1. Who argued that "By studyingtraditions of Indian society change can be understood"

A.K. Saran

M.N. Srinivas

S.C. Dube

D.P. Mukherjee

2. Choose the correct sequence of societal evolution in order of increasing complexity.

Agriculture, Gathering-huntingand Industrial Societies

Hunting-gathering, Agriculture and Industrial Societies

Hunting-gathering, Industrial Societies and Agriculture

Pastoral, Industrial and Agriculture


3. Match the following statements in List I with the concepts given in List II
List I (Statements)
a. Tendency of each group to take forgranted the superiority of itsown culture
b. Which yieldseconomical or political power and occupies ahigher positionin society
c. People of lowercastes collectively tryto adopt uppercaste practicesand beliefs to acquire higherstatus
d. Explain the changes broughtabout the Indian societies throughwestern contact

List II (Concepts)
i. Wester­nisation
ii. Dominant castes
iii. Sanskriti­sation
iv. Ethno­centrism

Codes
a b c d
i iii iv ii

iii i ii iv

iv ii iii i

ii iv i iii


4. Sustainable development is characterized by
Judicious use of resources
Maintaining Ecological balance
Deforestation
Keeping soil fertility durable for future generation
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below
Codes










5. Who is the author of the book 'Peasant Society and Culture'

A.R. Desai

Robert Redfield

M. Mead

R.H. Lowie

6. Match List I with List II
List I List II
a. The World of Work i. Edward Gross
b. The Sociology of Work ii. Peter Blau
c. Bureaucracy in Modern Society iii. Theodore Caplow
d. Work and Society iv. Robert Dubin
Mark the correct answer from the codes given below
Codes
a b c d
iv iii ii i

iii iv i ii

iv ii iii i

i iii ii i

7. "By 'cultural dope' I refer to the man-in-the-sociologist's-society who produces the stable features of society in compliance with pre­established and legitimate alternatives of action that the culture provides." Who made the above statement

T. Parsons

J. Derrida

H. Garfinkel

A. Giddens


8. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion and the other as Reason
Assertion Giddens observes that the concept of structuration helps to understand the importance of social practices over both actions and structures.
Reason Structuration implies dualism of society and individual. Choose the correct answer from the given codes.
Codes

Both and are true.

is true but is false.

is false but is true.

Both and are false.


9. Which of the following development perspectives encompasses the notion of sustainable development as its central objective

Women in Development

Women and Development

Gender and Development

Women Environment and Development


10. Eco-feminism grew in India as the result of

Participation in Chipko Movement

Women's participation in Dandi March

Women's participation in Freedom Struggle

Women's participation in Lokpal Movement



11. Which sequence of perspectives on Gender and Development is followed in India

Welfare, Development, Empowerment

Politicization, Welfare, Globalisation

Welfare, Politicisation, Modernisation

Affirmative action, Welfare, Politicisation



12. India's path of development is based on

Private enterprise

Private and State enterprise

State enterprise

Gandhian model



13. Match the items in the List I with the List II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
a.Liberal i. Wallerstein
b.Uneven development ii. Andre Gounder Frank
c.Centre-periphery iii. Samir Amin
d.World-system iv. Gunnar Myrdal

Codes
a b c d
iv iii ii i

ii iii i iv

iv ii i iii

iii ii iv i



14. Who authored the book, "Annihilation of Caste"

A.R. Desai

David Hardiman

B.R. Ambedkar

N.K. Bose



15. Who has examined the phenomenon of Islamization in the context of unity in diversity in India

Yogendra Singh

Imtiaz Ahmed

Jalal Asad

S.C. Dube


16. Assertion Green revolution resulted in agrarian prosperity.
Reason All agrarian classes gained economically.
Codes

is true and is false.

is false and is true.

Both and are false.

Both and are true.



