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This section includes 53 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Education and Teaching knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Cultural diffusion means |
| A. | An exogeneous source of change |
| B. | Historically important source of change |
| C. | Borrowing of the society's culture by another one |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 2. |
Indian education in future should fight as the first priority against |
| A. | Ignorance |
| B. | Inequality of opportunities in education |
| C. | Degeneration of educational standards |
| D. | Dangers of communal and caste fragmentation |
| Answer» E. | |
| 3. |
The importance of the Patriarchal theory of the origin of State |
| A. | Is doubtful |
| B. | Overlooks the other factors in the development of the state |
| C. | Emphasizes the concept of command and the obedience which is the basis of political obligation |
| D. | Provides the simplest explanation of the origin of state which really is the product of complex circumstances |
| Answer» E. | |
| 4. |
On whose help are the educational institution depend maximum? |
| A. | State |
| B. | Family |
| C. | Society |
| D. | Community |
| Answer» B. Family | |
| 5. |
Which is not a threat to the desired social change in India pertaining to national unity and social progress? |
| A. | Caste |
| B. | Religions |
| C. | Educational system |
| D. | Social distance between different classes |
| Answer» B. Religions | |
| 6. |
In which of the following works, the theory of Social Contract was first propounded? |
| A. | Leviathan |
| B. | Mahabharata |
| C. | Social Contract |
| D. | Two Treatises of Civil Government |
| Answer» B. Mahabharata | |
| 7. |
'Education is the most powerful factor in making men modern'. This was said by |
| A. | M.S. Gore |
| B. | Alex Inkeles |
| C. | Robert C.Williamson |
| D. | Margaret L. Cormack |
| Answer» C. Robert C.Williamson | |
| 8. |
Which institution has maximum control over education? |
| A. | State |
| B. | Family |
| C. | Religion |
| D. | Economy |
| Answer» B. Family | |
| 9. |
Religion is an institution because |
| A. | It teaches religion to people |
| B. | It performs an important social function |
| C. | It imparts moral and-spiritual education to people |
| D. | It performs functions which satisfy important specific needs of people |
| Answer» D. It performs functions which satisfy important specific needs of people | |
| 10. |
Which of the following sanctions can be applied for an offence by an individual in simple societies? |
| A. | Moral sanctions |
| B. | Penal sanctions |
| C. | Ritual sanctions |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 11. |
Educators must have a good understanding of the social forces because |
| A. | Education is a social process |
| B. | Educators are themselves social beings |
| C. | Education is influenced by the social forces |
| D. | Education is one of the activities carried on in the social setting amidst social forces |
| Answer» D. Education is one of the activities carried on in the social setting amidst social forces | |
| 12. |
Among the scheduled castes of India, which is the main cause of social mobility? |
| A. | Education |
| B. | Television |
| C. | Migration |
| D. | Political awakening |
| Answer» B. Television | |
| 13. |
Which among the following is the advantage that does not come to the followers under a specific leadership? |
| A. | The goal achievement satisfaction |
| B. | The difficulties that may result by the risk of failure |
| C. | The advantage of getting an all round leader and guide |
| D. | It saves the group from the difficulties of taking decisions |
| Answer» B. The difficulties that may result by the risk of failure | |
| 14. |
What is more crucial for bringing about a desired social change in India? |
| A. | Development of social resources |
| B. | Development of natural resources |
| C. | Development of human resources |
| D. | Development of physical resources |
| Answer» B. Development of natural resources | |
| 15. |
The essential attributes of a state are |
| A. | Population |
| B. | Sovereignty |
| C. | Government |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
Application of principles of sociology to education is known as |
| A. | Educational sociology |
| B. | Sociology of education |
| C. | Social science of education |
| D. | Social foundations of education |
| Answer» C. Social science of education | |
| 17. |
The realization of the aspirations of the people of India involves |
| A. | Industrialization |
| B. | Economic growth |
| C. | Agricultural innovations |
| D. | Change in the knowledge, skills, interests and values of the people as a whole through education |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
Which is the most important factor which seems to be acting to reduce class differences in India? |
| A. | Missionaries of social workers |
| B. | Rise in standard of living of the working class |
| C. | Spread of information through mass- media such as the T.V |
| D. | Government's legal and social welfare efforts on improving the lot of the weaker sections of the society |
| Answer» C. Spread of information through mass- media such as the T.V | |
| 19. |
Modernisation implies mobility which may be of any kind except |
| A. | Social mobility |
| B. | Psychic mobility |
| C. | Physical mobility |
| D. | Scientific mobility |
| Answer» D. Scientific mobility | |
| 20. |
One of the several features of Indian education promoting divisive tendencies and thwarting national integration is |
| A. | Rivalry among students being encouraged by students' unions |
| B. | Indifference to education being encouraged by unemployment |
| C. | Caste loyalties being encouraged by private and public schools |
| D. | Rivalry among teachers being encouraged by teachers' associations |
| Answer» E. | |
| 21. |
Which is the most correct statement? |
| A. | Modernisation is the outcome of social change |
| B. | Social change is the outcome of modernisation |
| C. | Social change and modernisation mean the same thing |
| D. | None of these is incorrect |
| Answer» B. Social change is the outcome of modernisation | |
| 22. |
A state has a large population, but not sufficient territory. What among the following it cannot do? |
| A. | Destroy all the new-born |
| B. | Raise multi storey buildings |
| C. | Let its people migrate to other countries |
| D. | Popularise check on the growing population |
| Answer» B. Raise multi storey buildings | |
| 23. |
Which of the following simple societies possess distinct political institutions? |
| A. | The Zulu |
| B. | The Ba Nyankole |
