Top 100 UGC NET Sociology MCQs: Indian Society & Contemporary Theories (2025)

UGC NET Sociology MCQs: Indian Society & Contemporary Perspectives

Sharpen your understanding of Indian society, caste, and modern sociological theories with these UGC NET practice questions. Click to reveal answers!

1. Which of the following constitutes an important methodological component in Foucault's works?

• (1) Structuration Theory
• (2) Archaeology of Knowledge
• (3) Phenomenological Perspective
• (4) Symbolic Interactionism

Answer: (2) Archaeology of Knowledge

2. Which of the following concepts Giddens uses in his theory of structuration?

• (1) Dual Analysis
• (2) Dual Roles
• (3) Duality of structure
• (4) Structural dualism

Answer: (3) Duality of structure

3. To whom, the sign, strictly speaking, must always stand 'under erasure', as necessary but inadequate?

• (1) Louis Althusser
• (2) Michel Foucault
• (3) Anthony Giddens
• (4) Jacques Derrida

Answer: (4) Jacques Derrida

4. Match the following Lists:

List - I (Books)
(a) Hindu view of life
(b) Discovery of India
(c) Hindu Social Organisation
(d) Society in India

List - II (Authors)
(i) Jawaharlal Nehru
(ii) S. Radhakrishnan
(iii) D.G. Mandelbaum
(iv) P.H. Prabhu

Options:

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

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

5. Which of the following is not the feature of caste system?

• (1) Hierarchy
• (2) Hereditary occupation
• (3) Exogamous marriages
• (4) Untouchability

Answer: (3) Exogamous marriages

6. Which of the following Gunas (qualities) are believed to be the reason for the Indian social hierarchy?
(a) Sattva
(b) Rajas
(c) Tamas
(d) Varna

Options:

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

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

7. "Caste is a Brahmanic child of Indo-Aryan culture craddled in the land of Ganges and thence transferred to other parts of India". Whose statement is this?

• (1) D.P. Mukherjee
• (2) M.N. Srinivas
• (3) G.S. Ghurye
• (4) L. Dumont

Answer: (3) G.S. Ghurye

8. Who did extensive field work in North East Frontiers Agency of India for his research work?

• (1) N.K. Bose
• (2) D. Hardiman
• (3) Surajit Sinha
• (4) D.P. Mukherji

Answer: (3) Surajit Sinha

9. Match the following:

List - I (Perspective)
(a) Book - View
(b) Field - View
(c) Civilizational View
(d) Subaltern View

List - II (Thinkers)
(i) Surajit Sinha
(ii) David Hardiman
(iii) G. S. Ghurye
(iv) S. C. Dube

Options:

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

Answer: (3) (iii) (ii) (iv) (i)

10. Who did attributional and interactional analysis of caste system?

• (1) L. Dumont
• (2) Surajit Sinha
• (3) M. N. Srinivas
• (4) D. P. Mukherji

Answer: (3) M. N. Srinivas

11. Who did field research among the Jwang tribes of Orissa?

• (1) G. S. Ghurye
• (2) N. K. Bose
• (3) David Hardiman
• (4) Surajit Sinha

Answer: (4) Surajit Sinha

12. Ethnicity refers to:

• (1) Achieved socio - cultural attributes
• (2) Inherited socio - cultural attributes
• (3) Inherited political position and achieved economic attributes
• (4) Inherited and achieved socio - cultural attributes

Answer: (4) Inherited and achieved socio - cultural attributes

13. The concept "Culture of Poverty" was introduced by:

• (1) Oscar Lewis
• (2) Michal Harrington
• (3) Walter B. Miller
• (4) Kenneth Little

Answer: (1) Oscar Lewis

14. Ashis Bose is well known for his concept of:

• (1) Demographic Transition
• (2) Population Explosion
• (3) BIMARU States
• (4) Sustainable Development

Answer: (3) BIMARU States