17. The Minimum Wages Act was enacted in the year

1949

1950

1948

1952



18. Who regards American Society as a 'great saleroom' filled with hypocrisy, deceit and insincerity

R.K. Merton

C. Wright Mills

T. Parsons

E. Durkheim



19. The concept of Rajputization was coined by

N.K. Bose

Surajit Sinha

David Hardiman

M.N. Srinivasan



20. Which of the following is not the indicator of Human Development

Scientific Orientation

Improvement in quality of life

Gender equality

Widow remarriage



21. Who has discussed the Modes of Adaptation in American Society for the development of deviant behaviour

R.K. Merton

E. Durkheim

G. Tarde

T. Parsons



22. Who authored the book "Culture Change in India; Identity Globalization"

T.K. Oommen

Yogendra Singh

A.K. Saran

Dipenkar Gupta



23. Match the items in List I with the items in List II and choose the right answer from the codes given below List I List II
(Books) (Authors)
a.The Elementary Forms of Religious Life i. Max Weber
b.Religion of India ii. E.E. Evans-Pritchard
c.Primitive Religion iii. Emile Durkheim
d.Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India iv. M.N. Srinivasan
v. Robert N.Bellah
Codes
a b c d
iii i v iv

iii i ii iv

iv v iii ii

iii ii iv i



24. In which of the following Indian sociological studies was structural-functional approach adopted

Social Background of Indian Nationalism

Society and Religion among the Coorgs of South India

Peasant Movements in India

Diversities



25. Which of the following is not included in the Gender Inequality Index

Capacity to determine one's own life chances

Adolescent fertility

Political representation

Labour force participation



26. Who has made the statement 'Caste is closed class and class is open caste'

D. Hardiman

L. Dumont

S. Espstein

Milton Singer


27. 'Doing Gender' requires working with

Women only

Women and men also

Women and men separately

Women and men together



28. Who described modernization as the transition from 'Gemeinshaft' to 'Gesellshaft', which signifies the progressive loss of community amid growing individualism

M.Weber

F.Toennies

Amitai Etzioni

David Reisman



29. Neo-functionalism was developed by

B. Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe Brown

Alexander C. Jeffrey and P. Colomy

Alexander C. Jeffrey and L. Coser

Talcott Parsons and Marian J. Levy



30. Who amongst the following is not connected with phenomenological sociology

Alfred Schutz

Max Weber

Peter Berger

Ralph Dahrendorf



31. Which one of the following is, according to Giddens, not true

The concept of structuration implies that the constitutions of agents are structure are two independently given sets of phenomena.

'Agents' and 'Structures' suggest dualism.

'Agents' and 'Structures' are locked in an irreconcilable conflict.

There is a dialectic relationship between 'structure' and 'agency'.



32. 73rd Constitution of Amendment is responsible for

Emergence of rural leadership

Empowerment of rural women

Gram Panchayat's functioning

Representation of rural youth



33. According to whom "Crime is an integral part of all healthy societies"

R.K. Merton

E. Durkheim

A. Cohen

D. Matza



34. Marxist Feminists explain patriarchy in terms of

Lack of equal opportunities for men and women

Oppression of women economically, politically and sexually

Exploitation of women through domestic labour

Double oppression of capitalism and male domination



35. The theory of scientific management was first spelt out in detail by whom

Tom Burns

G.M. Stalker

F.W. Taylor

None of the above



36. Who coined the concept of 'Culture of Poverty'

Oscar Lewis

Walter B. Miller

Robert Redfield

M.N. Srinivas



37. "Action and Its Environments" was written by

Talcott Parsons

Juergen Habermas

A.C. Jeffrey

Max Weber


38. Juergen Habermas was concerned mainly with

Work and exploitation

Post modernism

Functionalism

Communication



39. In "the case of kinship... the observable phenomena result from the action of laws which are general but implicit." Who made the statement

Meyer Fortes

Lucy Mair

Robin Fox

Claude Levi-Strauss



40. Avuncular relationship means the relationship

between virilocal and neolocal families

between the siblings

between the parents and the offspring

between uncle or aunt and nephew or niece.



