Sociology June 2013 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. Match the followings :

List – I  List – II

(Concepts)  (Authors)

a. Cultural Lag i . K. Marx

b. False  ii. Ogburn

Consciousness

c. Law of Similarity  iii. J. Frazer

and Contact

d. Institutionali- iv. R.Dahrendorf

zation of class

conflict

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) ii i iii iv

 (B) iv iii i ii

 (C) iii ii iv i

 (D) i iv ii iii

Answer:(A)

2. Fill in the blanks :

 An institution is composed of

_______.

 (A) Actors and Groups

 (B) Rules and procedures

 (C) Values and norms

 (D) All

Answer:(D)

3. George Simmel’s classification of

group as ‘Monad’, ‘Dyad’, ‘Triad’ is

based on

 (A) Physical proximity

 (B) Nature of membership

 (C) Social relations

 (D) Size of the group

Answer:(D)

4. An area of social living which is

marked by some degree of social

coherence and similarity is called

 (A) Social group

 (B) Society

 (C) Community

 (D) Association

Answer:(C)

5. C.W. Mills’ perspective takes into

account

 i. Biography

 ii. Sociography

 iii. History

 iv. Geography

 v. Ethnography

 Select the correct alternatives :

 (A) ii only

 (B) ii and iii only

 (C) i and iii only

 (D) i, ii, iv and v only

Answer:(C)

6. Which of the following instances

may not be considered as a reference-

group behaviour ?

 (A) Proletarianization

 (B) Embourgeoisment

 (C) Sanskritization

 (D) Modernization

Answer:(D)

7. Which of the following is a set of

informal groups ?

 (A) Clique, faction, caucus

 (B) Gang, union, dacoits

 (C) Slum, village, NGO

 (D) Neighbourhood, Peer group,

Panchayat

Answer:(A)

8. Who argued that the school prepares

children to move towards

universalistic standards and achieved

status of adult society ?

 (A) E. Durkheim

 (B) T. Parsons

 (C) R.K. Merton

(D) K. Davis

Answer:(B)

9. Who defined religion in terms of a

distinction between the sacred and

the profone ?

 (A) B. Malinowski

 (B) C. LeviStrauss

 (C) A.R. Radcliffe Brown

 (D) E. Durkheim

Answer:(D)

10. The capacity of any person, group or

institution to issue commands is

called

 (A) Power

 (B) Authority

 (C) Influence

 (D) Right

Answer:(B)

11. According to C.W. Mills, the power

elite in America comprises those who

hold “command posts” in

 i. The major business corporations

 ii. The military

 iii. The Federal Government

 iv. The State bureaucracy

 Select the correct alternative :

 (A) (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)

 (B) (i), (ii) and (iii)

 (C) (i), (iii) and (iv)

 (D) (ii), (iii) and (iv)

Answer:(B)

12. Who argues that ‘classes should be

defined as imperatively coordinated

associations’ ?

 (A) M. Weber

 (B) K. Marx

 (C) R. Dahrendorf

 (D) R. Collins

Answer:(C)

13. For R. Dahrendorf a post-capitalist

society is characterised by

 i. Decomposition of capital

 ii. Differentiation of labour

 iii. Diamond like class structure

 iv. Regulations and institutionalization

of conflicts

 Select the correct alternative :

 (A) (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv)

 (B) (i), (ii) and (iii)

 (C) (i), (ii) and (iv)

 (D) (i), (iii) and (iv)

Answer:(A)

14. The concept of ‘I’ and ‘Me’ with

reference to development of ‘self’

was used by

 (A) S. Freud

 (B) C.H. Cooley

 (C) H.M. Johnson

 (D) G.H. Mead

Answer:(D)

15. Given below are two statements, one

labelled as Assertion (A) and the

other as Reason (R) :

Assertion (A) : Personality system

gets integrated into the social

system through socialization.

Reason (R) : Socialization helps

actors to develop skills to play

roles in society.

 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)

16. A status group, according to Max

Weber, is characterised by

 (A) Occupation

 (B) Educational background

 (C) Life-style

 (D) Family background

Answer:(C)

17. Who among the following is

regarded as the technological

determinist of social change ?

