SOCIOLOGY
Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying
two (2) marks. Attempt all the questions.
1. Sociological perspective is primarily
related to an attempt to
(A) change the social order
(B) understand the social order
(C) reform the social order
(D) adjust to the social order
Answer:(B)
2. Match the items in List – I with the
items in List – II and select the
correct answer from the codes given
below :
List – I List – II
(Concepts) (Social Scientists)
(a) The poverty (i) Peter Berger
of Philosophy and T. Luckman
(b) Symbolic (ii) Karl Marx
interactionism
(c) Manifest and (iii) Herbert
latent Blumer
function
(d) The social (iv) R.K. Merton
construction
of reality
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iv) (ii) (iii)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
Answer:(B)
3. Which among the following is an
example of a community ?
(A) Family
(B) Marriage
(C) Village
(D) Refugee Camp
Answer:(C)
4. Emile Durkhiem defines society as
(A) Community of ideas
(B) Homogeneous community
(C) Moral community
(D) Ethical community
Answer:(C)
5. Assertion (A) : According to Karl
Marx class exploitation can be
brought to an end only when
the means of production is
communally owned.
Reasons (R) : The ruling class
derives its power from the
ownership and control of the
means of production.
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)
6. Which one among the following is
an instance of social action
according to Max Weber ?
(A) To cyclists colliding with each
other.
(B) Persons travelling in a train.
(C) Two cyclists exchanging
blows after they collide.
(D) Persons opening umbrellas
when it starts raining.
Answer:(C)
7. Which among the following is not,
in Marxian terminology component
of mode of production :
(A) Means of production
(B) Instruments of production
(C) Forces of production
(D) Relations of production
Answer:(B)
8. The Weberian model of social
stratification has been used in the
study of caste by
(A) S.C. Dube
(B) M.N. Srinivas
(C) T.N. Madan
(D) Andre Beteille
Answer:(D)
9. Which one among the following
concepts is, according to Merton,
capable of theoretically dealing with
change ?
(A) Eufunction
(B) Non-function
(C) Quasifunction
(D) Dysfunction
Answer:(D)
10. Sanskritization implies
(A) Change in caste structure
(B) Change of caste structure
(C) Change for caste structure
(D) None of the above
Answer:(D)
11. A teacher in carrying out his duties
has to respond to the expectations of
his colleagues, students and
guardians of the students. These
people constitute for the teachers.
(A) Status set
(B) Multiple roles
(C) Role-set
(D) None of the above
Answer:(C)
12. Which one of the following is not an
institution ?
(A) Marriage
(B) Education
(C) Policing
(D) Pick-pocketing
Answer:(D)
13. The prohibition of sagotra marriage
among the Hindus is an example of
marriage
(A) Taboo
(B) Clan exogamy
(C) The rules of caste endogamy
(D) The incest taboo
Answer:(B)
14. Which one of the following is
known as the process by which
cultural traits spread from one
culturally distinct group to another ?
(A) Evolution
(B) Assimilation
(C) Accommodation
(D) Diffusion
Answer:(D)
15. The movement of a person from the
position of clerk in Calcutta
headquarters of L.I.C. to that
position in Delhi headquarters of
L.I.C. is an example of
(A) Horizontal mobility
(B) Upward mobility
(C) Vertical mobility
(D) Downward mobility
Answer:(A)
16. When an Indian couple prepares its
daughters so that she is accepted in
her husband’s family after her
marriage, it is a case of
(A) Socialization
(B) Resocialization
(C) Anticipatory socialization
(D) Adult socialization
Answer:(C)
17. According to Durkheim, religion
consists in the distinction between
(A) the sacred and the secular
(B) the pure and the impure
(C) the sacred and the profane
(D) the gods and the ghosts
Answer:(C)
18. Resocialization is clearly evident
when a
(A) girl’s marriage just takes place
(B) child is born
(C) person works as a member of a
revolutionary party
(D) child starts going to school
Answer:(A)
19. 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) Looking-glass (i) Karl Marx
self
(b) Alienation (ii) William Ogburn
(c) Cultural lag (iii) G.H. Mead
(d) Positivism (iv) Auguste
Comte
(v) C.H. Cooley
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (v) (i) (ii) (iv)
(B) (i) (ii) (iii) (v)
(C) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
(D) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
Answer:(A)
20. Sociology in India was introduced at
the institutional level after it was
well-established in Europe and
U.S.A. Which one among the
following is the year of introduction
of sociology at the formal /
institutional level ?
