Political Sociology

1. What is Political Sociology?

A. Is concerned with sociology analysis of political phenomena ranging from the state, to civil
society, to the family.
B. It is a study of formal and informal aspects of Organization
C. It is a thinking of happening and going on.

2. What are the comparison of Political Sociology and Political science?

A. It both deal in debt and debtor.

B. It both deals in Discipline and deal in human behaviour
C. It deals with animals and humans behaviour

3. Who defines political science “Distinctiveness lies in its acknowledgement that political actors operate
within a wider social context”

A. P Gisbert
B. Keith Faulks
C. Charles.B.Spaudling

4. It ensures that political sociology is that power by means of:

A. Social Structure
B. Social Power
C. Political Actors

5. It defines inevitably shape and in turn are shaped by social structures

A. Social Power
B. Political Actors
C. Social Structure

6. What is Polity?
A. refers to the entire political domain
B. A political field where the political actors view for power
C. ​All of the above

7. What are the basics Concepts of Political Sociology?

A. Social Structure, Power, Politics
B. Polity, Politics, Policy
C. Policy, Politics, Political Power

8. What is Politics?
A. ​refers to the activities that political actors engage within the political domain
B. refers to the entire political domain
 C. refers to public actions those public policies and the actual products of governance
9. It is crafting bills, trying to influence legislators, campaigning for elections, all these activities
constitute politics what it is?

A. Policy
B. Politics
C. Power

10. Is Politics defies with any social activity there are norms in place as to what is or what is not
acceptable?

A. Yes
B. No
C. Maybe

11. It defies the capacity to achieve one’s objectives even when those objectives are in conflict with the
interest of another actor.
A. Power
B. Policy
C. Politics
12. What are forms of Power?
A. Economic, Military, Police, Navy
B. Ideological, Economic, Military, Political
C. Economic, Political, Structure

13. These are sample of Ideological power except

A. liberalism
B. socialism
C. rationalism

14. It derives from the human need what it is?

A. Economic
B. Political
C. Ideological

15. It derives from the need to allocate resources of nature what it is?
A. Economic Power
B. Ideological
C. Political

16. All the__________ unequally distributed controls over economic resources, thus classes have been
ubiquitous.
A. Complex Societies
B. Political
C. Ideological
17. It derives from the (necessity) of organized defense and utility of aggression. What it is?
A. Political
B. Military Power
C. Ideological

18. This is both intensive and extensive aspects

A. Hard Power
B. Military Power
C. Political Power

19. It is the exercise of power through force or the threat of force

A. Hard Power
B. Power
C. Soft Power

20. It is recipients do not feel bullied or forced against their will

A. Political Power
B. Hard power
C. Soft Power

21. What is Economic Power?

A. derives from the usefulness of territorial and centralized regulation
B. derives from the need to allocate resources of nature
C. It is essentially authoritative commanded and willed from a center

22. What is Political Power?

A. It is essentially authoritative commanded and willed from a center
B. derives from the need to allocate resources of nature
C. derives from the usefulness of territorial and centralized regulation

23. What are the two fold of State Organization?

A. Internally and Externally
B. Domestically and Internally
C. None of the above

24. Political power means ______________

A. state power
B. ecological power
C. no power

25. It is essentially authoritative commanded and willed from a ___________

A. civil
B. religious
C. center

26. Those who _____________ it, as military elites and castes wield a degree of general social power
A. Act
 B. Centralize
C. Monopolize

27. Some example of Political Action and Participation

A. Voter Turnout
B. Political elites
C. Welfare regimes

28. A Political violence, civil wars and revolutions are examples of?
A. Political Action
B. Social Cleavages
C. Class issues

29. Post materialism and social attitudes are good examples of?
A. Social Cleavages
C. Class issues
D. None of the above

30. Religion, Gender and Class are considered in

A. Social Cleavages
B. Class issues
C. Political Action

31. Comparative Government focuses on the __________________.

A. political institutions
B. political regime
C. political career

32. Political Sociology focuses on the __________ in which those institutions work
A. Social
B. Social Circumstances
C. None of the Above

