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100 Sociology Questions – Sociology of Education Questions and Answers
Sociology Questions and Answers – Sociology of Education Questions Part 1
1) A community generally includes a number of neighbourhoods. Is it correct?
Answer: Yes.
2) Which one is a “Mass Society”?
Answer: Gesellschaft.
3) A rural community is characterised by:
Answer: Community sentiment.
4) A traditional society is not characterised by:
Answer: Competition.
5) Modern Society is characterised by:
Answer: Virtually all occupational statuses are achieved.
6) A person in a society occupies:
Answer: A number of statuses.
7) Society is group, but most groups are not societies. Is it correct?
Answer: Yes.
8) Who put “Society is the largest group in which human beings live”?
Answer: Robert Morrison MacIver.
9) Who coined little community and great community in India?
Answer: Milton Singer.
10) Who related function of institution to biological needs?
Answer: Bronisław Malinowski.
11) Sumner called an institution deliberately formed to satisfy needs:
Answer: Enacted.
12) Post industrial society is characterised by:
Answer: Predominance of services sector over manufacturing sector.
13) The German word ‘Gemeinschaft’ means:
Answer: Community.
14) Is ‘great tradition’ a characteristic of little community?
Answer: No.
15) Who said little community is not depending as large urban communities for survival?
Answer: Robert Redfield.
16) Who first coined the term post industrial society?
Answer: Daniel Bell.
17) When Daniel Bell coined the term post industrial society?
Answer: 1962.
18) Who defined society ‘as a complex of organised association and institutions with a community’?
Answer: G.D.H. Cole.
19) Who said, “Without co-operation society connot exist”?
Answer: Gisbert.
20) Who defined community as an area of social living marked by some degree of social coherence’?
Answer: Robert Morrison MacIver.
21) What is the meaning ‘Community Sentiment’?
Answer: Feeling of belongings together.
22) The word community is derived from:
Answer: Two Latin words.
23) What is the meaning of the term community?
Answer: To serve together.
24) The word society comes from:
Answer: Socius.
25) A definite locality is necessary for a society. Is it correct?
Answer: Yes.
Sociology Questions and Answers – Sociology of Education Questions Part 2
26) A definite locality is essential for a community. Is it correct?
Answer: Yes.
27) An association is deliberately formed. Is it correct?
Answer: Yes.
28) Membership in association is voluntary. Is it correct?
Answer: Yes.
29) Who divided institutional functions into manifest and latent?
Answer: Robert K. Merton.
30) Are institutions compulsory for the individual?
Answer: Yes.
31) Associations meet only:
Answer: Secondary needs of the people.
32) Association is partial and community is:
Answer: Whole.
33) Aim of society is general while that of association is:
Answer: Particular.
34) Origin Society is natural and association is:
Answer: Artificial.
35) We are born in community but we choose our:
Answer: Associations.
36) Who defined status group in terms of life style?
Answer: Max Weber.
37) Assimilation is a one way process. Is it correct?
Answer: No.
38) Mutual awareness is necessary for:
Answer: Social interaction.
39) When competition becomes more personal, it shades into:
Answer: Conflict.
40) Competition also involves:
Answer: Co-operation.
41) The process of complete fusion is known as:
Answer: Assimilation.
42) Racial mixing by inter-breeding is:
Answer: Miscegenation.
43) The process of getting alone indifferences also is:
Answer: Accommodation.
44) Who defined social interaction as “a process by which men inter-penetrate the minds of each other”?
Answer: Dawson and Gettys.
45) Basic conditions of social interaction:
Answer: Social contact and Communication.
46) Who said that ‘the contacts and interactions are the foundation stones of our life?
Answer: Lumley.
47) Who said competition, conflict, accommodation and assimilation are the four fundamental types of interaction?
Answer: Park and Burgess.
48) Who said conflict is intermittent and personal?
Answer: Park and Burgess.
49) An intra-group form of war is called:
Answer: Feud.
50) War is a kind of:
Answer: Group Conflict.
