C.S.E. SOCIOLOGY (Prelim.) -2005

C.S.E. SOCIOLOGY (Prelim.) -2005
1. Among the following implements, which one led to "silent revolution" from
nomadic to agricultural society?
(a) Flint stone (b) Catapult
(c) Hand axe (d) Hoe
2. Match List I (Author) with List II (Contribution) and select the correct
answer using the code given below the lists:
List I
A. Max Weber
B. R. Dahrendorf
C. Emile Durkheim
D. T. Veblen
List II
1. Division of Labour
2. The Leisure Class
3. Economy and Society
4. Class and Class Conflict in
Industrial Society
A B C D A B C D
(a) I 4 3 2 (b) 3 2 1 4
(c) 1 2 3 4 (d) 3 4 1 2
3. Who among the following has divided religious organisations into
denominations and cults?
(a) Max Weber (b) Ernst Troeltsch
(c) Howard Becker (d) Robert K. Merton
4. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the codes given
below the lists:
List I (Concept) List II (Thinker)
A. Rationalization 1. Saint Simon
B. Military society and industrial society 2. Collin Clark
C. Mechanical solidarity and organic solidarity 3. Max Weber
D. Primary, secondary and tertiary sectors 4. Emile Durkheim
A B C D A B C D
(a) 3 2 4 1 (b) 4 1 3 2
(c) 3 1 4 2 (c) 4 2 3 1
5. Which among the following are the two orientations with regard to the
two types of social movements as given by Yogendra Singh?
1. Integrative 2. Alternative
3. Alienating 4. Reformative
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1 and 2 (b) 1 and 3
(c) 3 and 4 (d) 1 and 4
6. What does the term 'Patrician' stand for?
(a) Land owner (b) Landless labourer
(c) Slave (d) Slave master
7. With whom among the following are the concepts universalisation and
parochrialisation associated?
(a) Robert R. Marret (b) McKim Marriott .
(c) R. Redfield (d) Meyer Fortes
8. Who among the following has suggested a three-fold division of the
agricultural population into Malik, Kisan and Maz-door ?
(a) Daniel Thorner (b) D.N. Dhanagre
(c) KGough (d) A.Amitai Etzioni
9. Consider the following statements:
1. Tribal Economy often has a market place but not a market system.
2. Reciprocity and redistribution create the integrative patterns prevalent in
tribal economy.
3. Tribal production is contractual and voluntary.
4. A distinguishing feature of primitive life is fusion of social and economic
institutions.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) I and 4 (b) 2 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 4 (d) 1, 2 and 3
10. Which among the following tribes has started the Tana Bhagat Movement?
(a) Santal (b) Khasi
(c) Oraon (d) J5:uki
11. Match List I (Typology) with List II (Tribal Movement) and select the
correct answer using the code given below the lists:
List I List II
A. . Ethnic 1. Naga Movement
B. Reform 2. Jharkhand Movement
C. Secessionist 3. Birsa Movement
D. Subnational 4. Bhagat Movement
A B C D A B C D
(a) 3 2 1 4 (b) 1 4 3 2
(c) 3 4 1 2 (d) 1 2 3 4
12. Match List I (Dormitory) with List II (Tribe) and select the correct answer
using the code given below the lists: .
List I List II
A Rangbang 1. Munda
B. Ghotul 2. Ao Naga
C. Yo 3. Bhotia
D. Gitiora 4. Muria
A B C D A B C D
(a) 2 1 3 4 (b) 3 4 3 2
(c) 2 4 3 1 (d) 3 1 2 4
13. Consider the following statements:
R K Merton refers to the Hopi rain dance in. connection with
1. latent function. 2. relative deprivation.
3. reference group. 4. manifest function.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 4 (d) 4 only
14. Consider the following statements:
1. Power has become independent of class than what it was in the past.
2. Ownership of land is no longer the decisive factor in acquiring power.
3. Mobility in the caste system has always been an extremely slow and gradual
process.
Which of the statements given above are correct according to Andre Beteille with
regard to power?
