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Examination: M.A. Sociology

Section 1 - Section 1
Question No.1 4.00
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Basis for social stratification is ____.
Social problem
Social harmony
Social inequality
Social understanding

Question No.2 4.00

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Who stated that ‘society is a web of social relationships’?
MacIver
Giddings
Ginsberg
August Comte

Question No.3 4.00

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In secondary group, membership is
Spontaneous
Compulsory
Involuntary
Voluntary

Question No.4 4.00

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She studies very hard for the exams, ______?
doesn’t she?
does she?
is it?
isn’t it?

Question No.5 4.00

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The process by which members learn the norms and values of a group is known as _____.
Socialization
Social control
Social regulation
Social discipline

Question No.6 4.00

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Correct the error in the italicized part of the sentence by choosing the most appropriate options
Job was a tiny man, barely five feet tall, with a spright walk
a sprightly walk
a sprightly walking
spright walk
spright walkingly
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Question No.7 4.00
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Crumb : Bread ::
Water : Bucket
Tea : Cup
Splinter : Wood
Flower : Vase

Question No.8 4.00

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When the wife dies, the husband marries her unmarried sister. This type of marriage is called
______.
Levirate
Polygamy
Polyandry
Sororate

Question No.9 4.00

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The Untouchability Offences Act was introduced in the year
1954
1957
1956
1955

Question No.10 4.00

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Culture is _____.
Learnt
Shared
Adaptive
All the above

Question No.11 4.00

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A process by which an outsider, immigrant or subordinate group becomes integrated into the
dominant host society is called as
Toleration
Accommodation
Assimilation
Association

Question No.12 4.00

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Role is the expected behaviour pattern attached to ________.
Employment
Family
Status
Community
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If a person becomes a minister from an ordinary shopkeeper the mobility is called ____.
Horizontal mobility
Downward mobility
Upward mobility
Intergenerational mobility

Question No.14 4.00

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The protection of women from domestic violence Act was passed in
1995
2005
2015
1885

Question No.15 4.00

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Who has compared society with an organism?
Mac Iver
Durkheim
Darwin
Spencer

Question No.16 4.00

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Choose the best synonym of the italicized word.
Dr. Elango is in the habit of using obsolete words.
wrong
difficult
outdated
simple

Question No.17 4.00

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The struggle of the peasants of Champaran in Bihar was led by
Rajendra Prasad
Sardar Patel
Motilal Nehru
M K Gandhi

Question No.18 4.00

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Mother-headed family is known as _____.
Matriarchal family
Extended family
Patriarchal family
Matrilineal family
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Question No.19 4.00
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If A+B means A is daughter of B,
A-B means A is husband of B
A × B means A is brother of B

From the statement A × B × C × D, which of the following statement is not necessarily true?
B is the brother of A
C is the brother of A
D is brother of C
A, B, C are male

Question No.20 4.00

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SPSS is a ______.
Statistical Package
Package for document
Package
Statistical Package for Social Sciences

Question No.21 4.00

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Which state in India has the lowest number of females in comparison to males?
Rajasthan
Haryana
Punjab
Bihar

Question No.22 4.00

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The second stage of human development according Auguste Comte is
Modern
Theological
Metaphysical
Positive

Question No.23 4.00

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Ryotwari means
Landlords
Intermediary between farmers and governments
Owners of the land they cultivate
Owned by the whole village

Question No.24 4.00

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The scientific method in sociology attempts to develop techniques to maximize ____.
Subjectivity
Objectivity
Evidence
Knowledge
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Question No.25 4.00
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Based on the information given answer the following question.
1. In a family of six persons, there are people from three generations. Each has separate professions
and they like different colours. There are two couples.
2. Shyam is an Engineer and his wife is not a doctor and she does not like Red colour.
3. Chartered Accountant likes green colour and his wife is a teacher.
4. Manisha is the mother-in-law of Sunita and she likes orange colour.
5. Vimal is the grand father of Tarun and tarun is the Principal and likes black colour.
6. Nyna is the grand daughter of Manisha and she likes blue colour. Nyna's Mother likes white colour.

What is the profession of Sunita?

Cannot be determined
Teacher
Chartered Accountant
Principal

Question No.26 4.00

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This is the school where I studied till class 5.
The underlined word is a
adjective
pronoun

adverb
preposition

Question No.27 4.00

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The three tier system of Panchayati Raj was recommended by –
Jai Prakash Narain Committee
Simon Commission
Kaka Kelkar Committee
Balwant Rai mehta Committee

Question No.28 4.00

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During which decade did India see a negative population growth?
1911-21
1971-81
1901-11
1931-41

Question No.29 4.00

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Behaviour which takes account of the interests of others, usually treated as an opposition to
selfishness and individualism is known as
Animism
Altruism
Individualism
Egoism
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Question No.30 4.00
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The term ___________ was coined by Srinivas to signify the changes in caste.
Parochialisation
Secularization
Sanskritization
Urbanization

Question No.31 4.00

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Study the following information carefully and answer the question below it

The Director of an MBA college has decided that six guest lectures on the topics of Motivation,
Decision Making, Quality Circle, Assessment Centre, Leadership and Group Discussion are to be
organised on each day from Monday to Sunday.
(i) One day there will be no lecture (Saturday is not that day), just before that day Group Discussion
will be organised.
(ii) Motivation should be organised immediately after Assessment Centre.
(iii) Quality Circle should be organised on Wednesday and should not be followed by Group
Discussion
(iv) Decision Making should be organised on Friday and there should be a gap of two days between
Leadership and Group Discussion

Which of the following information is not required for the above lecture arrangements?
Only (i)
All are required
Only (iii)
Only (ii)

Question No.32 4.00

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Ideal type is predominantly ____.
A good value
Moral value
An average
An abstract construct

Question No.33 4.00

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Primary group involves_________.
Rules and regulations
Formal procedure
Intimate relationship
Official relationship

Question No.34 4.00

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The book “Annihilation of Caste” is Written by
Jyotiba Phule
Dr. R. Ambedkar
M K Gandhi
Jagjeevam Ram
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Question No.35 4.00
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Who is a Jajman?
Patron
Serving castes
Lower castes
Artisan castes

Question No.36 4.00

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Status fixed by birth is
Ascribed
Obtained
Fixed
Achieved

Question No.37 4.00

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When death of child occurs during 1-12th month is called
Child mortality
Neo-infant mortality
Infant mortality
Neo-natal mortality

Question No.38 4.00

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Qualitative measurement concentrates on
Numerical values
Labels
Attributes
Measurements

Question No.39 4.00

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Select the Pair that best respresents the relationship that is given in the question:
Explore : Discover
Books : Knowledge
Research : Learn
Tree : Wood
Think : Relate

Question No.40 4.00

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The price paid to the Muslim bride is called
Mehr
Ibadat
Khula
Zakat
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Question No.41 4.00
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The book ‘Hind Swaraj’ was written by
J N Nehru
G K Gokhale
M K Gandhi
B G Tilak

Question No.42 4.00

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If data on share prices are copied from Economic Times, it is
Primary Data
Secondary Data
Tertiary Data
Economic Data

Question No.43 4.00

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The in-depth study of a unit is known as ____.
Pilot study
Pretest
Case study
Sociometry

