1. 'Legitimation crisis' for Habermas occurs

When the state fails to perform its techno-managerial functions

When illegitimate groups come to power

When the Constitutional machinery breaks down

None of the above



2. 'Typification' as a concept belongs primarily to

Symbolic interactionism

Role theory

Phenomenological sociology

Ethnomethodology

3. Who among the following emphasized on the distinction between and 'identity'?

Erwing Goffman

Herbert Blumer

George Herbert Mead

Harold Garfinkel

4. The term 'developmental agnosticism' to describe a situation in sociological theory after 1945 can be traced to the work of

Talcott Parsons

Stephen Menne"

Georg Simmel

C. Wright Mills

5. 'Explanans' refers to

That which contains the explanation

Antecedent event or cause

Both of the above

None of the above

6. Who stressed the idea that the category 'middle class' is born decomposed?

Karl Marx

Karl Renner

Antonio Gramsci

Ralf Dahrendorf

7. Accumulation by dispossession is

accumulation of possessions lost earlier

privatization

primitive accumulation

ecological disaster

8. Collective consumption is

consumption of culture

consumption by society

goods and services produced and consumed at a collective level

consumerism

9. Social capital as defined by Pierre Bourdieu is

material resource owned by a group

social networks

family and kin systems

Dispositions

10. Liquid Modernity is

an aesthetic theory of modernity

the main title of the book: All that is solid melts into air

a technology which uses water to write on paper

a book by Zygmunt Bauman

11. Empiricism refers to

A philosophical doctrine which advocates experience as the only source of knowledge .

A concept that celebrates the role of reason in social research

A-theoretical position that advocates common sense approach in social research.

A religious philosophy that believes in the theory of One God.

12. Patrimonialism refers to a system of

Modern power structure in which male domination is recognized as the authentic one

Traditional political domination in which a royal household exercises arbitrary power through a bureaucratic apparatus

Religious system prevailing among the Azunde tribes

New Economic policy suggested by the World Bank

13. Based on Louis Dumont's monograph on Paramalai Kallar of Tamil Nadu, which of the following statement is true about Dravidian Kinship

Sister exchange is discouraged in practice

Conjugality is central to Dravidian kinship

Joking and avoidance relations are central to south Indian kinship

Hypergamy and hypogamy co-exist in South India

14. Author of the book "The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology" is

Alvin Gouldner

R. Bendix

Daniel,Bell

None of the above

15. Author of "The Production of Space" is

Talcott Parsons

Henry Lefebvre

Henry Martin

None of the above

16. Manuel Castells is the author of one of the folloWing:

Economy and Society

One-dimensional man

The Rise of the Network Society

The Social Construction of Reality

17. Who among the following is associated with post-development?

Amartya Sen

Arturo Escobar

Amit Bhaduri

Robert Chambers

18. Who said that the social stratification in India is based on 'purity and pollution'?

M.N. Srinivas

A.R.Desai

Louis Dumont

Yogendra Singh

19. The author/s of "The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience an Theory" is/are

M.N. Srinivas

Dipankar Gupta

Gopal Guru and Sundar Sarukkai

Kancha JIIaiah and Susie Tharu

20. Self-Reflexivity in social research is informed by

Positivist thought

Phenomenology

Functionalism

Durkheimian principles

21. Thick description

Allows us to make an in-depth study of the field

Is necessary in all health related surveys

Is possible in archaeological research

Involves introspection of the researcher

22. Which of the following cannot be taken as data for qualitative research?

Photographs

Blogs and diaries

Experiments in Labs

Experiences

23. Who is the author of the book "Theory as history: Essays on Modes of production and Exploitation"?

Jairus Banaji

Ashok Rudra

Utsa Patnaik

Kalyan Sanyal

24. From Derrida's standpoint, Metaphysics analyses the world in terms of the following polarities

Standard vs Parasite

Ideal vs Non-ideal

Literal vs Non-literal

All ofthe above

25. Feminization of agriculture implies that

all the members of household are women, engaged in agriculture

a woman head directs all the men in the household how to do agriculture

men and women members of household equally participate in decision making process of agriculture

more men moved to non-agricultural occupations women started undertaking all the tasks in agriculture albeit with different wages

26. Which of the following are Pierre Bourdieu's concepts

Field, Habitus and Pracitce

Disposition, Theory and Hegemony

Accumulation, dispossession and Culture

All of the above

27. With whom do you associate the following statement? "The state is the political system par excellence: There is no distinction between state and society"

Immanuel Kant

Hegel

Karl Marx

Ferdinand Tonnies

28. Who among the following sociologists claimed that the comparative method of sociology is not a special branch of Sociology: it is sociology itself

Emile Durkheim

Tom Bottomore

Randall Collins

Andre Beteille

29. Ethnicisation of caste is a process of

Caste becoming tribe

Caste becoming upwardly mobile

Caste differences becoming more salient

Caste inequalities are played out publicly

30. Secularisation of caste indicates

That caste is becoming class

Embourgeoisement within the caste

De-ritualisation of caste

Enculturation of caste

31. M.N. Srinivas can be associated with

living in a revolution'

Social framework of an Indian factory

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

None of the above

32. Who among the following is associated with studies of the Naxalite movement?

Giri Deshingkar

Romesh Thapar

Sumanta Banerjee

Ashis Bose

33. Reification is a concept associated with

Marxism

Structural functionalism

Psychoanalytic theory

None of the above

34. 'Western' Marxism means:

An important variant of Marxist theory that developed in the west

That had multiple tendencies in Marxism

That differed from 'Soviet' Marxism

All the above

35. Theorisation on sexuality was done by

Sigmund Freud

Wilhelm Reich

Michel Foucault

All the above

36. Who is the author of the article titled 'The Caste System Upside Down, or The Not-So­Mysterious East'.

D.P Mukherjee

R.K.Mukherjee

TN Madan

Joan P. Mencher

37. "Caste System is not merely a division of labour. It is also a division of labourers". Who has made this observation on the nature of caste and class in Indian society?

Ratna Naidu

Gloria Raheja

BRAmbedkar

Gail Omvedt

38. The essence of the Subaltern perspective is to provide voice to

the dominant classes

dominant castes

liberal feminists

the different sections of marginalized people

39. According to Louis Dumont, 'Purity' and 'Pollution' are the underlying sources of?

Varna order in Hinduism

Class inequality in India

Dowry deaths in Haryana

Kinship organization in Indian family system

40. Village studies in India explicitly deployed

The Marxist approach

The textual analysis

The statistical method

The ethnographic method

41.
Part-B

Attempt any One of the following questions in the space provided below. The answer must not exceed 500 words.

1.Critically analyse whether subaltern studies simply reinforced the binaries of elite and subaltern, above or below, national and local ignoring other complexities.

2.Discuss the genesis of the Frankfurt School and outline its main contribution to social theory.

3.Discuss the possibilities of using mixed methods and grounded theory in social research. Start writing here Part-C (20 Marks) Attempt a short note on any Four of the following questions in the space provided below. Each short note carries Five marks and must not exceed 200 words.

1.Symbolic Violence

2. T. N. Madan's concept on Secularism

3. Critique of Sanskritisation

4. Global City

5. Duality of Structures

6. Reliability and Validity in Social Research

7. Oral History Start writing here