UGC NET Sociology MCQs: Practice Questions & Solved Answers

UGC NET Sociology MCQs - Part 2

Who considered modernity as an unfinished project?

(A) J. Derrida (B) A. Giddens (C) L. Althusser (D) J. Habermas

Correct Answer: (D) J. Habermas

Match the items in List - I to List - II:

List - I (Minorities):

• a. Sikhs
• b. Jains
• c. Jews
• d. Anglo-Indians

List - II (Status Positions):

• i. An uneasy minority
• ii. A disappearing minority
• iii. A mobilized minority
• iv. The unobtrusive minority

Codes:

(A) a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i (B) a-iii, b-iv, c-ii, d-i (C) a-ii, b-i, c-iii, d-iv (D) a-i, b-ii, c-iv, d-iii

Correct Answer: (B) a-iii, b-iv, c-ii, d-i

Who wrote "Natural and Political Observations on the Bills of Mortality"?

(A) Guillard A. (B) Thompson, Warren (C) John Graunt (D) Notestein Frank

Correct Answer: (C) John Graunt

Two statements are given, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Increased social disintegration leads to increased number of suicides in industrial societies.

Reason (R): Weaker influence of moral and social values on individuals results in more number of suicides.

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A). (B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation for (A). (C) (A) is true and (R) is false. (D) (A) is false and (R) is true.

Correct Answer: (A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation for (A).

Rapid industrialisation has increased the rate of white-collar crimes among

(A) Businessmen (B) Agricultural labour (C) Office clerks (D) School teachers

Correct Answer: (A) Businessmen

Which one of the following push factors contribute to the rural to urban migration?

• (1) Rural poverty.
• (2) Urban infrastructure development.
• (3) Monsoon failure.
• (4) Employment opportunities in urban areas.

Codes:

(A) (1) and (2) (B) (1) and (3) (C) (2) and (3) (D) (2) and (4)

Correct Answer: (B) (1) and (3)

The programme that aims to bring over all development in the community in India is called as

(A) Sampoorna Grameen Rozgar Yojna (B) Antyodaya Yojna (C) Indira Gandhi Awas Yojna (D) Community Development Programme

Correct Answer: (D) Community Development Programme

Who have studied Indian society from civilizational perspective?

• (a) G.S. Ghurye
• (b) N.K. Bose
• (c) B.R. Ambedkar
• (d) Surjit Sinha

Codes:

(A) (a) and (c) (B) (b), (c) and (d) (C) (a), (c) and (d) (D) (b) and (d)

Correct Answer: (D) (b) and (d)

Which of the following is not responsible for the increased life span in India?

(A) Advancement in medical science and technology (B) Control of epidemics (C) Improvement in the health care services (D) Declining birth rate

Correct Answer: (D) Declining birth rate

Which among the following were dominant features on which New Panchayati Raj was introduced?

(A) Participation of women (B) Participation of SC's and ST's (C) Both (A) and (B) (D) Participation of youth

Correct Answer: (C) Both (A) and (B)

Who stated that "Sociology in India stands at the confluence of Indology and Sociology, as the right kind of 'mix' prerequisite to the understanding of Indian society"?

(A) F.G. Bailey (B) Louis Dumont (C) Y. Singh (D) M.N. Roy

Correct Answer: (C) Y. Singh

Jacques Derrida has reduced language to which one of the following?

(A) To 'writing' which constrains its subjects. (B) To 'writing' which does not constrain its subjects. (C) Both (A) and (B) (D) None of the above

Correct Answer: (A) To 'writing' which constrains its subjects.

Who found an epistemological break between Marx's early philosophical work and his later scientific theories and knowledge?

(A) Alfred Schultz (B) J. Alexander (C) L. Althusser (D) T. Berten

Correct Answer: (C) L. Althusser

Who wrote the book "Studies in Ethnomethodology"?

