Top 15 Sociology MCQ Quiz for UGC NET Exam: Test Your Knowledge & Learn Key Concepts!

1. Question: The cardinal principle of New Policy on Education is:

1. Investment on education is desirable.
2. Investment on education is wasteful expenditure.
3. Education is a unique investment in the present and the future.
4. Investment on education is unproductive expenditure.

(3) Education is a unique investment in the present and the future.

2. Question: Who has given, ‘bordered power containers’ as a decisive feature of the modern nation states?

1. Anthony Giddens
2. R. Bendix
3. S.M. Lipset
4. M.N. Srinivas

(1) Anthony Giddens

3. Question: Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): No society can be fully free from deviance.
Reason (R): Deviance and conformity are the ongoing processes in society.

(1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)

4. Question: In order to promote the development of science and technology under New Policy on Education, what step was taken up?

1. To include Hindi in the school curricula.
2. To include Sanskrit in the school curricula
3. To include Science and Mathematics in the school curricula
4. To include computer literacy programme in the school curricula

(4) To include computer literacy programme in the school curricula

5. Question: According to R.K. Merton, if neither the culturally approved goals nor the institutional norms are adopted, it is known as ______.

1. Innovation
2. Ritualism
3. Retreatism
4. Rebellion

(3) Retreatism

6. Question: Who has used historical - Marxian approach to the study of rural society in India?

1. M.N. Srinivas
2. S.C. Dube
3. Ram Krishna Mukherjee
4. Yogendra Singh

(3) Ram Krishna Mukherjee

7. Question: Which one of the following is not a type of Industrial Democracy?

1. Autonomous work groups
2. Codetermination
3. Producer cooperatives
4. Workers self management

(3) Producer cooperatives

8. Question: Match the List - I with List - II and mark the correct answer from the following codes.

List - I:

1. Trusteeship concept
2. Bhodan movement
3. Green Revolution
4. White Revolution

List - II:

1. Pt. J.L. Nehru
2. P.J. Kurian
3. M.K. Gandhi
4. Vinoba Bhave
5. M.S. Swaminathan

(1) (iii) (iv) (v) (ii)

9. Question: Who has used the term underdevelopment rather than undeveloped?

1. Frank
2. Samir Amin
3. Schumpeter
4. Myrdal Gunnar

(1) Frank

10. Question: Dependency theory of economic development was first developed in Latin America in the year:

1. 1947
2. 1950
3. 1955
4. 1960

(2) 1950

11. Question: Natural growth of population refers to:

1. Excess of births over deaths
2. Excess of immigration over emigration
3. Excess of in migration over out migration
4. None of the above

(1) Excess of births over deaths

12. Question: Who among the following classified stages of Economic Growth into five stages traditional society; preconditions for take - off; take - off; drive to maturity and maturity?

1. Walt Rostow
2. Max Weber
3. Karl Marx
4. A.G. Frank

(1) Walt Rostow

13. Question: Match the following:

List - I (Authors):

1. K. Davis
2. J.C. Caldwell
3. L. Dumont
4. R. Hill, K. Back and M.J. Stycos

List - II (Theories):

1. Social Capillarity Theory
2. Social Structure and Fertility
3. Interaction Model
4. Wealth Flow Theory

(1) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)

14. Question: The science that studies population at old ages is called:

1. Gerontology
2. Social work
3. Social Biology
4. Geneology

(1) Gerontology

15. Question: There are two statements given below. One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Gender relation refers to relative position of men and women and their relations are socially constructed.
Reason (R): Feminine and masculine qualities are phased through the history of social relations.

(4) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)