Solved question paper for UGC-NET sociology examination held in November 2017. This solved question paper will also assist the the students, aspirants and teachers in the preparation of Civil Services, IAS, UGC-NET, UPSC, eligibility test & other competitive exams.
1. Who among the following has defined Sociology as the systematic study of collective representation?
(1) Karl Marx
(2) Emile Durkheim
(3) Auguste Comte
(4) Max Weber
Ans. (2)
2. Who among the following has defined that “A Community is an area of social living marked by some degree of coherence”?
(1) R. M. Mac Iver and C. H. Page
(2) Kimball Young and W. F. Ogburn
(3) Henary Jonhan
(4) Kingsley Davis
Ans. (1)
3. Who has given the concept ‘Imperatively Coordinated association’?
(1) Coser
(2) Dahrendorf
(3) Collins
(4) Marx
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4. ‘Rewards and punishments are associated with role expectation’. That is known as:
(1) Mores
(2) Folkways
(3) Norms
(4) Sanctions
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5. A study with experimental design is:
(1) Quite common in social science research
(2) Rare but possible in social research
(3) Impossible in social science research
(4) The easiest one in social research
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6. Who has used the concepts of ‘status and contract’ in understanding traditional and modern societies respectively?
(1) R. Linton
(2) Henry Maine
(3) R. K. Merton
(4) S. F. Nadel
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7. Who has argued that’ Status group can be identified in terms of a specific, positive or negative, social estimation of honour’?
(1) Ralph Linton
(2) Max Weber
(3) S. F. Nadel
(4) A. K. Rossi
Ans. (2)
8. Who has classified roles as ‘Pivotal’, ‘Sufficiently relevant’ and ‘Peripheral’ in his theory of social structure?
(1) A. R. Radcliffe – Brown
(2) S. F. Nadel
(3) G. P. Murdock
(4) C. Levi – Strauss
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9. Which one of the averages cannot be manipulated algebraically?
(1) Mean
(2) Median
(3) Mode
(4) None of the above
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10. Who has said that the function of religious rituals is to affirm the moral superiority of the society over its individual members?
(1) James Frazer
(3) A. R. Radcliffe – Brown
(4) B. Malinowski
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11. A test is said to be valid under which of the following condition?
(1) It is thought to measure what it sets out to measure
(2) Observations have produced required data
(3) The quality of data is good
(4) It is thought to measure the unplanned facts
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12. Who has written the book’ Sociology of Economic Life’?
(1) Weber
(2) Smelser
(3) Parsons
(4) Merton
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13. Socialization is also called__________.
(1) Acculturation
(2) Cultural diffusion
(3) Enculturation
(4) All the above
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14. Who says “Caste forms an institutionalized social stratification in Indian society but principle associated with class also plays an important role”?
(1) Andre Beteille
(2) Yogendra Singh
(3) Dipankar Gupta
(4) M. S. A. Rao
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15. Socialization is__________.
(a) A pre-requisite for any society
(b) Essential to any social life
(c) Cultural and social reproduction of social forms
(d) Diffusion of culture
Mark the correct answer from the code given below:
(1) (a), (b), (c)
(2) (b), (c), (d)
(3) (c), (d), (a)
(4) (d), (a), (b)
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16. Who has given the cognitive development theory of socialization?
(1) Marx
(2) Freud
(3) Piaget
(4) Cooley
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17. Whose theory of socialization indicates that ‘socialization is a process of acquisition of moral and personal identity through family relationships’?
(1) Piaget
(2) Freud
(3) Durkheim
(4) Mead
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18. The movement of Individuals between different strata in the hierarchy is referred to as:
(1) Social hierarchy
(2) Social mobility
(3) Upward mobility
(4) Downward mobility
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19. Who has said that economic, social and political strata are though independent but they articulate each other in day to day live situation in stratified society?
(1) Davis
(2) Marx
(3) Moore
(4) Weber
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20. Who among the following says that “Stratification is universally necessary due to the requirement of any society to motivate individuals to fill important social positions”?
(1) Marx
(2) Davis and Moore
(3) Weber
(4) Bendix and Lipset
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21. Who was of the opinion that revolutions are locomotives of history?
(1) E. Kant
(2) K. Marx
(3) G. W. F. Hegal
(4) F. Engels
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22. When the same test in a social research is completed by the same people on two different occasions it is called:
(1) Normal reliability
(2) Alternate form reliability
(3) Test – retest reliability
(4) Split half reliability
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23. What is the theoretical approach in which societies are conceptualized as ‘Social Systems’, and particular features of ‘Social Structures’ are explained in terms of their contribution to the maintenance of these systems?
