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Are you preparing for USC-NET examinations? Here are few questions on Sociology that are more likely to come in UGC-NET exam of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, Jharkhand, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Goa, Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland.
1. The book ‘System of Positive Polity’, is written by
(a) E. Leach
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(b) Radcliffe Brown
(c) Auguste Comte
(d) R.E. Park
Ans. (c)
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2. The statement-Sociology has a fourfold origin in political philosophy, the philosophy of history, biological theory of evolution, and the movement for social and political reform is
(a) True
(b) Partially true
(c) False
(d) Irrelevant
Ans. (a)
3. The philosophy of history as a distinct branch of speculation is a creation of
(a) Thirteenth Century
(b) Eighteenth Century
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(c) Nineteenth Century
(d) Twentieth Century
Ans. (b)
4. The works of Marx and Comte stems from the writing of
(a) Hegel and Saint Simon
(b) Angel and Emile Durkheim
(c) Hobbes and Adam Ferguson
(d) Voltaire and Emuel Kant
Ans. (a)
5. Essay on the History of Civil Society was written by
(a) Voltaire
(b) Adam Ferguson
(c) Thomas Hobbes
(d) Hegel
Ans. (b)
6. All members of society occupy a number of social positions known as
(a) Role
(b) Prestige
(c) Esteem
(d) Status
Ans. (d)
7. A social group is a
(a) System of social interaction
(b) Gathering of people
(c) Organisation of people for purpose
(d) Association of people
Ans. (a)
8. A group involves some degree of_______ among its members for the attainment of common goals.
(a) Cooperation
(b) Conflict
(c) Competition
(d) Association
Ans. (a)
9. Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom and other capabilities acquired by man as a member of society. It is said by
(a) Talcott Parsons
(b) W.F. Green
(c) Tylor
(d) Timascheff
Ans. (c)
10. Which among the following is not correct regarding social position?
(a) Social position may be occupied by more than one person.
(b) A social position is occupied by only one person
(c) Same person occupies many social positions
(d) Social position may not be occupied by individuals but by organisations.
Ans. (d)
11. Which among the following is not correct regarding the advantages of polyandry?
(a) Divorce is not easy
(b) Division of property is not easy
(c) Members feel security
(d) It leads to sterility
Ans. (d)
12. The practice of being mate, actual or potential, to one’s husband’s brother is called
(a) Family marriage
(b) Levirate
(c) Moeity
(d) Continuity
Ans. (b)
13. After ‘Industrial Revolution’ divorce rates have
(a) Increased
(d) Decreased
(c) Remained the same
(d) Not taken place
Ans. (a)
14. The term ‘serial monogamy’ refers to a type of monogamy where
(a) remarriage is not premitted after first marriage has been terminated by death or divorce
(b) remarriage is permitted after the first marriage has been terminated by death or divorce
(c) divorce is frequently allowed.
(d) remarriage is permitted but with husband’s younger brother or wife’s younger sister.
Ans. (b)
15. Non-fraternal polyandry is practiced among
(a) Khasis of Garo Hills
(b) Nayars of Malabar Hills
(c) Todas of Nilgiri Hills
(d) Ho of Rajmahal Hills
Ans. (b)
16. The institution of Kula described by Malinowski is an example of
(a) means to acquire wealth
(b) a system of settling debts
(c) a system of ceremonial exchange of goods
(d) ceremony to formally announce a new chief
Ans. (c)
17. Ceremony of the north-west pacific coast Indian in which one chief and his group give away goods, usually trade blankets and copper plaques to another chief or chief and their groups. What is the tribe?
(a) Potlatch
(b) Kwaikutl
(c) Taboo
(d) Numala
Ans. (a)
18. Successful economic development in complex societies requires not only a balance between industrialization and agricultural development but also a balanced growth of
(a) Secularization and modernization
(b) Rationalization
(c) Industrialization
(d) Foreign trades
Ans. (d)
19. Organized labour in today’s India mainly represents
(a) An occupational class
(b) Well defined class
(c) A pressure group
(d) Urbanization
Ans. (c)
20. Which among the following types of economies tends to spread consumerism?
(a) Market
(b) Mixed
(c) Socialist
(d) Barter
Ans. (a)
21. Which among the following factors do influence the social Organisation of the village?
1. The caste system
2. Its closeness to the towns
3. The existence of good means of communication and transport
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(a) 1, 2, 3
(b) 3 only
(c) 1, 2
(d) 2, 3
Ans. (a)
22. The villagers always stick to their general behaviouristic patterns because
(a) They are very small in number
(b) They are more cultured
(c) They are well socialized
(d) They follow tradition, custom and folkways.
Ans. (d)
23. The idea of ‘Global Village’ implies
(a) One government administers all countries
(b) Socio-cultural differences are obliterated
(c) Network of communications binds peoples of the world
(d) Agriculture become the most important and global occupation.
Ans. (c)
24. The term ‘hegemony’ is associated with
(a) Bryan Wilson
(b) R. Dahl
(c) Gramsci
(d) Hobbes
Ans. (c)
25. The institutions of local governments
(a) Have been in existence for several centuries
(b) First evolved in India in eighteenth century
(c) Came into existence after Independence
(d) Emerge in Europe in Twentieth Century
Ans. (a)
26. Who opined this?
There must be in all societies a class of rules too practical to be backed up by religious sanctions, too burdensome to be left to mere goodwill, too personally vital to individuals to be enforced by any abstract agency. This is the domain of legal rules and to venture to foretell that reciprocity, systematic incidence, publicity and ambition will be found to be the main factors in the binding machinery of primitive law.”
(a) Malinowski
(b) F. Tonnies
(c) Henry Maine
(d) Mclennan
Ans. (a)
27. ‘The system of rewards leads to a system of stratification’ may be attributed to the
(a) Conflict theory
(b) Functional theory
(c) Weberian model
(d) Roles-status model
Ans. (b)
28. One can trace the link between caste and Hinduism from
(a) Mahabharatha
(b) Ramayana
(c) Rigveda
(d) Samveda
Ans. (c)
29. Who has differentiated between material and non-material culture in his discussion of social change?
(a) P. Sorokin
(b) Ogburn
(c) T. Veblen
(d) Hobhouse
Ans. (b)
30. Who among the following has supported the cyclical theory of social change?
(a) P. Sorokin
(b) Hobhouse
(c) T. Parsons
(d) R. Firth
Ans. (a)