This document provides 103 multiple choice questions covering various topics in sociology. It tests knowledge of foundational sociological theorists like George Herbert Mead, Charles Cooley, William Ogburn, and Robert Merton. It also covers sociological concepts such as socialization, culture, social control, urbanization theory, family structures, religion, social stratification, and research methods.
This document provides 103 multiple choice questions covering various topics in sociology. It tests knowledge of foundational sociological theorists like George Herbert Mead, Charles Cooley, William Ogburn, and Robert Merton. It also covers sociological concepts such as socialization, culture, social control, urbanization theory, family structures, religion, social stratification, and research methods.
This document provides 103 multiple choice questions covering various topics in sociology. It tests knowledge of foundational sociological theorists like George Herbert Mead, Charles Cooley, William Ogburn, and Robert Merton. It also covers sociological concepts such as socialization, culture, social control, urbanization theory, family structures, religion, social stratification, and research methods.
1) Father of social behaviorurism: George Herbert Mead
2) CH Cooley: looking glass self-theory: “we have an image based on how we perceive others see us” 3) Cultural lag termed by William Ogburn 4) Traits are relative to cultural settings: Horton and Hunt 5) Adolescent society by Coleman 6) Socialization is an art of culture 7) Adjustment of hostile: accommodation 8) Uniting different groups: assimilation 9) One culture adopts another: acculturation 10) Tyler Reads gave the classic definition of culture 11) Smallest unit of culture: trait 12) Two traits combine: pattern 13) Two or more patterns: cultural complex 14) Two or more themes: configuration 15) Categories of folkways: two 16) Basic social value reflect: fundamentals of behavior 17) Horticulture: simple hand tools to raise crops, inequality remained limited 18) Durkheim : society as objective reality 19) Gerhard Lenski termed: socio-cultural evolution 20) Mores are those values which members think are important: WG Summer 21) PV Young: symbolic interactionism 22) Davis Moore: more inequality in a society, more functional it is 23) Gilbert: Division of society into permanent groups 24) Social interaction: process by which individuals penetrate minds of others 25) Status set example: woman is wife, mother, lawyer 26) Master status: cuts across other status, a person holds 27) MacIver and Page: Social class is marked by rest due to social status 28) Marx: propertied class inherits consciousness 29) Social control studies various modes of regulation 30) Integration involves commonly accepted values 31) Closely woven integration is common in liberal democracies 32) Ceremonies strengthen social control 33) Durkheim gave the concept of anomie in 1897 34) Seeman: alienation because of powerlessness, isolation and meaninglessness with social institutions and conditions 35) K Davis: change in any branch of culture including art, science and tech. etc. as well as changes in the form of rules and regulations is called cultural change 36) Peter Berger: changes due to modernization 37) Urbanization theory by Simmel and Tonnies 38) Louis Wirth urbanism as a way of life 39) D. Bell coined the term postindustrial society 40) MN Srinivas: Urban fringe 41) Centric zone theory: E Burgess 42) D. Harris and Edward: multiple nuclei theory 43) Conurbation: cluster of towns and cities 44) Gane: compositional theory of urbanism 45) Burgees and Park theory of urban ecology: 1925 46) The size of market is conditioned by research 47) ‘The mother’ was written by Briffult 48) Patriarchal theory by Sir Henry Maine 49) Family individual gets married: procreation family 50) Family individual is born: orientation family 51) Religion does not strengthen civilization 52) Superstition has some background of event 53) Hersey theory by Francois Quesnay: Main is an individualistic being 54) Pre-Capitalist began with the appearance of middle man 55) Process of controlling reproduction in many cases is unconscious process 56) 52% population in Pakistan belongs to working age group 57) Density of population is related to climate 58) Gist and Clark: intelligent migrate in more numbers 59) Edwin Lement: Primary and secondary deviance (acquiring a strong negative tag) 60) Unemployment: state of worklessness of fit and willing man by Mamoria 61) Child abuse has 6 types 62) ‘Theory of primitive promiscuism’ by JL Lubbocks, assisted by Bliss 63) Sociological imagination was coined by C. Wright Mills 64) Unintended function: latent functions, that create disorder: dysfunctions 65) ‘unrecognized consequences’ by RK Merton 66) Marx: 3 traditions: Hegelianism, socialism and political economy 67) Symbolic interactionism: individual interaction with groups 68) Highest Asabiya: camel breeders 69) Asabiya cycle: 3 stages (40 years each, total 120 years) 70) Hadara peaks in the form of Taraf 71) Ibn-e-Khaldun society: 3 classes 72) August Comte: 1798-1857 73) Comte was secretary to Saint Simon 74) Coined sociology in 1838, also coined altruism 75) Unit in metaphysical stage: State, Unit in theological stage: family 76) Emile Durkheim: 1858-1917, first academic sociologist 77) ‘Rule of sociological’ method in 1895, Suicide in 1897 78) Social Facts for Durkheim: ways of acting, thinking and behaving 79) Elements of natural world: Sacred by Durkheim 80) Durkheim: empirical research necessary for sociology to separate 81) Karl Marx: 1818-1883 82) Marx: 4 stages 83) Spencer: 1820-1903, England 84) Spencer: Evolution: indefinite and incoherent to definite and coherent 85) Process: evolution theory: Structural differentiation& Functional adaptation 86) Spencer: 2 types of ideal societies 87) Spencer: compound society to doubly compound society 88) Instrumental action: adopting techniques best to achieve goal 89) Calvinists: doctrine of predestination 90) Asceticism: abstain from worldly pleasures 91) Weber: increased rationality secularization 92) Rationality to achieve abstract goal: substantive rationality 93) Power: ability to achieve desired goal 94) Weber: 1964-1920 95) Talcott Parson: 1902-1979, American 96) Parson: values could provide a foundation for social order 97) Parson: state-role complex operates in social system 98) Snowball sampling: non-random sampling 99) Sampling in qualitative equal to purposive sampling in quantitative 100) Experimental: gives strongest evidence for causality 101) Debriefing: all aspects of study are revealed 102) Operational definitions: hypothesis that can be measured scientifically 103) Empirical: information verified by our senses