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201.

...................... has propounded the concept of ‘Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft’

A. g c homans
B. c h cooley
C. peter berger
D. ferdinand tonnies
Answer» E.
202.

Which is not a characteristic of society?

A. the range of social relationships
B. society is concrete concept
C. society involves both likeness and difference
D. physical conditions of social relationships
Answer» C. society involves both likeness and difference
203.

The book ‘society’ authored by................ ?

A. talcott parson
B. saint siomn
C. mac iver and page
D. herbert spencer
Answer» D. herbert spencer
204.

The word ‘Society’ derived from .................. language?

A. greek
B. latin
C. roman
D. french
Answer» C. roman
205.

The book ‘The Sociological imagination’ written on......................?

A. 1969
B. 1959
C. 1955
D. 1970
Answer» C. 1955
206.

Which sociologist made a distinction between ‘The personal trouble of milleu’ and ‘thePublic issues of social structure’?

A. c wright mills
B. a. handerson
C. e s bogardus
D. n j smelser
Answer» B. a. handerson
207.

Who wrote the book ‘The sociological Imagination’?

A. auguste comte
B. peter berger
C. c wright mills
D. ralf dahrendorf
Answer» D. ralf dahrendorf
208.

The author of Book ‘The managed heart: Commercialization of human feeling’

A. hyman
B. robert e park
C. arlie hochschild
D. george simmel
Answer» D. george simmel
209.

The school of thought proposing that “Sociology is a general science, not a pure Science”

A. specialistic school
B. synthetic school of thought
C. frankfurt school
D. symbolic interactionism
Answer» C. frankfurt school
210.

Which school of thought forwarded the idea that “Sociology is pure and independent science”

A. synthetic school
B. frankfurt school
C. specialistic or formalistic school
D. social conflict theory
Answer» D. social conflict theory
211.

Find out the exponent of synthetic school of thought?

A. max weber
B. george simmel
C. vier kandt
D. pitirim sorokin
Answer» E.
212.

The perspective emphasize to ‘symbol’ is known as .............................?

A. particularistic
B. functionalism
C. stigma
D. symbolic interactionism
Answer» E.
213.

Functionalist perspective given significance to .............................. in maintaining order stability in society?

A. universalism
B. moral consensus
C. individualism
D. cooperation
Answer» C. individualism
214.

Which sociologist distinguished ‘Manifest and Latent function’

A. robert k merton
B. g h mead
C. sir henry maine
D. kingsley davis
Answer» B. g h mead
215.

Which perspective asserts that “Society is a complex system, Whose various parts work together to produce stability and order”

A. conflict approach
B. symbolic interactionism
C. functionalism
D. structuralism
Answer» D. structuralism
216.

Author of the book ‘Tearoom trade’?

A. talcott parson
B. linton
C. levi strauss
D. laud humphreys
Answer» E.
217.

Find out a functionalist sociologist?

A. emile durkheim
B. karl marx
C. g h mead
D. ralf dahrendorf
Answer» B. karl marx
218.

Which theory proposed by Robert K Merton?

A. theories of middle range
B. folkways
C. power elite
D. religion of humanity
Answer» B. folkways
219.

Who proposed the concept of ‘Symbolic Interactionism’

A. robert k merton
B. c h cooley
C. g h mead
D. erving goffman
Answer» D. erving goffman
220.

Who contribute the concept ‘Verstehen’

A. peter berger
B. max weber
C. harold garifinkel
D. thomas luckman
Answer» C. harold garifinkel
221.

Who proposed the idea that ‘Ideal type’?

A. aristotle
B. anthony gidddens
C. max weber
D. alfred schutz
Answer» D. alfred schutz
222.

‘The protestant ethic and spirit of capitalism’ authored by ..........................?

A. max weber
B. karl manheim
C. spencer
D. durkheim
Answer» B. karl manheim
223.

Who wrote “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle”?

A. aguste comte
B. karl marx
C. ferdinand tonnies
D. herbert spencer
Answer» C. ferdinand tonnies
224.

Who put forwarded the view point ‘Materialist conception of history’

A. kingsley davis
B. karl marx
C. weber
D. ralf dahrendorf
Answer» C. weber
225.

According to Durkheim, Over integration lead to .................... type of suicide?

