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List of 150 practice questions and answers in English most likely to come in the upcoming UGC-NET examination! This will also assist the students, teachers, Civil Services, UGC-NET, UPSC & IAS aspirants for their competitive exams!
1. Residues and derivatives are both manifestations of sentiments which are according to Pareto
(a) Instincts
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(b) Will power
(c) Occurrences
(d) Leftovers
Ans. (a)
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2. Residues are
(a) changing
(b) relatively permanent
(c) non-existent
(d) can be moulded
Ans. (b)
3. Fill in the blank. Pareto has described______ classes of Residues.
(a) two
(b) ten
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(c) six
(d) five
Ans. (c)
4. Who among the following has distinguished between lions and foxes as types of elites?
(a) Pareto
(b) Shils
(c) Weber
(d) Mannhiem
Ans. (a)
5. Pareto has borrowed the concept of lions and foxes from
(a) Machiavelli
(b) Pluto
(c) Francis Bacon
(d) Mussolini
Ans. (a)
6. Which term is equivalent to group marriage?
(a) Polygyny
(b) Exogamy
(c) Cenogamy
(d) Endogamy
Ans. (c)
7. Which one of the following systems correctly represents the marriage of a widower with the sister of his dead wife?
(a) Sororate
(b) Levirate
(c) Monogamy
(d) Traditional
Ans. (a)
8. A form of polygyny where co-wives are sisters is called
(a) Adelphic
(b) Sistoral
(c) Sororal
(d) Matiriarchal
Ans. (c)
9. If the offsprings inherit the father’s name, they will be described as
(a) Name taking
(b) Patrilineal
(c) Patrinomy
(d) Patriarchal
Ans. (c)
10. The relationship based on the blood ties is called
(a) Blood kinship
(b) Parallel kinship
(c) Paternal kinship
(d) Consanguineous kinship
Ans. (d)
11. Presents freely given to kin, friends and neighbours without any explicit statement is called
(a) Reciprocity
(b) Generalized reciprocity
(c) Mutual exchange
(d) Kula system
Ans. (b)
12. An ideal economic system
(a) must be a function of social system
(b) basic aim should be profit
(c) must be correlation between different social and economic system
(d) must be independent of social system
Ans. (a)
13. ‘Property is theft’ is associated with the extreme view
(a) K. Marx
(b) L.T. Hobhouse
(c) Proudhon
(d) F. Engels
Ans. (c)
14. The main goal of ‘Food for-work’ programme is
(a) Giving relief to unemployed
(b) Equal distribution of food grains
(c) Cheap labour force
(d) Scarcity of food to be overcome
Ans. (a)
15. Who say this?
An evolutionary scheme is with the following stages of development: collection economy, cultural nomadic economy, settled village economy, town economy and metropolitan economy.
(a) Smelser
(b) David Ricardo
(c) Robert Park
(d) Grower
Ans. (d)
16. Who was of the opinion that an increase in the number and type of communications received by a rural community was the most important single cause in changing that rural community to an urban one?
(a) Biedelman
(b) Baden Powel
(c) Robert Redfield
(d) H. Maine
Ans. (a)
17. A large number of reference groups are a typical characteristic of
(a) Large, complex societies
(b) Small, simple societies
(c) Tribal societies
(d) All the above
Ans. (c)
18. Who among the following have developed the concept of Folk-Urban continuum?
(a) Simmel
(b) H. Maine
(c) R. Redfield
(d) F. Tonnies
Ans. (a)
19. The concept of ‘rurbanization’ was introduced by
(a) J. Galpin
(b) Robert Park
(c) M. Weber
(d) Oswald Spengler
Ans. (c)
20. The idea of folk-urban continuum was developed on the basis of studies conducted in
(a) Australia
(b) Andaman Island
(c) Mexico
(d) Brazil
Ans. (c)
21. Who among the following has criticised Weber’s bureaucracy on the ground that ‘rules may not follow all the situation, it may create inefficiency in the organisation’?