Question No.44 4.00

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Norms represent ______.
Behaviour
Polished manners
Accepted ways of doing things
Culture of society

Question No.45 4.00

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Which among the following is not belonging to the group?
Artha
Dharma
Moksha
Sanyasa

Question No.46 4.00

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Norms that are stated formally are
Explicit
Real
Idea
Implicit
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Question No.47 4.00
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Statement: Apart from it's entertainment value of Television, it's educational value cannot be ignored
Assumptions:
I. People take Television to be the means of entertainment only.
II. The educational value of Television is not realized properly
If only assumption II is implicit
If neither I nor II is implicit
If only assumption I is implicit
If both I and II are implicit

Question No.48 4.00

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The term ‘White-Collar-Crime’ was first used by
C.W. Mills
Talcott Parsons
Max-Weber
E. Sutherland

Question No.49 4.00

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The adoption of norms or behaviour appropriate to a status not yet achieved by the individuals
concerned, so providing them with experience of a role they have yet to assume. This is a form of
Re-socialization
Primary Socialization
Secondary Socialization
Anticipatory Socialization

Question No.50 4.00

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Cultural relativism is a tendency in which one ______.
Praises qualities of the other group
Loves everything of one’s own group
Judges every group activity on its merits
Loves everything of other’s group

Question No.51 4.00

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Who among the following has written the book “Kinship Organization in India”?
R. Desai
D N Majumdar
Irvati Karve
Veena Das

Question No.52 4.00

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A social custom that encourages people to marry within a social group is called as
Exogamy

Endogamy
Homogamy
Hypergamy
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Question No.53 4.00
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The purpose of the survey is ______.
Extensive coverage of population
Establishing casual linkage
Testing of a theory
In depth study of social phenomena

Question No.54 4.00

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Being awarded the Best Singer in 2010 marked a _________ in her life.
milestone
sign-post
memorial
yardstick

Question No.55 4.00

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When was ‘Chipko Movement’ born
1965
1972
1975
1968

Question No.56 4.00

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The term ‘dominant caste’ is introduced by
A.R.Desai
S.C.Dube
Yogendra Sing
M.N.Srinivas

Question No.57 4.00

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1
3
4
2

Question No.58 4.00

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Who among the following wrote “culture of poverty’?
Lewis a Coser
Karl Marx
Oscar Lewis
Robert Merton
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Question No.59 4.00
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A can finish a work in 18 days and B can do the same work in half the time taken by A. Then, working
together, what part of the same work they can finish in a day?
0 1/2
0 1/4
0 1/8
0 1/6

Question No.60 4.00

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Study the following information carefully and answer the question below it

Lakshman passes through seven lanes to reach his school. He finds that ‘Truth lane’ is between his
house and ‘Lie lane’. The third lane from his school is ‘Karma lane’. ‘Dharma lane’ is immediately
before the ‘Yog lane’. He passes ‘Salvation lane’ at the end, ‘Lie lane’ is between ‘Truth lane’ and
‘Dharma lane’, the sixth lane from his house is ‘Devotion lane’.

If Lakshman’s house, each lane and his school are equidistant and he takes 2 minutes to pass one
lane, then how long will he take to reach school from his house?
15 minutes
14 minutes
16 minutes
13 minutes

Question No.61 4.00

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Choose the best antonym of the italicized word.
The deliberate suavity of Olaf’s behavior made the emotions of the audience volatile.
pleasantness
stupidity
politeness
impetuosity

Question No.62 4.00

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The imbalance of adjustment between material & non-material culture can be termed as
Cultural variability
Cultural cohesion
Cultural variation
Cultural lag

Question No.63 4.00

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Research design is ______.
A sampling
Action research
The blueprint of the research
A guess
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Question No.64 4.00
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According to whom the 'self develops in a social context and is nurtured by primary groups?
Ruth Benedict
Charles H. Cooley
G H Mead
S. Freud

Question No.65 4.00

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The definition that sociology deals with study of ‘social facts’ is given by ______.
Durkheim
Robert Redfield
Tylor
Parson

Question No.66 4.00

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The person who coined the term ‘folkways’ was _______.
Cooley
Merton
Sumner
MacIver

Question No.67 4.00

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Who said ‘man is a social animal’?
Karl Marx
Aristotle
Plato
Auguste Comte

Question No.68 4.00

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Community sentiment means
Sense of superiority
Sense of belongingness
Communal property
Possessiveness

Question No.69 4.00

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The book ‘Asian Drama’ was written by
Gunnar Myrdal
William Wordsworth
William Shakespeare
Amartya Sen
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Question No.70 4.00
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Which is NOT an objective of land reform?
Land to the tiller
Eliminate elements of exploitation
Protect the zamindars
High efficiency and production

Question No.71 4.00

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Who among the following has given the concept of “cultural lag”?
William Ogburn
E. Tylor
Ralph Linton
W. Green

Question No.72 4.00

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Find the odd one out?
Deposit
Deduction
Withdrawal
Debit

Question No.73 4.00

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If a researcher collects information from every interval of 3rd house in a village, it is called
Systematic sampling
Quota sampling
Judgment sampling
Snowball sampling

Question No.74 4.00

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When their father died, their elder brother sold the old house and ___________ in a small flat in a far-
off suburb
set them up
put them up
put them down
set them down

Question No.75 4.00

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Reference group play a significant role in ______.
Improving cultural traits
Improving behaviour patterns
Habit formation
Attitude formation
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Question No.76 4.00
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Incest means ___.
Marriage between blood relatives
Marriage between first cousins
Marriage between siblings or between parents and children
Marriage outside one’s social group

Question No.77 4.00

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In India poverty line is drawn on the basis of
Minimum subsistence level
Minimum comfort
Maximum comfort
Minimum necessity

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Tendency to evaluate one’s own culture as superior is known as
Idealism
Relativism
Negativism
Ethnocentrism

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Nidhi walks 10 metres in front and 10 metres to the right. Then every time turning to her left, she walks
5, 15 and 15 metres respectively. How far is Nidhi now from her starting point?
10 metres
5 metres
15 metres
None of the above

Question No.80 4.00

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Narmada Bachao Andholan has been pioneered by
Mohan Parikkar
Medha Patkar
Vishnu Palekar
Nana Patekar

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The terms Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft were coined by _____.
Comte
Spencer
Tonnies
Durkheim
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Question No.82 4.00
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Statement: Ten Candidates, who were on the waiting list could finally be admitted to the course.
Assumptions:
I. A large of number of candidates were on the waiting list.
II. Wait listed candidates do not ordinarily get admission.
If only assumption I is implicit
If both I and II are implicit
If neither I nor II is implicit
If only assumption II is implicit

Question No.83 4.00

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A group, which a person uses to shape his/her, own values, beliefs, attitudes and behaviour is
Secondary group
Primary group
Model group
Reference Group

Question No.84 4.00

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Brain Drain is associated with
In-migration
International migration
Internal Migration
Inclusive Migration

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Who has distinguished between ascribed and achieved status?
Max Weber
Ralph Linton
Robert K Merton
Talcott Parsons