(1) Structuralism
(2) Functionalism
(3) Structural – differentiation
(4) Structural – Functionalism
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24. When one variable is Qualitative and another variable is Quantitative, which measure will be used for finding co-variation between them?
(1) Yules ‘Q’
(2) Phi coefficient ‘ɸ’
(3) Rank correlation ‘r’
(4) Chi-square (χ2)
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25. According to whom, culture is held to embody principles which mirror essential features of the human mind – ‘binary classificatory systems’?
(1) A. R. Radcliffe – Brown
(2) S. F. Nadel
(3) C. Levi – Strauss
(4) Talcott Parsons
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26. Who among the following advocated a version of anthropology called ‘Comparative Method’?
(1) E. Durkheim
(2) A. R. Radcliffe – Brown
(3) B. Malinowski
(4) F. Boaz
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27. Which statement is not true among the following according to Malinowski?
(1) Malinowski speaks of function primarily in terms of physiological and psychological needs
(2) Malinowski cannot be described as functionalist because he became obsessed with empirical reality
(3) Malinowski continues to be a powerful influence in Anthropology
(4) Malinowski is constantly present in meticulously carried out field research
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28. Which among the following to R.K. Merton is the basis for the formation of reference group?
(1) Relative Similarity
(2) Relative Dissimilarity
(3) Relative Deprivation
(4) Relative Complexity
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29. Durkheim’s most important methodological contribution was his:
(1) Functional analysis
(2) Study of normative behaviour
(3) Structural formulations
(4) Conjecture and guess
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30. Talcott Parson’s analysis of social system was based on the principle of:
(1) Homeostasis
(2) Manifest functions
(3) Darwin’s principles
(4) Physical Laws
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31. According to Max Weber, social sciences must have:
(1) Value Bias
(3) Value Relevance
(4) Value Freedom
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32. In Mead’s work, the attitude of the entire community or in any game, the attitude of the entire team is known by the term:
(1) Self Perception
(2) Generalized Other
(3) Social Act
(4) Sensuous Stimulation
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33. Which among the following is not the basic principle of Blumer’s theory of symbolic interactionism?
(1) Human beings, unlike lower animals, are endowed with the capacity for thought.
(2) The capacity for thought is shaped by social interaction.
(3) Meanings and symbols allow people to carry on distinctly human action and interaction.
(4) People are not able to make any modifications and changes during interactions.
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34. Who among the following gave the concepts of ‘Residues’ and ‘Derivatives’ in his theory?
(1) C. H. Mead
(2) G. Mosca
(3) C. W. Mills
(4) V. Pareto
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35. According to Marx, the workers in capitalist society are alienated from their:
(a) Productive Activity
(b) Fellow Workers
(c) Product
(d) Own Species Being
(e) Family Members
Select the correct answer from the code given below:
(1) (a), (b), (c), (e)
(2) (a), (d), (e)
(3) (b), (c), (d)
(4) (a), (b), (c), (d)
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36. According to whom, ‘Social structures may be translated empirically into patterns of repetitive micro interaction’?
(1) K. Marx
(2) L. A. Coser
(3) R. Collins
(4) S. F. Nadel
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37. Dahrendorf distinguished three broad types of groups in his conflict theory: They are-
(1) Quasi, Interest, Conflict
(2) Quasi, Intermediate, Conflict
(3) Interest, Latent, Manifest
(4) Conflict, Consensus, Quasi
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38. Who is the author of the book “The Functions of Social Conflict”?
(1) Jeffrey Alexander
(2) Lewis A. Coser
(3) Randall Collins
(4) Ralf Dahrendorf
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39. Who has argued that methodologically social facts can be treated like things?
(1) Weber
(2) Comte
(3) Durkheim
(4) Radcliffe-Brown
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40. What does objectivity mean in social research?
(a) Accounts for external world
(b) Accounts for internal world
(c) Represent the world as it exists
(d) Independent of our conceptions
Select the correct answer from the code given below:
(1) (a), (b), (c)
(2) (b), (c), (d)
(3) (b), (a), (d)
(4) (a), (c), (d)
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41. Who said these words: “I started research as a non – participant observer. As I became accepted into the community, I found myself becoming almost a non – observing participant”?
(1) B. Malinowski
(2) E. Durkheim
(3) William F. Whyte
(4) N. Anderson
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42. Who has stated that ‘Human Studies should be concerned with the construction of typologies of personality and culture’?
