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SOCIOLOGY
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1. Which one of the following is opposite in 5. Which one of the following statements foes not
meaning and spirit to the concept of cultural derive from E. Durkheim‟s exposition of social
relativism? facts?
(a) Ethnocentrism (a) Social facts are collectively elaborated and
therefore they are moral and constrain
(b) Ethnomethodology
individual behavior.
(c) Ethnostatistics
(b) Social facts must be understood if they were
(d) Ethnography things, and can be explained only in relation
to other social facts.

2. With respect to a movie loving high school girl, (c) Social facts are characteristics of social
a film star forms part of her system that have an influence and authority
that amount to more than the sum of the
(a) Secondary group intentions and motivations of the people
(b) Reference group who happen to be part of that system.
(c) Primary group (d) Social facts arise in the collective
consciousness of a group and therefore
(d) In-group
influence individuals only when t hey are
engaged with the group.
3. Which of the following is not a mechanism of
child socialization in the family? 6. Which one of the following is maintained by
(a) Praise and blame class as well as caste society by delicate,
carefully observed distinctions of etiquette
(b) Observing and learning
similar to notions of purity pollution between
(c) Reward and punishment castes in India?
(d) Study of scriptures (a) Relative deprivation
(b) Assimilation
4. Match List I with List II and select the correct (c) Social distance
answer using the code given below.
(d) Social conflict
List I List II
(Type of culture) (Event)
A) Subculture 1 Dalit literature 7. Grounded theory comes closest to which one of
symposium the following major classical perspectives in
B) Deviant 2 Kitty party sociology?
culture (a) Functionalist perspective
C) Dominant 3 Rave party
culture (b) Symbolic interactionist perspective
D) Counterculture 4 Ram Lila festival (c) Conflict perspective
Codes
A B C D (d) Evolutionist perspective