Question No.86 4.00

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Herbert Spencer has derived his evolutionary theory from the works of
Kepler
Dilthey
Darwin
Mendal

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The main goal of sociological study is ______.
Social reconstruction
Social reform
Study of society in its prevailing form
Social change
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Question No.88 4.00
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Which of the following is typically the earliest agent of socialization?
Mass media
Family
Work place
School

Question No.89 4.00

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A peer group is ______.
Primary group
Tertiary group
Reference group
Secondary group

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For Durkheim, suicide is a ______.
Economic fact
Religious fact
Social fact
Psychological fact

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The Indian Constitution has recognized _____ languages in India.
17
19
21
22

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Which of the following is not a feature of conflict?
Conflict is intermittent
Conflict is universal
conflict is an impersonal activity
conflict lacks continuity

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Who wrote “ The Rules of Sociological Method”?
Emile Durkheim
MN Srinivas
Max Weber
G S Ghurye
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Question No.94 4.00
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Ryotwari means
Landlords
Owned by the whole village
Owners of the land they cultivate
Intermediary between farmers and governments

Question No.95 4.00

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Choose the best synonym of the italicized word.
Children of excessively indulgent parents often become very recalcitrant.
dependent
disobedient
indolent
insolent

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A system of traditional occupational obligations is known as
Collective bargaining
Affective system
Jajmani System
Community sentiment

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Sociology should rely on positivism, according to
Karl Marx
Herbert Spencer
Max Weber
Auguste Comte

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In sociology, who gave the concept of social statics and social dynamics?
Weber
Durkheim
Auguste Comte
Merton

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Mechanical Solidarity is the feature of
Simple Society
Urban society
Complex Society
Industrial Society
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Who is the author of the book ‘The Sociological Imagination’?
Steve Harmison
Steve Fuller
C. Wright Mills
Peter L Berger
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Sr No. MA Sociology
1 In the series 357,363,369,……. What will be the 10th term?
Alt1 405
Alt2 411
Alt3 413
Alt4 417

2 Choose word from the given options which bears the same relationship to the third word, as the first two bears:
Moon: Satellite :: Earth : ?

Alt1 Sun
Alt2 Planet
Alt3 Solar System
Alt4 Asteroid

3 Door is related to Bang in the same way as Chain is related to ……..?......

Alt1 Thunder
Alt2 Clinch
Alt3 Tinkle
Alt4 Clank

4 Select the lettered pair that has the same relationship as the original pair of words:
Emollient: Soothe
Alt1 Dynamo: Generate
Alt2 Elevation: Level
Alt3 Hurricane: Track
Alt4 Precipitation: Fall

5 Which of the following is the same as Count, List, Weight?

Alt1 Compare
Alt2 Sequence
Alt3 Number
Alt4 Measure

6 Spot the defective segment from the following:

Alt1 The downtrodden
Alt2 needs
Alt3 to be uplifted
Alt4 on a war footing

7 Choose the meaning of the idiom/phrase from among the options given:
A close shave
Alt1 a nice glance
Alt2 a narrow escape
Alt3 an intimate
Alt4 a triviality
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8 Lightning ------- in the same place twice.

Alt1 doesn’t hit
Alt2 never strikes
Alt3 never attacks
Alt4 never falls

9 Choose the option closest in meaning to the given word:

FLIPPANT
Alt1 serious
Alt2 unsteady
Alt3 irreverent
Alt4 caustic

10 Choose the antonymous option you consider the best:

OBSOLETE
Alt1 obscure
Alt2 hackneyed
Alt3 current
Alt4 grasp

11 Akash scored 73 marks in subject A. He scored 56% marks in subject B and X marks in subject C. Maximum
marks in each subject were 150. The overall percentage marks obtained by Akash in sall te three subjects were
54%. How many marks did he score in subject C ?
Alt1 84
Alt2 86
Alt3 79
Alt4 73

12 A person starts from his house and travels 6 Km towards the West, he then travelled 4 Km towards his left and
then travels 8 Km towards west and 3 Km towards South. Finally he turns right and travels 5 Km. What is the
horizontal distance he has travelled from his house ?
Alt1 7 Km
Alt2 15 Km
Alt3 23 Km
Alt4 19 Km

13 If 1st Jan 2012 is a Tuesday then on which day of the week will 1st Jan 2013 fall ?
Alt1 Wednesday
Alt2 Thursday
Alt3 Friday
Alt4 Saturday

14 One morning after sunrise, Reeta and Kavita were talking to each other face to face at University. If Kavita’
shadow was exactly to the right of Reeta, which direction was Kavita facing ?
Alt1 North
Alt2 South
Alt3 East
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Alt4 West

15 In an exam every candidate took History (or)Geography(or)both. 74.8%took History and 50.2% took Geography.
If the Total number of candidates is 1500,how many took History and Geography both?
Alt1 400
Alt2 350
Alt3 750
Alt4 375

16 Which word includes the larger % of Vowels?

Alt1 GOOGLE
Alt2 AMAZON
Alt3 FACE BOOK
Alt4 DOE

17 A= Least prime >24;

B=Greatest prime <28; Then
Alt1 A>B
Alt2 A<B
Alt3 A=B
Alt4 None

18 CL X VIII refers
Alt1 861
Alt2 701
Alt3 168
Alt4 107

19 Which of the following is larger than 3/5 ?

Alt1 1/2
Alt2 39/50
Alt3 7/25
Alt4 59/100

20 Mr. Babu travelled 1200 km by air which formed 2/5 of his trip. One third of the whole trip, he travelled by car
and the rest of the journey was by train. What was the distance travelled by train?
Alt1 600km
Alt2 700 km
Alt3 800 km
Alt4 900 km

21 Durkheim classified society into:-

Alt1 Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
Alt2 Open and closed
Alt3 Literate and non-literate
Alt4 Mechanical and Organic
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22 Phrase 'Gram Swaraj' was used by whom?

Alt1 Gandhi
Alt2 Radhakamal Mukherjee
Alt3 M.S.A.Rao
Alt4 A.R.Desai

23 Who among the following belongs to formalistic school?

Alt1 Pareto
Alt2 Durkhiem
Alt3 Comte
Alt4 Georg Simmel

24 Name the system adopted by a given society to guide family or blood relationship.
Alt1 Kinship
Alt2 Culture
Alt3 Marriage
Alt4 Taboos

25 Which one of the following is not a feature of society?

Alt1 Inter-dependence
Alt2 Cooperation
Alt3 A specific Aim
Alt4 Competition

26 Customs are also called:-

Alt1 Value
Alt2 Behavior
Alt3 Folkways
Alt4 Culture

27 Which among the following economies tends to spread consumerism?

Alt1 Market
Alt2 Barter
Alt3 Mixed
Alt4 Patron-client

28 Urbanization means:-
Alt1 Flocking of people in a community hall
Alt2 A political rally
Alt3 A large area
Alt4 Concentration of human population into cities

29 Sociology has been said to be the product of ____________ revolution.

Alt1 Chinese
Alt2 Arab
Alt3 Russian
Alt4 French
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30 Pick up the correct synonyms for the following word.

