Explore topic-wise MCQs in 12th.

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151.

................... is the type of marriage in which one man marries only one women.

A. polygyny
B. endogamy
C. monogamy
D. hypogamy
Answer» D. hypogamy
152.

One individual marries more than one individual of opposite sex is called ....................?

A. polygamy
B. monogamy
C. polyandry
D. exogamy
Answer» B. monogamy
153.

“Marriage is a contract for the production and maintenance of children” who said?

A. morris ginsberg
B. b. malinowski
C. c h cooley
D. robert redfield
Answer» C. c h cooley
154.

..................... is the social institution which is helped to control or regulate sexual life of man

A. kinship
B. economic institution
C. marriage
D. political institution
Answer» D. political institution
155.

Blood relationships are constitutes or establish family is known as.....................?

A. consanguineous
B. extended family
C. affinal family
D. living together
Answer» B. extended family
156.

.................... is the family constituted or established through marriage relationship?

A. consanguineous
B. affinal family
C. living together
D. extended family
Answer» C. living together
157.

The lineage or descent traced through the mother is known as .................?

A. matrilineal family
B. matrilocal family
C. neolocal
D. patriarchal family
Answer» B. matrilocal family
158.

The lineage or descent traces through the father is known as ....................?

A. patriarchal family
B. matrilocal family
C. patrilineal family
D. neolocal family
Answer» D. neolocal family
159.

Which type of family characterised that, after the marriage husband goes to live in the homeof wife?

A. patriarchal family
B. matrilocal family
C. patrilineal family
D. matriarchal family
Answer» C. patrilineal family
160.

In this type of family, the wife live in the husband home is known as ...................?

A. matrilocal family
B. matrilineal family
C. patrilocal family
D. neolocal family
Answer» D. neolocal family
161.

.................... as the mother or female centred or dominated family?

A. matriarchal family
B. patriarchal family
C. neolocal family
D. nuclear family
Answer» B. patriarchal family
162.

The family, in which male is the head and ruling power is known as

A. matriarchal family
B. patriarchal family
C. patrilineal family
D. matrilocal
Answer» C. patrilineal family
163.

.................... family consist of husband, wife, their children and either the parents of husbandand wife

A. matriarchal family
B. nuclear family
C. extended family
D. patrilocal family
Answer» D. patrilocal family
164.

Which type of family consist of husband, wife and unmarried children?

A. nuclear family
B. extended family
C. joint family
D. neolocal family
Answer» B. extended family
165.

The important characteristic of joint family are .........................?

A. common residence
B. joint property
C. common kitchen
D. all of the above
Answer» E.
166.

Who defined “Family is a more or less durable association of husband and wife with or without children, or of a man or women alone with children”

A. ogburn and nimkoff
B. george peter murdock
C. clare
D. horton and hunt
Answer» B. george peter murdock
167.

It is a type of family that group of kins of two or more generation living together under the same roof.

A. nuclear family
B. joint family
C. extended family
D. patriarchal family
Answer» C. extended family
168.

Which sociologist classified family function as an ‘Essential and Non essential function’?

A. talcott parson
B. elliot smith
C. mac iver
D. l h morgan
Answer» D. l h morgan
169.

………………. is the basic or primary unit of society

A. education
B. family
C. law
D. political party
Answer» C. law
170.

The meaning of the word ‘Famulus’

A. association
B. servant
C. emotionality
D. co habiting
Answer» C. emotionality
171.

Who defined “Sociology as the study of social dynamic and Social static”

A. max weber
B. karl marx
C. herbert spencer
D. auguste comte
Answer» E.
172.

The term Family derived from ……………… language?

A. greek
B. french
C. roman
D. latin
Answer» E.
173.

“In its basic sense social change means changing in social structure” said by

A. gunnar myrdal
B. h m johnson
C. gillin and gillin
D. a w green
Answer» C. gillin and gillin
174.

The institution established consciously and planned are called .........................?

A. enacted
B. ingroup
C. unorganised
D. cressicive
Answer» B. ingroup
175.

Who defined “Institutions may be described as recognised and established usages governing the relations between individual and groups”

A. j g frazer
B. g p murdock
C. patrick geddes
D. ginsberg
Answer» E.
176.

The institutions evolved or developed unconsciously are called ....................?

