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Social Structure — Part 1 MCQs with Explanations

Practice high-yield Sociology MCQs on Social Structure — Part 1 with worked academic solutions for CSS, PMS, PPSC, KPPSC.

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40
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CSS, PMS, PPSC...
Estimated Time
48 mins
Exam-Level CSS PMS PPSC KPPSC
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Question 1 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

In Sociology, characteristics of dysfunction is that:

Question 2 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Social organisation and social groups:

Question 3 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Colonialism led to movement of people from one part to another within:

Question 4 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who has mentioned five mechanisms of socialization, viz. reinforcement, extinction inhibition, substitution, imitation and identification?

Question 5 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

In a good social structure each group and institution is expected to perform:

Question 6 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

What percentage of people in West live in towns and cities:

Question 7 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

In a good social structure for goal attainment it is essential that resources must be mobilised in an effective manner

Question 8 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which of the following is the functional problem of social structure?

Question 9 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

There are four types of social values for the classification of social structure, which one of the following is not covered under these values?

Question 10 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

. . . . . . . . Social values favour status determination on the basis of generalized rules independent of one's achievement.

Question 11 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

In our modern social organisation process is going on in which:

Question 12 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Which of the following is true of pattern of maintenance in social structure?

Question 13 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Dysfunctions are those functions which:

Question 14 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Choose the correct option: Assertion (A): There are villages in which a sizeable number of people have sought employment in far-off cities. Reason (R): They live these leaving behind the members of their families in their natal villages. In Madhopur, a village in North Central India, 77 out of 298 households have migrants. These migrants work in two cities of Bombay and Calcutta.

Question 15 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The concepts of aristocracy and ethnic superiority are found in . . . . . . . . type of social structure.

Question 16 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

East India Company provided facilities for:

Question 17 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Under . . . . . . . . system, material happiness is given primary importance where as under . . . . . . . . system spritual happiness is regarded more important

Question 18 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

. . . . . . . . must motivate the actors adequately to the performances, necessary for the social system to develop or persist

Question 19 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

In the twenty-first century India is witnessing fast pace of urbanisation with the ambitious scheme of:

Question 20 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The components of social structure are human beings, the structure it self being an arrangement of persons in relationships institutionally defined and regulated.' Who has said this?

Question 21 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who of the following is not associated with the ideas expounded by social system:

Question 22 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Manifest function are those which are:

Question 23 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Just as manufacturing boomed in Britain silk manufactures from . . . . . . . . declined in the face of Manchester competition.

Question 24 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Norms when institutionalised are:

Question 25 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

. . . . . . . . refers to the functional aspect of social structure

Question 26 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

In the case of . . . . . . . . , it is not the body but 'ego' or self which acts

Question 27 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Adaptation and goal attainments are:

Question 28 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

A large majority of the employed population work in factories, offices and shops rather than:

Question 29 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Pastoralists were prevented from entering many forests that had earlier provided valuable forage for their:

Question 30 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Colonialism introduced a wide area of changes in:

Question 31 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The social structure of Nazi Germany was . . . . . . . .

Question 32 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

In a good social structure groups and sub-groups

Question 33 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

For proper social organisation it is essential that:

Question 34 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

An informal social structure is one of which

Question 35 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Modern ideas made people realise that poverty was:

Question 36 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Redcliffe Brown classified social structure into:

Question 37 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Who has described four types of social structure on the basis of four social values, viz. universalistic, particularistic, achieved and ascribed social value?

Question 38 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The British cleared trees and started:

Question 39 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

Symbol and language are . . . . . . . . of a social system

Question 40 of 40
★ CSS ★ PMS

The . . . . . . . . is the root cause which weaves the web of social relationship and sets the social structure in motion.

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