1 Sociology is considered as a

Normative Science

Objective Science

General Science

Not a science at all

2 The concept of 'positivism' was coined by which one of the following

Karl Marx

C.H. Cooley

Auguste Comte

Emile Durkheim

3 Methods of Sociology include

Ideal Method

Comparative Method

Statistical Method

All the above

4 An example of community is

A Trade Union

Varna

A political party

Tribal group

5 Which one is an example of Social Institution

Caste

Family

Marriage

All the above

6 The book "social structure of values" was written by .

M.N. Srinivasan

Radhakamal Mukherjee

S.C. Dube

Yogendra Singh

7 Who among the following defined social structure as 'Abstraction from the concrete population and its behaviour, the pattern or network (or of relationships obtaining between actors in their capacity of playing roles relative to one another'.

C.W. Mills

S.F. Nadel

H. Gerth

R.K. Merton


8 Who said that "Social change was the result of natural process of adaption"

Darwin

Spencer

Marx

Hegel
9 Match the items in List I with List II

List I (Books) List II (Authors)

White Collar The American Middle Class G.P. Murdock
The Ruling class Victor. D'Souza
Social Structure G. Mosca
Social structure of a planned city C.W. Mills

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10 Match the items in List I with List II

List I (Concepts) List II (Authors)

Militant and Industrial Society Tonnies
Little Community H. Spencer
Mechanical and Organic Solidarity R. Redfield
Gemeinschaft and Gesellaschaft E. Durkheim

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11 'Sociology of Economic life' is authored by

Weber

Parsons

Merton

Smelser

12 Cognates mean kins through

Female line

Male line

Both and

None of the above

13 Who regarded the state as "a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie"

Robert A. Dahl

V. Pareto

K. Marx

C.W. Mills

14 A biological being is transformed into a social being with the help of the following

Socialization

Resocialization

Desocialization

Anticipatory socialization

15 Which of the following is not an agency of socialization

Family

Peer group

Police

School


16 Socialization process is more effective if the agents behaviour is Based on understanding

Based on sympathy

Based on the feeling

All the above .

17 Among the following who says that social stratification is functional necessity of the society

Yogendra Singh

Andre Beteille

R. Collins

K. Davis

18 Caste based stratification is

Ascribed

Achieved

Open

Neither open nor closed

19 The consequence of Sanskritization is

Structural change in caste system

Cultural mobility of a caste

Change in caste ideology

Change in religious system

20 Which model of change suggests that change occurs through conflict and resolution

Evolutional

Dialectic

Cyclical

Progressive

21 Who is odd one among the following social thinkers of social change

Julian Steward

A. Comte

K. Marx

Saint . Simon

22 Who was of the opinion that revolutions are locomotives of history

E. Kant

K. Marx

Hegel

Engels

23 Who is said to be the founder of structuralism in Sociology and Social Anthropology

Anthony Giddens

C. Levi Strauss

L. Althusser

A.R. Radcliffe . Brown

24 Who has given the 'binary classificatory systems' in the context of the study of human mind

Sigmund Freud

H.H. Hyman

Claude Levi.Strauss

B. Malinowski

25 Who has classified roles as 'Pivotal, sufficiently relevant and peripheral' in the theory of social structure

S.F. Nadel

G.P. Murdock

Talcott Parsons

Herbert Spencer

26 Match the following lists

List I (Works) List II (Authors)
Structural Anthropology (i) S.F. Nadel
Structure and Function in Primitive Society C. Levi.Strauss
Theory of Social Structure (iii) James Frazer
The Golden Bough A.R. Radcliffe . Brown

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27 In explaining his views on Division of Labour, Durkheim invoked which theory

Darwinian Principle

Canon's Principle

Marxian Principle

Spencer's Principle

28 Whose name is associated with Verstehen approach

E. Durkheim

F. Tonnies

Max Weber

W.G. Sumner

29 Of the following who has written on 'self fulfilling prophecy'

T. Parsons

R.K. Merton

Max Weber

V. Pareto

30 Who has classified religion and magic as sacred and science as unholy

Morgan

Malinowski

Radcliffe.Brown

Durkheim

31 Who among the following has considered human society as a moving equilibrium

T. Parsons

R.K. Merton

Max Weber

None of these

32 Who classified action in logical and non.logical categories

Max Weber

T. Parsons

V. Pareto

G.H. Mead

33 Symbolic interactionism is a sociological perspective that places emphasis on

Macro level social interaction

Micro scale social interaction

Interactions between social and non.social entities

None of these

34 Who made a distinction between "class in itself" and "class for itself" to reflect the movement from a class's potential self awareness to actual self.awareness

Karl Marx

R. Dahrendorf

L.A. Coser

R. Collins

35 Considering both conflict and consensus are the two sides of the same coin, who felt that handling both the faces was difficult

R. Dahrendorf

L.A. Coser

G. Simmel

K. Marx

36 Who made it clear that the focus on conflict should not be ideological but rather it should be a focus on the central process in social life on the realistic ground

L.A. Cosev R. Collins R. Dahrendorf G. Simmel 37. The book "The Idea of Social Sciences" has been written by P. Winch

Robert Redfield

A.R. Louch

Malinowski

38 The concept of 'intersubjectivity' has been used in the writings of which Sociologist

Edmund Husserl

Peter Burger

Harold Garfinkel

Alfred Schutz

39 The difference between 'value . judgement' and 'value . reference' has been given by

Herbert Spencer

Karl Manheim

Max Weber

A.R. Radcliffe . Brown

40 Using multiple methods of data collection in the same area of interest is known as

Field Research

Ethnography

Triangulation

Variation .

41 In order to qualify as a random sample .

The researcher must pretest the subject

The researcher must conduct pilot study

At least hundred people must be selected

Every member of the population must have an equal chance of being selected

42 Who at first used "Survey method in Social Science Research"

Charles Booth

William .. Goode

C.A. Moser

.ahoda

43 Which research method can be used most appropriately for the objective, quantitative and systematic study of communication material

Observation

Interview Schedule

Oral History

Content analysis

44 Where did Andre Beteille conduct his field work for his study of 'caste, class and power'

Rampura

Sripuram

Khalapur

Kisangarhi

45 Who is the Author of the Book 'Street Corner Society'

F.M. Thrasher

W.F. Whyte

G.C. Homans

R. Redfield

46 The assumption of 'class interval' in case of median is .

That all frequencies are spread between the true limits of class interval

That all frequencies concentrated on the midpoint of the class interval

That all frequencies are concentrated on the upper limit of the class interval

That all frequencies are concentrated on the lower limit of the class interval

47 The IQR (Inter Quartile Range) means

The variation from first quartile point to second quartile point

The variation from second quartile to third quartile point

The variation from first quartile point to the third quartile point

All the above

48 Validity means

The extent to which a measure or method of data collection possesses the quality of being true

The extent to which a method of data collection possesses the quality of being sound

Both and

None of the above

49 Who is the author of 'Deschooling Society'

E. Durkheim

Ivan Illich

Kingslev Davis

Krishan Kumar

50 Who insisted that the interpretive process and the context in which it is done are the vital elements in the person's use of meaning and formation there of

G.H. Mead

V. Pareto

Max Weber

H. Blumer