PREDICT:-
Alt1 Analyze
Alt2 Determine
Alt3 Foretell
Alt4 Describe

31 Society has been defined as a "web of social relationships" by:-

Alt1 R.M. Maclver
Alt2 R.K. Merton
Alt3 Emile Durkheim
Alt4 Talcott Parsons

32 Which among the following is a dissociative process?

Alt1 Accommodation
Alt2 Co operation
Alt3 Assimilation
Alt4 Conflict

33 Pick out the most appropriate word to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete .
_________ is to narrow as thin is to ____________.

Alt1 nice - wide

Alt2 sleek - smart
Alt3 wide - fat
Alt4 thin - thick

34 By nature, Caste is:-

Alt1 Hierarchical
Alt2 Arbitrary
Alt3 Balanced
Alt4 Equal

35 Pick out the most appropriate word to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

Time is to watch as light is to _______________.

Alt1 soil
Alt2 balloon
Alt3 bulb
Alt4 seed

36 Pick up the correct antonyms for the following word.

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Alt1 Dislike
Alt2 Suspend
Alt3 Admonish
Alt4 Hate

37 Whose work is 'Liberalism'?

Alt1 Hobbes
Alt2 Plato
Alt3 Hobhouse
Alt4 Locke

38 Patriarchal theory was propounded by:-

Alt1 Taylor
Alt2 Aristotle
Alt3 Maine
Alt4 Morgan

39 According to Marx, which of the following is considered to be the most crucial element for class struggle?

Alt1 Class consciousness

Alt2 Class identity
Alt3 Class formation
Alt4 Class interest

40 Pick up the correct synonyms for the following word.

INCORRIGIBLE:-

Alt1 Orphan
Alt2 Corrigible
Alt3 Greed
Alt4 Beyond reform

41 Consumers' Association is an example for:-

Alt1 Secondary group
Alt2 Triad
Alt3 Primary group
Alt4 In group

42 Pick up the correct synonyms for the following word.

UNCONSCIONABLE:-

Alt1 Without pangs of conscience

Alt2 Over smart
Alt3 Guilty
Alt4 Disrespectful
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43 Satellite towns are concepts of:-

Alt1 Technology
Alt2 Urban Planning
Alt3 Slums
Alt4 Urbanism

44 When a class is somewhat extremely hereditary, it is called:-

Alt1 Class
Alt2 Kingship
Alt3 Clergy
Alt4 Caste

45 According to Tylor, the earliest form of religion was:-

Alt1 animatism
Alt2 naturism
Alt3 manaism
Alt4 animism

46 A feature of good urban governance is:-

Alt1 Red-tapism
Alt2 Brotherhood
Alt3 Corruption
Alt4 Transparency

47 Visual culture include:-

Alt1 Mind reading
Alt2 Palmistry
Alt3 Astronomy
Alt4 Designs

48 A social position which is secured through individual choice and competition is known as:-
Alt1 Multiple status
Alt2 Achieved status
Alt3 Ascribed status
Alt4 Secondary status

49 Pick up the correct antonyms for the following word.

POISED:-

Alt1 anxious
Alt2 distracted
Alt3 collected
Alt4 comfortable

50 One of the causes of urbanization is:-

Alt1 Environmental hazard
Alt2 Disappointment
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Alt3 Broken families

Alt4 Migration

51 Pick up the correct antonyms for the following word.

RETAIN:-

Alt1 Eject
Alt2 Renounce
Alt3 Reject
Alt4 Spare

52 First censorship took place in the year:-

Alt1 1974
Alt2 1976
Alt3 1975
Alt4 1977

53 Who coined the term 'Double Hermeneutics?

Alt1 Giddens
Alt2 Freud
Alt3 Kuhn
Alt4 Karl Popper

54 Who among the following divided the self into the id, the ego and the superego?
Alt1 Freud
Alt2 Erik Erikson
Alt3 T. Parsons
Alt4 Cooley

55 Marriage among the Hindus is considered a:-

Alt1 Traditional practice
Alt2 Sacrament
Alt3 Contract
Alt4 Profane

56 Pick up the correct synonyms for the following word. GLIB:-

Alt1 Dull
Alt2 Tragic
Alt3 Stammer
Alt4 Fluent

57 In India which city has more number of slum dwellers?

Alt1 New Delhi
Alt2 Kolkata
Alt3 Bangalore
Alt4 Mumbai
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58 Who is the author of 'Rural sociology in India'?

Alt1 Gandhi
Alt2 S.C.Dube
Alt3 Srinivas
Alt4 A.R. Desai

59 Which among the following is not a feature of a primary group?

Alt1 Direct contact
Alt2 Face to face relation
Alt3 Personal contact
Alt4 Anonymity

60 Name of the largest slum of Asia.

Alt1 Basti
Alt2 Dharavi
Alt3 Ahata
Alt4 Kamatipura

61 The smallest group possible:-

Alt1 Primary group
Alt2 Dyad
Alt3 Family
Alt4 Peer group

62 Which among the following is not a secondary group?

Alt1 political party
Alt2 students in a class room
Alt3 a city
Alt4 labour union

63 Sociometry is associated with the name of:-

Alt1 Bandarkar
Alt2 P.V. Young
Alt3 Goode & hall
Alt4 I.L. Moreno

64 The notion of function has mainly been used by:-

Alt1 Biological science
Alt2 Literature
Alt3 Social science
Alt4 Physical science

65 Pick up the correct synonyms for the following word. CONSUMATE:-

Alt1 Novice
Alt2 Ambiguous
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Alt3 Perfect
Alt4 Imperfect

66 The world is a stage .........."! What is the role of an individual in the stage?
Alt1 Lights
Alt2 Actor
Alt3 Stage
Alt4 Music

67 Who are open-collar workers?

Alt1 The workers in industry
Alt2 The Workers in agricultural sectors
Alt3 There is no such term as this
Alt4 The workers working from home

68 The concept of looking-glass self has been given by:-

Alt1 Giddings
Alt2 Mead
Alt3 MacIver
Alt4 Cooley

69 Who propounded the theory of 'ideological state apparatus'?

Alt1 Louis Althusser
Alt2 Homans
Alt3 Marx
Alt4 Merton

70 The distinction between concrete social structure and structural form was proposed by:-
Alt1 Malinowski
Alt2 Lowie
Alt3 Merton
Alt4 Radcliff - Brown

71 Who introduces the concept of sick role?

Alt1 Merton
Alt2 Hyman
Alt3 Sumner
Alt4 Parsons

72 Accommodation is essentially a process of:-

Alt1 Group formation
Alt2 Competition
Alt3 Adjustment
Alt4 Cooperation

73 In whose work do we find the mention of 'kula'?

Alt1 Malinowski
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Alt2 Ritzer
Alt3 Murdock
Alt4 Frazer

74 The scientific study of human populations, primarily with respect to their size, their structure and their
development' is:-
Alt1 Psychology
Alt2 Demography
Alt3 Geography
Alt4 Sociometry

75 Culture industry' by Adorno and Horkheimer is refered to as:-

Alt1 Industry employing people from a particular culture
Alt2 Industry promoting a culture
Alt3 Culture like a factory producing standardized goods
Alt4 Industry producing handicrafts reflecting a particular culture

