Top 150+ Solved Urban Sociology MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Urban studies at University of Chicago came up during
a. 1915 - 1940
b. 1840- 1880
c. Post World War I
d. Post World War II
Q. Who among the following is associated with Cultural Approach of urban studies?
a. E.W Burgess
b. Robert E. Park
c. Louis R. Wirth
d. George Simmel
Q. Louis R Wirth’s “Urbanism as a way of life” was first published as a researched paper during
a. 1928
b. 1925
c. 1938
d. 1948
Q. Which among the following is true for Ecological Approach in urban studies?
a. Symmetry between humans and society.
b. Any environment and given human conditions can be fixed.
c. Communities interact, estimate and depend on their environment
d. Communities are interdependent
Q. Which urban studies approach clarify that societies grows not in random but in relation to theadvantageous features of the environment?
a. Cultural Approach
b. Ecological Approach
c. Industrial Approach
d. Concentric Zone Model
Q. Who subscribed to the “Darwinian Web of Life” in understanding urban studies?
a. George Simmel
b. Robert E. Park
c. E.W Burgess
d. J.A.Quinn
Q. Concentric Zone theory in urban studies was introduced by
a. RE Park & EW Burgess
b. Louis R Wirth
c. Georg Simmel
d. Kingsley Davis
Q. Who is the author of “Metropolis and Mental Life”?
a. Herbert Spencer
b. George Simmel
c. Oswald Spengler
d. Emile Durkheim
Q. Who mentioned “relations in urban are always changing and fleeting, but in rural areas, it isalways absolute and communitarian”?
a. Max Weber
b. V. Pareto
c. Louis R. Wirth
d. MSA Rao
Q. The pace of life is faster in cities because of the existence of-
a. Co-operation
b. Interdependence
c. Strong bonds
d. Competition
Q. Urbanisation is generally related with –
a. Integration
b. Decomposition
c. Demoralisation
d. Industrialisation
Q. Family in India is generally of Joint family and –
a. Multi-lingual family
b. Nuclear family
c. Neo-Nuclear family
d. Extended family
Q. It is generally assumed that the process of urbanisation leads to –
a. Stagnation
b. Growth of family
c. Decline in family
d. Genocide
Q. The institutions of family, kinship and caste are closely –
a. Differentiated
b. Interrelated
c. Inculcated
d. Indoctrinated
Q. The Khasi society is –
a. Patrilineal in nature
b. Matrilineal in nature
c. Decentralised in nature
d. Heterogenous in nature.