| C. | The Ba Mangwato |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
What is not involved in leadership? |
| A. | Understanding based on co-operation |
| B. | Maintenance of group norms and values |
| C. | The supremacy based on personality cult |
| D. | The goal motivation and role achievement |
| Answer» D. The goal motivation and role achievement | |
| 25. |
In the absence of law, which of the following help in maintaining social order in simple societies? |
| A. | Mores |
| B. | Folkways |
| C. | Customary rules |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 26. |
Political aim of education is |
| A. | Secularism |
| B. | Democracy |
| C. | Cosmopolitanism |
| D. | Constitutionalism |
| Answer» C. Cosmopolitanism | |
| 27. |
The future of education in India depends on |
| A. | Family |
| B. | Society |
| C. | Economy |
| D. | Government |
| Answer» E. | |
| 28. |
Who said, 'Western education leads to the modernisation of perspectives in traditional, non- industrial societies' ? |
| A. | Alex Inkeles |
| B. | Yogendra Singh |
| C. | Robert C. Williamson |
| D. | Michael Armer and Robert Youtz |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
Which is the pattern of modernization through education? |
| A. | Capitalist |
| B. | Non-capitalist |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 30. |
Mark out the reason that made Jawaharlal a great leader. |
| A. | His parentage |
| B. | His personal qualities |
| C. | His brahmanical heritage |
| D. | His leadership of the Congress |
| Answer» C. His brahmanical heritage | |
| 31. |
Social structure, culture and personality combined together to form |
| A. | Tradition |
| B. | The folkways |
| C. | An association |
| D. | A social system |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
Modernization as a process of social change requires |
| A. | Structural fusion |
| B. | Increased structural differentiation |
| C. | Decreased structural differentiation |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Decreased structural differentiation | |
| 33. |
'Religious education' and 'education about religions' are |
| A. | Two different concepts entirely. |
| B. | Little different from one each other |
| C. | Not, at all, different from each other |
| D. | Such a comparison between them is irrelevant |
| Answer» C. Not, at all, different from each other | |
| 34. |
Which article of the Indian Constitution proclaims that 'untouchability is abolished'? |
| A. | Article 15 |
| B. | Article 16 |
| C. | Article 17 |
| D. | Article 18 |
| Answer» D. Article 18 | |
| 35. |
Christ said 'Render unto Ceasar things that are Ceasar's and unto God the things that are God's. Mark out the correct conclusion. |
| A. | King is superior to God |
| B. | State is not of Divine origin |
| C. | One should be loyal to the King |
| D. | Church and the state are two different institutions |
| Answer» E. | |
| 36. |
Due to Social Contract, man |
| A. | Lost his freedom |
| B. | Gained his freedom |
| C. | Became part of the whole |
| D. | State came into existence |
| Answer» E. | |
| 37. |
Who gives the system of education in India? |
| A. | State |
| B. | Family |
| C. | Society |
| D. | Economy |
| Answer» B. Family | |
| 38. |
Which is not relevant for achieving vertical social mobility? |
| A. | Wealth |
| B. | Religion |
| C. | Education |
| D. | Family background |
| Answer» C. Education | |
| 39. |
Family is said to be a primary social institution because |
| A. | It is a basic social unit |
| B. | All these above characteristics are found in it |
| C. | There is high degree of face-to-face relationship within this |
| D. | A high degree of importance is attached to it by all societies of people |
| Answer» D. A high degree of importance is attached to it by all societies of people | |
| 40. |
Schools are social institutions because they |
| A. | Are established by the society |
| B. | Suggest solutions to social problems |
| C. | Suggest ways and means of social progress |
| D. | Preserve and instill in future generations the knowledge, ideas, and customs of our culture |
| Answer» B. Suggest solutions to social problems | |
| 41. |
A social system invariably has a |
| A. | Personality |
| B. | Social structure |
| C. | Culture of its own |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 42. |
In India, education is the responsibility of |
| A. | State Government |
| B. | Central Government |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 43. |
In simple societies, deviations from an appropriate day to day behaviour are corrected by such social controls as |
| A. | Gossip |
| B. | Ridicule |
| C. | Mild Ostracism |
| D. | All of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 44. |
The schools help the people to |
| A. | Enjoy culture |
| B. | Ignore culture |
| C. | Assimilate culture |
| D. | Protest against culture |
| Answer» D. Protest against culture | |
| 45. |
Transformation of the educational system means |
| A. | Revolutionising its curriculum |
| B. | Changing the theory and practice of education |
| C. | Improving the socio-emotional climate of the schools |
| D. | Relating it to the life, needs and aspirations of the people and making it an instrument of needed social change |
| Answer» D. Relating it to the life, needs and aspirations of the people and making it an instrument of needed social change | |
| 46. |
Indian government's legislation concerning educational opportunities for the weaker sections of the society is an evidence which brings into focus the |
| A. | Social nature of education |
| B. | Cultural nature of education |
| C. | Political nature of education |
| D. | Economic nature of education |
| Answer» D. Economic nature of education | |
| 47. |
What is the status of political interference in education? |
| A. | Society |
| B. | Economy |
| C. | Both (a) and (b) |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 48. |
Who, among the following thinkers, is not associated with the theory of Social Contract? |
| A. | Locke |
| B. | Hobbes |
| C. | Kautilya |
| D. | Rousseau |
| Answer» D. Rousseau | |
| 49. |
The state of nature is |
| A. | Supremacy of might on right |
| B. | A state of equality for all men |
| C. | Such a state did not exist historically |
| D. | The state when Devas were troubled by Asurs |
| Answer» D. The state when Devas were troubled by Asurs | |
| 50. |
Which is the most important social factor that has adversely affected the examination reforms in India? |
| A. | Inadequate classroom teaching |
| B. | Unwieldy nature of the examination |
| C. | Ineffective university administration |
| D. | Unethical behaviours of students and teachers |
| Answer» E. | |