Sociology December 2014 Paper 2 Solved

SOCIOLOGY

Paper – II

Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of

two (2) marks each. All

questions are compulsory.

1. Who among the following propounded the concept of ‘Latent’

and ‘Manifest’ function ?

 (A) E. Durkheim (B) R.K. Merton

 (C) B. Malinowski (D) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

Answer:(B)

2. Who among the following made distinction between

two types of conflict namely “realistic” and ‘non-realistic’ ?

 (A) Karl Marx (B) Lewis A. Coser

 (C) George Simmel (D) R. Dahrendorf

Answer:(B)

3. In which of the following sampling methods, equal number

 of units are selected from each substratum regardless of their

strength in the population and sub-population?

 (A) Simple random sampling

 (B) Stratified random sampling

 (C) Proportionate stratified random sampling

 (D) Disproportionate stratified random sampling

Answer:(D)

4. Match the items in the List – I with the items in the List – II

and select the correct answer

from the codes given below :

List – I  List – II

a. Small group in which people  i. Group Dynamics

came to know one another intimately

as individual personalities.

b. Degree of closeness to or  ii. Primary Group

acceptance of members

of other group

c. Any group accepted as  iii. Social Distance

model or guide for our

judgments and actions.

d. The scientific study of interaction  iv. Reference Group

within small

groups

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i iv iii ii

 (B) ii iii iv i

 (C) i ii iii iv

 (D) iii iv ii i

Answer:(B)

5. Cumulative frequency curve is known as

 (A) Ogive (B) Histogram

 (C) Frequency polygon (D) None of the above

Answer:(A)

6. Who has made distinction between normal

and pathological function ?

 (A) Radcliffe Brown (B) T. Parsons

 (C) E. Durkheim (D) M. Weber

Answer:(C)

7. P.A. Sorokin is noted for his distinction between

 (A) In-groups and out-groups

 (B) Primary and secondary relationism groups

 (C) Mechanical and organic solidarity

 (D) Familistic, contractual and compulsory systems of interaction

Answer:(B)

8. Who among the following was the first one to use

case study method in social research ?

 (A) E. Durkheim (B) Frederic Le Play

 (C) Herbert Spencer (D) Karl Marx

Answer:(B)

9. According to Max Weber status groups are identified by

 (A) Education (B) Styles of life

 (C) Occupation (D) Family background

Answer:(B)

10. Which one of the following does not fall into

sociological

understanding of status ?

 (A) Rank (B) Prestige

 (C) Ego (D) Life-style

Answer:(C)

11. Match items in List – I with items in List – II and choose the

correct answer from the

codes given below :

 List – I List – II

a. Evolution 1. Structural change

b. Progress 2. Change in stages

c. Revolution 3. Quantitative change

d. Transformation 4. Qualitative change

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 4 3 2 1

 (B) 2 3 1 4

 (C) 3 2 1 4

 (D) 1 4 3 2

Answer:(B)

12. Relationships in a community are

 (A) intimate and achieved

 (B) durable, ascribed and impersonal

 (C) intimate, achieved and durable

 (D) intimate, durable and ascribed

Answer:(D)

13. Which of the following are the elements of association ?

 (A) Impersonal, competitive, enduring relationships

 (B) Contractual, individualistic, calculative relationships

 (C) Personal, enduring, contractual relationships

 (D) Affective, spontaneous, competitive relationships

Answer:(B)

14. Who are known to have used ‘Indological perspective’ in the

study of Indian society ?

 (a) G.S. Ghurye (b) Luis Dumont

 (c) N.K. Bose (d) M.N. Srinivas

 Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

Codes :

(A) (a) and (b) (B) (b) and (c)

 (C) (c) and (d) (D) (d) and (a)

Answer:(A)

15. Who one among the following sociologists does not

belong to French School of Sociology ?

 (A) Auguste Comte (B) Emile Durkheim

 (C) B. Charles Montesquieu (D) V. Pareto

Answer:(D)

16. Two statements are given, one is labelled as Assertion

(A) and the other as Reason (R) :

Assertion (A) : Dalit assertion in Indian politics resulted

in Dalit identity.

 Reason (R) : Politicization of the Dalits led to social

mobility among them.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

Codes :

(A) (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

 (B) (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

 (C) (A) is true and (R) is false.

 (D) (A) is false and (R) is true.

