Social Problems Mcqs

1.
Social problem means
A. state of affairs B. moral approach to problem
C. personal problem
Answer & Explanation
Answer: Option A
2. "A pattern of behaviour that constitutes" is called
A. social problem B. economic problem
C. political problem
Answer: Option A
3. "Threat to society" is definition of
A. economic problem B. cultural problem
C. social problem
Answer: Option C
4. Which of the following is characteristic of social problem?
It affects on a large section of a

A. B. Always creates frustrations.
society.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option A
5. Which of the following is not characteristic of social problem?
Generally regarded harmful for the It has effect on a large section of a

A. B.
society. society.
C. Develops gradually and slowly.
Answer: Option C
6. Which of the following is not general attitude towards social problems?
A. Indifference B. Fatalism
C. Scepticism D. None of these
Answer: Option D
7. Which of the following is not source of social problem?
A. Social change B. Poverty
C. Personal development
Answer: Option C
8. Which of the following is not source of social problem?
A. Industrial development B. Cultural gap
C. Progress of country
Answer: Option C
9. Point out which one of the following is not source of social problem.
A. Complexity of life B. Social conflict
C. Religion
Answer: Option C
10. Which one of the following is not source of social problem?
A. Social disintegration B. Orthodox approach
C. Rural urban migration D. None of these
Answer: Option D
11. In mid-1986, Pakistan's population is estimated at
A. 97.68 million B. 97.67 million

C. 97.65 million
Answer: Option B
12. Population is growing at the natural rate of
A. 3.20% per year B. 3.40% per year
C. 3.50% per year
Answer: Option A
13. In Pakistan, population resides in urban areas
A. 38% B. 28%
C. 48%
Answer: Option A
14. According to the 1981 census, a total number of persons had migrated within the country are
A. 5.95 million B. 5.15 million
C. 5.92 million
Answer: Option C
15. In Pakistan, population belongs to working age group is
A. 59% B. 35%
C. 52%
Answer: Option C
16. Human population can
exist both apart from socio-cultural

A. exist apart from cultural interaction. B.
interaction.
C. not exist apart from socio-cultural

interaction.
Answer: Option C
17. Decrease in population of a society
A. is always a welcome B. can create crisis at some stages.
C. is never a welcome.
Answer: Option B
18. Socially it may be said that procreation is
A. a biological factor. B. socially motivated factor.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
19. Modern societies allow the young couple to
partially use their reproductive

A. fully use their reproductivity. B.
capacity.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
20. Process of controlling production in many cases is
A. conscious process B. social compulsion
C. unconscious process
Answer: Option C
21. Which of the following is not unconscious control on reproduction?
A. Taboos on social intercourse. B. Taboos against adultery.
C. Taboos against meeting of husband

and wife.
Answer: Option A
22. Which of the following is not covered under the category of conscious control on fertility?
A. Fixing minimum marriage age. B. Encouraging widow re-marriage.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
23. Which of the following is not covered under the category of conscious control of fertility?
A. Insistence on polygamy B. Limiting on family size
C. None of these
Answer: Option A
24. Which of the following is not covered under the category of conscious controls?
A. Infanticide B. Use of contraceptives
C. Taboos against fornication
Answer: Option C
25. Point out the factor which is not unconscious encouragement of fertility?
A. Rebate on income tax. B. Marriage of couples at mature age.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
26. Which of the following is not important from reproduction viewpoint?
A. Creation of property B. Old age security
C. Production of goods
Answer: Option A
27. Which of the following is not an encouragement of fertility?
A. Approval of non-marriage B. Sterility
C. Impotency
Answer: Option A
28. Which of the following is not an encouragement of fertility?
A. Miscarriage B. Abortion
Legal prohibition on the use of

C.
contraceptives
Answer: Option C
29. So far as society is concerned it
A. sometimes causes deaths B. encourages death
C. None of these
Answer: Option A
30. Which of the following is not a practice for killing an individual by the society?
Leaving the orphans to destitute

A. B. Leaving the infirms to their care.
homes.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option A
31. Which one of the following is not a practice for killing an individual by the society?
A. Capital punishment B. Shooting of the people by dacoits
C. None of above.

