Sociology MCQs 2006

An overall scheme of scientific activities in which scientists engage in order to produce knowledge is a:
A. Research process
B. Research model
C. Research methodology
D. Research design

The psychological stress caused when a person faces rapid cultural change is called _________.
A. Cultural shock
B. role strain
C. role conflict
D. None of these

When there is an inherent causal link between dependent and independent variables, the relationship is:
A. Non-spurious
B. Spurious
C. significant relationship
D. None of these

Questions that are relevant to some respondents, may be irrelevant to others are known as:
A. Double barreled questions
B. Leading questions
C. Contingency questions
D. Matrix questions

Stratified sample falls under:
A. Probability sampling design
B. Non probability sampling
C. Multi-stage sample design
D. None of these

Egoistic, the special type of suicide presented by Emile Durkheim, springing from:
A. Excessive irregulation
B. Excessive individualism
C. over integration with group
D. None of these

To Simmel, a mean of maintaining or increasing integration within groups is:
A. Co-operation
B. Competition
C. Coercion
D. Conflict

Sociology is introduced as an academic discipline by:
A. Ibn-e-Khaldun
B. Auguste Comte
C. George Simmel
D. Herbert Spencer

Society as a complex organization of parts that function to fulfill the requirement ___________.
A. Structural Functionalism
B. Interaction School of thought
C. Phenomology
D. None of these

The concepts of “Protestant” and “Bourgeois” were presented by ___________.
A. Talcat parson
B. Karl Marx
C. Max Weber
D. Emile Durkheim