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Originally Posted by Last Island View Post
1. Socialization is
(c) Building up of norms and values in the personality by groups

2. Who can be taken as early pure sociologist among the social thinkers?
(Pure sociologists are Ernest Burgess, Robert E. Park, Herbert Spencer, Albion Small. Not sure about Auguste Comte but Khuldoon and Durkheim were definitely not pure sociologists.)

3. Ascribed social status of a person is determined by
(d) None of these (I dont know how it can be "a" because Ascribed status is the social status a person is assigned at birth or assumed involuntarily later in life. It is not something we get biologically.)

4. In Cultural Lag the part that moves slowly is called
(d) None of these (non-material culture)

5. The spread of cultural traits and patterns in space is called:
(c) Diffusion

6. A Stimulus-Response Condition between two persons is called:
(b) Dialogue

7. Polyandry is a form of marriage in which
(b) Many men are husbands of one woman

8. A verified and verifiable proposition is
(a) Hypothesis

9. Urbanism is
(c) Equal to Urbanization

10. An operational definition of a concept is
(c) A formal or lexiographic

11. Culture is
(b) Man-made part of the environment

12. Innovation is
(c) Both a and b

13. Emphasis in quantitative data is on
(b) Reliability

14. A sample is
(a) A process of selecting items

15. When two or more persons interact with each other, they form
(b) Group

16. A social caste is always
(b) Endogamous and closed (personally I dont consider it true)

17. A cricket match is an example
(c) Competition

18. A socially expected and approved behaviour is called
(b) Social norm

19. A push factor in migration means
(b) People forced by circumstances leaving

20. An Interview Guide is
(c) a list of topics to be covered in an interview
6. A Stimulus-Response Condition between two persons is called:
(c) Interaction (Dialogue is the conversation between two or more people. Interaction is the reciprocal action between two or more people)

8. A verified and verifiable proposition is
(c) Fact (Hypothesis is a verifiable proposition only, once verified, it becomes a fact)

9. Urbanism is
(b) An attitude (Urbanization is the process of becoming urbanized, whereas, Urbanism is the characteristic way of life of the urbanites)

12. Innovation is
(d) None of these. (Innovation is not a discovery, invention, discovery+invention. It is a complicated lengthy process of implementation of something new in the society)

13. Emphasis in quantitative data is on
(c) Reliability and validity

14. A sample is
(c) Giving a few examples from population. (The process of selecting items is 'Sampling'. 'Sample' is the term used fr the selected items.
A part can't represent the whole Universe, a few different parts can do so)

16. A social caste is always
(d) None of these. (A social caste is always closed, but MOSTLY endogamous. It is not always endogamous)

18. A socially expected and approved behaviour is called
Isn't it Folkway? Norms are rules, enforced behaviour whereas Folkway is the way of common people.

Corrections would be appreciated!
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