76 Who among the following held the view that family is an ideological conditioning device in an exploitive society?

Alt1 R. D. Laing
Alt2 Edmond Leach
Alt3 David Cooper
Alt4 Friedrich Engels

77 Who perceived development as freedom?

Alt1 Romilla Thapar
Alt2 Amartya Sen
Alt3 Jean Dreze
Alt4 Immanuel Wallerstein

78 Book 'Second sex' is written by:-

Alt1 Patricia Hill Collins
Alt2 Gayatri Spivak
Alt3 Simone de Beauvoir
Alt4 Mary Daly

79 Herbert Spencer has classified types of societies from the simplest to the most complex according to their
degree of:-
Alt1 Aggregation
Alt2 Composition
Alt3 Social bond
Alt4 Knowledge

80 Who is the author of the book 'The Runaway World'?

Alt1 Derrida
Alt2 Bourdillard
Alt3 Giddens
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Alt4 Ritzer

81 How Marx conceptualize the phenomena of workers becoming conscious of sharing common grievances against
capitalists?
Alt1 Class in itself
Alt2 Class by itself
Alt3 Underclass
Alt4 Class for itself

82 The matrilineage of the Nayars is called:-

Alt1 Karawad
Alt2 Narawadita
Alt3 Sambandhawad
Alt4 Tarawad

83 The number of primary kin are:-

Alt1 6
Alt2 8
Alt3 2
Alt4 1

84 Man is entirely the product of society while woman is to a far greater extent the product of nature'. This
statement is attributable to:-
Alt1 Emile Durkheim
Alt2 Talcott Parsons
Alt3 George Peter Murdock
Alt4 Robin Fox

85 A group of urban youths formed an association to promote literacy in a tribal village. A series of programmes
was conducted in the village to achieve this goal. As a result not only did the rate of literacy increase but
awareness about health also developed among the people of the village. Which one of the following concepts
correctly describes the latter result?
Alt1 Latent function
Alt2 Secondary function
Alt3 Dysfunction
Alt4 Manifest function

86 Who was influential in developing Labelling Theory?

Alt1 Howard Brown
Alt2 Emile Durkheim
Alt3 Edwin Sutherland
Alt4 Howard Becker

87 From among the following who was the pioneer of the Trade Union Movement in India?
Alt1 D Pandian
Alt2 V.V. Giri
Alt3 S.A. Dange
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Alt4 B.P. Wadia

88 Match list I with list II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists:-

Alt1 1,2,3,5
Alt2 2,4,1,3
Alt3 5,4,2,3
Alt4 2,3,1,4

89 Which of the following are among the basis of achieving power?

(1) Proficiency and skill
(2) Political position
(3) Marriage in high status group
(4) Wealth
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:-

Alt1 2 and 4
Alt2 1 and 3
Alt3 1 and 4
Alt4 2 and 3

90 Which of the following are involved in the formation of nuclear family?

1. Fictive relationship
2. Affinal relationship
3. Ritual relationship
4. Consanguinal relationship
Select the correct answers from the codes given below.

Alt1 1, 2, and 4
Alt2 1 and 4
Alt3 1, 2, and 3
Alt4 2 and 4

91 Who among the following Indian sociologists wrote extensively on the regional dimensions in India?

Alt1 Radhakamal Mukherjee

Alt2 S. C. Dube
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Alt3 N. K. Bose
Alt4 G.S Ghurye

92 Who is the author of 'The clash of civilizations'?

Alt1 Barack Obama
Alt2 Benjamin Barber
Alt3 Samuel Huntington
Alt4 Foucault

93 Match list I with list II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists:-

Alt1 1,3,5,4
Alt2 3,1,4,2
Alt3 3,4,1,5
Alt4 2,1,5,2

94 Sub-culture theory is associated with:-

Alt1 Alex Thio
Alt2 Howard Becker
Alt3 Walter Miller
Alt4 Emile Durkheim

95 A woman executive presides over a management board meeting, picks up her daughter from her school and
goes to play a game of bridge in the ladies club. She is manifesting:-
Alt1 her elite status
Alt2 her role-set
Alt3 her style of life
Alt4 her status-set

96 Match list I with list II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists:-
 Admission Aglasem

Alt1 4,3,2,1
Alt2 2,3,4,1
Alt3 3,1,4,2
Alt4 2,4,1,3

97 Social cost of globalization affect young people because of their:-

Alt1 Financial dependence
Alt2 Transitional status
Alt3 Community feeling
Alt4 Energy

98 The better objective view of the working of a group is given by:-

Alt1 Participant observation
Alt2 Questionnaire
Alt3 Structured questionnaire
Alt4 Interview

99 Given below are the names of three significant works:-

(1) System of consanguinity and affinity of the human family
(2) African systems of kinship and marriage
(3) Kinship organisation in India
The authors of the above three works are respectively:-

Alt1 Rivers, Morgan and Gough

Alt2 Tylor, Karve and Gough
Alt3 Radcliff-Brown, Karve and Lowie
Alt4 Morgan, Radcliff-Brown and Karve

100 The view of human behaviour and personality are determined primarily by cultural factors is called:-

Alt1 cultural pluralism

Alt2 cultural determinism
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Alt3 cultural particularism

Alt4 cultural relativism
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Which of the following is not a characteristic future of the tribe?
Common profession
Common language

Common organization
Common lineage

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The formal means of social control are:-

Transmitted through generation

Orally transmitted
Spontaneously created
Deliberately created

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Which among the following is not a feature of the community?
Community sentiment

Legal status

Locality

A group of people

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A teenage group is first and foremost an example of a:-
Secondary group

Football group
Peer group
Play group

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All members of society occupy a number of social positions known as:-
Prestige
Role

Status
 Esteem

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Pick up the correct antonyms for the following word.

AMBIGUOUS:-

ancient
clear

dazed

brilliant

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New media came with:-

Religion
Technology

Politics
Globalization

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Name the control of society over individual.

Sanction
Social control

Custom
State

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The Hierarchy of Needs is associated with:-

Georg Simmel
Auguste Comte
Abraham Maslow

C.H Cooley

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Pick up the correct antonyms for the following word.

QUIT:-

end
 stop

start

withdraw

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Knowledge is an example of ______________ culture.
Explicit

Artefact

Material
Non-material

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Indology means:-

Study of normative behavior

A Branch of Archeology
Study of Indian Census

Study of India and its Culture

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Which is not a factor of urban location?
Fashion

Function
Culture

Nature

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Pick out the most appropriate word to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

What frustrates the opposition's effort of unity is the absence of a _______________ long term strategy?
Creditable

Credible

Contestable
Compatible

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Basis for social stratification is:-
 Social harmony

Social inequality

Social problem
Social understanding

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_________ refers to the tendency on the part of the members to identify them with the groups.

We-feeling

Mutual awareness
Group norms
Group unity

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A group organized to achieve a certain purpose is known as which among the following?

Association
State

Institution

Community

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Who has propounded the theory of cultural lag?

W.F. Ogburn
Oscar Lewis

NimKoff

Bogardus

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The co-existence of several subcultures within a given society on equal terms:-
Cultural pluralism
Counter culture

Cultural relativism
Mass culture

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CHRONIC:-
Recently

Occasionally
After death
Lasting a long time

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A good illustration of social group is:-
A market

People in a tent
A crowd in a street

Family

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REVISE:-

Reconsider
Edit

Correct

Alter

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To Marshall McLuhan, Medium is the _______.
Language

Text
Radio
Message

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Pick up the correct antonyms for the following word.

