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Introduction to Sociology (SOC101)

Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)

Objective Questions

  1. Violation of norms that are written into law and are punishable by law enforcing agencies is known as:

    1. Crime
    2. Juvenile delinquency
    3. Stigma
    4. Deviance
  2. Without which of the following element a new born cannot become social being?

    1. Folkways
    2. Interaction
    3. Peer group
    4. Norms
  3. This statement by Howard Backer "deviance is not a quality of the act the person commits, but rather a consequence of the application by others of rules or sanctions to an "offender" explains:

    1. Social affirmation
    2. Social diversity in deviance
    3. Relativity of deviance
    4. Relativity of crime
  4. Lombroso claimed that

    1. No act is intrinsically deviant
    2. Biological failings forced people into crime
    3. Criminals are socialized in underworld of crime
    4. Women are less likely to be arrested than men
  5. In which of the following a person is expected to follow Society's standards of proper moral conduct?

    1. Folkways
    2. Mores
    3. Values
    4. Norms
  6. Which of the following is NOT included among the actions an individual learn as a result of learning situation?

    1. Imitation
    2. Experimentation
    3. Socialization
    4. Adjustment
  7. Which one of the following gives the concept of "looking glass self" the process by which a sense of self develops?

    1. G. H. Mead
    2. G. Summner
    3. Sigmund Freud
    4. C. H. Cooley
  8. Which of the following is the mental agency containing everything inherited, present at birth, and fixed in the individual's constitution especially exual and aggressive instincts?

    1. ID
    2. Ego
    3. Super ego
    4. Libido
  9. Suppose a person in Mexico may take food item from neighbourhood in their absence, in general terms taking things without permission is considered as deviance but in this case that person is not stigmatized as deviant. This practice shows:

    1. Cultural relativity of deviance
    2. Cultural relativity of crime
    3. Social diversity in deviance
    4. Social deconstruction of deviance
  10. Who proposed that criminals had distinctive physical features?

    1. Edward Sutherland
    2. Robert k Merton
    3. Ceasare Lombroso
    4. Emile Durkhiem
  11. All of the following concepts are socially constructed EXCEPT:

    1. Age
    2. Gender
    3. Class
    4. Death
  12. Suppose in a Madrassa school system students are encouraged to run a compaign against the products of international organizations or companies, which type of function it is performing?

    1. Manifest
    2. Latent
    3. Dysfunction
    4. Social
  13. Who among the following is the advocate of the Symbolic Interaction Paradigm?

    1. Auguste Comte
    2. Herbert Spencer
    3. Karl Marx
    4. Max Weber
  14. If a number of people share some common characteristics, they will be called as a:

    1. Group
    2. Category
    3. Crowd
    4. Mob
  15. Which of the following is ignored by Symbolic Interactionists in their theories?

    1. Social class hierarchies
    2. Everyday interaction of people
    3. Modernization and its impact
    4. Cultural impact on individuals
  16. Which of the following BEST explains a Primary Group?

    1. Passengers waiting at an airport
    2. Students of Punjab University
    3. Christians attending prayer in a Church
    4. Friends playing cricket in a playground
  17. "Higher the rate of pollution, higher will be the rate of disease" it is an example of:

    1. Hypothesis
    2. Data
    3. Theory
    4. Statement
  18. Which of the following is also known as social dynamic?

    1. Social order
    2. Social change
    3. Social movement
    4. Social revolution
  19. Conducting a "Review of Literature" is an explanation of which characteristic of scientific method?

    1. Accumulation
    2. Determination
    3. Empiricism
    4. Self-correction
  20. Why gender is a social construction?

    1. Because society determines the gender image
    2. Because we are social product rather than biological
    3. Because males are more powerful than females
    4. Because biology leads towards social actions
  21. Every interaction of individuals is the essence of society is the asic theme of which theoretical perspective?

    1. Social Confilict
    2. Structual functionalist
    3. Symbolic interactionism
    4. Feminist
  22. The concept "survival of the fittest" was given by:

    1. Max Weber
    2. Kari Marx
    3. Herbert Spencer
    4. Charlae Darwin
  23. Which one of the following device is used for compairing what is observed and what is logically expected?

    1. Statistics
    2. Sociology
    3. Research
    4. Field work
  24. All the students in Sociology class will be known as a:

    1. Crowd
    2. Category
    3. Dyad
    4. Triad
  25. Which of the following is the first step in conducting sociological investigation?

    1. Exploration/Consultation
    2. Area of Interest Identification
    3. Problem defination
    4. Literature search
  26. Who among the following is known as second founder of sociology?

    1. Auguste Comte
    2. Herbert Spencer
    3. Karl Marx
    4. Emile Durkheim
  27. In which stage of research process the specific issue to be researched is identified properly?

    1. Board Area of Interest Identified
    2. Exploration
    3. Problem defination
    4. Theoretical Framework
  28. In which type of organizations income generation is the main purpose of establishment?

    1. Normative
    2. Coercive
    3. Utilitrian
    4. Voluntary
  29. At which stage of sociological investigation problem defination is done?

    1. First
    2. Second
    3. Third
    4. Fourth