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Sociology is an analysis of evidence about social life. In this blog post, we have listed important Sociology Multiple Choice Questions and Answers – Introduction to Sociology.
Sociology multiple-choice questions
1. Who among the following is/are credited for establishing the field of ‘environmental sociology’ as an independent subdiscipline within the parental discipline of sociology?
August Comte
Riley Dunlap & William Catton
Frederick Buttel
Michael Mayerfeld Bell
2. Before the emergence of environmental sociology, which of the following sociologist has provided a perspective to understand environmental aspects of society?
Radha Kamal Mukherjee
Talcott Parsons
Frederick Buttel
Alvin W Goldner
3. Who defines environmental sociology as ‘the study of community in its largest possible sense’?
Riley Dunlap & William Catton
Donella H Meadows & Dennis L Meadows
Frederick Buttel
Michael Mayerfeld Bell
4. Which of the following best explains the problem of pre-ecological sociology?
Sociology emerged before the emergence of study of ecology
Sociology developed paradigms where humans were exempted from vulnerabilities of nature
Sociological knowledge was influenced by ecological knowledge
None of the above
5. Which of the following is/are identified by Raymond Murphy as factor/s for which nature did not matter to sociology?
Sociology did not encourage interdisciplinary research
Attempts to explain social by natural have had the effect of distancing sociology from it
Sociology emerged in an era of exuberance
All of the above
6. Who authored the book ‘Social Construction of Reality”?
Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann
Reiley Dunlap and William Catton
Raymond Murphy
Frederick Buttel
7. Which of the following is not an assumption of HEP framework?
World is finite, so there is potent physical limits constraining economic growth
Humans are unique among the earth’s creatures
Progress can centime without limit, making all social problems soluble
Human differences are socially induced and can be socially altered
8. Which of the following is an assumption of NEP framework?
Human beings are but one species among many that are interdependently involved in the biotic community
Intricate linkages of cause and effect in the web of nature produce many unintended consequences
World is fine, so there is potent physical limits constraining economic growth
All of the above
9. What is anthropocentrism?
the dominant ideology shaping the discipline of anthropology
A belief that anthropological knowledge is central to other branches of knowledge in social sciences
A belief that human beings are the most central species on earth, and social reality can be understood exclusively from a human perspective
All of the above
10. Which of the following statement best explains the difference between New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) and Human Exemptionalism Paradigm (HEP)?
HEP believes that world is vast, thus provides unlimited opportunities, where as NEP believes that social and cultural environments are crucial context for human affairs and bio-physical environment is largely irrelivant
HEP assumes that technology can extend carrying capacity for a while, but ecological laws can not be replaced, whereas NEP believed that technological and social progress can continue indefinitely
NEP believes that people are masters of their destiny, they can choose their goals concerning nature and can do whatever is necessary to achieve them, where are HEP believes that human affairs are influenced by intricate linkages in the web of nature
None of the above
11. Who among the following distinguished between ‘pack type’ and ‘herd type’ societies?
M K Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
J C Kumarappa
Ramachndra Guha
12. Who among the following provided rich ethnographic account of ‘Baiga’ community?
M N Srinivas
Claude Levi-Strauss
Irawati Karve
Verrier Elwin
13. What is second contradiction of capitalism?
contradiction between capital and labour
contradiction between labour and environment
contraction between capital and environment
All of the above
14. Who among the following is associated with Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift?
John Bellamy Foster
James O’Connor
Rosa Luxemburg
Friedrich Engels
15. Which of the following best defines metabolic rift?
Alienation of labour from the process of production
rupture of organic relationship between human and their natural environment
Estrangement of workers from their labour process
growing class consciousness among the working class
16. Which of the following statement reflects relevance of Durkheim from an environmental sociological perspective?
Durkheim’s division of labour entails that as societies became larger and denser, it would have been disastrous if everyone had continued to depend upon agriculture
Durkheim’s social fact considers environmental fact as a determinant of social evolution and progress
Durkheim’s Rules of Sociological Method provides an important analytical framework to understand the interaction between nature and society
All of the above
17. Who introduced the concept of ‘human ecology’?
Robert Park
Roderick D McKenzie
Alexander von Humboldt
Radha Kamal Mukherjee
18. Who among the following authored ‘The Environment: From Surplus to Scarcity’?
Gert Spaargaren
APJ Mole
Ulrich Beck
None of the above
19. Which of the following describes the dialectic tension in Treadmill of Production?
The conflict between capitalism’s need for resource extraction and society’s demand for environmental protection
The conflict between the stakeholders and shareholders in the treadmill
The conflict between labour and capital in capitalism
None of the above
20. Which of the following is true about environmental constructivism?
Environmental problems are objective, which are relevant to understnad human behaviour and social organisation
Environmental problems are socially mediated and constructed
Understanding of environmental problems requires ‘re-naturalisation’ of society and knowledge about it
None of the above
21. Which of the following may be considered as criticism of environmental realism?
It advocates bio-physical reductionism
It employs division of labour between disciplines
It discounts the role and power of social movements
All of the above
22. What does language denote in post-positive social science?
It is a medium to explain reality
It gives a meaning to a reality
It constructs an alternate reality
All of the above
23. Who among the following has classified environmental discourses as (a) Environmental problems solving, (b) Survivalism, (c) Sustainability and (d) Green radicalism Discourse?
Robyn Eckersley
Herndl & Brown
John Hannigan
John Dryzek
24. Who among the following is associated with Ecological Modernisation Theory?
Ulrich Beck
Josheph Huber
Allan Schnaiberg
William Catton
25. The three competing functions of environment, that Dunlap & Catton mention in their framework, include: (a) environment as supply depot, (b) environment as waste depository, and (c) environment as raw material for production.
True
False
26. O D Duncan had provided the ‘Ecological Complex Model’, that studies human society through 4 inter-related components such as Population, Organisation, Environment and Technology.
True
False
27. The three stages of evolution of society pointed out by ecological modernisation theory are: (a) traditional society, (b) Construction of risk society, (c)Ecological switchover.
True
False
28. Ecological modernisation theory believes that while the environmental problems have been caused by modernisation and industrialisation, their solution must necessarily lie in more modernisation and super industrialisation.
True
False
29. John Hannigan has classified environmental Discourses as: Arcadian, Ecosystem and Environmental Justice Discourse.
True
False
30. Which of the following best describes ‘ecological switchover’?
It calls for a restructuring of mode of production to address ecological problems.
It indicates the possibility of overcoming the ecological crisis without leaving the path of modernity through super industrialisation.
It explains the risks of super-industrialisation and transformation of industrial society into risk society.
All of the above
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