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WorksheetsSOCIOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATION
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
A terrritorial community refers to an area that has a geographical location and which is a source for all the social and cultural needs of its members. which of the following is not true of a territorial community?
its members can live a satisfying life within it
its members have a sense of belonging in it
it may encompass several groups
it is a formal organisation
2. Educators must have a good understanding of the social forces because
a. education is one of the activities carried on in the social setting amidst social forces.
b. education is a social process.
c. education is influenced by the social forces.
d. education are themselves social beings.
3. which of the following sections of I.P.C makes a person liable for 2 years imprisonment if he assaults or uses criminal force on a woman?
a. I.P.C Section 354
b. I.P.C Section 310
c. I.P.C Section 375
d. I.P.C Section 325
4. In which of the following works, the theory of social contract was first propounded?
a. Social contrast
b. Leviathan
c. Two Treatises of Civil Government
d. Mahabharata
5. Advisory committee on social and moral hygiene was set up in 1954 under the chairmanship of
a. Smt. Vijayalaxmi Pandit
b. Rukminidevi Arundale
c. Dhanwanthi Rama Rao
d. Smt.Rameshwari Nehru
6. Which is a positive aspect of bureaucratic administration?
a. Red tapism
b. Mechanical adherence to rules
c. Its being objective oriented
d. Indifference towards feelings of individuals.
7. Who has defined bureaucracy as “ a system of administration characterized by expertness, impartiality and the absence of humanity” ?
a. Arnold Green
b. Max Weber
c. Lundberg
d. Maclver
8. Which among the following statements is correct?
a. Society depends today more on law than on customs
b. Custom is at the vanishing point of existence as a social discipline
c. Laws may be vindictive
d. Laws are the manifestations of the powerful
9. What constitutes the legal sovereign?
a. The Speaker of Lok Sabha
b. The Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
c. The Prime Minister –in-Parliament
d. The President in Parliament
10. Who among the following writers has/have recognized that the nation is distinctly a historical phenomenon?
a. Hans
b. Karl Marx
c. Ernest Renan
d. All the above
11. Application of principles of sociology to education is known as
a. sociology of education
b. educational sociology
c. social foundations of education
d. social science of education
12. The least important challenge to Indian education today is presented by the
a. poverty of the masses
b. expanding population
c. high cost of education
d. low return on education
13. Value conflicts in the minds of school children are often created by
a. maladjusted teachers
b. unruly students
c. conflicting value systems of the home and the social
d. conflicting laws of the country
14. Control of the Government over education is unavoidable because
a. education costs money ; and money can be provided by the government only.
b. the government is all powerful.
b. the government is all powerful.
d. the very term “govern” means control.
15. As a social institution, the essential function of the family is
a. producing children
b. rearing of children during their immaturity
c. imparting formal education at the initial stages of life
d. increasing formal education at the initial stages of life.
16. The progress for education of women in India was initiated by
a. Lord Dalhousie
b. Iswar Chandra Vidya Sagar
c. Robert Clive
d. Raja Ram Mohan Roy
17. National Plolicy on Education (1986) makes a recommendation that “ the existing schism between the formal system of education and the country’s rich and varied cultural tradition needs to be bridged”. This assumes that
a. there is a social and cultural lag in Indian society
b.there is enough socio-cultural progress in India
c. there is great need for social change in India.
d. there is insufficient progress of education in India.
18. Who said, “ Western education leads to the modernization of perspectives in traditional, non-industrial societies”?
a. Michael Armer and Robert Youtz
b. Robert C.Williamson
c. Alex Inkeles
d. Yogendra Singh
19. “Education is the most powerful factor in making men modern”. This was said by
a. Michael Armer and Robert Youtz
b. Roberet C.Williamson
c. Margaret L.Cormak
d. M.S.Gore
20. One of the several features of Indian education promoting divisive tendencies and thwarting national integration is
a. caste loyalties being encouraged by private and public schools.
b. rivalry among students being encouraged by students’ unions.
c. rivalry among teachers being encouraged by teachers’ associations.
d. indifference to education being encouraged by unemployment.
21. Who was the profounder of the Patriarchal theory of the state?
a. Jenkins
b. McLennan
c. Sir Henry Maine
d. Frazer
22. Anarchism is
a. an extreme form of socialism.
b. an extreme form of communism.
c. an extreme form of individualism
d. it holds the state to be the good on earth.
23. What constitutes the legal sovereign?
a. The Speaker of Lok Sabha
b. The chairman of the Rajya sabha
c. The Prime Minister – in – Parliament
d. The President in Paliament
24. Who among the following writers has/have recognized that the nation is distinctly a historical phenomenon?
a. Hans
b. Karl Marx
c. Ernest Renan
d. All of these
25. Before the British withdrew from country, which among the following India did not posses?
a. Population
b. Territory
c. Government
d. Sovereignty
26. While saying that education contributes to national cohesion furthering the goals of socialis, secularism and democracy enshrined in our constitution, the National Policy on Education (1968) assumes that
a. secularism is the most cherished goal of democracy.
b. education can be used as an instrument of social change.
c. democracy is the best fom of government.
d. socialism is the best way of organizing Indian society
27. Education is a system in the sense that
a. it is a complex of elements in mutual interaction.
b. it receives pupils as inputs.
c. it acts upon these pupils and turns them out as outputs in the finished form.
d. it has all the above characteristics.
28. When an American takes his meals seated at a table and uses a knife, fork and spoon to eat, he follows the U.S.A cultural
a. Alternatives
b. Universals
c. Specialties
d. Peculiarities
29. The main function of education of child is
a. transmission of cultural heritage
b. teaching of 3 R’s.
c. teaching 3 H’s
d. teaching of means of livelihood
30. Which of the following is not a part of culture?
a. Rail Roads
b. Observance of Sanskaras
c. Our spirituality
d. Religious tolerance