41. Structuralism analyses the basic structures underlying human thinking and human social groups. The foregoing idea is most clearly suggested in the writings of

S.F. Nadel

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

Ferdinand de Saussare

Claude Levi-Strauss



42. Which one of the following statements is incorrect

Deconstruction seeks to confirm metanarratives

Deconstruction seeks to undermine the existing texts such as extant sociological theories

Deconstruction seeks to unravel the inherent contradictions in existing knowledge.

Deconstruction is a part of epistemological post-modernism



43. In whose words, punishment 'Serves to heal the wound's done to the collective sentiments'

R.K. Merton

E. Durkheim

E.H. Sutherland

D. Matza



44. Assertion The degree of decrease and increase in social solidarity leads people to commit suicide.
Reason In modern society people commit suicide, because of personal/self-centred reasons.
Codes

is false but is true.

is true but is false.

Both and are true and is the correct explanation of

Both and are true, but is not the correct explanation of

45. Match List I with List II and choose the right answer from the codes given below
List I List II
a. Differential Association i. E. Durkheim theory
b. Theories of Suicide ii. A. Cohen
c. Labelling theory iii. E.H. Sutherland
d. Delinquent sub-culture theory iv. H.S. Becker

Codes
a b c d
i ii iii iv

iii i iv ii

ii iii iv i

iv ii i iii

46. Positive checks are those which increase mortality, preventive checks are those which lower fertility". This statement can be attributed to

Adam Smith

Karl Marx

Thomas Malthus

Mahatma Gandhi



47. Who defines 'White Collar Crime' as "Crimes committed by persons of high social status and respectability in the course of their occupations"

H.S. Becker

E.M. Lemert

G. Tarde

E.H. Sutherland



48. To explain deviance the 'legitimate opportunity structure' and the 'illegitimate opportunity structure' have been referred to by

R.K. Merton

D. Matza

R.A. Cloward and L.E. Ohlin

E. Durkheim



49. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
(Authors) (Books)
a. Selig Harrison i. India The Most Dangerous Decades Ahead
b. Lloyd Rudolph and Susan Rudolph ii. Modernity of Tradition
c. B. Baviskar iii. Politics of Development
d. Myron Weincy iv. Politics of Scarcity

Codes
a b c d
i ii iii iv

iv iii ii i

ii i iv iii

iii ii i iv



50. Provision of houses/land to the displaced persons on account of industrialization falls under the purview of

Trade Union

Corporate Social Responsibility (C.S.R.)

Jamindar

Panchayat



51. Assertion In contemporary Indian society the incidence of crime has increased. Police alone cannot prevent and control the rate of crime.
Reason The 'community policing system' along with public co-operation could help in reducing the rate of crime.
Codes

is false but is true.

is true but is false.

Both and are true and is the correct explanation of

Both and are true, but is not the correct explanation of

52. During which decade, Census of India recorded absolute decline of population size

2001-2011

1911-1921

1941-1951

1981-1991



53. Which one of the following process defines Demographic Transition'

Migration and Fertility

Mortality and Morbidity

Fertility and Mortality

Morbidity and Fertility


54. Assertion Less developed countries of the world have persistently shown evidence of higher population growth.
Reason Poor countries lack natural resources for development.
Codes

is false, is true.

is true, is false.

Both and are true.

Both and are false.



55. Match List I with List II
List I List II
a. Industrial Man i. T. Burns
b. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life ii. E. Goffman
c. The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology iii. A. Gouldner
d. Introduction to Collective Behaviour iv. D.L. Miller

Codes
a b c d
i ii iii iv

ii iii iv i

iii iv ii i

iv ii i iii



56. Who is the author of the book titled "Women's Role in Economic Development'

Catharine Scott

Nancy Hartsock

Esther Boserup

Dorothy Smith



57. Who is most closely connected with Phenomenological Sociology

Max Weber

Emile Durkheim

Alfred Schutz

Lewis Coser



58. Under high birth rate than the death rate for several generations, the shape of the 'population pyramid' will reflect

Wider top, smaller base

Wider base than the top

Bulging middle than top and base

Similarity in base, middle, and top



59. Which are modern rural social institutions in the post independent India
Rural School
Rural Co-operative Society
Gram Panchayat
Village Khap Panchayat
Find the correct combination according to code

and

and

and

and



60. Which of the feminist ideologies seek to promote gender free society

Socialist Feminism

Radical Feminism

Liberal Feminism

Psychoanalytical Feminism



61. In the National Population Policy of India 2000, which one is not a 'socio­demographic goal for 2010'

Reduce infant mortality rate to below 30 per 1000 births.

