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This set of Foundations of Sociology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Foundations Of Sociology Set 4

Q1 | The group which is more influential than family among the adolescents is __________.
  • occupational group
  • peer group
  • out-group
  • religion
Q2 | _______ signaled the beginning of sociology as a discipline
  • middle age
  • stone age
  • dark age
  • enlightenment
Q3 | ____________ are general abstract moral principles defining what is right or wrong.
  • values
  • folkways
  • sanctions
  • rules
Q4 | The type of social stratification that existed in France during the time ofFrench revolution
  • capitalism
  • class system
  • estate system
  • caste system
Q5 | Name the expected behaviour of an individual occupying a particular social position.
  • role
  • norm
  • ritual
  • folkways
Q6 | The French Revolution began in _____
  • 1787
  • 1788
  • 1789
  • 1790
Q7 | The most important status a person occupies, the one that most defines a person‘s socialidentity and general social position.
  • ascribed status
  • master status
  • social status
  • achieved status
Q8 | The ________ stage is a transitional stage in which mysterious, abstract forcesreplace supernatural forces as the powers that explain the workings of theworld
  • theological
  • metaphysical
  • positivist
  • revolutionary
Q9 | Which of the following is a work of Rousseau?
  • positive philosophy
  • das capital
  • the social contract
  • the city
Q10 | Group in which individuals interact over a long period of time on a direct and personalbasis
  • formal group
  • large group
  • reference group
  • primary group
Q11 | In ____ stage, people search for invariant laws that govern all of the phenomena of the world.a) Theological b) Metaphysical c) Positivist d) Revolutionary92. ____________ makes possible the ―conversation of gestures.‖
  • cyber space
  • language
  • physical proximity
  • group
Q12 | Who proposed sociology to be studied in two main parts- social statics andsocial dynamics?
  • comte
  • spencer
  • durkheim
  • marx
Q13 | The system in which all the means of production belonged to the capitalist
  • communism
  • socialism
  • capitalism
  • nationalism
Q14 | Segmented personality involvement exists in ____________ group.
  • in-group
  • secondary
  • informal
  • primary
Q15 | The ______ stage is the last and highest stage in Comte‘s work
  • theological
  • metaphysical
  • positivist
  • revolutionary
Q16 | The distinction between in-group and out-group is ____________.
  • simple
  • tangible
  • concrete
  • overlapping
Q17 | ______ seeks empirical regularities, which are correlations between twovariables
  • naturism
  • totemism
  • positivism
  • fetishism
Q18 | The transference of cultural elements from one sphere to another is called ________.
  • acculturation
  • evolution
  • diffusion
  • dominatio
Q19 | The _____ saw massive changes in society by the destruction of the feudalsystem and the establishment of capitalism
  • french revolution
  • scientific revolution
  • industrial revolution
  • russian revolution
Q20 | Comte says that method to study about society must be _______
  • scientific
  • speculative
  • tentative
  • approximate
Q21 | ―Man is a social animal.‖ Who said so?
  • comte
  • aristotle
  • plato
  • karl marx
Q22 | The first social thinker who developed Darwinian evolutionism in the society
  • weber
  • spencer
  • durkheim
  • marx
Q23 | Culture bound or culture specific traits are known as ________ culture.
  • emic
  • counter
  • etic
  • universal
Q24 | The third Estate in the Estate system
  • clergy
  • nobles
  • commoners
  • labourers
Q25 | ―A social group is a system of social interaction.‖ Who defined so?
  • h.m.johnson
  • marshal jones
  • bogardus
  • simmel