Thursday, May 6, 2010

UPPCS 2010 PRE SOCIOLOGY SOLUTION

SOCIOLOGY

SNO

QUESTIONS

ANS

  

1 

Among the following who considered socia stratification as a functional need of society ? 

D

  

2 

Assertion (A) : Role performanc is essential for survival of a status. .... Reason (R) : Role and status are interrelated.

A

  

3 

Which one of the following pairs is not correctly matched ? .. (A) Role making-Turner 

D

  

4 

Choose the correct group of terms which are related to the basic system of social stratification 

D

  

5 

Looking at the cultures of the world, one find that no society it classless, that it unstratified." Identify the author of this statement.

B

  

6 

Who is the author of the book 'Social Mobility in the Cast System in India' ? 

B

  

7 

As per Hindu Dharma Shastra the forms of marriages are 

C

  

8 

Which one of the following is a tertiary kin ? 

D

  

9 

What will be the nomenclature of the family if in a patrilineal family a man lives with his wife, children, mother-in-law and sister-in-law ?

C

  

10 

Assertion (A) : Monogamy is the most common form of marriage in the contemporary society. .... Reason (R) : Status of women enhances through monogamy.

A

  

11 

Kinship relations consist of mainly two types 

C

  

12 

Who wrote the book "Freedom, Power and Democratic Planning" ?

B

  

13 

Communistic Social Planning comes under 

B

  

14 

Who is the author of the book 'Joint Family in Urban Setting' ? 

B

  

15 

Which of the following statements in respect of marriage are correct ? .. 1. Marriage is an institution. 88 

B

  

16 

Which one of the following is not a characteristic of an institution ? 

A

  

17 

Which of the following Acts permit Divorce in the Hindu Marriage ? 

C

  

18 

Initially reservation for the Scheduled Castes and Schedules Tribes was made for 

A

  

19 

When did the President appoint Backward Class Commission under the Chairmanship of Kaka Kalekar ? 

B

  

20 

Untouchability (Offences) Act 1955 is presently known as 'Civil Rights Protection Act' under the new name. When this new Act was implemented ?

C

  

21 

Who amiong the following has distinguished pre-industrial and post-industrial societies on the basis of social solidarity ?

C

  

22 

Under which Section of the Indian Constitution the President by a public declaration made declare tribes for tribal communities or their parts or groups as Scheduled Tribes ?

D

  

23 

When "Community Development Programme" was formally started ? 

B

  

24 

In which year 'Integrated Tribal Development Project' was launched ? 

A

  

25 

Who has given the 'Tribe-Caste' 'Continum model' to explain the process of tribla assimilation ? 

B

  

26 

Which one of the following Articles of the Constitution provisions regarding the Scheduled Castes and Tribes ? 

D

  

27 

Who has related the degree of integration of a group with the rate of suicide in a society ? 

D

  

28 

A change in social position that does not alter a person's status is called 

A

  

29 

Who has propounded the concept of anomie ? 

C

  

30 

According to Merton, psychotics, pariahs, out castes, vagrants, vagabonds, tramps, chronic drunkards and drug addicts are 

D

  

31 

Who has maintained that the fundamental source of social disorganization is anomie ? 

D

  

32 

Which one of the following is not the salient feature of social dis-organization ? 

B

  

33 

Who has propounded the concept of 'Deliquency Threshold' ? 

?

  

34 

Rarely is a woman wicked, but when she is, she surpasses the man." Who has given this statement ? 

A&B

  

35 

Who has propounded the labelling theory of deviance ? 

B

  

36 

Who was the first chairman of the 'Backward Classes Commission' in India ? 

B

  

37 

Who said that advance from homogeneity to heterogeneity is the universal law of progress ? 

D

  

38 

Who said that society is the system in equilibrium ? 

D

  

39 

Who wrote the book "The Science of Culture" ? 

D

  

40 

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists. List-I (A) Karl Marx .... List-II 1. 1818 AD-1883 AD

A

  

41 

Who among the following is associated with "Diffusional Theory of Development" ? 

D

  

42 

Who has given Racial Theory of Caste ? 

C

  

43 

An untouchable getting converted to Christianity is an example of 

B

  

44 

Who has written the book 'Caste in Indian Politics' ?

C

  

45 

The development of the ecological approach to urban analysis is attributed to 

D

  

46 

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists. List-I (Thinkers) (A) Weber .... List-II (Concepts) 1. Social fact

C

  

47 

In which Article of the Constitution of India the term 'Backward Class' has been used ?

A

  

48 

Which one of the following Articles of Indian Constitution talks about grants-in-aid for the welfare of Scheduled Tribes ? 

A

  

49 

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists. List-I (Writers) (A) Sorokin .... List-II (Concepts) 1. Circulation of Elites

C

  

50 

In which book Charles Cooley presented the Theory of Social Control ? 

A

  

51 

Who gave the concept of "Consciousness of Kind" ? 

C

  

52 

Expulsion of person from his caste for intercaste marriage is an example of 

B

  

53 

The main aspects of human development are : .. 1. Life expectancy 88

C

  

54 

Which one of the following is an example of Sanskritization ? 

C

  

55 

Phenomenology is a philosophical method of inquir developed by 

A

  

56 

Which one of the following is the basic concern of Article 17 of the Indian Constitution ? 

A

  

57 

The Father of Sociology was born in the year 

D

  

58 

Which one of the following features is not associated with community ? 