(a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 and 3
(c) 1 and 2 (d) I, 2 and 3
15. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given
below the Lists:
List I List II
A Urbansim 1. Oscar Lewis
B. Folk urban continuum 2. L. Wirth
C. Little tradition and great tradition 3. R. Redfield
D. Culture of poverty 4. Milton Singer
A B C D A B C D
(a) 4 1 2 3 (b) 2 3 4 1
(c) 4 3 2 1 (d) 2 1 3 4
16. Lewis Mumford used the term "container" to characterise the city of
(a) Neolithic period (b) Paleolithic period
(c) Mesolithic period (d) Feudal period
17. The scientific stage of society began in the 19th century and it corresponded
to the industrial society. Who among the following used the term "industrial
society" in this context?
(a) Auguste Comte (b) Emile Durkheim
(c) Karl Marx (d) Max Weber
18. People in the cybernetic age are categorized into 'Alpha' and 'Beta'. Which
one of the following belongs to 'Alpha category'?
(a) Illiterate tribal (b) Cultivator
(c) Village shopkeeper
(d) rained scientist and professional
19. Who expressed the view that demographic density is a major determinant of
societal evolution?
(a) alcott Parsons (b) Emile Durkheim
(c) Georg Simmel (d) L. Coser
20. What does population pyramid deal with?
(a) Age and marriage structure (b) Age and sex structure
(c) Age and labour force structure
(d) Age and literacy structure
21. Who introduced the term 'stateless society'?
(a) Paul Bohannan (b) E. E. Evans-Pritchard
(c) A. Powell (d) A. Giddens
22. Which one of the following principles in not relater to P. A. Sorokin's
cultural theory of change?
(a) he principle of cyclical change
(b) he principle of, immanent change
(c) he principle of limit
(d) he principle of social equilibrium
23. Match List I (Micle) with List II (Provision) and select the correct answer
using the code given below the Lists:
List I. List II
A Article 15 1. Abolition of untouchability
B. Article 330 2. Promotion of education and economic interests of
SC/ST and other weaker sections
C. Article 46 3. 3. Prohibition of discrimination on the basis of religion,
race, caste, sex or place of birth
D. Article 17 4. 4. Reservation of seats for SC and ST in the Lok Sabha
A B C D A B C D
(a) 2 4 3 1 (b) 3 1 2 4
(c) 2 1 3 4 (d) 3 4 2 1
24. When was the Kaka Kalelkar Commission constituted by the then President
of India?
(a) 1952 (b) 1953
(c) 1954 (d) 1951
25. Which of the concepts given below are concerned with analysis of cyclical
change?
(a) Social statics and social dynamics
(b) Morphostatics and morphogenesis
(c) Social telesis and social genesis
(d) Residues and derivations
26. Who among the following is regarded as technological determinist of social
change?
(a) E. Durkheim (b) W F. Ogburn
(c) Pitrim A. SorolGn (d) horstein Veblen
27. Who among the following offered a cyclic theory of social change which
views the societies oscillating between three different types of mentalities?
(a) V Pareto (b) P. A. SorolGn
(c) Veblen (d) K. Marx

28. According to Hindu view of life there are four ages. Which one of the
following is the correct sequence?
(a) Satyayuga - Dwapara - Treta – Kaliyuga
(b) Kaliyuga - Dwapara - Satyayuga – Treta
(c) Satyayuga - Treta - Dwapara – Kaliyuga
(d) reta - Dwapara - Satyayuga - Kaliyuga
29. Who among the following has said that all cultures go through a regular
succession of stages corresponding to spring, summer, autumn and winter?
(a) A.J. Toynbee (b) Oswald Spengler
(c) F. S. Chapin (d) A. L. Kroeber
30. Who among the following developed notions of stratification that included
both the institutional gains of stratification and the conflict inherent in
societal inequalities?
(a) Ralph Dahrendrof (b) Talcott Parsons
(c) Max Weber (d) Herbert Spencer
31. Which one of the following statements is correct? The concept of social role,
according to E. Goffman has originated in a .
