Deck 3: Urban Sociology and Urbanization in India

Question 1

Who edited the classic book, "Urban Sociology of India"?

A)MSA Rao
B)MN Panini
C)Yogendra Singh
D)M.N.Srinivas

Answer 1

MSA Rao

Question 2

Urbanization is a process that is

A)Continuous
B)Non-continuous
C)Dormant
D)Stagnant

Answer 2

Continuous

Question 3

The rate of Urbanization in India differs in time, space and

A)Regions
B)Matter
C)Density
D)Size

Answer 3

Regions

Question 4

According to P. Sainath, which of the following is the key role in Urban growth in India?-

A)Migration
B)Cheap Labor
C)Infrastructure
D)Industry

Question 5

Which among the following indicate that Urban growth in India is mainly due to?-

A)Increase of population
B)Labor Migration
C)Government Policies
D)Increase in factories

Question 6

Migration's main cause is due to

A)Push and pull factor
B)Better livelihood
C)Educational facility
D)Banking facility

Question 7

Who wrote the essay, "Urbanization and Social Transformations"?

A)Ramkrishna Mukherjee
B)G.S Ghurye
C)K.N Unnithan
D)A.R.Desai

Question 8

Expansion of urban areas result in alterations of

A)Satellite towns
B)Villages
C)Everyday life
D)Rural areas

Question 9

Who is the author of "Six Decades of Urbanization in India"?

A)Ashish Bose
B)N.K Bose
C)T.N Madan
D)G.S.Ghurye

Question 10

Who among the following defined city as a large space, dense and heterogeneity of groups?

A)R.E. Park
B)Louis R Wirth
C)Kingsley Davis
D)George Simmel

Question 11

The most common feature of every city is

A)Heterogeneity of People
B)Labour force
C)Density of spaces
D)Existence of slums

Question 12

Who is the author of the text "The City"?

A)Max Weber
B)George Simmel
C)Talcott Parsons
D)Karl Marx

Question 13

Which is the oldest city in India, from the choices below?

A)Banaras
B)Kolkata
C)Mahabalipuram
D)Bengaluru

Question 14

Which is the oldest city of the world, from the choices below?

A)Jerusalem
B)Bangkok
C)Kathmandu
D)Kuala Lampur

Question 15

Social mobility occurs on a larger scale at -

A)City
B)Semi-urban areas
C)Towns
D)Villages

Question 16

Who is the author of the book "Pre-industrial City"?-

A)Gideon Sjoberg
B)Ferdinand Tonnies
C)F Le Corbuiser
D)Max Weber

Question 17

Level of Technology is low at

A)Industrial City
B)Pre-Industrial City
C)Global City
D)Village society

Question 18

Who classified Consumer city and Producer city?

A)R.E. Park
B)Max Weber
C)Francis Bacon
D)Adam Smith

Question 19

According to Max Weber, Plebian cities are the outcome of

A)Plagues
B)Revolutions
C)Monarchy
D)Aristocracy

Question 20

Who among the following is associated with Ecological Approach on urban growth?

A)George Simmel
B)Ernest W Burgess
C)Louis R. Wirth
D)Robert E.Park

Question 21

Urban studies at University of Chicago came up during

A)1915 - 1940
B)1840- 1880
C)Post World War I
D)Post World War II

Question 22

Who among the following is associated with Cultural Approach of urban studies?

A)E.W Burgess
B)Robert E. Park
C)Louis R. Wirth
D)George Simmel

Question 23

Louis R Wirth's "Urbanism as a way of life" was first published as a researched paper during

A)1928
B)1925
C)1938
D)1948

Question 24

Which among the following is true for Ecological Approach in urban studies?

A)Symmetry between humans and society.
B)Any environment and given human conditions can be fixed.
C)Communities interact, estimate and depend on their environment
D)Communities are interdependent

Question 25

Which urban studies approach clarify that societies grows not in random but in relation to the advantageous features of the environment?

A)Cultural Approach
B)Ecological Approach
C)Industrial Approach
D)Concentric Zone Model