Answer: Option B
32. One of the following was an approved practice of the society for killing an individual.
A. Sati system. B. Suicide as frustration in love.
C. Suicide as failure in the examination.
Answer: Option A
33. Important cause of death in society is
A. individualistic suicide only B. situationalised suicide
C. both a and b
Answer: Option C
34. In primitive societies oracles were consulted to treat a person
A. on prolonged illness. B. of a disease attributed witchcraft.
C. undergoing pains.
Answer: Option B
35. The practice of religio-medical has
A. completely come to an end. B. existed in one form or the other.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
36. When harmful effects of folkways are socially pointed out people
A. strongly define it B. gradually drop those
C. None of these

Answer: Option A
37. Which of the following is not an important cause of migration of the people from one society
to other?
Form of government in the home

A. Cost of travel to the new country. B.
country.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
38. Which of the following is important cause of migration of the people from one society to other?
Better chances of employment in the Cultural unity of the receiving

A. B.
country. country.
C. Political unity of both the countries.
Answer: Option A
39. Which one of the following is not a major consideration for the migration of people from one
country to the other?
A. Economic policy B. Physical conditions
C. Extent of available labour
Answer: Option C
40. Who of the following usually migrate in less numbers?
A. Young females with families. B. Young with unmarried families.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option A
41. According to Gist and Clark studies,
intelligent migrate in less numbers intelligent migrate in more numbers

A. B.
than the others. than the others
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
42. Unchecked migration is unwelcome, which one of the following is not an important cause for it?
A. It causes economic depression. B. It increases poverty.
C. It results in religious disharmony.
Answer: Option C
43. Nationalism and population
A. have nothing to do with each other. B. are closely linked with each other.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
44. Main reason for less population in Africa is
A. less technological advancement. B. form of government.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option A
45. The continent which is gradually increasing in population is
A. Africa B. Europe
C. Asia
Answer: Option C
46. Density of population is very much related to
A. Climate B. political system
C. environmental study
Answer: Option A
47. Which of the following does not very much influence the density of population?
A. Rainfall B. Humidity
C. Soil fertility
Answer: Option B
48. Which of the following is important cause of increase in world's population?
A. Society has controlled fertility. B. Society has controlled death rate
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
49. Social benefit of population statistics is that
we gather information about

A. we come to know about child morality. B.
industrialisation.
C. both of these.
Answer: Option A
50. Which of the following is not a social benefit of population statistics?
We can formulate new social

A. We can formulate new labour laws. B.
amenities.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option A
Explanation:
51. Which of the following is social benefit of population statistics?
We gather information about density of We come to know about the numbers

A. B.
population. of voters.
C. None of these
Answer: Option A
52. The theory of social capillarity about population was expounded by
A. Arisene Dumont B. P. V. Young
C. Karl Marx
Answer: Option A
53. "What gravity is to physical world, social capillarity is to the social order", is said by
A. Spencer B. Max Weber
C. A. Dumont
Answer: Option C
54. According to theory of capillarity, movement from one class to the other was due to
A. decline in birth rate B. decline in death rate
C. urbanisation trends
Answer: Option A
55. According to Dumont, social capillarity is more effective in a country where movement from class
to class
A. is very strong. B. is weak and hindrances are very few.
C. is very weak.
Answer: Option B
56. According to Dumont theory, in a rigid society there was tendency for
A. birth rate to decline. B. no tendency for birth ration to decline.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
57. According to theory of social capillarity, people in the cities produce less children because
A. they have desire to go up. B. they are social cleavages
C. they have social values.
Answer: Option A
58. "On the whole this statement of relation between individualisation and genesis seems a decided
improvement over Spencer's", is said by
A. Ginni B. P. V. Young
C. Lewis and Thompson
Answer: Option C
59. Whose name is associated with the theory of voluntarism?
A. A. Dumont B. Ginni
C. Frank Fetter
Answer: Option C
60. According to the theory of voluntarism, the rich produce less children because
they wish to enjoy the benefits of

