1. Who argued that “By studying traditions of Indian society change can be understood”?
(A) A.K. Saran
(B) M.N. Srinivas
(C) S.C. Dube
(D) D.P. Mukherjee
Answer: (D)
2. Choose the correct sequence of societal evolution in order of increasing complexity.
(A) Agriculture, Gathering-hunting and Industrial Societies
(B) Hunting-gathering, Agriculture and Industrial Societies
(C) Hunting-gathering, Industrial Societies and Agriculture
(D) Pastoral, Industrial and Agriculture
Answer: (B)
3. Match the following statements in List – I with the concepts given in List – II:
List – I (Statements) List – II (Concepts)
a. Tendency of each group to take for granted the superiority of its own culture
i. Westernisation
b. Which yields economical or political power and occupies a higher position in society
ii. Dominant castes
c. People of lower castes collectively try to adopt upper caste practices and beliefs to acquire higher status iii. Sanskritisation
d. Explain the changes brought about the Indian societies through western contact
iv. Ethnocentrism
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i iii iv ii
(B) iii i ii iv
(C) iv ii iii i
(D) ii iv i iii
Answer: (C)
4. Sustainable development is characterized by
(i) Judicious use of resources
(ii) Maintaining Ecological balance
(iii) Deforestation
(iv) Keeping soil fertility durable for future generation
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
(A) (i) (ii) (iii)
(B) (i) (ii) (iv)
(C) (i) (iii) (iv)
(D) (iv) (ii) (iii)
Answer: (B)
5. Who is the author of the book ‘Peasant Society and Culture’?
(A) A.R. Desai
(B) Robert Redfield
(C) M. Mead
(D) R.H. Lowiewww.netugc.com
Answer: (B)
6. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. The World of Work i. Edward Gross
b. The Sociology of Work ii. Peter Blau
c. Bureaucracy in Modern Society iii. Theodore Caplow
d. Work and Society iv. Robert Dubin
Mark the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iv iii ii i
(B) iii iv i ii
(C) iv ii iii i
(D) i iii ii i
Answer: (A)
7. “By ‘cultural dope’ I refer to the man-in-the-sociologist’s-society who produces the stable features of society in compliance with pre-established and legitimate alternatives of action that the culture provides.” Who made the above statement?
(A) T. Parsons
(B) J. Derrida
(C) H. Garfinkel
(D) A. Giddens
Answer: (C)
8. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Giddens observes that the concept of structuration helps to understand the importance of social practices over both actions and structures.
Reason (R): Structuration implies dualism of society and individual.
Choose the correct answer from the given codes.
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: (A)
9. Which of the following development perspectives encompasses the notion of sustainable development as its central objective?
(A) Women in Development (WID)
(B) Women and Development (WAD)
(C) Gender and Development (GAD)
(D) Women Environment and Development (WED)
Answer: (D)
10. Eco-feminism grew in India as the result of
(A) Participation in Chipko Movement
(B) Women’s participation in Dandi March
(C) Women’s participation in Freedom Struggle
(D) Women’s participation in Lokpal Movement
Answer: (A)
11. Which sequence of perspectives on Gender and Development is followed in India?
(A) Welfare, Development, Empowerment
(B) Politicization, Welfare, Globalisation
(C) Welfare, Politicisation, Modernisation
(D) Affirmative action, Welfare, Politicisation
Answer: (A)
12. India’s path of development is based on
(A) Private enterprise
(B) Private and State enterprise
(C) State enterprise
(D) Gandhian model
Answer: (B)
13. Match the items in the List – I with the List – II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Liberal i. Wallerstein
b. Uneven development ii. Andre Gounder Frank
c. Centreperiphery iii. Samir Amin
d. Worldsystem iv. Gunnar Myrdal
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iv iii ii i
(B) ii iii i iv
(C) iv ii i iii
(D) iii ii iv i
Answer: (A)
14. Who authored the book, “Annihilation of Caste”?
(A) A.R. Desai
(B) David Hardiman
(C) B.R. Ambedkar
(D) N.K. Bose
Answer: (C)
15. Who has examined the phenomenon of Islamization in the context of unity in diversity in India?
(A) Yogendra Singh
(B) Imtiaz Ahmed
(C) Jalal Asad
(D) S.C. Dube
Answer: (A)
16. Assertion (A): Green revolution resulted in agrarian prosperity.
Reason (R): All agrarian classes gained economically.