(A) E. Goffman (B) Peter Berger (C) H. Garfinkel (D) None of the above

Correct Answer: (C) H. Garfinkel

Match the items in List - I with List - II:

List - I (Authors):

• a. Simone de Beauvoir
• b. Ann Oakley
• c. Shulamith Firestone
• d. Judith Butler

List - II (Books):

• i. Sex, Gender and Society
• ii. The Second Sex
• iii. Gender Trouble - Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
• iv. The Dialectic of Sex: The Case of Feminist Revolution

Codes:

(A) a-i, b-iv, c-iii, d-ii (B) a-iv, b-ii, c-i, d-iii (C) a-iii, b-ii, c-i, d-iv (D) a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii

Correct Answer: (D) a-ii, b-i, c-iv, d-iii

Borstal School and Remand Homes are meant for the correction of

(A) Adult offenders (B) Habitual offenders (C) Juvenile delinquents (D) Hardened offenders

Correct Answer: (C) Juvenile delinquents

Which of the following statements is not the indicative of the reflection of social structure in the industrial organisations?

(A) Predominance of social elites in the managerial groups. (B) Predominance of women in the Board of Directors. (C) Predominance of socially disadvantaged people as sanitary workers. (D) Predominance of women as receptionists

Correct Answer: (B) Predominance of women in the Board of Directors.

Which of the following statements are true? Mark the correct answer from the following codes:

• 1. All change is development.
• 2. Early classical sociologists viewed development and change as interchangeable/logically related terms.
• 3. According to modernisation theorists, the end result of development is prosperity and political stability.
• 4. Development refers to unplanned process of social change in modern times.

Codes:

(A) 1 and 4 (B) 2 and 4 (C) 2 and 3 (D) 1, 2 and 3

Correct Answer: (C) 2 and 3

Who among the following sociologists has studied Indian National Movement by using Marxian perspective?

(A) Ram Krishna Mukherjee (B) A.R. Desai (C) Bipin Chandra (D) D.N. Dhanagare

Correct Answer: (B) A.R. Desai

Who opined that 'A scientific-empirical study of Indian Society is not possible'?

(A) Ram Krishna Mukherjee (B) D.P. Mukherjee (C) A.K. Saran (D) S.C. Dube

Correct Answer: (C) A.K. Saran

Two statements are given below, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R).

Assertion (A): Unemployment increased during the last decade among the technical manpower in India.

Reason (R): Science and Technology Policy in India is not linked to employment.

Codes:

(A) (A) is true and (R) is false. (B) (A) is false and (R) is true. (C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A). (D) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).

Correct Answer: (C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).

Who described Globalization as an intensification of worldwide social relations, through which far away places are linked together in such a way that events in one place are affected by process taking place many miles away and vice-versa?

(A) D. Nayyar (B) Anthony Giddens (C) Y. Singh (D) Amartya Sen

Correct Answer: (B) Anthony Giddens

Jacques Derrida has mainly focused upon

(A) deconstruction of language of people (B) deconstruction of logocentrism (C) deconstruction of structure that constrains people (D) deconstruction of enslaved theatre

Correct Answer: (B) deconstruction of logocentrism

Who among the following has defined patriarchy as a "set of social relations between men, which have a material base and which though hierarchical, establish or create interdependence and solidarity among men that enable them to dominate women"?

(A) Esther Boserup (B) Sandra Harding (C) Heidi Hartmann (D) Nancy Hartsock

Correct Answer: (C) Heidi Hartmann

Fashionable especially in the 1970s, in whose works will you find a structuralist version of Marxism?

(A) Louis Althusser (B) J. Derrida (C) J. Habermas (D) A. Giddens

Correct Answer: (A) Louis Althusser

Match the items in List - I with List - II:

List - I:

• a. Assimilation
• b. Pluralism
• c. Acculturalism
• d. Multiculturalism

List - II:

• i. The situation within state or social organization in which power is shared among multiplicity of groups and organization.
• ii. The process of contacts between different cultures and also the outcome of such contacts.
• iii. The process in which minority gets absorbed in host culture.
• iv. Acknowledgement and promotion of cultural diversity.

Codes:

(A) a-i, b-iii, c-ii, d-iv (B) a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii (C) a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv (D) a-iv, b-iii, c-ii, d-i

Correct Answer: (C) a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv

Who has given the concept of "Born Criminal"?

(A) C. Lombroso (B) E.H. Sutherland (C) E. Durkheim (D) G. Tarde

Correct Answer: (A) C. Lombroso

Which type of Agrarian relations existed during the feudal mode of production in agriculture?

(A) Jajmani relations (B) King-Servant relations (C) Master-Servant relations (D) Patron-Client relations

Correct Answer: (A) Jajmani relations