Sociology MCQ Quiz Hub

1. A fifteen year old girl has been sent home from school on three occasions for drinking alcohol at school. Each time the mother becomes angry and threatens to punish the girl but is convinced by the father to give her another chance. Which of the following BEST characterize the fathers behavior in this situation?
Triangulation
Enabling
Advocating
Manipulating

2. Parents continually refuse to communicate with their child who is in a residential treatment facility. The social worker should FIRST:
Respect the parents need for separation by not contacting them
Request that the child be discharged
Contact the parents about the childs placement
Assess the childs response to the parentsactions

3. Common indicators of sexual, physical and emotional abuse include all of the following EXCEPT:
Violence against younger children
Sexualized behavior
Isolation
Stuttering

4. The concept of gender roles is BEST defined as:
Attitudes and behaviors attached to individuals because of their sex
an individuals sex orientation and/or preference
Biological characteristics that influence an individuals behavior
Interplay of biological and sociocultural influences

5. Which type of interviewing question is MOST likely to generate client defensiveness?
Open ended
Closed
Leading
Why

6. When interviewing a client whose speech patterns are different from the social workers, the social workers PRIMARY consideration should be that:
communication patterns vary due to economic conditions
speech is influenced by culture and experience
psychosocial conditions will cause variations in speech
speech is influenced by group taboos and norms and may indicate false beliefs

7. The initial symptoms of schizophrenia MOST often occur between which of the following years of age?
6 to 12
13 to 16
17 to 45
16 to 60

8. Which of the following approaches would be MOST appropriate to use in evaluating client satisfaction with the social workers provision of services?
using a single system design, evaluate the quality of services
in the final interview, ask the client about their level of satisfaction
after submitting process recordings, ask supervisor for feedback
at termination, ask clients to complete a service evaluation and satisfaction form

9. When conducting an assessment of the risk factors of child abuse for a child of a different ethnic background, a social worker must FIRST:
be aware of how personal cultural biases affect the social workers ability to deal with issues of diversity
realize that assessment models are not a substitute for clinical judgment or experience
use a strengths perspective rather than a deficit model to form a partnership with the childs family
understand the need for appropriate eye contact, tone of voice and question techniques during the assessment

10. A social worker is receiving a client with long-standing depression. It becomes known that the client has racist beliefs. The social worker should:
respectfully confront the clients prejudiced beliefs
educate the client about the negative effects of racism
refer the client to another therapist who might have similar belief
respect the clients beliefs and focus on the presenting problem

11. Social Work refers to
Providing social service to people
Helping people to help themselves
Organizing charitable works
Orphanages, destitute homes, poor homes

12. Who won the Magsaysay Award in 2009?
Mahatma Gandhiji
Mother Theresa
Swamy Dayananda Saraswati
Deep Joshi

13. What Rights are Human Rights ?
Rights which are provided by Constitution of India.
Rights which are Fundamental.
Rights provided to all human beings by nature.
Rights desired by human beings.

14. Which one of the following is not a part of social case work process ?
Treatment
Assessment
Study
Content Analysis

15. Diagnostic School of Social Case Work was developed by
Ross
Jung
Rank
Mead

16. In order to find the degree of relationships, we have to use a statistical test called
t-test
Anova
Chi-square test
Pearson’s correlation

17. Public Interest Litigation refers to
Mechanism to provide justice out of the Court.
To provide speedy justice.
To provide justice to poor, needy and weaker sections of society with the help of the NGOs’ and media.
None of the above.

18. Papers on Social Work – An Indian Perspective was written by
G.R. Banerjee
G.R. Madan
Sachdev
Marula Siddaiah

19. The Theory of Demographic transition includes
High birthrate and high deathrate
Rapidly falling deathrate and high birthrate
Low birthrate and low deathrate
All the above

20. Paulo Friere’s approach could be briefly stated as
Organization of services for people.
Mobilization of community leaders. C
Action-reflection process with people.
Identification of target systems for work.

21. World Summit on Social Development was held in the year
1994
1995
1996
1963

22. Which of the following is not a social process ?
Accommodation
Acculturation
Annihilation
Assimilation

23. Making the variables simple enough to understand
Making the variables measurable
Arranging the variables in a logical order
Making the variables fit for research.
Making the variables fit for research.

24. Which of the following is a correct matching ?
Juvenile Justice Act – 1985
Untouchability Offences Act – 1954
Dowry Prohibition Act – 1962
Factories Act – 1948

25. Which one of the following is not a correct matching ?
Arya Samaj – Swami Dayanand Saraswati
Bhrahma Samaj – Raja Ram Mohan Roy
Prarthana Samaj – Ramabai Ranade
Satysodhak Samaj – Jyothiba Phule

26. Panchayati Raj Institutions in India have brought about one of the following :
Eradication of untouchability
Land ownership to depressed classes
A formal representation of weaker sections in village governance
Spread of education

27. The book ‘Social Diagnosis’ was written by
Mary Richmond
Joseph Luft
Perelman
Ross