Deck 12: Social Change and Culture: Agents, Causes, and Effects

Question 1

Which of the following is an agent of positive social change?

A)Power
B)Education
C)Money
D)Calamity

Answer 1

Education

Question 2

Which of the following is not a factor for social change in India?

A)Caste
B)Regionalism
C)Language
D)Census

Answer 2

Census

Question 3

What is more crucial for bringing about a desired social change in India?

A)development of social resources
B)development of natural resources
C)development of human resources
D)development of physical resources

Answer 3

development of social resources

Question 4

Culture is______

A)an individual phenomenon
B)inherited biologically
C)continuous and cumalative
D)static

Question 5

Social change refers to the changes that take place in a

A)Society
B)Family
C)Classroom
D)Neighbourhood

Question 6

One of the chief causes of social change is

A)Media
B)Mobility of people
C)Government influence
D)Culture

Question 7

What is considered to be the most prominent factor of social change?

A)Environmental
B)Psychological
C)Educational
D)Biological

Question 8

Education brings about social change by changing man's

A)Fashion
B)Location
C)Occupation
D)Attitude

Question 9

Mass education has fostered the sense and the feeling of

A)Rivalry
B)Equality
C)Pride
D)Discrimination

Question 10

The mass media that come in the printed form is called

A)The press
B)Radio
C)Television
D)Satellite

Question 11

Which one of the following is the largest computer network?

A)Satellite
B)Compact disc
C)Internet
D)Google

Question 12

Which among the following best describes the meaning of culture?

A)The characteristics and products of the learned behaviour of a group of people
B)The feelings of the people of a group
C)The inter-relationships of the people of a group
D)The mutual understandings of the people of a group

Question 13

Culture is

A)Static
B)Immobile
C)Dynamic
D)Rigid

Question 14

Buildings, roads, bridges are examples of

A)Non-material culture
B)Technological culture
C)Industrial culture
D)Material culture

Question 15

One of the main causes of cultural lag is

A)Population explosiion
B)Political power
C)Technological advancement
D)Natural calamities

Question 16

Which of the following moves faster than the others?

A)Material culture
B)Non-material culture
C)Technological culture
D)Intellectual culture

Question 17

To which type of culture belong attitudes, religious beliefs, moral beliefs and etiquettes?

A)Material culture
B)Intellectual culture
C)Non material culture
D)Industrial culture

Question 18

What is most important to bridge the cultural lag?

A)Technology
B)Government
C)NGOs
D)Education

Question 19

Which of the following is most effective in bringing about cultural change?

A)Discipline
B)Cultural functions
C)Education
D)Mass media

Question 20

Cultural change is

A)A characteristic of a developing country
B)Restricted to third world countries
C)Universal phenomenon
D)Restricted to primitive societies

Question 21

The term 'Primary group' was first introduced by

A)C. H. Cooley
B)John Dewey
C)Pestalozzi
D)Karl Marx

Question 22

In which year was 'Primary Group' first coined?

A)1907
B)1908
C)1909
D)1910

Question 23

What is the name of the book written by C. H. Cooley?

A)Historical organisation
B)Social organisation
C)Political organisation
D)Cultural organisation

Question 24

C. H. Cooley was a/an

A)British psychologist
B)Australian psychologist
C)American psychologist
D)German psychologist

Question 25

'Face to face' relationship is a characteristic of

A)Family
B)Political party
C)City
D)Nation