Sociology September 2013 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. Who argued that “By studying traditions of Indian society change

can be understood” ?

 (A) A.K. Saran

 (B) M.N. Srinivas

 (C) S.C. Dube

 (D) D.P. Mukherjee

Answer:(D)

2. Choose the correct sequence of societal evolution in order of

increasing complexity.

(A) Agriculture, Gathering-hunting and Industrial Societies

 (B) Hunting-gathering, Agriculture and Industrial Societies

 (C) Hunting-gathering, Industrial Societies and Agriculture

(D) Pastoral, Industrial and Agriculture

Answer:(B)

3. Match the following statements in List – I with the concepts given in

List – II :

List – I  List – II

(Statements)  (Concepts)

a. Tendency of each  i. Wester-nisation

group to take for

granted the

superiority of its

own culture

b. Which yields  ii. Dominant

economical or  Castes

political power

and occupies a

higher position

in society

ii. Dominant

castes

c. People of lower  iii. Sanskriti-Sation

castes

collectively try

to adopt upper

caste practices

and beliefs to

acquire higher

status

d. Explain the  iv. Ethno-

changes brought  centrism

about the Indian

societies through

western contact

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i iii iv ii

 (B) iii i ii iv

 (C) iv ii iii i

 (D) ii iv i iii

Answer:(C)

4. Sustainable development is

characterized by

 (i) Judicious use of resources

 (ii) Maintaining Ecological balance

 (iii) Deforestation

 (iv) Keeping soil fertility durable

for future generation

 Choose the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

 (A) (i) (ii) (iii)

 (B) (i) (ii) (iv)

 (C) (i) (iii) (iv)

 (D) (iv) (ii) (iii)

Answer:(B)

5. Who is the author of the book

‘Peasant Society and Culture’ ?

 (A) A.R. Desai

 (B) Robert Redfield

 (C) M. Mead

 (D) R.H. Lowie

Answer:(B)

6. Match List – I with List – II :

List – I  List – II

a. The World of  i. Edward Gross

Work

b. The

Sociology of  ii. Peter Blau

Work

c. Bureaucracy  iii. Theodore

in Modern  Caplow

Society

d. Work and  iv. Robert Dubin

Society

 Mark the correct answer from the

codes given below :

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iv iii ii i

 (B) iii iv i ii

 (C) iv ii iii i

 (D) i iii ii i

Answer:(A)

7. “By ‘cultural dope’ I refer to the

man-in-the-sociologist’s-society who

produces the stable features of

society in compliance with pre-

established and legitimate

alternatives of action that the culture

provides.” Who made the above

statement ?

 (A) T. Parsons (B) J. Derrida

 (C) H. Garfinkel (D) A. Giddens

Answer:(C)

8. Given below are two statements, one

is labelled as Assertion (A) and the

other as Reason (R).

Assertion (A) : Giddens observes

that the concept of structuration

helps to understand the

importance of social practices

over both actions and structures.

 Reason (R) : Structuration implies

dualism of society and individual.

Choose the correct answer from the

given codes.

 Codes :

 (A) Both (A) and (R) are true.

 (B) (A) is true but (R) is false.

 (C) (A) is false but (R) is true.

 (D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer:(A)

9. Which of the following development

perspectives encompasses the notion

of sustainable development as its

central objective ?

 (A) Women in Development (WID)

 (B) Women and Development (WAD)

 (C) Gender and Development

(GAD)

 (D) Women Environment and

Development (WED)

Answer:(D)

10. Eco-feminism grew in India as the

result of

 (A) Participation in Chipko

Movement

 (B) Women’s participation in

Dandi March

 (C) Women’s participation in

Freedom Struggle

 (D) Women’s participation in

Lokpal Movement

Answer:(A)

11. Which sequence of perspectives on

Gender and Development is followed

in India ?

 (A) Welfare, Development,

Empowerment

 (B) Politicization, Welfare,

Globalisation

 (C) Welfare, Politicisation,

Modernisation

 (D) Affirmative action, Welfare,

Politicisation

Answer:(A)

12. India’s path of development is based on

 (A) Private enterprise

 (B) Private and State enterprise

 (C) State enterprise

 (D) Gandhian model

Answer:(B)

13. Match the items in the List – I with

the List – II and choose the correct

answer from the codes given below :

List – I  List – II

a. Liberal  i. Wallerstein

b. Uneven  ii. Andre Gounder

development  Frank

 c. Centre- iii. Samir Amin

periphery

d. World- iv. Gunnar Myrdal

System

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iv iii ii i

 (B) ii iii i iv

 (C) iv ii i iii

 (D) iii ii iv i

Answer:(A)

14. Who authored the book,

“Annihilation of Caste” ?