(a) R.K. Merton
(b) T. Parson
(d) G.C. Homans
Ans. (a)
22. Panchayati Raj system is based on the principle of
(a) Administration through government officials
(b) Effective central administration for improvement of villages
(c) Democratic decentralization of administration
(d) Rule of law through Panchayats
Ans. (c)
23. According to C.W. Mills, elite comprise of those who hold________ in an institutional hierarchy.
(a) Military power
(b) Political power
(c) Command posts
(d) Money power
Ans. (c)
24. An authority is
(a) Same as power
(b) Power through coercion
(c) Legitimized power
(d) Absolute power
Ans. (c)
25. Who defines social power as the determination of the behaviour of others in accordance with one’s own ends?
(a) Moore
(b) K. Davis
(c) T. Parsons
(d) R.K. Merton
Ans. (b)
26. Social change as a socio-cultural concepts implies
(a) Abrupt change
(b) Little structural continuity
(c) Absolute change
(d)Sufficient continuity in the structure of a society
Ans. (d)
27. ‘Central place theory’ on the process of urbanisation was given by
(a) Walter Christaller
(b) Louis Wirth
(c) le Play
(d) Oscar Lewis
Ans. (a)
28. Some social changes do occur without being noticed by most members of a society is known as
(a) Latent change
(b) Relative change
(c) Manifest change
(d) Absolute change
Ans. (a)
29. Who has proposed the elite theory of social change?
(a) Mosca
(b) C.W. Mills
(c) Parsons
(d) V. Pareto
Ans. (d)
30. Which concept may explain the process of westernization in India?
(a) Accommodation
(b) Reference group
(c) Assimilation
(d) Acculturation
Ans. (b)
31. For which community does the land become more valuable?
(a) Pastoral community
(b) Hunting and gathering community
(c) Shifting cultivating community
(d) Agricultural community
Ans. (d)
32. With which invention did the evolution of an agrarian society begin?
(a) Plough
(b) Fertilisers
(c) Hoe
(d) Sickle
Ans. (c)
33. Which among the following is not a prerequisites of the animal society?
(a) Cultural bond
(b) Sexual instinct
(c) Symbolic communication
(d) Protection from predators
Ans. (a)
34. In the ancient time to whom did land belong?
(a) Whole village
(b) Cultivator
(c) landlord
(d) The king
Ans. (a)
35. According to Max Weber, what is necessary for industrial society is
(a) Political organisation
(b) Economic transaction
(c) Better mode of transportation and communication
(d) Bureaucratic organisation
Ans. (d)
36. A periodic enumeration and summation of information about a population is called
(a) Census
(b) Observation
(c) Case study
(d) Interval-sampling
Ans. (a)
37. Who wrote first “Essay on Population”
(a) John Locke
(b) Malthus
(c) Rousseau
(d) T. Hobbes
Ans. (b)
38. Who opined that population grows an exponential rate while the means of subsistence grows at a linear rate?
(a) Malthus
(b) Marx
(c) Coser
(d) Spencer
Ans. (a)
39. Malthus was regarded as a
(a) Preventive measure
(b) Positive check
(c) Destructive element
(d) National calamity
Ans. (b)
40. The name of a population pyramid indicating a high proportion of children and rapid growth and which has a broad base is
(a) Structured pyramid
(b) Constructive pyramid
(c) Stationary pyramid
(d) Expansion pyramid
Ans. (c)
41. Who has stated that since elites amongst the backward classes are educated and therefore comparatively more enlightened than the rest of the community, they are better able to foresee social change?
(a) B.R. Ambedkar
(b) Jyotiba Phule
(c) M.K. Gandhi
(d) Sachchidananda
Ans. (d)
42. The Book “Annihilation of Caste” is written by
(a) B.R. Ambedkar
(b) Sachchidananda
(c) Jagjiwan Ram
(d) M.K. Gandhi
Ans. (a)
43. ‘Scheduled Caste Politics’ is the work of
(a) Dushkin L
(b) B.R. Ambedkar
(c) G.S. Ghurye
(d) R. Kothari
Ans. (a)
44. Which one of the following is not a reason for female mortality?
(a) Infant mortality
(b) Death during child birth
(c) Neglect of female during early childhood
(d) Husband’s income
Ans. (d)
45. Which one of the following is not a cause of high risk of life of the adolescent mothers?
(a) Malnutrition
(b) Illiteracy
(c) Over burden of work
(d) Health facility
Ans. (d)
46. Whose theory do you think falls in such category?
“Anascopic is an adjective used to identify the kind of social theory which starts from the individual and looks upward to construct a conception of society.”
