Top 100 UGC NET Sociology MCQs 2025: Demography, Gender & Development

UGC NET Sociology MCQs: Demography, Gender & Development

Sharpen your UGC NET Sociology knowledge with these multiple-choice questions covering key areas like demography, gender studies, and social development. Click to reveal answers and boost your exam preparation!

1. Which one of the following is not a Millennium Developmental Goal?

• (1) Eradicate extreme poverty
• (2) Housing for the poor
• (3) Reduce child mortality
• (4) Ensure environmental sustainability

Answer: (2) Housing for the poor

2. Human Development Index was developed by:

• (1) Mahbub ul Haq
• (2) Samir Amin
• (3) A. G. Frank
• (4) I. Wallerstein

Answer: (1) Mahbub ul Haq

3. Life table is constructed with the help of:

• (1) Infant mortality rates
• (2) Crude death rates
• (3) Age - specific mortality rates
• (4) Age - sex pyramid

Answer: (3) Age - specific mortality rates

4. The Theory that relates population growth with development stages is known as:

• (1) Wealth Flow Theory
• (2) Malthusian Theory
• (3) Demographic Transition Theory
• (4) Social Capillarity Theory

Answer: (3) Demographic Transition Theory

5. The concept "Beyond Family Planning" was introduced by:

• (1) K. Davis
• (2) J. C. Caldwell
• (3) D.J. Bogue
• (4) B. Berelson

Answer: (4) B. Berelson

6. Following are the various strategies adopted in the implementation of Family Planning Programme:
(a) Extension approach
(b) Clinical approach
(c) Integrated approach
(d) Reproductive and child healthcare approach

Options:

• (1) (b), (a), (c), (d)
• (2) (a), (b), (c), (d)
• (3) (b), (c), (a), (d)
• (4) (d), (a), (b), (c)

Answer: (2) (a), (b), (c), (d)

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

List - I (Books)
(a) Globalization
(b) Global Culture
(c) Historical Capitalism
(d) The Transformation of intimacy

List - II (Authors)
(i) A. Giddens
(ii) I. Wallerstein
(iii) M. Featherstone
(iv) R. Robertson
(v) A. G. Frank

Options:

• (1) (v) (ii) (iii) (i)
• (2) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
• (3) (iv) (ii) (iii) (v)
• (4) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

Answer: (2) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)

8. Who introduced the concept step migration?

• (1) Ravenstein
• (2) D. J. Bogue
• (3) K. Davis
• (4) Asish Bose

Answer: (1) Ravenstein

9. Social Capillarity Theory was propounded by:

• (1) L. Dumont
• (2) J. C. Caldwell
• (3) K. Davis
• (4) F. Notestein

Answer: (3) K. Davis

10. Who said "the overthrow of mother right was the world historic defeat of the female sex"?

• (1) Jean - Paul Satre
• (2) Nancy Chodorow
• (3) Adam Smith
• (4) Fredrich Engels

Answer: (4) Fredrich Engels

11. When did the shift in the approach from 'welfare to development' of women took place in India?

• (1) Second Five Year Plan
• (2) Fifth Five Year Plan
• (3) Sixth Five Year Plan
• (4) Ninth Five Year Plan

Answer: (3) Sixth Five Year Plan

12. Match the List - I with List - II:

List - I (Authors)
(a) Sharmila Rege
(b) Susheela Kaushik
(c) Madhu Kishwar
(d) Leela Dube

List - II (Issues)
(i) Women and Panchayati Raj
(ii) Dowry
(iii) Women and Kinship
(iv) Dalit Women

Options:

• (1) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)
• (2) (ii) (iv) (i) (iii)
• (3) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
• (4) (i) (ii) (iii) (iv)

Answer: (1) (iv) (i) (ii) (iii)

13. Who is the author of the book "The Female Eunuch"?

• (1) Simone de Beauvior
• (2) Germaine Greer
• (3) Kate Millet
• (4) Betty Friedan

Answer: (2) Germaine Greer

14. Which year was declared as the 'Women's Empowerment Year'?

• (1) 1999
• (2) 2001
• (3) 2005
• (4) 1998

Answer: (2) 2001

15. Match the List - I with List - II:

List - I (Books)
(a) Social framework of an industry
(b) Workers, factories and social change in India
(c) Footloose labour: working in India's informal Sector
(d) Workers consciousness and Trade Union response

List - II (Authors)
(i) E. R. Ramaswamy
(ii) Jan Breman
(iii) Richard D. Lambert
(iv) N. R. Sheth

Options:

• (1) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)
• (2) (i) (iii) (ii) (iv)
• (3) (iii) (ii) (iv)
• (4) (ii) (iii) (iv) (i)

Answer: (1) (iv) (iii) (ii) (i)