 (A) E. Durkheim

 (B) G. Simmel

 (C) T. Veblen

 (D) T. Malthus

Answer:(C)

18. The theoretical perspective that

asserts that there are discernible

stages which the society goes

through more than once or even

repeatedly is termed as

 (A) Repeated Evolutionary Theory

 (B) Unilinear Evolutionary Theory

 (C) Cyclical Evolutionary Theory

 (D) Reflexive Evolutionary Theory

Answer:(C)

19. Who among the following describes

society as ‘sui-generis’ ?

 (A) Radcliffe Brown

 (B) Malinowski

 (C) E. Durkheim

 (D) R. Benedict

Answer:(C)

20. Which of the following pairs are not

included in Parsonian Scheme of

‘Pattern-Variables’ ?

 i. Affectivity Vs Affective neutrality

 ii. Self-orientation Vs Collectivity

orientation

 iii. Particularism Vs Universalism

 iv. Localism Vs Globalism

 v. Quality Vs Performance

 vi. Diffusion Vs Specificity

 vii. Evolution Vs Revolution

 Select the correct alternative :

 (A) (i), (ii), (iii), (v) and (vi)

 (B) (ii), (iii), (i), (vi) and (v)

 (C) (ii), (iii), (v)

 (D) (i), (v) and (vi)

Answer:(X)

21. Given below are two statements, one

is labelled as Assertion (A) and the

other as Reason (R) :

Assertion (A) : The postulate of

functional unity of society

maintains that all standardised

social and cultural beliefs and

practices are functional for

society as a whole as well as

for individuals in society.

Reason (R) : The above said

standardised items are

indispensable parts of the

working whole.

Codes :

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

(R) is not the correct

explanation of (A).

 (B) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

 (C) (R) is true, but (A) is false.

 (D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer:(A)

22. Who among the following does not

adopt the functional approach to the

understanding of social phenomena ?

 (A) J. Alexander

 (B) K. Davis

 (C) R.K. Merton

 (D) J. Habermas

Answer:(D)

23. The view that authority relations are

the main cause of social conflict was

held by whom ?

 (A) M. Weber

 (B) K. Marx

 (C) R. Collins

 (D) R. Dahrendorf

Answer:(D)

24. Who among the following has

classified status in terms of salient

status, dominant status and

controlling status ?

 (A) T. Parsons

 (B) R.K. Merton

 (C) W.E. Moore

 (D) H.M. Johnson

Answer:(B)

25. What is common to magic, religion

and science ?

 (A) Observation and experimentation

 (B) Equal influence on human

beings

 (C) Orientation towards the

unknown

 (D) Orientation towards the

supernatural

Answer:(C)

26. Who among the following is a

proponent of dialectical approach to

the study of Indian society ?

 (A) M.N. Srinivas

 (B) D.P. Mukherjee

 (C) A. Beteille

 (D) Y.B. Damle

Answer:(B)

27. Which type of research aims to

describe a social situation, social

event, social system, social structure

etc. ?

 (A) Basic research

 (B) Descriptive research

 (C) Empirical research

 (D) Explanatory research

Answer:(B)

28. A university has 7530 students and a

researcher draws 10 percent sample

from it amounting to a total of 753.

This is called

 (A) Sample size

 (B) Sample ratio

 (C) Sample element

 (D) Purposive sampling

Answer:(B)

29. Which technique of qualitative data

collection is followed by researcher

to understand people and their

behaviour through direct, focused

and non-verbal interaction in their

natural setting ?

 (A) Interview

 (B) Observation

 (C) Case study

 (D) Above all

Answer:(B)

30. According to Karl Marx, which of

the following are elements of the

forces of production ?

 (A) Technology and capital

 (B) Capital, labour and technology

 (C) Science and technology

 (D) Capital, labour, science and

technology

Answer:(B)

31. Who among the following used the

concept of ‘interaction ritual’ in his

theory ?

 (A) R. Collins

 (B) L. Coser

 (C) E. Durkheim

 (D) H. Blumer

Answer:(A)

32. Who among the following argues

that the withdrawal of legitimacy

from an existing system of inequality

is a critical precondition for conflict ?

 (A) R. Dahrendorf

 (B) L. Coser

 (C) R. Collins

 (D) J. Habermas

Answer:(B)

33. Themetic and text analyses are used

in

 (A) Path analysis

 (B) Data analysis

 (C) Form analysis

 (D) Content analysis

Answer:(D)

34. The study of recorded human

statement based on newspaper,

magazines, songs, poems, speeches

etc. are known as

 (A) Statistical analysis

 (B) Content analysis

 (C) Historical analysis

 (D) Comparative analysis

Answer:(B)

35. Which one of the following is not a

type of reliability according to Kirk

and Miller ?

