UGC NET Sociology MCQs: Development, Deviance & Indian Society
Boost your UGC NET Sociology exam preparation with these multiple-choice questions covering topics like social development, deviance, and key aspects of Indian society. Click "Show Answer" to check your knowledge!
1. Which type of developmental projects displaced minimum number of persons?
Answer: (3) Industrial establishment
2. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is Reason (R).
Assertion (A): Gross Domestic Product (G. D. P.) growing at a higher rate is not a true indication of social development.
Reason (R): It only indicates growth in G. D. P but not its pattern of distribution among various strata.
Options:
Assertion (A): Gross Domestic Product (G. D. P.) growing at a higher rate is not a true indication of social development.
Reason (R): It only indicates growth in G. D. P but not its pattern of distribution among various strata.
Options:
Answer: (1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is correct explanation of (A)
3. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is Reason (R).
Assertion (A): The number of slum dwellers varies from one agency to another agency.
Reason (R): Because they all follow different definitions of slums.
Options:
Assertion (A): The number of slum dwellers varies from one agency to another agency.
Reason (R): Because they all follow different definitions of slums.
Options:
Answer: (1) Both (A) and (R) are correct and (R) is correct explanation of (A)
4. Which of the following 'special category states' had the highest growth rate in State Domestic Product during the 11th Five Year Plan?
Answer: (3) Uttarakhand
5. The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act was passed in which of the following years?
Answer: (4) 2005
6. 'Imitation Theory of deviance' was propounded by:
Answer: (2) G. Tarde
7. The key concept in labelling theory is that of:
Answer: (2) Stigma
8. 'Nepotism, favouritism and misuse of power' are all examples of:
Answer: (2) Corruption
9. Marxian perspective of poverty in capitalist society can be understood in terms of:
(a) The system of inequality generated by capitalist economy
(b) Wealth is concentrated in the hands of those who own the means of production
(c) The working class who own only their labour must sell for wages in the open market
(d) Working class will get due wages for their work
Options:
(a) The system of inequality generated by capitalist economy
(b) Wealth is concentrated in the hands of those who own the means of production
(c) The working class who own only their labour must sell for wages in the open market
(d) Working class will get due wages for their work
Options:
Answer: (2) (a), (b), (c)
10. The following four pairs of writers which one is not associated with the study of crime and deviance?
Answer: (3) Coser and Rosenberg
11. "In India, caste associations, which are otherwise typical symbol of tradition, have increasingly been found to serve the ends of political modernity" who calls this phenomenon as "modernity of tradition"?
Answer: (3) Lloyed I. Rudolph
12. Who has said "Sanskritization in contextual form is a slow and non-spectacular process of cultural mobility of caste"?
Answer: (1) M. N. Srinivas
13. Amongst the following who has given a six fold classification of traditions in India to evaluate changes in rural and urban - India?
Answer: (3) Mckim Marriott
14. Who amongst the following says that nationalism in India is a product of the material conditions created by the British colonialism, and it did not exist in Pre-British India?
Answer: (2) A. R. Desai
15. Who has classified Indian family into twelve categories?
Answer: (3) P. M. Kolenda
16. Amongst the following who has propagated that global marketization is the main driver of globalization?
Answer: (2) Ohmae
