. Religious beliefs about how the world
B. Conflict Theory ought to be
C. Psychoanalysis D. Rules and expectations about
D. Symbolic Interactionalism interaction that regulate social life.

5. The _____perspective focuses on how 10. The theory that focuses on how
individuals act with one another in daily individuals come to be identified as
situations. deviant
A. Functionalist A. cultural transmission theory
B. Conflict Theory B. strain theory
C. Symbolic Interactionist.
 C. labeling theory. B. micro level
D. control theory C. symbolic level
D. macro level.
11. In the Industrialised western societies,
18. This theory views society as traditionally
the chief aim of marriage is not only
procreation but____ unequal between men and women.
A. Companionship A. Structural-Functional Theory
B. emotional and psychological support B. Social Conflict Theory
and companionship. C. Feminism Theory.
C. emotional and psychological support
D. Symbolic Interactionism Theory
D. divorce
19. _____believed that all of history could be
12. The importance of the social division of explained and was driven by class conflict
labour as a criterion of social
development has been insisted A. Karl Marx.
by_____ B. Emile Durkheim
A. Karl Marx C. Herbert Spencer
B. Emile Durkheim. D. Max Weber
C. Engels
D. Herbert Hyman 20. Which of the three theories is the only
micro theory (focuses on individual
13. The basis of slave system is always? interaction)?
A. Political
A. Functionalism
B. Economic.
B. Conflict Theory
C. Custom
D. Social need C. Symbolic Interactionism.

14. What term describes the behaviours and 21. Which theory says that society is a system
attitudes picked up in school of interconnected parts that work together to
maintain balance?
A. Labelling
B. Streaming A. Functionalist Theory.
C. Hidden curriculum. B. Conflict Theory
D. Open curriculum C. Symbolic Interactionism

16. According to the principles of symbolic 22. Out of the following, which one is not a
interactionism, symbols not only allow form of Sociological Perspective?
relationships to exist, they also allow society A. Marxian Perspective
to exist. B. Structural Functional Perspective
A. True. C. Formal Perspective.
B. False D. Evolutionary Perspective

17. Functionalists and conflict theorists tend to 23. Who among the following had observed
focus on the ________, or large scale patterns that sociology is in its extreme infancy?
of society, in conducting their analyses. A. Radcliffe Brown.
A. interactionist level B. Emile Durkheim
 C. Malinowski A. community’s existence
D. Robert Redfield B. Men’s existence.
C. problem’s existence
24. What is the type of control organized
D. relationship
through primary social institutions?
31. Society symbolises the network of
A. Non-formal
B. Formal A. human relationships
C. Abnormal B. social relationships.
D. Informal. C. orientations
D. inter-connections
25. In which year the term ‘Sociology’ was
coined? 32. There are two types of definition of
society. These are-
A. 1798
B. 1815 A. Structural and interactional
C. 1839. B. Functional and structural.
D. 1857 C. Evolutionary and diffusive
D. Structural and evolutionary
26. The term ‘sociology’ was coined by
33. Which of the following factors does not
A. Saint Simon
contribute to the growth of traditional
B. Herbert Spencer societies?
C. Auguste Comte. (a) Community and associational life is kept
D. Durkheim loose without any prescribed basis of
27. French Revolution took place in the year social existence.

A. 1789. (b) Perpetuation of tribal and caste

B. 1776 affiliation
C. 1798
D. 1898 (c) Perpetuation of kinship and clanship

28. Sociology emerged in (d) Continuation of agriculture as the

dominant activity.
A. America
B. Europe. 34. A characteristic feature of a rural
C. Asia community is
D. Africa (a) Formal relationship.
29. The word ‘Sociology’ is made up of two
(b) Rational will
words. These are-
A. Societies and Logy (c) Community sentiment
B. Societia and Logistia
C. Socious and Logos. (d) A vast number of association
D. Socia & Logos
35. Who among the following is associated
30. Society emerges out of with authority?
(a) Hobbes
(b) Rousseau Codes:
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4.
(c) M. Weber.
(b) 1 and 4
(d) Locke
(c) 1, 3 and 4
36. Functional theory of stratification
propounded by (d) 1, 2 and 3
(a) Davis and Parsons
40. Demographers do not take into account
(b) Davis and Moore. (a) Age, sex and racial composition of the
population
(c) Parsons and Ross
(b) Height and weight of the population
(d) Goode and Hatt
(c) Birth and death rate
37. Who among the following has
emphasized upon the functional (d) Density of population.
aspects of stratification?
(a) Durkheim, Weber, Parsons 41. The scheduled castes in India provide an
example of a
(b) Marx, Weber, Davis (a) Formal group

(c) Davis, Moore, Parsons. (b) Reference group

(d) Lenski, C.W. Mills, Parsons (c) Social category.

