CBSE Questions for Class 8 General Knowledge Famous Personalities Of India And World Quiz 18 - MCQExams.com

The term proximate determinants of fertility was coined by
  • Kingsley Davis
  • Judith Blake
  • John Bongaarts
  • Karl Marx
According to sociology human beings are
  • Animals
  • Monkies
  • Homo Narran
  • None of the above
Robert Merton's contributions to sociology include.
  • successfully combining theory and research
  • an analysis of deviant behaviour that focuses on societal goals and means
  • an attempt to bring macro-and micro level analyses together
  • all of the above
Hunter Gatherer way of life is based on
  • a settled system of life
  • a mobile system
  • large populations
  • exploitation of wild animals and plants
George Herbert Mead was a leading US philosopher was born in
  • 1863
  • 1865
  • 1862
  • 1863
In Marx's theory the made of production means.
  • the way in which products are made in a factory
  • the average measure of productivity under capitalism
  • the organization of a society's technical and human resources
  • an integral part of the superstructure of a society
Who among the following analysts of social change used the term 'rentiers and speculators'?
  • T. Veblen
  • K. Marx
  • V. Pareto
  • A.J. Toynbee
Max Weber.
  • recognized that it is impossible for scholars to prevent their personal values from influencing their work
  • stressed that researchers had to maintain the confidentiality of their subjects
  • emphasized that under no conditions could a researcher allow his or her personal feelings to influence the interpretation of data
  • all of the above
L. Althussar classifies Karl Marx's writings on the basis of the epistemological break. Identify the epistemological phases of Marx's writings. (i) Young Marx (ii) Mature Marx (iii) Traditional Marx (iv) Immature Marx (v) Orthodox Marx (vi) Revolutionary Marx Select the correct answer from the codes given below: Codes:
  • (i) & (ii)
  • (ii) & (iii)
  • (v) & (vi)
  • (ii) & (iv)
In Gerhard Lenski's theory of sociocultural evolution a society's level of..... is critical to the way it is organized.
  • agriculture
  • health care
  • technology
  • all of the above
Durkheim defined social facts as.
  • ways of acting thinking and feeling that are collective and social in origin
  • the way scientists construct knowledge in a social context
  • data collected about social phenomena that are proven to be correct
  • ideas and theories that have no basis in the external physical world
In Durkheim's work the term collective representations refers to_________.
  • effervescent ceremonies that create a feeling o belonging
  • images of gods or totems that are widely recognized
  • shared ideas and moral values often symbolized by an object or figurehead
  • ideological tools used to obscure class divisions
Which of the following suggested that the punishments established within a culture help to define acceptable behaviour and thus contribute to stability?
  • William Chambliss
  • Emile Durkheim
  • Richard Quinney
  • Stanley Milgram
Who made the distinction of two opposing spheres of 'Female world of emotion and cooperation and male world of rationality and competition'?
  • John Bowlby
  • Talcott Parsons
  • Robin Fox
  • George Peter Murdock
Who has envisioned an alternative stage (an alternative society) in which ''speech will cease to govern the stage''?
  • Foucault
  • Derrida
  • Lemert
  • None of the above
Which Black person wrote the acclaimed novel Invisible Man?
  • Malcolm X
  • James Baldwin
  • Alice Walker
  • Ralph Ellison
August Comet was
  • philosopher
  • doctor
  • scientist
  • None of these
It is very important to Sammi to do well in school so she regularly cheats on tests According to Merton's structural strain theory Sammi is a(n).
  • conformist
  • innovator
  • ritualist
  • retreatist
Raewyn Connell was professor at university of Sydney and globally influential her earliest work was on class and
  • Health
  • Culture
  • Development
  • Education
Who wrote The Metropolis and Mental Life (1903)?
  • Louise Wirth
  • Robert Park
  • Georg Simmel
  • Max Weber
Harry Harlow conducted study of.
  • Isabelle and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process
  • Nell and the impact of social isolation on the socialization process
  • rhesus monkeys that had been raised away from their mothers
  • nature versus nurture that focused on sociobiology
Who wrote the first book on the methodology of social research How to Observe Manners and Morals?
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Emily Post
  • Harriet Martineau
  • Emile Durkheim
Wallerstein's world-systems theory is inspired by.
  • Marxism
  • interaction ism
  • Functionalism
  • Post structuralism
The important book ''Suicide'' was written by
  • Emile Durkheim
  • Plato
  • Adam Smith
  • None of these
 List I
 List II
 a. Mekim Marriot  i. India's Village
  b. M.N. Srinivas ii. Indian Village
 c. B.R. Chauhan iii. Village India
 d. S.C. Dube iv. A Rajasthan Village
Match List-I with List-II
  • a-i, b-ii, c-iii, d-iv
  • a-ii, b-iii, c-i, d-iv
  • a-iii, b-i, c-iv, d-ii
  • a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i
Arlie Hochschild's The Managed Heart is an influential application of.
