Sociology December 2012 Paper 3 Solved

SOCIOLOGY

PAPER – III

Note : This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.

All questions are compulsory.

1. Which one of the following is correct

about Ethno methodology ?

(A) Macro Sociology

 (B) Micro Sociology

 (C) Certainly not Macro Sociology

 (D) Certainly not Micro Sociology

Answer:(B)

2. Who has considered that ‘most often

action is routine and relatively

unreflexive’ ?

(A) Alfred Schultz

 (B) H. Garfinkel

 (C) Max Weber

 (D) John Heritage

Answer:(A)

3. Who has argued that ethno methods are

‘reflexively accountable’ ?

(A) Orbuch

 (B) Garfinkel

 (C) Schultz

 (D) Hilbert

Answer:(B)

4. Who was concerned with the

composition of ‘self’ at the ‘micro’

level of social action and interaction ?

(A) Mead

 (B) Goffman

 (C) Berger

 (D) Luckman

Answer:(B)

5. Match the following Lists-I & II.

List – I  List – II

a. The Structure of  1. A. Schultz

Social Action

b. The  2. Harold Garfinkel

Phenomenology

of the Social

World

c. Presentation of  3. T. Parsons

Self in Everyday

life

d. Studies in Ethno 4. I. Goffman

methodology

Mark the correct answer from the

codes given below :

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 1 2 3 4

 (B) 3 1 4 2

 (C) 1 4 2 3

 (D) 2 3 4 1

Answer:(B)

6. Who has stated that neofunctionalism

devotes roughly equal attention to

‘action and order’ ?

(A) J. Alexander

 (B) P. Colomy

 (C) G. Rhoades

 (D) All the above

Answer:(A)

7. Who has defined neofunctionalism as

“a self-critical strand of functional

theory” ?

(A) Alexander & Giesen

 (B) Colomy and Rhoades

 (C) Rhoades & Giesen

 (D) Alexander and Colomy

Answer:(D)

8. Who has criticized the economic

determinism to be implicit in parts of

Marx’s original work ?

(A) Habermas

 (B) Bottomore

 (C) Morrow

 (D) Althusser

Answer:(D)

9. What do the critical theorists state ?

(A) Economic determinism was

wrong.

 (B) Economic determinism was not

wrong.

 (C) Economic determinism was not

wrong but should be concerned

with other aspects of social life

as well.

 (D) Economic determinism was

wrong and should be concerned

with other aspects of social life.

Answer:(C)

10. Who has contended, among the neo-

Marxists, that mature Marx did not

believe in any human nature ?

(A) Habermas

 (B) Harvey

 (C) Dahrendorf

 (D) Althusser

Answer:(D)

11. Who has observed a link between the

structures of the mind and the

structures of society ?

(A) Lemert

 (B) Radcliffe-Brown

 (C) Levi-Strauss

 (D) Foucault

Answer:(C)

12. Among the post structuralists who has

focussed on the ‘linkage between

knowledge and power’ ?

(A) Lemert

 (B) Miller

 (C) Levi-Strauss

 (D) Foucault

Answer:(D)

13. Who is said to have deconstructed

language and social institutions ?

(A) Derrida

 (B) Godelier

 (C) Foucault

 (D) Smith

Answer:(A)

14. Who has envisioned an alternative

stage (an alternative society) in which

“speech will cease to govern the

stage” ?

(A) Foucault

 (B) Derrida

 (C) Lemert

 (D) None of the above

Answer:(B)

15. According to post modernists which

ideas of modernity are considered gone

by or dead ?

(A) Reason, rationality and progress.

 (B) Rationality, progress and

objectivity.

 (C) Legality, rationality and

objectivity.

 (D) Objectivity, rationality, reason.

Answer:(A)

16. Who considers modernity as ‘an

unfinished project’ ?

(A) Derrida

 (B) Giddens

 (C) Althusser

 (D) Habermas

Answer:(D)

17. Who had initiated the work on the total

communities of India namely “People

of India Project” ?

(A) N.K. Bose

 (B) K.S. Singh

 (C) Yogendra Singh

 (D) M.N. Srinivas

Answer:(B)

18. According to G.S. Ghurye, which are

the features of society which is

characterized by caste system ?

 Use the code below :

 I. Segmental Division of Society.

 II. Civil and Religious abilities.

 III. Hierarchy and Restrictions on

feeding and social intercause

 IV. Choice of occupation and

marriage.

