Who has defined a post-industrial society as a “game between persons” in which an intellectual technology based on information rises?

Which among the following the not the defining feature of the concept of peasant?

What is the concrete fusion of the economic system with the other sub-systems of society, called?

Appropriation of surplus through extra economic coercion is the characteristics of which of the following societies?

1. Capitalist society 2. Feudal society 3. Ancient society

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Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists:

List I (Essential Idea of Capitalism) A. Rational organization of work and labour B. Exploitation of free wage labour C. Complex division of labour and economic interdependence D. Profit generating and risk taking entrepreneur

List II (Proponent) 1. J. Schumpeter 2. Max Weber 3. Karl Marx 4. E. Durkheim

Who among the following is known for his work on unified theory of human ecology?

What is an economic system in which technicians and professionals are the preeminent social group and in which service industries are more important than the manufacturing, known as?

Which one of the following is not a characteristic of the Folk Society?

Consider the following statements:

1. The study of the relationship between language and culture hardly plays any role in leading to an understanding of the cognitive processes of various societies. 2. Language does not function adaptively as a means of assimilating new ideas and technology. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

When percentage of urban population remains the same over a period of time in a country but there is increase of population in towns and cities, what is the process known as?

Who among the following is known for his ideas on the effects of technology and has written the well-known book Future Shock?

Which one of the following statements is correct?

Filiation refers to which of the following?

1. The link between adjacent generations, that is between parents and children. 2. A residence pattern which allows a choice of virilocal and uxorilocal residence. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

When relatives are merged or equated under the same identifying label, then the system of kinship terminology is called as which one of the following?

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the List:

List I (Kinship) A. Patrilineage B. Clan C. Caste D. Sub-caste

List II (Characteristic) 1. Exogamy 2. Shared descent in the male line 3. Endogamy 4. Fictive relationships 5. Largest segment of endogamous group

Which one of the following patterns of residence reflects the ambilocal type?

Which of the following are associated with Robert Redfield's research work?

1. Merida 2. Dzitas 3. Maya

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Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the List:

List I (Concept) A. Multiple nuclei theory B. Folk-urban continuum C. Global city D. Informational city List II (Thinker) 1. S. Sassen 2. M. Castells 3. Robert Redfield 4. C. Harris and E. Ullman

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A. List I (Kin Category) B. Primary kin C. Secondary kin D. Tertiary kin E. Distant kin

1. List II (Example) 2. Fa Fa Fa, Fa Fa Br 3. Fa, Mo, Si and Br 4. Fa Fa, Fa Fa Mo 5. Fa Br Wi Br Wi Si, Br Wi Fa Br Si

Consider the following statements: 1. Advocates of capitalism argue that business enterprises, even large ones, are voluntary associations of autonomous individuals who think they can do better for themselves if they work together cooperatively. 2. According to the concession theory of the corporation, the corporation's unique legal status is a governmental creation.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

While patrilineal descend systems correlate with either neolocal or patrivirilocal residence patterns, matrilineal descend systems correlate with which of the following residence patterns? 1. Neolocal 2. Matrilocal 3. Avunculocal Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which one of the following descent systems traces its membership through both the mother and the father?

What does virilocality in a patrilineal society serve? 1. Keeps the men of a group in the same place. 2. Breaks apart any potential unilinear kin grouping.

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Which of the following, according to R. Merton, is the basis for the formation of reference group?

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists:

List I A. Affinal B. Consanguineal C. Kindred D. Lineage List II 1. A category of non-corporate group of kin (in both male or female line) 2. A group of people who claim genealogical connection of descent (through male or female line) 3. Refers to relationships based on biological ties 4. Relationship established through marriage

Which of the following are the main features of a secondary group? 1. Members have intimate and co-operative relationships. 2. Its members maintain relatively limited, formal and impersonal relationships with one another. 3. It is generally a specific or specialized group with a well-defined division of labour. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which of the following statements refers/refer to the idea of cultural relativism? 1. The coming into contact of two or more cultures generally leads to transformation in different measures in the interacting cultures. 2. A culture influences people to attach a special meaning to certain objects, things and colours. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which one of the following pairs of terms denotes cultural change?

Cultural lag is the difference between which of the following?

Ethnocentrism is the tendency of individuals to judge which one of the following?

What was the state of existence of developing societies (Third World Societies) during the eighteenth century?

What does post-modern political sociology contribute to our understanding?

Under which of the following articles of the Constitution of India does the State provide equal justice and free legal aid?

Who said that 'A well-ordered society is effectively regulated by a public conception of justice'?

Which one of the following statements refers to the concept of community?

What is the term given to stable social patterns and relationships that emanate from the norms, values, roles and status that govern activities which fulfil the needs of the society?

What is the term given by sociologists to a setting in which people are isolated from the rest of society and are handled by an administrative staff?

Which of the following statements refers/refer to the concept of acculturation? 1. Group of individuals with different cultural traditions coming into contact and as a result experiencing changes in their original cultural patterns. 2. The situation that occurs when a technological invention, device or process is developed but the social setting cannot keep pace with changes. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which of the following is not a harbinger of cultural change?

