1)- Which of following is factor in change of social life?
A). Physical environment
B). Population changes
C). Isolation and contact
D). All of these
E). Only a and b ✔️
Answer: Option E
2)- Civilized man’s culture is affected by a change of:
A). place
B). physical environment ✔
C). norms and values
3)- A population change is itself a:
A). political change
B). economic change
C). social change ✔
D). None of these
4)- “Need” means:
A). requirement
B). state of felt deprivation ✔
C). society demand
5). “Needs” are:
A). objective
B). subjective
C). None of these
D). both a and b ✔
6)- Needs have greatly effects on:
A). political change
B). social change ✔
C). economic change
7)- Needs are real if:
A). people feel that they are real ✔
B). economic change occurs
C). social change occurs
8)- Zip Fastener invented need in:
A). 1891 ✔
B). 1845
C). 1888
9)- Need was patented by Thompson in:
A). 1888
B). 1895
C). 1845 ✔
10)- Need was reinvented by Dunlop in:
A). 1888 ✔
B). 1977
C). 1868
11)- Changing conditions create:
A). needs
B). new needs ✔
C). demands
12)- Urbanisation created a need for:
A). modern factory system
B). sanitary engineering ✔
C). automobile
D). all of these
13)- A culture:
A). is integrated ✔
B). always develop
C). None of these
14)- Modern factory system created a need for:
A). super highway
B). labour unions ✔
C). sanitary engineering
15)- High-speed automobile created a need for:
A). super highway ✔
B). labour unions
C). None of these
16)- Cultural base means:
A). felt of deprivation.
B). form of need shaped by culture.
C). accumulation of knowledge and technique available to the inventor ✔
17)- As the cultural base grows:
A). an increasing number of inventions and discoveries become possible. ✔
B). invention and discoveries become rate.
C). None of these
18). An invention cannot be completed:
A). unless the cultural base provides the necessary preceding inventions and discoveries. ✔
B). unless they are accepted by society.
C). None of these
19)- It is quite common for an invention to be made independently by:
A). a few persons
B). several persons ✔
C). one person only
20)- The invention is made independently by several persons at:
A). about the same time ✔
B). different time
C). None of these
21)- Ogburn had specialised in the study of:
A). social change ✔
B). economic change
C). political change
52)- Ogburn listed:
A). 149 inventions and discoveries.
B). 148 inventions and discoveries. ✔
C). 147 inventions and discoveries.
53)- The great importance of the cultural base is revealed by the principle of:
A). cross-fertilization ✔
B). social change
C). economic change
54)- The principle of cross-fertilization states that discoveries and inventions in one field become useful in:
A). the same field.
B). an entirely different field. ✔
C). None of these
55)- Pasteur’s germ theory of disease gres out of his efforts to tell France’s vintners, why their wine:
A). turned sour ✔
B). became delicious
C). became sweet
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