(a) 1 4 3 2
(b) 1 3 4 2
(c) 2 4 3 1
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8. Which one of the following statements about
culture is not correct?
(a) Culture is learnt
(b) Culture is shared by members of a group
(c) Culture is biologically inherited by
members of a group
(d) Culture is dynamic and changes with time
9. Which one of following factors is least relevant
as an explanation for the declining sex ration for
India?
(a) Migration of males to urban areas
(b) Female foeticide
(c) Lower nutritional status of girl children
(d) High maternal mortality
10. Consider the following passage and answer the
question given below?
In India, a few traditional mercantile
communities like banias in North India, chettis
in the South, the Marwaris and the Parsis
specialized in business activities under colonial
rule. Kammas of Andhra Pradesh, patidars in
Gujarat, Gounders and the Nadars in Tamil
Nadu, the Khatris in North India became
prominent in different sectors of business and
industry in the late colonial period and gained
momentum after independence.
Which does the author of the above passage
indicate about the new capitalist class in India?
(a) All these communities operate in the same
way in business
(b) Business opportunities are available to a
wider spectrum of social groups today
than they were before independence but
they are from similar occupational
background
(c) The social bases of the capitalist class have
remained fundamentally the same despite
new communities coming in
(d) Transformation of agrarian based groups
into industrial capitalists was possible,
because of the opportunities opened up by
colonial trade and later by nationalist
economic policies
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11. Dumont‟s work on the caste system in criticized
for
1. Weak development of the argument
2. Ignoring empirical variations
3. Reliance on Indological sources
4. Invoking a timeless India
Select the correct answer using the code given
below?
(a) 1, 2 and 3
(b) 1 only
(c) 2 and 4 only
(d) 2, 3 and 4
12. Which one of the following statements about
Jajmani system is not correct?
(a) It combines economic and ritual roles in a
common set of relationship
(b) It is based on the twin concepts of
interdependence and hierarchy
(c) It brings together economic and political
functions of a caste and weaves it into
intercaste relations
(d) The Jajman was originally the person who
paid for the conduct of the sacrifice.
13. Sanskritization as an explanation for social
change in India embodies a/an
(a) Cultural approach
(b) Structural approach
(c) Evolutionary approach
(d) Interactionist approach
14. Despite above average level of prosperity, the
State of Punjab has a very low sex ration. Which
of the following is not a valid explanation for
this phenomenon?
(a) Unwillingness to partition agricultural
landholdings
(b) There is a son-preference in north India
kinship systems
(c) There are no matrilineal communities in
Punjab
(d) Dowry imposes a burden on parents of
daughters
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15. Which of the following can be designated as (d) 1, 2 and 3
norm?
1. Touching the feet of elderly and respected 18. Which of the following is/are the
persons characteristic(s) of Sanskritizatioin?
2. Loyalty to the country of birth 1. Shift to vegetarian diet
3. Giving up seat to a pregnant woman in a bus 2. Withdrawal of women from paid work
4. Maintaining the honour of the family 3. Learning to recite from the Sanskrit
Select the correct answer using the code given scriptures
below? 4. Going onpilgrimages
(a) 1 and 3 only Select the correct answer using the code given
(b) 2 and 4 below?
(c) 1, 3 and 4 (a) 1 and 2
(d) 1 only (b) 2 and 3
(c) 2 and 4
16. Consider the following sets of interpersonal (d) 1 only
relationships in the contest of rural India?
1. Gram Pradhan/Sarpanch and villager 19. Which one of the following best reflects tribal
2. Zamindar and landless labourer society?
3. Barber and a villager (a) Hierarchical social relations
4. Grocer and a customer (b) Kinship relations
Which of the above is /are the correct set/sets of (c) Commercial agriculture
Jajmani relationship? (d) Scriptural religion
(a) 2
(b) 3 and 4 20. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly
(c) 1 and 3 matched
(d) 3 only (a) Ascribe - A social position that one
d states receives at birth or
involuntarily assumes
17. Consider the following statements related to the latter in life
concept of Mechanical solidarity as explained
by E. Durkheim: (b) Master - A status that has
status exceptional importance
1. Society is coherent, because individuals are for social identity, often
undifferentiated. shaping one‟s entire life
2. Individuals resemble each other. (c) Role - The incompatibility
3. Members of the society follow specialized strain among roles
occupations. corresponding to a single
status
Which of the statements given above is/are
correct? (d) Role - The incompatibility
exit among roles
(a) 1 only
corresponding to two or
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21. A medical specialist working in a government Codes
hospital compares herself/himself with a A B C D
specialist with similar educational qualifications
(a) 4 1 2 3
and experience working in the private sector and
finds that the latter is earning a higher income. (b) 4 2 1 3
The specialist in the former case feels that (c) 2 1 3 4
her/his was a case of
(d) 2 3 1 4
1. Discrimination against her/him
2. Exploitation
24. A movement from an old to new social order,
3. Relative deprivation from the traditional to the modern, from pre-
Which of the above is/are correct on the basis of industrial to industrial, from rural to the urban
functional analysis? way of life, from small scale personal to large
scale impersonal society, from simple society to
(a) 1 and 2 only
complex modern society; refers to various
(b) 1 and 3 only sociological theories of
(c) 1, 2 and 3 (a) Social movement
(d) 3 only (b) Social change
(c) Social conflict
22. Which one of the following is not typical of
(d) Social development
industrial society?
(a) Bonded labour
(b) Wage labour 25. Consider the following statements:
(c) Women‟s household labour 1. In all societies, arrangements exist for the
social recognition of who may legitimately
(d) Unorganized labour mate with whom.
2. In all societies, arrangements exist for
23. Match List I with List II and select the correct giving legitimacy to the children, giving
answer using the code given below. them social recognition, an identity, a name,
List I List II membership of a socially recognized group.
(type of society) (Prominent 3. In all societies, there exists an anticipatory
feature) provision for the needs of the mother-child
unity, which is generally regarded as the
A) Agrarian 1) Shifting basic unit of the kinship system.
society cultivations
Which one of the following social institutions is
B) Tribal society 2) Patron-client
referred to in the statements given above?
relation
(a) The family
C) Industrial 3) Mass
society production (b) Kinship
D) Post-industrial 4) Information (c) Marriage
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26. Match List I with List II and select the correct 29. Advanced technology is the central feature of an
answer using the code given below. advanced society, because technology
List I List II (a) Makes all other societies appear primitive by
A) Nation 1) Institution contrast
B) State 2) Social control (b) Refers to little division of labour between
C) Sanctions 3) Ideas about right and parts
wrong behaviour
D) Morals 4) community (c) Gives people greater independence of
their environment
Codes (d) Does not respect race, class or caste
A B C D
(a) 1 2 3 4
30. Consider the following passage and answer the
(b) 4 2 1 3 question given below:
(c) 2 1 3 4 Unlike the newborn calf, which gets up and
(d) 4 1 2 3 walks within hours of its birth, human cannot
even sit up for several months. They learn how
to behave starting with control over their bowel
27. An actress/actor in order to excel in her/his movements and eating habits. They are at the
occupational role sacrifices her/his kinship role. same time encouraged to internalize norms of
Which one of the following is the correct term conduct, to practice self-control and to practice
to explain such behavior? self control and to practice their own capacity to
learn and to create.
(a) Role conflict
Which one of the following process would best
(b) Social distance
describe what the author of the above passage is
(c) Deviant motivation trying to explain?
(d) Role conformity (a) The process of cultural assimilation
(b) The process of natural growth
28. What did Adam Smith mean when he wrote t (c) The process of socialization
hat “the division of labour is limited by the
(d) The process of social development
extent of the marker… there are some sorts of
industry, even of the lowest kind, which can be
carried on nowhere but in a great town”? 31. Consider the following statements in the context
(a) The market is of little importance in any tow of acculturation
(b) As the division of labour becomes more 1. Although acculturation is usually in the
complex, the economy becomes simpler direction of a minority group adopting habits
and language patterns of the dominatnt
(c) The economic development is usually
group, acculturation can be reciprocal, that
closely linked to the growth of towns is, the dominant group also adopts paaterns
(d) The economic development does not hinge typical of the minority group.
upon the growth of towns.
2. The most comprehensive measure of
acculturation for use in health services and
epidemiological research in Mexican
American populations was developed by
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Which of the statements given above is/are 34. Class differentiation in advanced industrial
correct? society is based on
(a) 1 only (a) Economy
(b) 2 only (b) Race and ethnicity
(c) Both 1 and 2 (c) Power and authority
(d) Neither 1 nor 2 (d) Individual performance

