2013 September UGC NET Solved Question Paper in Sociology Paper 2
1. Who argues that labour force of unskilled workmen is as important and as indispensable to the factory as labour force of engineers?
(A) Mebin M. Tumin
(B) Michael Young
(C) Eva Rosenfeld
(D) Wilbert E. Moore
Answer: (A)
2. For whom history is ‘a graveyard of aristocracies’?
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Randall Collins
(C) V. Pareto
(D) Emile Durkheim
Answer: (C)
3. According to whose terminology, person’s ‘class situation’ is basically his ‘market situation’?
(A) Karl Marx
(B) Max Weber
(C) Kingsley Davis and Wibert E. Moore
(D) Talcot Parsons
Answer: (B)
4. Match the items in the List – I with the items in the List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. E. Durkheim 1. The Elementary forms of the Religious Life
b. B.S. Turner 2. Religion and Social Theory
c. M. Weber 3. The Sociology of Religion
d. G. Bataille 4. Theory of Religion
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 2 1 3 4
(D) 3 4 1 2
Answer: (A)
5. Match the items in the List – I with the items in the List – II and choose the correct code given below:
List – I List – II
a. E.W. Burgess and H.J. Locke 1. The family: From Institution to Companionship
b. A.W. Gouldner 2. Patterns of Industrial Bureaucracy
c. H.J. Locke 3. Predicting Adjustment in Marriagewww.netugc.com
d. T. Parsons 4. The Social System
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 3 2 4 1
(D) 2 4 3 1
Answer: (A)
6. An instrument or procedure, when repeatedly used under similar conditions, gives the same result, it refers to
(A) Validity
(B) Quantitativeness
(C) Reliability
(D) Consistency
Answer: (C)
7. Match the items in the List – I with the items in the List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. R. Robertson 1. The Sociological Interpretation of Religion
b. R. Rosser and C. Harris 2. The Family and Social Change
c. T. Parsons and B.F. Bales 3. Family, Socialization and Interaction Process
d. J.M. Mogey 4. Family and Neighbourhood
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 1 2 3 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 2 1 3 4
Answer: (A)
8. Match the List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. G.H. Mead 1. Verstehen
b. V. Pareto 2. Alienation
c. Max Weber 3. Role taking
d. Karl Marx 4. Circulation of Elites
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 3 2 1 4
(C) 3 4 2 1
(D) 3 4 1 2
Answer: (D)
9. Oral History can be used to generate information in a study focusing on
(A) Geneology of family
(B) Communal riots that took place in 1945
(C) Culture change in a tribal community
(D) Identity politics of an ethnic group
Answer: (Wrong question)
10. Which of the following are measures of dispersion?
(1) Skewness
(2) Variance
(3) Standard Deviation
(4) Harmonic Mean
Codes:
(A) (1), (3) & (4)
(B) (2), (3) & (4)
(C) (1), (2) & (3)
(D) (1), (2) & (4)
Answer: (C)
11. Match the items in the List – I with the items in the List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Inductive method 1. Variable that causes effect
b. Independent variable 2. Formulation of hypothesis
c. Qualitative method 3. Particular to general
d. Exploratory study 4. Interpretinism
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 3 1 4 2
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 4 3 2 1
Answer: (B)
12. Match the List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. Value of the score which most frequently occurs in the collection of the scores
1. Mean
b. Score value below which (and above which) half the scores in the distribution fall
2. Mode
c. Value depicting sum of all scores divided by the number of observation
3. Median
Codes:
a b c
(A) 1 2 3
(B) 2 1 3
(C) 3 2 1
(D) 3 1 2
Answer: (Wrong question)
13. ‘Tarawad’ is a matrilineal joint family found in the State of
(A) Maharashtra
(B) Kerala
(C) Assam
(D) Orissa
Answer: (B)
14. Assertion (A): According to Marx, class membership is determined by a person’s position in the economic system.
Reason (R): Class conflict is a necessary result of the exploitation of one class by another.
Choose the correct answer from the given code:
Codes:
(A) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is false but (R) is true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
Answer: (D)
15. Which of the following concepts can be related to the statement ‘subjective detachment of performer from the role being performed’?
