1. Who among the following is credited for introducing the 'capability approach'?

Mahbub ul Huq

Jean Dreze

Amartya Sen

Jagdish Bhagwati

2. Which theory of development distinguishes between World Economy and World Empire?

Modernization theory

Dependency theory

World System theory

Post Development theory

3. Who is the author of the book 'Reflections on Human Development'?

Mahabub ul Huq

Muhmmad Yunus

Martha Nassbaum

Amartya Sen

4. Anslem Struass is known for his contribution to

Qualitative analysis techniques

Quantitative analysis techniques

Agrarian sociology

Modernization paradigm

5. Author of 'The Production of Space'

Talcott Parsons

Henry Lefebvre

Henry Martin

None of the above

6. The concept of 'sanskritization' is equal to the following Western concept

Downward mobility

Upward mobility

Vertical mobility

Horizontal mobility

7. Who among the following authors developed-the social distance scale?

L. Guttman

Paulin Young

Rensis Likert

Emory 5 Bogardus

8. Who among the following theorists proposed the concept of dysfunction?

Anthony Giddens

Jurgen Habermas

Thomas Kuhn

Robert K. Merton

9. Which of the following is correct about Foucault's 'Madness and Civilization'?

Madness is morally condemnable

Madness has its own aesthetics

Madness can be understood with technical knowledge

Madness is historically constituted

10. Which of the following is closer to the notion of 'Organic Intellectuals'?

Counter-hegemonic

Pro-democratic

Subalternist

Counterpublics

11. In Goffman's dramaturgy exemplifying the officially accredited values is

Dramatic realization

Impression management

Expressive control

Idealization

12. Background and Domain Assumptions are associated with

Vilfredo Pareto

Nicos Poulantzas

Alvin Gouldner

Rosa Luxemburg


13. Liquid Modernity connotes

Complexity of modern life

Postmodern conditions

A blend of tradition, modernity and ambivalence

Increasing uncertainty and positional commitments

14. Reification is

Making something into a thing

Philosophy of praxis

Ideological state apparatus

Class conflict

15. For Foucault archaeology is

Study of human activity

Study of methodology

Study of discursive traces and orders left by the past in order to write a ;history of the present'

Study of historiography

16. According to Louis Althusser conjucture is

A balance of forces to which political tactics must be applied

Strategies that caused overdetermination of contradictions

Tactics for accessing power

Conjecture

17. Embourgeoisement is

Another word for reference group theory

Robert Merton's theory regarding equality

Relates to mobility of the working class into the middle class

Associated with Talcott Parson's theory of achievement

18. The book 'Indian Ideology' is written by

BR Ambedkar

DD Kosambi

Perry Anderson

Arundhati Roy

19. Anomie refers to a state of

Normlessness in both the society and the individual

Normlessness only in the individual

Breakdown of norms in the government

Breakdown of norms in the political class

20. The concept of conviviality designates the struggle for an

Equitable distribution of the liberty to generate use values

Inequitable distribution of the liberty to generate use values

Equitable distribution of the liberty to generate exchange value alone

All the above

21. Intelligence cannot be measured by ratio level of measurement because

Intelligence cannot be quantified

Intelligence has no true zero point

The above statement is wrong

None of the above

22. Ferdinand Tonnies is the author of

The Sociological Tradition

The city

Ancient Law

Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

23. Weber's theory of bureaucracy is

Rational system approach

Natural system approach

Open system approach

None of the above

24. Whose concept states that interpersonal and human relations may influence productivity

Max Weber

Robert Merton

Talcott Parsons

Elton Mayo

25. Weber's classification of authority did not include

Legal-rational authority

Charismatic authority

Supervisory authority

Traditional authority

26. Sources of researchable problems can include

Researchers own experiences as educators

Practical issues that require solutions

Theory and past research

All of the above

27. Eco-feminism is a theoretical perspective that addresses the connection between gender ,and nature. Which one of the following correctly explains the eco-feminism perspective?

In a natural disaster, women are likely to be more than affected than men

In development which results in massive displacement of humans, rehabilitation policy should give priority to women

Due to their role as creators and nurturers of life, women are better conservators of the environment

Women as a group contribute much less to industrial and vehicular pollution than men

28. According to Karl Marx, which one of the following is not a law of dialectical materialism?

The law of the unity and conflict of opposites

The law of the negation of the negation

The law of transition of quantity into quality

The law of development of human consciousness

29. The religious text of many communities in India outline the purpose, rights and duties involved in marriage. These texts clearly bring out that marriage in India has its location in

Hetero-normative patriarchal family structure

Worldview that takes family and marriage without any change in their forms, types and nature

Universal reference to application of the bundle of rights in marriage in particular ethnographic context

Social context that makes it necessary to understand marriage as polythetic with an open ended checklist

30. Which of the following did not study the city?

Manuel Castells

David Harvey

Ratna Naidu

Andre Beteille

31. Seeing like a Feminist is written by

Sharmila Rege

Nivedita Menon

Kamala Bhasin

Urvashi Butalia

32. Sociology and social anthropology in India

Are often synonymous

Have intellectual roots in Heidegger

Are never in the same department

Have no relationship to British Anthropology


33. The book The Mass Psychology of Fascism is written by

Max Horkheimer

Rosa Luxemburg

Wilhelm Reich

None of the above

34. Research on the 'Authoritarian Personality' were conducted by members of

Chicago School

Frankfurt School

Oxford School

London School

35. One of the following is associated with the 'Affluent Worker in the class Structure' studies

Raymond Aron

EP Thompson

John Goldthorpe

None of the above

36. One of the following wrote on Americanism and Fordism

Lee Lacoca

Talcott Parsons

Antonio Gramsci

Frederick William Taylor

37. Measurement of students' preference for different universities on a continuum of 1 to 1 being most preferred and 5 being least preferred implies one of the following levels of measurement

Interval

Nominal

Ordinal

Ratio

38. The phrase Spring Thunder' refers to

The Naxalite movement

Workers' movement

Backward classes movement in India

Gay Rights movement

39. One of the following is a characteristic of the Asiatic Mode of Production

Role of the state in undertaking irrigation works

Predominant role of the working class

Prevalence of large scale industrialization

None of the above

40. Mathew effect' refers to

Unequal distribution of rewards and recognition between scientists

Sharing of monetary benefits between colleagues in a work place

Rewarding workers as suggested by Thomas Mathew

None of the above


41. Critically examine the contribution to the contemporary sociological theory of anyone of the following

a. Anthony Giddens

b. Pierre Bourdieu

c. Ulrich Beck

42. Discuss the current development debates in India with reference to the primitive accumulation controversy.

43. Thomas Kuhn and Michael Polanyi believed that scientists' subjective experiences made science a relativized discipline. Contest this observation with the claims of positivism?

44. Dual Society

45. Dialectics

46. Sexuality

47. Communal Politics

48. Compensatory Discrimination

49. Commodity Fetishism

50. Indigenous Sociology

51. Governmentality