(A) 1894 (B) 1895
(C) 1939 (D) 1919
Answer:(D)
21. Match the items in List – I with
items in List – II and select the right
answer from the codes indicated
below :
List – I List – II
(Concept) (Sociologist)
(a) Organic (i) Herbert
solidarity Spencer
(b) Religious (c) Mode of
Ethic Production
(ii) Emile
Durkheim
(iii) Vifredo (d) Social
Pareto evolution
(iv) Karl Marx (v) Max Weber
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (iii) (iv) (ii)
(B) (ii) (i) (v) (iii)
(C) (v) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (ii) (v) (iv) (i)
Answer:(D)
22. Match the items in the List – I with
the items in List – II and select the
correct answer from the codes given
below :
List – I List – II
(a) Acculturation (i) A condition
in which people may
work together even
though there are
differences which
separate them
(b) Assimilation (ii) A process of
adaptation in
which elements of a
culture form a composite
whole
(c) Accommodation (iii) A condition in which
people of a culture tend
to acquire some elements of
other culture and leave some
elements of their own
(d) Integration (iv) A process wherein a
minority group gradually
gives up its own cultural
patterns and acquire those
of the dominant
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (iii) (iv) (i) (ii)
(C) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(D) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
Answer:(B)
23. Which one of the following is an
example of ascribed status ?
(A) Teacher (B) Student
(C) Brahmin (D) Doctor
Answer:(C)
24. Tertiary sector is also known as
(A) Processing sector
(B) Forestry sector
(C) Mining sector
(D) Services sector
Answer:(D)
25. Match the items in List – I with the
items in List – II and select the
correct answer from the code given
below
List – I List – II
(a) Homo (i) Claude Levi
Hierarchicus Strauss
(b) The Savage (ii) Andre
Mind Beteille
(c) Caste, (iii) M.N.
Class and Srinivas
Power
(d) Caste in (iv) Louis
Modern India Dumont
and other
Essays
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (iii) (ii) (i) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
(D) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
Answer:(C)
26. Rise of new technologies in the
sphere of information and
communication leading to greater
globalization is a future of
(A) Agrarian Society
(B) Industrial Society
(C) Post-Industrial Society
(D) Rural Society
Answer:(C)
27. Which of the following thinkers used
a system of binary opposition in
structural approach to social
phenomena ?
(A) Nadel
(B) Radcliffe-Brown
(C) Levi-Strauss
(D) Malinowski
Answer:(C)
28. Which of the following is correct
according to Mead :
(A) Self can also emerge in the
absence of social experience
(B) Self does not allow people to
take part in conversation with
others.
(C) Body becomes a self only
when a mind has developed.
(D) Mind and self can be separated
from each other.
Answer:(C)
29. Which of the following does not
represent the Dahrendorf’s theory of
conflict ?
(A) Social change is ubiquitous in
human society
(B) Conflict can be both latent and
manifest
(C) Every society experiences
social conflict
(D) Economic and social
inequalities are the sole
sources of conflict
Answer:(D)
30. Which of the following statements
represents the functional theory of
Emile Durkhiem ?
(A) Society does not necessarily go
through the fixed stages of
development
(B) A whole is not identical to the
sum of its parts.
(C) Social phenomena can be
reduced to individuals
phenomena
(D) Collective will emanate from
human will
Answer:(B)
31. Functionalism constitutes an
important element in the social
theories of
(A) E. Durkheim and C. Levi-
Strauss
(B) E. Durkheim and Max Weber
(C) Talcott Parsons and Karl Marx
(D) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and
R.K. Merton
Answer:(D)
32. Choose the correct sequence of
Parsons’ schema of social action and
social system
(A) Social system, cultural system,
personality system and
Biological organism
(B) Personality system, cultural
system, Social system and
Biological system
(C) Biological organism,
Personality system, Social
system and Cultural system
(D) Cultural system, Biological
system, Personality system and
Social system
Answer:(C)
33. Match the items in List – I with the
items in List – II and choose the
right answer from the codes given
below :
List – I List – II
(a) Malinowski (i) Pattern variables
(b) Durkheim (ii) Postulates of
functional analysis
(c) Parsons (iii) Collective consciousness
(d) Merton (iv) Biological need-based functionality
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)
(B) (ii) (iii) (i) (iv)
(C) (iii) (iv) (ii) (i)
(D) (iv) (iii) (i) (ii)
Answer:(D)
34. Basic principles of symbolic
interactionism include
(a) Human capacity for thought
(b) Social institutions and social
interactions
(c) Mind and social consciousness
(d) Meanings and symbols that
facilitate action and interaction
Select the correct answer from the
codes given below :
Codes :
(A) (a) and (b)
(B) (b) and (c)
(C) (c) and (d)
(D) (a) and (d)
Answer:(D)
35. There are two statements, one is
Assertion (A) and the other is
Reason (R). Select the correct answer
from the codes given below :
Assertion (A) : People are able to
order a world that otherwise
would be confusing.