(1) Weber
(2) Dilthey
(3) Carr – Saunders
(4) Rickert
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43. A study design involving collection of data at one particular point of time is known as:
(1) Cohort study
(2) Trend study
(3) Cross sectional study
(4) Longitudinal study
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44. The precondition to qualify a sample as a random one is:
(1) The researcher must pretest the subject
(2) The researcher must conduct pilot study
(3) At least 100 respondents must be selected from a given population
(4) Every member of the population must have an equal chance of being selected
1. Who is said to be the major architect of phenomenology?
(1) P. L. Berger
(2) Alfred Schutz
(3) Anthony Giddens
(4) Max Weber
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2. According to Schutz, Weber does not ask which of the following?
(1) How an actor’s meaning is constituted
(2) Does not try to identify the unique and fundamental relations existing between self and other
(3) Both (1) and (2)
(4) None of the above
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3. Who provides, in his theory, an account of the role of common – sense knowledge in the social construction of everyday life and institutions?
(1) Peter Berger
(2) Alfred Schutz
(3) Henri Bergson
(4) Erving Goffman
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4. Harold Garfinkel considers which of the following to be the fundamental sociological phenomenon?
(1) Social facts as made of institutions
(2) Treating the objectivity of social facts as accomplishment of members
(3) Treating the objectivity of social actions
(4) Social actions as made of values and accomplished by members
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5. One of the key points about ethno methods, according to Garfinkel, is:
(1) that they are reflexively accountable
(2) that ethno-methodologists provide description
(3) that for objective and subjective reality they are accountable
(4) none of the above
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6. Of the following Indian Sociologists who lamented that the retarding role and the reactionary significance of caste as an institution is still very insufficiently realised by students of Indian economy?
(1) A. R. Desai
(2) D. P. Mukherjee
(4) Louis Dumont
Ans. (1)
7. Which of the following concepts is not related to Althusser’s theory?
(1) Altruism
(2) Epistemological Break
(3) Repressive State Apparatuses
(4) Ideology
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8. Which of the following is not the problem associated with structural – functionalism according to Alexander?
(1) Anti-individualism
(2) Conservatism
(3) Integration
(4) Idealism
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9. According to whom, in an ‘ideal speech situation’ all parties have equal opportunities to engage in dialogue, without undue domination?
(1) J. Derrida
(2) L. Althusser
(3) M. Foucault
(4) J. Habermas
Ans. (4)
10. In India, the year 2001 was declared as the year of:
(1) Development of Women’s Studies Year
(2) Women and Panchayati Raj Year
(3) Girl Children Education Year
(4) Women’s Empowerment Year
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11. Which one of the following theories argues that “Poverty is a direct consequence of evolution of the international political Economy into a fairly rigid division of labour which favoured rich and marginalised the Poor”?
(1) World System Theory
(2) Liberalism
(3) Neo – liberalism
(4) Post Modernism
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12. Which of the following is not the work of Michel Foucault?
(1) Discipline and Punish
(2) Reading Capital
(3) The Order of Things
(4) Madness and Civilization
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13. In his theory of structuration, Giddens focuses on:
(1) Structural Dualism
(3) Dichotomous Relationship
(4) Binary Oppositions
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14. Identify the incorrect statement from the following:
(1) The term ‘Deconstruction’ is particularly associated with the work of Jacques Derrida
(2) ‘Deconstruction’ is a post structuralist intellectual movement mainly influential in France and the US since the late 1960s
(3) ‘Deconstruction’ supports the binary conceptual systems in which one concept is privileged in the hierarchical setting
(4) Derrida offers a critique of both Positivism and Phenomenology
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15. ‘In Foucault’s view, historical documents are one way in which a society recognizes and develops a mass of documentation with which it is closely related’. This is known as:
(1) Discourse Analysis
(2) Industrial Archaeology
(3) Archaeology of knowledge
(4) Prehistory
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16. Which one of the following is not the work of Leela Dube?
(1) Reflections on the Women’s Movement in India
(2) Women and Kinship
(3) Anthropological Explorations in Gender
(4) Matriliny and Islam
Ans. (1)
17. How many communities in India were identified by the project ‘People of India’ conducted by Anthropological Survey of India?
(1) 3000 – 4000
(2) 4000 – 5000
(3) 5000 – 6000
(4) 6000 – 7000
18. Who said, that three basic principles of authentic development are – Justice, Sustaniability and Inclusiveness?
(1) Dudley Seers
(2) David Korten
(3) A. Gunder Frank
(4) Amratya Sen
Ans. (2)
19. Number of Languages listed in the VIII Schedule of Indian Constitution at present is:
(2) 18
(3) 22
(4) 19
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20. Who among the following has focused primarily on education as an important resource for Socialization of the girl – child?