(a) heatrical setting (b) Social life
(c) system of social stratification (d) the process of role adaptation
32. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(a) A. R Radcliffe Brown: Four functional prerequisites
(b) R K. Merton : Reference groups
(c) Emile Durkheim: Social facts
(d) E. H. Cooley : Primary and secondary groups
33. Who regards deviance as functional for society?
(a) A. Cohen (b) E. Durkheim
(c) R K. Merton (d) L. K. White
34. What does law in a society mean?
I. To transform informal social norms into formal ones.
2. To elevate vague obligations and privileges into rights and duties.
3. A realm of formal obligation.
4. A fear imposed on people to avoid certain actions.
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) 1, 2 and 4 (b) 1, 3 and 4
(c) 1, 2 and 3 (d) 2, 3 and 4
35. Consider the following factors about socialization, as conceived by Sigmund
Freud:
1. 'Super-ego' develops in an individual when the latter assimilates his/her
parent's ideas of right and wrong.
2. The rational part of the individual's 'id' takes the form of ago.
3. The individual's organism contacts the external world.
4. Innate tendencies, stored in the 'id' seek satisfaction in the external world.
Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the factors given above?
(a) 2 - 1 - 4 - 3 (b) 4 - 3 - 2 - 1
(c) 2 - 3 - :t - 1 (d) 4 - 1 - 2 - 3
36. What is the process, under which one culture merges itself with the
dominant culture, called?
(a) Adaptation (b) Accommodation
(c) Assimilation (d) Acculturation
37. What is the most important and basic factor for social integration according
to the functionalists?
(a) Value consensus
(b) Maintenance of relative stability
(c) Structural interdependence
(d) Condition of anomie
38. Which one of the following is not covered under the "Element of Social
Structure" ?
(a) Deviation (b) Observance
(c) Sanction (d) Group action
39. What are social norms?
(a) Rules whose observance is expected in a society
(b) Laws whose violation invariably leads to punishment
(c) Principles accepted as normal by sociology
(d) Codes which are prescribed in sacred texts
40. Which one of the following theories is considered as a cause of social
protests?
(a) Absolute deprivation
(b) Political mobilization of the oppressed
(c) Relative deprivation
(d) Absolute poverty
41. Who among the following authors developed the social distance scale?
(a) L. Guttman (b) Paulin Young
(c) W J. Goode and P. K. Hatt (d) E. S. Bogardus
42. Who among the following originally used the term 'Relative Deprivation' ?
(a) Samuel A. Stouffer (b) R. K. Merton
(c) W G. Summer (d) A. Henderson
43. What is the marriage of a widow to her deceased husband's brother termed
as ?
(a) Widow marriage (b) Sororate
(c) Polyandry (d) Levirate
44. In which one of the following concepts has M. N. Srinivas explained caste
mobility as a process of social and cultural change?
(a) Sanskritization (b) Secularization
(c) Westernization (d) Modernization
45. Which of the following social groups practiced the custom of visiting
husbands as a form of marriage '?
(a) Bhils (b) Santhals
(c) Nail's (d) Nagas
46. What is a marriage between social strata, where the woman is a member of
the upper stratum; designated as?
(a) Hypogamy (b) Hypergamy
(c) Exogamy (d) Endogamy
47. Which one of the following situations does sororal polygyny refer to?
(a) Several sisters marry the same man
(b) A woman's marriage with her husband's brother after the husband's death
(c) A man's marriage with his sister's daughter.
(d) A man's marriage with the sister of his sister's husband.
48. In which one of the following terminological systems, each term designates
only one type of relative?
(a) Classificatory kinship terminology
(b) Kinship terminology
(c) Colloquial terminology
(d) Descriptive kinship terminology
49. What is the most important feature of the social system of the Manus tribe
of Admiralty Islands which Margaret Mead called "Gentes"?