MIDNIGHT:-
noon

evening
 tomorrow

yesterday

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In which one of the following concepts has M. N. Srinivas explained caste mobility as a process of social
and cultural change?

Sanskritization
Westernization

Modernization

Secularization

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Norms are enforced by:-

Positive sanction

Negative sanction
Positive and negative sanction
Order

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Pick up the correct synonyms for the following word.

MYOPIC:-

Long sighted

Deaf
Near sighted

Blind

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What is Forth Estate?
Newspaper
Religion

Police
Politics

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PSYCHOPATHIC:-
Cardiac arrest

Mentally or emotionally diseased

Muscular disorder
Short sightedness

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In secondary groups, membership is ___________.
Involuntary

Innate
Voluntary

Ascribed

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Culture is the sum total of knowledge, belief, art morals, law, customs and any other capabilities and
habits acquired by man as a member of society." Who define so?

Linton
Spencer
Redfield

Tylor

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CONGENITAL:-
Premature

Existing since adolescence

Existing at birth
Existing after death

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A role is the _______________ aspect of status.
Static
Latent

Counter
 Dynamic

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A social group is ______________ in nature.
Co-operative

Static
Dynamic

Spontaneous

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Educated women is an example of:-
Social category

Collectivity

Social group

Association

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The primary reason for social stratification:-
Economic disparity

Psychological self expression

Show of prosperity

Social inequality

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WARY:-

conscientious
thrifty
rash

daring

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CONGENIAL:-

Old age
 Unsuitable

Unhygienic

Suitable

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Group consist of only two participants is called:-
Dyad

Multi-group

Triad
Play group

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TERRIBLE:-

Delightful
Hideous

Horrible
Awesome

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The basic unit of culture is the cultural __________.

Complex
Trait
Construct
Theme

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Name an involuntary group.
Race

Political party

Consumer association
Club

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Society is an abstract organization which prevails:-
 Where there is group

Where there is law and order

Where ever there is existence of social relationship

Where there is solidarity

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Pick up the correct antonyms for the following word.

PACIFY:-

Offend
Injure
Insult

Aggravate

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Which of the following state's official language is English?

Rajasthan

Nagaland
Kerala

West Bengal

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Book "The Social Background of Indian Nationalism" is written by:-
G.S. Ghurye
Patrick Geddess
A.M. Shah

A.R.Desai

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First hand study of a small group is called:-

Sampling

Ethnography
Ethno-methodology
Biography

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A secondary group is regulated by __________ rules.
Natural

Formal
Informal

Personal

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The essence of social relationships is:-

Common culture
Proper understanding
Common interests

Mutual awareness

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The term 'cultural relativism' is associated with:-

Vilfredo Pareto

William Graham Sumner

Emile Durkheim

M.N. Srinivas

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Pick out the most appropriate word to fill in the blank to make the sentence meaningfully complete.

His logic ________________ everyone, including the experts.

Surprised

Teased

Confounded
Defied

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Name the reciprocal influence human beings exert on each other through interstimulation and response.

Social relation
Social interaction
Co-operation

Social groups
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An authority is:-
Same as power
Legitimized power

Power through coercion

Absolute power

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In which state of India the population of females is more than males according to the census of India
2001?

Jammu and Kashmir

Andhra Pradesh

Kerala

Karnataka

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Who introduced 'positivism' in sociology?

Weber
Mills

Durkheim
Comte

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The allotment of seats of parliament are determined on the basis of:-

Illiteracy
Population
Literacy
Area

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Peer groups are often a:-
Similar culture
Similar age

Similar height
 Similar colour

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Socialization is a process which involves:-
Setting up of social norms

Gradual changing of organism

Declaring everything as belonging to society

Training to adopt to the society

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Pick up the correct antonyms for the following word.

SUBSTANTIAL:-

insignificant
affluent

impoverished
suffering

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Pick up the correct antonyms for the following word.

IRATE:-
bitter

courteous

content
riled

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Objective facts refer to facts when they have been:-
empirically verified
logically derived

theoretically established

rationally determined

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What does Bourdieu's 'social capital' imply?
 The actual or potential resources which are linked to possession of a durable network of more or less
institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition

The capitalistic influence on society

The amount of money collected for a social cause

None of the above

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What did McKim Marriot call the process of change when indigenous customs, deities and rites spread
from the local village settings to the larger societal level?

Sanskritization
Parochialization
Diffusion

Universalization

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The process by which culture traits spread from one culturally distinct group to another is known as:-

Disintegration

Evolution
Diffusion

Assimilation

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The mutual impact of British and Indian culture on each other is termed as:-
Assimilation
Westernization
Acculturation

Amalgamation

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'Is the family universal' is written by:-

Murdock

Spiro
Kathlene Gough
A.M.Shah

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The book 'Globalization and its discontents' is written by:-
Escobar

Giddens
Joseph Stiglitz

Samir Amin

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Which one of the following combinations is true regarding 'modernization' in India?

Diffusion and acculturation

Evolution and regeneration
Evolution and diffusion

Evolution and acculturation

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Looking glass self' is a socialisation process which essentially means:-

a self perception of what others think of us

to attract attention and seek praise

a true reflection of one's personality

a true judgement of approval and disapproval

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Who among the following has written the book "Caste and race in India"?

B. R. Ambedkar
G. S. Ghurye
D. Hardiman

S.C. Dube

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Which one of the following is a statement which refers to a norm?

A son is preferred to a daughter

The guilty must be punished

Monogamy is the most commonly practiced form of marriage
All citizens have equal rights

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'The individual forgets the rule, misconstrues its intention.' This implies:-
Conformity

Deviance
Retreatism

Rebellion

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Which subject is at the base of Comte's hierarchy of sciences?

Sociology
Biology
Mathematics

Physics

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A formally organized groups having limited objectives that are specifically spelled out and well understood
is known as:-

Association

Peer group
Primary group

Community

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Who is the author of the book 'Masculine Domination'?
Mary Daly

Bell Hook

Foucaul
Bourdieu

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The book "Folkways" was written by:-

W.G. Sumner
Martin
MacIver

Pareto
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What is 'Verstehen'?

Analysis
Explanation

Understanding
Elaboration

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Ernest Burgess using Chicago as an example has described its growth pattern in terms of:-
Multiple nuclei model

Concentric zone model

Unique nuclei model

Sector model

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Which type of residence does NOT help the formation of extended family?

Uxorilocality

Neolocality

Avunculocality
Virilocality

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The term Anomie in sociology is nearest it its meaning to:-
Deviance

Instability
Normlessness

Insecurity

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A man moving from one job to another, but at much the same level of prestige or income is engaged in:-

Horizontal Mobility
Cross mobility
Open class mobility

Vertical Mobility
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Which of the following are bases in Indian society on the basis of which a region is demarcated?