A. altruistic suicide
B. egoistic suicide
C. anomic suicide
D. individualistic
Answer» B. egoistic suicide
226.

According to Marx, Working class is also referred to as ...........................?

A. bourgeoisie
B. feudalist
C. capitalsist
D. proletariat
Answer» E.
227.

Who introduced the term ‘Egoistic Suicide’

A. c h cooley
B. w g sumner
C. pitirim sorokkin
D. emile durkheim
Answer» E.
228.

The types of ‘Mechanical and Organic solidarity’ Proposed by ...................?

A. radcliff brown
B. emile durkheim
C. e b tylor
D. c h cooley
Answer» C. e b tylor
229.

Which term coined by Emile Durkheim?

A. little community
B. positivism
C. anomie
D. naturalism
Answer» D. naturalism
230.

Who proposed the principle that “Study social facts as things”

A. emile durkheim
B. karl manheim
C. j f cuber
D. herbert spencer
Answer» B. karl manheim
231.

Who wrote the book ‘Division of labour in society’?

A. b malinowski
B. karl marx
C. emile durkheim
D. robert k merton
Answer» D. robert k merton
232.

“It seems to be a study, first of the relationship and correlation between various classes of social phenomena” said by?

A. karl max
B. max weber
C. pitrim sorokin
D. hobhouse
Answer» D. hobhouse
233.

Who defined “Sociology as science which attempts to interpretative understanding of social actions in order to arrive at causal explanation of its causes and effects”?

A. max weber
B. auguste comte
C. ogburn and nimkoff
D. e a ross
Answer» B. auguste comte
234.

Who defined “Sociology as the science of social institutions”?

A. h m johnson
B. emile durkheim
C. bogardus
D. mac iver and page
Answer» C. bogardus
235.

‘Positive philosophy’ published in .....................?

A. 1845
B. 1826
C. 1830
D. 1839
Answer» D. 1839
236.

Who said “Sociology is science of structure and functions of social life”?

A. max weber
B. anthony giddens
C. morris ginsberg
D. j w bennet
Answer» E.
237.

The theory ‘Law of three stages’ proposed by..........................?

A. karl marx
B. plato
C. auguste comte
D. herbert spencer
Answer» D. herbert spencer
238.

Auguste Comte is a ........................ Philosopher

A. italian
B. french
C. greek
D. american
Answer» C. greek
239.

The term ‘Sociology’ firstly introduced in .......................... Book?

A. first principle
B. sociology and philosophy
C. positive philosophy
D. principles of sociology
Answer» D. principles of sociology
240.

Who coined the word ‘sociology’?

A. herbert spencer
B. durkheim
C. max weber
D. auguste comte
Answer» E.
241.

Term ‘Sociology’ derived from ................ Languages?

A. french and greek
B. latin and greek
C. italian and roman
D. latin and roman
Answer» C. italian and roman
242.

The Latin word “Socius” means that ......................?

A. community
B. arrangements
C. intimate relationship
D. companion or associate
Answer» E.
243.

Which branch of knowledge is related to “Science of society”

A. sociology
B. anthropology
C. economics
D. politics
Answer» B. anthropology
244.

Organized social life emerges from

A. Social Organization
B. Social Interaction
C. Social Culture
D. Social Group
Answer» C. Social Culture
245.

Culture treats all human products and learned abilities

A. Equally
B. differently
C. Insignificant
D. great
Answer» B. differently
246.

Explicit norms are learned through

A. Formal means
B. Informal means
C. inbuilt in human
D. Human beings learn it automatically
Answer» B. Informal means
247.

Some norms within a culture are explain out in the open, everyone in the culture is able toformulate the rule’ This may be defined as

A. Explicit culture
B. Explicit Norm
C. Implicit culture
D. Implicit Worm
Answer» C. Implicit culture
248.

When the balance between the material and non-material culture is disrupted by rapidsocial change, the material culture is left behind This situation is called

A. left culture
B. far-culture
C. Cultural lag
D. Taken culture
Answer» D. Taken culture
249.

Normative culture is that sub-division of non material culture that consists of

A. Norms
B. Values
C. Mores
D. Standard Way
Answer» B. Values
250.

Who has defined culture as a body of shared understandings’?

A. Redfield
B. Tylor
C. Frazer
D. Herskowitz
Answer» B. Tylor