Sociology GK Quiz
Q31. Who propounded the concepts of "manifest function" and "latent function"
(a) Robert Merton
(b) Talcott Parsons
(c) L. T. Hobhouse
(d) Marion Levy
Answer: (a) Robert Merton
Q32. Who introduced the social distance scale
(a) Bogardus
(b) Bossard
(c) Reissmann
(d) Thomlinson
Answer: (a) Bogardus
Q33. Who advocated the importance of keeping social sciences or its analysis ethically neutral or value free
(a) Comte
(b) Hobhouse
(c) Durkheim
(d) Weber
Answer: (d) Weber
Q34. Who has classified action in logical and non-logical categories
(a) Parsons
(b) Pareto
(c) Spencer
(d) Mead
Answer: (b) Pareto
Q35. Who gave the term “The Culture of Poverty”
(a) Louis Dumont
(b) Robert Merton
(c) H. Spencer
(d) Oscar Lewis
Answer: (d) Oscar Lewis
Q36. Who first used the term "phenomenology" as a principle of philosophical and scientific methods
(a) Peter Burger
(b) J. Turner
(c) Edmund Husserl
(d) Harold Garfinkel
Answer: (c) Edmund Husserl
Q37. Who formulated the concept of "marginal man" in sociology
(a) W. Whyte
(b) R. K. Merton
(c) R. M. Maclever and C. H. Page
(d) R. Park and E. V. Stonequist
Answer: (d) R. Park and E. V. Stonequist
Q38. Who is the author of the book "The Structure of Hindu Society"
(a) N. K. Bose
(b) Y. Singh
(c) M. N. Srinivas
(d) G. S. Ghurye
Answer: (a) N. K. Bose
Q39. The term sociology was coined by
(a) Herbert Spencer
(b) Saint Simon
(c) Auguste Comte
(d) Max Weber
Answer: (c) Auguste Comte
Q40. In which year the term "Sociology" was coined
(a) 1798
(b) 1815
(c) 1820
(d) 1838
Answer: (d) 1838
Q41. Khasi tribes living in the hills of Meghalaya are
(a) Matrilineal
(b) Patrilineal
(c) Bi-lineal
(d) Cognatic
Answer: (a) Matrilineal
Q42. The word family has been derived from the word "famulus" which is a ________ word
(a) Greek
(b) Latin
(c) Spanish
(d) Roman
Answer: (b) Latin
Q43. Who wrote the volumes on "Theory of communicative Actions"
(a) Max Weber
(b) Juergen Habermas
(c) Karl Max
(d) Sorokin
Answer: (b) Juergen Habermas
Q44. Which approach of qualitative research has emphasized on socio-linguistic aspects of social reality
(a) Phenomenology
(b) Post Modernism
(c) Ethnomethodology
(d) None of the above
Answer: (c) Ethnomethodology
Q45. Who gave the concept of Neo-functionalism
(a) Robert Merton
(b) J. Alexander
(c) Kingsley Devis
(d) Talcote Parsons
Answer: (b) J. Alexander
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