33. Total Military Spending of 2008 is?

A. 1,473 Trillion pesos
B. 1,473 Trillion dollars
C. 1,473 Trillion euro

34. Which country contributes significant numbers?

A. Europe
B. United States
C. Russia

35. Which country contributes less?

A. Central Asia
B. Sub- Saharan Africa
C. Latin America
36. Which countries contributed of 5%?
A. Middle East
B. Africa
C. All of the Above

37. Which countries contributed of 8%?

A. United Estates
B. Russia
C. None of the Above

38. The second country contributed in numbers is?

A. Europe
B. Africa
C. Indonesia

39. Latin America contributes with________

A. 40 dollars
B. 39 dollars
C. 38 dollars

40. Countries contributed with 30 dollars are?

A. Latin America and Europe
B. Latin America and Africa
C. Central and South Asia

41. Contributors of US Military Spending except.

A. Latin America
B. Central
C. Spain

42. Europe contributes total of__________.

A. 289 dollars
B. 288 dollars
C. 287 dollars

43. Sub- Sahara contributes total of __________.

A. 100 dollars
B. 10 dollars
C. 101 dollars

44. China contributes of____________.

A. 9%
B. 8%
C. 7%
45. North Africa total spending of ________.
A. 83 dollars
B. 82 dollars
C. 85 dollars

46. What does CAC means __________.

A. Center of Arms Control
B. Center Arms Control
C. Center for Arms Control

47. Which year the data was conducted?

A. 2007
B. 2008
C. 2009

48. Which month the data was conducted?

A. January
B. February
C. March

49. The data was conducted by these institute except?

A. America Collection Data
B. Center for Arms Control
C. Non- Proliferation

50. This date conducted the US Military Spending Vs. The World
A. February 20, 2008
B. February 21, 2008
C. February 22, 2008
 SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATION

1. Sociology of Organization is like a structured defies as______.

A. Sociology that views various aspect of Organization
B. process that tries to focus the individuals who interact with.
C. Is a structured process in which the individuals interact

2. It defies as a subject that includes Social and Economic institution with an arranged hierarchy.
A.Common
B.Objectives
C.All of the above

3. It is a study of formal and informal aspects of Organization

A. Social Organization
B. Sociology of Organization
C. National Organization

4. In which category are a holistic view and also a most important branch of Sociology that views
various aspect of Organization?
A. Meaning
B. History
C. Objective

5. In which category are found throughout the society

A. Meaning
B. History
C. Objective

6. What is Sociology?
A.Is a structured process in which the individuals interact
B.Is a Social and sociological use and techniques towards the study of industry
C. Is a most important branch of Sociology that views various aspect of Organization

7. Industrial Sociology in its classical style was developed by _________

A. Max Weber
B. Durkheim
C. All of the above

8. What are the two Approaches To Sociology Of Organization

A. Positive and Negative
B. Sociology and Organization
C. None of the above
9. It can be termed as the use of “​Social and sociological use and techniques towards the study of
industry”.
A. Sociological approach
B. Social Organization
C. All of the above

10. They deal about the design of products and equipment

A. Civil Engineering
B. Industrial Engineering
C.Agricultural Engineering

11. It is deal more of art than science where the management aspects are dealt
A. Industrial Engineering
B. Industrial Psychology
C. Industrial Management

12. It deals about the various aspects Of Human –Resource

A. Industrial Engineering
B. Industrial Psychology
C. Industrial Management

13. It deals with matters related to wage ;Salary Administration Taxation

A. Industrial Economics
B. Industrial Psychology
C. Industrial Management

14. It refers to the relationship between the management and workers along with the policies and
formulations
A. Management Organization
B. Industrial Management
C. Industrial Psychology

15. What is Informal Organization?

A. Organization embraces the duties of designing the departments and the personnel that are to
carry work
B. Organization is the process of identifying and grouping the work to be performed
C. Informal relationships developed by the workers themselves

16. What are the 3 important aspects of organization

A. Management, Informal, Union
B. Planning,Organizing, Co-ordination
C. None of the above

17. It deals about the role of trade unions and the participation of workers in trade unions?
A. Social Organization
B. Union Organization
C. All of the above
18. Who defies this “Organization is the process of identifying and grouping the work to be performed”
A. Allen
B. Allan
C. Alvin

19. Kimball and Kimball defies this

A. Organization is the structural framework of duties and responsibilities
B. Organization embraces the duties of designing the departments and the personnel that are to
carry work
C. Organization is a harmonious adjustment of specialized parts for the accomplishment of some
common purpose or purposes

