Sociology MCQs 2007

The rate of return for a mailed questionnaire is usually:
A. very high
B. very low
C. both A and B
D. None of these

Social facts have thier independent existence and must be studied likewise. Who remarked above when discussing scientific method?
A. Ibn-i-Khaldun
B. Emile Durkhiem
C. Auguste Comte
D. None of these

According to Emile Durkheim the Mechanical Solidarity is based on:
A. blood relations and neighborhood
B. division of labour and specialization
C. The contribution individuals make to each other
D. None of these

An exploratory research design the major focus is on:
A. Experimentation
B. Hypothesis testing
C. Profile development and description
D. None of these

Cultural Shock is caused by:
A. Playing is different role and getting role strain
B. finding values, norms and customs against ones cultural socialization usually opposite to what one has been socialized in and they turn out to be dysfunctional.
C. Both A and B
D. None of these

Diffusion of innovations among cultures means:
A. Traveling of traits and patterns in space/territory
B. Transmission of trait complexes in time.
C. Both A and B
D. None of these

Standard deviation in statistics is the measure that indicates in essence the :
A. Central tendency
B. Spread of the sample means/values
C. Both (a) and (b)
D. None of these

Social institutions are:
A. God-given and cannot be changed
B. Buildings and people who operate there
C. Consultation of folkways and moves around some important functions(s) of society
D. None of these

Family Laws Ordinance was passed for the first time in:
A. 1961
B. 1973
C. 1985
D. None of these

A counter culture:
A. Has to be against the existing cultural ethos/values
B. May not be against the existing cultural ethos/values
C. If different from the existing culture may never succeed to survive
D. None of these