A group whose members can join as many groups as they like is called:
A. Vertical group
B. Horizontal group
C. Over-lapping group
D. Out group
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Which of the following is not the advantage of a primary group?
A. It helps in the development of personality
B. It increase efficiency
C. It develops sense of contentment
D. It helps in the appreciation of view point of the others
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Which theory has laid focus on the fact that in a crowd people try to behave in a fashion that social code of conduct is violated?
A. Group Mind Theory
B. Lebon's Theory
C. Freudian Theory
D. None of the above
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Which one of the following is a social group?
A. Church
B. Labour union
C. Audience
D. Crowd
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Which of the following in an example of secondary group?
A. Family
B. Neighbourhood
C. Play group
D. Tradeunion
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Pickup one of the following which is not applicable to a crowd
A. It is uncertain
B. It is emotional
C. People present try to stimulate each other
D. People present do not stimulate each other
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Which of the following is a quasi-group?
A. Nation
B. Political party
C. Status group
D. Tribe
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Which theory believes that group mind is not the collection of individual mind?
A. McDougall Theory
B. Multiple Factors Theory
C. Group Mind Theory
D. None of the above
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Who among the following defines sociology as a science that deals with social groups; their internal formal or modes of organization, the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organization and relations between groups?
A. MacIver and Page
B. K. Davis
C. Ogburn and Nimkoff
D. H. M. Johnson
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Of the following whose name is associated with reference group?
A. MacIver
B. Kingsley Davis
C. Cooley
D. Hayman
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Pick out one of the following which is characteristic of a crowd
A. There is always polarisation of attention
B. In it emotions are consistent
C. In it role of leader is insignificant
D. In it people do not get unnecessarily excited
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When a person has no other alternative but to become member of a particular group, group is known as:
A. Involuntary group
B. Voluntary group
C. Formal group
D. Informal group
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Which among the following constitutes a group?
A. Vegetable sellers following one another into a lane
B. Members of a circus company engaged in performance
C. Children running out of the school after it is closed for the day
D. Partnership that has failed
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According to Miller groups can be classified as:
A. Vertical and horizontal
B. Input and output
C. Pseudo Social and Pro-Social
D. Sanctioned and unsanctioned
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Which one of the following is the best method of arriving at a decision in a primary group?
A. Authority of the superiors
B. Compromise by the members
C. Majority decision
D. Convincing the members
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Member of a small trade union is:
A. A social group
B. An associational group
C. A statistical group
D. A primary group
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Striving for admission is a . . . . . . . . behaviour
A. Reference group
B. Primary group
C. In-group
D. Secondary group
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A group in which a person is not born but in which he voluntarily moves in is known as:
A. Genetic group
B. Congregate group
C. Interest group
D. Formal group
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In a primary group it is desirable that members of the group should have:
A. No self-interest
B. Limited self interest
C. Keep self interest above group interest
D. Merge themselves in group interest
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A group which does not allow a person to join similar other group at one and the same time is called:
A. Disjunctive group
B. Over-lapping group
C. Genetic group
D. Congregate group
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