NMAT Sociology Base

The system under which boys and girls are allowed to mix with each other and are given maximum permissible mixing facility by society before marriage is known as:

If in a family, the offspring’s inherit the mother’s name, the family is called

Which family is formed by an individual when he marries and has children?

When the offsprings inherit the father’s name, the family is called

In ______ family the husband goes to live in the house of his wife.

In______ family, the wife goes and lives in the house of her husband.

If in a kinship system, maternal uncle enjoys a pre-eminent place in the life of his nephews and nieces as a matter of convention, the kinship usage is called ________.

Which one of the following statements about kinship is NOT true?

The principle or set of principles by which ego’s consanguineal relatives are determined is technically known as

A world Conference on the issues of women was organised by the United Nations in 1975. Which among the following was the venue?

Mark out the factor contributing to high maternal mortality rate

Dialectic of Sex was authored by

Who maintained that those who perform successfully in terms of society’s values will be ranked highly and they will be likely to receive a variety of rewards.

According to Marx, various forms of exploitative mode of production have been ___________.

According to Marx’s classic phrase, the proletariat are a __________.

According to Weber_________, refers to the unequal distribution of economic rewards whereas _______refers to the unequal distribution of social honour.

Tribe is a ______ group whereas caste is a _______ group.

_______ means giving up self-interest or hostility for the sake of mutual benefit.

________ is an exchange transaction that involves direct movement of goods or services between parties.

The impact of urbanization during medieval period worked through:

How have the development of transport and communication helped the growth of cities? Mark out the correct answer

The change from the occupational role to the retirement role is an example of situation involving a degree of

The precedence of one role over another is called

Behaviour of an individual in a particular role providing a pattern or model upon which another individual bases his behaviour in performing the same role is called

Which among the following is not true regarding, ‘reflexive role taking’?

Reflexive role-taking is defined by

Name the sociologist who had made distinction between achieved status and ascribed status.

Who has given the concept of status-set?

Who among the following has examined the effect of modern division of labour on work and leisure?

Who holds the view that?

• Vedas says that family property is not property of the family. But was the property of the head of house, usually the father, and that the other members of the family only had moral claims upon it which the father could ignore.

Rural and urban centres share some common facets of life. They show

It can be said that in India and perhaps also in……… , the political role of the priestly class has shaped political thought and religion.

The term ‘Legitimacy’ stands for

As compared to Marx’s analysis, Weber’s analysis of social stratification is

Whose opinion is this?

• ‘Stratification is an inevitable part of all human societies. If value consensus is an essential component of all societies, then it follows that some form of stratification will result from the ranking of individuals in terms of common value.’

Which tribal group practices two religions (old tribal cult and Mahayana Buddhism)?

The theory of diet principle in social demography was given by

Optimum Population Theory was given by

Who defined family in this way?

• ‘The family is a group of persons united by the ties of marriage, blood, or adoption; constituting a single household, interacting and intercommunicating with each other in their respective social role of husband and wife, mother and father, brother and sister; creating a common culture’.

Who defined family as a ‘group of persons whose relations to one another are based upon consanguinity and who are therefore kin to one another.’?

Middle quartile is known as:

Froebel, the well-known child educationist was a:

Which one of the following correctly defines the concept of social structure?

‘Before and after’ observations are made in studies involving:

The distribution of data is symmetrical when:

According to Radcliffe-Brown, which of the following does not contribute to the integra­tion and survival of the society?

Which of the following requisites is appli­cable to symbolic system of Malinowski?

According to____________ method, an ideal is constructed from concrete cases and then a particular case is evaluated according to the degree of its approximation to the ideals.

_________ is a set of techniques to measure attractions and repulsion in interpersonal relation ‘in quantitative and diagrammatic terms’.

The method of sociometry was first used by:

According to________ society is a web of social relations.

Who of the following said that culture is “totality of group ways of thought”?

Groups have been classified as Primary and Secondary by:

______ is the most conspicuous example of secondary group.

Who of the following has said that “Crowd is a physically compact organisation of human beings brought into direct, temporary and unorganised contact with one another”?

According to _________, “Status is a place in a particular system which a certain individual occupies at a particular time.”

Norms regulate human behaviour through:

‘A rule requiring all men to have two wives would be valueless if sex ratio did not permit it’. From this, which of the following statements can be deduced?

Which one of the following cannot be covered under the category of positive sanctions?

Which one of the following is not covered under the category of informal sanctions?