(a) Durkheim’s
(b) Marx’s
(c) Homans’
(d) None of these
Ans. (c)
47. A learned predisposition evidenced by the behaviour of an individual or group of individuals to evaluate an object or class of objects in a consistent or characteristic way, is referred to as
(a) attitude
(b) behaviour
(c) prejudice
(d) judgement
Ans. (a)
48. Which is the correct group associated with attitude research?
(a) Thurstone, Likert, Guttman
(b) Veblemn, Thurstone, Likert
(c) McDougall Guttman, Tonnies
(d) Festinger, Likert, Marshall
Ans. (a)
49. Which is the binding thread between power and authority?
(a) Legitimacy
(b) Bureaucracy
(c) both (a) & (b)
(d) None
Ans. (a)
50. Max Weber divided the modes of the legitimation of authority into traditional, rational legal and charismatic. The authority of Nelson Mandela, in the present context, represents which among these?
(a) only traditional
(b) only rational legal
(c) only charismatic
(d) both traditional and charismatic
Ans. (b)
51. A teacher encounters various problems during his professional experiences. He should:
(a) resign from his post in such situations
(b) do research on that problem and find a solution
(c) take the help of head of the institution
(d) avoid the problematic situations
Ans. (b)
52. A research problem is feasible only when:
(a) it is new and adds something to knowledge
(b) it is researchable
(c) it has utility and relevance
(d) all of these
Ans. (d)
53. Which of the following statements are false?
1. Caste activities have greatly decreased in all villages since development planning has been undertaken.
2. Industrialisation and expansion of development administration has stimulated the growth of the middle class
3. With development planning India has been able to solve its basic problems of unemployment, population growth and poverty
4. India’s development planning has given special focus to integrate women into the development process.
(A) 1 and 3
(B) 1 and 4
(D) 2 and 4
Ans. (A)
54. Which of the following statements is true?
1. All change is development
2. Early sociological theories by Comte, Spencer and Durkheim viewed development and change as interchangeable and / or logically related terms
3. According to modernisation theories the end result of development is prosperity and political stability
4. Development refers to unplanned process of social change in modern times
(A) 1 and 4
(B) 2 and 4
(C) 2 and 3
(D) 1, 2 and 3
Ans. (C)
55. Who among the following did formulate the concepts of ‘Little Tradition’ and ‘Great Tradition’?
(A) McKim Marriot
(B) Milton Singer
(C) Robert Redfield
(D) Louis Dumont
Ans. (C)
56. Read the following statements and identify the statement which does not signify Sanskritisation.
(A) Claim to higher status is made.
(B) Life styles of upper castes are emulated.
(C) New rituals and customs are adopted.
(D) Horizontal social mobility occurs.
Ans. (D)
57. Which one of the following is an essential element of the social class?
Feeling of-
(A) equality among the members of a class.
(B) superiority against those who are at the lower ladder of status.
(C) inferiority against those who are at the higher ladder of status.
(D) all the above.
Ans. (D)
58. Consider the following statements:
Sanskritization is the process of-
1. Orthogenetic change
2. Heterogenetic change
3. Change in cultural structure
4. Change in social structure
Which of the statement given above are correct?
(A) 1 and 3
(B) 1 and 4
(C) 2 and 3
(D) 2 and 4
Ans. (C)
59. According to whom, “the scope of sociology is the study of forms of social relationships”?
(a) Tonnies
(b) Max Weber
(c) Small
(d) Simmel
Ans. (c)
60. Of the following, who maintained that social anthropology was the same as comparative sociology?
(a) E. Durkheim
(b) A. R. Radcliffe Brown
(c) B. Malinowski
(d) A. Comte
Ans. (b)
61. ____________, the French predecessor of Radcliffe- Brown, occupies a unique position in the history of sociological thought. He is regarded as a founding father equally by sociologists and by social anthropologists. He continues to be a source of inspiration to students of human society in every part of the world.
(a) A. Comte
(b) Saint Simon
(c) E. Durkheim
(d) Marcel Mauss
Ans. (c)
62. ____in the 17th century supported the social contract theory in order to explain the relationship of individual and society.
