Social Group Questions and Answers

The difference between an “in group” and “outgroup” is: That of degree

Dominance of . . . . . . . . relation characterize secondary group: Contractual

Which of the following does not hold true of the crowd: There is definite motive of the crowd

 . . . . . is referred to as a temporary collection of people reacting together to a stimuli: Crowd

Who of the following has said that “crowd is a physically compact organisation of human beings brought into direct, temporary and unorganised contact with one another”: Gillin and Gillin

Who of the following has said that a ‘group is collection of human beings who are into social relationship with one another’: MacIver

It is an endogamous groups based on the principle of purity and pollution. This group is called: Bond

The concept of ‘reference-group’ was first given by-: Hayman

Large inclusive groups are called: Horizontal group

A group of students recreating by the sea shore are an: Aggregate

. . . . . . . has distinguished group on the basis of contact: Cooley

A group in which there are small divisions is called: Vertical group

The classification of group into primary and secondary group has been done by: Cooley

Which one of the following is not one of the characteristics of group life: No public criticism

According to Dwight Sanderson groups can be classified as: Involuntary and voluntary

Which one of the following cannot be placed under the category of group: Criminals

Which one of the following is not the characteristic of group life: Desire to perpetuate

Who of the following has said that, “Ethnocentrism is that view of things in which one’s own group is the center of every thing and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it”: Summer

According to Group Mind Theory about crowd, a person after joining a crowd: Loses his sense of suggestibility

Which among the following is secondary group: Cooperative Society

The groups, formed by sociologists and statisticians instead of the members themselves are called-: Statistical groups

A social group is: Dynamic

In a secondary group relationship among the members is maintained through: Communications

Who of the following has said about secondary groups that, “The groups which provide experience lacking in intimacy are called secondary groups”: Ogburn and Nimkoff

“Community is the smallest territorial group that can embrace all aspects of social life”. Whom do you attribute this statement to: K. Davis

. . . . . . is characterized by intimate face-to-face relation: Primary group

Ideally, a primary relationship is regarded by the parties as-: An end in itself

Member of a small trade union is: An associational group

Striving for admission is a . . . . . . . . behaviour: Reference group

A group in which a person is not born but in which he voluntarily moves in is known as: Congregate group

A group which does not allow a person to join similar other group at one and the same time is called: Disjunctive group

In a primary group it is desirable that members of the group should have: Limited self interest

Pick out one of the following which is characteristic of a crowd: There is always polarisation of attention

When a person has no other alternative but to become member of a particular group, group is known as: Involuntary group

Which among the following constitutes a group: Members of a circus company engaged in performance

According to Miller groups can be classified as: Sanctioned and unsanctioned

Which one of the following is the best method of arriving at a decision in a primary group: Convincing the members

Pickup one of the following which is not applicable to a crowd: People present do not stimulate each other

Which of the following is a quasi-group: Status group

Which theory believes that group mind is not the collection of individual mind: McDougall Theory

Who among the following defines sociology as a science that deals with social groups; their internal formal or modes of organization, the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organization and relations between groups: H. M. Johnson

Of the following whose name is associated with reference group: Hayman

A group whose members can join as many groups as they like is called: Over-lapping group

Which of the following is not the advantage of a primary group: It helps in the appreciation of view point of the others

Which theory has laid focus on the fact that in a crowd people try to behave in a fashion that social code of conduct is violated: Freudian Theory

Which one of the following is a social group: Labour union

Which of the following in an example of secondary group: Tradeunion

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