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1. A population pyramid indicating a high proportion of children and rapid growth and which has a broad base is known as___________
(a) expansive pyramid
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(b) stationary pyramid
(c) constructive pyramid
(d) structured pyramid
Ans. a
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2. Which of the following is NOT a demographic process?
(a) Fertility
(b) Migration
(c) Mortality
(d) Fecundity
Ans. a
3. Population tends to increase in a geometrical ratio, whereas agricultural produce increases in arithmetical ratio. Who has said this?
(a) Marx
(b) Adam Smith
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(c) Pareto
(d) None of the above
Ans. d
4. The term is used to describe the passage, societies make from high birth and death rates to low ones
(a) demographic transition
(b) crude birth rate
(c) population dynamics
(d) fertility ratio
Ans. a
5. According to which theory, the total population, follows an S-shaped curve?
(a) Social capillarity theory
(b) Law of logistic curve
(c) Diet principle
(d) Malthusian theory
Ans. b
6. __________ refers to a system in which the central element is an elected legislative body whose laws are carried out by an executive with the help of an organized bureaucracy
(a) State system
(b) Acephalous system
(c) Political democracy
(d) Socialism
Ans. c
7. Find out the incorrect match
(a) Bantu tribes – State system
(b) Acephalous system – Nuers of Sudan
(c) Potlatch – war of property
(d) Wright Mills – circulation of elites
Ans. d
8. The _________ provide an example of simple govt, in bands
(a) Eskimo
(b) Kadar tribes
(c) Nuers
(d) Australian aboriginals
Ans. a
9. In a simple society the people used to obey the monarch because:
(a) the laws passed by him used to be for collective welfare
(b) he used to be the most powerful person in the state
(c) he was the representative of his people
(d) he enjoyed the support of the feudal lords
Ans. c
10. Which one of the following is NOT true of Syndicalism?
(a) It is against continuance of State
(b) It is against labour authority
(c) It is not opposed to plural nature of the society
(d) It wants to promote international outlook
Ans. b
11. Who gave the single theory of social change?
(a) Veber
(b) Marx
(c) Durkeim
(d) Pareto
Ans.(b)
12. Generally people oppose social change, because of –
1. Habits and Customs
2. Love for stability
3. Selfish and vested interest
4. Lack of patience
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 1 and 4
(c) 1 and 3
(d) All
Ans.(d)
13. The Shuddi movement to bring back to the Hindu fold people converted to other religions from Hinduism was launched by –
(a) Brahmo Samaj
(b) Prathana Samaj
(c) Arya Samaj
(d) Radha Swamis
Ans.(c)
14. Modernization of the Indian society is associated with –
(a) Changes in cognitive structural attributes of the society
(b) Acceptance of western life-style
(c) Cultural renaissance
(d) Acceptance of legal rationalism
Ans.(b)
15. Which one of the following sociologist had classified the sources of social change as exogenous and endogenous?
(a) R.M. Maclver
(b) W.F. Ogburn
(c) Kingsley Davis
(d) Talcott Parsons
Ans.(b)
16. Find out the correct sequence of the processes in the scientific method.
(a) Hypothesis, observation, recording, classification, prediction and verification
(b) Observation, recording, classification, hypothesis, verification and prediction
(c) Recording, observation, classification, verification, hypothesis and prediction
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
17. Sociology cannot make use of method:
(a) Historical
(b) Ideal types
(c) Scientific
(d) Social survey
Ans. (b)
18. ________ method consists of a study of events, processes and institutions of past civilization for the purpose of finding the origins or antecedents of contemporary social life and thus understanding its nature and working.
(a) Inverse deductive method
(b) Ideal type method
(c) Historical method
(d) Experimental method
Ans. (c)
19. _____________ method involves comparisons of various kinds of groups of people in order to find out the difference as well as similarities in their ways of life and thus to find out clues to man’s social behaviour.