Code :

(A) I, II, III, IV

 (B) I, III

 (C) I, II

 (D) I, III, IV

Answer:(B)

19. Match List-I with List-II and select the

correct answer from the codes given

below :

List – I  List – II

(Authors)  (Books)

a. G.S. Ghurye  1. Races and

Cultures of India

b. N.K. Bose  2. Scheduled Tribes

c. Surajit  3. Tribal Life in India

Sinha(ed)

d. D.N.  4. Field Studies on

Majumdar the People of  India : Methods

and Perspectives

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 2 3 4 1

 (B) 3 2 4 1

 (C) 2 4 1 3

 (D) 1 3 4 2

Answer:(A)

20. Who has stated that the entire course of

Indian History shows tribal elements

being fused into a general society ?

(A) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

 (B) D.D. Kosambi

 (C) S.S. Sarkar

 (D) M. Marriott

Answer:(B)

21. According to N.K. Bose, the

development of Indian Civilization is

the result of

 I. the repeated experiences of war

leading to the spirit of

nationalism.

 II. a pattern of cultural pluralism

under relatively peaceful

conditions.

 III. the communities in India do not

constitute their distinct entities.

 IV. diversity of culture but

encouraging the economic

organization for interdependence

of all communities.

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

(A) II only

 (B) II, III, IV

 (C) I, III

 (D) II, IV

Answer:(D)

22. Who is of the opinion that the notion of

fundamental opposition between the

pure and the impure is the hallmark of

the caste system ?

(A) M.N. Srinivas

 (B) Louis Dumont

 (C) Surajit Sinha

 (D) B.R. Ambedkar

Answer:(B)

23. Assertion (A) : D.P. Mukherjee

preferred to call himself

‘Marxologist’ rather than

Marxist.

Reason (R) : He attempted a

dialectical interpretation of the

encounter between the Indian

tradition and modernity which

was characterized more by value

assimilation and cultural

synthesis and less by ‘class

struggle’.

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

(A) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)

is the correct explanation of (A).

 (C) (A) is false, but (R) is true and

(R) is the incorrect explanation

of (A).

 (D) (A) is false and (R) is true.

Answer:(B)

24. Which are the characteristics of

‘Dominant Caste’ as given by M.N.

Srinivas ?

 I. Numerical strength and Political

power.

 II. Economic power through

ownership of land.

 III. Western education and jobs in

administration.

 IV. Urban source of income.

Codes :

(A) I, II, IV

 (B) I, II, III, IV

 (C) I, II only

 (D) II, III, IV

Answer:(B)

25. Which perspective is based on the

assumption that Indian society is

unique and the Indian social

institutions can be better studied

through the texts ?

(A) Subaltern

 (B) Indological

 (C) Civilizational

 (D) Structural/Functional

Answer:(B)

26. Which type of poverty refers to a lack

of basic resources needed to maintain

health and bodily functioning ?

(A) Absolute poverty

 (B) Relative poverty

 (C) Culture of poverty

 (D) Enforced poverty

Answer:(A)

27. Match the Authors in List-I with

books in List-II and choose the correct

answer from the code given below :

List – I  List – II

(Authors)  (Books)

a. A. Cohen  1. Women and

Crime

b. R.E. Dobash  2. Gender and

and R.P.  Public Harassment

Dobash

c. C.B. Gardner  3. Women, Violence and

Social Change

d. F. Heidensohn  4. Delinquent Boys

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 4 3 2 1

 (B) 1 2 3 4

 (C) 4 3 1 2

 (D) 3 2 4 1

Answer:(A)

28. Prof. S.C. Dube’s study on village

compost pit and its failure is due to

(A) Inequality of caste and gender

 (B) Religious disharmonies

 (C) Intergenerational conflict

 (D) None of the above

Answer:(A)

29. Who in developing the theory of

deviance utilized explanatory factors

that are typical of functional analysis,

namely, cultural goals and

institutionalized norms ?

(A) Durkheim

 (B) Merton

 (C) Parsons

 (D) Weber

Answer:(B)

30. Assertion (A) : High birth rate is due

to child marriage.

 Reason (R) : The practice of child

marriage is due to customs,

traditions and illiteracy in the

society.

 In the context of the above two

statements, which one of the following

is correct ?

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)

is the correct explanation of (A).

 (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but

(R) is not the correct explanation

of (A).

 (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer:(A)

31. Assertion (A) : Ecological degradation

leads to environmental pollution.

 Reason (R) : Deforestation,

construction of big dams and

other developmental activities

are responsible for Ecological

degradation.

 In the context of the above two

statements, which one of the following

is correct ?

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, but

(R) is not the correct explanation

of (A).

 (B) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)

is the correct explanation of (A).