38. The society has passed through the (d) Secondary group
three stages of its development-
theological, metaphysical and the 42. Who viewed corporate group in relation to
positive. This view was held by authority and termed it as Verband?
(a) Max Weber (a) Hobsbawm

(b) H. Spencer (b) Sir Henry Maine

(c) F. Tonnies (c) Weber.

(d) A. Comte. 43. Which one of the following is the first stage
of the evolution of an institution?
39. A social movement depends on (A) Tradition
1. A goal
(B) Ideology.
2. An Organisation
(C) Collective Experience
3. A programme
(D) Mores
4. A set of value
44. Identify the particular element that domi- (c) method
nates in the material culture:
(A) Religion and Morality (d) tool

(B) Science and Technology 49. A sociologist defines society as a group of

people who reside in a defined area,
(C) Custom and Tradition share a culture, and who:
(a) Interact.
(D) Folkways.
(b) Work in the same industry
45. Which among the following is the indicator
of open stratification system? (c) Speak different languages
(A) Ethnicity
(d) Practice a recognized religion
(B) Caste
50. Seeing patterns means that a sociologist
(C) Class. needs to be able to:
(a) Compare the behavior of individuals from
(D) Religion different societies

46. Who among the following authors initially (b) Compare one society to another
used the term ‘social physics’ for
Sociology? (c) Identify similarities in how social groups
(A) Spencer respond to social pressure.

(B) Comte. (d) Compare individuals to groups

(C) Tonnies 51. Which of the following was a topic of study

in early sociology?
(D) Weber (a) Astrology

47. Which of the following best describes (b) Economics.

sociology as a subject?
(a) The study of individual behavior (c) Physics

(b) The study of cultures (d) History

(c) The study of society and social interaction. 52. Sociology has been derived from the Latin
word ‘Societus’ and ‘logos’, which
(d) The study of economics means:
(a) Friend or companion and science
48. C. Wright Mills once said that sociologists
need to develop a sociological __________ to (b) Society and laws
study how society affects individuals.
(a) Culture (c) Sociability and science

(b) Imagination. (d) Society and science.

 53. It was as the founder of “Positive” (d) Realise the importance of wealth
movement that- achieved recognition as a
philosopher, and although 57. In society differences are always:
modem sociologists do not consider his theories (a) Inborn
as anything other than a series of interesting
speculations, they recognize that he was (b) Adopted
responsible for demonstrating the need for an
objective systematic (c) Environmental
study of society.
(a) Auguste Comte. (d) Both adopted and natural.

(b) Saint Simon 58. According to_________, self and society

are not identical.
(c) Herbert Spencer (a) Cooley

(d) Emile Durkheim (b) Mead

54. Relationship central to sociology are those (c) Freud.

which involve:
(a) Friendliness (d) Marx

(b) Conflict 59. Socialism is a _____ not a process.

(a) Theory.
(c) Mutual recognition and the sense of
something shared in common. (b) Virtue

(d) Kinship ties (c) Biological specialization

55. Underlying seemingly unconnected, (d) State of nature

contradictory, chaotic happenings, there are
patterns and regularities. 60. In society differences grow due to:
It is the focus of a sociologist to: (a) Socialisation.
(a) Find and study them.
(b) Non-specialization
(b) Try and change them
(c) Non-socialisation
(c) Make them perfectly regular and patterned
(d) Isolation
(d) Study the best patterns
61. In India, the institution of family has a
56. One important advantage of socialisation is trend towards:
that it takes one: (a) Joint family
(a) Out of group life
(b) Single family.
(b) Leave one’s isolation.
(c) Patriarchal family
(c) Member of political system
(d) Matriarchal family 66. Member of a small trade union is:
(a) A social group
62. Which one of the following is not correct
about institutional structure? (b) An associational group.
(a) There is rule to codify its working
(c) A statistical group
(b) There are no codified rules of its working.
(d) A primary group
(c) There are symbols which synthesize
relationship 67. Which of the following is not a
characteristic of social group?
(d) It is bound with the others (a) Its members are conscious of shared
membership.
63. Industry is institutional structure of an
institution which by nature is: (b) Its members accept certain rights and
(a) Political obligations.