 (A) Quixotic : Circumstances in

which single method of

observation yields the same

measurement repeatedly.

 (B) Dialectical : Observation

between two conflicting

situation.

 (C) Diachronic : Stability of an

observation over a period of

time.

 (D) Synchronic : Similarity of

observation within same period

of time.

Answer:(B)

36. Which one of the following is not a

measure of central tendency ?

 (A) Mean

 (B) Median

 (C) Mode

 (D) Standard deviation

Answer:(D)

37. “Men make history, but they do not

make it just as they please; they do

not make it under circumstances

chosen by themselves, but under

circumstances directly encountered,

given and transmitted from the past.”

With whom is this statement related ?

 (A) Karl Mannheim

 (B) Karl Marx

 (C) Karl Popper

 (D) Ralf Dahrendorf

Answer:(B)

38. “Thinking is simply an internalised

or implicit conversation of the

individual with himself by means of

significant gestures.” Who said so ?

 (A) L. Althusser

 (B) H. Blumer

 (C) P. Blau

 (D) G.H. Mead

Answer:(D)

39. Which of the following is not a

feature of association ?

 (A) A collectivity of people

 (B) Having certain objectives

 (C) Voluntary membership

 (D) Pursuing ideal norms

Answer:(D)

40. Which of the following statements on

the nature of social role is not

correct ?

 (A) It is a set of expectations.

 (B) It is impossible to define one’s

role without referring to

another.

 (C) It includes a series of rights and

duties.

 (D) It has no association with

status.

Answer:(D)

41. According to Coser which of the

following type of conflict may not be

functional for the system ?

 (A) Conflict over core value

 (B) Conflict over explicit realistic

issues

 (C) Frequent conflict over small

issues

 (D) Repetitive conflict of low

intensity

Answer:(A)

42. Which of the following scales has

real zero origin ?

 (A) Nominal

 (B) Ordinal

 (C) Interval

 (D) Ratio

Answer:(D)

43. Who had applied the reference group

theory to analyse mobility within the

caste system ?

 (A) M.S.A. Rao

 (B) G.S. Ghurye

 (C) M.N. Srinivas

 (D) Yogendra Singh

Answer:(C)

44. The concept of structural visibility

was contributed by whom ?

 (A) T. Parsons

 (B) R.K. Merton

 (C) Radcliffe-Brown

 (D) S.F. Nadel

Answer:(B)

45. Which one of the following pairs is

not correctly matched ?

 (A) Organic – E. Durkheim

 solidarity

 (B) Pattern – T. Parsons

 variable

 (C) Looking-glass – C.H. Cooley

 self

 (D) Individualistic – R.K. Merton

 functionalism

Answer:(D)

46. Triangulation is a method of

assessing validity of one’s research

by

 (A) Collecting three generational

data.

 (B) Analysing three generational

data.

 (C) Using different methods and

theoretical analysis of different

subject of study by one or more

researchers.

 (D) Mixing of different methods

and theoretical analysis of

same subject of study by one or

more researchers.

Answer:(D)

47. The book “Street Corner Society”

based on the following technique of

research :

 (A) Interview schedule

 (B) Participant observation

 (C) Content analysis

 (D) Questionnaire

Answer:(B)

48. Identify the correct sequence in

social research :

 i. Report writing

 ii. Data analysis

 iii. Pilot study

 iv. Formation of hypothesis

 v. Null hypothesis

 vi. Observation

 (A) iv, v, iii, vi, ii, i

 (B) iii, iv, i, ii, vi, v

 (C) i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi

 (D) vi, v, iv, iii, ii, i

Answer:(A)

49. Who among the following attempted

micro-integrative conflict theory ?

 (A) Dahrendorf

 (B) Coser

 (C) Collins

 (D) Marx

Answer:(C)

50. In the major conceptualizations of

class, which of the following are not

a basis of class situation ?

 i. Property

 ii. Income

 iii. Authority

 iv. Caste

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

 (A) i, ii, & iii

 (B) i & ii

 (C) i & iii

 (D) ii & iv

Answer:(D)