 (A) A.R. Desai

 (B) David Hardiman

 (C) B.R. Ambedkar

 (D) N.K. Bose

Answer:(C)

15. Who has examined the phenomenon

of Islamization in the context of unity

in diversity in India ?

 (A) Yogendra Singh

 (B) Imtiaz Ahmed

 (C) Jalal Asad

 (D) S.C. Dube

Answer:(A)

16. Assertion (A) : Green revolution

resulted in agrarian prosperity.

 Reason (R) : All agrarian classes

gained economically.

 Codes :

 (A) (A) is true and (R) is false.

 (B) (A) is false and (R) is true.

 (C) Both (A) and (R) are false.

 (D) Both (A) and (R) are true.

Answer:(D)

17. The Minimum Wages Act was

enacted in the year

 (A) 1949 (B) 1950

 (C) 1948 (D) 1952

Answer:(C)

18. Who regards American Society as a

‘great saleroom’ filled with

hypocrisy, deceit and insincerity ?

 (A) R.K. Merton

 (B) C. Wright Mills

 (C) T. Parsons

 (D) E. Durkheim

Answer:(B)

19. The concept of Rajputization was

coined by

 (A) N.K. Bose

 (B) Surajit Sinha

 (C) David Hardiman

 (D) M.N. Srinivasan

Answer:(B)

20. Which of the following is not the

indicator of Human Development ?

 (A) Scientific Orientation

 (B) Improvement in quality of life

 (C) Gender equality

 (D) Widow remarriage

Answer:(D)

21. Who has discussed the Modes of

Adaptation in American Society for

the development of deviant

behaviour ?

 (A) R.K. Merton

 (B) E. Durkheim

 (C) G. Tarde

 (D) T. Parsons

Answer:(A)

22. Who authored the book “Culture

Change in India; Identity &

Globalization” ?

 (A) T.K. Oommen

 (B) Yogendra Singh

 (C) A.K. Saran

 (D) Dipenkar Gupta

Answer:(B)

23. 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

(Books)   (Authors)

a. The Elementary  i. Max Weber

Forms of

Religious Life

b. Religion of  ii. E.E. Evans-

India  Pritchard

c. Primitive  iii. Emile

Religion  Durkheim

d. Religion and  iv. M.N.

Society among  Srinivasan

the Coorgs of

South India

v. Robert N.

Bellah

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iii i v iv

 (B) iii i ii iv

 (C) iv v iii ii

 (D) iii ii iv i

Answer:(B)

24. In which of the following Indian

sociological studies was structural-

functional approach adopted ?

 (A) Social Background of Indian

Nationalism

 (B) Society and Religion among

the Coorgs of South India

 (C) Peasant Movements in India

 (D) Diversities

Answer:(B)

25. Which of the following is not included

in the Gender Inequality Index ?

 (A) Capacity to determine one’s

own life chances

 (B) Adolescent fertility

 (C) Political representation

 (D) Labour force participation

Answer:(A)

26. Who has made the statement ‘Caste is

closed class and class is open caste’ ?

 (A) D. Hardiman

 (B) L. Dumont

 (C) S. Espstein

 (D) Milton Singer

Answer:(A)

27. ‘Doing Gender’ requires working

with

 (A) Women only

 (B) Women and men also

 (C) Women and men separately

 (D) Women and men together

Answer:(D)

28. Who described modernization as the

transition from ‘Gemeinshaft’ to

‘Gesellshaft’, which signifies the

progressive loss of community amid

growing individualism ?

 (A) M. Weber

 (B) F. Toennies

 (C) Amitai Etzioni

 (D) David Reisman

Answer:(B)

29. Neo-functionalism was developed by

 (A) B. Malinowski and A.R.

Radcliffe Brown

 (B) Alexander C. Jeffrey and P.

Colomy

 (C) Alexander C. Jeffrey and L.

Coser

 (D) Talcott Parsons and Marian J.

Levy

Answer:(B)

30. Who amongst the following is not

connected with phenomenological

sociology ?

 (A) Alfred Schutz

 (B) Max Weber

 (C) Peter Berger

 (D) Ralph Dahrendorf

Answer:(D)

31. Which one of the following is,

according to Giddens, not true ?

 (A) The concept of structuration

implies that the constitutions of

agents are structure are two

independently given sets of

phenomena.

 (B) ‘Agents’ and ‘Structures’

suggest dualism.