Who among the following has coined the term 'ethnocentrism'?

The term “Techno-capitalism” used by Neo- Marxist sociologists denotes which of the following? 1. A configuration of capitalist society. 2. Use of technical and scientific knowledge in production. 3. Automation, computers and advanced technology in production. 4. Variable capital in production. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Who is the exponent of the theory of cultural lag?

Which of the following denotes/denote the concept of primary group? 1. A social group whose members interact frequently with one another on a face-to-face basis, have intimate knowledge of one another and share emotional ties. 2. A group or category that people use to evaluate themselves and their behavior. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which of the following groups is best classified by the feature of an in-group?

Which one of the following is the correct statement? Conformity is tied closely to the issue of the pressure of

Which one of the following organizations was founded by Dr. Annie Basant in Madras in 1917?

Which of the following statements refers/refer to the idea of cultural relativism? What is spread of cultural attributes from one culture to another through contact between different cultural groups known as?

Which of the following parties organized backward class movement in Madras in 1916?

“Peasantry lacks inter connection, common political identity and organization and represent barbarism in the midst of civilization”. Who said it?

Which one of the following pairs of Articles of the Constitution of India pertains to specifying the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes by public notification by the President of India?

In which of the following States of India are the jarawa, Shompens and Onges tribes found?

Who among the following is the author of “Utouchability in Rural Gujarat”?

The idea of social structure came to sociology from which of the following? 1. Architecture 2. Anatomy 3. Grammar 4. Language Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which of the following are the sources of funding for state Tribal Sub-Plan (TSP)? 1. State Plan outlay 2. Special Central Assistance (SCA) 3. Institutional finance Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which one of the following States has highest proportion of Scheduled Castes population than the national average?

Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the State/UTs according to female literarcy rate in descending order as per Census 2001?

What is the most appropriate explanation of political socialization?

In the context of relativity of change who said “a socialization process within a particular family is a process of orderly change”?

Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the States given below in descending order according to their level of urbanization as per Census 2001?

Which one among the following is not the basis of a category of conflict?

Which one of the following statements is not correct?

Consider the following statements: According the Raymond Firth, a social organization is concerned with choices and decisions involved irt actual social relations; while the concept of social structures deals with 1. Social facts which are distinct from individual facts and are external to the individual. 2. An arrangement of parts related to one another in some sort in a larger unity.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

What does the term 'demographic transition' stand for?

What is meant by totalitarianism?

Which Article of the constitution of India states that 'No child below the age of fourteen years shall be employed to work in any factory or mine or engaged in any other hazardous employment'?

Which one of the following is often described as bureauceratic authority by Max Weber?

Who has made legitimacy as the key subject in the study of power?

What exists when there is a gap between expectations and objective conditions experienced by members of society?

Which of the following provisions of the Constitution of India deals with the administration of Scheduled Areas and Tribes Areas?

According to iravati karve, which of the following States constitute the Northern Zone of Kinship Organisation in India?

Where was Prityakta Mukti Morcha (a women's movement) launched by the deserted women?

The politics of Untouchability by O. M. Lynch was study representing the socioeconomic and political mobility of which of the following? 1. Nadars of Tamil Nadu 2. Jatavs of Agra 3. Mahars of Maharashtra Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Patrilateral parallel cousin marriage is associated with which of the following?

Which one of the following is correct? Urban population of India constitutes (approximately) about

Who among the following social reformers of the 19^th Century and early 20^th Century did not oppose child marriage in India?

Who among the following practice patrilineal and patrilocal family?

The religious texts of many communities in India outline the purpose, rights and duties involved in marriage. These texts clearly bring out that marriage in India has its location in which of the following?

Which one of the following States, (in comparison amongst them) has the highest percentage of its population as Scheduled Tribes?

Match List I with II and select the correct answer using the code given below the List : List I (Statement) A. The field of art has its own struggles for power B. Power is the name the renders manageable what might be otherwise too complex C. Power means any chance to carry through one's own will D. Power produces domains of objects and rituals of truth List II (Proponent) 1. Max Weber 2. Michael Foucalt 3. Pierre Boudien 4. J. Butler

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the List: List I A. G. P. Murdock B. Talcott Parsons C. David Cooper D. Frederick Engels List II 1. Family operates as an ideological conditioning device in an exploiting society 2. Isolated nuclear family strengthens the relationship between husband and wife 3. The monogamous nuclear family developed with the emergence of private property 4. Family is a universal social institution

Which of the following institutions have taken over the functions performed by the wider kin group in the context of the family in the industrial society? 1. Formal institutions. 2. Reformulated division of labour in society. 3. Conjugally bounded nuclear family. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which of the following statements reflects/reflect the cooperative conflict perspective to study the institution of family in India in terms of its sociological understanding? 1. Theories of procreation are related with differential power, rights and entitlements by age and sex in the family in India. 2. The dialectical relationship at family level are explored in terms of capabilities, agency and perception dimensions. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Who among the following has pointed out “In a system of cumulative inequalities, privilege, property and power are combined in the same individuals and the socially underprivilege 1 are also economically and politically deprived”?

