This document contains 60 multiple choice questions about sociological concepts. The questions cover topics such as the definition of sociology, socialization, culture, and the relationship between individuals and society. Sample questions include defining sociology, identifying the main agent of primary socialization, and distinguishing between material and non-material culture. The questions provide options to test understanding of foundational ideas in sociology.

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Sociology MCQs
1. Sociology is study of:
A. Human political life
B. Human economic life
C. Human social life
D. None of these
2. The social world is.
A. Stagnant
B. Changing
C. Both a & b
D. None of these
3. An attempt to understand the social world by situating social events in their corresponding
environment is called:
A. Social work
B. Sociology
C. Society
D. None of these
4. Sociology comes from a Latin word Socius means:
A. Neighbor
B. Associate
C. Friend
D. None of these
5. In the past, history, politics philosophy and sociology were.
A. Separate Disciplines
B. Same discipline
C. Not studied
D. None of these
6. Social Sciences are pejoratively known as:
A. Soft sciences
B. hard sciences
C. Theoretical
D. None of these
7. Which of these is not a definition of health?
A. Health as not ill
B. Health despite disease
C. Health means not seeing a doctor
D. Health as vitality

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8. The totality of behavior of an individual with a given tendency system interacting with a
sequence of situations” is termed as
A. Behavior
B. Role
C. Personality
D. None of these
9. Biological inheritance physical environment culture and group experience are various factors
which play a role in the development of.
A. Personality
B. Society
C. Community
D. None of these
10. A model personality is one that represents.
A. All possible cultural traits
B. Most of the cultural traits
C. None of the cultural traits
D. None of these
11. Basic personality characteristics of the individual are formed within
A. Family
B. Friends
C. Classroom
D. None of these
12. Socialization is the process through which an individual internalizes.
A. Cultural norms
B. Social processes
C. Sense of interaction
D. None of these
13. What is education?
A. The process of delivering relevant skills and knowledge
B. A knowledge and understanding of society’s high culture
C. A social institution promoting the acquisition of skills and knowledge
D. The skills and knowledge required for employment in a relevant field
14. Which of the following is NOT a function of education?
A. Completing socialization
B. Social integration
C. Research and development
D. Procreation

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15. The interaction between physician and patient:
A. Is rooted in a tradition of equality
B. Is based on the physician ability to reduce the "competence gap" between the physician
and patient
C. May be evolving into a new type of relationship based on consumerism
D. Is governed by the patient who manages the direction of the discussion
16. Which one of the following is the most basic manifest function of education?
A. Bestowing status
B. Transmitting knowledge
C. Promoting social and political change
D. All of the above
17. Everything which is socially learned and shared is called.
A. Society
B. Culture
C. Behavior
D. None of these
18. Non-material culture consists of:
A. Customs and beliefs ideas
B. tools and domestic items
C. Books and written material
D. None of these
19. Material Culture consists of:
A. physical objects
B. Non-physical objects
C. Both a and b
D. None of these
20. Material and Non-material culture are:
A. Not related to each other
B. Complementary
C. Slightly related
D. None of these
21. The smallest unit of a culture is:
A. Complex
B. Laws
C. Trait
D. None of these

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22. A combination of many traits a trait is
A. Trait
B. Complex
C. Family
D. None of these
23. Punjabi and Sindhi cultures are
A. Subcultures
B. Counter Cultures
C. Relative Cultures
D. None of these
24. Social norms are
A. Creative activities such as gardening cookery and craftwork
B. The symbolic representation of social groups in the mass media
C. Religious beliefs about how the world ought to be
D. Rules and expectations about interaction that regulate social life
25. The process by which cultural traits spread from one group of society to another is called:
A. Folkways
B. Counter culture
C. Cultural complexes
D. Cultural diffusion
26. Which of the following is true regarding culture?
A. Culture is genetic
B. Culture is passed down generation to generation
C. Culture includes physical artifacts not abstract creations
D. None of the above
27. A group of people who live within the same territory and share a common culture is called:
A. A culture
B. An iconoclastic enclave
C. A society
D. None of the above
28. Values are defined as:
A. Provide explicit indications of which behaviors are acceptable and which are not
B. Are narrow ideas about what is desirable correct and good
C. Symbols
D. General and abstract and do not explicitly specify which behaviors are acceptable