Answer:(A)

17. Caste is an example of ______

 (A) Achieved Status (B) Role Conflict

 (C) Status Consistency (D) Ascribed Status

Answer:(D)

18. Who has written the book, ‘The Death of the Family’ ?

 (A) E. Leach (B) D. Cooper

 (C) W.J. Goode (D) G.P. Murdock

Answer:(B)

19. Sociology is characterised by a perspective that places which

one of the following in the

foreground ?

 (A) Individual (B) Culture

 (C) Social interaction (D) Unique social events

Answer:(C)

20. The term ‘total institution’ means and includes

 (A) Organized establishment

 (B) Little possibility of escape from the norms

 (C) Little possibility of escape from the rules of

 administrative structure

Answer:(D)

21. Match the List –I with List – II.

 List – I  List – II

a. E. Durkheim  1. The Elementary Forms of the

Religious Life

b. W. J. Goode  2. The Power Elite

c. C. W. Mills  3. The Sociological Interpretation

of Religion

d. R. Robertson  4. World Revolution and Family

Patterns

Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

 Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 1 4 2 3

 (B) 3 2 4 1

 (C) 1 2 3 4

 (D) 2 3 4 1

Answer:(A)

22. A statistical measure based on the study of entire population is called ______

 (A) Parameters (B) Statistics

 (C) Inference (D) Universe

Answer:(A)

23. Who has written the book “Deschooling Society” ?

 (A) K. Davis and W.E. Moore (B) R. Collins

 (C) I. Illich (D) S. Bowles and H. Gintiz

Answer:(C)

24. The pivotal methodology of functionalists is

 (A) Conjectural history (B) Library work

 (C) Field work (D) Content analysis

Answer:(C)

25. Which among the following is not an indicator of

change in the social structure ?

 (A) Feudal to Industrial Society

 (B) Industrial to Feudal Society

 (C) Feudal to Capitalist Society

 (D) Male dominance in Society

Answer:(D)

26. Who among the Indian Sociologists, is known to have written

on ‘Sociology of Values’ ?

 (A) G.S. Ghurye (B) Radha Kamal Mukherjee

 (C) D.P. Mukherjee (D) A.K. Saran

Answer:(B)

27. Two statements are given, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and

the other as Reason (R) :

Assertion (A) : Re-socialisation of criminals in prisons is a part of

the reformation method helping in their rehabilitation.

 Reason (R) : Released prisoners without proper rehabilitation

resort to crime and

come back to prison again.

Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

Codes :

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).

 (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation for (A).

 (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer:(B)

28. Research carried out in order to improve social situation

for the betterment of individuals

or social group or an organisation is called

 (A) Survey Research (B) Action Research

 (C) Qualitative Research (D) None of the above

Answer:(B)

29. If the two variables are varying in their values in opposite

direction, then it is called

 (A) Positive correlation (B) Linear correlation

 (C) Negative correlation (D) Partial correlation

Answer:(C)

30. Who one among the following maintains that social structure

has nothing to do with

empirical reality ?

 (A) A.F. Nadel (B) L. Firth

 (C) Levi-Strauss (D) R.K. Merton

Answer:(C)

31. By which one of the following methods we analyse the

documented communication in a

systematic and objective way for identifying specified characteristics ?

 (A) Case Study (B) Association Techniques

 (C) Content Analysis (D) None of the above

Answer:(C)

32. Match the items in List – I with the items in List – II

and choose the correct answer from

the codes given below :

List – I  List – II

a. Evolution  1. P.A. Sorokin

b. Evolution by revolution  2. Karl Marx

c. Circular evolution  3. Herbert Spencer

d. Perpetual revolution  4. L. Gottschalk

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 3 2 1 4

 (B) 1 2 3 4

 (C) 2 3 1 4

 (D) 4 2 3 1

Answer:(A)

33. Which one of the following thinkers stated that ‘man who

classifies facts of any kind whatever, who sees their mutual relation

and describes their sequences is applying

scientific method and is a man of science’ ?

 (A) K. Popper (B) E. Nagel

 (C) J. Galtung (D) Karl Pearson

Answer:(D)

34. Who among the following is a critic of Kingsly Davis’ theory

of social stratification ?

