Introduction to Sociology (SOC101)

1. All of the following concepts are socially constructed EXCEPT:

   1. Age
   2. Gender
   3. Class
   4. Death

2. The movement of individuals and groups up or down the socioeconomic scale is known as:

   1. Vertical mobility
   2. Interagenerational
   3. Intergenerational
   4. Lateral

3. Who among the following convey gender messages unconsciously in the way they handle daughters and sons, and thereby inculcate relevant traits by sex?

   1. Peers
   2. Friends
   3. Parents
   4. Relatives

4. Which types of families have recently become more common?

   1. Nuclear
   2. Extended
   3. Joint
   4. Consanguine

5. According to which of the following school of thought the persistence of the traditional division of labor testifies to the usefulness for human societies?

   1. Functional perspective
   2. Conflict perspective
   3. Interactionist perspective
   4. Exchange perspective

6. Who among the following is known as second founder of sociology?

   1. Auguste Comte
   2. Herbert Spencer
   3. Karl Marx
   4. Emile Durkheim

7. 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

8. The idea that poverty is caused by shortcomings in the poor themselves is called:

   1. The culture of poverty
   2. Relative poverty
   3. Absolute poverty
   4. Feminization of poverty

9. 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

10. Which of the following factor is instrumental in the erosion of traditional family and marriage values?

    1. Social and economic
    2. Cultural factors
    3. Biological and physiological
    4. Archeological factors

11. The fifth census was held in:

    1. 1978
    2. 1998
    3. 1988
    4. 2000

12. Conducting a "Review of Literature" is an explanation of which characteristic of scientific method?

    1. Accumulation
    2. Determination
    3. Empiricism
    4. Self-correction

13. Without which of the following element a new born cannot become social being?

    1. Folkways
    2. Interaction
    3. Peer group
    4. Norms

14. Those who gain property, income, status and position are said to be:

    1. Vertical mobile
    2. Horizontal mobile
    3. Downwards mobile
    4. Upwardly mobile

15. Distinction between males and females based on biological factors is known as:

    1. Sex
    2. Gender
    3. Heterosexuality
    4. Homosexuality

16. 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

17. 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

18. Which of the following term is used to refer the characteristics of population?

    1. Size
    2. Distribution
    3. Composition
    4. Demography

19. 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

20. "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

21. Who among the following is the advocate of the Symbolic Interaction Paradigm?

    1. Auguste Comte
    2. Herbert Spencer
    3. Karl Marx
    4. Max Weber

22. According to 1998 Census what was the share of rural population in the total population of Pakistan?

    1. 59.6%
    2. 61.8%
    3. 74.8%
    4. 67%

23. Highly qualified teachers, curriculum, class room environment, learning developments of students and handsome salary of teachers all are necessary for:

    1. School Environment
    2. Quality of Textbooks
    3. Quality of Curricula
    4. Standard of Pedagogy

24. 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

25. According to 1998 Population Census of Pakistan, ________ of the population was female.

    1. 48.0%
    2. 44.7%
    3. 52.0%
    4. 55.3%

26. 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

27. Sana is living in a society in which her parents have strong belief in traditional caste system, in this system which marriage pattern they will follow for their daughter's marriage:

    1. Endogamous
    2. Monogamous
    3. Polygamous
    4. Exogamous

28. All the students in Sociology class will be known as a:

    1. Crowd
    2. Category
    3. Dyad
    4. Triad

29. If a number of people share some common characteristics, they will be called as a:

    1. Group
    2. Category
    3. Crowd
    4. Mob

30. In which type of organizations income generation is the main purpose of establishment?

    1. Normative
    2. Coercive
    3. Utilitrian
    4. Voluntary

31. The ranking of people and the rewards they receive based on objective criteria, often including wealth, power, and prestige indicates

    1. Social ranks
    2. Social differentiation
    3. Social inequality
    4. Social stratification

32. 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

33. In pre-modern societies, birth rates were ________.

    1. Very Low
    2. Very high
    3. Continuously stable
    4. Continuously decreasing

34. 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

35. Which latent function schooling plays in the life of a child?

    1. Personal socialization
    2. Social networking
    3. Political socialization
    4. Cultural socialization

36. What are the three main dimensions of social stratification?

    1. Power, prestige, wealth
    2. Prestige, wealth, authority
    3. Authority, power, hierarchy
    4. Skill, authority, wealth

37. 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

38. 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

39. 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

40. Who proposed that criminals had distinctive physical features?

    1. Edward Sutherland
    2. Robert k Merton
    3. Ceasare Lombroso
    4. Emile Durkhiem

41. Which social institution is providing knowledge, skills and transformation of cultural values and norms to its members?

    1. Mass media
    2. Peer group
    3. Education
    4. Family

42. The equilibrium of slow population growth regained. It is the distinguishing characteristic of ________ stage of demographic transition.

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

43. 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

44. Weber claimed that class divisions derive not only from control or lack of control of the means of production, another element also affects it which is:

    1. Social pressure
    2. Economic differences
    3. Political pressure
    4. Cultural factors

45. 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

46. The concept "survival of the fittest" was given by:

    1. Max Weber
    2. Kari Marx
    3. Herbert Spencer
    4. Charlae Darwin

47. All of the following are the ways of developing social integration in students through schooling, EXCEPT

    1. Through common language
    2. By inculcating common values
    3. By building national identity
    4. Through social mobility

48. Which of the following transitions in married life is usually the hardest for people?

    1. Retiring from the labor force
    2. Death of spouse
    3. Last child leaving home
    4. Birth of the second baby girl

49. At which stage of sociological investigation problem defination is done?

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

50. Symbolic interactionism argues that gender inequality:

    1. Is realized and socially constructed through our daily activities in collaboration with others
    2. Can only be understood through structural level analyses
    3. Is rooted in patriarchy and capitalism
    4. Is rooted in exploitation and opportunity

51. The family perpetuates social inequality, according to the:

    1. Social-conflict approach
    2. Social-exchange approach
    3. Structural-functional approach
    4. Symbolic-interaction approach

52. Social mobility means:

    1. An individual has fixed and rigid status.
    2. An individual's position changes with need of time.
    3. An individual has closed social system with no change.
    4. An individual's position remains stagnant and static.

53. Ahmad and all his friends occupy the same housing unit to live in, they are sharing a:

    1. Kinship
    2. Group living
    3. Unit
    4. Household

54. The age structure of the population of Pakistan shows that majority (nearly two thirds) of population is:

    1. Dependents
    2. Male
    3. Female
    4. Young people

55. Which of the following is also known as social dynamic?

    1. Social order
    2. Social change
    3. Social movement
    4. Social revolution

56. ________ is the movement of people into a destination country where they do not possess citizenship.

    1. Immigration
    2. Emigration
    3. In-migration
    4. Out-migration

57. 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

58. 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

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