BALOCHISTAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR THE POSTS OF SECTION OFFICERS (B-17)
SOCIOLOGY
MARKS: 150
MAY 24, 2003
TIME: 03 HOURS
NOTE: Attempt any FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks. Question No. 1 is Compulsory.
Q-1.
(A) Write the correct answer from the multiple choices: (10)
1. Cultural lag:
a) It is lag existing between technological development and the growth of ideas.
b) Makes social problems understandable.
c) It is a lag between ideas, objects and practices which maintained only by faith.
2. Social stratification means:
a) Differences in political structure of families.
b) Differences in class structure.
c) Difference in caste structure.
3. Formation of social groups depends on:
a) Geographical proximity of people.
b) Common interest of people.
c) The rational decision of two or more persons.
4. Observational studies are:
a) Experimental.
b) Impressionistic.
c) Informal descriptive.
5. Folkways are:
a) Customary ways a group does things.
b) Strong ideas of right and wrong.
c) Laws of folk society.
(B) Write True or False: (20)
1. Sociology explores the varieties of group structure.
2. Social system is located at group level.
3. The direction of social changes is determined by the change in physical environment.
4. The Migration is conditioning factor in creating social problems.
5. The term “Anomic Suicide” is used by Herbert Spencer.
6. Gesellschaft is used by Ferdinand Tonnies.
7. Social mobility means formal attitude of people.
8. Status is a position where a person stands in the group structure.
9. Diffusion is the spread of culture traits from group to group.
10. Social Order is a comprehensive social system.
(C) Fill in the blanks with appropriate answer: (10)
1. The amount of reproduction among women of child bearing age is called _______. (fertility, birth rate, birth ratio)
2. Any group or category to which people feel they belong is called _______. (in group, group in)
3. The systematic study of the biological bases of social behaviour is called _______. (socio-biology, sociology, ecology)
4. A negative attitude towards an entire category of people such as racial or ethnic minority is called _______. (prejudice, bias, grouping)
5. A theory of social change which holds that society is moving in definite direction is called _______. (evolutionary theory, revolution theory, evolution)
(D) Distinguish between the following pairs: (10)
1. Cultural uniformities and cultural variabilities.
2. Family of orientation and family of procreation.
3. Stationary population and stable population.
4. Stratified sampling and cluster sampling.
5. Occasional criminals and professional criminals.
Q-2. What is personality? Discuss the role of family and culture in the development of personality.
Q-3. What changes do you visualize in the structure and functions of Pakistani family?
Q-4. What is social movement; explain the origin and consequences of any one social movement with the specific reference of Balochistan.
Q-5. Who was the founding father of Sociology? Ibn-e-Khaldun or August Comte give the arguments in favour of your answer.
Q-6. Discuss the relation of educational development and social change in Balochistan.
Q-7. What is collective behaviour? Also discuss the conditions of collective behaviour.
Q-8. Define social class; also discuss the leading elements of determining the social class.
Q-9. What is social control discuss the formal means of the social control in detail.
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