(a) Thomas Hobbes
(b) Charles Darwin
(c) A. Comte
(d) Herbert Spencer
Ans. (a)
63. Which of the following does not suit John F. Cuber’s views about society?
(a) Society, is group of people
(b) In society people live together for long
(c) Group of people are organised
(d) One unit is distinct from the other
Ans. (d)
64. Who of the following is not associated with the idea of social contract about the origin of society?
(a) Hobbes
(b) Locke
(c) Rousseau
(d) Herbert Spencer
Ans. (d)
65. Individuals are the members of the:
(a) Community
(b) Institution
(c) Both of them
(d) None of them
Ans. (a)
66. Which of the following is a correct statement of regarding institution?
(a) Institution is a collection of human beings
(b) Institution is an artificial creation
(c) Institution is marked by co-operation
(d) Institution consists of certain folk ways and mores
Ans. (d)
67. Which of the following is not a characteristic of social group?
(a) Sense of unity
(b) We-feeling
(c) Common interests
(d) Common territory
Ans. (d)
68. A social group is ________.
(a) Static
(b) Dynamic
(c) Involuntary
(d) Altruistic
Ans. (b)
69. According to________ modes of value orientation are three fold cognitive, appreciative and moral standard.
(a) Merton
(b) Parson
(c) Tonnies
(d) Weber
Ans. (b)
70. According to Parsons, when values are institutionalized, they contribute to-
(a) dysfunction
(b) function
(c) integration
(d) goal-attainment
Ans. (c)
71. Values when internalized become-
(a) need-disposition
(b) internal
(c) goals
(d) folkways
Ans. (a)
72. In parson’s analysis, it is often criticized____________ has been assumed to exist, not shown for exist.
(a) Consensus
(b) Functional unity
(c) Value consensus
(d) Integration
Ans. (c)
73. It is often criticized that Parsonian model is rife with anthropomorphism and ___________.
(a) Value-orientation
(b) Altruism
(c) Teleology
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)
74. Who has criticised Parsons social system as Utopian?
(a) Buckley
(b) Dahrendorf
(c) Merton
(d) Mills
Ans. (b)
75. Social values can be most effectively promoted with the help of;
(a) pressure groups
(b) trade unions
(c) socialization
(d) fear of the superior
Ans. (d)
76. Man’s dependence on society is derived from______________
(a) innate responses to mechanical stimuli
(b) values
(c) norms
(d) learned responses to meaningful stimuli
Ans. (a)
77. The progress from an initial deviant act to full participation in an area of deviance has been referred to by Becker as-
(a) Stigmatization
(b) Anomie
(c) The deviant evolution
(d) The deviant career
Ans. (d)
78. According to Sutherland’s theory there is little chance of a teenager’s becoming an embezzler because of –
(a) Anomie
(b) Stigma
(c) Differential association
(d) Retreatism
Ans. (c)
79. Who believed that order, stability and cooperation in society are based on value consensus that is a general agreement by the members of society?
(a) A. Comte
(b) T. Parsons
(c) E. Durkheim
(d) None of the above
Ans. (b)
80. “A social Problem is any deviant behaviour in a disapproved direction of such a degree that it exceeds the clearance limit of the community” Who gave this definition?
(a) Maclver
(b) Weber
(c) Page
(d) Lundberg
Ans. (d)
81. “Group integration developed without planning in primitive societies-
(a) ‘Because persons were born into family and clan relationships which encompassed all of their social experience’.
(b) ‘Because planning was unknown to them.’
(c) ‘Because the people were unconscious about the forces of culture.’
(d) ‘Because they were under the suppression of group activity’
Ans. (a)
82. Integration of a group depends upon certain factors. One of the following mentioned factors does not belong to this category. Point out such a factor-
(a) Frequency of interaction
(b) Variety of the interacting members
(c) Emotional quality of the interacting members
(d) Common enterprise
Ans. (d)
83. In some societies there is the system of compensation marriage. In this:
(a) the girl pays compensation to the boy, if marriage does not come up
(b) the girl stays at the house of the boy before marriage and serves the family
(c) the boy stays at the house of the girl and serves there
(d) both the boy and the girl stay at a third person’s place
Ans. (c)
84. The system under which the boy and girl find their life partner themselves on the basis of love is known as-
(a) arranged marriage
(b) experimental marriage
(c) companionate marriage
(d) love marriage
Ans. (d)
85. In the Garo family the heir is called—
(a) Karnavan
(b) Ling
(c) Pelingson
(d) Nokna
Ans. (d)
86. Which family was founded upon the inter marriage of several sisters, own and collateral, with each other’s husbands in a group?