(a) Historical method
(b) Comparative method
(c) Experimental method
(d) Inverse deductive method
Ans. (b)
20. Who advocated the ‘inverse deductive method’ in sociology?
(a) J.S. Mill
(b) Wright Mills
(c) Sorokin
(d) Hobhouse
Ans. (a)
21. Case for universal language is pleaded because it is felt that it will:
(a) Result in better social understanding
(b) Be possible to have world political order
(c) Give the world one world economic order
(d) Help ending international tensions
Ans. (a)
22. Find out the incorrect match:
(a) Giddings-structural view of society
(b) Cooley-society is a web of social relationships
(c) Parsons-functional view of society
(d) Cooley-‘we’ feeling
Ans. (b)
23. According to Giddings, society rests on:
(a) Mutual co-operation
(b) Altruism
(c) Consciousness of kind
(d) Folkways and mores
Ans. (c)
24. Who of the following has said that “Language is mere incident of social life”?
(a) Charles Winick
(b) R. M. Maclver
(c) Jacobs and Stem
(d) Whitney
Ans. (d)
25. One important advantage of universal language will be that-
(a) Rich literature will be provided to the societies
(b) World will have one social system
(c) Boundaries of the state will become meaningless
(d) International organizations will no longer be needed
Ans. (a)
26. All traits which form cultural complex:
(a) Are independent of each other
(b) Are not inter-dependent
(c) Have isolated identity
(d) Have nothing to do with each other
Ans. (b)
27. Ethnocentrism in itself:
(a) Is race prejudice
(b) Is not race prejudice
(c) Is semi-race prejudice
(d) Has nothing to do with race prejudice
Ans. (b)
28. Which one of the following is not a cause of race prejudice?
(a) Economic disparity
(b) Political domination
(c) No compensation for frustration
(d) Physical surroundings
Ans. (d)
29. Which one factor is not included in geographical environments in relation to social variability?
(a) Infested jungles
(b) Rivers and mountains
(c) Animals of the jungle
(d) Climate
Ans. (c)
30. Which one of these factors is not the cause of social variability?
(a) Adaptability of human behaviour
(b) Leadership
(c) Role of individuals
(d) Religion
Ans. (d)
31. Culture is a sum total of the ideal patterns and norms of behaviour of a group. So it is ___________.
(a) Holistic
(b) Realistic
(c) Idealistic
(d) Social
Ans. (c)
32. The concept of ‘Ethos and Eidos’ has been given by ____________.
(a) Maclver
(b) Hoebel
(c) Kroeber
(d) Redcliffe Brown
Ans. (c)
33. Find out the incorrect match:
(a) Kroeber-Ethos and Eidos
(b) Kluckhon-Implicit and Explicit Elements
(c) Linton-Contra culture
(d) Leslie White-Cultural determinism
Ans. (c)
34. Malinowski believed that culture is:
(a) Realm of final valuation
(b) Complex whole
(c) Progressive process
(d) Medium through which man achieves his ends
Ans. (d)
35. Redfield’s ‘Style of Life’ has been compared with Lionel Thrilling’s-
(a) Expressions
(b) Manners
(c) Parallels
(d) Behaviour
Ans. (b)
36. Freudian Theory about crowd behaviour has been criticised because it:
(a) Has laid too much stress on constructive side
(b) Has stressed on destructive side of the group
(c) Has over-estimated constructive side
(d) Believes that in a group people remain disciplined
Ans. (b)
37. In a secondary group relationship among the members is maintained through:
(a) Common relatives
(b) Bonds of love
(c) Deep understanding
(d) Communications
Ans. (b)
38. Who of the following has said that “A social group is a given aggregate of people playing inter-related roles and recognised by themselves or others as a limit of interaction”?
