Sociology MCQs 2001

Java man refers to _____________.
A. Fossil man of Neolithic period
B. A lover Pleistocene fossil
C. A fossil man found in Paleolithic Age
D. None of these

Monotheism refers to _____________.
A. The worship of one God
B. The worship of many gods
C. The followers of a magician
D. None of these

By Sorcery we mean _____________.
A. General practice to cure sick
B. Magic in a more neutral term
C. None of these
D. Both A and B

Who coined the term “residues”?
A. Robert K. Merton
B. V.F.D. Pareto
C. A.R.Radcliffe Brown
D. None of these

By Penology we mean ___________.
A. Studies of social structure
B. Study of Punishments
C. Alternative methods of social control
D. None of these

Mills, C.Wright wrote book _________.
A. White Collar
B. The Language of Social Research
C. Value in Social Theory
D. None of these

Probation refers to ________.
A. Dealing with offenders while at liberty to a specified period of supervision by an officer of the court
B. Absconded offender
C. Murder of a criminal
D. None of these

Social mobility means __________.
A. Change in the closeness to members of other groups
B. Movement from one class to another
C. None of these
D. Both A and B

By social status we refer to _____________.
A. This is the position occupied by a person in a social system relative to others.
B. A person’s position is given to him by birth
C. A person gets the position by marriage only
D. None of these

Feral man means:
A. A socialized individual
B. Individual supposedly reared apart from human society and hence imperfectly socialized.
C. An individual rears in a cultural society
D. None of these