 (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer:(B)

32. Match the items in List-I with the

items in List-II and choose the correct

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(Books)  (Authors)

a. Sociology of  1. S.N. Pawar

Environment  & R.B. Patil

b. Staying Alive :  2. Alvin Toffler

Women, Ecology

and Survival in

India.

c. The Third Wave  3. Vandana Shiva

d. Modernization,  4. S.N. Eisenstadt

Protest and

Change.

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 2 1 3 4

 (B) 4 1 2 3

 (C) 1 3 2 4

 (D) 3 2 1 4

Answer:(C)

33. Who has propounded the “Theory of

Differential Association” ?

(A) R.K. Merton

 (B) R.H. Burke

 (C) G. Tarde

 (D) E.H. Sutherland

Answer:(D)

34. Death resulting out of failure in love

affair is an example of

(A) Fatalistic suicide

 (B) Egoistic suicide

 (C) Altruistic suicide

 (D) Anomic suicide

Answer:(D)

35. ‘Community Policing System’ aims at

prevention and control of Crime

through

(A) Public

 (B) Police

 (C) Police and Public

 (D) Army

Answer:(C)

36. Drug de-addiction centres provide

which of the following

facility/facilities ?

(A) Counselling

 (B) Medical assistance

 (C) Yogic exercise

 (D) All the above

Answer:(D)

37. Judicial separation for a conflicting

couple is granted for a maximum

period of

(A) 7 years

 (B) 3 years

 (C) 2 years

 (D) 5 years

Answer:(C)

38. Which type of intoxicant is taken by

the use of Cigarette, Bidi, Tobaco,

Cigar etc. ?

(A) Narcotics

 (B) Nicotine

 (C) Sedatives

 (D) Hallucinogens

Answer:(B)

39. Probation and Parole are which form of

punishment ?

(A) Deterrent punishment

 (B) Retributive punishment

 (C) Extra-mural treatment

 (D) None of the above

Answer:(C)

40. Borstal Schools are meant for the

reformation of

(A) Juvenile delinquents

 (B) Women Offenders

 (C) Convicts

 (D) None of the above

Answer:(A)

41. Match the Authors in List-I with the

title of books in List-II and choose the

correct codes given below :

List – I  List – II

a. P. Carlen  1. Women’s

Imprisonment : A Study in

Social Control.

b. P. Walton  2. The New Criminology

and J. Young  Revisited.

c. D. Clark  3. The Sociology of Death :

Theory, Culture, Practice.

d. R. Cloward  4. Delinquency and Opportunity

and L. Ohlin

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 1 2 3 4

 (B) 4 3 2 1

 (C) 2 1 3 4

 (D) 3 2 4 1

Answer:(A)

42. Who among the following has argued

for bureaucracy contributing to nation

building in India ?

(A) A.R. Desai

 (B) G.S. Ghurye

 (C) R. Bendix

 (D) S.C. Dube

Answer:(C)

43. ‘Secularism curbs divisiveness that

springs from religious differences and

also clears way for rapid development

and nation building processes’. Which

one of the following is not an element

of secularism as per the statement

given above ?

(A) Integration of socio-economic

and political system that can

interlink and interpenetrate

various sub-groups.

 (B) Non-acceptance to the prejudice

and parochialism.

 (C) Visible demonstrated gains of

interdependence and cooperation.

 (D) Primordial loyalities as a part of

social engineering in a society.

Answer:(D)

44. Assertion (A) : The concept of

‘secularization’ as used in Indian

Constitution implies that State

does not provide patronage to

any religion.

Reason (R) : Religion does not hold

significance in modern society.

Codes :

(A) (A) is true and (R) is false and

(R) is the correct explanation of

(A).

 (B) (A) is false and (R) is true.

 (C) (A) is true and (R) is false and

(R) is not the correct explanation

of (A).

 (D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)

is the correct explanation of (A).

Answer:(C)

45. Match an item in List-I with an item in

List-II.

List – I  List – II

(Books)  (Thinkers)

a. Modernisation of  1. Y. Singh

Indian Tradition

b. When a great  2. M. Singer

Tradition

Modernises

c. Caste in Modern  3. M.N. Srinivas

India

d. Caste, Class and  4. Andre Betille

Power

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 1 2 3 4

 (B) 4 3 2 1

 (C) 3 2 1 4

 (D) 2 1 4 3

Answer:(A)

46. Who has stated that in India,

direction of change is represented

in a linear evolutionary form

from ‘traditionalization’ towards

‘modernization’ ?