(a) Gillin and Gillin
(b) Sheriff and Sheriff
(c) Maclver and Page
(d) William
Ans. (d)
39. Which one of the following can be placed under the category of a primary group?
(a) School
(b) Church
(c) Family
(d) None of the above
Ans. (d)
40. To achieve consensus, primary group follows methods of:
(a) Compromise
(b) Enumeration
(c) Integration
(d) All the above
Ans. (c)
41. In democratic society role of a leader is not:
(a) to take unilateral decision
(b) to involve people in decision making
(c) to encourage decentralisation
(d) to decrease social tensions
Ans. (b)
42. Role of authoritative group leader does not include one of the following. Pick that up.
(a) he takes maximum responsibility
(b) he undertakes absolute functions
(c) he dictates all activities
(d) he promotes peoples participation in activities
Ans. (a)
43. When the Old Testament, prophet Abraham was commanded by God to slay his son, his role as a father conflicted with his role as god’s servant. This is an example of:
(a) role set
(b) role conflict
(c) role performance
(d) role playing
Ans. (b)
44. ______ refers to an individual whose behaviour in a particular role provides a pattern upon which another individual bases his behaviour in performing the same role.
(a) role-model
(b) ideal role
(c) internalized role
(d) perceived role
Ans. (c)
45. According to________, “status is a position held in general institutional system, recognized and supported by entire society spontaneously evolved rather than deliberately created, rooted in the folkways and mores.”
(a) Ginsberg
(b) Kingsley Davis
(c) T. Mazumdar
(d) Elliot and Merril
Ans. (b)
46. The extent to which a group can secure conformity to its norms depends on the-
(a) cohesiveness of the group
(b) group behaviour
(c) group status
(d) monetary power of the group
Ans. (d)
47. __________ provides the ultimate meaning and legitimacy for social arrangements and social behaviour.
(a) culture
(b) custom
(c) norms
(d) values
Ans. (b)
48. ___________ incorporate value judgements.
(a) values
(b) norms
(c) custom
(d) mores
Ans. (c)
49. Sanctions about social norms are needed comparatively more in groups which are in nature:
(a) spatial
(b) primary
(c) Secondary
(d) temporary
Ans. (a)
50. The ethos of any culture is a reflection of its basic____________.
(a) values
(b) norms
(c) standards
(d) beliefs
Ans. (d)
51. Sanctions in a society take the form of-
(a) rewards
(b) punishment
(c) both rewards and punishment
(d) non-conformity of norms
Ans. (c)
52. Those folkways that persist over relatively long periods of time so as to attain a decree of formal recognition and so as to be passed down from one generation to another are called:
(a) mores
(b) customs
(c) conventions
(d) habits
Ans. (b)
53. _________ is more idealistic than Custom.
(a) Folkways
(b) Convention
(c) Law
(d) Mores
Ans. (c)
54. __________ is acquired and learnt.
(a) Custom
(b) Law
(c) Habit
(d) Etiquette
Ans. (c)
55. ____ prescribes the detailed formalities to be observed on ceremonious occasions.
(a) Convention
(b) Etiquette
(c) Fashion
(d) Ritual
Ans. (b)
56. ‘Looking glass self’ is a socialization process which essentially means-
(a) a self-perception of what other think, of us
(b) a true judgement of approval and disapproval
(c) to attract attention and seek praise
(d) a true reflection of one’s personality
Ans. (a)
57. According to whom, “suggestion is the cognitive aspect of the gregarious instincts”?
(a) Ross
(b) Maclver
(c) Thouless
(d) Parsons
Ans. (a)
58. Socialization is a process involving-
(a) gradual changing of organism
(b) training to adopt to the society
(c) setting up of social norms
(d) declaring everything as belonging to society
Ans. (b)
59. Socialization is a process of converting a biological organism into-
(a) modern man
(b) primitive man
(c) human being
(d) social man
Ans. (d)
60. An individual starts learning form-
(a) mother’s womb
(b) childhood
(c) adulthood
(d) adolescence
Ans. (b)