(a) Patrilineal clan (b) Matrilineal clan
(c) eknonymy (d) Adelphic Polyandry
50. Match List I (Concept) with List II (Propounded By) and select the correct
answer using the code given below the Lists:
List I
A. Third world
B. Bureaucracy
C. Iron Law of Oligarchy
D. Law of Mystical participation
List II
1. Lucian Levy-Bruhl
2. Monsieur de Gournay
3. Robert Michels
4. Alfred Sauvy
A B C D A B C D
(a) 4 1 3 2 (b) 3 2 4 1
(c) 4 2 3 1 (d) 3 1 4 2
51. Which one of the following statements is correct? Industrial society refers to
(a) Durkheim's concept of mechancial solidarity
(b) Tonnies' model of Gesellschaft
(c) Parson's model of collective orientation
(d) Redfield's type of archaic society
52. Match List I (Concept) with List II (ThinkeJ) and select the correct answer
using the code given below the Lists:
List I List II
A. Post Capitalist Society 1. Kahn and Wiener
B. Post Modern Era 2. Ralf Dahrendorf
C. Post Bourgeois Order 3. Amitai Etzioni
D. Post Economic Society 4. George Lichtheim
A B C D A B C D
(a) 2 3 4 1 (b) 4 1 2 3
(c) 2 I 4 3 (d) 4 3 2 1
53. Consider the following statements:
The significant characteristics of industrial society are
I. profit orientation. 2. bureaucratic organization.
3. reliance on animate energy. 4. class segregation.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
(a) I, 2 and 3 (b) I, 2 and 4
(c) 1,3 and 4 (d) 2, 3 and 4
Directions: The following 8 (Eight) items consist of two statements, one
labelled as the 'Assertion (A)' and the other as 'Reason (R)'. You are to
examine these two statements carefully and select the answers to these items
using the codes given below:
(a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A
(b) Both A and R are individually ture but R is not the correct explanation of A
(c) A is true but R is false
(d) A is false but R is true
54. Assertion (A) : It is not merely equality under law that determines the status of
women in Society.
Reason (R) : Traditions and customs are involved in everyday social
interactions.
55. Assertion (A) : Forces of urbanisation induce family disorganisation.
Reason (R) : Urban values are hostile to abiding relationships. .
56. Assertion (A) : The behaviour between maternal uncle and niece, and between
mother-in-law and son-in-law falls under the. same pattern.
Reason (R) : Both behaviours are classified as joking-relationship.
57. Assertion (A) : Ascribed social status acquired from one's family of orientaion
does not automatically persist throughout one's life.
Reason (R) : "Social training acquired in the family of orientation fosters a
continuity of status when a family of procreation is
established.
58. Assertion (A) : The role of maternal uncle in a matrilineal family is crucial to
the extent of safeguarding his sister and her daughters.
Reason (R) : He is not a custodian of his sister's wealth and property.
59. Assertion (A) : Ascetic Protestantism contained the seeds of its own
destruction.
Reason (R) : Once its teachings were incorporated into a rational capitalist
system, religious direction and validation were rapidly eroded.
60. Assertion (A) : In a democracy participation is the most important indicator of
political stratification.
Reason (R) : Access to opportunities to participate and the actual use of
these opportunities is not the basis. of stratification in a
society.
61. Assertion (A) : According to P. A. Sorokin, changeoccurs from within the
society aided by the external factors.
Reason (R) : Change is a latent process.
62. Match List I (Concept) with List II (Scholar) and select the correct answer
using the code given below the Lists:
List I List II
A. Rational goal-oriented 1. Ferdinand Tonnies action
B. Gesellschaft 2. Friedrich Engels
C. Theroy of Collective Behaviour 3. Max Weber
D. Historical materialism 4. N. J. Smelser
A B C D A B C D
(a) 4 1 3 2 (b) 3 2 4 1
(c) 4 2 3 I (d) 3 1 4 2
63. Will is primarily responsible for the emergence of
(a) Reference group (b) Gesellschaft
(c) Gemeinschaft (d) Seconda}y group
64. Consider the following types of society:
1. Bourgeois society 2. Primitive Communism
3. Feudal society 4. Ancient society
Which one of the following is the correct chronological sequence of these
societies as conceived by Karl Marx?