A. enacted
B. reference
C. cressicive
D. organised
Answer» D. organised
177.

Who made distinction between ‘Cressicive and Enacted’ institution?

A. sumner
B. pareto
C. spencer
D. charles metcalf
Answer» B. pareto
178.

Who defined “Reference groups as those group to which individual relates himself as a part or to which he relates himself psychologically”?

A. muzafer sherif
B. pitirim sorokin
C. talcott parson
D. wesetermark
Answer» B. pitirim sorokin
179.

................... Is an primary institutions

A. constitution
B. family
C. law
D. education
Answer» C. law
180.

‘An outline of social psychology’ authored by ................?

A. w f ogburn
B. wilbert moore
C. muzafir sherif
D. kimball young
Answer» D. kimball young
181.

The concept ‘Reference group’ introduced by ........................?

A. muzafir sherif
B. c h cooley
C. robert k merton
D. radcliffe brown
Answer» B. c h cooley
182.

Who propound the concept of ‘Positive and Negative group’?

A. sumner
B. new comb
C. robertson
D. r k merton
Answer» C. robertson
183.

The individual acquire the membership of other group is known as .....................?

A. organised group
B. large group
C. vertical group
D. non membership group
Answer» E.
184.

Find out an example for Membership group?

A. family
B. political parties
C. school
D. club
Answer» B. political parties
185.

Who propound the concept of ‘Membership and Non membership’?

A. malinowski
B. robert h lowie
C. muzafer sherif
D. robert k merton
Answer» E.
186.

Who said “Organization is an effective group device for getting something done”

A. ogburn and nimkoff
B. robin fox
C. mac iver
D. ian robertson
Answer» B. robin fox
187.

In which book, Sumner differentiate Groups into ‘In groups and Out groups’?

A. social static
B. social consciousness
C. folkways
D. human nature and social order
Answer» D. human nature and social order
188.

.................... is an example for Out group

A. family
B. sports team
C. caste group
D. friendship group
Answer» C. caste group
189.

Author of ‘Folkways’?

A. e b tylor
B. w g sumner
C. malinowski
D. a beteille
Answer» C. malinowski
190.

Who defines “A social group is a system of social interaction”?

A. oscar lewis
B. maxmuller
C. robert e park
D. harry m johnson
Answer» E.
191.

Find out the example for ‘primary group’?

A. trade union
B. political parties
C. factory
D. family
Answer» E.
192.

Who divide social group into ‘Vertical and Horizontal Group’?

A. p a sorokin
B. evans pritchard
C. radcliffe brown
D. r k merton
Answer» B. evans pritchard
193.

In which book, C H Cooley introduced the concept ‘Primary group’?

A. human society
B. social organization; a study of the larger mind
C. social process
D. the roots of social knowledge
Answer» C. social process
194.

The book, ‘Social organisation; a study of the larger mind’ authored by............?

A. robert redfield
B. cohen
C. c h cooley
D. milton singer
Answer» D. milton singer
195.

Who authored ‘Class and class conflict in industrial society’?

A. mckim marriot
B. ralph dahrendorf
C. howard becker
D. ernst troeltsch
Answer» C. howard becker
196.

Who authored the book ‘Society in America’ in 1837?

A. charles h cooley
B. n mc clelland
C. patrick geddes
D. harriet martineau
Answer» B. n mc clelland
197.

The book ‘Society, culture and personality’ authored by ....................?

A. jeffrey alexander
B. d sanderson
C. pitirim sorokin
D. george mead
Answer» D. george mead
198.

Who introduce the concept ‘primary group’”?

A. c h cooley
B. w g sumner
C. g h mead
D. robert k merton
Answer» B. w g sumner
199.

Who said “Man is a social animal”?

A. plato
B. aristotle
C. socrates
D. saint simon
Answer» C. socrates
200.

Which is the characteristic of industrial society?

A. hunting and gathering
B. personal relationship
C. less division of labour
D. impersonal relationships
Answer» C. less division of labour