  • emotional labour
  • symbolic interactionism
  • social action
  • symbiosis
According to sociology where people labour to pay off a debt that they will probably never be able to reply and that they will probably never be able to repay and which may be inherited by subsequance generations is
  • Debt bondage
  • Slavery
  • Farmer
  • All of the above
Who gave concept of social identity?
  • Richard Jenkins
  • Ervin Goffman
  • Emile Durkheim
  • Max Weber
Dependency theorists from low-income countries drew on the ideas of.
  • Walt Rostow
  • Karl Marx
  • Immanuel Wallerstein
  • Bretton Woods
Who described urbanism as a way of life?
  • Park
  • Hawley
  • Wirth
  • Burgess
According to Freud the crucial institution for the development of personality is.
  • religion
  • the family
  • the economy
  • education
A close connection between religion and economic forces has been presented by.
  • Max Weber
  • Karl Max
  • Emile Durkheim
  • C-Wright Mills
The theorist who associated city life with the development of a blase attitude was.
  • Tonnies
  • Simmel
  • Weber
  • Wirth
According to sociologists how many types of solidarity was given by Durkheium?
  • 4
  • 2
  • 3
  • 1
Durkheim's analysis suggests that so-called primitive people.
  • invented the concept of gods
  • though they were gods
  • projected their human ideals and personified them as gods
  • saw themselves as clans of animals
"The participant observer using uncontrolled observation" is words of
  • P.V. Young
  • A. Moser
  • Karl Marx
  • none of these
The model minority stereotype of Asian Americans contains an implicit critique of Blacks Hispanics and others for failing to succeed as well as the model minority has Which sociological perspective would view this as yet another instance of blaming the victim?
  • functionalist perspective
  • conflict perspective
  • interactionist perspective
  • dramaturgical approach
Middle classes tend to be the main beneficiaries of social benefits and service aimed at poor This is called as.
  • Class factor
  • Mathew effect
  • Cultural Cause
  • None of these
Dahrendorf Rex and Habermas focused their attention on.
  • social solidarty and cohesion
  • the interpretive understanding of action
  • women's experiences and gendered knowledge
  • Power domination and conflict
Which one of the following statements is not a key charge of postcolonial critiques against mainstream sociology?
  • standard accounts of the origins of sociology focus on the industrial and French revolutions giving no weight to the significance of colonialism in shaping modern societies
  • the sociological gaze is Eurocentric failing to incorporate the experience of formerly colonized societies
  • sociology has described Westrm societies as developed or modem in opposition to the notion of non-Westnrn societies as pre-modern traditional inferiors
  • the sociological imagination has always encouraged and enabled the voices of people across the world to be heard in sociological theorizing
Which of the following statements correctly describes the ethno methodology's view-point?
  • ''For full causal explanation it is necessary to determine what has given rise to the motives of social action.''
  • ''Social life appears orderly to members of society only because members actively engage in making sense of social life.''
  • ''Diversity is the order of the day. We have entered an era in which anything goes. ''
  • ''The effects of a social institution may be illustrated in terms of the analogy between society and an organism.''
Suicide is the work of.
  • Max Weber
  • Karl Marx
  • Emile Durkheim
  • None of these
Which of the following is a leading exponent of the view that the criminal justice system serves the interests of the powerful?
  • Richard Quinney
  • Edwin Sutherland
  • Stanley Milgram
  • William Chambliss
To Mead the 'generalised others' and 'significant others' are the creators of
  • I
  • Me
  • Ego
  • Super ego
Which of the following is considered to be the 'Tripartite Pillars of Schutz Theory of Phenomenological Sociology'?
  • Life-world, other world and natural attitude
  • Artificiality, other world and Intra-subjectivity
  • Intra-subjectivity, life world and cultural world
  • Life-world, inter subjectivity and natural attitude
Kaleem walks into the classroom just as another student has told the punchline to a very funny joke The room explodes in laughter Kaleem quickly checks to see that his shirt is buttoned correctly and that there is no toilet tissue clinging to her shoe Once he realizes the class isn, t laughing at him he settles down in his seat and asks the classmate to re-tell the joke This is an example of.
  • esoteric social readjustment
  • an egocentric bias
  • the looking-glass self
  • the formation of the self
Max Weber was son of
  • doctor
  • lawyer
  • politician
  • None of these
Many sociologists argue that older theories of inherited intelligence and IQ tests have been discredited What concept did Gillborn and Youdell (2001) find had replaced of IQ in many Uk schools?
  • skill
  • talent
  • capacity
  • ability
The earliest theoretical perspective in sociology.
  • Conflict Perspective
  • The Functionalist Perspective
  • The Evolutionary Perspective
  • None of these
A book name "suicide" was written in year?
  • 1896
  • 1897
  • 1993
  • 1890
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