50 questions related to society with answer key..... 1. Which of the following factors does not contribute to the growth of traditional societies? (a) Community and associational life is kept loose without any prescribed basis of social existence (b)Perpetuation of tribal and caste affiliation (c) Perpetuation of kinship and clanship (d)Continuation of agriculture as the dominant activity 2. Which of the following statements is correct? (a) The percentage of the worlds population that live in cities is indeed very large (b)Most of the world has been urban most of the time. (c) Most of the world has been rural most of the time. (d)India is a highly urban country 3. A characteristic feature of a rural community is (a) Formal relationship (b)Rational will (c) Community sentiment (d)A vast number of associations 4. Which among the following was the most important condition for the growth of early cities? (a) Surplus food production (b) Increase in population (c) Discoveries of the new trades (d) Technological innovations 5. Cities and towns came into existence due to (a) Movement of population (b) Growth of agriculture (c) Industrialisation (d) Development of commerce 6. The essential characteristic of the rural society is (a) Individualism (b) Parochialism (c) Heterogeneity (d) Face-to-face relation 7. In a metamorphical sense the village communities of India were of many years beyond the frontiers of dynasties which ruled the great cities. Who made this statement? (a) S.C. Dubey (b) M.N. Srinivas (c) Biedelman (d) G.S. Ghurye 8. Who among the following started decentralisation of rural areas? (a) Lord Ripon (b) Lord Wellesley (c) Lord Mayo (d) Lord Curzon 9. In the settlement pattern of villages in India which of the factor is the most important? (a) Kinship (b) Caste (c) Religion (d) Occupation 10. Which among the following factors do influence the social organisation of the village? 1. The caste system 2. Its closeness to the town 3. The existence of food means of communication and transport Codes: (a) 1, 2,-3 (b) 3 only (C) 1. 2 (d) 2, 3 11. The villagers always stick to their general behaviouristic patterns because (a) They are very small in number (b) They are more cultured (c)They are well socialized (d)They follow tradition, custom and folkways. 12. The idea of Global Village implies (a)One government administers all countries (b)Socio-cultural differences are obliterated (c) Network of communications binds peoples of the world (d)Agriculture become the most important and global occupation. 13. Which among the following are factors that govern social life in an agrarian society ? 1. Kinship rather than formal organisation 2. Persons rather than rules 3. Primary social groups rather than voluntary organisation 4. Secondary group rather than neighbourhood Codes: (a) 1, 2, 3, 4 (b) 2, 4 (c) 1, 3 (d) 1, 2, 4 14. Which one of the following terms correctly defines beliefs and value systems used by Robert Redfield in the analysis of folk-urban continuum? (a) Local tradition (b) Folk tradition (c) Little tradition (d) Great tradition 15. Which of the following criteria were used by Sorokin in distinguishing a rural society from an urban society? 1. Mobility 2. Heterogeneity 3. Size of population 4. System of interaction 5. Occupation Codes: (a) 1, 3 and 5 (b) 1, 2 and 4 (c) 5 only (d) 2, 3 and 4 16. Which of the following characteristics are found in the little community? 1. Homogeneity 2. Hegemony 3. Association 4. Self-sufficiency Codes: (a) 2 only (b) 1, 2 and 4 (c) 1 and 4 (d) 1, 3 and 4 17. Which among the following is not a characteristic of little community as defined by Robert Redfield? (a) Smallness (b) Isolation (c) Distinctiveness (d) Self-sufficiency 18. Bring out the year when Panchayati Raj system was introduced in India (a) 1952 (b) 1977 (c) 1969 (d) 1984 19. Village communities are little republics, having nearly everything they want within themselves, and almost independent of any foreign relations. They seem to last where nothing else lasts. Whose opinion is this? (a) M.N. Srinivas (b) S.L. Dubey (c) Henry Maine (d) Charles Metcalfe 20. Self sufficiency of Indian villages in recent times is no longer there due to (a) Education (b) Proximity to the urban areas (c) Modern means of communication (d) Economic growth 21. On account of the smallness of the village community one important consequence was (a) Everyone knew each other (b) Impersonality in social contacts (c) It became a land of open attack (d) Members become hostile to each other 22. Human society has been cradled in the rural group. Whose opinion is this? (a) Alex Inkeles (b) Bogardus (c) Bottomore (d) A. Beteille 23. The standard of living in the villages is mostly of the same pattern whereas it varies in the towns because (a) There are no industries in the villages (b) There is no social disintegration in the villages (c) From agriculture the villagers obtain the same type of economic satisfaction and face the same problems (d) Villages are dependent upon land and the same profession creates similar standard of living. 24. How does rural community react towards a stranger? (a) Hostility (b) Hospitality (c) Either hospitality or hostility (d) Indifference 25. Much of mutual sympathy is observed in villages and much of callousness in the cities because (a) In small communities, greater sympathy can be observed (b)Geographical conditions in villages lead to this situation (c) Small incomes in villages create much sympathy amongst them (d) Agricultural work leads to sympathy. 