Top 150+ Solved Sociology of Gender MCQ Questions Answer
Q. According to the latest judgement of the Supreme Court, which category does the transgender belong to?
a. General category
b. SC category
c. Backward category
d. OBC category
Q. Which of the following is a primary agency for gender construction?
a. Caste
b. Class
c. Social system
d. Family
Q. An umbrella term for persons whose gender identity, gender expression, or behavior does not conform to that typically associated with the sex to which they were assigned at birth is called:
a. Homosexuality
b. Bisexuality
c. Transgender
d. All of the above
Q. What is the sociological definition of gender?
a. The characteristics, behaviours and norms that society ascribes to a person of one sex or the other.
b. Whether a person is biologically and anatomically male or female or transgender.
c. Whether a person considers himself/herself to be male or female.
d. The behaviours and characteristics that are produced by a person that is anatomically male or anatomically female.
Q. Gender roles refer to
a. Chromosomal difference that causes inevitable differences in the behaviour of men and women
b. Hormonal differences that causes inevitable differences in the behavior of women
c. The rights, responsibilities, expectation and relationships of women and men
d. Subordination of women based on the assumption of superiority of men
Q. Mark the correct statement about gender inequality
a. Gender form of inequality is more severe than caste form of inequality
b. Gender inequality is like class inequality
c. Gender inequality is the creation of caste society only
d. Gender inequality is not observed in open society
Q. Society’s expectation of people’s behaviour and attitudes based on whether they are females or males is called:
a. Femininity
b. Gender inequality
c. Gender roles
d. Masculinity
Q. The ____ perspective combines the exploitation of women by capitalism with patriarchy in the home in its analysis of gender inequality
a. Socialist feminist
b. Radical feminist
c. Liberal feminist
d. Democratic feminist
Q. What is correct about religion?
a. It is a unified system of beliefs and practices
b. It is a source of value system which sets the rationale for social actions
c. Different religions set the different guidelines for the lifestyles of the people
d. All of the above
Q. Among the following, which is not related to third wave of feminism?
a. Queer theory
b. Defending sex work
c. Abolishing gender roles
d. Suffrage movement
Q. Who coined the term ‘Third Wave Feminism’?
a. Alice Walker
b. Rebecca Walker
c. Jane Adams
d. Mary Richmond
Q. Which form of feminism is most committed to challenging the essentialist nature of the category ‘women’??
a. Radical
b. Post modern
c. Socialist
d. Liberal
Q. Which approach of feminism concentrated on rights only in public sphere and neglected the need for equity of freedom and regard in home life?
a. Liberal feminism
b. Radical feminism
c. Socialist feminism
d. Marxist feminism
Q. Which feminist thought suggests that gender equality can be realised by eliminatingthe cultural notion of gender?
a. Post modern feminism
b. Socialist feminism
c. Radical feminism
d. Neo-classical feminism