(a) 3 - I - 2 - 4 (b) 2 - 4 - 3 - 1
(c) 3 - 4 - 2 - I (d) 2 - I - 3 - 4
65. Which one of the following is asserted by the organic theory of society?
(a) he society is like a living / biological organism
(b) he society is unlike a human organism (c) he units of society are fixed
(d) Each unit of a society performs definite universal function
66. Which one of the following facts, according to Lewis H. Morgan,
distinguishes civilization from the preceding stages in. the evolution of
human society?
(a) echnological inventions
(b) Scientific inventions
(c) Smelting of iron ores
(d) Invention of alphabets, phonetics and writing
67. Who among the following introduced the distinction of cultures into
ideational and sensate categories?
(a) P. A. Sorokin (b) Sigmund Freud
(c) A. L. Kroeber (d) O. Spengler
68. Consider the following statements:
I. Crude death rate is very strongly affected by the age composition of the
population.
2. The life expectancy at birth is a good measure of mortality conditions in a
country because it adjusts for age composition by using prevailing birth rates
at each age to estimate the average number of years a person may expect to
live.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) Both I and 2 (c) Neither I nor 2
69. What is the spread of cultural traits from one society to another commonly
called?
(a) Acculturation (b) Diffusion
(c) Enculturation (d). Discrimination
70. What happens: "When changes in material culture precede changes in
adaptive culture, adjustments cannot start before change requiring them has
taken place. But old customs persist and bring about quite harmful
consequences"?
(a) Cultural deprivation (b) Cultural lag
(c) Cultural diffusion (d) Cultural determinism
71. What does cultural relativism mean?
(a) here are no universal cultural norms that we follow
(b) One's view of social institutions is coloured by one's cultural perspective
(c) Functions and meanings of cultural traits are according to their social settings
(d) he belief that one's own culture is superior to others
72. What is a situation in which people regard their own cultural values to be
universally valid and superior to all other cultures, called?
(a) Cultural absorption (b) Accommodation
(c) Ethnocentrism (d) Cultural ambivalence
73. Consider the following statements: According to the functionalist
perspective of Talcott Parsons, all societies must solve the functional
problems of
1. pattern maintenance. 2. goal attainment.
3. adaptation. 4. integration.
Which of the statement's given is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) I and 2
(c) 2 and 3 (d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
74. A family falls in the category of primary group. What are the other terms
sociologists use to indicate family as a primary group?
(a) Genetic, involuntary, in-group, blood relations
(b) Genetic, voluntary, in-group, associations
(c) Genetic, involuntary, out-group, institution
(d) Involuntary, institutional, blood relations, associations
75. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(a) C. H. Cooley : Primary group
(b) alcott Parsons : Positivism
(c) R. K. Merton : Reference groups
(d) W G. Summer : In-group, out-group
76. To which of the following patterns of social change, can the process of
Sankritisation in India be compared?
(a) Anomie (b) Horizontal mobility
(c) Evolutionary process (d) Reference-group model
77. Which one of the following statements in respect of status is not correct ?
(a) Status is the rank-order position
(b) Status is a position in the general institutional system
(c) Status is the worth of a person as estimated by a group
(d) Status is a cultural attribute of. an individual
78. Consider the following statements:
1. Auguste Comte proposed a theory of evolutionary social change dividing it
into three stages of thought: the religious stage, the metaphysical stage and
the scientific stage.
2. According to Herbert Spencer's evolutionary theory, human societies evolve
from "barbarian" to "civilized". Which of the statements given above is/are
correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
79. Who among the following has/have used the concept of "unitary coded
substance" that explains the process of pollution among Hindus?
(a) Pauline Kolenda .