20. Organization is the structural framework of duties and responsibilities required of personnel in
performing various functions within the company Defies by?
A. Allen
B. Wheeler
C. Max Weber

21. Haney defies this?

A. Organization is the structural framework of duties and responsibilities
B. Organization embraces the duties of designing the departments and the personnel that are to
carry work
C. Organization is a harmonious adjustment of specialized parts for the accomplishment of some
common purpose or purposes

22. What are the 3 Process of Organization?

A. Management, Informal, Union
B. Planning,Organizing, Co-ordination
C. None of the above

23. It is Drawing lines or marking the work depending on the company strategies. What it is?
A. Division of Work
B. Division of Lines
C. Division of Organization

24. It is a step clearly similar to the nature and also closely related. What it is?
A. Delegation of Authority
B. Grouping of Activities
C. Assignment of Work

25. It is a similar to division of labour except that here activities are divided based on the departments
A. Delegation of Authority
B. Grouping of Activities
C. Assignment of Work
26. It is a employee who is designed with more jobs and works definitely needs some level of authority
A. Delegation of Authority
B. Grouping of Activities
C. Assignment of Work

27. It is a sub-ordinate who has been given the task of accomplishing the work or task must be
accountable for his work to his superior or to any higher authority
A. Creation Of Accountability
B. Defining Relationships
C. Formal Organization

28. Meaning every sub –ordinate should know who his superior is and in the same manner the superior
should know who is their sub –ordinate
A. Defining Relationships
B. Creation Of Accountability
C. Formal Organization

29. It is a Conceptual Understanding

A. Physical Setting
B. Organization
C. Individual

30. Which is only termed as management. It is only through the management the ___________
However today a lot of organizations have realized the importance of human labour as people of
emotions.
A. Creation Of Accountability
B. Defining Relationships
C. Success Or Failure or The Strongness

31. It is highly difficult to find any organization without any goals.

A. Integrative
B. Pattern Maintainace
C. All of the above

32. The various personality traits of an individual along with his motives and attitudes are something
very important
A. Physical Setting
B. Organization
C. Individual

33. Authority and responsibility are the most important one of any organization and also a great
inter-related and inter-dependent aspect
A. Creation Of Accountability
B. Defining Relationships
C. Formal Organization
34. They address how behaviourial aspects needs to be adjusted to the norms
A. Formal Organization
B. Informal Organization
C. Defining Relationships

35. Working conditions along with various social ;psychological emotional aspects
A. Formal Organization
B. Informal Organization
C. Physical Setting

36. Typology of Organization or Classification of Organization or Different Organizations

A. Based on Structure, Based on Operation, Based on Performance,
B. Based on Organizational –Behaviour
C. All of the above

37. Modules of Organization can be classified

A. Autocratic, Custodial,
B. Supportive, Collegial
C. All of the above

38. Organizations differ in the quality of Organizational ____________

A. Management’s thought in each organization
B. Behaviour that they develop
C. Behaviour that dominate

39. These differences are substantially caused by different models of organizational

A. Behaviour that dominate the management’s thought in each organization
B. Management’s thought in each organization
C. Behaviour that they develop

40. ________​ Davis has suggested and has also defined four models of organization
A. Keith
B. Mac
C. Allan

41. The classical bureaucratic module of ________ has been subject to varying degrees of criticisms and
disapproval in the recent decades
A. Mac
B. Allan
C. Weber

42. Nevertheless ;several of it’s assumptions are implemented in most organizations _________
A. Civil
B. Military or industrial
C. All of the Above
43. Behavioural scientists and management theorists are searching for new
A. Models of organizations
B. Medium Scale Organizations
C. None of the above

44. Just having one person will not form or create an industry rather they are formed by multiple
persons
A. Number Oriented
B. People Oriented
C. None of the above

45. Just not one no’s but multiple numbers

A. Number Oriented
B. People Oriented
C. None of the above

46. It is a Scale Organizations

A. Large
B. Medium
C. Small

47. A small business, is a type of an organization that is privately owned and operated, with a small
number of ________ and relatively low volume of sales.
A. Employees
B. Small
C. None of the above

48. The legal definition of _________ varies by country and by industry. However these organizations
have employees within 15 no’s
A. Employees
B. Small
C. None of the above

