201. Which among the following is not correct? According to Merton, there are three criteria of determining membership of a group. Identify the incorrect one.

(a) We feeling

(b) Frequency of interaction among the members

(c) Determination of groups of interacting individuals by others

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(d) Determination of the membership of group by the interacting individuals themselves.

202. A good illustration of social group is

(a) Family

(b) A crowd in a street

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(c) People in a circus tent

(d) A market

203. Which among the following represents a social group?

(a) A golf club

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(b) Students of physics

(c) Members of trade union congress

(d) Family

204. An aggregate which lacks structure or organisation and whose members may be unaware or less aware of the existence of the grouping has been called

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(a) Community

(b) Social group

(c) Primary group

(d) Institution

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205. To achieve consensus primary group follows method of

(a) Enumeration

(b) Integration

(c) Compromise

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(d) All the above

206. What type of groups is united only by one purpose?

(a) Primary

(b) Marginal

(c) Spatial

(d) Functional

207. A teenage group is first and foremost an example of a

(a) Peer group

(b) Play group

(c) Football group

(d) Secondary group

208. George Simmel’s classification of group is based on

(a) Size

(b) Interaction

(c) Relation

(d) Group dynamism

209. Which among the following is an essential condition for a social group?

(a) Absence of stratification

(b) Social relation

(c) Mutual assistance

(d) Uninterrupted organisation

210. A collection of people crossing one road at a signed point is a

(a) Quasi group

(b) Social class

(c) Status group

(d) Secondary group

211. Mob behaviour is

(a) Irrational and suggestive

(b) Rational and suggestive

(c) Irrational but not suggestive

(d) Rational but not suggestive

212. “A social group implies any collection of human being who is brought into social relationships with one another.” Who holds this?

(a) Maclver

(b) Durkheim

(c) Max Weber

(d) Ross

213. Which is the primary condition for the formation of a social group requiring voluntary membership?

(a) Lack of stratification

(b) A common interest or objective

(c) Lack of any form of control

(d) Personal contact

214. The element of interaction is lacking in an

(a) Integration

(b) Aggregation

(c) Association

(d) Assimilation

215. Which among the following is not a secondary group?

(a) A city

(b) Political party

(c) Students in a class room

(d) Labour union

216. When two people interact with each other, they form

(a) Dyadic group

(b) A society

(b) An institution

(d) An association

217. Indicate who among the following do not constitute a group ?

(a) Some surgeons discussing an important subject of surgery

(b) Some members of bar association discussing matter concerning their association

(c) A horse man, a cyclist and a pedestrian going along the road

(d) A decision making body of trade union.

218. Who have differentiated between membership and non-membership reference groups?

(a) R.K. Merton

(b) New Comb

(c) Parsons

(d) Karl Pearson

219. All illiterates form a /an

(a) Community

(b) Category

(c) Aggregate

(d) Social group

220. Distinction between positive and negative reference groups is made by

(a) Hoyt

(b) Sheriff

(c) R.K. Merton

(d) New Comb

221. Whose opinion is this?

“Reference group are, in principle, almost enumerable; any of the groups of which one is a member as well as group of which one is not a member can become points of reference for shaping one’s attitudes, evaluation and behaviour” ?

(a) R.K. Merton

(b)Stouffer

(c) Mr. Sheriff

(d) R.E. Park

222. “American Soldiers” is the work of

(a) R.K. Merton

(b) Parsons

(c) Stouffer

(d) Whyte

223. According to C.H. Cooley, primary groups are primary in several senses. But mainly they are primary because

(a) They are small and face to face

(b) They give emotional support to their members and are inclusive in nature

(c)They are most important to the individuals who are a part of it

(d) They are fundamental in forming the social nature and ideals of the individual

224. Who among the following has made important contribution towards developing the idea of reference group?

(a) R.K. Merton

(b) M. Sheriff

(c) H. Hyman

(d) All the above

225. Musicians are a /an

(a) Aggregate

(b) Group

(c) Category

(d) Class

226. The characteristic feature of primary group is spontaneous, living its aim is to provide stimulants to its members. In the following which has not this characteristic?

(a) A study group

(b) A family

(c) Buyers and sellers on the road side

(d) A group of friends

227. An accidental collection of people brought about by some external factors like fire, theft etc…….. may be termed as

(a) A group

(b) An aggregation

(c) An association

(d) A community

228. Which among the following is not an example of institution?

(a) Family

(b) Marriage

(c) Kinship

(d) Peer group

229. In which of the following books C.H. Cooley introduced the concept of ‘primary group’ characterised by intimate face to face association?’