61. Which one of the under mentioned conflicts was suggested by Gillin and Gillin?
(a) International conflict
(b) Ideal conflict
(c) Abnormal conflict
(d) Non-political conflict
Ans. (a)
62. Which of the following types of conflict was not suggested by Gillin and Gillin?
(a) Personal conflict
(b) Racial conflict
(c) Class conflict
(d) Intra-group conflict
Ans. (d)
63. When a conflict arises due to the claim of one party on the basis of the factors objective in nature it is called-
(a) Conflict of impersonal ideas
(b) Conflict of litigation
(c) Personal conflict
(d) Political conflict
Ans. (b)
64. “Conflict of some sort is the life of society, and progress emerges from a struggle in which each individual, class or institution seeks to realise its own ideal of good. The intensity of this struggle varies with a vigour of the people, and its cessation if conceivable would be death”. In view of this statement it cannot be said-
(a) That conflict is universal
(b) That it is for the good of the individual, class or institution
(c) That it is continuous
(d) That cooperation provides for the conflict
Ans. (d)
65. Which among the following does involve conflict?
(a) Candidates preparing for I. A. S. examination
(b) Workers demonstrating for share in the management of the factory
(c) Spectators waiting for the military parade
(d) Crowd waiting for the procession to move out of the ground
Ans. (b)
66. Cross-cousin marriage is a form of_______.
(a) exogamy
(b) endogamy
(c) levirate
(d) sororate
Ans. (a)
67. Monogamy became popular because in the past:
(a) people did not wish to increase their family size
(b) women were less fertile
(c) men had to remain away from the house for a long time
(d) it was found difficult to maintain more than one wife
Ans. (d)
68. For Muslims marriage is a____________.
(a) sacrament
(b) contract
(c) religious bond
(d) none of the above
Ans. (b)
69. Polyandry is a form of marriage which is quite commonly found in:
(a) South India
(b) Malabar region
(c) Santhal Pargana
(d) Chhota Nagpur
Ans. (b)
70. In tribal India, a young man is permitted to live with his sweetheart in her father’s house for weeks together, after which, if they so decide, they marry each other. This is called ___________.
(a) probationary marriage
(b) marriage by trial
(c) arsha marriage
(d) marriage by intrusion
Ans. (a)
71. Which one of the following is NOT a disadvantage of joint family system?
(a) It lowers living standards of family members
(b) It is economical
(c) It encourages spend thriftiness
(d) It has no scope for privacy
Ans. (b)
72. In an avunculate system, maternal uncle’s authority is known as:
(a) avuncupotestality
(b) maternal genitor
(c) patri-matrimony
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
73. ___________ may be defined as a hereditary, endogamous group having a traditional association with an occupation.
(a) Class
(b) Caste
(c) Estate
(d) Status group
Ans. (b)
74. According to Weber, __________ action stems from an individual’s emotional state at a particular time.
(a) Affective
(b) Traditional
(c) Charismatic
(d) Rational
Ans. (a)
75. Which one of the following does not apply in the case of complex economy of our times?
(a) there is a trend towards industrialisation
(b) there is a system of international trade
(c) there is economic interdependence
(d) there is divorce of industry and social needs
Ans. (d)
76. Mark out among the following, what Topography is?
(a) An intimate description of a place
(b) A description of climatic conditions
(c) Water
(d) Land
Ans. (a)
77. Recent writer on methodology among the following is
(a) Hobhouse
(b) J.S. Mills
(c) Quetlet
(d) Saint Simon
Ans. (b)
78. Who has written the book, ‘A System of Logic’?
(a) K.R. Popper
(b) J.S. Mills
(c) R.B. Braithwaite
(d) L.S. Stebbing
Ans. (b)
79. Lack of congruity between the expectations associated with social roles taken on consecutively by an individual is termed as
(a) Role detachment
(b) Role discontinuity
(c) Distant role
(d) Consequence
Ans. (b)
80. State of relative isolation of the occupants of role that results from the tendency of persons occupying a given role is called
(a) Role aloofness
(b) Role isolation
(c) Role insulation
(d) Isolation
Ans. (c)
81. ________ refers to the line of the kinship group.