49. It is an organization that is quite huge and big in structure and as well in it’s sales
A. Large Scale Organizations
B. Big Business
C. All of the above

50. These are the type of organizations that go hand in hand along with the small scale organizations
and they are termed as Small Scale Organizations Or Small Scale Business or Small scale enterprise.
A. Medium Scale Organizations
B. Large Scale Organizations
C. None of the above
 Social Conflict

1. A process that begins when one party perceives that another party has negatively affected,
or is about to negatively affect, something that the first party cares about
A. Functional Conflict
B. Social Conflict
C. Dysfunctional conflict

2. The belief that all conflict is harmful and must be avoided

A. Traditional View
B. Human Relations View
C. Interationist View

3. The belief that conflict is a natural and Inevitable outcome in any group
A. Traditional View
B. Human Relations View
C. Interationist View

4. The belief that conflict is not only a positive force in a group but that it is absolutely
necessary for a group to perform effectively
A. Traditional View
B. Human Relations View
C. Interationist View

5. Conflict that supports the goal of the group and improves its performance
A.Functional Conflict
B.Dysfunctional conflict
C.Social Conflict

6. Conflict that hinder group performance

A. Functional Conflict
B. Social Conflict
C. Dysfunctional conflict

7. Intervene between people’s perceptions and emotions and their overt behaviour
A. Intentions
B. Assertiveness
C. Cooperativeness

8. Attempting to satisfy the other party’s concerns

A. Intentions
B. Assertiveness
C. Cooperativeness

9. Attempting to satisfy one’s own concerns

 A. Intentions
B. Assertiveness
C. Cooperativeness

10. Is social conflict central to social life?

A. Numerous approaches in the social sciences consider that society constitutes
B. Either of these two types of vision
C. These approaches also focus on the community constituted

11. These approaches also focus on the community constituted by a society, the _________,
the integration of its members and their socialization.
A. Social Life
B. Sociology
C. Social bond

12. They may also describe _______ as an entity consisting of stratified social classes with the possibility
of upward or downward social mobility.
A. Society
B. Sociology
C. Social

13. The specificity of these ____________ is to minimize or fail to acknowledge conflict, in other words
the antagonistic relationship between two or several actors.
A. Social Conflict
B. Various approaches
C. Sociology

14. This approach enabled ___________, the strongest contemporary advocate of conflict theory
A. Randall Collins
B. Marx Weber
C. None of the above

15. He considers that _________ and Hobbes led the way by focusing on struggles for power.
A. Marx Weber
B. Machiavelli
C. All of the above

16. The idea of social stratification defines __________ as a juxtaposition of social strata.
A. Sociology
B. Social
C. Society

17. It tells us nothing about the possibility of a _______________ between them.

A. Conflict
 B. Relationship
C. All of the above

18. It is far from the idea of antagonism, or conflict, and much closer to that of upward or downward
__________ with individuals being defined in function of their belonging to a social stratum and of
their remaining in or leaving this stratum for either a higher or a lower one.
A. Social mobility
B. Social Science
C. None of the above

19. It is nevertheless possible to go from the idea of stratification to that of __________ by considering
that the concept of stratification expresses that of conflict and that behind the social strata one
finds actors caught up in relations of domination.
A. Social
B. Conflict
C. Nation

20. _________, once again according to Randall Collins, also stressed the existence of multiple divisions
of social class and focused on the control of the material means of violence.
A. Max Weber
B. Marx Weber
C. Georg Simmel

21. The sociological literature of the __________ frequently contrasted the concepts of conflict in Marx
with those in Weber.
A. 1960s
B. 1970s
C. All of the above

22. Most of the __________ who deal with conflict make of it a category which includes normative
dimensions or which include a value judgement.
A. Social Conflict
B. Social thinkers
C. Social Psychology

23. ____________ proposed an original analysis of conflict since, on the one hand, he situates it at the
centre of social life
A. Max Weber
B. Marx Weber
C. Georg Simmel

24. The ________, to define the way in which the ideal state could eliminate all conflict
A. Republic
B. National
C. Social

25. The __________ of the majority of these endeavours is to attempt to implicate a third party so as to
create a mediation between the parties in conflict
 A. Social Conflict
B. Specificity
C. Social Science