When the child is able to judge the response of a group as a whole he is responding to a

Suggestion is one of the basic principles of

According to A.W. Green conflict is the deliberate attempt to oppose, resist or coerce the will of another or others. In view of this which among the following involves conflict?

Among the following mark out the item that does not involve conflict.

In a Muslim marriage, a wife can obtain release from her marriage by giving consideration to the husband whose consent is essential. This is called

Joint family system is on the decline; which is NOT the main cause for its disintegration?

Which one of the following is NOT an important advantage of joint family system?

Modernisation has affected rural kinship most because:

Kinship by nature is:

If a teacher leaves one school to work in another, this is called

The status order, according to Weber, operates

Which one of the following does not fall under the classification of tribes given by the Indian Conference of Social Work?

Which one of the following is not true of a clan?

Which one of the following is NOT the modern trend in industrial relations?

One of the important ways in which, according to Ginsbert, goods in the past were exchanged was:

Between Geography and Topography, there is a difference of character rather than of content. Which among the following gives the meaning of geography?

A study of relations between organism and their environment is called:

Who has given the ‘optimum population theory’?

_________ is the fertility which exists in the absence of deliberate birth control

Which one of the following is NOT the most important characteristic of the State?

Which one of the following does not fall under the category of optional function of the State?

The industrial revolution exemplifies the kind of social change described as

The oldest model of social change is

_________ is the difference between the total number of persons who arrive and the total number of persons who leave.

Social benefit of population statistics is that

Point out the factor which is NOT an unconscious encouragement to fertility

Among the following, mark out the correct meaning of Human Ecology:

Some believe that humanistic values are lost when cities as communities become

Which among the following factors makes the people of a village a ‘community’?

Who described cities as the “sinks of civilization”?

What among the following cannot be helpful in the improvement of villages?

Regional community aims at

In a city ‘multiplicity of functions is accompanied by a high differentiation of both men and their institutions’. Which among the following does not represent this?

Which of the following has not been dealt with elaborately by Elton Mayo about Heresy theory?

Which one of the following does not apply in the case of complex economy?

The theory of Heresy first appeared in the writings of

Karl Marx believed that in the production process maximum role is played by

In the feudal system in production maximum stress was laid on

According to Marxian philosophy the industrial workers can find an end to their problems if:

Primitive economic organisations are of __________ type.

The intra-tribal economic relations are mostly based on

Which one of the following is NOT true of totem?

Which one of the following is NOT the advantage of tribal dormitories?

The system of marriage in which a girl manages to stay in the house of her lover upto a specified period is known as marriage by:

Which one of the following is NOT the advantage of the dormitories among the tribals?

Which one of the following is NOT true of capitalism?

The inhabitants of the villages, which are closer to the towns, are more forward looking than those living in the interior. Why?

Which among the following conditions primarily contribute to the development of village community?

________ refers to the capacity of a man, a woman or a couple to participate in reproduction

Who has said, ‘fertility increases in response to the progress of society’?

A mechanistic view of society would see social change as stemming from

Some social change occurs without being noticed by most members of a society is known as

Who has given the ‘cyclical theory of population growth’?

_________ is the fertility which involves a deliberate use of birth control

‘Fertility varies inversely with the density of population’ whose view is this?

Which one of the following is NOT a practice for killing an individual by the society?

Nationalism and population:

Which one of the following is NOT covered under the category of conscious controls?

While signifying the importance of social capillarity theory, who of the following has said, “on the whole this statement of relation between individuation and genesis seems a decided improvement over Spencer’s”?

The _________ of the urban community is the source of social groupings both vertical and horizontal.

_________ has been defined as an area within which the people and the different constituent communities are conspicuously more interdependent than those within other areas.

________ is more rampant in a city life.

Mark out the incorrect statement

An intelligent and educated temple priest has an importance in the village community. To what do you attribute his role and status?

In a simple society which one of the following is the characteristic of economy?

Of a society with simple economy which of the following is NOT true?

Which one of the following is NOT the characteristic of economy of a complex society?

Which of the following does not hold good in the case of state capitalism?

Which one of the following is NOT true of the functions of the guilds?

Which one of the following was NOT the characteristic of merchant guilds?

Which one of the following was NOT the characteristic of new industrialism?

According to Marxian philosophy in the industry the labour accepts less wages because:

In complex economy of today the welfare of the workers is:

Which one of the following is NOT a point of similarity between tribe and horde?

Which one of the following is NOT the feature of tribal religion?