Codes:
(A) (A) is true and (R) is false.
(B) (A) is false and (R) is true.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are false.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true.
Answer: (D)
17. The Minimum Wages Act was enacted in the year
(A) 1949
(B) 1950
(C) 1948
(D) 1952
Answer: (C)
18. Who regards American Society as a ‘great saleroom’ filled with hypocrisy, deceit and insincerity?
(A) R.K. Merton
(B) C. Wright Mills
(C) T. Parsons
(D) E. Durkheim
Answer: (B)
19. The concept of Rajputization was coined by
(A) N.K. Bose
(B) Surajit Sinha
(C) David Hardiman
(D) M.N. Srinivasan
Answer: (B )
20. Which of the following is not the indicator of Human Development?
(A) Scientific Orientation
(B) Improvement in quality of life
(C) Gender equality
(D) Widow remarriage
Answer: (D)
21. Who has discussed the Modes of Adaptation in American Society for the development of deviant behaviour?
(A) R.K. Merton
(B) E. Durkheim
(C) G. Tarde
(D) T. Parsons
Answer: (A)
22. Who authored the book “Culture Change in India; Identity & Globalization”?
(A) T.K. Oommen
(B) Yogendra Singh
(C) A.K. Saran
(D) Dipenkar Gupta
Answer: (B)
23. Match the items in List – I with the items in List – II and choose the right answer from the codes given below:
List – I (Books) List – II (Authors)
a. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life i. Max Weber
b. Religion of India ii. E.E. Evans- Pritchard
c. Primitive Religion iii. Emile Durkheim
d. Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India iv. M.N. Srinivasan
v. Robert N. Bellah
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iii i v iv
(B) iii i ii iv
(C) iv v iii ii
(D) iii ii iv i
Answer: (B)
24. In which of the following Indian sociological studies was structural functional approach adopted?
(A) Social Background of Indian Nationalism
(B) Society and Religion among the Coorgs of South India
(C) Peasant Movements in India
(D) Diversities
Answer: (B)
25. Which of the following is not included in the Gender Inequality Index?
(A) Capacity to determine one’s own life chances
(B) Adolescent fertility
(C) Political representation
(D) Labour force participation
Answer: (A)
26. Who has made the statement ‘Caste is closed class and class is open caste’?
(A) D. Hardiman
(B) L. Dumont
(C) S. Espstein
(D) Milton Singer
Answer: (A)
27. ‘Doing Gender’ requires working with
(A) Women only
(B) Women and men also
(C) Women and men separately
(D) Women and men together
Answer: (D)
28. Who described modernization as the transition from ‘Gemeinshaft’ to ‘Gesellshaft’, which signifies the progressive loss of community amid growing individualism?
(A) M. Weber
(B) F. Toennies
(C) Amitai Etzioni
(D) David Reisman
Answer: (B)
29. Neo-functionalism was developed by
(A) B. Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe Brown
(B) Alexander C. Jeffrey and P. Colomy
(C) Alexander C. Jeffrey and L. Coser
(D) Talcott Parsons and Marian J. Levy
Answer: (B)
30. Who amongst the following is not connected with phenomenological sociology?
(A) Alfred Schutz
(B) Max Weber
(C) Peter Berger
(D) Ralph Dahrendorf
Answer: (D)
31. Which one of the following is, according to Giddens, not true?
(A) The concept of structuration implies that the constitutions of agents are structure are two independently given sets of phenomena.
(B) ‘Agents’ and ‘Structures’ suggest dualism.
(C) ‘Agents’ and ‘Structures’ are locked in an irreconcilable conflict.