Sociology Questions and Answers – Sociology of Education Questions Part 3
51) Litigation is a judicious form of:
Answer: Conflict.
52) Race riots, religious persecution etc. are examples of:
Answer: Corporate Conflict.
53) Conflicts are essential to make society dynamic and progressive. Is it correct?
Answer: Yes.
54) Harmony and disharmony are essential for the growth of society. Is it correct?
Answer: Yes.
55) Social competition is for getting:
Answer: High status in society.
56) The competition between black and whites is an example of:
Answer: Racial competition.
57) Competition logically develops into conflict. Who said this?
Answer: Bogardus.
58) Conflict is a modified form of struggle. Who said this?
Answer: Kingsley Davis.
59) Conflict is the deliberate attempt to oppose, resist or coerce the will of another or others”. Who said this?
Answer: A.W. Green.
60) Conflict is a conscious action. Is it correct?
Answer: Yes.
61) Reduced supply of the means of subsistence is the chief cause of conflict. Who said this?
Answer: Mathew.
62) “Principles of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest are the main causes of conflict”. Who said this?
Answer: Charles Darwin.
63) The word co-operation is derived from:
Answer: Two Latin words.
64) The two Latin words in Co-operation are:
Answer: ‘Co’ and ‘Operate’.
65) What is the meaning of the word ‘Co’?
Answer: Together.
66) What is the meaning of the word ‘operate’ ?
Answer: To work.
67) Co-operation includes two elements:
Answer: Common end and organised effort.
68) Toleration is a form of:
Answer: Accommodation.
69) Adjustment to physical environment is known as in sociology:
Answer: Adaptation.
70) A social class is:
Answer: A quasi-group.
71) Face to face groups are known as:
Answer: Primary groups.
72) Who said ‘in-group’ is ‘we-group’ and ‘out-group’ is ‘they-group’?
Answer: Sumner.
73) Competition is continuous. Conflict is:
Answer: Intermittent.
74) “Accommodation is the “process in which man attains a sense of harmony with his environment”. Who said this?
Answer: Robert Morrison MacIver.
75) Accommodation is the natural result of:
Answer: Conflict.
Sociology Questions and Answers – Sociology of Education Questions Part 4
76) When accommodation is on the basis of high and low, it is called:
Answer: Subordinate accommodation.
77) Adjustment to new natural conditions is known as:
Answer: Acclimatization.
78) Acclimatization is a:
Answer: Physiological process.
79) Naturalisation is a:
Answer: Psychological process.
80) Adjustment to social conditions is known as:
Answer: Naturalisation.
81) Coercion means the:
Answer: Use of force to terminate conflict.
82) Settlement of Parliamentary disputes is through:
Answer: Compromise.
83) Rationalisation involves plausible excuses or explanations for one’s behaviour instead of:
Answer: Accepting one’s own defect.
84) The first step towards assimilation is:
Answer: Acculturation.
85) The absence of communicative interaction or social contact is known as:
Answer: Isolation.
86) Dumbness, deafness etc. cause isolation which is known as:
Answer: Organic isolation.
87) In every society, there is a “strain towards anomie”. Who said?
Answer: Merton.
88) In every society, there is “strain towards consistency” called:
Answer: Integrating process.
89) The book “Social Control” was written by:
Answer: E.A. Ross.
90) All illiterates form a:
Answer: Category.
91) Another term for ‘category’ is:
Answer: Grouping.
92) “Primary groups are the nurseries of human nature”. Who said this?
Answer: C.H. Cooley.
93) Rationality and pragmatism are the characteristics of:
Answer: Gesellschaft.
94) Gesellschaft relations are often:
Answer: Enduring.
95) Who wrote the book “The Human Group”?
Answer: G.C. Homans.
96) Who classified social groups into Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft?
Answer: F. Tonnies.
97) Upper class is a:
Answer: Social category.
98) Competition is more a feature of:
Answer: Open Society.
99) Who identified family, peer group and community as basic primary groups?
Answer: C.H. Cooley.
100) Who wrote “The Functions of Social Conflict”?
Answer: L. Coser.
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