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1. The value of Sociological Theory lies in
(a) the number of questions raised
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(b) describing society
(c) describing thinkers
(d) descending behavioural patterns
Ans. (a)
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2. Thinker who has identified two types of general theory namely, the normative and non-normative is
(a) Pareto
(b) Homans
(c) Frazer
(d) Marx
Ans. (b)
3. Who gave the theory of Leisure Class?
(a) Parsons
(b) T. Veblen
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(c) Merton
(d) C.W. Mills
Ans. (b)
4. The concept ‘trained incapacity’ was propounded by
(a) Karl Marx
(b) T. Veblen
(c) Davis & Moore
(d) R.E. Park
Ans. (b)
5. The concept ‘conspicuous consumption’ was propounded by
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Veblen
(c) Max Weber
(d) Emile Durkheim
Ans. (b)
6. An institution is a
(a) defined way of behaviour
(b) cluster of traits
(c) series of complexes centering upon an important activity
(d) institutionalised relations
Ans. (c)
7. Who has propounded the theory of cultural lag?
(a) W.F. Ogburn
(b) NimKoff
(c) Bogardus
(d) Oscar Lewis
Ans. (a)
8. The acquisition of foreign culture by the subject people is called
(a) Assimilation
(b) Acculturation
(c) Colonisation
(d) Subjectisation
Ans. (b)
9. Cultural relativism means
(a) Function and meaning of a trait are relative to its cultural setting
(b) culture is relatively rare
(c) culture evolution is relative
(d) cultural diffusion is relative
Ans. (a)
10. Which among the following is not true about assimilation?
(a) It brings about cultural diffusion
(b) It is a historical process
(c) Culture contact is there
(d) Cultural conflict is there
Ans. (d)
11. If the maternal uncle comes first among all male relatives, than this kinship usage is called
(a) Maternity
(b) Avunculate
(c) Mamalate
(d) Matenealate
Ans. (b)
12. Practice of making husband lead the life of an invalid along with his wife whenever she gives birth to a child is
(a) Imitation
(b) Couvade
(c) Taking role
(d) Rehearsal
Ans. (b)
13. A social mechanism for preventing certain kinship bonds from falling into neglect in a matrilineal society is
(a) Amitate
(b) Control mechanism
(c) Kin Cherishing
(d) Kin-contact
Ans. (a)
14. In Hindi, which is the only classificatory kinship terminology?
(a) Samaadhin
(b) Damaad
(c) Bahu
(d) Chacha
Ans. (a)
15. Which among the following is true regarding classificatory term of kinship?
(a) It refers to kin
(c) It refers more to relationship rather than to kin
(d) It refers to family ties
Ans. (c)
16. In what way are goods divided among members of the society?
(a) Accumulation
(b) Reciprocity
(c) Distribution
(d) Dissemination
Ans. (c)
17. When the trade and money become developed activities, an institution becomes
(a) more varied
(b) less varied
(c) more dynamic
(d) less dynamic
Ans. (a)
18. Name the factor which led to the weakening of working class power and unionism.
(a) Capital
(b) Technology
(c) Voluntary organization
(d) Secondary organisation
Ans. (b)
19. Who was on the opinion that only those who are engaged in the production of goods are productive?
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Adam Smith
(c) Rosenberg
(d) David Ricardo
Ans. (b)
20. Which among the following did not influence the ‘production’?
(a) Social structure
(b) Technology
(c) Culture
(d) Education
Ans. (d)
21. ‘Goa’ is an example of
(a) Religious city
(b) Industrial city
(c) Port city
(d) Commercial city
Ans. (b)
22. Unlike rural community, urban community is
(a) More static
(b) Less familiar
(c) More familiar
(d) More traditional
Ans. (a)
23. What is the focus of human relation approach in the study of modern industrial set-up?
(a) Worker’s morale
(b) Profit making
(c) Management’s benefit
(d) Solution of union grievances
Ans. (b)
24. A town which serves the hinterland and in return is served by the hinterland is called
(a) Central place
(b) Growth centre
(c) Main centre
(d) Service centre
Ans. (a)
25. In the Indian context urban is generally described as
(a) A function of population size and density
(b) A permanent settlement of cities
(c) A community enjoying modern facilities with low density of population
(d) A class of people characterised by higher education
Ans. (a)
26. “The state is the march of God on earth.” This statement belongs to
(a) A. Comte
(b) Le Play
(c) Hegel
(d) J.S. Mills
Ans. (a)
27. “The most important outward factor in the formation of nationalities is the state.” To whom do you attribute these words?