32. In some societies, property is transferred in the 35. Which of the following is/are the feature(s) of
male line from father to the youngest son. social fact?
Which one of the following would best describe 1. Social fact exercises constrains on
this rule? individual‟s behavior
(a) Patriarchy
2. Social fact is any behavior of and individual.
(b) Ultimogeniture
3. Social fact is regulated by individual‟s
(c) Primogeniture behavior
(d) Patrilineal Select the correct answer using the code given
below:
(a) 1, 2 and 3
33. Consider the following statements
(b) 2 and 3 only
1. The constitution of India provides for the
Tribes advisory council in the scheduled (c) 1 and 2 only
area only
(d) 1 only
2. The functions of tribes advisory council and
district council are the same as per the
provisions of the constitution of India. 36. Consider the following statements:
3. The tribes of Nagaland are covered under 1. Urbanization covers the movement of
the provisions of the fifth schedule to the people permanently or temporarily from
constitution of India village to city.
4. The sixth schedule to the constitution of 2. Urbanization refers t o the breakdown in
India provides for the formation of the religious solidarity of the communities.
Regional council. 3. Urbanization means the extension of cities
Which of the statements given above is/are on the ground in the way in which they grow
correct? from small towns or spread out to
incorporate village.
(a) 4 only
4. Urbanization means transformation of castes
(b) 3 only
into classes
(c) 1 and 3
Which of the statements given above is/are
(d) 2 and 4 correct?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 and 4
(c) 1 and 3
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37. Match List I with List II and select the correct 40. Family formed after marriage is called
answer using the code given below. (a) Family of recreation
List I List II (b) Monogamous family
Concept Example
A) Sanskritization 1) Backward classes (c) Family of orientation
movement in (d) Family of procreation
South India
B) Industrializatio 2) Humanitarianism
n 41. Which one of the following is the case of
C) Westernization 3) Economic growth ascriptive status?
D) Caste-mobility 4) Dominant caste
(a) A law graduate
Codes (b) A gram pradhan
A B C D
(c) A married person
(a) 2 4 1 3 (d) A woman
(b) 4 3 2 1
(c) 2 3 4 1 42. The demographic divided in India refers to the
(d) 1 4 3 2 phenomenon of
(a) Increasing proportion of aged persons (65+)
in the population
38. Which one among the following does not form
part of the general theory of social action (b) Imbalance between the life expectancy of
systems as propounded by T.Parsons? men and women
(a) Action is a process in the actor-situation (c) T he decreasing infant mortality rate
system (d) The fastest growing working population
(b) Physical objects are means and conditions of via-a-vis dependent population
ego‟s action
(c) Physical objects as empirical entities 43. Which of the following pairs are matching
interact with ago
Social Research theme in
(d) In action terms, the object world is classified scientist the study of tribal
as social physical and cultural. communities
1. N.K. Bose - Christianization of
39. Soon after independence, a controversy arose in tribes
India about whether tribal communities should 2. Verrier - Preservation of
be assimilated into the mainstream or kept Elwin separate tribal
separate with their distinct indentities intact. identity
The two major sociologists involved in the
controversy were 3. R.K. - 19th century tribal
Mukherjee movements
(a) A. Ayyappan and Verrier Elwin
4. G.S. - Tribes as backward
(b) Verrier Elwin and G.S. Ghurye Ghurye Hindus
(c) N.K. Bose and D.P. Mukherjee
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Select the correct answer using the code given (b) Both the statements are individual true but
below? statement II is not the correct explanation of
statement I
(a) 1 and 4
(c) Statement I is true but statement II is false
(b) 2 and 4
(d) Statement I is false but statement II is true.
(c) 2 and 3
(d) 1 and 3
46.
Statement I : Nuclear households were
44. Consider the following statements about post-
common in pre-modern
industrial society
India, even though the joint
1. Post industrial society has no impact on the family ethos was strong
labour class
Statement II : All households went though
2. Knowledge is the source of change in the a development cycle of
post industrial society expansion and fission
3. Post industrial society affects only the Ans : (d)
sphere of economy
47.
Which of the statements given above is/are
Statement I : Caste as a system of village-
correct?
level hierarchical
(a) 1 and 2 interdependence is gradually
(b) 2 only disappearing