C

  

59 

Who has defined marriage as "a contract for the production and maintenance of children" ? 

A

  

60 

Who among the following is not associated with conflict theory ? 

D

  

61 

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists. List-I (A) Directive Principles of State Policy .... List-II 1. Part X

C

  

62 

Which one of the following is not an economic institution ? 

D

  

63 

Who has statded that 'status and role' provide the 'structural context' of reference group behaviour ? 

C

  

64 

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists. List-I (A) Article 15 .... List-II 1. Abolition of untouchability 

D

  

65 

Which of the following are examples of affinal kinship ? .. 1. Wife 88 

B

  

66 

Which one of the following is not an element of culture ? 

D

  

67 

Who among the following has edited the 'Oxford Dictionary of Sociology' ? 

A

  

68 

Assertion (A) : No society can fully be from deviancce. .... Reason (R) : Deviance and conformity are the ongoing processes in society. 

A

  

69 

Who is the author of the book entitled 'Sociological of Everyday Life' ?

D

  

70 

The delinquent subculture takes its normal from the larger culture, but turns them upside down.' Who said this in the context of deviance ? 

A

  

71 

Who among the following has edited the book entiteld 'Cyber Society' ? 

A

  

72 

From the view point of population of Tribes, which stateo is placed first ? 

D

  

73 

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists. List-I (A) Sanskritization .... List-II 1. Sanderson 

B

  

74 

Which of the following are associative processes ? .... 1. Cooperation 88

D

  

75 

Which of the following is not involved in the evolution of institutions ? 

C

  

76 

Who has introduced the idea of 'class cocnflict' in Sociology ? 

B

  

77 

Who has stated, "India is a museum of races" ? 

C

  

78 

Where did the estate system emerge ? 

C

  

79 

Which type of relationships are found in secondary groups ? 

A

  

80 

Sociology is the science which attempts the interpreative understanding of social action.' Who has given this statement ? 

D

  

81 

Which one of the following is a constituent of social structure ?

C

  

82 

Who has distinfuished societies on the basis of 'status and contract' ? 

C

  

83 

Who has given the concept of 'strucutral observability' ? 

A

  

84 

Who has used the concept 'Suigneris' ? 

B

  

85 

Assertion (A) : It is the nature of culture to change. .... Reason (R) : Change is the law of all life. 88 

A

  

86 

Who has given the concept of structuration ? 

D

  

87 

Which principle guides the Five Year Plans in India ? 

B

  

88 

Who has used the concept of idealistic culture ? 

A

  

89 

Which of the following characteristics in relation to primary groups are correct ? .... 1. Shoulder to shoulder relationship 88 

A

  

90 

Who has written the book "Functions of Social Conflcit" ?

B

  

91 

Assertion (A) : Struggle is inevitable between the two classes. .... Reason (R) : Development is the struggle of opposites. 88 

A

  

92 

Who has written the book 'Human Society' ? 

C

  

93 

Which social institution is most affected by industralization ? 

D

  

94 

In which year 8th Five Year Plan was started ? 

A

  

95 

A social position which is secured through individual's choice and competition is known as 

B

  

96 

Who said that 'self' and 'society' are twin born ? 

D

  

97 

Which is the main basis of reference group behaviour ? 

C

  

98 

By Casteism we mean 

C

  

99 

Which one of the following religions is not theocentric ? 

A

  

100 

Talcott Parsons views society as a system which has four functional pre-requisites. Those are 

C

  

101 

Assertion (A) : A controlled economy is managed by the State. .... Reason (R) : The state has right to control economy. 

A

  

102 

Which one of the following is an example of horizontal mobility ? 

C

  

103 

Who has given the functional theory of social stratification ? 

C

  

104 

Who has given three main paths-historical, empirical and analytical-for delineating the subject matter of Sociology ? 

D

  

105 

In 1937 AD Congress Party formed a "National Planning Committee." Who was made Chairman of that Committee ?

B

  

106 

Who has classified Indian Society as example of Asiatic Society in his classification of Societies ? 

D

  

107 

Who has written the book 'Homohierarchicus' ? 

B

  

108 

Who has considered class, status and power as the main bases of social stratification ? 

C

  

109 

Which has been the traditional basis of social stratification of Indian society ?

B

  

110 

Who has given the concept of 'structural sources of instability' in the role-set ? 

A

  

111 

Who has written the book "The Achieving Society" ?

D

  

112 

Which one of the following is an example of social differentiation and not of social stratification ? 

B

  

113 

Who has stated that mobility in the caste systemm is possible through the processes of sanskritization and westernization ?

D

  

114 

Who viewed that one must define class position not only from a particular mode of production, but also from the social formations of which they are part ?

B

  

115 

Who has coined the concept of 'status sequenc' ? 

A

  

116 

Which of the following characteristics (c) is/are correct in respect to caste ? .... 1. Based on birth 88 

A

  

117 

Which of the following is/are the Prashast Vivah (valid marriage) as per Hindu Dharmashashtra ? .... 1. Brahma 88

A

  

118 

Who has given slavery, estates, castes and social classes as four forms of social stratification ? 

D

  

119 

Which one of the following Sociologists and classified the sources of social change as 'exogenous' and 'endogenous' ? 

B

  

120 

Who has classified roles into two categories-'Back State Role' and 'Front Stage Role' ? 

C

  

 

 

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