This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Rural Sociology > Studies > Rural Sociology – Quiz 1 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Rural Sociology Quiz 1 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Society is looked upon as A) Caste and class. B) Social stratification. C) Simple society. D) System of parts. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) System of parts. 2. Who has defined the family as "the biological social unit composed of husband, wife and children"? A) Sorokin. B) Burgress and Locke. C) Durkheim. D) Eliott and Merrill. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eliott and Merrill. 3. It is the tendency of a society to consider its own culture as best, and others as inferiors A) Out Culture. B) Self Culture. C) Ethnocentrism. D) Xenocentrism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethnocentrism. 4. A process where a greater percentage of the population lives in cities and suburbs than in rural areas. A) Megacity. B) Urbanization. C) Human ecology. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urbanization. 5. When two or more person meet it can be called as A) Social group. B) Social system. C) Society. D) Social organization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social group. 6. Which is the unit of the rural society A) Taluka. B) District. C) Block. D) Village. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Village. 7. This is the production of desirable changes in knowledge A) Sociology. B) Extension Education. C) Education. D) Extension. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Education. 8. The ..... are urban residents who cannot move when community or personal changes occur or when other groups move in. A) Trapped. B) Deprived. C) Cosmopolites. D) Singles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Trapped. 9. Permanent concentration of large number of people for non-farming activities A) Urbanization. B) Overurbanization. C) City. D) Rural town. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) City. 10. ..... ..... examines the human interactions, social organization, and life in urban areas. A) Urban surveys. B) Urban sociology. C) Urban planning. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Urban sociology. 11. Classification of societies was based on A) Industrialization. B) De-centralization. C) Urbanization. D) Non-industrialization. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Industrialization. 12. What condition is necessary for the development of modern cities? A) Monuments. B) Farmers. C) Suburbs. D) Factories. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Factories. 13. The degree to which people feel a part of social groups A) Social interaction. B) Value free. C) Social integration. D) Sociology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Social integration. 14. How is the father of Sociology? A) Herbert Spenser. B) Max Weber. C) Auguste Comte. D) Emile Durkheim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Auguste Comte. 15. Industrial Revolution was characterised by ..... A) Migration to cities. B) Emergence of clock time. C) Bad sanitation and general squalor. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 16. Sense of belongingness in rural society is A) Less. B) More. C) Neutrol. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More. 17. Slums in urban areas denote A) Division of labour. B) Overpopulation and migration. C) Education and development. D) Illiteracy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Overpopulation and migration. 18. Ur, a Mesopotamian city, is one example of an early ..... city. A) Postindustrial. B) Industrial. C) Preindustrial. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Preindustrial. 19. Which among these is the type of family where authority lies with woman and she is the head of the family A) Matriarchal family. B) Patriarchal family. C) Patrilineal family. D) Matrilineal family. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Matriarchal family. 20. They are the customs which is used for the negative action and for the things that one ought not to do and more over they are forbid. A) Culture. B) Folkways. C) Taboos. D) Mores. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taboos. 21. The ..... city is one in which global finance and electronic information dominate. A) Postindustrial. B) Industrial. C) Preindustrial. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Postindustrial. 22. A place of dense human settlement, or in other words, a location where many people live close together. A) City. B) Suburbs. C) Rural area. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) City. 23. Social control brings ..... to society A) Social order. B) Disobedience. C) Violence. D) Deviance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Social order. 24. The theory proposed by August Comte is A) Stage Theory. B) Deterministic theory. C) Cyclic Theory. D) Theory of Deterioration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stage Theory. 25. What is the basic unit of Society? A) Group. B) Community. C) Neighborhood. D) Family. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Family. 26. Louis Wirth, with his urban anomie theory described the city as isolated and discouraging to A) Building relationships. B) Finding love. C) Meeting job demands. D) Health and wellness. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Building relationships. 27. People who own homes pay A) Property Tax. B) Water Tax. C) General Tax. D) Education Tax. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Property Tax. 28. The word 'extension' came to be used originally in A) UAE. B) USA. C) England. D) Italy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) USA. 29. Which of the following is not a character of Social Group A) We-feeling. B) Reciprocal Communication. C) Common interest. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 30. It is the pattern of behaviour or ceremonies, which has become the customary way of dealing with certain situations A) Customs. B) Taboos. C) Rituals. D) Mores. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rituals. 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