(c) 2 and 3 Statement II : The influence of caste on

electoral politics has led to
(d) 1 and 3 competition among some
castes and cooperation
between some other castes.
45. The spirit of capitalism is based on
Ans : (b)
(a) Rational economic pursuit
(b) Less work and more pay
48.
(c) Unwillingness to adapt to new method of
work Statement I : According to Marx economic
action pertains to satisfaction
(d) Personal relations with workers of desires for useful things
Statement II : Marx believed that economic
Directions: actions are taken to control
the market for maximizing
The following five (5) items consist of two
profit.
statements, statement I and Statement II you are
to examine these two statements carefully and Ans : (b)
select the answers to these items using the code
given below:
Code:
(a) Both the statements are individual true and
statement II is the correct explanation of
Statement I

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49.
Statement I : Indian middle class is largely
a creation of British rule
Statement II : Affirmative action in favour
of Scheduled castes has
helped them to be elevated to
the middle class.
Ans : (b)
50.
Statement I : Urbanization is coterminous
with westernization
Statement II : Urbanization has brought
about new forms, of social
organization.
Ans : (a)
51. The concept of „Cultural Capital‟ as developed
by pierre bourdieu helps t o explain which one
of the following phenomena?
(a) Reserved seats for DNT (Denotified
Tribes) in colleges often remain unfilled
(b) Recognition from UNESCO as a world
heritage site increases tourism at an
archaeological site
(c) Museums located in state capitals are
developed as symbols of national identity
(d) Dharwar region in Karnataka has produced
an extra ordinarily large number of
Hindustani classical musicians
52. Sociologist Andre Beteille has argued that in the
current scenario in India, the family plays a
significant role in reproduction of social
inequalities which one of the following in not
cited by him as a mechanism in the above
process?
(a) Funding of caste associations by prominent
families belonging to the caste
(b) Control over choice of marriage partners of
the members of the family through arranged
marriage
(c) Socialization of children in the areas of
social interaction with other classes and
communities
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(d) Transferring occupational advantages to
younger members through the family‟s
social networks.
53. In the holistic study of cultures, which one of
the following terms refers to the approach of
adopting the viewpoint of those who belong to
that culture?
(a) Empathetic
(b) Emic
(c) Dynamic
(d) Etic
54. Eco-feminism is a theoretical perspective that
addresses the connection between gender and
nature. Which one of the following statements
correctly explains the eco-feminism
perspective?
(a) In a natural disaster, women are likely to be
more affected than men
(b) In development projects, which entail
massive displacement of human beings,
rehabilitation policy should give priority to
women.
(c) Due to their role as creators and
nurturers of life, women are better
conservators of the environment
(d) Women as a group contribute much less to
industrial and vehicular population than men
55. Which one of the following correctly explains
the concept of “thick description” as developed
by Clifford Geertz?
(a) Cultural description that includes
observed behavior, as well as intentions of
the actors and meaning attached to the
behavior
(b) Cultural description of participants
observation
(c) Cultural description that includes written
documents from the field such as
genealogies, letters, diaries, etc.
(d) Cultural description based on repeated
follow-up visits over a period of a year or
more
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56. The central constituents of any culture would
consist of
1. Its artistic and literary productions
2. Its material goods
3. Shared world view of its members
4. Its knowledge and sill base in various
spheres
Select the correct answer using the code given
below:
Code:
(a) 2, 3 and 4 only
(b) 1 and 2 only
(c) 1, 3 and 4 only
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4
57. Which one of the following is not a feature of
bureaucracy in complex society?
(a) Employees organized on the principle of
hierarchy
(b) Interpersonal relationship is valued
(c) Work carried out as per written rules
(d) Recruitment based on competence
58. Which one among the following is not
consistent with weber‟s characterization of
charismatic leadership?
(a) Followers attribute super natural or
superhuman power to the charismatic leader
(b) A charismatic leader breaks with tradition
and prevailing legal norms
(c) A charismatic leader operates through a
personally devoted inner circle rather than
an established administrative staff
(d) A charismatic leader can endure for a
long time through hereditary succession
59. Class and status group are two categories of
social stratification. Which one of the following
is not a valid distinction between the two?
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(a) Class is defined by its position in the system
of production, whereas status group is
characterized by its pattern of consumption
(b) A class is a larger aggregate than a status
group
(c) Membership in class in achieved, whereas
membership in a status group is necessarily
by birth
(d) A class acquires its identity in opposition
to each other in the political arena,
whereas the relations between status
groups are relations of emulations.
60. Which one of the following research themes is
likely to be favoured by the constructivist
school of sociology?
(a) Communication system of science, via
specialists and peer review systems.
(b) The basis and quantitative measurement of
recognitions and rewards.
(c) The norms of science, and the manner and
extent of deviation
(d) Process of selection and modification of
theories and of aligning experimental
evidence with theoretical claims.
61. Which of the following represent(s) the change
that has taken place in family structure and
functioning over the past two centuries?
1. The family has become a mere isolated unit;
relatively separate from wider sets of kin
and functioning chiefly as a conjugal or
nuclear family
2. The nuclear family exists in close inter
linkages with a wider network of kin
extending over two or more generations.
Select the correct answer using the code given
below?
(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
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62. Which one of the following is not included by 66. According to another McGrew, what are the
A.R. Radcliffe-Brown in the concept for social impacts of globalization on national identities?
structure? 1. National identities are being eroded as a
(a) It is a network of social relationship result of the growth of cultural
homogenization and the global
(b) It contains social relationships of dyadic
postmodernism.
nature
2. National and other local or particularistic
(c) Every structure has a function
identities are being strengthened by the
(d) It is abstract, having no relation with the resistance to globalization.
existing reality
3. National identities are declining but new
identities of hybridity are taking their place.
63. Which one of the following statements Select the correct answer using the code given
regarding culture is not correct? below?
(a) Culture is an acquired pattern of living Code
(b) Culture represents heritage (a) 1 and 2 only
(c) Culture is natural (b) 1, 2 and 3
(d) Culture includes material as well as non- (c) 1 and 3 only
material objects of life
(d) 2 and 3 only

