UGC NET Sociology MCQs: Development, Feminism & More
Strengthen your UGC NET Sociology exam preparation with this set of multiple-choice questions. Explore topics like social development, feminist theories, criminology, and various sociological perspectives. Click to reveal the correct answers and deepen your understanding!
1. 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:
(B) i iv iii ii
(C) iv ii i iii
(D) iii ii i iv
(E) ii i iv iii
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:
(B) i iv iii ii
(C) iv ii i iii
(D) iii ii i iv
(E) ii i iv iii
Answer: (D) ii i iv iii
2. Borstal School and Remand Homes are meant for the correction of
Answer: (C) Juvenile delinquents
3. Which of the following statements is not the indicative of the reflection of social structure in the industrial organisations?
Answer: (B) Predominance of women in the Board of Directors.
4. 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
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
Answer: (C) 2 and 3
5. Who among the following sociologists has studied Indian National Movement by using Marxian perspective?
Answer: (B) A.R. Desai
6. Who opined that ‘A scientific-empirical study of Indian Society is not possible’?
Answer: (C) A.K. Saran
7. 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).
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).
Answer: (C) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
8. 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?
Answer: (B) Anthony Giddens
9. Jacques Derrida has mainly focussed upon
Answer: (B) deconstruction of logocentrism
10. 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”?
Answer: (C) Heidi Hartmann
11. Fashionable especially in the 1970s, in whose works will you find a structuralist version of Marxism?
Answer: (A) Louis Althusser
12. Match the items in List - I with List - II:
List - I
a. Assimilation
b. Pluralism
c. Acculturation
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:
(B) i iii ii iv
(C) iv iii i ii
(D) iii i ii iv
(E) iv iii ii i
List - I
a. Assimilation
b. Pluralism
c. Acculturation
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:
(B) i iii ii iv
(C) iv iii i ii
(D) iii i ii iv
(E) iv iii ii i
Answer: (C) iii i ii iv
13. Who has given the concept of “Born Criminal”?
Answer: (A) C. Lombroso
14. Which type of Agrarian relations existed during the feudal mode of production in agriculture?
Answer: (D) Patron-Client relations
15. Historically society witnessed various stages of development. Different authors have given their own classification of stages of development in their works. Their names are given in List - I and the stages of development are given in List - II. Match List - I with List - II and mark the correct answer from the codes given below:
List - I
a. A. Comte
b. Adam Smith
c. L.H. Morgan
d. Karl Marx
List - II
i. Theological, Metaphysical, Positive
ii. Hunting, Pastoral, Agricultural, Commercial
iii. Savagery, Barbarism, Civilization
iv. Primitive Communism, Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism
Codes:
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) ii iii iv i
(D) iii iv i ii
(E) iv i ii iii
List - I
a. A. Comte
b. Adam Smith
c. L.H. Morgan
d. Karl Marx
List - II
i. Theological, Metaphysical, Positive
ii. Hunting, Pastoral, Agricultural, Commercial
iii. Savagery, Barbarism, Civilization
iv. Primitive Communism, Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism
Codes:
(B) i ii iii iv
(C) ii iii iv i
(D) iii iv i ii
(E) iv i ii iii
Answer: (A) i ii iii iv