(a) Hans Kohn
(b) H. Laski
(c) Edward Syd
(d) Aristotle
Ans. (a)
28. State is supreme but not without limitations. Which of the following cannot be done by it?
(a) Fix the strength of the army
(b) Discipline public opinion
(c) To punish the people who do not follow rules of law
(d) Destroy all such people, whom it considers superfluous
Ans. (d)
29. In a democracy, education must be regarded as
(a) a social function
(b) an individual concern
(c) parents concern
(d) a state function
Ans. (a)
30. Who among the following believe that the state should not be passive but an active spectator in regulating the life of the citizens?
(a) Fascists
(b) Democrats
(c) Socialist
(d) Individualists
Ans. (a)
31. When did ‘Bourgeoisie’ system of social classes emerge?
(a) During tenth century
(b) During Renaissance period
(c) During dark ages
(d) During eighteenth and nineteenth century
Ans. (d)
32. The ‘Estate’ system is more often associated with
(a) Socialism
(b) Ancient society
(d) Capitalist society
Ans. (c)
33. The class of ‘guilds’ had grown for the first time in India during the
(a) 11th century
(b) 13th century
(c) 15th century
(d) 16th century
Ans. (a)
34. Henry Maine was one of the opinion that the castes were born out of
(a) Occupational divisions crystallising into castes
(b) Brahmanical domination
(c) The priests definition
(d) Religious sanctions
Ans. (a)
35. Who was of the view that ‘Social Stratification is a process by which individuals and groups are ranked in a more or less enduring hierarchy of status’?
(a) H. Maine
(b) Baden Powell
(c) Ogburn and Nimkoff
(d) T. Parsons
Ans. (c)
36. A society’s resistance to social change is likely to be negatively related to its
(a) Isolation
(b) Emphasis on conformity
(c) Integration
(d) Culture
Ans. (a)
37. The most important single cause of social change since the industrial revolution has been
(a) Value
(b) Norms
(c) Innovation
(d) Secularization
Ans. (c)
38. Bhoodan movement had its beginning in
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Bihar
(c) West Bengal
(d) Andhra Pradesh
Ans. (d)
39. Ram is working as an accountant’s assistant. He is pursuing a course on business management with a hope to become a marketing manager. This process is called?
(a) Educational difference
(b) Educational mobility
(c) Social inequality
(d) Socialisation
Ans. (b)
40. Emphasis on humanitarianism and rationalisation is a part of the process of _______ in India.
(a) Secularisation
(b) Westernisation
(c) Bureaucratisation
(d) Sanskritisation
Ans. (b)
41. The fundamental characteristic of an industrial society is
(a) Break up of joint families
(b) Emancipation of women
(c) Mechanised means of production
(d) Lack of faith in religion
Ans. (c)
42. Modern society is governed by
(a) Convention and tradition
(b) Rule of law
(c) Divine law
(d) Physical force applied by police
Ans. (b)
43. The book “Coming of the Post-Industrial Society” is written by?
(a) Alwin Toffler
(b) Daniel Bell
(c) Alan Touraine
(d) Erwin Goffman
Ans. (b)
44. Techno structure is the characteristic of the
(a) Industrial society
(b) Post-industrial society
(c) Irrigation society
(d) Hydraulic and automatic society
Ans. (b)
45. Which of the following were the reasons for the emergence of post-industrial society?
1. Emergence of new classes
2. Emergence of new technologies
3. Emergence of new moral order
4. Emergence of new political power
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(b) 1 and 2
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (b)
46. Which one of the following statements is not correct?
(a) Heterogeneity of population is a characteristic of a city community
(b) Social changes occur more rapidly in the cities than in the towns and villages
(c) The planning of cities is a modern innovation
(d) Most of the major cities of India located on the coast or on navigable rivers.