A. they have low fertility. B.
prosperity.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
61. According to theory of voluntarism, the poor in every society have more children because
A. they spend less on their bringing up. B. they live in a joint family.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option A
62. While discussing population increase Henry George believed that fecundity
will increase with intellectual will decrease with intellectual

A. B.
development. development.
C. neither increase nor decrease.
Answer: Option B
63. "Population and social system" is the work of
A. F. S. Nitti B. P. V. Young
C. Carr Sounders
Answer: Option A
64. Who of the following believed that increase in population in many causes helped in the progress
and growth of human society and civilisation?
A. A Dumont B. Karl Marx
C. F. S. Nitti D. P. V. Young
Answer: Option C
65. Which of the following is not common between a demographer and social demographer?
A. Both collect data. B. Both lay stress on quality.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option B
66. Which of the following is not an aspect one which social demographer will not lay stress?
A. On quality alone. B. On accuracy.

C. On quantity alone.
Answer: Option C
67. Which of the following is not common between a demographer and social demographer?
Both deal with human and animal

A. B. Both help the policy-makers.
societies.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option A
68. Which of the following does not fall within the purview of social demographer?
To collect information about source of To collect information about population

A. B.
water supply. growth rate.
C. None of above.
Answer: Option A
69. What of the following does not fall within the preview of social demographer?
To provide information about forms of

A. To collect data about infant. B.
government.
To provide feedback for social policy

C.
formation.
Answer: Option A
70. Prostitution can define as
woman who exchanges sexual favours

A. meeting of one man and woman. B.
for tangible gain.
C. None of these
Answer: Option B
71. Families in which there is only one parent present to care the children is called
A. parent families B. single parent families
C. None of these
Answer: Option B
72. A child's ability to understand the attitude, viewpoints and expectations of society as a whole is
called
A. generalised others B. understand
C. wit
Answer: Option A
73. Pleasurable mass involvements in some particular taste of lifestyle that have a line of historical
continuity is called
A. fashion B. custom
C. tradition
Answer: Option A
74. An indicator of people's attitudes or behaviour is called
A. preface B. index
C. context
Answer: Option B
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1.

Social problem means

A. state of affairs B. moral approach to problem

Answer & Explanation

2. "A pattern of behaviour that constitutes" is called

A. social problem B. economic problem

Answer & Explanation

3. "Threat to society" is definition of

A. economic problem B. cultural problem

Answer & Explanation

4. Which of the following is characteristic of social problem?

It affects on a large section of a

Answer & Explanation

5. Which of the following is not characteristic of social problem?

Generally regarded harmful for the It has effect on a large section of a

C. Develops gradually and slowly.

Answer & Explanation

C. Scepticism D. None of these

Answer & Explanation

7. Which of the following is not source of social problem?

A. Social change B. Poverty

Answer & Explanation

8. Which of the following is not source of social problem?

A. Industrial development B. Cultural gap

Answer & Explanation

A. Complexity of life B. Social conflict

Answer & Explanation

10. Which one of the following is not source of social problem?

A. Social disintegration B. Orthodox approach

C. Rural urban migration D. None of these

11. In mid-1986, Pakistan's population is estimated at

A. 97.68 million B. 97.67 million

Answer & Explanation

12. Population is growing at the natural rate of

A. 3.20% per year B. 3.40% per year

C. 3.50% per year

Answer & Explanation

13. In Pakistan, population resides in urban areas

Answer & Explanation

A. 5.95 million B. 5.15 million

Answer & Explanation

15. In Pakistan, population belongs to working age group is

Answer & Explanation

16. Human population can

exist both apart from socio-cultural

C. not exist apart from socio-cultural

Answer & Explanation

17. Decrease in population of a society

A. is always a welcome B. can create crisis at some stages.

Answer & Explanation

18. Socially it may be said that procreation is

A. a biological factor. B. socially motivated factor.

Answer & Explanation

19. Modern societies allow the young couple to

partially use their reproductive

Answer & Explanation

20. Process of controlling production in many cases is

A. conscious process B. social compulsion

Answer & Explanation

A. Taboos on social intercourse. B. Taboos against adultery.

C. Taboos against meeting of husband

Answer & Explanation