(a) Social Organisation (b) Human Groups

(c) The Nature of Human Group

(d) Social Structure

230. Status groups are not stratified according to the

(a) Type of dwelling

(b) Food habits

(c) Recreational activities

(d) Wealth acquisition

231. There are certain elements which are necessary for a group of individuals to be called as society. One of the following is not such an element.

(a) Society means likeness thus there must exist likeness

(b) Society is a permanent organisation

(c) Society is based on social relationships among the individuals which is abstract

(d) There exists interdependence and cooperation among its members

232. A stable society is a prerequisite for

(a) Bureaucracy

(b) Culture

(c) An integrated personality

(d) Family

233. Which among the following is true?

(a) Tonnies saw both Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft equally important realities of modern age

(b) Tonnies saw an evolutionary transition from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft

(c) Tonnies saw an evolutionary transition from Gesellschaft to Gemeinschaft

(d) Tonnies saw a cyclical trend from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft

234. Who was of the opinion that ‘the village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they want within themselves and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last when nothing else lasts”?

(a) F. Tonnies

(b) Ghureye

(c) H. Maine

(d) Redfield

235. Which is not a feature of Gesellschaft?

(a) Less rigidity regarding statuses

(b) Absence of friction and conflict

(c) Heterogeneous population

(d) Lack of community sentiment

236. Which among the following is incorrect?

(a) Social institutions exercise equal influence on all members of a society

(b) An institution is a complex structure of roles organised around a central activity or social need

(c) Institutions channelize human activities like instincts guide animal behaviour

(d) Institutions are made up essentially of norms

237. Which among the following organisations may be described as total institutions?

1. Boarding schools and monasteries

2. Mental hospitals and prisons

3. Orphanages and old people’s home Codes:

(a) 1, 2, 3

(b) 3 only

(c) 1, 2

(d) 1 only

238. Lack of relationship with other culture is called

(a) Isolation

(b) Insularity

(c) Separation

(d) Polarity

239. An individual migrating from a village to a city is an example of

(a) Changing group

(b) Migration

(c) Leaving group

(d) Exodus

240. Which among the following is most short-lived of social groups ?

(a) Crowd

(b) Congregation

(c) Association

(d) Organisation

241. A situation in which large number of people attempt to obtain or achieve the same thing at the same time is called

(a) Boom

(b) Acquisition

(c) Fad

(d) Fashion

242. A situation in which large number of people attempt to get rid themselves of the same thing at the same time is called

(a) Getting away

(b) Get away

(c) Bust

(d) Release

243. ‘Culture is essentially a set of rules’ according to

(a) Malinowski

(b) Radcliffe Brown

(c) Parsons

(d) Merton

244. The term ethnocentrism is coined by

(a) W.G. Sumner

(b) Redfield

(c) Morgan

(d) Briffault

245. Cultural pluralism may represent

(a) Cultural diversity

(b) Incomplete assimilation

(c) Incomplete acceleration-acculturation

(d) Unity in diversity

246. Parliament is an example of

(a) Delegate group

(b) Representative group

(c) Expressive group

(d) Political group

247. Choose the correct one

(a) Socialization brings man into relation with others.

(b)Individualization makes him/her autonomous or self determining

(c) Both (a) and (b) are correct

(d)Both (a) and (b) are wrong

248. ‘Related occupational specialties’ arranged hierarchically parallel to and separate from other sets of related roles which are also arranged in hierarchies.’ It is

(a) Status set

(b) Stratification

(c) Situses set

(d) Role-relation

249. Competition can be seen at five levels. These are

(a) Economic, cultural, social, political, racial

(b) Economic, normal, cultural, political, ethnic

(c) Economic, educational, religious, cultural, political

(d) Economic, educational, social, religious, political.

250. The term Social Control was first used in 1894 by

(a) Small & Vincent

(b) Roucek

(c) Sutherland

(d) Maclver

Answers

201(a)

202. (a) ‘

203. (d)

204. (a)

205. (d)

206. (d)

207. (a)

208. (a)

209. (b)

210. (a)

211(a)

212. (a)

213. (b)

214. (b)

215. (c)

216. (a)

217. (c)

218. (a)

219. (b)

220. (c)

221(a)

*222. (c)

223. (d)

224. (d)

225. (c)

226. (c)

227. (b)

228. (d)

229. (a)

230. (d)

231(b)

232. (c)

233. (b)

234. (c)

235. (b)

236. (a)

237. (a)

238. (b)

239. (a)

240. (a)

241(a)

242. (c)

243. (b)

244. (a)

245. (b)

246. (a)

247. (c)

248. (c)

249. (a)

250. (a)