LevelupIAS Sociology Quiz#1 (Unit 1 & 2)
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- Q1
Which of the following is a feature of modernity?
Patriarchy
Subsistence economy
Religious customs
Individualism
45s - Q2
As many individuals, those many religions. Which scholar would agree with the expression?
Karl Popper
Schutz
Comte
Durkheim
45s - Q3
Which of the following was a counter enlightenment scholar?
Adam smith
Thomas Hobbes
Auguste Comte
Rousseau
45s - Q4
Which of the following traditional social structures were disrupted due to French Revolution & Industrial revolution?
Democracy and citizenship
Individualism, meritocracy, and equality
Gender equality, scientific temper, and nuclear family
Patriarchy, Religion, and Joint family
45s - Q5
Which of the following is NOT associated with Positivism?
Positivism can help us find laws of social world and predict the social hazards
Structures regulate individuals and therefore we have a patterned behavio of individuals in society
Positivism believes in monocausal explanation of social phenomenon
Positivism can help us understand the meaning and motive behind individual actions
45s - Q6
Complete Value freedom is not possible in social sciences research since Values may enter the research at the the time of the selection of topic. Who among the following proposed this view?
Alvin Gouldner
Max Weber
Howard Becker
David Marsland
45s - Q7
Positivism is different from non positivism on many fronts. Which of the following is NOT one of them?
Marxism vs Functionalism
Macro versus Micro view
Value freedom vs value neutrality
Structure vs individual
45s - Q8
What is regarded as beauty by one may be regarded as racism by another. This implies
Social world cannot be studied objectively
Social world is highly patterned
Social world has predefined laws
Social world consist of two opposite views only
45s - Q9
Epistemology based on 'falsifiability' and 'deductive reasoning' is associated with:
Anti-positivism
Post-positivism
Non-Positivism
Positivism
45s - Q10
Durkheim believed that _______ is not a necessary part of the modern world and that it could be addressed by ________
individualism; moral code of conduct
industry; labor body
Social disorder; social reforms
Religion; science
45s - Q11
Instead of analysing ever increasing rate of drug addiction, a researcher should understand why individuals turn drug addict. Which theory will support this proposition?
Post Positivism
All of the above
Positivism
Non Positivism
45s - Q12
When societies go into war mode, the insurance men become rocket launcher. What does it imply?
Societies should no go into war mode
Nothing is public issue. Everything is a personal trouble.
biography of individual is shaped by historical events
Individual can shape the circumstances
45s - Q13
Social order is an illusion and does not follow any pattern or a law. Who among the following would support this view?
Schutz
All of the above
Mead
Goffman
30s - Q14
It is the principle drawn from positivism that researcher should remain distanced from what they study. The above statement is reduced to a term. Identify the term
reflexivity
value-neutrality
value-freedom
ethical neutrality
45s - Q15
Sociologist has to engage in a process of Verstehen because
random action of individual is the subject matter of sociology
it can help us develop laws of social world
Action to which actors attach a subjective meaning is the subject matter of sociology
Action to which actors attach both objective and subjective meaning is the subject matter of sociology
30s