64. Consider the following statements:

67. Which of the following statements about tribes
1. Industrialization is responsible for breaking in India is/are not correct?
down caste hierarchy in India.
1. Tribes have been sex ratio than non-tribes in
2. The concepts of industrialism is associated their respective states.
with the concept of Fordism.
2. Tribes live in hilly or jungle areas isolated
Which of the statements given above is/are from the mainstream.
correct?
3. Typically, brideprice is the form of marriage
(a) 1 only payments among some tribes.
(b) 2 only 4. Tribes in India are linguistically
(c) Both 1 and 2 heterogeneous.

(d) Neither 1 nor 2 Select the correct answer using the code given
below?
Code
65. Which one of the following impacts of
globalization on relative deprivation was most (a) 1 and 2 only
prominent in the last two decades? (b) 2 only
(a) Relative deprivation disappeared (c) 1 and 4
(b) Relative deprivation decreased (d) 1, 2 and 3
(c) Relative deprivation increased
(d) No impact on relative deprivation.

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68. Which of the following can diffuse across 71. In Hypogamous marriage in Hindu society,
culture and bring cultural changes through exogamous principles are relaxed. Which one of
diffusion? the following exogamy is practiced?
1. Cultural knowledge (a) Marriage of a woman of lower caste to a
2. Customs and practices man of upper caste
3. Material products (b) Marriage of a woman of upper caste to a
man of lower caste
4. Religious beliefs
(c) Marriage of a woman to a man of any caste
Select the correct answer using the code given
below? (d) Marriage of a man to a woman of any caste.
Code:
(a) 1 and 2 only 72. According to Karl Marx, which one of the
following is not a law of dialectical
(b) 1, 2, 3 and 4 materialism?
(c) 3 and 4 only
(a) The law of unity and struggle of opposites
(d) 1, 2 and 4 only
(b) The law of transformation of quantity of
quality
69. Consider the following stages of Jean Piaget‟s (c) The law of development of human
theory of cognitive development consciousness
1. Concrete operational stage (d) T he law of negation of the negation.
2. Formal operational stage
3. Sensory motor stage 73. A person on his way to attend the office at 10
4. Pre-operational stage a.m. found an injured person lying on the road
and took him to a hospital. As a result of this, he
Which one of the following is the correct order
could not reach his office in time. According to
of the stages?
Max Weber, the above may be categorized as
(a) 1-4-2-3 a/an
(b) 4-1-2-3 (a) Rational action with goal
(c) 3-4-1-2 (b) Emotional action
(d) 3-1-4-2 (c) Rational action with value
(d) Charismatic action.
70. The Jajmani system of traditional Indian society
was interpreted by T.O. Beidelman as a system
74. Consider the following statements:
of
1. Initiation ceremony in clubs and other
(a) Social interdependence among castes for
exclusive organizations marking the
survival
transition from non-member to member is an
(b) Interchange of goods and services among example of rites of passage.
castes
2. According to R.K. Merton‟s theory of
(c) Economic interdependence and welfare deviance, ritualism is a form of quasi-
among castes deviance.
(d) Exploitation whereby the upper castes 3. Relationship of a person with the siblings,
exploit the lower castes. with the siblings, with the spouse, and with
the children is an example to role-set of that
person