26. Sociology, directly or indirectly, sets out several ways of distinguishing various types or modalities
of _________
A. Social conflict
B. Social Organization
C. Sociology

27. The ___________ recognized the importance of conflict in the 1960s and 1970s
A. Social Conflict
B. Sociology of Organizations
C. Social Conflictuality

28. The place of social conflict in _________ is highly variable in time and space and in the first instance
is a function of the realities themselves
A. Social
B. Psychology
C. Sociology

29. Contrary to the predictions of those who supported the idea of generalized individualism eliminating
any significant form of conflict, as from the end of the 1960s, new struggles, or old ones revived,
delineated a new landscape of _________
A. Social Conflict
B. Sociology of Organizations
C. Social Conflictuality

30. As from the _________, these conflicts have taken a new turning as a result of their insertion in
globalization
A. 1990s
B. 1994s
C. All of the above

31. They have paved the way for the construction of a _________ sphere, a space for struggle with its
issues
A. Conflictual
B. Social Conflict
C. Sociology

32. ____________ are two categories which are analytically distinct and, very generally speaking, it can
be said that the space for conflict contracts when the space for crisis expands.
A. Conflict
B. Crisis
C. All of the above

33. Radicalization characterized both the protest actor and the authorities in power who put an end to
the legal adventure of Solidarnosc with a military coup on ___________
 A. 13 December 1981
B. 13 December 1982
C. 13 December 1983

34. A central observation of _________ in his Reflections on Violence which has not as yet been
accorded sufficient attention by sociologists may serve us as a convenient springboard.
A. Max Weber
B. Marx Weber
C. George Sorel

35. The race of bold captains who made the greatness of __________ disappears to make way for an
ultracivilized aristocracy which asks to be allowed to live in peace.
A. Social System
B. Modern industry
C. Social Conflict

36. The antagonistic classes ________ each other in a partly indirect hut decisive manner.
A. Influence
B. Made
C. None of the above

37. Conflict within and between groups in a society can prevent __________ and habitual relations from
progressively impoverishing creativity
A. Social
B. Conflict
C. Accommodations

38. Prevents the ossification of the __________ by exerting pressure for innovation and creativity
A. Social Science
B. Social system
C. Social Conflict

39. A ____________, he felt, was in need of conflict if only to renew its energies and revitalize its
creative forces
A. Social Conflict
B. Sociology
C. Social System

40. Conflict ______________ groups in a society can prevent accommodations and habitual relations
from progressively impoverishing creativity
A. Within
B. Between
C. All of the above

41. _________ often have pointed out that much technological improvement has resulted from the
conflict activity of trade unions through the raising of wage levels
A. Economic Sociology
 B. Economic historians
C. None of the above

42. The _________ approach stresses, the 'collective purpose of the total organization' of the factory,
and either denies or attempts to reduce conflicts of interests in industry
A. Human
B. Relations
C. All of the above

43. a successful reduction of industrial conflict may have unanticipated dysfunctional consequences for
it may destroy an important stimulus for ________
A. Technological
B. Innovation
C. All of the Above

44. Organizing in unions workers gain a feeling of security through the effective conduct of __________
with management and thus exert pressure on management to increase their returns by the
invention of further cost-reducing devices
A. Institutionalized
B. Conflict
C. All of the above

45. The emergence of invention and of technological change in modern Western society, with its
institutionalization of science as an instrument for making and remaking the world, was made
possible with the gradual emergence of a pluralistic and hence conflict-charged structure of human
relations
A. Emergence
B. Invention
C. All of the above

46. The structure no longer _________, vested interests find it difficult to resist the continuous stream
of change-producing inventions
A. Being
B. Unitary
C. All of the above

47. Conflict, though apparently dysfunctional for highly _____________, may actually have important
latent functional consequences.
A. Rationalized
B. Systems
C. All of the above

48. According to ___________, conflict leads not only to ever-changing relations within the existing
social structure, but the total social system undergoes transformation through conflict
A. Max Weber
B. Marx Weber
 C. Georg Simmel

49. Yet conflict finally led to a breakdown of all feudal relations and hence to the rise of a new
_________ governed by different patterns of social relations
A. Sociology
B. Social system
C. Social Conflict

50. _________conditions have first transformed the mass of the population into workers.
A. Economic
B. Environment
C. None of the above