Ans. (c)
47. The capacity of women for giving live births is called
(a) Fecundity
(b) Fertility
(c) Mortality
(d) Morbidity
Ans. (a)
48. The discipline concerned with the statistical analysis and description of population composition and change is called
(a) Demography
(b) Census
(c) Population growth
(d) Population statistics
Ans. (a)
49. The study of composition of marital status of a group of population is called
(a) Eugenics
(b) Alliance
(c) Gamalogy
(d) Nuptiality
Ans. (d)
50. As per the 1991 census of India, the state with the highest percentage of urban population is
(a) Maharashtra
(b) Kerala
(c) Karnataka
(d) Gujarat
Ans. (a)
51. According to 1981 census
(a) 24% of Indian women are recorded as paid workers
(b) 87% of the women workers are in the unorganised sectors
(c) 87% of the Indian women are workers
(d) 27% of the women workers are in the organised sectors
Ans. (b)
52. Studies shows that if a women has internalised the dominance of home makers role she is likely to adopt a
(a) Noncompetitive, un-involved and low profile at work
(b) Competitive, involved and high profile at work
(c) Both of the above
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
53. Who has written the book ‘Women and Society in India’?
(a) Neera Desai and Maithreyi Krishna Raj
(b) Leela Kasturi and Leela Dube
(c) Leela Gulati and Leela Kasturi
(d) Leela Dube and Pauline Kolenda
Ans. (a)
54. Which one of the given issues is not raised by the women’s organisations in the post- independence period?
(a) Lack of maternity benefits
(b) Lack of provisions of child care
(c) Replacement of male workers by trained female workers
(d) Wage discrimination between men and women
Ans. (c)
55. In the post-independent period the shift in response of the government in women’s issues was due to the
(a) Shift in issues and agenda for actions within women’s movement
(b) Research on women’s problems
(c) Both of the above
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)
56. Who regards social structure as the complex of the principal groups and institutions which constitute societies?
(a) Spencer
(b) Nadel
(c) Firth
(d) Ginsberg
Ans. (d)
57. Mark the correct statement.
(a) role is the unit of an institution
(b) institution is the unit of social structure
(c) both a and b are true
Ans. (c)
58. ______ The sum total of the social relationships of all individuals at a given moment in time. This definition of ‘social structure’ is widely acknowledged and accepted in sociology and social anthropology. It was given by
(a) B. Malinowski
(b) A.R. Radcliffee-Brown
(c) S.F. Nadel
(d) M. Ginsberg
Ans. (b)
59. The theory of leisure class was given by
(a) Ivan lllich
(b) Parsons
(c) Weber
(d) Veblen
Ans. (d)
60. ‘Social fact’ is a methodological tool adopted by
(a) Weber
(b) Becker
(c) Sutherland
(d) Merton
Ans. (b)
61. Seeing a very big rally it was reported that JD will win the election, the conclusion was based on:
(a) random sampling
(b) cluster sampling
(c) purposive sampling
(d) systematic sampling
Ans. (b)
62. In a frequency distribution the last cumulative frequency is 500. Q3 must lie in:
(a) 275th item
(b) 375th item
(c) 275th item
(d) 175th item
Ans. (b)
63. The early decades of the 20th century saw a proliferation of caste organisation, conferences and associations, on the initiative of the educated of the intermediate and lower castes. These movements were:
1. A factional struggle against the lead established by the Brahmans and other upper castes in the professions and the services.
2. A movement of upward mobility through the process of sanskritisation.
3. They were distorted expression of socio-economic tensions, manifesting itself in caste conflicts and movements.
Which among the above are correct?
(A) 3 only
(B) 2 only
(C) 1 and 2
(D) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (D)
64. Universalisation refers to the process in which:
(A) the elements of Great tradition move downward to become part of Little tradition.
(B) the Little tradition is exposed to Sanskrit ideas and values
(C) universal norms are adopted
(D) the elements of Little tradition move upward and become identified with Great tradition.
