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This set of Introduction to Sociology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Socialization Set 2

Q1 | “ In seeing himself as others see him, the individual is actually putting himself in the place ofothers, and imaging what their response might be” is called as ------------------
  • Acquisition of behaviour
  • Role playing
  • Internalisation of roles
  • Game analysis
Q2 | The members who satisfy the immediate needs of newborn infants are called
  • Generalised others
  • Significant others
  • Strangers
  • All the above
Q3 | G H Mead says ----------is the product of social interaction
  • Culture
  • Values
  • Self
  • All the above
Q4 | Who is the founder of “Psychoanalysis?”
  • Jean Piaget
  • Cooley
  • Durkheim
  • Sigmund Freud
Q5 | ---------------refers to the animal impulses of man
  • Ego
  • Super ego
  • Id
  • Personality
Q6 | Super ego based on the ------------ principle
  • Pleasure principle
  • Reality principle
  • Moral principle
  • Cultural principles
Q7 | Who developed the “theory of definition of the situations?”
  • Herbert Spencer
  • Max weber
  • Comte
  • W I Thomas
Q8 | The theory of collective representations is developed by -------------
  • Karl Marx
  • Durkheim
  • Anna Freud
  • Cattel
Q9 | -------------- refers to the ideas and ideals of a growth up on which the individual unconsciously depends for his ideas, attitudes and behaviour
  • Shared behaviour
  • Collective representation
  • Group Morale
  • Group responsibility
Q10 | The agents of socialization are
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Pear group
  • All the above
Q11 | Who says that socialization consists of the “complex process of interaction though which the individual learns the habits, believes, skills and standards of judgment that are necessary for his effective participation in social groups and communities?”
  • Kingsley Davis
  • HE Barnes
  • Lundberg
  • CA Ellwood
Q12 | The process where the adult members learns the rules and values of society is called
  • Adult socialization
  • Child socialization
  • Personality
  • None of the above
Q13 | Culture has two essential qualities. They are
  • transmitted and shared
  • learned and shared
  • learned and forgotten
  • Shared and communicated.
Q14 | The process by which an individual learns the culture of their society is known as
  • Socialisation
  • Internalisation
  • Sanskritisation
  • Modernization
Q15 | The study of a society becomes incomplete without a proper understanding of
  • The culture of that society
  • Rules and Regulations of that society
  • Arts and literature of that society
  • Education and government system of that society
Q16 | Only man is born and bought up in a
  • Natural environment
  • Cultural environment
  • Artificial environment
  • Original environment
Q17 | Who defined culture is the “realm of styles, of values, of emotional attachment, ofintellectual adventures”
  • Morgan
  • Edward Tylor
  • Maclver and Page
  • Sir James Frazer
Q18 | Peer group is a group whose numbers share
  • Similar values
  • Similar play ground
  • Similar circumstances
  • Similar study circle and books
Q19 | Peer groups are often of a
  • Similar culture
  • Similar race and colour
  • Similar height
  • Similar age
Q20 | Every culture contains a large number of guideline which direct conduct in a particularsituation. Such guidelines are known as
  • Culture
  • Folkways
  • Mores
  • Norms
Q21 | A norm is a
  • Specific guide to action
  • Culture of society
  • Guideline for socialization
  • Guide for social interaction
Q22 | Norms are enforced by
  • Positive sanction
  • Negative sanction
  • Order
  • Positive and negative sanction
Q23 | Norms are imposed through _________ means of social control
  • Formal and legal
  • Formal and informal
  • Cultural
  • Informal and illegal
Q24 | A value is a belief that something is
  • Moral
  • Very productive in society
  • Good and desirable
  • Cultural
Q25 | All numbers of society occupy a number of social positions known as
  • Role
  • Prestige
  • Esteem
  • Status