Tuesday, 7 July 2026

KERALA PSC / CDPO / PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES


KERALA PSC / CDPO / PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

1.    The Method applied to understand the status of natural resources of region

Transect walk

 

2.    Traveling Allowance paid to the project staff is

Administrative Cost

 

3.    Which branch of Social Science helps social work profession to study the physical, social and cultural development and behaviour of human being?

Anthropology

 

4.    Which principle is applied when the social case worker and client emerge under two diverse conditions?

Principle of Acceptance

 

5.    Universal Declaration of Human rights by UN in the year?

1948

 

6.    First Chairperson of Central Social Welfare Board (CSWB)

Durgabai Deshmukh

 

7.    Marriage between people of different social categories is called

Exogamy

 

8.    Which is a social group with some degree of we feeling and living

Community

 

9.    Group which serves as a point of comparison is known as

Reference group

 

10. The articles 36 to 51 in the Indian Constitution speak of the

Directive Principles

 

 

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

11. When did India constitute National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)?

1993

 

12. The movement in India successfully intervened to oppose the development projects in Himalayas?

Chipko

 

13. Who started Bhudan Movement?

Vinoba Bhave

 

14. According to article 24 of Indian Constitution, child labour is considered for those children who are working below ……..years

14

 

15. When the need of the client is to get sympathetic response to his problem, what principle is applied?

Controlled emotional involvement

 

16. Who formulated the four stages of cognitive development. Sensory motor, preoperational, concrete operational and formal operational?

Piaget

 

17. The eating disorder which involves episode of binge eating and purging is called

Anorexia

 

18. The famous slogan Garibi Hatao (remove property) was launched during the

Fifth Five year plan

 

19. The term ambivalence was coined by

Eugen Bleuler

 

20. The vitamin that is available for human body from sunlight is

Vitamin D

 

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

21. The famous suicide theory was developed by

Durkheim

 

22. The capacity of a physician to put himself in the patients place to such a degree that he able to experience the meaning of the patients feelings, wishes and thoughts is known as

Empathy

 

23. The output of the project is assessed through

Evaluation

 

24. A variable that is presumed to influence another variable is called

An Independent variable

 

25. The most frequently occurring number in a set of values is called

Mode

 

26. The social process in which two or more persons are striving for the same goal which is limited, that all cannot be shared is known

Competition

 

27. Model of group work that focuses on restoration to normalcy after a point of breakdown

Remedial Model

 

28. Central Social Welfare Board was formed in the year

1953

 

29. When people are working in a farm or business but are not producing anything additionally, it is known as

Disguised Unemployment

 

30. National income is calculated by

Central Statistical Organization

 

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

31. A process in which inputs are transformed into outputs called

Production

 

32. In a democratic group process the group morale and discipline will be

We centered

 

33. The persons with Disabilities (Equal opportunities, Protection of rights and Full participation) Act came into existence

1995

 

34. What helps an individual to free himself while being helped to interact with his fellow men

Self direction

 

35. The stages of forming, storming, norming, performing, adjourning is the contribution of

Bruce Tuckmen

 

36. Morbidity measurement which indicates the number of new cases occurring in a defined population during a specified period of time is

Incidence rate

 

37. If a person is accused of crime, the first court he/she will have contact with will be the

Magistrates Court

 

38. The proponent of Need for achievement theory is

McClelland

 

39. The term Personality derived from

Greek word

 

40. Who said that religion is the opium of masses?

Karl Marx

 

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

41. Right to Free Legal Aid is included in

Article 14

 

42. The Settlement house movement began in

London

 

43. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act was passed in the year

2005

 

44. Gender-related Development Index is used in

UNDP Report

 

45. Which Article of Indian Constitution declares untouchability as an offence?

Article 17

 

46. The main opportunistic infection among AIDS cases in India is

Tuberculosis (TB)

 

47. The book “The Poor and their Money” is written by

Rutherford

 

48. Who prepares the five year plans in India?

Planning Commission

 