(D) There is a dialectic relationship between ‘structure’ and ‘agency’.
Answer: (B)
32. 73rd Constitution of Amendment is responsible for
(A) Emergence of rural leadership
(B) Empowerment of rural women
(C) Gram Panchayat’s functioning
(D) Representation of rural youth
Answer: (B)
33. According to whom “Crime is an integral part of all healthy societies”?
(A) R.K. Merton
(B) E. Durkheim
(C) A. Cohen
(D) D. Matzawww.netugc.com
Answer: (B)
34. Marxist Feminists explain patriarchy in terms of
(A) Lack of equal opportunities for men and women
(B) Oppression of women economically, politically and sexually
(C) Exploitation of women through domestic labour
(D) Double oppression of capitalism and male domination
Answer: (D)
35. The theory of scientific management was first spelt out in detail by whom?
(A) Tom Burns
(B) G.M. Stalker
(C) F.W. Taylor
(D) None of the above
Answer: (C)
36. Who coined the concept of ‘Culture of Poverty’?
(A) Oscar Lewis
(B) Walter B. Miller
(C) Robert Redfield
(D) M.N. Srinivas
Answer: (A)
37. “Action and Its Environments” was written by
(A) Talcott Parsons
(B) Juergen Habermas
(C) A.C. Jeffrey
(D) Max Weber
Answer: (C)
38. Juergen Habermas was concerned mainly with
(A) Work and exploitation
(B) Post modernism
(C) Functionalism
(D) Communication
Answer: (D)
39. In “the case of kinship... the observable phenomena result from the action of laws which are general but implicit.” Who made the statement?
(A) Meyer Fortes
(B) Lucy Mair
(C) Robin Fox
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss
Answer: (D)
40. Avuncular relationship means the relationship
(A) between virilocal and neolocal families
(B) between the siblings
(C) between the parents and the offspring
(D) between uncle or aunt and nephew or niece.
Answer: (D)
41. Structuralism analyses the basic structures underlying human thinking and human social groups. The foregoing idea is most clearly suggested in the writings of
(A) S.F. Nadel
(B) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
(C) Ferdinand de Saussare
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss
Answer: (D)
42. Which one of the following statements is incorrect?
(A) Deconstruction seeks to confirm metanarratives
(B) Deconstruction seeks to undermine the existing texts such as extant sociological theories
(C) Deconstruction seeks to unravel the inherent contradictions in existing knowledge.
(D) Deconstruction is a part of epistemological postmodernism
Answer: (A)
43. In whose words, punishment ‘Serves to heal the wound’s done to the collective sentiments’?
(A) R.K. Merton
(B) E. Durkheim
(C) E.H. Sutherland
(D) D. Matza
Answer: (B)
44. Assertion (A): The degree of decrease and increase in social solidarity leads people to commit suicide.
Reason (R): In modern society people commit suicide, because of personal/self-centred reasons.
Codes:
(A) (A) is false but (R) is true.
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
Answer: (D)
45. Match List – I with List – II and choose the right answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Differential Association theory i. E. Durkheim
b. Theories of Suicide ii. A. Cohen
c. Labelling theory iii. E.H. Sutherland
d. Delinquent sub-culture theory iv. H.S. Becker
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) iii i iv ii
(C) ii iii iv i
(D) iv ii i iii
Answer: (B)
46. Positive checks are those which increase mortality, preventive checks are those which lower fertility”. This statement can be attributed to
(A) Adam Smith
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Thomas Malthus
(D) Mahatma Gandhi
Answer: (C)
47. Who defines ‘White Collar Crime’ as “Crimes committed by persons of high social status and respectability in the course of their occupations”?
