Deck 2: Exploring Urban Sociology: Impacts, Scope, and Dynamics

Question 1

Which of the following opines that modern cities had an impact not only on modes of behavior but on feelings and patterns of thought?

A)Louis R.Wirth
B)George simmel
C)Anthony Giddens
D)Max Weber

Answer 1

Anthony Giddens

Question 2

Who said that urban sociology is that branch of sociology which deals with the city or the urban community, with urbanization and urbanism?

A)J.A Quinn
B)Karl marx
C)Anthony Giddens
D)Alex Inkeles

Answer 2

J.A Quinn

Question 3

Which of the following is the scope of urban sociology?

A)Ecology
B)Urban planning
C)Urban social problems
D)All of the above

Answer 3

All of the above

Question 4

Anonymity of urban life means

A)A state of namelessness
B)External appearances
C)Status symbols
D)Superficiality

Question 5

Which of the following is responsible for the diffusion of urban culture to rural areas?

A)Transport and communication
B)Press
C)Television
D)All of the above

Question 6

Specialization in roles in urban society encourages

A)Similar interests
B)Homogeneity
C)Diversity of life patterns
D)Similar philosophy of life

Question 7

In India, urbanization maintained an upward trend during the

A)1960's
B)1970's
C)1950's
D)1980's

Question 8

The city is an area distinguished by

A)Size, population and density
B)Population, homogeneity and simplicity
C)Diversity, density and communal life
D)Size, population and primary relations

Question 9

Satellite cities are built around

A)Towns
B)Villages
C)Metropolitan cities
D)Industrial sites

Question 10

Rural indices are moving nearer to urban indices in terms of

A)Divorce
B)Age at marriage
C)Selection of marriage partners
D)All of the above

Question 11

Louis R.Wirth associated with Urban Sociology developed the

A)Concentric Zone theory
B)Cultural Approach
C)Ecological Approach
D)Structural Approach

Question 12

The large size of population in urban areas favour the development of

A)Specialization of roles
B)Homogeneous life
C)Community sentiment
D)Intimate relations

Question 13

Satellite cities represent the

A)Striking difference of rural and urban life
B)Some features of urban lifestyle
C)Mixture of rural and urban ways of life
D)Basic features of rural life

Question 14

People live alien and disparate lives in

A)Big cities
B)Towns
C)Villages
D)Sub-urban areas

Question 15

Louis Wirth says contacts between city dwellers are

A)Close and intimate
B)Diverse and superficial
C)Fleeting and partial
D)Anonymous and impersonal

Question 16

Loosing shared characters and the various absolute markers that existed between cities and villages is

A)Urbanization
B)Rurban
C)Industrialization
D)Urbanism

Question 17

Visibility of more formal systems of institutions are in

A)Towns
B)Rural
C)Cities
D)Sub-urban areas

Question 18

The main aspect of urban and rural is mainly demarcated through -

A)Material things
B)Non-material things
C)Rituals
D)Familial obligations

Question 19

Which of the following urban factors transformed rural life-world extensively?

A)Migration
B)Connectivity
C)Press
D)Development plans

Question 20

Who is the author of "Decline of the West"?

A)Oswald Spengler
B)F.Schumacher
C)R.E Park
D)Milton Gordon

Question 21

With the diffusion of urban culture to the rural areas; the extreme differences between rural and urban cultures has become

A)Differentiated
B)Diluted
C)Increased
D)Equal

Question 22

The influence of the city or urban areas varies with

A)Demography
B)Size of City
C)Labor
D)Density

Question 23

Big urban areas are characterised by

A)Sub-centers
B)Semi- rural centers
C)Clubs
D)Communal feeling

Question 24

At present, rural area and urban area features are increasingly

A)Similar
B)Unequal
C)Different
D)Transformed

Question 25

Who mentioned that Urbanization refers to a process of urban values diffusing and transforming behavior patterns?

A)CB Mamoria
B)MSA Rao
C)Patrick Geddes
D)J.A.Quinn