(1) F. Agnes
(2) Poline Kolenda
(3) I. Agnihotri
(4) Karuna Chanana
Ans. (4)
21. Which of following statements are correct?
(a) Tribal economy often has a market system
(b) Reciprocity and redistribution create the integrative patterns prevalent in tribal economy
(c) Tribal production is contractual and voluntary
(d) A distinguishing feature of primitive life is fusion of social and economic institutions
Select the correct answer from the code given below:
(1) (a) and (d)
(2) (b) and (d)
(3) (a), (b) and (d)
(4) (a), (b) and (c)
22. Surajit Sinha’s work was mainly based on:
(a) Tribe – Caste Continuum
(b) Tribal Movements
(c) Field Studies
(d) Sociology of Religion
Select the answer using the code given below:
(1) (a), (b)
(2) (b), (c), (d)
(3) (a), (c), (d)
(4) All the above
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23. The perspective which understands the society through conditions of subordination of people belonging to different castes is called:
(1) Indo logical Perspective
(2) Civilizational Perspective
(3) Subaltern Perspective
(4) Conflict Perspective
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24. To L. Dumont which one of the following helps to maintain the structural distance between castes?
(1) Land Ownership
(2) Economic Status
(3) Purity and Pollution
(4) Political Power
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25. Who did attributional and interactional analysis of caste system?
(1) L. Dumont
(2) Surajit Sinha
(3) M. N. Srinivas
(4) D. P. Mukherjee
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26. Who of the following believed that there should be cultural autonomy of tribes?
(1) N. K. Bose
(2) D. P. Mukherjee
(3) Surajit Sinha
(4) G. S. Ghurye
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27. Who is the Author of the book “Garibi Hatao – Strategy Options”?
(1) Indira Gandhi
(2) M. L. Dantwala
(3) Thomas Gladwin
(4) S. Bagachi
Ans. (2)
28. Which feminist theory argues that patriarchy is the major and universal cause of women’s oppression and that the power invested in men is the root problem?
(1) Cultural feminism
(2) Liberal feminism
(3) Radical feminism
(4) Socialist feminism
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29. The World Population Plan of Action was drafted and accepted by Member States of U.N. at:
(1) Mexico Conference
(2) Bucharest Conference
(3) Cairo Conference
(4) Copenhagen Summit
Ans. (2)
30. Which Indian state has the largest number of slum dwellers as per census 2011?
(1) Tamil Nadu
(2) West Bengal
(3) Maharashtra
(4) Bihar
Ans. (3)
31. Which state in India contributes highest percentage of growth of population in relation to its share in the total population?
(1) Uttar Pradesh
(2) Bihar
(3) Madhya Pradesh
(4) Rajasthan
Ans. (2)
32. Who talked about positive and preventive checks of population?
(1) K. Davis
(2) David Glass
(3) Robert Malthus
(4) Frank Notestein
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33. How many metropolises are there in India as per census 2011?
(1) 35
(2) 43
(3) 53
(4) 51
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34. Durkheim believed suicides as:
(1) Normal
(2) Abnormal
(3) Legal
(4) Illegal
Ans. (1)
35. Which is an example of indirect antinatalist policies?
(1) Raising age at marriage
(2) Provision of incentives
(3) Liberalisation of Abortions
(4) Provision of contraceptives
Ans. (2)
36. According to National Crime Record Bureau (NCRB), which Indian State has the highest rate of drug related suicides?
(1) Punjab
(2) Andhra Pradesh
(3) Kerala
(4) Maharashtra
Ans. (3)
37. The total number of moves made during a given migration interval which have a common area of origin and common area of destination is known as:
(1) Gross migration
(2) Net migration
(3) Out migration
(4) Migration streams
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38. Which religious group has the highest percentage of drug users in India as recent NSSO survey?
(1) Sikhs
(2) Christians
(3) Hindus
(4) Buddhists
Ans. (2)
39. The methodology of dual reporting system in India is associated with:
(1) Vital registration system
(2) National sample survey
(3) Sample registration system
(4) Population census
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40. Who has written the book “Nation Building and Citizenship”?