Ans. (D)
65. Radcliffe-Brown coined the term ‘Euphoria’ in order to delineate:
(A) A state of equilibrium
(B) A state of chaos
(C) A state of social well-being
(D) A state of social upsurge
Ans. (C)
66. Which one of the following is not a feature of capitalism?
(A) Free market operations
(B) Maximisation of profit
(C) Free Labour
(D) Dominance of public sector over private sector.
Ans. (D)
67. Who propounded the theory of ‘Internal Structure of Role’?
(A) Radcliffe-Brown
(B) Nadel
(C) Levi-Strauss
(D) Murdock
Ans. (C)
68. Who among the following formulated the theory of ‘Middle Class’ within the Marxian framework?
(A) Collins
(B) Coser
(D) Engles
Ans. (D)
69. According to Comte, like other sciences, the laws of social phenomena could be divided into two major fields of study, statics and dynamics. All sciences, for Comte are concerned with statics, i.e., discovery of laws of________________ and dynamics which was concerned with discovery of laws of succession:
(a) Integration
(b) Co-existence
(c) Stagnation
(d) Universal social phenomena
Ans. (b)
70. According to______________ societies were formed by coming together and agreeing, or making a contract to live side by side in peace, rather than continuing to fight one another.
(a) E. Durkheim
(b) Thomas Hobbes
(c) A. Comte
(d) V. Pareto
Ans. (b)
71. According to Mead, ‘self-conscious assumption of another’s acts or roles’ is called:
(a) Socialization
(b) Imitation
(c) Reference group behaviour
(d) Assimilation
Ans. (b)
72. Insects warming around an outdoor light is an example of:
(a) Gathering
(b) Aggregation
(c) Group
(d) Congregation
Ans. (b)
73. “An institution is a net of folk ways and mores that centre in the achievement of some human end or purpose”. This definition has been given by:
(a) Green
(b) Sumner
(c) Max Weber
(d) Ginsberg
Ans. (b)
74. Institutions are the, “established forms of conditions of procedure characteristic of group activity.” This definition has been given by:
(a) Maclver
(b) Ginsberg
(c) Gillin and Gillin
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
75. In secondary groups relationship among the members is-
(a) competitive
(b) cooperative
(c) that of aid and assistance
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
76. Which one of the following is a social group?
(a) church
(b) labour union
(c) audience
(d) crowd
Ans. (b)
77. Without________ behaviour would be unpredictable.
(a) norms
(b) socialization
(c) values
(d) goals
Ans. (a)
78. Mark the correct statement out of the following:
(a) norms to a great extent, determine and provide guidance to the intuitive judgement of an individual
(b) norms act against the tendency of the individual to apply their intuitive judgement
(c) norms are not concerned with the intuitive judgement of individuals
(d) none of the above
Ans. (b)
79. As far as the individual attitudes are concerned:
(a) they are never influenced by the norms
(b) they are always influenced by the norms
(c) the norms are always affected by the individual’s influence
(d) they have nothing to do with norms
Ans. (a)
80. Mark the correct statement-
(a) norms help in evolving a normative order in the groups
(b) norms help in evolving a possible order in the groups
(c) norms help in maintaining positive control over the members
(d) all the above
Ans. (a)
81. The theorist who developed labelling theory is-
(a) David Matza
(b) Erving Goffman
(d) Howard Becker
(d) Robin Williams
Ans. (c)
82. According to Thomas and Zaniecki the “Perfect conformist” would be the-
(a) Philistine
(b) Bohemian
(c) Retreatist
(d) Innovato
Ans. (a)
83. Who said that socialization takes place through two major mechanism- identification and repression?
(a) M. Mead
(b) Tonnies
(c) S. Freud
(d) Sumner
Ans. (c)
84. The super ego, according to Freud represents the part of an individual’s personality that was created-
(a) through socialization during the formative years
(b) through socialization
(c) through socialization process which occurs throughout one’s life
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
85. Which of the following statements is not true?
(a) Accommodation is not a permanent happening but assimilation is permanent
(b) Accommodation may be all of sudden but the assimilation is a slow and gradual process
(c) Accommodation is unconscious but assimilation is intentional
(d) Accommodation is deliberate but assimilation is unconscious
Ans. (d)
86. In a large society-
(a) It is easy to achieve complete assimilation
(b) Complete assimilation is hypothetical only
(c) There are no chances of assimilation
(d) Nothing can be done
Ans. (b)
87. Who has written the book ‘Social Structure’?
(a) Maclver
(b) Kapadia
(c) Murdock
(d) Redcliffe Brown
Ans. (c)
88. _____ is the family into which an individual is born and in which he is socialized.