 (C) ‘Agents’ and ‘Structures’ are

locked in an irreconcilable

conflict.

 (D) There is a dialectic relationship

between ‘structure’ and

‘agency’.

Answer:(B)

32. 73rd Constitution of Amendment is

responsible for

 (A) Emergence of rural leadership

 (B) Empowerment of rural women

 (C) Gram Panchayat’s functioning

 (D) Representation of rural youth

Answer:(B)

33. According to whom “Crime is an

integral part of all healthy societies” ?

 (A) R.K. Merton

 (B) E. Durkheim

 (C) A. Cohen

 (D) D. Matza

Answer:(B)

34. Marxist Feminists explain patriarchy

in terms of

 (A) Lack of equal opportunities for

men and women

 (B) Oppression of women

economically, politically and

sexually

 (C) Exploitation of women through

domestic labour

 (D) Double oppression of capitalism

and male domination

Answer:(D)

35. The theory of scientific management

was first spelt out in detail by whom ?

 (A) Tom Burns

 (B) G.M. Stalker

 (C) F.W. Taylor

 (D) None of the above

Answer:(C)

36. Who coined the concept of ‘Culture

of Poverty’ ?

 (A) Oscar Lewis

 (B) Walter B. Miller

 (C) Robert Redfield

 (D) M.N. Srinivas

Answer:(A)

37. “Action and Its Environments” was

written by

 (A) Talcott Parsons

 (B) Juergen Habermas

 (C) A.C. Jeffrey

 (D) Max Weber

Answer:(C)

38. Juergen Habermas was concerned

mainly with

 (A) Work and exploitation

 (B) Post modernism

 (C) Functionalism

 (D) Communication

Answer:(D)

39. In “the case of kinship... the

observable phenomena result from

the action of laws which are general

but implicit.” Who made the

statement ?

 (A) Meyer Fortes

 (B) Lucy Mair

 (C) Robin Fox

 (D) Claude Levi-Strauss

Answer:(D)

40. Avuncular relationship means the

relationship

 (A) between virilocal and neolocal

families

 (B) between the siblings

 (C) between the parents and the

offspring

 (D) between uncle or aunt and

nephew or niece.

Answer:(D)

41. Structuralism analyses the basic

structures underlying human thinking

and human social groups. The

foregoing idea is most clearly

suggested in the writings of

 (A) S.F. Nadel

 (B) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

 (C) Ferdinand de Saussare

 (D) Claude Levi-Strauss

Answer:(D)

42. Which one of the following

statements is incorrect ?

 (A) Deconstruction seeks to

confirm metanarratives

 (B) Deconstruction seeks to

undermine the existing texts

such as extant sociological

theories

 (C) Deconstruction seeks to

unravel the inherent

contradictions in existing

knowledge.

 (D) Deconstruction is a part of

epistemological post-

modernism

Answer:(A)

43. In whose words, punishment ‘Serves

to heal the wound’s done to the

collective sentiments’ ?

 (A) R.K. Merton

 (B) E. Durkheim

 (C) E.H. Sutherland

 (D) D. Matza

Answer:(B)

44. Assertion (A) : The degree of

decrease and increase in social

solidarity leads people to

commit suicide.

 Reason (R) : In modern society

people commit suicide, because

of personal/self-centred

reasons.

 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:(D)

45. Match List – I with List – II and

choose the right answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

a. Differential  i. E. Durkheim

Association

theory

b. Theories of  ii. A. Cohen

Suicide

c. Labelling  iii. E.H.

theory  Sutherland

d. Delinquent  iv. H.S. Becker

sub-culture

theory

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i ii iii iv

 (B) iii i iv ii

 (C) ii iii iv i

 (D) iv ii i iii

Answer:(B)

46. Positive checks are those which

increase mortality, preventive checks

are those which lower fertility”. This

statement can be attributed to

 (A) Adam Smith

 (B) Karl Marx

 (C) Thomas Malthus

 (D) Mahatma Gandhi

Answer:(C)

47. Who defines ‘White Collar Crime’ as

“Crimes committed by persons of

high social status and respectability

in the course of their occupations” ?

