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Questions Related to sociology

The family creates the basic rights and responsibilities with regard to which of the following?

  1. Parents

  2. Community

  3. Children

  4. Elders


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Children are the most important units in the family which continues family tradition and legacy. Nurturing, education and protection of children is the prime and major responsibility of adult Family members. They get inheritance rights and parents are usually responsible for healthy bringing up of their children.

Who is the head of the family in a patriarchal family?

  1. Mother

  2. Father

  3. Daughter

  4. Son


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

In Patriarchal Family, the decision making authority and power lies in the hands of man irrespective of whether it is nuclear family, joint family or the Extended family. Usually the eldest male is head of the family.

What is the family that has grandparents, parents, children and grandchildren called?

  1. Third Generation

  2. First Generation

  3. Second Generation

  4. Extended Family


Correct Option: D

Who is responsible to create a way to nurture and bring up the children and make them literate?

  1. Teacher

  2. Father

  3. Mother

  4. Family


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Children are the most important units in the family which continue family tradition and legacy. Nurturing, education and protection of children is the prime and major responsibility of adult Family members. They get inheritance rights and parents are usually responsible for healthy bringing up of their children. Schooling and educating a child is the main concern of every family to make their progeny literate so as they can grow up sensible and more responsible adult.

_________ society is a village based society.

  1. Rural

  2. Urban

  3. Hunting and Gathering

  4. Industrial


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The agricultural society is a rural society where human beings left nomadic life and settled in a place engaging in agriculture. This society is a village-based society. Producing food through agriculture activities is the basic occupation of people here. These are less dense in population and developed in the means of infrastructure.

The information society helps to ________.

  1. Attain education

  2. Do Commerce

  3. Do business

  4. All


Correct Option: D

In this society, people take help from information technologies to solve their problems and challenges. Which society is it ?

  1. Information

  2. Agricultural

  3. Industrial

  4. Pastoral


Correct Option: A

The process of engaging in animal husbandry of cattle like sheep, goat, cow, and buffalo for general sustenance is called ________ society.  

  1. Hunting and Gathering

  2. Pastoral

  3. Nomadic

  4. All


Correct Option: B

Movement of people from one place to another place in search of food and grassland, business is called as __________ life.

  1. Sedentary

  2. Nomadic

  3. Both

  4. None


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Movement of people from one place to another in search of food and grassland is called Nomadic life. The people are called nomads. They do not settle at one place for a long time and wandered in search of food and temporary residence.

____________ societies are called ideal societies.

  1. Pastoral

  2. Rural

  3. Urban

  4. Information


Correct Option: C