(b) McKim ,Marriott and R. B. lnden
(c) M. N. Srinivas
(d) N. Madan
80. Which of the following is not a criterion of caste?
(a) Hereditary occupation (b) Endogamy
(c) Exogamy (d) Hierarchy
81. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given
below the Lists:
List I
A. Opposition of purity and
pollution
B. Dominant caste
C. Tribe-caste-peasant continuum
D. Attributional and interactional
analysis of caste
List II
1. Surajit Sinha
2. L. Dumont .
3. McKim Marriott
4. M. N. Srinivas
82. Match List I (Interpretation of Caste) with List II (Scholar) and select the
correct answer using the code given below the Lists:
List I List II
A. Caste is a closed system 1. Louis Dumont
B. Closed organic stratification 2. Gunnar Myrdal
C. Caste is an extreme form of 3. Fredrick Bailey
absolutely rigid class
D. Caste is an expression of 4. Max Weber
hierarchy rather than stratification
A B C D A B C D
(a) 1 2. 3 4 (b) 4 . 3 2 1
(c) I 3 2 4 (d) 4 2. 3 I
83. According to Karl Marx, where does the capitalist class derive profit from?
(a) Absolute control over property
(b) he surplus values created by the workers
(c) Greater investment of capital to production
(d) Increase of means of production
84. Who looks into social stratification as 'the unequal division of material
rewards and social prestige'?
(a) Max Weber
(b) Kingsley Davis and Wilbert Moore
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Melvin Tumin
85. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given
below the Lists:
List I
A. Social position of men into groups based on their consumption pattern
B. Besides capitalists and workers, there are also other classes and strata in
capitalist society
C. Status attainment through achievement motivation
D. Exploitation through appropriation of surplus value
List II
1. Kingsley Davis & Wilbert Moore
2. Max Weber
3. Karl Marx
4. Wesoloski
A B C D A B C D
(a) 2 4 1 3 (b) 3 1 4 2
(c) 2 I 4 3 (d) 3 4 I 2
86. Wbich one of the following statements is correct?
In "marumakkatthayam" practice inheritance is through
(a) he father (b) he mother
(c) he paternal uncle (d) he maternal uncle
87. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched?
(a) Patrilolity : Patrilineal
(b) Avunculocality : Matrilineal
(c) Matrilocality : Sororal Polygyny
(d) Bilocality : Double descent
88. Match List I (Theory Regarding Origin of Religion) with List II (Propounder)
and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists:
List I
A. Animism
B. Naturism
C. Functional
List II
1. Malinowski
2. Max Muller
3. Tylor
4. Marett
A B C A B C
(a) 2 I 3 (b) 3 2 1
(c) 2 4 3 (d) 3 1 4
89. Consider the following statements:
Under matrilocal residence
1. wife has to live in husband's father's house.
2. mother has to live son-in-law's house.
3. husband has to live in wife's mother's house.
4. father has to live in daughter-in-law's house.
Which of the above statements is/are correct?
(a) 1 and 3 (b) 2 only
(c) 3 only (d) 2 and 3
90. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given
below the Lists:
List I List II
A. Cognate 1. Family function
B. Modern family 2. Maternal uncle
C. Socialisation 3. Common ancestor
D. Avunculate 4. Narrow range kinship
5. Classificatory Kin
A B C D A B C D
(a) 2 4 1 3 (b) 3 1 4 2
(c) 2 I 4 3 (d) 3 4 1 2
91. Which of the following is an example of matrilineal kin group?
(a) lrula (b) Kadar
(c) Khasi (d) Toda
92. Match List I (Concept) with List II (Residence Rule) and select the correct
answer using the code given below the Lists:
List I
A. Neolocal B. Bilocal
C. Matrilocal D. Patrilocal
List II
1. Married couple lives in wife's mother's household
2. Married couple is allowed to live with either Husband's or Wife's family of
origin
3. Married couple lives anywhere on their own outside their respective families
4. Married couple lives in husband's father's household
A B C D A B C D
(a) 1 4 3 2 (b) 3 2 1 4
(c) I 2 3 4 (d) 3 4 I 2
93. What is the term given to the relationship which is go verned by formal rules
to restrict interaction between designated categories of relatives?
(a) Avoidance relationships
(b) Joking relationships
(c) Conflicting relationships
(d) Intimate relationships
94. Who divided the science of Sociology into two major parts - Sooial statics
and Social dynamics?