(a) Punaluan
(b) Conjugal
(c) Consanguineal
(d) Polygamous
Ans. (a)
87. ______ may be indicative of equality and mutual reciprocity.
(a) Amitate
(b) Avoidance
(c) Joking relationship
(d) Couvade
Ans. (c)
88. The system under which one relative is supposed to avoid the other is known as:
(a) avunclate
(b) amitate
(c) avoidance
(d) couvade
Ans. (c)
89. The system under which maternal uncle gets prominent place in kinship is known as:
(a) Couvade
(b) Amitate
(c) Avunclate
(d) Takanonymy of friendliness expressed through a show of hostility
Ans. (c)
90. According to Redcliffe Brown, ____________ may be kind but its members do not share a common residence.
(a) avoidance
(b) joking relations
(c) couvade
(d) amitate
Ans. (b)
91. Which of the following is NOT clearly indicated by kinship?
(a) lineage
(b) affinity
(c) status
(d) relationship
Ans. (c)
92. One’s father is one’s________.
(a) primary affinal kin
(b) tertiary kin
(c) primary consanguineal kin
(d) secondary kin
Ans. (c)
93. Nature of kinship created by marriage is called:
(a) affinal
(b) consanguineous
(c) monogamous
(d) reproductive
Ans. (a)
94. Frazer has reported brother-sister avoidance from-
(a) Todas
(b) Nuers
(c) Veddas of Ceylon
(d) Andaman Islanders
Ans. (c)
95. The distance maintained between daughter-in-law and her parents-in-law, is called in __________ sociology.
(a) avoidance
(b) social distance
(c) social isolation
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
96. When a kin is referred to indirectly through another kin, the system is known as-
(a) avunclate
(b) tekanonymy
(c) amitate
(d) couvade
Ans. (b)
97. What was one of the strategies of Mahatma Gandhi behind using Charkha?
(a) Women could participate even from their homes in the movement by using charkha
(b) Charkha was easily available
(c) Charkha was easy to use
(d) Charkha did not break the laws
Ans. (a)
98. Bill on Protection of Women on Domestic Violence was passed in the year-
(a) 1995
(b) 2006
(c) 1980
(d) 2005
Ans. (b)
99. Newspaper runs by the effort of rural women journalists-
(a) Khabar Lahariya
(b) Open Magazine
(e) Dalit Times
(d) Avadhnama
Ans. (a)
100. Whose efforts led to Widow Remarriage Act of 1856?
(a) Ram Mohan Roy
(b) Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar
(c) Pandita Ramabai
(d) Jyotirao Phule
Ans. (b)
101. The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women is also known as:
(a) U N Women
(b) UNIFEM
(c) INSTRAW
(d) UNDG
Ans. (a)
102. According to __________, a social class is any portion of a community marked off from the rest by the social status.
(a) Maclver and Page
(b) Weber
(c) Marshall
(d) Sorokin
Ans. (a)
103. According to ___________, castes are the modified forms of guilds.
(a) occupational theory
(b) political theory
(c) evolutionary theory
(d) none of the above
Ans. (d)
104. Social stratification is the mechanism which attaches unequal rewards and privileges to the different positions in society. Whom is this statement attributed to?
(a) Parsons
(b) Tumin
(c) Weber
(d) Davis and Moore
Ans. (d)
105. Interdependence among castes is termed as ___________ by Srinivas.
(a) Jajmani system
(b) Vertical unity
(c) Horizontal unity
(d) Mutuality
Ans. (b)
106. According to ______________ class is determined by a person’s market situation.
(a) Marx
(b) Weber
(c) Ralph Dahrendorf
(d) Lenin
Ans. (b)
107. The Bhotia tribe of Uttar Pradesh, name their youth dormitory as-
(a) gitiora
(b) jonkerpa
(c) rangbang
(d) yo
Ans. (c)
108. An agrarian society is characterised by a –
(a) minimal division of labour
(b) high rate of division of labour
(c) high profit-orientation
(d) highly developed law system
Ans. (a)
