Gender And Society In Sociology

Name: _____________________

Date: _____________________

Instructions: Answer all questions. Write your answers clearly in the space provided.

Question 1:

What is the term given to the relationship which is governed by formal rules to restrict interaction between designated categories of relatives?

A. Avoidance relationships
B. Joking relationships
C. Conflicting relationships
D. Intimate relationships
Answer: _________
Question 2:

Which of the following characteristics correctly relates to a Patriarchal Family?

A. Descent, inheritance and succession is traced through the female line
B. Descent, inheritance and succession are through the male line
C. The mother exercises authority and power in such families
D. Father is given a secondary position in such families
Answer: _________
Question 3:

Which of the following is most closely associated with the phenonmenon of missing daughters in India?

A. Advanced medical technology
B. Illiteracy of women
C. Lack of economic independence for women
D. Cultural factors leading to economic liability
Answer: _________
Question 4:

Who among the following used sociometry for the first time?

A. Lundberg
B. Moreno
C. Bogardus
D. Burgess
Answer: _________
Question 5:

Choose the right arrangement of the following stages of socialization in a sequence: 1. Anticipatory 2. Child 3. Infant 4. Adult 5. Adolescent

A. 1, 3, 2, 5, 4
B. 5, 3, 2, 4, 1
C. 3, 2, 5, 4, 1
D. 2, 3, 4, 5, 1
Answer: _________
Question 6:

Sex, Age and Caste all are the example of-

A. Biological status
B. Achieved status
C. Cultural status
D. Ascribed status
Answer: _________
Question 7:

Who among the following authors initially used the term 'social physics' for Sociology?

A. Spencer
B. Comte
C. Tonnies
D. Weber
Answer: _________
Question 8:

Which one of the feminist scholars lised below coined the term "Feminine mystique"?

A. Margaret Mead
B. Simone de Beauvior
C. Betty Friedan
D. Ann Oakley
Answer: _________
Question 9:

Who said that "Treat Social Facts as if they were Things"?

A. Emile Durkheim
B. Max Weber
C. Auguste Comte
D. Herbert Spencer
Answer: _________
Question 10:

Which of the following statements is correct? In "marumakkatthayam" practice inheritance is through

A. The father
B. The mother
C. The paternal uncle
D. The maternal uncle
Answer: _________
Question 11:

Who among the following wrote the book "First Principles"?

A. Herbert Spencer
B. K. Davis
C. B. Malinowski
D. James Frazer
Answer: _________
Question 12:

Father's brother's daughter-in-law is an example of:

A. Primary kin
B. Secondary kin
C. Affinal kin
D. Consanguineal kin
Answer: _________

Answer Key

1: A
2: B
3: D
4: B
5: A
6: D
7: B
8: C
9: A
10: B
11: A
12: C