Top 150 UGC NET Sociology MCQs: Essential Practice for Your Exam

UGC NET Sociology MCQs: Practice Questions

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1. Which of the following is not an agency of socialization ?

• (1) Family
• (2) Peer group
• (3) Police
• (4) School

Answer: (3) Police

2. Socialization process is more effective if the agents behaviour is

• (1) Based on understanding
• (2) Based on sympathy
• (3) Based on the feeling
• (4) All the above

Answer: (4) All the above

3. Among the following who says that social stratification is functional necessity of the society ?

• (1) Yogendra Singh
• (2) Andre Beteille
• (3) R. Collins
• (4) K. Davis

Answer: (4) K. Davis

4. Caste based stratification is :

• (1) Ascribed
• (2) Achieved
• (3) Open
• (4) Neither open nor closed

Answer: (1) Ascribed

5. The consequence of Sanskritization is :

• (1) Structural change in caste system
• (2) Cultural mobility of a caste
• (3) Change in caste ideology
• (4) Change in religious system

Answer: (2) Cultural mobility of a caste

6. Which model of change suggests that change occurs through conflict and resolution ?

• (1) Evolutional
• (2) Dialectic
• (3) Cyclical
• (4) Progressive

Answer: (2) Dialectic

7. Who is odd one among the following social thinkers of social change ?

• (1) Julian Steward
• (2) A. Comte
• (3) K. Marx
• (4) Saint - Simon

Answer: (1) Julian Steward

8. Who was of the opinion that revolutions are locomotives of history ?

• (1) E. Kant
• (2) K. Marx
• (3) Hegel
• (4) Engels

Answer: (2) K. Marx

9. Who is said to be the founder of structuralism in Sociology and Social Anthropology ?

• (1) Anthony Giddens
• (2) C. Levi - Strauss
• (3) L. Althusser
• (4) A.R. Radcliffe - Brown

Answer: (2) C. Levi - Strauss

10. Who has given the 'binary classificatory systems' in the context of the study of human mind?

• (1) Sigmund Freud
• (2) H.H. Hyman
• (3) Claude Levi-Strauss
• (4) B. Malinowski

Answer: (3) Claude Levi-Strauss

11. Who has classified roles as 'Pivotal, sufficiently relevant and peripheral' in the theory of social structure?

• (1) S.F. Nadel
• (2) G.P. Murdock
• (3) Talcott Parsons
• (4) Herbert Spencer

Answer: (1) S.F. Nadel

12. Match the following lists :

List - I (Works)
(a) Structural Anthropology
(b) Structure and Function in Primitive Society
(c) Theory of Social Structure
(d) The Golden Bough

List - II (Authors)
(i) S.F. Nadel
(ii) C. Levi-Strauss
(iii) James Frazer
(iv) A.R. Radcliffe - Brown

Options:

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

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

13. In explaining his views on Division of Labour, Durkheim invoked which theory ?

• (1) Darwinian Principle
• (2) Canon's Principle
• (3) Marxian Principle
• (4) Spencer's Principle

Answer: (1) Darwinian Principle

14. Whose name is associated with Verstehen approach?

• (1) E. Durkheim
• (2) F. Tonnies
• (3) Max Weber
• (4) W.G. Sumner

Answer: (3) Max Weber