(1) Reinhard Bendix
(2) Wendell Bell
(3) W. J. Foltz
(4) C. J. Freiderich
Ans. (1)
41. Who has applied Robert Redfield’s concept of ‘Little and great Traditions’ in understanding the Indian Society?
(1) Milten Singer
(2) M. N. Srinivas
(3) S. C. Dube
(4) Yogesh Atal
Ans. (1)
42. According to Yogendra Singh sub cultural westernization is:
(1) An eclectic and fragmentary process of acculturation
(2) An eclectic and fragmentary process of cultural assimilation
(3) An eclectic and fragmentary process of cultural lag
(4) An eclectic and fragmentary process of cultural complex
Ans. (1)
43. Who has said that “Secularism is a sub process of modernization of Indian Society”?
(1) A. R. Desai
(2) Yogendra Singh
(3) T. K. Oommen
(4) M. N. Srinivas
Ans. (2)
44. Who among the following, while dealing with globalisation, gives importance to ‘Network Society’?
(1) Manual Castells
(2) Zygmunt Bauman
(3) Jurgen Habermas
(4) Ulrich Beck
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45. Who among the following supports this idea in dealing with the globalization?
“The central features of post – modernity is the way work and production have given way to consumption, both as the linchpin of social cohesion and as the source of individual identity”-
(1) Anthony Giddens
(2) Jurgen Habermas
(3) Zygmunt Bauman
(4) Manuel Castells
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46. Who among the following is the author of the book entitled “The Rise of the Network Society”?
(1) Cohen, I
(2) Cheal, D
(3) Collins, P. Hills
(4) Castells, Manuel
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47. Which one of the following schemes is not included under the Universalisation of Elementary Education Scheme (UEE)?
(1) S.P.Q.E.M. (The Schemes for Providing Quality Education in Madrassas)
(2) EGS / AIE (Education Guarantee Scheme/Alternative and Innovative Education)
(3) KGBV (Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya)
(4) SSA (Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan)
Ans. (1)
48. Who views that “the enactment of the secular ideals in the constitution does not imply an actual conformity to its norms in public life and relationships between major Indian Communities?
(1) S. C. Dube
(2) M. N. Srinivas
(3) Yogendra Singh
(4) Ajit K. Danda
Ans. (3)
49. The best method of estimating birth and death rates and rates of natural increase from the census data was provided by whom?
(1) K. C. Zachariah
(2) C. Chandrasekharan
(3) J. R. Rele
(4) K. Davis
Ans. (3)
50. Whose statement is this?
‘In Post Green Revolution farmers used the mechanism of debt and attachment to discipline labour and to decompose / recompose the labour market, which led to deploretarianization of labour’-
(1) Paul Brass
(2) Tom Brass
(3) Andre Beteille
(4) A. R. Desai
Ans. (2)
51. Name the Movement which has communal and Economic roots?
(1) Naxalite Movement
(3) Telangana Movement
(4) Moplah Movement
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52. ‘The Punjab Peasant in prosperity and Debt – Wisdom and waste in Punjab village’ was authored by:
(1) Baden-Powell
(2) F. G. Bailey
(3) Malcolm L. Darling
(4) I. Natrajan
Ans. (3)
53. The struggle for reduction of landlord’s share of the produce from half to one third is related to:
(1) Telangana Movement
(2) Tebhaga Movement
(3) Kisan Sabha Movement
(4) Moplah Rebellion Movement
Ans. (2)
54. Who among the following introduced the term “Post Industrial Society”?
(1) J. Burnham
(2) J. K. Galbraith
(3) Daniel Bell
(4) R. Dahrendorf
Ans. (3)
55. Which of the following are views of Gandhian Development?
(a) Self-development over material prosperity
(b) Development of free markets
(c) Centralised planning
(d) Development of villages and cottage industries
Select the correct answer using code given below:
(1) (a) and (d)
(2) (b) and (c)
(4) (b) and (d)
Ans. (1)
56. The rural urban migration that has led to rapid urbanisation and industrialisation in India is mainly a consequence of:
(1) Push factor due to poverty
(2) Pull factor due to affluence in urban areas
(3) Both push and pull factors
(4) Push factor due to affluence in rural areas
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57. When migration to urban areas exceeds the rate of industrialisation in the city, it is a state of?
(1) Urbanism
(2) Over – Urbanistion
(3) Cultural – Lag
(4) Industrialism
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58. In his famous book entitled “The Theory of Leisure Class” Thorstein Veblen has classified Leisure classes into:
(1) The slaves and the free man
(2) The bourgeois and the proletariat
(3) The savages, the barbarians and the civilized
(4) The right and the poor folk
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