NOUN TMA Questions with Solutions – CSS111, Introduction To Sociology

1 Which of the following is not identified as a situation that stimulate sociological thinking

Encountering people who are different from us

2 Which sociologist, in a systematic study, linked the incidence of suicide to the degree of social integration of different categories of people

Durkheim.

3 The ________ refers to the process by which people act and react in relation to others

Mass Media

4 A_______ family is a family unit composed of one or two parents and their children

Nuclear

5 A ________ refers to social eruption that is highly emotional, violent and undirected

Riot

6 ____ refers to organized activity that encourages or discourages social change

Social Movement

7 ________ refers to wide spread attitudes about controversial issue

Opinion poll

8 The sharing of a household by an unmarried couple is known as

Cohabitation

9 __________ refers to sexual activity outside marriage

Infidelity

10 _________ refers to marriage that unites one male and two or more females more female

Polygyny

11 Marriage that unites partners is known as _____

Monogamy

12 _______ is the aggregate views of some members of the society or a particular public on issues or governmental policy at a given time

public opin ion

13 ______ means the presentation of information in an attempt to influence people

propaganda

14 ______ refers to various range of conditions and aberrant behaviours which are caused as a result of social disorganization

Criminal

15 _______ is defined as any behavior ,belief or condition that violates significant social norms in the society.

deviance

16 _______is an act that contravenes a law

crime

17 ________ is the interaction between people which takes place through symbols such as signs, gestures and language

symbolic interact ion

18 A system of symbols that allows members of a society to communicate with one another is

Language

19 A______ is a systematic plan for conducting research

Replication

20 The term sociology was coined in 1838 by ———–

August Comte