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Which of the statements given above is/are 79. The practice of fraternal polyandry
correct? (a) Contradicts patrilineal principles
(a) 1 only
(b) Can happen only in matrilineal societies
(b) 2 and 3 only
(c) Endorses patrilineal principles
(c) 1 and 2 only
(d) Is independent of patriliny and matriliny
(d) 1, 2 and 3

75. Which one of the following causality is correct 80. According to Irawati Karve, in south India,
in Max Weber‟s explanation of methodological there is no clear-cut distinction between the
aspects of social action? family of birth and family of marriage, because
of the
(a) Historical causality
(a) Practice of cross-cousin marriage
(b) Situational causality
(b) Absence of village exogamy
(c) Rational-legal causality
(c) Dravidian cultural ethos
(d) Religious causality
(d) Centrality of Thali in the wedding rituals

76. The prohibition of sagotra marriages among

Hindus is an example of 81. When Victor Turner discusses „Liminality”, he
is referring to
(a) Taboo on cross-cousin marriage
(a) Reintegration of deviants back into the
(b) Clan exogamy social system
(c) The rules of caste endogamy (b) Temporary suspension of norms and
(d) Incest taboo customary behaviour
(c) Ordeal devised by a culture to establish truth
of a given situation.
77. Members of a family who live in different cities
often celebrate annual festivals together in one (d) Punishment of transgression by banishment
household. This is best seen as an example of from the community
(a) The process of fission and fusion in families
(b) Development cycle in domestic groups 82. Under which of the following Acts/Laws can a
marriage between a Hindu Rajput man and a
(c) Nuclear households with a joint family Sikh Jaty woman be solemnized?
ethos
1. Hindu Marriage Act
(d) The impact of urbanization, industrialization
2. Customary Law
and migration.
3. Special marriage act
Select the correct answer using the code given
78. Which one of the following is an example of below:
wealth promised to the bride by the Code
bridegroom?
(a) 1 and 2 only
(a) Mehr
(b) 2 only
(b) Stridhan
(c) 1 and 3 only
(c) Dowry (d) 1, 2 and 3
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83. Match List I with List II and select the correct 85. Which of the following ceremonies best
answer using the code given below. reflect(s) the idea of marriage as a contract?
List I List II 1. Exchange of rings
Inheritance right of Community 2. Kanyadan
daughter
A) Daughter can 1) Telugu 3. Nikahnama
inherit but share is Kamma 4. Signing before the Registrar of Marriages
half that of a son
B) Daughter can 2) Sunni Select the correct answer using the code given
inherit from parent muslim below:
but not from Code
ancestral property
C) Youngest daughter 3) Tamil lyer (a) 4 only
inherits ancestral (b) 3 and 4
property
(c) 1, 2 and 3
D) Daughter has a 4) Khasi
share in ancestral (d) 2 and 4
property

Codes 86. Which of the following is/are relevant to the

A B C D trend of increase in single-person households?

(a) 2 3 4 1 1. Ageing of the population

(b) 1 4 3 2 2. Increased rate of divorce

(c) 1 3 4 2 3. Preference for live in relationships over

marriage
(d) 2 4 3 1
Select the correct answer using the code given
below:
84. Who among the following scholars has/have Code:
proposed t he idea of an “Indian Culture of
Kinship” that integrates North and South? (a) 1, 2 and 3