 (A) H.S. Becker

 (B) E.M. Lemert

 (C) G. Tarde

 (D) E.H. Sutherland

Answer:(D)

48. To explain deviance the ‘legitimate

opportunity structure’ and the

‘illegitimate opportunity structure’

have been referred to by

 (A) R.K. Merton

 (B) D. Matza

 (C) R.A. Cloward and L.E. Ohlin

 (D) E. Durkheim

Answer:(C)

49. Match List – I with List – II and

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(Authors)  (Books)

 a. Selig  i. India : The Most

Harrison  Dangerous

Decades Ahead

b. Lloyd  ii. Modernity of

Rudolph  Tradition

and Susan

Rudolph

c. B. Baviskar  iii. Politics of

Development

d. Myron  iv. Politics of

Weincy  Scarcity

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i ii iii iv

 (B) iv iii ii i

 (C) ii i iv iii

 (D) iii ii i iv

Answer:(A)

50. Provision of houses/land to the

displaced persons on account of

industrialization falls under the

purview of

 (A) Trade Union

 (B) Corporate Social

Responsibility (C.S.R.)

 (C) Jamindar

 (D) Panchayat

Answer:(B)

51. Assertion (A) : In contemporary

Indian society the incidence of

crime has increased. Police

alone cannot prevent and

control the rate of crime.

 Reason (R) : The ‘community

policing system’ along with

public co-operation could help

in reducing the rate of crime.

 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:(D)

52. During which decade, Census of

India recorded absolute decline of

population size ?

 (A) 2001-2011

 (B) 1911-1921

 (C) 1941-1951

 (D) 1981-1991

Answer:(B)

53. Which one of the following process

defines Demographic Transition’ ?

 (A) Migration and Fertility

 (B) Mortality and Morbidity

 (C) Fertility and Mortality

 (D) Morbidity and Fertility

Answer:(C)

54. Assertion (A) : Less developed

countries of the world have

persistently shown evidence of

higher population growth.

 Reason (R) : Poor countries lack

natural resources for

development.

 Codes :

 (A) (A) is false, (R) is true.

 (B) (A) is true, (R) is false.

 (C) Both (A) and (R) are true.

 (D) Both (A) and (R) are false.

Answer:(B)

55. Match List – I with List – II :

List – I  List – II

a. Industrial Man  i. T. Burns

b. The

Presentation ii. E. Goffman

of Self in

Everyday Life

c. The Coming  iii. A. Gouldner

Crisis of

Western

Sociology

d. Introduction  iv. D.L. Miller

to Collective

Behaviour

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i ii iii iv

 (B) ii iii iv i

 (C) iii iv ii i

 (D) iv ii i iii

Answer:(A)

56. Who is the author of the book titled

“Women’s Role in Economic

Development’ ?

 (A) Catharine Scott

 (B) Nancy Hartsock

 (C) Esther Boserup

 (D) Dorothy Smith

Answer:(C)

57. Who is most closely connected with

Phenomenological Sociology ?

 (A) Max Weber

 (B) Emile Durkheim

 (C) Alfred Schutz

 (D) Lewis Coser

Answer:(C)

58. Under high birth rate than the death

rate for several generations, the shape

of the ‘population pyramid’ will

reflect

 (A) Wider top, smaller base

 (B) Wider base than the top

 (C) Bulging middle than top and

base

 (D) Similarity in base, middle, and

top

Answer:(B)

59. Which are modern rural social

institutions in the post independent

India ?

 (i) Rural School

 (ii) Rural Co-operative Society

 (iii) Gram Panchayat

 (iv) Village Khap Panchayat

 Find the correct combination

according to code :

 (A) (i) and (ii)

 (B) (iii) and (iv)

 (C) (i), (ii) and (iv)

 (D) (i), (ii) and (iii)

Answer:(D)

60. Which of the feminist ideologies

seek to promote gender free society ?

 (A) Socialist Feminism

 (B) Radical Feminism

 (C) Liberal Feminism

 (D) Psychoanalytical Feminism

Answer:(B)

61. In the National Population Policy of

India 2000, which one is not a ‘socio-

demographic goal for 2010’ ?

 (A) Reduce infant mortality rate to

below 30 per 1000 births.

 (B) Reduce maternal mortality ratio

to below 100 per 100000 live

births.

 (C) Achieve 100 percent

registration of births, deaths

and marriages

 (D) To compulsorily make 20 years

as age of marriage for girls.

Answer:(D)

62. Who remarked regarding India’s

Development as “Soft State” during

1960’s ?