(a) Lineal
(b) Linear
(c) Dotted
(d) Combined
Ans. (a)
82. The number of primary kins are?
(a) Eight
(b)Two
(c) Six
(d) One
Ans. (a)
83. Who among the following has defined classes as occupational groups created by the division of labour and maintained by heredity?
(a) Max Weber
(b) G. Friedmann
(c) G. Schmoller
(d) P. Vinogradoff
Ans. (c)
84. Who among the following has considered division of labour as first great distinction between manual and intellectual labour?
(a) G. Friedmann
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Lowie
(d) Herskovits
Ans. (b)
85. How many villages are there in India?
(a) More than three lakhs
(b) More than seven lakhs
(c) More than six lakhs
(d) More than two lakhs
Ans. (d)
86. The term that means providing security and stability is
(a) Stabilization
(b) Symbolisation
(c) Mooring
(d) Cherish
Ans. (c)
87. The basis of legitimacy of power in a primary state is rooted in its.
(a) King’s ability
(b) Indigenous tribe
(c) Indigenous tradition
(d) Subjects adherence towards king
Ans. (c)
88. Who has shown that a political authority in Asiatic societies has to be coupled with religious sanction in order to gain legitimacy?
(a) Kautilya
(b) K. Marx
(c) Wittfogel
(d) Abul-Fazal
Ans. (c)
89. While dealing with the problem of social Stratification M.G. Smith has cautioned sociologists to
(a) Pay attention to observable inequalities that are uninstitutionalized
(b) Pay close attention to societies that do not have favoured positions.
(c) Be careful in asserting that simple inequality is inevitable on the grounds of biological differences since these grounds are not by themselves sufficient evidence of stratification
(d) Ignore the overemphasis sometimes given to the principles by which the distribution of access and opportunities is regulated
Ans. (c)
90. According to Weber, in caste societies, it is the distinction of________ that is the basis of group formation.
(a) Power
(b) Class
(c) Status
(d) Occupation
Ans. (c)
91. Social planning is a
(a) Conscious and a deliberate effort to bring about change
(b) Unconscious and accidental effort to bring about change
(c) Sporadic effort to bring changes in the economy alone
(d) To bring about educational development
Ans. (a)
92. India has embarked on the process of
(a) A totally capitalist path of economy development
(b) A communist path of economic development
(c) A socialist path emphasising on mixed economy
(d) A bureaucratic path of economic development
Ans. (c)
93. Which one is correct arrangement of tribes in descending order of their population?
(a) Bhil, Gond, Meena, Santhal
(b) Bhil, Todas, Gond, Santhal
(c) Gond, Khasi, Bhil, Meena
(d) Bhil, Gond, Santhal, Meena
Ans. (d)
94. Khond Tribes are found in
(a) Andhra Pradesh
(b) West Bengal
(c) Gujarat
(d) Orissa
Ans. (d)
95. ‘Population and Social System’ is the work of
(a) H. Spencer
(b) Albion Small
(c) F.S. Netti
(d) E.A. Ross
Ans. (c)
96. “Fertility varies inversely with the density of population”, this was the view of
(a) Saddler
(b) Ginsberg
(c) Sorokin
(d) Von Wiese
Ans. (a)
97. Who put forward a materialist variant of the evolutionary theory?
(a) Marx and Engels
(b) Althusser
(c) Habermas
(d) none of them
Ans. (a)
98. Who identified 5 stages or categories within which, economically, all societies could be placed?
(a) Karl Marx
(b) W. Rostow
(c) Andre Gunder Frank
(d) Sir Henry Maine
Ans. (b)
99. In a moderately skewed distribution:
(a) 3M = Z + 2 X̅
(b) 2M = 2Z + X̅
(c) M = 3Z + 2 X̅
(d) 2 M = Z + 2 X̅
Ans. (a)
100. A moving average is calculated by using:
(a) Mean
(b) Median
(c) Mode
(d) None of the above
Ans. (a)
