Deviant behaviour is linked with certain situations; which one of the following is not true?
A. Circumstances
B. Attitudes
C. Interests
D. Individual norms
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When the groups show solidarity, it is called
A. Integration
B. Fusion
C. Diffusion
D. Erosion
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Among the following, who has contributed much towards the development of modern theories of deviant behaviour?
A. Durkheim
B. Albert Cohen
C. Merton
D. John Bowlby
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. . . . . . . . refers to movement in any or all of the three areas of living class, occuption and power
A. Horizontal mobility
B. Vertical mobility
C. Migration
D. Downward mobility
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Conflict in the norms happens when:
A. The members of a group clash with each other for the exact interpretation of a norm
B. The individuals of the different group of different norms interact with each other
C. The norms are different for different groups
D. There is class struggle in the society only
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In society unless the people live up to the expected . . . . . . . . the social organization may not be effectively maintained.
A. Values
B. Norms
C. Status
D. Economy
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Which is most appropriate?
A. Animal do not learn
B. Learned behaviour is highly limited among animals and when it does occur it dies with the individual organism, and each generation must learn all over again
C. Learned behaviour is quite common among animals and is easily imparted through generations
D. None of these
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. . . . . . . . impinge directly upon a person's self conception.
A. Values
B. Customs
C. Norms
D. Folkways
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What does the end-of-ideology theory refer to?
A. Loss of workers' dependence on political ideology
B. Decline in workers' political participation
C. Workers' disbelief in all ideologies
D. Workers' increasing participation in party politics and elections
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According to Durkheim all - begins with some form of deviance.
A. Revolution
B. Social change
C. Social solidarity
D. Collective representation
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In which of the following is the first literanytraces of caste system found?
A. Rigveda
B. Atharvaveda
C. Yajuraveda
D. Samaveda
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Who among the following defines socialization as the process of working together, and developing group responsibility, of being grounded by the welfare needs of others?
A. MacIver
B. Bogardus
C. C. H. Cooley
D. G. H. Mead
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Ceremonies that mark a critical transition in the life of an individual from one phase of life-cycle to another called
A. Role-taking
B. Rites of Passage
C. Status Crystallisation
D. Status set
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Which one of the following is the advantage of Social interaction? It helps
A. In understanding reaction of individual against social forces
B. In the study of the groups
C. In social disorganisation
D. In removing social cleavages
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According to Cooley, the concept of . . . . . . . . refers to an individual perception of self as determined by the way one imagines one appears to others or as others perceive us . . . . . . . .
A. Significant others
B. Generalised others
C. Looking-glass self
D. None of the above
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Which of the following does not come under corporate class consciousness?
A. People share a similar social status
B. People develop uniting sentiments
C. The people share socially similar status but not uniting sentiments
D. The people share both similar social status and uniting sentiments
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According to Weber, . . . . . . . . refers to the unequal distribution of economic rewards where as . . . . . . . . refers to the unequal distribution of social honour
A. Class, caste
B. Power, prestige
C. Class, status
D. Caste, class
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Which one of the following is not correct about Daniel Bell's consideration of post-industrial society?
A. An analytical construct
B. A paradigm to identify new axes of social stratification
C. A picture of specific concrete society
D. A specification of new dimensions in the social structure
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In our society a normal individual:
A. Can never be deviant
B. Is usually deviant to a degree
C. Is always deviant to a degree
D. Is formed to became deviant by society
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Which one of the following has not been given as a cause of competition by May and Doob?
A. Competition starts to achieve some goal that is scarce
B. When the people are not prevented by the rules of situation for achieving goals competition begins
C. People perform better when goals can be achieved
D. When people have relatively few psychologically affiliative contracts with each other competition starts
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