Reasons (R) : Symbols enable
people to deal with the
material and social world by
allowing them to name,
categorise and remember what
they encounter.
Select the correct answer from the
codes given below :
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)
36. Which one of the following, thinkers
observed that conflict is likely to
occur in social relations because
violent coercion can always be used
by people in an interaction setting ?
(A) Collins
(B) Simmel
(C) Dohrendorf
(D) Coser
Answer:(A)
37. Who, among the following, has
emphasized the positive functions of
the conflict in society ?
(A) Lewis A. Coser
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Max Weber
(D) Emile Durkheim
Answer:(A)
38. According to Durkheim, the nature
of Modern law is
(A) Repressive
(B) Restitutive
(C) Normative
(D) Formal
Answer:(B)
39. Which of the following is not
regarded as the characteristic feature
of scientific method ?
(A) Reliability
(B) Validity
(C) Replicability
(D) Common sense observation
Answer:(D)
40. The purpose of the survey is
(A) In depth study of social
phenomena
(B) Extensive coverage of
population
(C) Testing of a theory
(D) Establishing causal linkage
Answer:(B)
41. Which of the following is associated
with Descriptive Design ?
(A) Analysis of Demographic
Trends
(B) Impact assessment of
development intervention
(C) Causal explanation of violence
against women
(D) Cross-cultural study
Answer:(A)
42. In which of the following types of
research, hypothesis is a pre-
requisite ?
(A) Biographical study
(B) Experimental study
(C) Interpretative research
(D) Critical research
Answer:(B)
43. Which type of sampling method is
ideally suited, where there is no
knowledge about population ?
(A) Convenient sampling method
(B) Purposive sampling method
(C) Quota sampling method
(D) Snowball sampling method
Answer:(D)
44. Participant observation method is
ideally suited for the study of
(a) Tribal Culture
(b) National Culture
(c) Ethnographic study
(d) Phenomenon of Globalisation
Select the correct answer from the
codes given below :
(A) (a) and (b)
(B) (a) and (c)
(C) (a) and (d)
(D) (c) and (b)
Answer:(B)
45. There are two statements, one is
Assertion (A) and the other is
Reason (R). Select the correct
answer from the Codes given below :
Assertion (A) : Qualitative methods
are often criticized for failing
to meet the same standards of
reliability.
Reasons (R) : The procedures used
to collect data in qualitative
studies are precise and
accurate.
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:(C)
46. There are two statements, one is
Assertion (A) and the other is
Reason (R). Select the correct
answer from the codes given below :
Assertion (A) : Life history research
can help to raise people’s
consciousness and awareness
of their exploitation.
Reasons (R) : Life history research
encourages people to reflect
upon the factors that have
shaped thin life experiences.
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)
47. Match List – I with the List – II and
mark the correct answer from the
codes given below the lists :
List – I List – II
(a) Central (i) Mean
Tendency Deviation
(b) Dispersion (ii) Pearson’s
coefficient
(c) Correlation (iii) Mean
(d) Test of (iv) ‘t’-test
Significance
Codes :
(a) (b) (c) (d)
(A) (i) (ii) (iv) (iii)
(B) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)
(C) (iii) (i) (ii) (iv)
(D) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
Answer:(C)
48. When a particular technique applied
repeatedly to the same object
producing the same result each time,
it is said to have
(A) Validity (B) Reliability
(C) Probability (D) Subjectivity
Answer:(B)
49. Observe the following Table and
answer the question given below :
Age Group Frequency
20 – 29 04
30 – 39 06
40 – 49 09
50 – 59 12
60 – 69 15
70 – 79 09
80 – 89 04
In the distribution shown above the
median falls in the interval between :
(A) 40 – 49 (B) 50 – 59
(C) 60 – 69 (D) 70 – 79
Answer:(B)
50. Calculation of number of deaths per
thousand people falls under the
measure of
(A) Nominal scale
(B) Ordinal scale
(C) Ratio scale
(D) Interval scale
Answer:(C)
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