101. Who developed the term ‘role-set’ and why?
(A) Max Weber to connote a sense of collectivity in society
(B) Karl Marx and F. Engels to describe production process in capitalist societies
(C) T. Parsons and R. Merton to connote the complement of role relationships which persons have by virtue of occupying a particular social status
(D) R. Linton and S. F. Nadel to connote a sense of solidarity among persons of equal status
Ans. (C)
102. Which one of the following correctly defines the concept of social norms?
(A) Shared expectations of behaviour that connote what is considered socially desirable and appropriate
(B) The patterns of behaviour that are considered ideal and satisfy the actor
(C) Cultural meanings assigned to a particular action independently of the wishes of the actor
(D) Some definite ideas about what is wrong and what is right irrespective of the social context
Ans. (A)
103. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of a usable hypothesis?
(A) Conceptual clarity
(B) Empirical verifiability
(C) Lack of theoretical orientation
(D) Specificity
Ans. (C)
104. Who among the following did introduce the concept of participant and nonparticipant observation?
(A) Edward Lindeman
(B) N. Anderson
(C) W. F. Whyte
(D) Paul Cressey
Ans. (A)
105. What is the primary methodology of functionalists?
(a) Conjecture and guess
(b) Secondary source
(c) Field work
(d) Census data
Ans. (c)
106. Identify the American anthropologist who lived with and was adopted into the Iroquois tribe?
(a) L.H. Morgan
(b) M. Mead
(c) Franz Boas
(d) Levi Strauss
Ans. (a)
107. Sociometry is associated with the name of
(a) I. L. Moreno
(b) PV. Young
(c) Goode & Hall
(d) Bhandarkar
Ans. (a)
108. ‘Street Corner Society’ is work of
(a) Robert Redfield
(b) W.F. Whyte
(c) R.E. Park
(d) Morgan
Ans. (b)
109. ‘Middle Range Theory’ was propounded by
(a) Spengler
(b) Pareto
(c) R.K. Merton
(d) P. Sorokin
Ans. (c)
110. “Without______ social life could hardly go on. It checks conflict and enables persons and groups to establish and maintain cooperation”.
(a) Competition
(b) Accommodation
(c) Association
(d) Organisation
Ans. (b)
111. “Process of uniting of formerly separate groups into one group with obliteration of separate group differences and identification” is known as
(a) Competition
(b) Assimilation
(c) Integration
(d) Acclimatisation
Ans. (c)
112.________ defined competition as the most elementary type of the four major forms of interaction. It is an aspect of human struggle which is universal, continuous and impersonal.
(a) Park and Burgress
(b) Saint Simon
(d) Albion Small
Ans. (a)
113. “Interaction without social contact” is
(a) Integration
(b) Assimilation
(c) Competition
(d) Association
Ans. (c)
114. Who is to perform what function is determined by
(a) Competition
(b) Conflict
(c) Association
(d) Bargaining
Ans. (a)
115. Tarawad consists of all the descendants in the
(a) Male line
(b) Female line
(c) Both male and female line
(d) Only affinals of both male and female line
Ans. (c)
116. Which among the following Acts declares that “Property acquired by a Hindu as a result of his education was his personal properly, even though his education was financed by his joint family”?
(a) Hindu Law of Inheritance, 1929
(b) The Hindu Succession Act, 1956
(c) Hindu Gain of Learning Act, 1930
(d) Hindu Benefit of Learning Act, 1930
Ans. (c)
117. Which among these groups were matrilineal?
(a) Kuki, Nayar, Meena, Kadar
(b) Nayar, Khasi, Meena, Apatani
(c) Nayar, Bant, Khasi, Apatani
(d) Nayar, Khasi, Bant, Garo
Ans. (d)
118. All Muslims, excepting matrilineal_______, are governed by Shariat Act of 1937.
(a) Bant
(b) Moplas
(c) Ashrafs
(d) Ajlafs
Ans. (b)
119. Which among the following is not true?
Under Islamic law,
(a) The mother, wife and daughter are three female heirs
(b) The daughter is a primary heir like the son. Her share fluctuates, depending upon the number of surviving children
(c) Only wife and daughter are female heirs.