(a) Nuclear family
(b) Conjugal family
(c) Family of orientation
(d) Family of pro-creation
Ans. (b)
89. The Khasi family is known as_________.
(a) Ling
(b) Tarward
(c) Nokna
(d) Delingson
Ans. (a)
90. Kinship and descent are essential for maintaining:
(a) social system
(b) marriage
(c) communal harmony
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
91. Secondary kin of the primary kin is called___________.
(a) distant kin
(b) third degree kin
(c) secondary kin
(d) tertiary kin
Ans. (d)
92. Which one of the following is NOT the advantage of rule of descent?
(a) ‘Rights about inheritance of property’ are conveniently laid down
(b) Family feuds are easily settled
(c) Rules about sexual relations are laid down
(d) Rights of each person are defined
Ans. (b)
93. Which one of the following was NOT an important factor of kinship in ancient India?
(a) Birth in the family
(b) Willing adoption
(c) Marriage
(d) Legal adoption
Ans. (d)
94. Which one of the following is NOT one of the three basic rules of descent?
(a) Patrilineal
(b) Matrilineal
(c) Bilateral
(d) Fraternal
Ans. (d)
95. Who said “I don’t wish them (women) to have power over men, but over themselves”?
(a) Simone de Beauvoir
(b) Mary Wollstonecraft
(c) Rosemarie Tong
(d) Elshtain
Ans. (b)
96. Mark the odd one out-
(a) Right to Information – Aruna Roy
(b) Narmada Bachao Movement – Medha Patkar
(c) Chipko Movement – Sundar Lai Bahuguna
(d) Anti-Corruption Movement – Mohsina Qidwai
Ans. (d)
97. The famous Shah Bano case is related to Muslim wife’s:
(a) Right to Divorce
(b) Right to Separation
(c) Right to maintenance after Divorce
(d) Right to Husband’s property
Ans. (c)
98. Which among the following Acts had declared polygamy among Hindus to be illegal?
(a) Sharada Act 1929
(b) The Hindu Marriage Act 1955
(c) The Hindu succession act 1956
(d) Shariat Bill 1937
Ans. (b)
99. The UN Decade of Women 1976-85 ended with the Conference in:
(a) Nairobi
(b) Beijing
(c) Bangkok
(d) Stony point, New York
Ans. (a)
100. According to ___________, class is a historical category.
(a) Weber
(b) Engels
(c) Marx
(d) Ralph Dahrendorf
Ans. (c)
101. According to Sir Herbert Risley, caste system originated in India due to ______________.
(a) an artificial creation by the clever priesthood for permanent division and subjection
(b) racial differences and hypergamy
(c) specialization, of religious duties
(d) hereditary occupations and endogamy
Ans. (b)
102. Jajmani system is _____________.
(a) achieved
(b) hereditary
(c) contractual in nature
(d) none of the above
Ans. (b)
103. _____________ argues that stratification system derive from common values.
(a) Talcott Parsons
(b) Weber
(c) Davis and Moore
(d) Tumin
Ans. (a)
104. Pre-revolutionary Russia, as a/an _____________ society in which the clergy, the nobility, merchants and peasants were separated into social strata that depended on birth and were controlled by law.
(a) classless
(b) caste ridden
(c) estate
(d) agricultural
Ans. (c)
105. In joint dormitories like that of the Muria, girl members are called ________ and the boys are called __________.
(a) rasik, chelia
(b) motiari, chelik
(c) chelik, motiari
(d) rasik, chelik
Ans. (b)
106. In an agrarian society, sanctions are generally imposed-
(a) informally
(b) through law
(c) through constitution
(d) through police
Ans. (a)
107. The _________ tribe furnishes a classic example of pastoral economy.
(a) Baiga
(b) Bhil
(c) Toda
(d) Jarwa
Ans. (c)
108. The Oron call their youth dormitory as ____________.
(a) Dhumkuria
(b) Gotul
(c) Gitiora
(d) Arichu
Ans. (a)
109. The youth dormitory of Munda and Ho tribes is known as _________.
(a) Jonkerpa
(b) Dhangarabasa
(c) Gotul
(d) Gitiora
Ans. (d)
110. _________ has divided the systems of exchange into three types, viz., reciprocity, redistribution and market exchange.
