ESIC Staff Nurse Model Question Paper Series – 3

1. In which system allows a woman to have more than one husband?

a) Exogamy
b) Endogamy
c) Polygamy
d) Polyandry


2. Smallest unit of culture is known as?

a) Folkways
b) Caste
c) Marriage
d) Trait


3. Factors affecting social change includes all of the following, except?

a) Hospitality
b) Cultural
c) Economical
d) Biological


4. Which among the following is not a form of social change?

a) Linear form
b) Diagonal form
c) Upward line subject to reversal of direction
d) Cyclic view


5. Which of the following is not a factor affecting social change?

a) Deforestation
b) Industrialization
c) Urbanisation
d) Technology/Discovery


6. The criteria for a profession includes all of the following, except?

a) Intellectual
b) Scientific
c) Motivational
d) Requires higher education


7. Symptoms of home sickness includes all of the following, except?

a) Feeling of insecurity
b) Loss off appetite
c) Well adjusted
d) Insomnia


8. Motivation is?

a) Refusing to do something
b) Wanting to do something
c) Changing one’s mind about doing something
d) None of these


9. Characteristics of society includes all of the following, except?

a) Geographical nations
b) Common habits and customs
c) Maintenance of order & peace
d) Self actualization


10. A group organised for the pursuit of an interest or group of interests common to its members is known as?

a) Norms
b) Customs
c) Association
d) Institution


11. The accepted ways of doing things together in personal contacts?

a) Customs
b) Institution
c) Folkways
d) Culture


12. Which of the following is not a type of family?

a) Joint family
b) Social family
c) Nuclear family
d) Extended family


13. Who defined sociology as “a science for scientific social development?

d) G D Mitchell
d) Mac Iver & Page
d) Max Weber
d) J B Mckee


14. Social stratification implies?

d) Social equality
d) Social justice
d) Social inequality
d) Social injustice


15. The rule that one must marry within one’s own caste is called?

d) Exogamy
d) Endogamy
d) Monogamy
d) Polygamy


16. An association is characterized by?

d) Customs
d) Norms
d) Folkways
d) Usage


17. Socialization is a process which?

d) Ceases at maturity
d) Continues throughout life
d) Influences society
d) None of these


18. A group of people organised for a particular purpose is known as?

d) Community
d) Society
d) Association
d) Institution


19. The nature of crowd is?

d) Transitory
d) Continuous
d) Permanent
d) Stable


20. Social change refers to change in?

d) Dress
d) Food habits
d) Value system
d) Habitation pattern


21. Which of the following is the formal means of social control?

d) Law
d) Education
d) Coercion
d) All of these


22. Which of the following is not a feature of tribe?

d) Common religion
d) Exogamy
d) Blood relationship
d) Common language


23. Which of the following factor is responsible for the disintegration of joint family system in India?

d) Education of women
d) Women franchise
d) Industrialization
d) Social legislation


24. The essential characteristic of a primary group?

d) Lack of identification
d) Affection and love
d) Identifying interest
d) Continuous contact


25. Which of the following is the most common marriage in the world?

d) Polygyny
d) Monogamy
d) Companionate marriage
d) Experimental marriage

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