 (A) Max Weber

 (B) Andre Beteille

 (C) Gunnar Myrdal

 (D) A.K. Sen

Answer:(C)

63. Match List – I with List – II and find

the correct answer :

List – I  List – II

a. Crude Birth  i. Deaths of

Rate  persons per

1000 mid year

total population

b. Crude Death  ii. Deaths of

Rate  children under

1 year’s of age

per 1000 live

births during a year

c. Infant  iii. Live births per

Mortality  1000 total mid

Rate  year population

d. Life time  iv. Number of

Migration  persons enumerated

Rate  other than their place of birth

per 1000 total mid period

population

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iii ii i iv

 (B) iii i ii iv

 (C) iv ii i iii

 (D) i ii iv iii

Answer:(B)

64. The factors of Rural Social Change

include :

 (i) Electronic media

 (ii) Farm technology

 (iii) Rural ideology

 (iv) Khap Panchayats

 Find the correct combination

according to code :

 (A) (i) and (ii)

 (B) (ii) and (iii)

 (C) (i), (ii) and (iv)

 (D) (i), (ii) and (iii)

Answer:(A)

65. Match the items in the List – I with

the items in the List – II and choose

the correct answer from the codes

given below :

List – I  List – II

a. Physical  i. Genital

violence  Mutilation

b. Emotional  ii. Denial of

violence  economic

resources

c. Economic  iii. Deprivation

violence  of Conjugal rights

d. Cultural  iv. Bride burning

violence

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iv iii ii i

 (B) i iii iv ii

 (C) ii iv iii i

 (D) iii i ii iv

Answer:(A)

66. Match List – I with List – II and

select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

List – I  List – II

a. Cultural lag  i. H. Cooley

b. Primary group  ii. M.N. Srinivas

c. Sanskritisation  iii. W.F. Ogburn

d. Organic  iv. E. Durkheim

solidarity

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) ii i iii iv

 (B) iii i ii iv

 (C) iv ii i iii

 (D) i iv ii iii

Answer:(B)

67. Who made the distinction of two

opposing spheres of ‘Female world of

emotion and cooperation and male

world of rationality and competition’ ?

 (A) John Bowlby

 (B) Talcott Parsons

 (C) Robin Fox

 (D) George Peter Murdock

Answer:(B)

68. Contribution of social division of

labour has been discussed in depth by

 (A) Emile Durkheim

 (B) Max Weber

 (C) Vilfredo Pareto

 (D) Pitirim Sorokin

Answer:(A)

69. ‘Brain Drain’ is a concept associated

with which one of the following ?

 (A) Large scale immigration of

technically qualified persons

from less developed to

developed countries.

 (B) Large scale flight of labour

from poor countries.

 (C) Displacement of people due to

war and violence

 (D) Immigration of foreign experts

during colonial rule

Answer:(A)

70. Match an item in List – I with an

item in List – II :

List – I List – II

(Books)  (Author)

a. Caste in Modern  i. A. Beteille

India and other

Essays

b. Caste, Class  ii. Dumont

and Power

c. Homo  iii. A.R. Desai

Hierarchicus

d. Peasants  iv. P. Gisbert

Struggle in

India

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) iv i ii iii

 (B) iii ii iii iv

 (C) i ii iv iii

 (D) iv ii iii i

Answer:(X)

71. Gender roles involve ranking of men

and women differently in terms of

 (i) Roles (ii) Relationships

 (iii) Resources (iv) Power

 Select the correct answer from the

codes given below :

 (A) (i) (ii) (iii)

 (B) (ii) (iii) (iv)

 (C) (i) (ii) (iv)

 (D) (iv) (iii) (ii)

Answer:(C)

72. Match the women development

approaches in the List – I with the

Feminist Schools of Thought in the

List – II and choose the correct

answer from the codes given below :

List – I  List – II

(Women  (Feminist School of

Development  Thought)

Approaches)

a. WID  i. Marxist Feminist

Thought

b. WAD  ii. Eco Feminist

Thought

c. GAD  iii. Liberal Feminist

Thought

d. WED  iv. Socialist Feminist

Thought

Codes :

 a b c d

 (A) i iii iv ii

 (B) ii i iii iv

 (C) iv ii i iii

 (D) iii i iv ii

Answer:(D)

73. The term proximate determinants of

fertility was coined by

 (A) Kingsley Davis

 (B) Judith Blake

 (C) John Bongaarts

 (D) Karl Marx

Answer:(C)

74. Who is the author of the book

entitled “Alienation and Freedom” ?

 (A) M. Blumer

 (B) H. Braverman

 (C) P.M. Blau

 (D) R. Blauner

Answer:(D)

75. Which of the following States and

Union Territories have the lowest

overall sex-ratio as per the Census

Report of 2011 ?

 (A) Daman and Diu

 (B) Punjab

 (C) Andhra Pradesh

 (D) Meghalaya

Answer:(A)