(a) Karl Polyani
(b) Ogbum
(c) Tylor
(d) Wiser
Ans. (a)
111. In the broadest sense __________ may be defined as the economic system which, market the widest used capital in the process of production.
(a) capitalism
(b) socialism
(c) market exchange
(d) corporation
Ans. (a)
112. Primitive economic organisations are of __________ type.
(a) production
(b) subsistence
(c) production-selling
(d) market-oriented
Ans. (b)
113. Kula exchange among Trobrianders takes place as a reciprocal giving and taking between partners-
(a) who are temporary and easily changeable
(b) who are mutually chosen according to their free will
(c) who are contractual allies of permanent standing
(d) none of the above
Ans. (c)
114. The presence of redistribution implies the existence of ____________.
(a) a value system
(b) a stable social relationship
(c) a hierarchy
(d) a king
Ans. (c)
115. Mark out among the following the principal cause that ended the village isolation:
(a) Development of means of transport and communication
(b) The expansion of literacy
(c) Role of politics
(d) Freedom of the country and the setting up of the democratic institutions
Ans. (a)
116. Which type of town was termed as Matha?
(a) Commercial town
(b) The Royal capital
(c) Town organized around educational activities
(d) Industrial town
Ans. (c)
117. In view of the religious observance and practices of villagers, and their recognised moral sense, which among the following gives a correct estimate of their situation?
(a) The villagers are uncultured
(b) That they lack sense of value
(c) That they are not intelligent enough to change
(d) That their circumstances have beguiled them
Ans. (d)
118. Social distance in a city is due to:
(a) The size of the city
(b) The distance between one’s residence and the working place
(c) The social heterogeneity
(d) The transport problem in the city
Ans. (c)
119. Temples down the ages have remained a part of village life. Indicate the non-religious matter connected with it.
(a) It is an educational centre for the children and for the adults
(b) It is a place where discussions on matters of social importance are held
(c) It is a centre of physical education as close to it are the gymnasia
(d) All of the above
Ans. (d)
120. The de-facto census method__________
(a) counts the population according to where it is on the night proceeding the census
(b) distributes the people on the basis of their usual place of residence
(c) counts the population according to where it is for a week, preceding the census
(d) none of these
Ans. a
121. The de-jure census method__________
(a) counts the population according to where it is on the night preceding the census
(b) distributes the people on the basis of their usual place of residence
(c) counts the population according to where it is for a week preceding the census
(d) None of the above
Ans. b
122. A measure of the fertility that is particularly useful in making inter group comparisons is that of the total number of children ever born to various categories of women. This is termed as__________
(a) fertility rate
(b) fertility ratio
(c) fertility differentials
(d) fertility speed
Ans. b
123. According to Malthus, war is a___________ for the population
(a) positive check
(b) preventive check
(c) national calamity
(d) destructive exercise
Ans. a
124. Population pyramid is a graphic representation of___________
(a) fertility ratio of the population
(b) age-sex distribution of the population at a given time
(c) mortality ratio of the population
(d) fertility and mortality ratio of the population
Ans. b
125.________ has defined ‘power’ as the chance of a man or a number of men to realize their own will in a communal action even against the resistance of others who are participating in the action.