(b) Cultural (c) Its members are a casual collection of people

(c) Economic. (d) Its members have a distinctive set of

interpersonal relations.
(d) Social
68. Mark out the primary group among the
64. Pick up one which is not true of an following:
institution: (a) Members of a trade union

(a) It is least concerned with customs and (b) Family.

mores.
(c) Students of history
(b) Customs and mores are its distinguishing
feature (d) The social workers

(c) It meets primary needs of the people 69. Which among the following are reference
groups?
(d) It is very stable (a) College going students

65. Which of the following is not the (b) Nuclear scientists

characteristic of an institution?
(c) Marine engineers
(a) It must follow some well-established rules
(d) All.
(b) Its strength is based on obedience to rules
70. Which among the following is secondary
(c) These grow with the society group’?
(a) Nurses attending upon patient
(d) These have no definite objectives.
(b) Production efficiency council in a factory
(c) A picnic group (c) Norms are certain rules which are adopted
to keep the individuals away from any kind of
(d) Cooperative Society. interaction

71. Striving for admission is a ___________ (d) Norms act against the modes of behaviour
behaviour. of the individuals
(a) Reference group.
75. Norm is:
(b) Primary group (a) Actual behaviour

(c) In-group (b) A culturally shared definition of desirable

behaviour
(d) Secondary group
(c) Behaviour desired by majority of the
72. According to Weber, the three types of individuals.
leadership are:
(a) Rational, feudal and capitalistic (d) Standard of behaviour

(b) Feudal, traditional and charismatic 76. Social norms refer to:
(a) All types of behaviour
(c) Legal, traditional and charismatic.
(b) the most frequently observed behaviour in
(d) None of the above a society.

73. Norms are: (c) Right type of behaviour

(a) The conducts which incorporate value-
judgments (d) Those standards or rules which specify
appropriate and inappropriate behavior
(b) The standardized generalisations
77. Modem sociological thought and theory, as
(c) The conducts which are the guidelines of the distinct from the purely contemplative or
expected behaviour Philosophical analysis of society, emerged in
the:
(d) Not pattern setting limits or the behaviour (a) Late 17th century
of an individual.
(b) Late 19th century
74. Which of the following statements gives (c) Late 18th century and early 19th century.
correct explanation of norms:
(a) Norms are those standards of group (d) Early 18th century
behaviour which the members must follow. 78. _____ is spontaneous, _____ is artificial.

(b) Norms are those standards which are (a) Fashion, culture
obeyed to bring diffusion among the (b) Mores, custom
individuals
(c) Custom, fashion.
(d) Culture, habit
79. Weber has identified various types of 84. Which one of the following is NOT the
action which are distinguished by the advantage of Polygamy?
meanings on which they are based. They are-
(a) in it, it is possible to have healthy children
(a) Affective, emotional, and rational action
(b) in it the chances of sex corruption are
(b) Emotional, traditional and rational action. reduced
(c) Traditional, legal and charismatic action (c) in it the fragmentation of property is saved
(d) None of the above (d) in it there is harmony in the. family
80. In which of the following is there a 85. Who has tabled the process of socialization
reciprocal relationship and interaction among through the process of playing at a role?
men and groups within a cultural framework?
(a) O.H. Mead.
(a) Society.
(b) C.H. Cooley
(b) Community
(c) S. Freud
(c) Social group
(d) T. Mazumdar
(d) None of the above
86. Whose name is associated with the process
81. Who first introduced the concept of of Socialization?
alienation into sociological theory?
(a) C.H. Cooley
(a) Hegel
(b) G.H. Mead
(b) August Comte
(c) Sigmund Freud
(c) Marx.
(d) All the above.
(d) Herbert Spencer
87. Which is true of socialization?
82. Marx believed that western society had
(a) It highlights values & manners within
developed through the following main epochs.
individuals
They are –
(b) Socialisation includes both learning of new
(a) Primitive communism, ancient society,
things and unlearning of maladaptive
feudal society and capitalist society.
behaviours
(b) Savagery, feudalism and capitalism
(c) Socialization is both intentional and
(c) Slavery, barbarism and feudalism unintentional
(d) Feudalism, capitalism and’ socialism (d) All the above.
83. Primitive societies are characterized more 88. According to Cooley, the concept
by___________ terms in kinship. of____________ refers to an individual
perception of self as determined by the way
(a) Classificatory.
one imagines one appears to others or as
(b) Ambiguous others perceive us______.
(c) Descriptive (a) Significant others

