Top 150+ Solved Foundation of Sociological Theory MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Marx called the capacity of human labour to bring about utility in acommodity and produce simple use values as
a. useful labour
b. abstract labour
c. distinct labour
d. definite labour
Q. Marx stated that the products of useful labour assumes the form ofcommodities only in
a. feudalistic societies
b. ancient societies
c. agricultural societies
d. capitalist societies
Q. According to Marx, exploitation takes the form of surplus value in
a. feudalistic societies
b. capitalist societies
c. ancient societies
d. agricultural societies
Q. According to Marx, ------- breaks the fundamental connections human beingshave to the means of production in terms of economic subsistence and survival
a. alienation
b. commoditization
c. production activity
d. exchange of goods
Q. According to Marx, when workers become estranged from the things theyproduce, it is called
a. alienation from the product activity
b. alienation from the product
c. alienation from the species
d. alienation from fellow-beings
Q. The type of alienation in which human beings lose control over the capacityof their labour to affirm their being and define their self-existence is
a. alienation from the product activity
b. alienation from the product
c. alienation from the self
d. alienation from fellow-beings
Q. When a person is alienated from the human social community, it is called
a. alienation from the product activity
b. alienation from the product
c. alienation from the species
d. alienation from fellow humans.
Q. The term used by Durkheim to identify a system of social relations linkingindividuals to each other and to the society as a whole is
a. acculturation
b. association
c. social solidarity
d. social facts
Q. For Durkheim ------- describes the degree of social integration which linksindividuals to social groups outside them.
a. acculturation
b. association
c. social solidarity
d. social facts
Q. The type of social bonding that discourages individual autonomy in a societyis termed as
a. mechanical solidarity
b. organic solidarity
c. homogenous solidarity
d. heterogeneous solidarity
Q. When a society is with a homogeneous population which is small and isolated,it is characterised by the existence of
a. mechanical solidarity
b. organic solidarity
c. homogenous solidarity
d. heterogeneous solidarity
Q. In a society where labour is specialized and individuals are linked more toeach other than they are to society as a whole, it is characterised by
a. mechanical solidarity
b. organic solidarity
c. homogenous solidarity
d. heterogeneous solidarity
Q. According to Durkheim, the primary characteristic of organic solidarity is thedevelopment of
a. social facts
b. suicide
c. division of labour
d. forced labour
Q. According to Durkheim, ----- are external to the individual
a. social facts
b. social solidarity
c. social justice
d. social sanction
Q. Durkheim maintained that in order to study social facts, it should beconsidered as
a. abstracts
b. things
c. facts
d. pathological