(a) Marx
(b) Weber
(c) Wright Mills
(d) MacIver
Ans. b
126. Which one of the following is NOT an optional function of the state?
(a) To provide civic facilities
(b) To open educational institutions
(c) To arrange for higher education
(d) To promote international relations
Ans. d
127. There are some societies which do not have a single head as a source of authority. They are called head as a source of authority. They are called
(a) acephalous
(b) vacuum society
(c) multicentric
(d) none of the above
Ans. a
128. One of the features of_____________ is that they are run by officials who are free to specialize in the administration of the state,
(a) band
(b) acephalous system
(c) state system
(d) dictatorship
Ans. c
129. Where do the Guild Socialists and Syndicalists differ from each other? Both believe that
(a) state is an evil
(b) there should be a stateless society
(c) state is squeezing the blood of the poor
(d) the capital is a theft
Ans. b
130. Prof. M.N. Srinivas is of the view that the caste system in India, since independence:
(a) has increased
(b) has very much decreased
(c) is limited to low caste people
(d) is limited to the elites
Ans. b
131. Who of the following belonging to the scheduled caste contributed significantly to the framing of the Indian constitution?
(a) K.M. Munshi
(b) Dr. B.R. Ambedkar
(c) Sri. Rajendra Prasad
(d) A. Swami Aiyangar
Ans. b
132. The constitution of India does not provide for one of the following about scheduled castes and scheduled tribes?
(a) temples will be thrown open to them
(b) Village panchayats will have no seats for them
(c) Village-wells will be thrown open to them
(d) land will be provided to the landless
Ans. b
133. The exercise about scheduling and descheduling in India gets hindered because:
(a) no new caste is prepared to come in the schedule
(b) no caste is willing to go out of the schedule
(c) the government is not interested in completing it
(d) the elite of the society oppose it
Ans. b
134. During freedom struggle our national leaders made it clear that after independence they will
(a) not touch caste system
(b) radically change caste hierarchy
(c) abolish caste system
(d) strengthen caste system
Ans. c
135. Who among the following does not belong to cyclical theory of social change?
(a) Spencer
(b)Toynbee
(c) Lipset
(d) Hobhouse
Ans.(a)
136. Aspirations for improvement in caste-status are common but it is not achieved unless a caste acquire –
(a) Ritual purity
(b) Group acceptance
(c) Power and privilege
(d) Official connections
Ans.(b)
137. Which statement on Sanskritization is correct?
(a) Sanskritization necessarily leads to social mobility
(b) Sanskritization is a very quick method of social mobility
(c) Sanskritization does not lead to structural changes in the caste system but only to a positional change
(d) None of the above
Ans.(c)
138. A social movement based on the expectation or a sudden transformation of society through the intervention of the supernatural is –
(a) Revitalization movement
(b) Nativistic movement
(c) Millenarian movement
(d) Vitalistic movement
Ans.(c)
139. When was Bhagvatism captured and absorbed by Brahmanism in general and Vaishnavism in particular?
(a) Mughal period
(b) Gupta period
(c) Post-Gupta period
(d) Mauryan period
Ans.(b)
140. Beliefs are-
(a) primitive knowledge
(b) tested empirical knowledge
(c) neither true nor false
(d) practical knowledge
Ans. (d)
141. Which among the following is a part of the himichci belief system?
(a) Karma and Sanskara
(b) Transmigration of soul
(c) Endless wheels of incarnations
(d) All
Ans. (d)
142. Which of the following belief systems hold that evil is the result to unrealistic desire?
(a) Confucianism
(b) Buddhism
(c) Judaism
(d) Islam
Ans. (d)
143. Which among the following is a part of Catholic belief system?
(a) Concept of Trinity
(b) No asceticism, no mysticism
(c) Salvation of mankind at the end of the world, alter the coming of the Messiah
(d) Shadowy gods
Ans. (d)
144. Under the food rationing laws, the number of guests that can be invited at a particular function and the quantity of food that may be supplied is fixed. In our society what among the following will be in accordance with the norms’?
(a) To invite all friends and relations even if it falls beyond the prescribed limit
(b) To provide the eatable beyond the limit to a less than prescribed number
(c) Abide by the prescribed number for public purpose and not otherwise
(d) To abide by Food Rationing Laws
Ans. (c)
145. Maclver has described _________ as the socially approved sequence of variation on a customary theme.
(a) conventions
(b) fashion
(c) etiquette
(d) culture
Ans. (b)
146. _________ need not be rational.
(a) Folkways
(b) Mores
(c) Conventions
(d) Law
Ans. (b)