(d) The daughter’s daughter, however does not stand on a par with the son’s daughter.
Ans. (c)
120. A system where goods are exchanged without any meeting of the two parties to the transactions. Name this trade
(a) Perceived trade
(b) Inner trade
(c) Silent trade
(d) Concealed trade
Ans. (c)
121. Silent Trade, did occur till recent times between
(a) Lovedu and Zulus
(b) Tutsis and Hutus
(c) Chuckchee of Siberia and Alaskans
(d) Iroquis and Siouy
Ans. (c)
122. Silent Trade is a form of
(a) Barter
(b) Money barter
(c) Market exchange
(d) Gift exchange
Ans. (a)
123. Type of trade, where prices whether in kind or in money, are fixed by political authority, is called
(a) Laissez faire
(b) Administered trade
(c) Government policies
(d) Bureaucracy
Ans. (b)
124. A form of direct exchange in which some commodity – that is, some intrinsically valuable good – also serves as a medium of exchange, with fairly well recognised equivalence is called
(a) Reciprocity
(b) Pollatch
(c) Money barter
(d) Market exchange
Ans. (c)
125. This situation may be termed as –
Towns or urban areas have certain limitation in accommodating population, providing civic amenities or catering to such needs as schooling, hospital, etc. Beyond certain optimum capacities, it becomes difficult for town administration to provide facilities for the increasing population.
(a) Civic difficulty
(b) Paradoxes
(c) Over-urbanisation
(d) Urbanisation
Ans. (d)
126. Which of the following are the characteristic features of sub urbanisation?
1. A sharp increase in the urban non- agricultural uses of land
2. Inclusion of surrounding areas of towns within its municipal limit
3. Intensive communication of all types
Codes:
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 3
(d) 1 and 2
Ans. (b)
127. Urban density for Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Assam lessened during 1961-71 decade, possibly because of
(a) Lesser fertility among woman
(b) Outward migration of people
(c) High death rate
(d) Topography of these states.
Ans. (a)
128. Which among the following statements were true?
1. Calcutta was the only city with a population of over a million in 1901
2. Bombay crossed the one million mark in 1911
3. Delhi and Madras entered into this category in 1921
4. Hyderabad had become million city in 1951
(a) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(b) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 2, 3 and 4
(d) 1, 2 and 4
Ans. (c)
129. Urbanisation accompanies economic development because economic development entails a massive shift of labour and other inputs from predominantly, rural sectors to those predominantly urban. Whose opinion is this?
(a) Park and Burgess
(b) Mill and Becker
(c) Park and Redfield
(d) MSA Rao and A.M. Shah
Ans. (a)
130. Authority is always attached to statuses and never to
(a) Roles
(b) Individuals
(c) Power
(d) Coercion
Ans. (b)
131. Who among the following considers “Bureaucracy itself as a cause for the downfall of capitalism”?
(a) Dijlas
(b) M. Weber
(c) R.K. Merton
(d) Karl Marx
Ans. (d)
132. Which is not necessarily a dictatorship, even though it has a single ruler?
(a) State system
(b) Capitalist system
(c) Socialist system
(d) Fascism
Ans. (a)
133. Imposition of power by a small group of people over a large number of people is called
(a) Monopoly
(b) Will
(c) Coercion
(d) Hegemony
Ans. (d)
134. The process of development of national identity is called
(a) Identity
(b) Nationality
(c) Nation building
(d) National development
Ans. (c)
135. The word ‘caste’ which is derived from the word ‘casta’ means
(a) Purity and pollution
(b) Endogamy
(c) Culture
(d) Complex of hereditary qualities
Ans. (d)
136. The theory of the origin of the caste is
(a) Functional theory
(b) Structural theory
(c) Interactional theory
(d) Classical theory
Ans. (d)
137. Who is ‘Dvija’ or twice born?
(a) Who is born in the family of Brahmin
(b) Who is born in the family of Warriors
(c) One who has been initiated as a student, and has gone through a formal course of studies
(d) One who has been initiated as a priesthood through rituals.