1. Thomas Trautmann (b) 1 and 2

2. Irawati Karve (c) 1 only

3. Louis Dumont (d) 2 only

4. T.N. Madan
Select the correct answer using the code given 87. The case of the Parsis who migrated to Gujarat
below: from Persia and switched to Gujarati language is
an example of
(a) 1 only
(a) Accommodation
(b) 1nd 3
(b) Integration
(c) 2 and 3 *
(c) Syncretism
(d) 2 and 4
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88. Who among the following social thinkers has
focused on equilibrium rather than conflict as
the basis of society?
(a) C. Wright Mills
(b) R. Dahrendorf
(c) L. Coser
(d) T. Parsons
89. Consider the following paragraph and answer
the question given below:
Traditional societies are small-scale, self-
contained, thechnologically primitive with a
simple division of labour and specialization.
Each individual occupies a few roles, mostly
kinship-based. Modern industrial societies are
large-scale, technologically advanced with a
complex division of labour. Each individual
occupies many roles and kinship is not always
central to them.
What do the terms „division of labour‟ and
„specialization‟ as stated above connote?
(a) The spread of specialization implies that we
can do certain things which our fellows
cannot do
(b) All members masters the same basic skills to
keep themselves alike and no one person is
indispensable to society
(c) Individuals are confronted with a vast array
of possibilities and can, therefore, develop in
different directions and can acquire multiple
skills.
(d) Division of labour refers to all forms of
specialization and not just those of an
economic kind.
90. Which one among the following best reflects the
features of community?
(a) All India lawn tennis association
(b) Maharashtra federation of university and
college teachers associations
(c) NOIDA sector 15A residents welfare
association
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(d) International union of anthropological and
Ethnological sciences.
91. Which one of the following best reflects the
concept of urbanism?
(a) Process of migration to cities in search of
employment
(b) Pattern of life in terms of work situation,
food habits, stress patterns of those who live
in cities
(c) A system of values and norms in terms of
formalism, individualism and anonymity
(d) T he system of high-rise construction.
92. Which one of the following was the theme of
discussion in Amartya Sen‟s cooperative
conflice?
(a) Understanding between trade union and
employer in an industrial conflict
(b) Harmonious and acrimonious aspects of
family structure and roles
(c) Alliances between castes in electoral politics
(d) Merit vs. need principle as manifested in
institutions of technical education.
93. Which one of the following terms has a meaning
that is in contrast to the other three terms, which
are related to each other?
(a) Ethnocentrism
(b) Social distance
(c) Cultural relativism
(d) Xenophobia
94. Which one of the following is not typical of
community?
(a) Bureaucratic arrangements
(b) Face-to-face relations
(c) Small-scale
(d) Sense of belonging
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95. Match List I with List II and select the correct 98. Arrange the following theories of sociology in
answer using the code given below. chronological sequence beginning with the
earliest:
List I List II
category Specific group 1. Structuralism
A) Reference 1) College football 2. Functionalism
group teammates
3. Evolutionism
B) Primary 2) Siblings
group 4. Post-modernism
C) In-group 3) All India debating Select the correct answer using the code given
association below:
members Code
D) Secondary 4) Bollywood actors
group (a) 3-2-1-4
(b) 1-3-2-4
Codes (c) 2-1-3-4
A B C D
(d) 3-2-4-1
(a) 3 1 2 4
(b) 4 2 1 3 99. In the study of small scale cultures, which one
(c) 4 1 2 3 of the following methods was stressed on and
developed in detail by Malinowski?
(d) 3 2 1 4
(a) Case studies
(b) Life history narratives
96. Which one of the following does not endorse the (c) Cultural translation
meaning and spirit of the other three?
(d) Participants observation
(a) Culture is contested
(b) Culture is negotiated 100. Whose theory of social change cannot be
(c) Culture is dynamic classified as a linear theory of change?
(a) A. Cormte
(d) Culture is holistic
(b) H. Spencer
(c) M. Weber
97. Which one of the following pairs is not correctly
matched? (d) K. Marx