 (A) Louis Dumon’t (B) M.M. Tumin

 (C) Robert Merton (D) Talcott Parsons

Answer:(B)

35. Who has written the book “A Scientific Theory of Culture” ?

 (A) E.B. Tylor (B) P.M. Sorokin

 (C) B. Malinowski (D) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

Answer:(C)

36. Who has stated, “sociology is the scientific study

of human life,

groups and societies” ?

 (A) T.B. Bottomore (B) Kingsley Davis

 (C) Talcott Parsons (D) Anthony Giddens

Answer:(D)

37. Match items in List – I with the items in List – II.

 List – I   List – II

 (Works)    (Authors)

a. Human Society  1. E. Durkheim

b. Society  2. Kingsley Davis

c. Division of Labour in Society  3. T.B. Bottomore

d. Sociology :

A Guide to Problems and   4. MacIver and Page

Literature

Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 1 2 3 4

 (B) 2 3 4 1

 (C) 1 4 3 2

 (D) 2 4 1 3

Answer:(D)

38. The sum of deviations of all the items from mean

is always

 (A) 1 (B) 0

 (C) 2 (D) 6

Answer:(B)

39. Which one of the following is the most

unstable average ?

 (A) Mean (B) Mode

 (C) Median (D) Geometric Mean

Answer:(B)

40. Which one of the following characteristics correctly

explains the term ‘institution’

sociologically ?

 (A) A place where many people work.

 (B) An office complex where many important works are carried out.

 (C) An organisation which is engaged in some important function.

 (D) A set of related folkways and mores integrated around a principle

Answer:(C)

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41. Which of the following Research Designs will be appropriate

for studying voting behaviour of urban middle class population ?

 (A) Exploratory

 (B) Descriptive

 (C) Experimental

 (D) None of the above

Answer:(B)

42. Match the items in the List – I with the items in the List – II

and select the correct answer

from the codes given below :

List – I  List – II

a. Role Strain  1. A cluster of associated roles that together form a social status

b. Role Conflict  2. Difficulty in meeting one’s role obligation

c. Role Transition  3. Competing demands of two roles

d. Role Set  4. Change from one role to another

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 4 2 1 3

 (B) 3 4 2 1

 (C) 2 3 4 1

 (D) 1 3 2 4

Answer:(C)

43. Which of the following is the essential component

of ‘Social Inclusion’ ?

 (A) Providing Food (B) Providing Housing

 (C) Providing Employment (D) Providing Social Rights

Answer:(D)

44. Which among the following categories are the

basic systems of social stratification ?

 (A) Slavery, Caste, Class and Village

 (B) Slavery, Caste, Class and Estate

 (C) Slavery, Caste, Class and City

 (D) Slavery, Caste, Class and Kingdom

Answer:(B)

45. When a person finds himself/herself playing two or

more roles at one time that make

incompatible demands, is an example of ________.

 (A) Status Consistency (B) Role Conflict

 (C) Conjugal Role (D) Role Distance

Answer:(B)

46. The prestige or ‘social honour’ associated with a

particular position in an occupation within a community

is known as

 (A) Status Situation (B) Status Passage

 (C) Status Group (D) Status Symbol

Answer:(A)

47. Match the List – I with List – II.

 List – I   List – II

 (Authors)   (Works)

a. P.L. Berger  1. Social Mobility in Industrial City

b. J. Bowley  2. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

c. E. Goffman  3. Child Care and Growth of Love

d. S.M. Lipset  4. Invitation to Sociology

and R. Bendix 

Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) 4 3 2 1

 (B) 1 2 3 4

 (C) 2 3 4 1

 (D) 3 2 1 4

Answer:(A)

48. Which among the following is not the example of

Gemeinschaft relationships ?

 (A) Personal

 (B) Informal

 (C) Sentimental

 (D) Utilitarian

Answer:(D)

49. Two statements are given, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and

 the other as Reason (R) :

Assertion (A) : Transparency and accountability of persons

 involved in the mid-day meal programme can only make it corruption free.

 Reason (R) : Changes in the mindset of the people at the individual level and

organisational level can make the programme corruption free.

Select the correct answer from the given codes :

Codes :

 (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).

 (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation for (A).

 (C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

Answer:(A)

50. The term ‘norm’, in Sociology, means _________

 (A) standard pattern in a social setting.

 (B) standard or rule for a social setting.

 (C) standard or rule regulating behaviour in a social setting.

 (D) regular behaviour of individuals in social setting.

Answer:(C)