. ________ is large set of people regarded by themselves or others as sharing similar status with
regard to wealth, power and prestige.
D. class
2. The type of communalism characterized by a high degree of sharing and minimal social
inequality.
A. social
B. premitive
C. all of these
D. none of these
B. premitive
3. The system which involves great social inequality and the ownership of some persons by
others.
A. caste
B. slavery
C. none of these
D. all of these
B. slavery
4. The system in which an individual is permanently assigned to a status based on his or her
parents’ status is called.
A. slavery
B. community
C. caste
D. none of these
C. caste
5. This stratification system is more open.
A. community
B. slavery
C. class
D. caste
C. class
the kind of stratification system which is more closed.
a. community
b. slavery
c. class
d. caste
discussion
d. caste
7. in________ societies the survival of the group is paramount and people will share their
resources to ensure that the group survives.
a. social
b. premitive
c. all of these
d. none of these
b. premitive
8. _________ is called the movement of a person from one status to another, either between
generations or within a person’s adult career.
a. social mobility
b. strectural mobility
c. functional mobility
d. none of these
a. social mobility
9. _______ is called the mobility brought about by changes in the stratification hierarchy for
instance as society becomes more technologically advanced.
a. social mobility
b. strectural mobility
c. functional mobility
d. none of these
b. strectural mobility
10. who said that in all stratified societies there are two major social groups: a ruling class and a
subject class.
a. john lennen
b. fisher
c. eugene
d. karl mar
d. karl marx
. According to _________Kingsley Davis and________ Moore stratification exists in every
known human society.
A. talcott and parson
B. fisher ans eugene
C. kingsley davis and moore
D. none of these
C. kingsley davis and moore
12. Who defined slave as a man whom law and custom regard as the property of another.
A. karl marx
B. kingsley davis
C. talcott parson
D. l.t.hobhouse
D. l.t.hobhouse
13. It is the extreme form of inequality in which some individuals are owned by others as their
property.
A. slavery
B. creed
C. caste
D. class
A. slavery
14. According to the basis of slavery is always economic because with it emerged a kind of
aristocracy which lived upon slave labour.
A. h.j nieboer
B. kingsley davis
C. talcott parson
D. l.t.hobhouse
A. h.j nieboer
15. The system which is synonymous with Feudalism is called.
A. slavery system
B. creed system
C. caste system
D. estate system
D. estate system
16. The system in which clergy, nobility and commoners functioned like three political groups.
A. slavery system
B. creed system
C. caste system
D. estate system
D. estate system
17. the type of social system which is closely connected with the hindu philosophy and religion,
custom and tradition .it is believed to have had a divine origin and sanction.
a. slavery system
b. creed system
c. caste system
d. estate system
c. caste system
18. the term caste is derived from the _____word, caste meaning breed or lineage..
a. french
b. italian
c. greek
d. spanish
d. spanish
19. the caste stratification of the indian society had its origin in the _______ system.
a. gothic
b. chathurvarna
c. none of these
d. all of these
b. chathurvarna
20. according to ___and____ when status is wholly predetermined so that men are born to their
lot without any hope of changing it, then the class takes the extreme form of caste.
a. maclver and page
b. risely ans page
c. talcott and parson
d. hobhouse and davis
a. maclver and page
21. according to hindu caste system which is the major upper caste.
a. brahmins
b. nairs
c. thiyyas
d. namboothiri
a. brahmins
22. according to _____the chief criteria of domination of a caste are economic strength,political
power,ritual purity and numerical strength.
a. m.n.srininvas
b. risely ans page
c. talcott and parson
d. hobhouse and David
a. m.n.srininvas
23. According to Hindu caste system which caste is the lowest in the caste hierarchy.
A. brahmins
B. shudras
C. thiyyas
D. namboothiris
B. shudras
24. According to Hindu caste system how many varnas there as part social stratification.
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 4
D. 4
25. According to______ a more complex division of labour made the class more heterogeneous.
A. marx
B. weber
C. parson
D. davis
B. weber
26. who has classified classes into six types.
a. warner
b. weber
c. marx
d. parson
a. warner
27. an institution in the estate system where a sum of money or some property was given to a
slave by his master is called.
a. peculium
b. offering
c. barter system
d. cartel sytem
a. peculium
28. a group of industrialists who together monopolize or gain complete control over the market
is called.
a. peculium
b. offering
c. barter
d. cartel
d. cartel
29. a process takes place when the changes that caste has and undergoing carries it beyond the
traditional ascriptive definition.
a. social mobility
b. strectural mobility
c. functional mobility
d. none of these
a. social mobility
30. _______held that the differential distribution of authority leads to class formation and class
conflict.
a. marx
b. srinivas
c. dahrendorf
d. hiller
C Dahrendrof
31. ______observed that when a class system becomes closed to vertical mobility, it becomes a
caste.
a. marx
b. srinivas
c. dahrendorf
d. hiller
d. hiller
32. ________ was the first one to introduce the concept of alienation into sociological theory.
a. marx
b. srinivas
c. dahrendorf
d. hiller
a. marx
33. ___________ classified the society into three strata- guardians, auxiliaries and workers.
a. aristotle
b. srinivas
c. dahrendorf
d. hutton
a. aristotle
34. who characterized caste as a closed status group.
a. max weber
b. srinivas
c. dahrendorf
d. hutton
a. max weber
35. _______ held that society would rank highly and reward those who perform successfully in
terms of society’s values
a. max weber
b. parson
c. dahrendorf
d. hutton
b. parson
36. according to________in estate system inequality is not primarily economic but judicial.
a. max weber
b. tawney
c. dahrendorf
d. hutton
b. tawney
37. _______categorized india under the asiatic mode of production.
a. max weber
b. tawney
c. dahrendorf
d. marx
d. marx
38. who stated that the higher the class one belongs the lessen is the pretence because there is
less to pretend to.this is chief reason why our manners are better than other persons.
a. pelham
b. tawney
c. dahrendorf
d. marx
a. pelham
39. ________ stated property is theft.
a. proudhon
b. tawney
c. dahrendorf
d. Marx
a. proudhon
40. who advocated a form of guild socialism.
a. proudhon
b. tawney
c. dahrendorf
d. durkheim
d. durkheim
41. utilitarianism is a theoretical outlook associated with the name of _______.
a. j benthem
b. tawney
c. dahrendorf
d. durkheim
A j bentham
. Who advocated the religious theory of the origin of caste.
A. senart
B. tawney
C. dahrendorf
D. durkheim
A. senart
43. Who gave the concept of occupational theory of caste.
A. nesfield
B. tawney
C. dahrendorf
D. durkheim
A. nesfield
