R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | CBES Board Class 11 MCQ Questions for Class 11 Sociology Set 1

Sociology focuses on

1. interactions between individuals
2. animal behaviour
3. environment
4. peace and conflict

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Social control brings _____ to society.

1. social order
2. deviance
3. disobedience
4. violence

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Slums in urban areas denote

1. division of labour
2. overpopulation and migration
3. education and development
4. illiteracy

✅ Correct Answer: 2

One of the features of modern societies is

1. specialisation of work (b)
2. face to face interaction of members
3. urbanisation and factory production
4. agricultural production

✅ Correct Answer: 3

History is the study of

1. contemporary society
2. abstract and generalized reality
3. our past
4. gender relations

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Who wrote the book “Sociological Imagination”?

1. C.W. Mills
2. August Comte
3. Max Weber
4. Karl Marx

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Industrial Revolution was characterised by ________

1. migration to cities
2. the emergence of clock time
3. bad sanitation and general squalor
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Sociology is the study of

1. human social behavior
2. plants and animals
3. man and environment
4. earth

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Macro-sociology is the study of:

1. small groups
2. large groups
3. minorities
4. tribal groups

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Social problems can be understood in the realm of

1. Chemistry
2. Physics
3. Sociology
4. Psychology

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Youth rebellion is an example of _____ Culture.

1. adaptive
2. societal
3. counter
4. revolutionary

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which term refers to an explicitly codified norm or rule?

1. Tariffs
2. Law
3. Authority
4. Evolution

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The new spinning and weaving machines destroyed the ______ industry of the Indian subcontinent with technological innovations in the textile industry in Britain.

1. transport
2. handloom
3. silk
4. cotton

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Ruling families of Mewar, in Rajasthan India, is an example of ______ authority.

1. Bureaucratic
2. Charismatic
3. Traditional
4. None of the above

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Which thinker proposed a theory where living organisms evolve-or change slowly over several centuries or even millennia, by adapting themselves to natural circumstances.

1. Spencer
2. Darwin
3. Einstein
4. Comte

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_ refers to landowning intermediate castes that are numerically large in number and thus enjoy political dominance in a given region.

1. Low Castes
2. Untouchables
3. Dominant Castes
4. Gentrification

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The French revolution(1789-93) and the Soviet or Russian revolution of 1917 are examples of ______

1. Evolution
2. Political evolution
3. Social evolution
4. Revolution

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Which power considered to be justified or proper?

1. Tariffs
2. Charismatic
3. Authority
4. Evolution

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Urban communities that are sealed off by fences or walls with controlled entry and exit are called ______ communities.

1. reversible
2. counter
3. gated
4. revolution

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Social Darwinism, is a theory that emphasised the importance of _____ change.

1. revolutionary
2. adaptive
3. evolutionary
4. societal

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The economic system in which highly complex division of labour is present is the feature of (a)

1. modern societies
2. simple societies
3. globalization
4. rural economy

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The undisputed political rule of a state over a given territorial region’ is known as

1. sovereignty
2. democracy
3. monarchy
4. bureaucracy

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The family in which person is married is known as

1. family of procreation
2. family of orientation
3. nuclear family
4. joint family

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In simple or pre-modern societies most of the people were engaged in

1. industrial production
2. agricultural production
3. business
4. minor work

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Identify the structure of the family where men exercise authority and dominance

1. Patriarchy
2. Matriarchy
3. Polygamy
4. Patrilineal

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Religion is considered as

1. profane
2. a belief
3. sacred
4. custom

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Institution of Politics is concerned with the

1. domination
2. parliament
3. distribution of power
4. elections

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The focal point of industrial developments was

1. cities
2. rural areas
3. factories
4. market

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The process through which one becomes a member of society is known as

1. modernization
2. industrialization
3. socialization
4. liberalization

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A way of life in which all members of society participates defined as

1. plurality
2. inequality
3. culture
4. socialization

✅ Correct Answer: 3