About Social Processes in FSC Sociology
Social Processes is one of the 12 main chapters in our Federal Board FSC Sociology question bank (11th class), and about 4% of its real questions come from it. Tayyari Karo has 15 real questions on this chapter from 2023 to 2025; 4 are multiple choice and marked instantly, and the rest are short and long questions with a model answer. By difficulty: 8 easy, 7 medium.
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2025 1st Annual · 11th · Social Processes
Competition in which the solitary competitor is announced successful is called:
- Formal
- Informal
- Absolute
- Relative
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Answer: C. Absolute
In absolute competition a single competitor (e.g. a runner competing against time/a record) is declared successful without a rival being directly overcome.
2025 1st Annual · 11th · Social Processes
The most fatal type of conflict is:
- Religious
- Political
- Economic
- War
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Answer: D. War
War is armed conflict between groups/nations and causes the greatest loss of life, making it the most fatal type of conflict.
2025 1st Annual · 11th · Social Processes
The fusion of previously two distinct groups into one is called:
- Assimilation
- Cooperation
- Accommodation
- Acculturation
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Answer: A. Assimilation
Assimilation is the process by which two distinct groups merge and lose their separate cultural identities to form one group.
2023 Annual · 11th · Social Processes
War is the type of:
- Competition
- Conflict
- Cooperation
- Accommodation
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Answer: B. Conflict
War is the most violent form of conflict, a dissociative social process.
2025 1st Annual · 11th · Social Processes
What is meant by conflict?
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Conflict is a dissociative social process in which two or more individuals or groups struggle against each other for scarce resources, status, power or values, each trying to eliminate or subdue the rival rather than merely outdo them. Unlike competition, conflict is often direct, personal and can involve the use of force (e.g., wars, strikes, communal riots).
2025 1st Annual · 11th · Social Processes
What is meant by relative competition?
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Relative competition is a type of competition in which competitors are aware of and directly compete against each other for a limited goal (e.g., a job, an admission seat, a trophy), and success of one usually means the failure/loss of the others, unlike absolute competition where a single competitor competes against a standard.
2025 2nd Annual · 11th · Social Processes
What is meant by social process?
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A social process is a recurring, patterned form of social interaction through which individuals and groups relate to one another and society is continually formed and re-formed — such as cooperation, competition, conflict, accommodation and assimilation.
2025 2nd Annual · 11th · Social Processes
What is meant by Assimilation?
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Assimilation is the social process by which two or more culturally distinct groups gradually merge and lose their separate cultural identities, adopting a common culture, so that they become indistinguishable as a single group — for example, immigrant communities that over generations fully adopt the host society's language, customs and identity.