Top 100+ Sociology UGC NET Exam MCQ Quiz: Test Your Knowledge & Learn Key Concepts!

1. Question: Who has stated that ‘although Weber’s work on mental processes in suggestive, it is hardly the basis of micro-sociology?

1. Alfred Schutz
2. H. Garfinkel
3. N. Gluckmann
4. Peter L. Berger

(1) Alfred Schutz

2. Question: Ethnomethodologists are interested in:

1. Microstructures
2. Macro-structures
3. Neither micro nor macro practices
4. Ariful practices that produce both types of structures

(4) Ariful practices that produce both types of structures

3. Question: Which one of the following views is not subscribed by Habermas?

1. Modernity as an unfinished project
2. He is defender of modernity
3. He is cynical about the potential of modernity
4. He sees modernity as being at variance with itself

(3) He is cynical about the potential of modernity

4. Question: Which one of the following statements is not true about Neo-functionalism?

1. It extends structural functionalism
2. It broadens the scope of functionalism
3. It is a tendency rather than a developed theory
4. It is a modest revision of structural functionalism

(4) It is a modest revision of structural functionalism

5. Question: Critical Theory is synonymously known as:

1. Post - structural sociology
2. Post - modern school perspective
3. Post - industrial perspective
4. The Frankfurt school perspective

(4) The Frankfurt school perspective

6. Question: Who wrote the Book “Peasant Life in India”?

1. N.K. Bose
2. D.P. Mukherji
3. Surjit Sinha
4. David Hardiman

(1) N.K. Bose

7. Question: Who among the following has suggested a three-fold division of India’s agricultural population into Malik, Kisan and Mazdoor?

1. D.N. Dhanagre
2. Katheline Gough
3. A.R. Desai
4. Daniel Thorner

(4) Daniel Thorner

8. Question: Match List - A with List - B:

List - A:

1. Dowry Prohibition Act
2. Hindu Marriage Act
3. Hindu Succession Act
4. Domestic Violence Act

List - B:

1. 1955
2. 1956
3. 2005
4. 1961

(2) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

9. Question: Poverty studies have been often criticized by sociologists for:

1. Taking a limited view of poverty
2. Defining it in terms of poverty line
3. Not recognizing unequal sharing in family
4. All the above

(4) All the above

10. Question: Which of the following factors contribute to the depletion of environmental resources?

1. Deforestation
2. Excessive mining of minerals
3. Usage of alternative energy
4. Generation of Hydro Power

(4) (a) and (b)

11. Question: Which one of the following is considered to be the communicable disease?

1. mental disorder
2. swine flu
3. Psycho-somatic diseases
4. diabetes

(2) swine flu

12. Question: Who has considered that centralized bureaucracy has contributed to nation building in India?

1. M.N. Srinivas
2. R. Bendix
3. T.K. Oommen
4. C.W. Mills

(1) M.N. Srinivas

13. Question: Which of the following factors can address the problem of water shortage in urban areas?

1. Restricting urban development
2. Strict implementation of rain harvesting measures
3. Ban on conversion of water bodies as dumping yards
4. Pricing of water

(2) Strict implementation of rain harvesting measures

14. Question: Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Change in traditional social values leads to modernization
Reason (R): Changes in traditional society hardly take place.

(3) (A) is true but (R) is false

15. Question: Who has written the book "Passing of the Traditional Society and Modernising The Middle East"?

1. M.N. Srinivas
2. Danial Lerner
3. Danial Thorner
4. Alex Inkeles

(2) Danial Lerner