Sociology July 2016 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. Which one of the following statements represents the
idea of C. Wright Mills about
sociological imagination ?
 (1) Looking social world as social fact.
 (2) Understanding differences among the classical theorists.
 (3) Bringing together private troubles and public issues.
 (4) Avoiding individual based explanation.
Answer:(3)


2. Who amongst the following says that sociology is the
study of collective representation ?
 (1) Weber
 (2) Durkheim
 (3) Comte
 (4) Spencer
Answer:(2)

3. According to Max Weber, an ideal type is
 (1) The most common situation in a given society
 (2) Philosophical model of an ideal society
 (3) Conceptual or analytical tool to understand social phenomena
 (4) Statistical evidences collected by social researcher
Answer:(3)


4. According to whom internalized ‘shared values’ are
regarded as playing a decisive role in the social
integration of any society ?
 (1) T. Parsons
 (2) B. Malinowski
 (3) E. Durkheim
 (4) R.K. Merton
Answer:(1)

5. Which according to Robert Redfield is not the
characteristic of Little Community ?
(1) Distinctiveness
(2) Homogeneity
(3) Location
(4) Self-sufficiency
Answer:(3)


6. Match the items in List – I with List – II :
List – I List – II
(Books) (Authors)

a. Patterns of Culture i. T.S. Eliot
b. Primitive Culture ii. E.B. Taylor
c. A Scientific Theory of Culture iii. Ruth Benedict
d. Notes Towards the iv. B. Malinowski
Definition of Culture
 Select the correct answer from the codes
given below :
Codes :
 a b c d
 (1) i ii iii iv
 (2) iii ii iv i
 (3) ii iii iv i
 (4) iv i ii iii
Answer:(2)

7. Which one of the following is not the
characteristic of a community ?
 (1) Territory
 (2) A set of social relationships
 (3) We feeling
 (4) Language
Answer:(4)

8. The change of statuses occurring with sufficient
frequency, as to be socially patterned, can
be designated as a
 (1) Status-Set
 (2) Status-Conflict
 (3) Social-Status
 (4) Status-Sequence
Answer:(4)

9. When the performer of a role adopts a subjective
detachment from the role, it is called as :
 (1) Role – Conflict
 (2) Role – Taking
 (3) Role – Distance
 (4) Role – Incompatibility
Answer:(3)

10. According to whom, role is the dynamic aspect of
status, where ‘status’ refers to the position and ‘role’
to its performance ?
 (1) Ralph Linton
 (2) R.K. Merton
 (3) Max Weber
 (4) P.L. Kendall
Answer:(1)

11. By what term Merton designated the range of
role relationships which persons have by virtue of
occupying a particular social status ?
 (1) Multiple Roles
 (2) Role Set
 (3) Role Networks
 (4) Status Role
Answer:(2)

12. Which are not the characteristics of a primary group ?
A. Own norms / rules
B. Age
C. Sex
 D. Face to face interaction
Select the correct answer from the codes
given below :
Codes :
 (1) A and B
 (2) A and D
 (3) B and D
 (4) B and C
Answer:(4)

13. Match List – I with List – II and select the
correct answer from the codes given below the
lists :
List – I List – II
(Concepts) (Authors)
a. Militant and Industrial Society i. E. Durkheim
b. Mechanical and Organic Solidarity ii. H. Spencer
c. Folk-Urban Continuum iii. F. Tonnies
d. Gemeinschaft and Geselleschaft iv. R. Redfield
Codes :
 a b c d
 (1) ii i iii iv
 (2) ii i iv iii
 (3) i ii iv iii
 (4) iv iii i ii
Answer:(2)

14. Given below are two statements, one is labelled
as Assertion (A) and other as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : All groups are social networks.
 Reason (R) : All networks are not social groups.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
 Codes :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct
explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct
explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer:(2)

15. Type of authority in a religious sect is :
 (1) Traditional
 (2) Bureaucratic
 (3) Rational
 (4) Legal
Answer:(1)

16. What an individual, as an organism, does not have
at birth that is relevant to the process of
socialization ?
 (1) Instincts
 (2) Capacities
 (3) Reflexes
 (4) Attitude
Answer:(4)