49. Almoners (outside visitors) were related to which country?

England

 

50. Who is the father of modern India for inspiring social reforms?

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / PREVIOUS QUESTION PAPERS / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

51. The Societies Registration Act of India was passed in the year

1860

 

52. Rejection of a null hypothesis when it is known as

Type – I error

 

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KERALA PSC / CDPO / SOCIOLOGY / FAMILY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / SOCIOLOGY / FAMILY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES


KERALA PSC / CDPO / SOCIOLOGY / FAMILY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

1.    The word Family comes from

Latin

 

2.    The functional basic unit of society is

Family

 

3.    The social group characterized by common residence, economic cooperation and reproduction is called

Family

 

4.    Two divorced people marry and bring their children from the old family

Blended family

 

5.    The couples with no kids’ children in a household

Child Less family

 

6.    A family group consisting of a pair of couple and their children

Nuclear family

 

7.    A mother or father alone residing in a family with their children

Single Parent family

 

8.    A family group with three or more generation residing together

Joint family

 

9.    A group of people residing together, who may or may not have family or kin relation with frequent ship

Household

 

10. Three or more generation of same family living together with frequent contact between each other

Traditional extended family

 

 

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11. Nuclear families live apart from their extended family, but have in regular contact with the family members

Attenuated extended family

 

12. A new step family created when two parts of two precious family bring together

Reconstituted family

 

13. The process by which the children to learn and accept the values and norms of society

Primary socialization

 

14. The father governing family is known as

Patriarchal family

 

15. The female dominance in governing family members is termed as

Matriarchal family

 

16. The wife goes to husband’s house for living is called as

Patrilocal family

 

17. The husband goes to wife house for living is

Matrilocal family

 

18. The term used for representing one man marry to one women and mating relationship maintained among them

Endogamous marriage

 

19. One man marry two or more women is termed as

Polygamous Marriage

 

20. Which term represents, one woman marries to two or more men?

Polyandrous marriage

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / SOCIOLOGY / FAMILY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

21. The family in which ancestry continuous through father is termed as

Patriarchal family

 

22. Which term represents ancestry continuous through mother?

Matrilineal family

 

23. The marriage sanctioned among members within the members among the group

Endogamous marriage

 

24. The marriage sanctioned with members of other group

Exogamous marriage

 

25. The family consist of spouses, their offsprings and relatives through marriage is called

Conjugal family

 

26. The family formed by the marriage through blood relatives

Consanguineous family

 

27. The family in which the children find to determine their wishes determine the policy of family

Filocentric family

 

28. Which act first recognized monogamy as the accepted form of marriage?

The Hindu Marriage Act, 1955

 

29. Special Marriage Act enacted on

1872

 

30. Hindu Widow Remarriage Act came into force on

1856

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / SOCIOLOGY / FAMILY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

31. Child Marriage Restraint Act enacted on

1929

 

32. Family Court Act came into existence form

1954

 

33. Prevention of Sati Act came into force in the year

1829

 

34. The social reformer who works against SATI

Raja Ram Mohan Roy

 

35. The social reformer works for Hindu Widow Remarriage Act

Pt. Chandra Vidya Sagar

 

36. A break down in the pleasant family function is termed as

Family disorganization

 

37. The parents of one of the couples, couples, and the children live together called

Small extended family

 

38. Parents, their unmarried children and married sons and their family is

Large extended family

 

39. Property or money brought by the bride to her husband when she marries him

Dowry

 

40. Dowry Prohibition Act enacted on

1961

 

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / SOCIOLOGY / FAMILY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES

 

41. The marriage in which husband engage in marriage with wife’s sister

Sororate marriage

 

42. Special Marriage Act enacted on

1954

 

43. The minimum age stipulated for marriage for bride groom in India is

21 years

 

44. The minimum age stipulated for marriage for bride in India is

18 years

 

45. Equality in marriage and family functions is included in the article

Article 16

 

KERALA PSC / CDPO / SOCIOLOGY / FAMILY / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / NOTES