(1) Cultural and linguistic factors

(2) Historical and administrative factors
(3) Political aspirations of people

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:-

1 and 2

2 and 3
1 and 3
1, 2 and 3

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Who said self and society is twin born?
Sumner
Bergel
Gilbert

Cooley

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According to Spencer, mankind had progressed from small groups to large and from simple to compound,
or, in more general terms from the homogenous to the heterogeneous. This conception is an example of:-
Cyclical theory
Universal theory of evolution

Linear theory
Cultural theory

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The Varnas, as Senart observed in a classical study, originally resembled feudal estate in certain
respects. Which of the characteristics listed below have been emphasized by him?

(1) The possibility of upward mobility existed

(2) They were machinery for the exchange of goods
(3) There was hierarchical ordering of the groups
(4) A strict segregation of groups existed
(5) They had a status based on a complex of rights and duties

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below.

1, 3 and 5

3, 4 and 5
 2, 3 and 5

1, 2 and 4

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Who talked about formal and informal groups?

Lemert
Parsons

Tylor

Bogardus

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"How is social life maintained and carried forward in time despite the complete turn over in the
membership of society with every new generation"? With which approach in Sociology would you identify
this question?
Evolutionary

Structural functional
Dialectical approach

Symbolic interactionism

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Social change causes cultural lag which leads to:-
Acculturation

Competition
Consensus
Conflict

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Which theoretical perspective is based on the view that liberty is neither received as a gift; it has to be
fought for. Self-elevation is not achieved by the blessings of others but by self-struggle?
Subaltern
Civilizational

Marxian
Structural

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Equality of opportunity is an example of social:-
 Norm

Value

Behaviour
Aim

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Who studied Peasant insurgency?

N.K. Bose

Ranajit Guha
David Hardiman
B.R. Ambedkar

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The distinction between ascribed and achieved status was made by R. Linton in his book:-

Man and society

The Study of Man

Homo Hierarchicus

Society and Man

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The study of communication among men, animals and machines with particular emphasis on the
feedback of information and the function of feedback in the process of control is called:-

Information Technology
Teleology
Cybernetics

Homeostasis

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Sexual behaviour and Sexual meanings are subject to the forces of:-

Choice

Culture
Biology
Nature

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According to August Comte, which of these concepts indicates that human societies develop and change
through time?
Metaphysics

Positivism
Social Status

Social dynamics

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Match list I with list II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists:-

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Many people in India feel that their pattern of living is not forward looking. They think that Englishmen
lead a rational and forward looking life. They should, therefore, emulate British way of life. Which one of
the following is a reference group in the above sense?

Englishmen
Indian
Both Englishmen and Indian

Neither Englishmen nor Indian

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Which of the following criteria were used by Sorokin in distinguishing a rural society from an urban
society?

(1) Occupation
(2) Size of population
(3) System of interaction
(4) Heterogeneity
(5) Mobility

Choose the correct answer from the codes given below.

1, 2 and 4
2, 3 and 4
1, 2 and 3

3, 4 and 5

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Match list I with list II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists:-

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Broad Socialization promote:-

Conformity
Independence

Community feeling

Obedience
PU M A Sociology

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Which of the following state's official language is English?

West Bengal

Nagaland

Kerala

Rajasthan

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Educated women is an example of:-

Collectivity

Association

Social category

Social group

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In which of the following state there is no provision of autonomous regions?

Assam

Meghalaya

Nagaland

Tripura

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Which of the following research methods uses existing records?

Survey research

Observational research

Questionnaire research

Archival research

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"The sentiment that characterizes the relations of men toward the members of their own and other
classes", is referred to as:-

Role consciousness

Class consciousness

Caste consciousness
 Status consciousness

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Who talked about formal and informal groups?

Parsons

Bogardus

Lemert

Tylor

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In India Panchayati Raj is a:-

Four tier System

Three Tier systems

One Tier system

Two Tier system

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The society under the sway of Globalization is termed by McLuhan as:-

Global Village

Westernization

Globalization

Trans nationalization

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Patriarchal theory was propounded by:-

Morgan

Maine

Aristotle

Taylor

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A good illustration of social group is:-

A market

A crowd in a street

People in a tent
 Family

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'Homo Hierarchicus: An Essay on the Caste System' has been written by:-

M.N. Srinivas

C. Wright Mills

S.C. Dube

Louis Dumont

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Mahatma Gandhi laid great stress on the purity of:-

Ends

Means

Actors

Conflict

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Length is measured in units of:-

Meter

Seconds

Kilogram

Watts

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Migrants from rural to urban areas adjust more smoothly to city life if they maintain:-

Agriculture

Kinship ties

Rural life

Irrigation

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Patterns Variables is associated with whom?

Auguste Comte

Talcott Parsons

Max Weber
 R.K. Merton

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Name of the largest slum of Asia:-

Kamatipura

Basti

Ahata

Dharavi

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Durkheim classified society into:-

Open and closed

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

Mechanical and Organic

Literate and non-literate

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Peer groups are often a:-

Similar height

Similar age

Similar colour

Similar culture

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Sociometry is associated with the name of:-

Goode & hall

P.V. Young

I.L. Moreno

Bandarkar

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Social change causes cultural lag which leads to:-

Competition

Conflict

Acculturation
 Consensus

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A teenage group is first and foremost an example of a ________.

Peer group

Secondary group

Football group

Play group

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Modern society is governed by:-

Divine law

Rule of law

Customs

Convention and tradition

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The notion of function has mainly been used by:-

Physical science

Social science

Biological science

Literature

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Which among the following is not a secondary group?

labour union

a city

students in a class room

political party

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The book "Folkways" was written by:-

MacIver

Martin

Pareto
 W.G. Sumner

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From among the following who was the pioneer of the Trade Union Movement in India?

D Pandian

V.V. Giri

B.P. Wadia

S.A. Dange

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'Artifact' is:-

Non-material culture

sub-culture

Material culture

Society

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'Man is a social animal' who said this?

Freud

MacIver

Aristotle

Rousseau

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Sociology developed in nineteenth-century Europe, as a response to:-

Dramatic social changes

Discoveries in science

Agrarian Crisis

Literature

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_________ is the most primitive form of religion.

Fetishism

Animatisms

Animism
 Totemism

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The book 'Satanic Verses' is written by:-

Salman Rushdie

Jaya Dev

Aruna Roy

T.S. Elliot

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In which state of India the population of females is more than males according to the census of India
2001?

Jammu and Kashmir

Kerala

Karnataka

Andhra Pradesh

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Equality of opportunity is an example of social:-

Behavior

Value

Norm

Aim

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The primary reason for social stratification:-

Social inequality

Economic disparity

Psychological self expression

Show of prosperity

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Process of Socialization starts:-

After getting maturity

Before Childs birth

 In youth only and not earlier than that

After birth of the child

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The matrilineage of the Nayars is called:-

Sambandhawad

Tarawad

Narawadita

Karawad

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Role sets most often involves roles that are:-

Integrated

Reciprocal

Fight

Conflicting

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The concept of looking-glass self has been given by:-

Giddings

Mead

Cooley

MacIver

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Herbert Spencer's model of society was essentially:-

consensus

Conflict

Organismic

Competitive

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Who among the following is associated with Dalit Feminism?