17. Who among the following is the author of
‘Mind, Self and Society’ ?
 (1) Talcott Parsons
 (2) Margaret Mead
 (3) George H. Mead
 (4) Gardner Murphy
Answer:(3)

18. The Functional Theory of social stratification
was expounded in the writings of :
 (1) Davis & Black
 (2) Davis & Moore
 (3) Parsons & Bales
 (4) Wiser & Wiser
Answer:(2)

19. In a family, the grandfather was a potter in a
village and father taught in a school of a town and
now son is an engineer in a multi-national company
in a metro city. This illustrates :
 (1) Cultural Mobility
 (2) Horizontal Mobility
 (3) Intra-generational Mobility
 (4) Inter-generational Mobility
Answer:(4)

20. Which view among the following is the
oldest view of social change ?
 (1) Cyclical
 (2) Linear
 (3) Evolutionary
 (4) Dialectical
Answer:(3)

21. Who said that revolutions are locomotives
of history ?
 (1) G.W.F. Hegel
 (2) E. Kant
 (3) K. Marx
 (4) F. Engels
Answer:(3)

22. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct
answer from the codes given below the
lists :
List – I List – II
a. Law of three stages i. Taylor
b. Organic analogy ii. Durkheim
c. Division of labour iii. Comte
d. Primitive culture iv. Spencer
Codes :
 a b c d
 (1) iii iv ii i
 (2) ii iii iv i
 (3) i iii ii iv
 (4) iv iii ii i
Answer:(1)

23. Who used the phrase ‘necessary conditions of
existence’ as an important component of
social structure ?
 (1) S.F. Nadel
 (2) C. Levi-Strauss
 (3) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
 (4) R.K. Merton
Answer:(3)

24. Who supports the view that social structure is more
or less stable and unchangeable, while its qualitative
character is dynamic and changeable ?
 (1) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
 (2) S.F. Nadel
 (3) B. Malinowski
 (4) C. Levi-Strauss
Answer:(2)

25. Match the items in List – I with List – II :
List – I List – II
(Concepts) (Authors)
a. Social Morphology i. Levi-Strauss
b. Reciprocity ii. Ferdinand de Saussure
c. Alliance Theory iii. Radcliffe-Brown
d. Structural-Linguist iv. Marcel-Mauss
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Codes :
 a b c d
 (1) iii ii iv i
 (2) ii iii i iv
 (3) iii iv i ii
 (4) iv iii ii i
Answer:(3)

26. Who gave the ‘mechanical’ and ‘statistical’
models in his study of kinship structure ?
 (1) C. Levi-Strauss
 (2) James Frazer
 (3) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
 (4) S.F. Nadel
Answer:(1)

27. Who among the following talked about moving
equilibrium in the process of progressive
growth in the social system ?
 (1) T. Parsons
 (2) R.K. Merton
 (3) Max Weber
 (4) B. Malinowski
Answer:(1)

28. To E. Durkheim, Moral density means :
 (1) Sheer increase in the number of individuals
 (2) Individuals working morally
 (3) Individuals feeling sobriety
 (4) Increased interaction between the individuals
Answer:(4)

29. Self-fulfilling prophecy was the concept explained by :
 (1) Max Weber
 (2) R.K. Merton
 (3) T. Parsons
 (4) None of the above
Answer:(2)

30. Who has studied ‘Trobriand Islanders’ ?
 (1) A.R. Brown
 (2) J. Frazer
 (3) B. Malinowski
 (4) E. Durkheim
Answer:(3)

31. The concept : “The generalized other”
was introduced by :
 (1) G.H. Mead
 (2) H. Blumer
 (3) V. Pareto
 (4) None of the above
Answer:(1)

32. Max Weber distinguished power from authority
as the presence or absence of :
 (1) Hierarchy
 (2) Rationality
 (3) Legitimacy
 (4) Bureaucracy
Answer:(3)

33. Who were the first to develop the elite theory ?
 (1) Pareto and Mosca
 (2) Mills and David Lane
 (3) Pareto and Mills
 (4) Mosca and Mitchell
Answer:(1)

34. The Book : “The Methodological Position of
Symbolic Interactionism” was written by :
 (1) H. Blumer
 (2) C.H. Cooley
 (3) E. Goffman
 (4) G.H. Mead
Answer:(1)