(A) M. N. Srinivas

 (B) S.C. Dube

 (C) Milton Singer

 (D) Yogendra Singh

Answer:(D)

47. Assertion (A) : Some scholars say, in

countries which have recently

introduced Sociology,

indigenization of the subject is

required.

 Reason (R) : This can be helpful in the

growth of native scholarship and

will contribute to the nation

building process.

Codes :

(A) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

 (B) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R)

is the correct explanation of (A).

 (D) Both (A) and (R) are true, but

(R) is not the correct explanation

of (A).

Answer:(C)

48. Assertion (A) : The purpose of

privatization of Education was to

improve the quality of Education.

 Reason (R) : Privatization of

education has resulted into

Mushroom growth of

Educational Institution.

Codes :

 (A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and

(R) is the correct explanation of

(A).

 (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but

(R) is not the correct explanation

of (A).

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer:(B)

49. Right to Education was introduced as

Fundamental Rights under which of

the following Article of the Indian

Constitution ?

Codes :

(A) Article – 14

 (B) Article – 21

 (C) Article – 21 – A

 (D) Article – 16

Answer:(C)

50. Assertion (A) : North-Eastern States

are not facing any crisis with

regard to female child sex-ratio.

Reason (R) : There is increase of

education among women in these

States.

Codes :

 (A) Both (A) and (R) are true, but

(R) is not the correct explanation

of (A).

 (B) (A) is false, but (R) is true and

(R) is the correct explanation of

(A).

(C) Both (A) and (R) are false.

 (D) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

Answer:(A)

51. Which Committee recommended three

tier system for Panchayati Raj ?

(A) Balwant Rai Mehta Committee

 (B) Ashok Mehta Committee

 (C) Sangama Committee

 (D) Parliamentary Committee

Answer:(A)

52. Urban oriented development

programmes generated urban centred

employment which resulted into

(A) Rural to Rural Migration

 (B) Urban to Rural Migration

 (C) Rural to Urban Migration

 (D) Urban to Urban Migration

Answer:(C)

53. Agrarian social structure is

characterized by which of the

following ?

 I. Land owner and landless

labourers.

 II. Land owning and businessmen.

 III. Peasants and village-money

lenders.

 IV. Peasants and crop-sharers.

 Mark the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

(A) I, II, III

 (B) II, III, IV

 (C) I, III, IV

 (D) IV, II, III

Answer:(C)

54. Peasants movements failed in India

because of

(A) trade unions were non-existent.

 (B) trade unions were disinterested.

 (C) no land reforms have been done.

 (D) partial land reforms have been

done.

Answer:(D)

55. Panchayats in modern India are

characterized as

 I. Participation of people at grass-

root level.

 II. Self-reliance.

 III. Empowering of women.

 IV. Bureaucratic control.

 Mark the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

(A) IV, II, III

 (B) I, II, III, IV

 (C) IV, III, I

 (D) II, III, IV

Answer:(B)

56. Mark out the correct answer about

Human Relations Approach to work

place behaviour from the code given

below :

 I. It is against those approaches

which give individualistic and

over-rational emphasis to explain

workers’ behaviour in material

terms.

 II. It emphasizes the importance of

informal groups in industry.

 III. It has set the beginning of a

model of the factory as a social

system and the worker as a social

man.

 IV. It considers the industrial man as

a rational and economic man.

Codes :

(A) I, II only

 (B) I, III, IV

 (C) I, IV only

 (D) I, II, III

Answer:(D)

57. What does cause alienation according

to Karl Marx ?

(A) The division of labour.

 (B) The institution of private

property.

 (C) ‘Cash nexus’ of commercial

relationships.

 (D) All of the above.

Answer:(D)

58. During 1956, which were the countries

visited by the study group comprising

representatives from the Government,

trade unions and the employers

from India to study the experiences

of workers’ participation in

management ?

Codes :

(A) Poland, Sweden, U.K, France,

East Germany, Russia.

 (B) Holland, Sweden, France,

Yugoslavia, Belgium,

Czechoslovakia.

 (C) U.K., Sweden, France, Belgium,

West Germany, Yugoslavia.

 (D) U.K., Sweden, Poland, Germany,

Belgium, France.

Answer:(C)

59. Which model of workers’ participation

in Management is working in India ?

(A) Quality circles

 (B) Joint consultation

 (C) Co-determination

 (D) Self-management

Answer:(B)

60. What is incorrect about SEWA ?

(A) It has unionized women workers

in the unorganized sector.

 (B) It combines three movements :

labour, co-operative and

development.

 (C) It has organized many women

co-operatives.

 (D) It is restricted to Ahmedabad

only.

Answer:(X)

61. Which is not an indicator of social

development ?