(a) Max Weber (b) Karl Marx
(c) Saint Simon (d) Auguste Comte
95. Which one of the following statements correctly describes Wergild?
(a) An ordeal performed by the culprit to prove himself not guilty
(b) A kind of bride price arranged by a groom among the tribals
(c) A fine by which homicide and other heinous crimes against the person were
expiated among the Teutonic people
(d) A kind of sacrificial and sacramental meals among the tribes
96. A particular social status involves not a single associated ro1e, but an array
of associated roles. What was this termed' as by R. K. Merton?
(a) Status set (b) Multiple statuses
(c) Multiple roles (d) Role set
97. What did the 'Satyashodhak Samaj' established in 1873 aim at ?
(a) To bring all castes together
(b) To create a non-idol-worshipping, reason-based faith anchored to truth
(c) To fight against British rule
(d) To fight for women's rights
98. Consider the following statements :
1. The functionalist theory of social stratification has not focused on explaining
social stratification as-a system of rewards resulting in differences in social
prestige.
2. Generally, functionalist theories of social stratification have been assumed, as
far as public policy is concerned, because they mirror and support the status
quo.
Which of the statements given above is/are correct?
(a) 1 only (b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2 (d) Neither 1 nor 2
99. Which of the following concepts are applied to analyse the process of
civilizational change?
(a) Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
(b) Zweckrationalitat and Wertrationalitat
(c) Mechanical and organic solidarity
(d) Sensate and ideational culture
100. Who was the Maharaja under whose patronage the Daljt movement
flourished in Maharashtra?
(a) he Maharaja of Kolhapur (b) he Maharaja of Raigarh
(c) he Maharaja of Nagpur (d) he Maharaja of Amaravati
101. Which one of the following statements is correct? Feminism in the western
societies
(a) is a militant moverpent of women's rights supporters
(b) is a homogeneous ideology built like Marxism, theoretically, over the years
(c) has emerged as a generic term encompassing various ideological positions
vis-a-vis society's treatment of women
(d) is a metaphysical notion that nobody wishes to question or challenge
102. In which of the following States did the Naxalite movement emerge in 1960s?
(a) Bihar (b) West Bengal
(c) Orissa (d) Madhya Pradesh
103. Who among the following has referred to integrative orientation and
alienating orientation as two types of social movements?
(a) Rajni Kothari (b) Andre Beteille
(c) Kathleen Gough (d) Yogendra Singh
104. Which of the following is not an essential feature of social movement?
(a) Collective mobilization
(b) Revolution
(c) Ideology
(d) Orientation towards change
105. Which one of the following tribes initiated the Jharkhand movement?
(a) Bhil (b) Bodo
(c) Santhal (d) Birhor
106. Which one of the following was a peasant movement?
(a) Khilafat Movement
(b) Women Liberation Movement
(c) elengana Movement
(d) Jharkhand movement
107. Who among the following has proposed a model to explain the
differentiation of social system, based on an analysis of the way in which a
particular system responds to forces for change?
(a) N. J. Smelser (b) alcott Parsons
(c) Daniel Bell (d) Ulrich Beck
108. Which of the following group(s)of factors was/were used by Kroeber to
classify kinship terminology?
1. Descen, Gender, Polarity, Bifurcation and Lineage
2. Kinderd, Class, Affinity, Gender and Polarity
3. Generation, Gender, Afinity, Bifurcation and Polarity
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
(a) I only (b) 3 only
(c) 2 and 3 (d) I and 3
109. A special role, similar to that of a maternal uncle, for one's father's sister is
designated as
(a) Amitate (b) Couvade
(c) Avunculate (d) eknonymy
110. Consider the following statements:
1. Extended family consists of two mates of opposite sex and their offspring.
2. Conjugal family consists of two mates of opposite sex and their offspring.
3. Consanguineous family consists of hvo mates of opposite sex and their
offspring.
Which of the statements given above is correct?
(a) I only (b) 2 only
(c) 3 only (d) None.