109. Anomie is a feature of __________ society.
(a) industrial
(b) pre-literate
(c) semi-urban
(d) none of the above
Ans. (a)
110. Max Weber believed that __________ organizations are the dominant institutions of industrial society.
(a) religious
(b) political
(c) bureaucratic
(d) kinship
Ans. (c)
111. Which of the following statements regarding ‘bureaucracy’ is true according to Weber?
(a) In bureaucracy, organisation of office follows the principle of hierarchy
(b) In bureaucracy, the ideal official performs his duties in a spirit of formalistic impersonality
(c) Principle of hierarchy is very irregular
(d) Both (a) and (b) are true
Ans. (d)
112. An economy which has various media of exchange is called-
(a) unicentric
(b) multicentric
(c) bicentric
(d) none of the above
Ans. (b)
113. Who described the ‘kula’ exchange system of Eastern New Guinea?
(a) Radcliffe Brown
(b) Polyani
(c) Evans Pritchard
(d) Malinowski
Ans. (d)
114.__________ is the process whereby persons receiving goods are obligated to reciprocate by giving goods in return.
(a) Distribution
(b) Reciprocity
(c) Exchange
(d) Mutuality
Ans. (c)
115. In small scale economies, money may exist, but its purpose is limited. Such money is called ___________.
(a) special purpose money
(b) general purpose money
(c) shell money
(d) stone money
Ans. (a)
116. __________ refers to the process where goods or services are obtained through force or deception.
(a) Balanced reciprocity
(b) Material exchange
(c) Negative reciprocity
(d) War
Ans. (c)
117. In an urban community while finalising a marriage proposal people:
(a) take past family background into consideration
(b) take religion into account
(c) take education and beauty of the girl into consideration
(d) take none of the above into consideration
Ans. (c)
118. The ________ feeling within a region is called Regionalism.
(a) We
(b) In-group
(c) Community
(d) None of the above
Ans. (c)
119. ‘Urbanism is a way of life, whereas Urbanisation is a process’, who said this?
(a) Galpin
(b) Wirth
(c) Burgess
(d) Homer Hyot
Ans. (b)
120. Who gave the ‘Sub-cultural theory’ on Urbanisation?
(a) Galpin
(b) Gane
(c) Burgess
(d) Fisher
Ans. (d)
121. Mark out the incorrect answer. In ancient period cities were:
(a) industrial centres
(b) commercial centres
(c) religious centres
(d) political centres
Ans. (a)
122. The ratio of recorded live births in one year to the midyear population of women between 15-44 years of age, multiplied by 1000 is known as
(a) demographic transition
(b) general fertility rate
(c) crude birth rate
(d) fertility ratio
Ans. b
123. Find out the incorrect match
(a) The theory of Demographic transition – Becker
(b) Migration analysis – Everett Lee
(c) Biological theory – Spencer
(d) Social Capillarity theory – Dumont
Ans. a
124. Demographers are not concerned with vital statistics such as____________
(a) birth and death rates
(b) height and weight of the population
(c) density
(d) age, sex and racial composition of the population
Ans. b
125. According to the theory of demographic transition, the developing countries of the third world lie in the___________
(a) stage one
(b) stage two
(c) between stage one to two
(d) area of the more from stage two to three
Ans. d
126. What is optimum human condition?
(a) It does not exist
(b) It refers to a fixed size of population
(c) It refers to the maximum size that the human population can attain
(d) It refers to a minimum ‘size of population.
Ans. a
127. A system of government in which real power is vested in the hands of one person who acts for his welfare is known as:
(a) absolute monarchy
(b) constitutional monarchy
(c) dictatorship
d) limited monarchy
Ans. d
128. According to Pareto_____________ provided an example of fox type of elite
(a) military dictatorship
(b) political democracy
(c) European democracies
(d) industrial elites
Ans. c
129. In a simple society the king:
(a) had no bindings whatsoever on his authority
(b) was bound by moral and legal code
(c) was afraid of the authority of his nobles
(d) was controlled by his relatives in state affairs
Ans. b
130. According to Pareto, _________ type of elite, rule by cunning and guile and by diplomatic manipulation
(a) lions
(b) foxes
(c) feeble
(d) unstable
Ans. b
131. Which of the following is NOT true of the State?
(a) it is all comprehensive
(b) it is abstract
(c) it is something concrete
(d) it enjoys loyalty of the citizens
Ans. c
132. Under the constitution which is NOT one of the states for which provision has not been made for Minister in charge of tribal welfare?