35. Functionalism approach to conflict was propounded by
 (1) R. Dahrendorf
 (2) L.A. Coser
 (3) Karl Marx
 (4) R. Collins
Answer:(2)

36. To Karl Marx, five great modes of social change
which successively embody the dynamics of human
society are :
 A. Slavery
 B. Primitive communism
 C. Capitalism
 D. Feudalism
 E. Socialism
 In what order did he place these stages ?
Codes :
 (1) A, B, C, D, E
 (2) B, A, C, D, E
 (3) B, A, D, C, E
 (4) A, B, D, C, E
Answer:(3)


37. Given below are two statements, one is labelled
as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason
(R).
Assertion (A) : Observation at times gives us better
conclusions about the social phenomenon.
Reason (R) : Observation is a method in which
no biasness is involved.
Select the correct answer from the codes below :
Codes :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the
correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.
Answer:(2)

38. Identify the correct logical order as explained by Marx :
 (1) Class-in-Itself, Class for Itself, Social Transformation, Class Conflict
 (2) Class-in-Itself, Class for Itself, Class Conflict, Social Transformation
 (3) Class in Itself, Class Conflict, Class for Itself, Social Transformation
 (4) Class for Itself, Class Conflict, Class-in-Itself, Social Transformation
Answer:(2)

39. Who has stated that, ‘human activity can be observed and
comprehended from only inside’ ?
 (1) Max Weber
 (2) W. Dilthey
 (3) E. Durkheim
 (4) P. Sorokin
Answer:(2)

40. Who has considered that ‘social phenomenon
can be treated like natural phenomenon, in terms of
observation, classification and also in direct experiment’ ?
 (1) Emile Durkheim
 (2) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
 (3) Both (1) and (2)
 (4) None of the above
Answer:(3)

41. Among the Indian sociologists, who has pleaded for
an integrated approach to the study of
social phenomenon ?
 (1) D.P. Mukerji
 (2) G.S. Ghurye
 (3) Radhakamal Mukherjee
 (4) Ram Krishna Mukherjee
Answer:(3)

42. Who has undertaken for the first time ‘survey
of an industrial city’ in India and employed
statistical concepts and tools ?
 (1) D.N. Majumdar
 (2) M.N. Srinivas
 (3) V.S. D’Souza
 (4) S.C. Dube
Answer:(1)

43. Who is said to have used the participant observation
method in the study of a street corner
society in U.S.A. ?
 (1) B. Malinowski
 (2) W.F. Whyte
 (3) Paul F. Lazarsfeld
 (4) R.K. Merton
Answer:(2)


44. Match the List – I with List – II and select the
correct answer from the codes given below
the lists :
List – I List – II
(Books) (Authors)
a. The Methodology of the i. John Madge
Social Sciences
b. The Rules of Sociological ii. Jahoda and Others
Method
c. The Tools of Social Science iii. Emile Durkheim
d. Methods in Social Relations iv. P.V. Young
 v. Max Weber
Codes :
 a b c d
 (1) i ii iii iv
 (2) v iv iii ii
 (3) iv iii ii i
 (4) v iii i ii
Answer:(4)

45. Census is an example of
 (1) Explanatory research
 (2) Exploratory research
 (3) Descriptive research
 (4) Diagnostic research
Answer:(3)

46. Which one of the following measures of average
can be applied to qualitative data ?
 (1) Mean
 (2) Median
 (3) Mode
 (4) All the above
Answer:(3)

47. Standard deviation is a measure of :
 (1) Dispersion around Mode
 (2) Dispersion around Mean
 (3) Dispersion around Mode and Mean
 (4) Dispersion around Median and Mode
Answer:(2)

48. Case study aims at :
(1) Qualitative analysis of a unit
(2) Quantitative analysis of a unit
(3) Both Qualitative and Quantitative analysis
(4) Qualitative and detailed analysis of all
aspects of a unit
Answer:(4)

49. A method of historical research in which the
recollections of living persons are collected, is
called
 (1) Case study
 (2) Content analysis
 (3) Oral history
 (4) Conjectural history
Answer:(3)

50. Which method involves counting of the incidence
of particular items belonging to a set of usually
pre-determined categories ?
 (1) Case Study
 (2) Content Analysis
 (3) Both (1) and (2)
 (4) None of the above
Answer:(2)