(a) Structure of social - T. Parsons

action 101. How is syncretism best defined?
(b) Subconscious - B. Malinowski (a) Spread of cultural attributes from one
structures of the culture to another through contact between
mind groups
(b) Immigrant or subordinate group becoming
(c) Structure and - A.R. Radcliffe
indistinguishably merged into dominant host
function Brown
society
(d) Structuration - A. Giddens (c) Two or more groups of different cultures
interact to produce a their culture
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102. Which among the following marriages are (c) M. N. Srinivas
consanguineous? (d) A.M. Hocart
1. Bridegroom is bride‟s mother‟s brother‟s
son
106. Alters are differentiated in terms of their
2. Bridegroom is bride‟s brother‟s wife‟s degrees as well as types of significance to ago,
brother and that the force of a sanction is therefore a
3. Bridegroom is bride‟s mother‟s brother function of its source in this respect as well as in
others. Which one of the following is the correct
4. Bridegroom is bride‟s father‟s sister‟s son
concept to describe the above?
Select the correct answer using the code given
(a) Closeness
below:
(b) Social control
Code
(c) Social distance
(a) 1 and 3 only
(d) Role pattern
(b) 1 and 4 only
(c) 2 and 3
107. When a caste from Sudra varna emulates
(d) 1, 3 and 4
customs, habits, manners, dresses, foods, etc.,
along with various other cultural elements of a
103. According to Gerth and Mills, which one of the high caste of the locality the process can be
following is not an issue concerning social termed as
causation of factors in social change? (a) Brahmanization
(a) Role of individual (b) Sanskritization
(b) Relative influence of materials factors * (c) Upward caste mobility
(c) Role of states (d) Change in the structural position of the caste
(d) Relative influence of ideas
108. Consider
the following figure and identify from
104. Which one of the following features is not the code given below the explanation of the
common to the ideas of post industrialism and figure:
post fordism? Other saleswomen
and salesmen
(a) Technological advancement
Sales manager Poornima as Customers
Saleswoman
(b) Advancement of knowledge
Rate-fixer supervisor
(c) Role of knowledge in the organization of
production Code:
(d) Mass production (a) Multiple roles of poornima
(b) The role-set of Poornima
105. Who among the following sociologists has (c) Role conflict of Poornima at work
given purity pollution the fundamental place in
(d) Role performance of Poornima at work
his characterization of the caste systems?
(a) W. Dumont
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109. Which of the following is are the feature(s) of (b) Teachers
„class‟ as interpreted by max weber? (c) Elites
1. A class is a group of individuals sharing a (d) Nobles
similar position in the market economy
2. Conflict on economic interests between the
classes leads to their abolition 112. In
which of the following, the Jajmani system
was operative in India?
3. Political power of the classes is derived
from economic power 1. Caste system
4. No polarization of the classes takes place. 2. Religious system
Select the correct answer using the code given 3. Kinship system
below: 4. Political system
Code: Select the correct answer using the code given
(a) 1 only below:
(b) 1 and 4 Code:
(c) 2 and 4 (a) 1 and 2 only
(d) 1 and 3 (b) 2 only
(c) 1, 3 and 4
110. Which of the following is/are the main (d) 1, 2 and 3
feature(s) of the post fordism?
1. Flexible production with flexible 113. Which one of the following is the correct
specialization made according to satisfaction features of peasant economy?
of consumers
(a) Small scale production on land only for
2. Very rigid production unit keeping target of family consumption
fixed production
(b) Production on land for selling a part of the
3. Production is environment friendly produce in the market
4. Large-scale production of fixed standardized (c) Production on land for selling the products
goods for large group of masses. in the market for profit-making motive
Select the correct answer using the code given (d) Production on land for family consumption
below: and selling the surplus for profit.
Code
(a) 1 only 114. A person pursuing postgraduate studies in a
(b) 2 and 3 medical college interacts not only with the
teachers but with other students, nurses, medical
(c) 2 and 4
technicians, etc. how could this be
(d) 1 and 3 conceptualized in terms of the functional
analysis?
1. Multiple roles
111. Who among the following is a prominent
member of the social structure of „little tradition 2. Role conflict
in India? 3. Role set
(a) Folk artists
4. Status

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Select the correct answer using the code given 4. Specific traditional culture related to the
below? way of life of small communities
Code: Which of the above are the characteristics of
Indian peasantry?
(a) 1 and 4
(a) 1 and 2 only
(b) 3 only
(b) 2 and 4 only
(c) 1 and 3
(c) 1, 3 and 4 only
(d) 2
(d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

115. Whichone of the following is not a feature of an

urban community? 118. studyof changes in the material aspects and the
non-material aspects of culture has been used
(a) Increasing commercial activities
for understanding
(b) Social control on kinship basis
1. The causes of change in society
(c) Increasing division of labour
2. The elements of culture
(d) Increasing social complexity
3. The discrepancies between the rates of
change in different sectors of social life
116. Match
List I with List II and select the correct Select the correct answer using the code given
answer using the code given below. below:
List I List II (a) 1 and 3
concept explanation
(b) 2 and 3
A) Incest 1) Kin through any
link (c) 1 only
B) Exogamy 2) Kin through male (d) 3 only
link
C) Congate 3) Sexual relations
D) Agnate 4) Conjugal relations 119. Who among the following is/are considered as
„alliance‟ theorist(s)
Codes
A B C D 1. B. Malinowski

(a) 3 1 4 2 2. R. Needham

(b) 2 4 1 3 3. A. R. Radcliffe Brown

(c) 3 4 1 2 4. C. Levi Strauss

(d) 2 1 4 3 Select the correct answer using the code given

below:
(a) 4 only
117. Consider the following
(b) 1 and 4
1. Peasant family form as a unit of
consumption and production (c) 2 and 3

2. Agriculture as the main source of livelihood (d) 2 and 4

3. Domination of peasantry by outsider

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120. Match
List I with List II and select the correct
answer using the code given below.
MAINS 2010 AND
List I List II
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form of absolutely Subjects offered
rigid class
D) Caste is an 4) M. Weber Mains :
expression of
hierarchy rather than 1. GEOGRAPHY
stratification 2. PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Codes 3. SOCIOLOGY
A B C D
4. HISTORY
(a) 4 3 2 1
5. PSYCHOLOGY
(b) 2 1 4 3
(c) 3 1 2 4 6. POLITICAL SCIENCE
(d) 1 4 3 2 7. TAMIL LITERATURE
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4. HISOTRY
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candidates
from our Institute have
entered the Civil Services
in 2009. Among them 4
Sociology candidates got
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