(A) H.S. Becker
(B) E.M. Lemert
(C) G. Tarde
(D) E.H. Sutherland
Answer: (D)
48. To explain deviance the ‘legitimate opportunity structure’ and the ‘illegitimate opportunity structure’ have been referred to by
(A) R.K. Merton
(B) D. Matza
(C) R.A. Cloward and L.E. Ohlin
(D) E. Durkheim
Answer: (C)
49. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I (Authors) List – II (Books)
a. Selig Harrison i. India: The Most Dangerous Decades Ahead
b. Lloyd Rudolph and Susan Rudolph ii. Modernity of Tradition
c. B. Baviskar iii. Politics of Development
d. Myron Weincy iv. Politics of Scarcity
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) iv iii ii i
(C) ii i iv iii
(D) iii ii i iv
Answer: (A)
50. Provision of houses/land to the displaced persons on account of industrialization falls under the purview of
(A) Trade Union
(B) Corporate Social Responsibility (C.S.R.)
(C) Jamindar
(D) Panchayat
Answer: (B)
51. Assertion (A): In contemporary Indian society the incidence of crime has increased. Police alone cannot prevent and control the rate of crime.
Reason (R): The ‘community policing system’ along with public co-operation could help in reducing the rate of crime.
Codes:
(A) (A) is false but (R) is true.
(B) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(D) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
Answer: (D)
52. During which decade, Census of India recorded absolute decline of population size?
(A) 2001-2011
(B) 1911-1921
(C) 1941-1951
(D) 1981-1991
Answer: (B)
53. Which one of the following process defines Demographic Transition’?
(A) Migration and Fertility
(B) Mortality and Morbidity
(C) Fertility and Mortality
(D) Morbidity and Fertility
Answer: (C)
54. Assertion (A): Less developed countries of the world have persistently shown evidence of higher population growth.
Reason (R): Poor countries lack natural resources for development.
Codes:
(A) (A) is false, (R) is true.
(B) (A) is true, (R) is false.
(C) Both (A) and (R) are true.
(D) Both (A) and (R) are false.
Answer: (B)
55. Match List – I with List – II:
List – I List – II
a. Industrial Man i. T. Burns
b. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life ii. E. Goffman
c. The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology iii. A. Gouldner
d. Introduction to Collective Behaviour iv. D.L. Miller
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i ii iii iv
(B) ii iii iv i
(C) iii iv ii i
(D) iv ii i iii
Answer: (A)
56. Who is the author of the book titled “Women’s Role in Economic Development’?
(A) Catharine Scott
(B) Nancy Hartsock
(C) Esther Boserup
(D) Dorothy Smith
Answer: (C)
57. Who is most closely connected with Phenomenological Sociology?
(A) Max Weber
(B) Emile Durkheim
(C) Alfred Schutz
(D) Lewis Coser
Answer: (C)
58. Under high birth rate than the death rate for several generations, the shape of the ‘population pyramid’ will reflect
(A) Wider top, smaller base
(B) Wider base than the top
(C) Bulging middle than top and base
(D) Similarity in base, middle, and top
Answer: (B)
59. Which are modern rural social institutions in the post independent India?
(i) Rural School
(ii) Rural Co-operative Society
(iii) Gram Panchayat
(iv) Village Khap Panchayat
Find the correct combination according to code:
(A) (i) and (ii)
(B) (iii) and (iv)
(C) (i), (ii) and (iv)
(D) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Answer: (D)
60. Which of the feminist ideologies seek to promote gender free society?
(A) Socialist Feminism
(B) Radical Feminism
(C) Liberal Feminism
(D) Psychoanalytical Feminism
Answer: (B)
61. In the National Population Policy of India 2000, which one is not a ‘sociodemographic goal for 2010’?
(A) Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 births.
(B) Reduce maternal mortality ratio to below 100 per 100000 live births.
(C) Achieve 100 percent registration of births, deaths and marriages
(D) To compulsorily make 20 years as age of marriage for girls.