(A) Role taking
(B) Role distance
(C) Role making
(D) Role exit
Answer: (B)
16. Sociology is the science of interpretative understanding of social
(A) action
(B) interaction
(C) group
(D) institution
Answer: (A)
17. A researcher wants to test the effectiveness of the intervention model developed for behavioural change among the HIV victims. Which of the following research designs will be more appropriate?
(A) Diagnostic Research Design
(B) Exploratory Research Design
(C) Descriptive Research Design
(D) Experimental Research Design
Answer: (D)
18. Assertion (A): Coefficient of correlation explains the extent of change in one variable (X) associated with the change in the other variable (Y).
Reason (R): Both variables X and Y are always causally related.
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) (A) is false but (R) is true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Answer: (B)
19. Which of the following is not one of the four basic stages of what Mead calls “the act”
(A) Impulse
(B) Perception
(C) Manipulation
(D) Significant symbols
Answer: (D)www.netugc.com
20. When a Hindu male marries a woman from his lower caste, it is called
(A) Hypogamy
(B) Hypergamy
(C) Levirate
(D) Sororate
Answer: (A)
21. There are two statements, one is Assertion (A) and the other is Reason (R). Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Assertion (A): Introduction of Midday meals in primary schools has increased the rate of attendance among the children in Rural India.
Reason (R): Mid-day meals has resulted in corruption and negligence of teachers in their teaching.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Answer: (B)
22. Which one of the following is not associated with ‘test of significance’?
(A) Critical region
(B) Type I (α) error
(C) Type II (β) error
(D) Product moment correlation
Answer: (D)
23. Ferdinand Toennies mentioned Kuerville or artificial will as the basis of
(A) Gemeinschaft
(B) Gesellschaft
(C) Family
(D) Peer group
Answer: (B)
24. Talcott Parsons mentions the needs of a social system in a particular sequence. Which one of the following correctly mentions that sequence?
(A) Integration, Latency, Goal Maintenance, Adaptation
(B) Latency, Integration, Goal Maintenance, Adaptation
(C) Goal Maintenance, Integration, Adaptation, Latency
(D) Adaptation, Goal Maintenance, Integration, Latency
Answer: (D)
25. Assertion (A): Roles are the bundles of socially defined attributes and expectations associated with social positions.
Reason (R): Roles demonstrate the absolute compliance with expected behaviour of an individual in the set.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(B) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(C) (A) is true but (R) is not true.
(D) (A) is false and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
Answer: (C)
26. Which of the following is most effective in addressing social inequality caused by caste system yielding tangible results?
(A) Positive discrimination
(B) Affirmative action
(C) Development policies
(D) Caste based politics
Answer: (A)
27. ‘Values’ refer to
(A) Ideals
(B) Prescriptions of behaviour
(C) Social preferences
(D) Social expectations
Answer: (C)
28. Match List – I with List – II and find the correct answer from codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Sociology is the science of institutions, their genesis and their functioning
1. Alex Inklee
b. Sociology is the study of social systems of social action and of their interrelations
2. Morris Ginsberg
c. Sociology in the Study of human interactions and inter-relations their conditions and consequences. 3. Max Weber
d. Sociology is ‘the science whose object is to interpret the meaning of social action and thereby give causal explanation 4. E. Durkheim
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 4 1 2 3
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 4 1 3 2
(D) 1 3 4 2
Answer: (A)
29. Who said that ‘only one role is associated with one status’?
(A) Ralph Linton
(B) R.K. Merton
(C) Talcott Parsons
(D) William G. Goode
Answer: (A)
30. Match the List – I with List – II and select the correct code from the following:
List – I List – II
a. Family and Social Network 1. Young and Willmott
b. Family and kinship in East London 2. Talcott Parsons
c. World Revolution and Family Patterns 3. Elizabeth Bott
d. Family, Socialization and Interaction process 4. William J. Goode
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 3 1 4 2
(B) 1 2 3 4
(C) 2 3 1 4
(D) 4 1 2 3
Answer: (A)
31. R.K. Merton offered the example of the Hopi Americans engaging in ceremonial dances to encourage rain in order to illustrate
(A) Manifest dysfunction
(B) Latent dysfunction
(C) Manifest function
(D) Latent function
Answer: (D)
32. Symbolic interactionism tends to focus on
(A) Macro-level social change
(B) Small-scale social change
(C) Meso-level social change
(D) Change in the behaviour of the ego
Answer: (B)
33. What does Macdonaldization mean?
(A) Universal application of the ideas of Dwight Macdonald
(B) The process of extension of the cartoons of Donald Duck.
