1. Who discussed about achievement motivation within modernization paradigm?

David McClelland

Alex Inkles

Frank Sutton

Paul Baran

2. Who among the following is associated with post development paradigm?

Arturo Escobar

Jan Nederveen Pieterse

Ulrich Beck

Scott Lash

3. Significant other and generalized other are concepts developed by

Peter Berger

George Herbert Mead

Erving Goffman

Harold Garfinkel

4. The significance of a sociological imagination is that

Sociology should be considered a philosophy rather than a science

Sociologists are primarily interested in predicting the future

Sociology attempts to understand personal events in social contexts

Sociologists imagine that sociology will lead to revolutions

5. The author of the book The Mcdonaldization of Society is

Robert Blauner

George Ritzer

Elton Mayo

None of the above

6. The type of society in which services and service work (white-collar) rather than manufacturing and factory work (blue-collar) dominate the economy is known as

Pre-industrial society

Semi-industrial society

Post-industrial society

None of the above

7. Saskia Sassen is well-known for her analysis on

The global cities

Globalization

Financial city

World city

8. What is a marriage between social strata, where the women is a member of the upper stratum, designated as?

Hypogamy

Hypergamy

Exogamy

Endogamy

9. Bourdieu's concept of habitus is borrowed from

Sigmund Freud

Levi-Strauss

Marcel Mauss

Bronislaw Malinowski

10. For Foucault biopower is

Training the actions of the body

Power of biology

Power of body

Managing births, deaths, reproduction and illness

11. Intersectionality is

Interactions between people

Study of intersections between forms or systems of domination

Study of inequalities from a Marxist perspective

Study of power provided by Michele Foucault

12. Who wrote Power: a radical view

Karl Marx

Max Weber

Steven Lukes

Ralf Dahrendorf

13. Public sociology is

The participation of public in sociological practices

Commonsensical sociology

Study of everyday practices of society

A style of doing sociology outside academia

14. Who among the following explained Jajmani system as a question of power and exploitation?

W.H. Wiser

M.N. Srinivas

Beidelman

Katheleen Gough

15. Sociological theory of political elites is associated with

Gaetano Mosca

Herbert Spencer

Talcott Parsons

Emile Durkheim

16. Which of the following is an example of new social movements?

Women's movement

Ecology movement

Gay Rights movement

All the above

17. Pearson's correlation coefficient ranges from

to 0

0 to

to

None of the above

18. The'level of measurement that is used to describe the occupational status of respondents is

Nominal

Interval

Ordinal

Ratio

19. Which of the following does not refer to Mertonian norms of science'

Communism

Uniqueness

Originality

Disinterestedness

20. When data are collected from the same set of respondents at two different points of time is known as

Longitudinal study

Cross sectional study

Case study

None of the above

21. Berry and Rees are the authors of

Synthetic theory

Subcultural theory

Neo-Marxist theory

Classical Urban theory

22. The sector model was given by

Robert Park

Homer Hoyt

Chauncey Harris and Edward Ullman

R.J. Johnston

23. Which urban sociologist extended the ideas of Karl Marx to understand the development of the modern metropolis

Janet-Abu-Lughod

Louis Wirth

Manuel Castells

Max Weber

24. In 2011 the population of India was

124.15 crores

138.46 crores

93.78 crores

103.64 crores

25. Which one of the following is not a feature of bureaucracy in complex societies?

Employees are organized on the principle of hierarchy

Interpersonal relationship is valued

Work carried out as per the written rule

Recruitment based on competence

26. Which one of the following is opposite in meaning and spirit to the concept of cultural relativism?

Ethnocentrism

Ethnomethodology

Ethnostatistics

Ethnography

27. Sanskritization as an explanation for social change in India embodies

Cultural approach

Structural approach

Evolutionary approach

Ethnomethodological approach

28. A religion in which an animal, plant, or some object is held as sacred and from which the group claims its descent -is known as

Totemism

Symbolism

Spiritualism

Magical Realism

29. Match List-I (rules of restriction) with List -II (name of rule) and select the correct answer using the code given below the list:

List-I List-II
a. One should seek a spouse from outside 1. Pratiloma
b. Women of the higher caste cannot marry men of lower caste 2. Exogamy
c. One should marry only within one's caste group 3. Anuloma
d. The men of higher caste could marry women of lower caste 4. Endogamy



4 1 2 3

2 3 4 1

4 3 2 1

2 1 4 3

30. The Weberian model of social stratification has been used in the study of caste by

SC Dube

MN Srinivas

TN Madan

Andre Beteille

31. The social constructionist perspective is closest to

The interpretative school of thought

Middle range theory

Stucturation theory

Correlation theory

32. The book ICaste in its 20th Century Avatar' is edited by

Gopal guru'

Kancha lIaiah

MN Srinivas

Sujata Patel

33. Shrmila Rege is known for her contribution to

Urban transformation

Agrarian Sociology

Sociology of caste and gender

Organizational sociology

34. One of the following discussed the (cultural contradictions of capitalism' in his writings

John Dewey

Daniel Bell

George Herbert Mead

None of the above

35. The concept 'colonial mode of production' was propounded by

T. NagiReddy

Rajni Palme-Dutt

Jairus Banaji

None of the above

36. The phrase 'theoritical Brahmin and empirical Shudra' refers to

Sociology of social science research in India

Brahmins are idealists and Shudras are materialists

Brahmin is theory and Shudra is empirical fact

None of the above

37. 'Buddha and His Dharma' was written by

Kancha lIaiah

Vinoba Bhave

BR Ambedkar

None of the above

38. The relationship between two variables is said to be asymmetric

When the values of one variable are influenced by the other variable

When there is no relationship between two variables

When one variable is nominal and the other variable is ordinal

None of the above

39. Which of the following sentences is correct

Sampling error may be reduced by increasing the sample size

Sampling bias can be reduced by increasing the sample size

Sample size increases with the increase in the size of population

Sampling bias is more in probability sampling techniques

40. Which of the following is not a property of the Mean

It is the summary value of given data

It is sensitive to extreme cases

It divides the cases into two equal halves

Sum of deviation of scores from the Mean is always zero

1. Define Gramsci's concept of 'Hegemony' and analyse its significance for the difference between state and civil society.

2. Provide a conceptual framework explaining the increasing marginalization and dispossession in the current development process.

3. In ethnography, data collection methods are meant to capture the 'social meanings and ordinary activities' of people (informants) in 'naturally occurring settings' that are commonly referred to as 'the field'. Do you think MN Srinivas was able to accomplish this goal in his field work?