(A) Improvement in health

 (B) Improvement in quality of life

 (C) Improvement in education

 (D) Increase in per capita income

Answer:(D)

62. “Structural adjustment programmes”

introduced in 1980 were forced upon

the Third World Countries with a view

to

(A) recover debt

 (B) check nepotism

 (C) weed out corruption

 (D) All the above

Answer:(D)

63. India followed a mixed model of

economic development since its

independence from the foreign rule but

was compelled to adopt LPG Policy.

 In which year the LPG Policy was

adopted in India as a model of

economic growth ?

(A) 1980

 (B) 1989

 (C) 1990

 (D) 1993

Answer:(X)

64. Who is of the view that social unrest is

rooted in the capitalist path of

development ?

(A) A.R. Desai

 (B) G.S. Ghurye

 (C) D.P. Mukerji

 (D) Surajit Sinha

Answer:(A)

65. “World System Theory” of

development explains the relationships

between the ‘developed’ and

‘developing’ countries. Who among

the following gave ‘World System

Theory’ of development ?

(A) Gunnar Myrdal

 (B) Wallersteins

 (C) M.K. Gandhi

 (D) A. Sen

Answer:(B)

66. Who is the Author of the Book :

 “Essay on the principle of population” ?

(A) G. Marshall

 (B) M.K. Premi

 (C) T. Malthus

 (D) Peter R. Cox

Answer:(C)

67. The concept of social capillarity in

studying population was used by

(A) Thomas Malthus

 (B) Herbert Spencer

 (C) David Herdiman

 (D) D. Dumount

Answer:(D)

68. The determinants of fertility were

explained in detail by

(A) Karl Marx

 (B) Kingsley Davis and Judiath Black

 (C) Double day

 (D) Peter Berger

Answer:(B)

69. Which of the following is/are related to

Demographic processes ?

 I. Fertility

 II. Mortality

 III. Migration

 IV. Morbidity

 Answer the correct combination :

(A) I and IV are correct.

 (B) IV and II are correct.

 (C) II and III are correct.

 (D) III and IV are correct.

Answer:(X)

70. Match the items in List – I with the

items in List – II and choose the

correct code given below :

List – I  List – II

a. The death of a child  1. Morbidity

below the age of

one year.

b. The death of woman  2. Infant mortality

at the time of

delivery.

c. The rate of falling  3. Female infanticide

ill due to diseases.

d. Killing of girls after  4. Maternal mortality

birth.

 5. Female

foeticide

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 1 4 2 5

 (B) 2 4 1 3

 (C) 4 3 5 2

 (D) 5 4 1 3

Answer:(B)

71. Assertion (A) : Women and Child

Development Policy is called

‘Protective discrimination.’

 Reason (R) : This is beneficial only

for women.

Codes :

(A) (A) is true and (R) is false.

 (B) Both (A) and (R) are false.

 (C) (A) is true and (R) is false and

(R) is not the correct explanation

of (A).

 (D) Both (A) and (R) are true.

Answer:(B)

72. Mark out the correct sequence of

perspectives on gender and

development in India :

(A) Welfare, Empowerment,

Development.

 (B) Empowerment, Development,

Welfare.

 (C) Development, Welfare,

Empowerment.

 (D) Welfare, Development,

Empowerment.

Answer:(D)

73. Several International Meetings made

declaration about feminist visions of

development from a global perspective.

Arrange these international meetings in

order in which they were held. Use the

code given below :

 I. Asian and Pacific Centre for

Women Development (APCWD).

 II. Workshop on Developing

Strategies for the Future :

Feminist Perspectives.

 III. Dakar Declaration on Another

Development with Women.

 IV. Nairobi End of the UN Decade

World Conference.

Codes :

(A) I, III, IV, II (B) II, I, III, IV

 (C) III, I, IV, II (D) I, II, III, IV

Answer:(D)

74. Which is the main basis for the growth

of eco-feminism ?

(A) Deforestation in industrial

society.

 (B) Women’s lives and their relation

with the nature.

 (C) Pollution and environmental

degradation.

 (D) Global warming.

Answer:(B)

75. Match the List – I with List – II given

below :

List – I  List – II

(Feminists)  (Books)

a. Simone de  1. The Dialectics

Beauvoir  of Sex

b. Mary  2. Women’s

Wollstonecraft  Estate

c. Sulamith  3. The Second Sex

Firestone

d. Juliet Mitchell 4. The Vindication

of the Rights of

Women

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 3 4 1 2

 (B) 3 1 4 2

 (C) 1 3 2 4

 (D) 2 1 3 4

Answer:(A)