(d) Deceptive (b) Generalized others

(c) Looking-glass self. 94. _______are the standards people have
about what is good and bad
(d) None of the above
A Values.
89. Our biological and genetic make up
determines our________ B. Benefits
A Nurture C. Laws
B Nature. D. Mandates
C. Nation 95. ___________is the process by which one
generation passes culture to the next.
D. Ethnicity
A. Cultural tradition
90. Popular culture is also known as_____
B. Cultural transfer
A Mob culture
C. Cultural reproduction.
B. Group culture
D. Cultural reciprocation
C. Public culture
96. ____is the process in which the culture of a
D. Mass culture.
society is transmitted to children.
91. Universal culture are
a) Socialization.
A. Values or modes of behavior shared by all
b) Accumulation
human cultures.
c) Assimilation
B. Values or modes of behaviour shared by a
few cultures d) Actualization
C. Values or modes of behaviour shared by a 97. Culture is acquired by man through
majority of cultures ______________
D. None of the above b) Learning.
92. Sociology’s recent emphasis on b) Inheritance
understanding the role of culture in daily life is
c) Birth
known as
d) None of the above
A. Cultural ascendance
98. Example of non-material culture is
B. Cultural gravity
_____________
C. Cultural turn.
A) Building
D. Cultural consequence
B) Religion.
93. Non-material culture is
C) Pencil
A. Corporeal
D) Cloth
B. Substantial
99. The concept dramaturgy was propounded
C. Manifest by___________
D. Intangible. a) Marx
b) A. Comte d) Dr Yomi
c) E. Goffma. 105. People are usually punished when they
violate norms, but the punishment is usually
d) E. Durkheim
minor if
100. Who is the course coordinator for SSC
the norm is a________?
101?
A. More
a) Dr Agunbiade.
B. Folkway.
b) Dr Aliyu
C Taboo
c) Dr Ajani
D. None of the above
d) Dr Yomi
106. Xenocentrism refers to
101.Who took the title society in SSC 101
class? A. Preference for the foreign.
a) Dr. Ajani B. Preference for ones own
b) Dr Aliyu C. Preference for the familiar
c) Dr Agunbiade. D. Preference for the imaginary
d) Dr Yomi 107. Enculturation is closely related to
102.Who took the title socialization in SSC 101 A.Globalization
class?
B.Diffusion
a) Dr. Ajani.
C.Assimilation
b) Dr Aliyu
D.Socialization.
c) Dr Agunbiade
108. Socialization is the process by which
d) Dr Yomi people acquire
103. Who took the title culture in SSC 101 A.Culture.
class?
B.Language
a) Dr. Ajani.
C.Values
b) Dr Aliyu
D.Norms
c) Dr Agunbiade.
109. Which of the following types of societies
d) Dr Yomi came first?
104. Who took the title social stratification in A.industrial
SSC 101 class?
B.agricultural
a) Dr Agunbiade.
C.mass
b) Dr Aliyu
D. horticultural and pastoral.
c) Dr Ajani
110. _______is a trait of Western culture
A. Individualism.
B. Collectivism ANSWER.
C. Communalism 1. C
D. None of the above 2. D
3. A
111. A/An_______is a system of 4. A
interrelationships that connects individuals. 5. C
A. Association 6. A
7. A
B. Triad
8. A
C. Dyad 9. D
10. C
D. Society.
11. B
112. Hunting and gathering societies were 12. B
most likely to be 13. C
A. Nomadic. 14. C
15. Bonus
B. Settled
16. A
C. In-egalitarian 17. D
18. C
D. Complex
19. A
113. Ethnocentrism is the opposite of 20. C
A. Cultural relativism. 21. A
22. C
B. Cultural assimilation 23. A
C. Cultural diffusion 24. D
25. C
D. Cultural integration 26. C
114. In a sociological sense, earning a 4.0 GPA 27. A
makes you a deviant because 28. B
29. C
a) you only could have gotten that GPA by
30. B
cheating
31. B
b) that GPA is not the norm.
32. B
c) it alienates you from your peer group
33. A
115. ________is one of the features of society. 34. A
35. C
a. Endurance.
36. B
b. Objective 37. C
38. D
c. Repetitive
39. A
d. Subjective 40. D
41. C 84. D
42. C 85. A
43. B 86. A
44. D 87. A
45. C 88. C
46. B 89. B
47. C 90. D
48. B 91. A
49. A 92. C
50. C 93. D
51. B 94. A
52. D 95. C
53. A 96. A
54. C 97. A
55. A 98. B
56. B 99. C
57. D 100. A
58. C 101. C
59. A 102. A
60. A 103. A
61. B 104. A
62. B 105. B
63. C 106. A
64. A 107. D
65. D 108. A
66. B 109. D
67. A 110. A
68. A 111. D
69. A 112. A
70. D 113. A
71. A 114. B
72. C 115. A
73. D
74. A
75. C
76. B
77. C
78. C
79. B
80. A
81. C
82. A
83. A