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the List: List I (Scholar) A. I. P. Desai B. K. M. Kapadia C. M. S. Gore List II (Book) 1. Urbanization and Family Change 2. Some Aspects of Family in Mahuva 3. Marriage and Family in india

Who among the following has provided the concept of “Flow of space” having tremendous significance for understanding information society?

Who among the following has stressed that tribe should be defined in terms of a continuum, of which at the one end are tribes and at the other end are the castes?

Consider the following: 1. Dhebar Commission 2. Thakkar Committee 3. Shilu Aao Committee Which one of the following is the correct sequence of the above?

Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? (Concept of Industrial Society) : (proponent) 1. The civilizing process is linked with changes in power, behavior and habits : N. Elias 2. Industrial societies employ less concentrated powers : H. Spencer Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which of the following pairs is/are correctly matched? (Interpretation) : (Scholar) 1. Caste is an extreme form of absolutely rigid class : L. Dumont 2. Caste is an expression of hierarchy rather than stratification : G. Myrdal Select the correct answer using the code given below:

What specific interpretation has been given by T. Beidelman in respect of the jajmani system of Indian traditional society?

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists : List I (Nature of Change Experienced in Caste) A. Caste patriotism B. Change from structure to substance C. Democracy of caste in place of a hierarchy D. Horizontal consolidation List II (Sociologist) 1. M. N. Srinivas 2. G. S. Ghurye 3. Louis Dumont 4. Sudipta Kaviraj

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists: List I A. There is caste domninance, hence corporate mobility B. There are dominant individuals not dominant caste C. There is power dispersion and power pool List II 1. S. C. Dube 2. T. K. Oommen 3. M. N. Sriniwas

Studies on jajmani system address to which of the following? 1. Type of relationships and reimbursement. 2. Relative magnitude of traditional economic interaction. 3. Kind of ecological unit appropriate for a study of economic interaction. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

The term 'class' signifies conflict groups that are generated by the differential distribution of authority in imperatively coordinated association, that is organization in which orders are given and taken. Who among the following has explained class in this way?

Which of the following anti-caste movement was founded in Bombay in 1875 and was accepted in Punjab by the caste Hindus?

What is the term used to understand the dominance of men over women in societies known as ?

In which one of the following, the slogan “Development is the best road to slowing population growth” was given?

On the basis of the data of the Census 2001, which one of the following States (in comparison to each other) has the lowest ratio of its population of Scheduled Tribes to its total population?

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists: List I (Concept) A. Reference group B. Hierarchy C. Status group List II (scholar) 1. R. Merton 2. M. N. Srinivas 3. Max Weber 4. L. Dumant

Which one of the following is correct? 1. Succession refers to transmission of office 2. Inheritance refers to transmission of office 3. Succession refers to transmission of property Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Which one of the following statements refers to the process of re-socialization?

Which of the following statements refers/refer to the process of assimilation? 1. An evaluation or opinion regarding a person or thing that affects one's thoughts, feelings and behavior. 2. Social condition characterized by the gradual building up of norms and values governing social integration. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

What is the term given to the process whereby an individual or a group emulates the values, norms and behaviour patterns of a group other than to which one belongs before becoming its member?

Which of the following refers/refer to social distance? 1. A mode of working out varying degree of intimacy, understanding and influence between individuals and groups in a society. 2. Any alternation in social behavior or institutions of a society that results in long-term consequences. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

In functionalist theory, the term 'social integration' is fundamental and describes which mode?

When do role conflicts arise?

What is the term used to refer to institutionalized inequalities of people's awareness of them known as?

Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists: List I (Theory) A. Influential theory of class B. Class, status and party C. Class and occupation D. Cultural and economic capital List II (Proponent) 1. John Goldthorpe 2. Erlk Olin Wright 3. Piere Bourdieu 4. Max Weber

Which one of the following is correct? Sanctions are the

One of the critical ideas inherent in the concept of social system is that social system has emergent properties of its own over and above the properties of its elements. Who among the following has criticized the idea?

Which of the following statements refers/refer to the meaning of a social system? Such diverse sets of relationships as families, political parties, kinship groups and even whole societies can be regarded as social system Select the correct answer using the code given below:

Under which of the following conditions does behavior become an action? 1. When behavior is oriented to attainment of goals. 2. When behavior occurs in situations that require the behavior to be regulated by norms and values of society. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

What is the term given to the struggle over values and resources between disparate social groups?

Which one of the following sociologist argued that deviance is a consequence of gap between cultural goals and institutional means of achieving them?

Match List I and List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the Lists: List I A. W.G. Sumner B. C.H. Cooley C. S. Freud D. A. Comte List II 1. Id, Ego and Super Ego 2. Folkways and Mores 3. Hierarchy of Sciences 4. Looking Glass Self