Introduction to Sociology

2 of 2 sets

Chapter: Culture,Personality and Society

101. A group involves some degree of _________ among its members for the
attainment or common goals
A. Cooperation
B. Conflict
C. Competition
D. Association
Answer:A

102. Culture is that complex whole which includeso

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C. W F Green
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D. Tylor
Answer:C
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103. To prepare one for future roles is
A. Futurisation
B. Prediction
C. Anticipatory socialization
D. Internalisation
Answer:C

104. Personality is expressed through

A. Habits, tendencies and thinking
B. Habits and behavior
C. Thinking
D. Tendencies and thinking
Answer:A

105. The unification of individuals socio psychological behavior is reflected in

A. The way individual behaves
B. His personality
C. His social interaction
D. His culture
Answer:B

106. ____________ is a person who is taken as the point of reference in a discussion

A. Individual
B. Id
C. Ego
D. Superego
Answer:C

107. Which is the following statements is true

A. Cooperation is based on emotional relationship harmony and intimacy
B. Accommodation is the situation of tolerating one another without
C. Cooperation
D. Accommodation
Answer:C

108. When the individual stand up against the group the process is called
A. Conflict
B. Completion
C. Alienation
D. Un socialization
Answer:C

109. When the individual is ex-communicated or the membership of the group is

prohibited for him/her the process is called
A. Isolation
B. Cooperation
C. Tolerance
D. Discrimination

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Answer:A

110. The process of learning that takes place in group situation is called
A. Socialisation
B. Culturisation
C. Routinisation
D. Acculturation
Answer:A

111. Whose definition is this “Personality indicates the individual organized

tendency of working, seeing, thinking and feeling”?
A. W F Green
B. New Comb
C. Herskovits
D. R E Park
Answer:B

112. The groups from which the individual extracts his behavior and cultural
norms are called
A. Cultural groups
B. Homogenous groups
C. Reference groups
D. Ought to be groups
Answer:C

113. Discrimination refers to __________ against any individual group

A. Negative action
B. Negative attitude
C. Negative labeling
D. Negative Report
Answer:C

114. Trait is
A. Social trend at present
B. Social trend af the past
C. The smallest unit of culture

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 D. The smallest unit of personality
Answer:C

115. Non material culture may consist of

A. Words people use, the ideas, customers and belief they hood and the habits they follow.
B. Non Manufactured items
C. Manufactured items which people use in cultural way
D. Culture which teaches a particular behavior for particular situation
Answer:A

116. The material culture is always the outgrowth of the non material culture. The
statement is
A. True
B. False
C. Partially true
D. Can happen provided with stimuli
Answer:A

117. A cluster of related traits is called

A. Culture norms
B. Culture complex
C. Cultural collectively
D. Cultural uniformity
Answer:C

118. Who has propounded the theory of cultural lag?

A. W F Ogburn
B. Nim Koff
C. Bogardus
D. Oscar Lewis
Answer:A

119. The acquisition of foreign culture by the subject people is called

A. Assimilation
B. Acculturation
C. Colonisation

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 D. Subjectisation
Answer:A

120. Cultural relativism means

A. Function and meaning of a trait are relative to its cultural setting
B. Culture is relatively rare
C. Culture evolution is relative
D. Cultural diffusion is relative
Answer:A

121. Which among the following is not true about assimilation?

A. It brings about cultural diffusion
B. It is historical process
C. Culture contact is there
D. Cultural conflict is there.
Answer:D

122. Established modes of thought and action is called

A. Culture
B. Personality
C. behavior
D. Customs
Answer:D

123. “A scientific theory of culture” is the work of

A. Frazer
B. Radcliffe Brown
C. Malinowski
D. Redfield
Answer:C

124. Who considered culture as essentially a response to human needs?

A. Redfield
B. Radcliffe Brown
C. Malinowski

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 D. Herskowitz
Answer:C

125. The book ‘The folk culture of Yucatan’ is written by

A. Oscar Lewis
B. R.E.Park
C. Redfield
D. Max Muller
Answer:C

126. Who has defined culture as a body of shared understandings’?

A. Redfield
B. Tylor
C. Frazer
D. Herskowitz
Answer:A

127. Normative culture is that sub-division of non material culture that consists of
A. Norms
B. Values
C. Mores
D. Standard Way
Answer:A

128. When the balance between the material and non-material culture is disrupted
by rapid social change, the material culture is left behind This situation is called
A. left culture
B. far-culture
C. Cultural lag
D. Taken culture
Answer:C

129. Culture treats all human products and learned abilities

A. Equally
B. differently
C. Insignificant

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 D. great
Answer:A

130. Some norms within a culture are explain out in the open, everyone in the
culture is able to formulate the rule’ This may be defined as
A. Explicit culture
B. Explicit Norm
C. Implicit culture
D. Implicit Worm
Answer:B

131. Explicit norms are learned through

A. Formal means
B. Informal means
C. inbuilt in human
D. Human beings learn it automatically
Answer:A

132. Organized social life emerges from

A. Social Organization
B. Social Interaction
C. Social Culture
D. Social Group
Answer:B

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