(a) Madhya Pradesh
(b) Orissa
(c) Assam
(d) Bihar
Ans. c
133. Under the, constitution it is provided that a commission to enquire into the administration of scheduled areas shall be appointed by?
(a) the President
(b) the Council of Ministers
(c) both the Houses of Parliament
(d) the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha
Ans. a
134. Which article of the constitution undertakes to promote the educational and economic interests of the scheduled castes and scheduled tribes?
(a) Article 342
(b) Article 46
(c) Article 341
(d) Article 344
Ans. b
135. According to the constitution period of reservation of seats for those belonging to scheduled castes and scheduled tribes has now been fixed for
(a) 15 years
(b) 20 years
(c) 25 years
(d) 30 years
Ans. d
136. The __________ has defined a -‘tribe’ to the extent that the scheduled tribes are the tribals or tribal communities or parts of or groups within tribe or tribal communities which the President may specify by public notification
(a) Article 342 of the Constitution
(b) Imperial gazetteer
(c) Report of the Scheduled areas or Scheduled Tribes
(d) None of the above
Ans. a
137. Who said that internal causes play special part in bringing about change in society?
(a) Goode
(b) P.N. Prabhu
(c) Ogburn
(d) Barber
Ans.(a)
138. Who among the following applied Marxist approach to the study of social change in India?
(a) A.R. Desai
(b) M. Singer
(c) D.P. Mukherjee
(d) Y. Singh
Ans.(c)
139. The term “events” refer to random, unpredictable happenings that affect the course of social charge, is used by –
(a) Robert Nisbet
(b) Robert Dahl
(c) Pareto
(d) Maclver
Ans.(a)
140. Who believed that societies advance or decline according to their “responses” to “challenges”?
(a) Pareto
(b) Sorokin
(c) Spengler
(d) Veblen
Ans.(c)
141. Who holds the view that everything moves from simple to complex, from less to more differentiation, and from homogeneous to heterogeneous forms?
(a) Hobhouse
(b) Spencer
(c) Durkheim
(d) Marx
Ans.(b)
142. Which one of the following is the characteristic of a secondary group?
(a) informal
(b) blood ties
(c) contractual
(d) unorganised
Ans. (c)
143. Like interest group is one in which people-
(a) gather to satisfy their momentary curiosity
(b) have no common interest
(c) have permanent interest
(d) gather to satisfy their lasting curiosity
Ans. (a)
144. Who of the following has classified groups as “Prosocial” and “un-social”?
(a) Dwight Sanderson
(b) George Hasen
(c) Elword
(d) Ward
Ans. (b)
145. According to Dwight Sanderson groups can be classified as:
(a) Unsocial and anti-social
(b) Involuntary and voluntary
(c) Sanctioned and unsanctioned
(d) Public and private
Ans. (b)
146. Which of the following does not apply to audience?
(a) The people are specifically invited
(b) Numerical strength does not matter
(c) Behaviour is more or less certain
(d) Behaviour is more or less uncertain
Ans. (d)
147. Mark out the incorrect statement-
(a) Beliefs do not exist outside the sphere of institutional religion
(b) Beliefs do exist outside the sphere of institutional religion
(c) Beliefs in one form or the other exist in all types of societies
(d) Beliefs are informal means of social control
Ans. (d)
148. Belief system is a fact of life. Which among the following has contributed to its development?
(a) The feeling of fear
(b) The desire to understand the supernatural
(c) Man’s experiment with truth
(d) All
Ans. (d)
149. Mark among the following what you think is a correct meaning of belief-
(a) Faith in the supreme
(b) Belief in truth
(c) The things believed
(d) Assent of mind to the truth of a declaration
Ans. (d)
150. Which among the following indicates a correct expression of faith?
(a) Truth is God
(b) God is truth
(c) Beauty is truth
(d) One’s confession to one’s belief
Ans. (a)