(C) Spread of the new means of consumption across the world
(D) Diffusion of modern agricultural practices
Answer: (C)
34. A.R. Radcliffe – Brown conducted fieldwork among the
(A) Trobriand Islanders
(B) Andaman Islanders
(C) Todas
(D) Murias
Answer: (B)
35. Who first propagated the idea that societies could be analysed as systems with self-equilibriating properties?
(A) Vilfredo Pareto
(B) Talcott Parsons
(C) Emile Durkheim
(D) Max Weber
Answer: (A)
36. In 1848 Marx wrote in The Communist Manifesto that a spectre was haunting Europe. What was this spectre?
(A) Communism
(B) Capitalism
(C) Hegelian thought
(D) Religion
Answer: (A)
37. Which of the following does not explain Coser’s Theory of Social Conflict?
(A) Conflict is a universal phenomenon
(B) Conflict leads to destruction
(C) Conflict has some positive functions
(D) Conflict may lead to social change
Answer: (B)
38. Match the items of List – I with the items of List – II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Max Weber 1. Logical and nonlogical action
b. Emile Durkheim 2. Traditional authority and rational-legal authority
c. Vilfredo Pareto 3. Metaphysical stage and positive stage of human intellect and social organization
d. Auguste Comte 4. Mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 2 3 1 4
(B) 2 4 1 3
(C) 1 2 3 4
(D) 4 2 1 3
Answer: (B)
39. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. Mean 1. Value which divides the distribution into two equal halves.
b. Median 2. Most frequently occurring value in the distribution.
c. Mode 3. The value which every unit would have possessed equally, if redistributed again.
Codes:www.netugc.com
a b c
(A) 3 1 2
(B) 2 3 1
(C) 1 2 3
(D) 2 1 3
Answer: (A)
40. Which of the following characteristics of social phenomena constrain the application of scientific method in absolute terms in social research? Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
1. Patterned social behaviour
2. Unpredictability of human behaviour
3. Lack of precision in measurement
4. Multiple causation of reality
Codes:
(A) 2 & 4
(B) 1 & 2
(C) 2 & 3
(D) 3 & 4
Answer: (A)
41. Who amongst the following sociologists has not considered conflict as a vital element of society?
(A) Randall Collins
(B) Lewis Coser
(C) Talcott Parsons
(D) Ralph Dahrendorf
Answer: (C)
42. The concept of ‘imperatively coordinated associations’ was contributed by
(A) Talcott Parsons
(B) Ralph Dahrendorf
(C) C. Wright Mills
(D) Karl Marx
Answer: (B)
43. “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world and the soul of soulless condition.” Who made the statement?
(A) L. Feurbach
(B) G. Lukacs
(C) K. Marx
(D) V.I. Lenin
Answer: (C)
44. Match items in List – I with items in List – II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Caste and Race 1. D.N. Dhanagare
b. Modernisation 2. M.N. Srinivas
c. Sanskritisation 3. Yogendar Singh
d. Social movements 4. G.S. Ghurye
Codes:
a b c d
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 4 3 2 1
(C) 3 2 4 1
(D) 1 4 1 3
Answer: (B)
45. Assertion (A): Privatization of Education resulted in degradation of education.
Reason (R): Globalization policy contribute to the privatization of education.
Choose the correct answer from the given code:
Codes:
(A) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Answer: (BC)
46. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown contributed to
(A) Functionalism
(B) Cultural Materialism
(C) Structural – Functionalism
(D) Structuralism
Answer: (C)
47. From which one of the following the ‘sum of the differences from a measure would always be zero’?
(A) Mode
(B) Median
(C) Mean
(D) Standard Error
Answer: (C)
48. Which of the following theories has a “Micro” orientation?
(A) Functionalism
(B) Conflict theory
(C) Interactionism
(D) Critical theory
Answer: (C)
49. Who stated that ‘Politics is about power, politics occurs when there are differentials in power’?
(A) T. Parsons
(B) R.A. Dahl
(C) R.E. Dowse and J.A. Hughes
(D) J. Westergaard and A. Little
Answer: (C)
50. Who is the author of the book ‘Rules of Sociological method’?
(A) Max Weber
(B) Auguste Comte
(C) Vilfredo Pareto
(D) Emile Durkheim
Answer: (D)