MCQ Bank
All of the following are the objectives of civil society EXCEPT:
- A) Reforms of the values of leaders
- B) Reforms of the values of citizens
- C) Reforms of the foreign institutions
- D) Reforms of the national institutions
Which one of the following terms refers to brutal and unfair use of power?
- A) Development
- B) Violence
- C) Conformity
- D) Stability
All of the following are the advocates of the Elite Theory of Power EXCEPT:
- A) Gaetano Mosca
- B) Robert Michels
- C) Wilfredo Pareto
- D) Michel Foucault
Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci belonged to which one of the following traditions?
- A) Realist traditions
- B) Marxist traditions
- C) Interactionist traditions
- D) Functionalist traditions
Civil Society Organizations include which of the following?
- A) Professional associations
- B) Trade unions
- C) All of the given options
- D) Philanthropic foundations
German Workers Educational Union was founded in:
- A) Berlin
- B) Paris
- C) Melbourne
- D) London
Which one of the following societies was responsible for rebuilding the democracy during the military governments in Pakistan?
- A) Ethnic Society
- B) Civil Society
- C) Plural Society
- D) Local Society
Which one of the following philosophers referred to civil society as a political community?
- A) Confucius
- B) Plato
- C) Aristotle
- D) Socrates
All of the following roles are included in civil society EXCEPT:
- A) Motivating civic engagement at local level
- B) Lobbying governments
- C) Building active citizenship
- D) Large investments at regional level
Early types of undemocratic polities have frequently been named as:
- A) Democratic
- B) Totalitarian
- C) Republican
- D) Constitutional
All of the following are the major contributions of Karl Marx EXCEPT:
- A) The Division of Labor
- B) The Communist Manifesto
- C) The German Ideology
- D) The Capital
Karl Marx was born on:
- A) 1st June, 1778
- B) 30th July, 1918
- C) 25th December, 1878
- D) 5th May, 1818
Max Weber argues that Power has its roots in _______ different groups.
- A) Three
- B) Five
- C) Four
- D) Two
Which one of the following societies acts as the joining link between the state and society?
- A) Ethnic Society
- B) Local Society
- C) Civil Society
- D) Plural Society
Which one of the following can be considered as a “third sector” of society and is different from the public and private sectors?
- A) Cultural Society
- B) Civil Society
- C) Religious Society
- D) Political Society
In the light of Karl Marx’s framework of social order, how many images of the social system are there?
- A) Three
- B) Two
- C) Four
- D) Five
The blind spot classical social thought focused only on:
- A) International violence
- B) Domestic violence
- C) Organizational violence
- D) Institutional violence
Who among the following participates in the World Social Forum (WSF) to activate democracy?
- A) Political Leaders
- B) Civil Society Actors
- C) Religious Affairs Departments
- D) Sociology Professors
According to Marx, the class that is deprived of any share in surplus is called:
- A) Proletariats
- B) Industrialists
- C) Capitalists
- D) Bourgeoisies
Karl Marx's parents belonged to which family?
- A) Democratic Jewish
- B) Aristocratic Jewish
- C) Democratic Sikh
- D) Aristocratic Sikh