Reduce maternal mortality ratio to below 100 per 100000 live births.

Achieve 100 percent registration of births, deaths and marriages

To compulsorily make 20 years as age of marriage for girls.


62. Who remarked regarding India's Development as "Soft State" during 1960's

Max Weber

Andre Beteille

Gunnar Myrdal

A.K. Sen


63. Match List I with List II and find the correct answer
List I List II
a. Crude Birth Rate i. Deaths of persons per 1000 mid year total population
b. Crude Death Rate ii. Deaths of children under 1 year's of age per 1000 live births during a year
c. Infant Mortality Rate iii. Live births per 1000 total mid year population
d. Life time Rate iv. Number of Migration persons enumerated other than their place of birth per 1000 total mid period population
Codes
a b c d
iii ii i iv

iii i ii iv

iv ii i iii

i ii iv iii

64. The factors of Rural Social Change include
Electronic media
Farm technology
Rural ideology
Khap Panchayats
Find the correct combination according to code

and

and

and

and

65. Match the items in the List I with the items in the List II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
a. Physical violence i. Genital Mutilation
b. Emotional violence ii. Denial of economic resources
c. Economic violence iii. Deprivation of Conjugal rights
d. Cultural violence iv. Bride burning

Codes
a b c d
iv iii ii i

i iii iv ii

ii iv iii i

iii i ii iv



66. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
a. Cultural lag i. H. Cooley
b. Primary group ii. M.N. Srinivas
c. Sanskritisation iii. W.F. Ogburn
d. Organic solidarity iv. E. Durkheim

Codes
a b c d
ii i iii iv

iii i ii iv

iv ii i iii

i iv ii iii


67. Who made the distinction of two opposing spheres of 'Female world of emotion and cooperation and male world of rationality and competition'

John Bowlby

Talcott Parsons

Robin Fox

George Peter Murdock

68. Contribution of social division of labour has been discussed in depth by

Emile Durkheim

Max Weber

Vilfredo Pareto

Pitirim Sorokin



69. 'Brain Drain' is a concept associated with which one of the following

Large scale immigration of technically qualified persons from less developed to developed countries.

Large scale flight of labour from poor countries.

Displacement of people due to war and violence

Immigration of foreign experts during colonial rule



70. Match an item in List I with an item in List II
List I List II
(Books) (Author)
a. Caste in Modern India and other Essays i. A. Beteille
b. Caste, Class and Power ii. Dumont
c. Homo Hierarchicus iii. A.R. Desai
d. Peasants Struggle in India iv. P.Gisbert

Codes
a b c d
iv i ii iii

iii ii iii iv

i ii iv iii

iv ii iii i



71. Gender roles involve ranking of men and women differently in terms of
Roles Relationships
Resources Power
Select the correct answer from the codes given below











72. Match the women development approaches in the List I with the Feminist Schools of Thought in the List II and choose the correct answer from the codes given below
List I List II
(Women Development Approaches) (Feminist School of Thought)
a. WID i. Marxist Feminist Thought
b. WAD ii. Eco Feminist Thought
c. GAD iii. Liberal Feminist Thought
d. WED iv. Socialist Feminist Thought

Codes
a b c d
i iii iv ii

ii i iii iv

iv ii i iii

iii i iv ii


73. The term proximate determinants of fertility was coined by

Kingsley Davis

Judith Blake

John Bongaarts

Karl Marx



74. Who is the author of the book entitled "Alienation and Freedom"

M. Blumer

H. Braverman

P.M. Blau

R. Blauner



75. Which of the following States and Union Territories have the lowest overall sex-ratio as per the Census Report of 2011

Daman and Diu

Punjab

Andhra Pradesh

Meghalaya