Bina Agarwal

Sharmila Rege
 Seema Kulkarni

Irawatikarve

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Which one has 'we feeling'?

Racial group

Tertiary group

Secondary group

Primary group

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Who said self and society is twin born?

Sumner

Gilbert

Cooley

Bergel

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Reservation of the scheduled castes is provided in terms of their:-

Illiteracy

Low ritual positions

Population

Poverty

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The allotment of seats of parliament are determined on the basis of:-

Area

Illiteracy

Population

Literacy

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By nature, Caste is:-

Balanced

Hierarchical
 Arbitrary

Equal

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Customs are also called:-

Value

Folkways

Behavior

Culture

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The term Conspicuous Consumption is used by:-

Arnold Toynbee

Vilfredo Pareto

C. Wright Mills

T. Veblen

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First hand study of a small group is called:-

Ethnomethodology

Sampling

Biography

Ethnography

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Norms are enforced by:-

Positive sanction

Order

Negative sanction

Positive and negative sanction

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Who said 'there is no role without status'?

Merton

Mead
 Linton

Sorokin

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Sexual relationships between prohibited categories of kin is termed as:-

Incest

Avoidance

Cross-cousin

Joking relation

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Accommodation is essentially a process of:-

Group formation

Cooperation

Adjustment

Competition

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Which among the following economies tends to spread consumerism?

Mixed

Market

Patron-client

Barter

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Field study is related to:-

Laboratory situation

Experimental situations

Historical situations

Real life situations

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An authority is:-

Same as power

Power through coercion

 Absolute power

Legitimized power

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Society has been defined as a "web of social relationships" by:-

Talcott Parsons

R.K. Merton

R.M. Maclver

Emile Durkheim

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A formally organized groups having limited objectives that are specifically spelled out and well understood
is known as:-

Community

Primary group

Peer group

Association

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The scientific study of human populations, primarily with respect to their size, their structure and their
development' is:-

Demography

Geography

Psychology

Sociometry

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Who among the following scholar thought of religion to an opium of the people?

Marx

Freud

Mosca

Durkheim

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Which one of the following is NOT a push factor of rural to urban migration?

Increasing practice of dowry in rural areas

 Decline of cottage and household industry in rural areas

Rural unemployment

Rural poverty

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Who introduced the term cross-cousin?

Levi Strauss

Radcliff-Brown

Tylor

Morgan

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The world food problem arises mainly due to:-

Lower growth of yields

Insufficient purchasing power of the poor

Expanded global population

Constraints on aggregate food production

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That consciousness is determined by social existence and not vice-versa has been stated by:-

Karl Marx

W.L Warner

Emile Durkheim

Richard Centers

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What type of groups are united only by one purpose?

Educational

Marginal

Functional

Spatial

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Sangtam Tribes live in:-

Mizoram
 Orissa

Madhya Pradesh

Nagaland

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Sociology has been said to be the product of French and ____________ revolution.

Indian

American

Chinese

Russian

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Society is a system of:-

Unbreakable customs

Rigid rules

Usages and procedures

Few groupings and divisions

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Which of the following are forms of social stratification?

Land lords and tenants

Caste and class

Racial groups

Income groups

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The word 'Caste' has been derived from which language?

Portuguese

Spanish

English

Latin

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The fundamental characteristic of an industrial society is:-

poverty
 break up of joint family

mechanised means of production

lack of faith in religion

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According to August Comte, which of these concepts indicates that human societies develop and change
through time?

Social dynamics

Positivism

Social status

Metaphysics

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Urbanism has been described as a distinct 'way of life' by:-

Louis Wirth

J .A. Quinn

Kingsley Davis

R. E. Park

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Finances are distributed between the Centre and States on the basis of the recommendations of the:-

Public Accounts Committee

Planning Commission

Finance Commission

National Development Council

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A concept is:-

A descriptive property or relation

A notion

An idea

All of these

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Which one of the following is a statement which refers to a norm?
 All citizens have equal rights

A son is preferred to a daughter

The guilty must be punished

Monogamy is the most commonly practiced form of marriage

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The important feature of Green Revolution in India:-

Using green manure

provides credit facilities

Raising more crops

High yielding variety program

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The view of human behaviour and personality are determined primarily by cultural factors is called:-

cultural pluralism

cultural relativism

cultural determinism

cultural particularism

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According to Muslim law 'Mehr' is:-

the amount fixed at marriage to be paid to the bride at the time of marriage

Penalty paid by the wife for deserting the husband

Penalty paid to the community for ill-treating the wife

the charges for the marriage ceremony paid to the religious priest

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'The individual forgets the rule, misconstrues its intention.' This implies:-

Conformity

Deviance

Rebellion

Retreatism

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A town, which serves the hinterland and in return is served by the hinterland, is called a:-
 Service centre

Central place

Growth centre

Growth pole

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The language of discourses of Gautama Buddha was:-

Sanskrit

Pali

Magadhi

Bhojpuri

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The Sardar Sarovar dam is being constructed on the river:-

Krishna

Narmada

Kauveri

Thapti

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A group organized to achieve a certain purpose is known as:-

State

Institution

Community

Association

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A group which consists of only two participants is called:-

Dyad

Multi-group

Triad

Play group

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Which amongst the Vedas is the last one to be added to the other three?
 Rigveda

Ayurveda

Samveda

Atharvaveda

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Eugenics is the study of:-

genetic of plants

different races of mankind

altering human beings by changing their genetic components

people of European origin

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'Intimate face-to-face association and cooperation', according to Cooley, is a characteristic of:-

A social group

A secondary group

A quasi group

A primary group

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The oldest Indian Language is:-

Tamil

Kannada

Malayalam

Punjabi

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Who introduced 'Positivism' in sociology?

Karl Marx

August Comte

Emile Durkheim

R.K. Merton

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Knowledge is an example of ______________ culture.
 Non-material

Cultural lag

Explicit

Material

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Which of the following technique is used in quantitative social research?

Observation

Focus group discussion

In-depth interview

Analyzing statistical data

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Architect of Indian Constitution is:-

Sardar Vallabhai Patel

Dr. B. R. Ambedker

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru

M. K. Gandhi

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What according to Emile Durkheim is the subject matter of Sociology?

Social institutions

Social fact

Logical study of non-logical action

Social statics and dynamics

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Ethnocentrism is a technical term for the 'view of things in which one's own group is the centre of
everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it'. Who coined this term?

G. Simmel

W. G. Sumner

F. Tonnies

A. Toynbee

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Who argued that societies developed from organisational forms where relationships were based on status
to those based up on contract?

Sir Henry Maine

Herbert Spencer

August Comte

None of them

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The co-existence of several subcultures within a given society on equal terms is called:-

Mass culture

Cultural pluralism

Counter culture

Cultural relativism

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Who made a distinction between extended and polygamous families?

Bell and Vogel

G. P. Murdock

George Simmel

Park and Burgess

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The formal means of social control are:-

Spontaneously created

Transmitted through generation

Deliberately created

Orally transmitted

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_________ refers to the tendency on the part of the members to identify them with the groups.

We-feeling

Group unity

Group norms

Mutual awareness

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The theory of Leisure Class was developed by:-

Parsons

Durkheim

Veblen

Weber