Answer: (D)
62. Who remarked regarding India’s Development as “Soft State” during 1960’s?
(A) Max Weber
(B) Andre Beteille
(C) Gunnar Myrdal
(D) A.K. Sen
Answer: (C)
63. Match List – I with List – II and find the correct answer:
List – I List – II
a. Crude Birth Rate i. Deaths of persons per 1000 mid year total population
b. Crude Death Rate ii. Deaths of children under 1 years of age per 1000 live births during a year
c. Infant Mortality Rate iii. Live births per 1000 total mid year population
d. Life time Migration Rate iv. Number of persons enumerated other than their place of birth per 1000 total mid period population
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iii ii i iv
(B) iii i ii iv
(C) iv ii i iii
(D) i ii iv iii
Answer: (B)
64. The factors of Rural Social Change include:
(i) Electronic media
(ii) Farm technology
(iii) Rural ideology
(iv) Khap Panchayats
Find the correct combination according to code:
(A) (i) and (ii)
(B) (ii) and (iii)
(C) (i), (ii) and (iv)
(D) (i), (ii) and (iii)
Answer: (A)
65. Match the items in the List – I with the items in the List – II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Physical violence i. Genital Mutilation
b. Emotional violence ii. Denial of economic resources
c. Economic violence iii. Deprivation of Conjugal rights
d. Cultural violence iv. Bride burning
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iv iii ii i
(B) i iii iv ii
(C) ii iv iii i
(D) iii i ii iv
Answer: (A)
66. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
a. Cultural lag i. H. Cooley
b. Primary group ii. M.N. Srinivas
c. Sanskritisation iii. W.F. Ogburn
d. Organic solidarity iv. E. Durkheim
Codes:
a b c d
(A) ii i iii iv
(B) iii i ii iv
(C) iv ii i iii
(D) i iv ii iii
Answer: (B)
67. Who made the distinction of two opposing spheres of ‘Female world of emotion and cooperation and male world of rationality and competition’?
(A) John Bowlby
(B) Talcott Parsons
(C) Robin Fox
(D) George Peter Murdock
Answer: (B)
68. Contribution of social division of labour has been discussed in depth by
(A) Emile Durkheim
(B) Max Weber
(C) Vilfredo Pareto
(D) Pitirim Sorokin
Answer: (A)
69. ‘Brain Drain’ is a concept associated with which one of the following?
(A) Large scale immigration of technically qualified persons from less developed to developed countries.
(B) Large scale flight of labour from poor countries.
(C) Displacement of people due to war and violence
(D) Immigration of foreign experts during colonial rule
Answer: (A)
70. Match an item in List – I with an item in List – II:
List – I List – II
(Books) (Author)
a. Caste in Modern India and other Essays i. A. Beteille
b. Caste, Class and Power ii. Dumont
c. Homo Hierarchicus iii. A.R. Desai
d. Peasants Struggle in India iv. P. Gisbert
Codes:
a b c d
(A) iv i ii iii
(B) iii ii iii iv
(C) i ii iv iii
(D) iv ii iii i
Answer: (Wrong question)
71. Gender roles involve ranking of men and women differently in terms of
(i) Roles
(ii) Relationships
(iii) Resources
(iv) Power
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
(A) (i) (ii) (iii)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(C) (i) (ii) (iv)
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii)
Answer: (C)
72. Match the women development approaches in the List – I with the Feminist Schools of Thought in the List – II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I (Women Development Approaches) List – II (Feminist School of Thought)
a. WID i. Marxist Feminist Thought
b. WAD ii. Eco Feminist Thought
c. GAD iii. Liberal Feminist Thoughtwww.netugc.com
d. WED iv. Socialist Feminist Thought
Codes:
a b c d
(A) i iii iv ii
(B) ii i iii iv
(C) iv ii i iii
(D) iii i iv ii
Answer: (D)
73. The term proximate determinants of fertility was coined by
(A) Kingsley Davis
(B) Judith Blake
(C) John Bongaarts
(D) Karl Marx
Answer: (C)
74. Who is the author of the book entitled “Alienation and Freedom”?
(A) M. Blumer
(B) H. Braverman
(C) P.M. Blau
(D) R. Blauner
Answer: (D)
75. Which of the following States and Union Territories have the lowest overall sex-ratio as per the Census Report of 2011?
(A) Daman and Diu
(B) Punjab
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Meghalaya
Answer: (A)