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29. A subculture is so called:
A. Always at odds with the ways of the larger society
B. A set of patterned and recurrent aspects of life that appear in all known societies
C. Includes members of a group that participate in the main culture while sharing another
culture
D. Uses a value-free approach that views people from the perspective of their own culture
30. Laws are so defined as:
A. Actions that others can legitimately insist that we perform
B. Actions that we can legitimately insist that others perform
C. Rules that are enforced by a special political organization composed of individuals who
enjoy the right to use force
D. None of the above
31. People waiting for a bus are an example of a(n)
A. Group
B. Cumulative
C. Subculture
D. Transitory collective
32. Which of the following is a characteristic of a society?
A. Members of a society possess a wide variety of values and norms based on their social
status
B. A group must have at least 1,500 members to be considered a society
C. Another term for "society" is nation-state
D. Members of a society comprise a more or less self-sufficient social unit
33. Which of the following was not identified as a defining feature of culture?
A. Culture is symbolic
B. Culture is transmitted
C. Culture is cumulative
D. Culture is learned
34. Values traditions, and beliefs are all examples of.
A. Popular culture
B. Customs
C. Material culture
D. Non-material culture
35. Language is usually considered to be:
A. A flexible system of symbols
B. Essential for cultural integration
C. A cultural barrier
D. A key cultural marker

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36. Conflict theory emphasizes the use of humor as a
A. Means by which to present the self
B. Political tool
C. Defense mechanism
D. Means by which to bind culture
37. Culture is usually assumed to be
A. Fixed and static
B. A subjective entity
C. Always changing
D. Insulated against technology
38. Cultural change can also occur through
A. Mass media and adaptation
B. Invention and discovery
C. Language and symbols
D. Diffusion and technology
39. The process that enables a culture to maintain equilibrium despite fluctuations in their culture
is known as
A. Diffusion
B. Cultural integration
C. Adaptation
D. Acculturation
40. According to Conflict theory, culture is maintained through the_________ of society:
A. Cultural universals
B. Language
C. Dominant ideology
D. Popular culture
41. Personal distance and gestures are examples of forms of:
A. Folkways
B. Non-verbal communication
C. Cultural integration
D. Values
42. Society refers to a group of people
A. Who share a defined territory
B. Who share a common culture
C. Who have different cultures
D. A & B both

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43. Species being means:
A. Self-actualization
B. Self-denial
C. Values
D. Language
44. An important component of social life was.
A. Social unity
B. Social alienation
C. Individualism
D. None of these
45. One of the root causes of suicide:
A. Decrease in social unity
B. Increased development
C. Industrialization
D. None of these
46. The process of learning one’s culture and how to live within it is called:
A. Culture
B. Socialization
C. Association
D. None of these
47. A child learns behaviors values and actions from his family It is:
A. Primary socialization
B. Secondary
C. Developmental
D. None of these
48. Learning behavior in a social institution or developing social skills is called
A. Primary
B. Secondary
C. Developmental socialization
D. None of these
49. A society which is socially isolated but still provides for all the needs of its members, is called
A. Total institution
B. Isolated Society
C. Closed society
D. None of these

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50. Socialization is a continuous lifelong process and self develops as a result of social interactions
this is:
A. Role theory
B. Reinforcement theory
C. Symbolic interactionism
D. None of these
51. Self develops as a result of cognitive evaluations of costs and benefits “this is:
A. Symbolic interactionism
B. Role theory
C. Reinforcement theory
D. None of these
52. The socializer is also called socializing agent and socializee is also called
A. Object of socializing process
B. Novice
C. Principal
D. None of these
53. The institution most closely associated with the process of socialization is the:
A. Family
B. Peer group
C. School
D. State
54. What is the name of the process by which we acquire a sense of identity and become members
of society?
A. Rationalization
B. Colonization
C. McDonaldization
D. Socialization
55. Socialization is:
A. The formation of an attachment bond between an infant and its career
B. A tendency of social theorists to explain everything in terms of social causes
C. The process of becoming part of a society by learning its norms and values
D. The historical process by which societies change from traditional to modern
56. The main agent in primary socialization is:
A. School
B. Family
C. Television
D. Peer group
57. The most pervasive of the social processes are:
A. Religious procedural
B. Changelessness

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C. idealized ways of thinking and doing
D. None of these
58. The process of social interaction by which people acquire the knowledge attitudes values and
behaviors essential for effective participation in society is called:
A. Culture
B. Definition of the situation
C. Social communication
D. Socialization
59. A person’s self-esteem – low or high -is mainly a function of:
A. Introspective rejuvenation
B. Self-ethnography
C. Social comparisons
D. None of the above
60. Turning points, in which people change direction in the course of their lives are:
A. Age norms
B. Life events
C. Social clocks
D. Remarkably similar for men and women