Ans. (c)
138. Max Weber categorised caste as a/an
(a) Ethnic group
(b) Indian
(c) Community
(d) Closed status group
Ans. (d)
139. Which among the following is a Caste?
(a) Vaishya
(b) Gond
(c) Kanyakubja
(d) Yadava
Ans. (d)
140. The plough which made large civilization possible was invented in
(a) Rome
(b) Middle East
(c) China
(d) India
Ans. (b)
141. The practice of human sacrifice existed in which among the following Central Indian tribe?
(a) Kadar
(b) Paliyan
(c) Khond
(d) Murias
Ans. (c)
142. Which among the following societies depends on the raw labour power and the extraction of primary resources from nature?
(a) Agricultural society
(b) Pre-industrial society
(c) Industrial society
(d) Post-industrial society
Ans. (b)
143. Which among the following tribal group name their youth dormitory as ‘rangbang’?
(a) Muria
(b) Khond
(c) Bhutia
(d) Jaunsari
Ans. (c)
144. The youth dormitory of Munda tribes is known as
(a) Gitiora
(b) Kalan
(c) Kulam
(d) Monam
Ans. (a)
145. Which among these factors were responsible for determining the sex ratio of any population?
1. The sex ratio at birth
2. The sex ratio of deceased person
3. The sex ratio of the net migrant
4. The number of marriage alliances
(a) 1 and 2
(b) 1, 2 and 3
(c) 1, 2, 3 and 4
(d) 1 and 4
Ans. (b)
146. Which among the following appears to be the most plausible explanation for the sex ratio in India?
(a) High mortality of the females
(b) High mortality of the males
(c) High number of marriage alliances
(d) High number of widows
Ans. (a)
147. Who understood religion as ‘a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and human life’?
(a) Sir James Frazer
(b) Emile Durkheim
(c) Bronislaw Malinowski
(d) Karl Marx
Ans. (a)
148. Who wrote the books The Golden Bough and Totemism and Exogamy?
(a) Sir James Frazer
(b) Radcliffe Brown
(c) Evans Pritchard
(d) Karl Marx
Ans. (a)
149. Logic of induction is very close to:
(a) the logic of sampling
(b) the logic of the controlled variable
(c) the logic of observation
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
150. Hypothesis cannot be stated in:
(a) declarative terms
(b) null and question form terms
(c) general terms
(d) directional terms
Ans. (c)
151. Which among the following are the two orientations with regard to the two types of social movements as given by Yogendra Singh?
1. Integrative
2. Alternative
3. Alienating
4. Reformative
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(A) 1 and 2
(B) 1 and 3
(Q 3 and 4
(D) 1 and 4
Ans. (B)
152. Consider the following statements:
1. Tribal Economy often has a market place but not a market system.
2. Reciprocity and redistribution create the integrative patterns prevalent in tribal economy.
3. Tribal production is contractual and voluntary.
4. A distinguishing feature of primitive life is fusion of social and economic institutions.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(A) 1 and 4
(B) 2 and 4
(C) 1, 2 and 4
(D) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (B)
153. Who has propounded the idea that we can treat social facts (phenomena) as things?
(A) R. K. Merton
(B) Paul F. Lazars Feld
(C) Emile Durkheim
(D) Max Weber
Ans. (C)
154. Which type of question(s) are investigated in exploratory research design?
(A) Why is it?
(B) What is it?
(C) How is it?
(D) All the above
Ans. (D)