26. In order to maintain good economic condition of the people not owning any piece of land the government should (a) Settle the village people in town. (b)Provide land to them in some other village (c) Settle them near river banks (d) Undertake the programme of cottage industries in the villages 27. The position of unequal distribution of land in village generally results in (a) Injustice (b) Social revolution (c)Caste conflict (d) Illiteracy and malnutrition 28. Which among the following does not constitute a village community? (a) Joint family (b) Slums (c)Sentimental attachment (d) Agriculture 29. There is less Social Mobility in the villages because (a)Life is static there (b) People are orthodox (c)Geographical mobility is absent there and there is no sizeable division of labour because of lack of industries, etc. (d) The government does not help them economically 30. One seldom witnesses psychological conflict in the villages because (a)There are no cinemas, or other recreation centres which create psychological crisis (b) The villagers lead a contended life (c)The villagers live in the lap of nature (d) The villagers live a contended life 31. Which of the following terms was used to refer to an ordinary fortified, town where inland trade was an important activity of people? (a) Rajdhani (b) Matha (c) Kheta (d) Nagara 32. With whose name is the concept of restricted area of culture associated? (a) Taylor (b) Herskovits (c) Clark Wissler (d) Graebner 33. Crime is absent in the villages but it is rampant in the cities because (a) Villagers have no time to do so (b) Villages are small and people can be caught easily (c) The villagers are controlled by their families (d) The villagers are fatalists and are god fearing people and they shudder at the idea of committing crimes. 34. Village settlement is found to exist in (a) Paleolithic age (b) Mesolithic age (c) Neolithic age (d) Early Stone Age 35. The standard of living in the villages is mostly of the same pattern, whereas it varies in the towns because (a) There is no social disintegration in the villages (b) There are no industries in the villages (c) Villages are dependent upon land and the same profession creates similar standards of living (d) From agriculture the villagers obtain the same type of economic satisfaction facing the same problems. 36. Which among the following is the modern trend in the developmental activity of the village economy? (a) The villages should become smaller in number (b) The villages should have all the amenities of the towns (c) The villages should be wiped out (d) The villages should become bigger in size 38. Which among the following usually combines rural and urban communities into one? (a) Neighbourhood (b) Country (c) Community (d) Region 39. Which among the following statement is not true? (a) Small rural or big urban communities vary greatly in character and size (b) Communities either rural or small village are based on contractual relationship (c) Small rural or village communities are likely to enlist the greatest degree of unity and homogeneity in cultural pattern (d) Once a community becomes established, it tends to develop a common culture. 40. The people shifting from rural to urban areas seem to adjust to city life more smoothly if they (a) Maintain caste hierarchy (b) Maintain kin ties (c) Maintain bank balance (d) Maintain huge library 41. Who was of the opinion that an increase in the number and type of communications received by a rural community was the most important single cause in changing that rural community to an urban one? (a) Biedelman (b) Baden Powel (c) Robert Redfield (d) H. Maine 42. A large number of reference groups are a typical characteristic of (a) Large, complex societies (b) Small, simple societies (c) Tribal societies (d) All the above 43. Who among the following have developed the concept of Folk-Urban continuum? (a) Simmel (b) H. Maine (c) R. Redfield (d) F. Tonnies 44. The concept of urbanization was introduced by (a) J. Galpin (b) Robert Park (c) M. Weber (d) Oswald Spengler 45. The idea of folk-urban continuum was developed on the basis of studies conducted in (a) Australia (b) Andaman Island (c) Mexico (d) Brazil 46. The cities are not marked by (a) Dense settlement (b)Advance culture (c) Permanence (d) Occupational specialization 47. Who has conducted middle town study? (a) Rand H. Lynd (b) Whyte (c) Oscar Lewis (d) C.W. Mills 48. The Urban slums are the marks of (a) Industrial society (b) Capitalist society (c) A society in transition towards industrialism (d)Post-industrial society 49. The city has been defined as relatively large, dense and permanent settlements of heterogenous individuals by (a) Le Play (b) A.W. Green (c) Burgess (d) Louis Wirth 50. Urbanism is a way of life, whereas urbanisation is a process. This distinction was made by (a) Max Weber (b) G. Simmel (c) Louis Wirth (d) Robert Park Answers 1(a) 2. (c) 3. (a) 4. (c) 5. (d) 6. (d) 7. (d) 8. (a) 9. (a) 10. (a) 11(d) 12. (c) 13. (c) 14. (c) 15. (b) 16. (c) 17. (b) 18. (c) 19. (d) 20. (c) 21(a) 22. (b) 23. (c) 24. (c) 25. (a) 26. (d) 27. (b) 28. (b) 29. (c) 30. (d) 31(d) 32. (c) 33. (d) 34. (c) 35. (d) 36. (b) 37. (d) 38. (b) 39. (b) 40. (c) 41(a) 42. (c) 43. (a) 44. (c) 45. (c) 46. (a) 47. (c) 48. (d)
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