111. When two or more ~ibs exist in a community, they may be called
(a) Moieties (b) Phrateries
(c) Exogamous clans (d) Endogamous clans
112. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given
below the Lists:
List I List II
A. Joking relationships I. L. H. Morgan
B. Taboo 2. F. J. Pedlar
C. Classificatory terminology 3. 3. E. Durkheim
D. Totemism 4. Sir James Frazer
A B C D A B C D
(a) I 4 2 3 (b) 2 3 I 4
(c) 1 3 2 4 (d) 2 4 I 3
113. Consider the following statements about family:
1. Family regulates sexual behaviour through incest taboo.
2. Family provides ethnics identity.
3. Family serves as an occupational guild.
4. Family provides predictable social contexts within which its children are to
be socialised.
Which of the above statements are correct?
(a) I, 2 and 3 (b) 1, 2 and 4
(c) I and 3 (d) 2 and 4
114. What is the smallest unit of Tharawad called?
(a) avazhi (b) Nambudiri
(c) Cheri (d) Koli
115. Match List I (Book) with List II (Author') and select the correct answer
using the code given below the Lists:
List 1 List II
A. Family, Kinship and Marriage I. Irawati Karve in India
B. Kinship Organisation in India 2. T. N. Madan.
C. Family and Kinship: A study 3. Patricia Uberoi
of Pandits of,Rural Kashmir
D. Marriage and Family in India 4. K. M. Kapadia
A B C D A B C D
(a) 4 2 I 3 (b) 3 I 2 4
(c) 4 1 2 3 (d) 3 2 I 4
116. Among the Muslims, a wife can obtain release from her marriage by giving
consideration to husband whose consent is essential. What is this type of
divorce called?
(a) Mehar (b) Tafweez
(c) Khula (d) alaq
117. What is a Hindu marriage in which the daughter is gifted to a priest, called?
(a) Brahma marriage (b) Daiva marriage
(c) Sacred marriage (d) Arsha marriage
118. In traditional Hindu society which of the following forms of mate selection
were undesirable?
(a) Asura, Rakshasa and Paisacha
(b) Brahma, Asura, Arsha and Gandharva
(c) Rakshasa, Daiva, Prajapatya and Paisacha
(d) Brahma, Arsha and Rakshasa
119. What is according to Hindu traditional law, marriage by abduction, called?
(a) Gandharva (b) Paisacha
(c) Arsha (d) Rakshasa
120. What is a cross-cousin marriage as practiced by Gonds of Madhya Pradesh
called?
(a) Shahadlautwa (b) Gheelautwa
(c) Paanilautwa (d) Dudhlautawa
ANSWERS
1. (d) 2. (d) 3. (b) 4. (c) 5. (b)
6. (d) 7. (b) 8. (a) 9. (b) 10. (c)
11. (c) 12. (b) 13. (c) 14. (d) 15. (b)
16. (d) 17. (a) 18. (d) 19. (b) 20. (b)
21. (b) 22. (d) 23. (d) 24. (b) 25. (d)
26. (b) 27. (b) 28. (c) 29. (b) 30. (a)
31. (b) 32. (a) 33. (b) 34. (c) 35. (b)
36. (c) 37. (a) 38. (a) 39. (a) 40. (c)
41. (d) 42. (a) 43. (d) 44. (a) 45. (c)
46. (a) 47. (a) 48. (d) 49. (b) 50. (c)
51. (b) 52. (a) 53. (b) 54. (a) 55. (b)
56. (c) 57. (a) 58. (b) 59. (a) 60. (b)
61. (c) . 62. (d) 63. (c) 64. (b) 65. (a)
66. (d) 67. (a) 68. (b) 69. (b) 70. (b)
71. (b) 72. (c) 73. (d) 74. (a) 75. (b)
76. (d) 17. (d) 78. (a) 79. (b) 80. (c)
81. (d) 82. (b) 83. (b) 84. (b) 85. (a)
86. (b) 87. (c) 88. (b) 89. (c) 90. (d)
91. (c) 92. (b) 93. (a) 94. (d) 95. (c)
96. (d) 97. (b) 98. (b) 99. (d) 100. (a)
101. (c) 102. (b) 103. (d) 104. (b) 105. (c)
106. (c) 107. (b) 108. (b) 109. (a) 110. (b)
111. (b) 112. (d) 113. (b) 114. (a) 115. (b)
116. (c) 117. (b) 118. (a) 119. (d) 120. (d)