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UP PGT 2016 — Sociology (Series A)

1 or 2 February 2019125 questions+3.4 for a correct answer, −0 for a wrong one

Questions from the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board’s paper of 1 or 2 February 2019. Each question’s answer is under it, hidden until you open it, and the full answer key is at the end. Take the paper as a timed practice test to be scored.

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Sociology

  1. 1. Who said “Capital as such is not evil, it is wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed” ?

    • (a) Karl Marx
    • (b) T. Veblen
    • (c) Mahatma Gandhi
    • (d) None of the above
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    Answer: (c)

  2. 2. According to Bottomore, which of the following factors, is responsible for social change ?

    • (a) Western science and technology
    • (b) Social planning
    • (c) Both above
    • (d) None of the above
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    Answer: (c)

  3. 3. Which of the following is not element of community ?

    • (a) Territory
    • (b) We feeling
    • (c) Cultural diversity
    • (d) Self-dependence
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    Answer: (c)

  4. 4. Which among the following is not a primary kin ?

    • (a) Mother
    • (b) Father
    • (c) Uncle
    • (d) Brother
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    Answer: (c)

  5. 5. Who produced the concept of ‘White Collar Crime’ ?

    • (a) C. Lombroso
    • (b) E.H. Sutherland
    • (c) James Short
    • (d) H.M. Goddard
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    Answer: (b)

  6. 6. What kind of value-loss occurs due to ‘bureaucracy’ ?

    • (a) Modern values
    • (b) Social values
    • (c) Political values
    • (d) Traditional values
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    Answer: (d)

  7. 7. Which among the following is a dissociative social process ?

    • (a) Modernization
    • (b) Cooperation
    • (c) Competition
    • (d) Assimilation
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    Answer: (c)

  8. 8. Jajmani system is exchange of

    • (a) Land
    • (b) Money
    • (c) Document
    • (d) Services and goods
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    Answer: (d)

  9. 9. Who classified social groups into following four categories ? i. Statistical groups ii. Societal groups iii. Social groups iv. Associational groups

    • (a) C.H. Cooley
    • (b) P.A. Sorokin
    • (c) E. Durkheim
    • (d) Robert Bierstedt
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    Answer: (d)

  10. 10. ‘Marriage is a hospital for sick souls’, who stated like this ?

    • (a) Luther
    • (b) Bierstedt
    • (c) Prabhu
    • (d) Cooley
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    Answer: (a)

  11. 11. Which among the following is not the characteristic of conflict ?

    • (a) Continuity
    • (b) Direct individual contact
    • (c) Destruction of social values
    • (d) Unstability
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    Answer: (a)

  12. 12. Which among the following is a tertiary kin ?

    • (a) Uncle (mama)
    • (b) Wife of brother-in-law (sala)
    • (c) Brother’s son
    • (d) Father
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    Answer: (b)

  13. 13. According to census 2011 which is that State where population decreased ?

    • (a) Arunachal
    • (b) Nagaland
    • (c) Himachal
    • (d) Goa
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    Answer: (b)

  14. 14. The concept of ‘Sanskritization’ is closely related with

    • (a) Primary group
    • (b) Tertiary group
    • (c) Negative group
    • (d) Reference group
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    Answer: (d)

  15. 15. Who has emphasised on the study of ‘Social Facts’ in sociology ?

    • (a) Auguste Comte
    • (b) Max Weber
    • (c) Karl Marx
    • (d) Emile Durkheim
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    Answer: (d)

  16. 16. What was the starting form of family, according to Westermark ?

    • (a) Matriarchal
    • (b) Patrilineal
    • (c) Matrilineal
    • (d) Patriarchal
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    Answer: (d)

  17. 17. Name the author of the book ‘The Life Divine’.

    • (a) Mahatma Gandhi
    • (b) G.S. Ghurye
    • (c) Shri Arvind
    • (d) R.K. Mukerjee
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    Answer: (c)

  18. 18. What does Herskovits call to ‘man made part of environment’ ?

    • (a) Science
    • (b) Civilization
    • (c) Culture
    • (d) Technology
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    Answer: (c)

  19. 19. In India the ‘three-tier Panchayati-Raj System’ was recommended by which ?

    • (a) L.M. Singhavi Committee
    • (b) G.K.V. Rao Committee
    • (c) Balwant Rai Mehta Committee
    • (d) Ashok Mehta Committee
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    Answer: (c)

  20. 20. Who among the following has propounded the principle of ‘Looking Glass Self’ ?

    • (a) Mead
    • (b) Freud
    • (c) Cooley
    • (d) Blumer
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    Answer: (c)

  21. 21. Who among the following has given the concept of ‘Westernization’ ?

    • (a) Yogendra Singh
    • (b) T.K. Oommen
    • (c) M.N. Srinivas
    • (d) Mckim Marriot
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    Answer: (c)

  22. 22. Who introduced ‘unibonded' and ‘multibonded’ groups in sociological literature ?

    • (a) E. Durkheim
    • (b) C.H. Cooley
    • (c) R. Bierstedt
    • (d) P.A. Sorokin
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    Answer: (d)

  23. 23. Who has said, “we are the members of associations, not the institutions” ?

    • (a) Gillin and Gillin
    • (b) Ogburn and Nimcoff
    • (c) MacIver and Page
    • (d) K. Davis
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    Answer: (c)

  24. 24. According to ‘Kaka Kalelkar Commission’ What is the criterion to determine the backward classes ?

    • (a) Individual
    • (b) Family
    • (c) Caste
    • (d) Occupation
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    Answer: (c)

  25. 25. Who among the following has formulated the ‘Law of Three Stages’ ?

    • (a) Auguste Comte
    • (b) Herbert Spencer
    • (c) Saint Simon
    • (d) None of these
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    Answer: (a)

  26. 26. “Sociology has long past but only a short history”, who gave this statement ?

    • (a) K. Davis
    • (b) Robert Bierstedt
    • (c) E. Durkheim
    • (d) MacIver and Page
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    Answer: (b)

  27. 27. Which of the following is not the agency of ‘Socialization’ ?

    • (a) Family
    • (b) School
    • (c) Peer group
    • (d) Media
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    Answer: —

  28. 28. Who among the following is known for ‘Classification of Sciences’ ?

    • (a) Durkheim
    • (b) Weber
    • (c) Spencer
    • (d) Auguste Comte
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    Answer: (d)

  29. 29. “Urbanization is a process and urbanism is a condition”, who said ?

    • (a) Bergel
    • (b) Anderson
    • (c) Ghurye
    • (d) Rao
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    Answer: (a)

  30. 30. Who has given the racial theory of caste ?

    • (a) G.S. Ghurye
    • (b) D.N. Majumdar
    • (c) Herbert Risley
    • (d) J.H. Hutton
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    Answer: (c)

  31. 31. ‘When a low Hindu caste or tribe or other group takes over the custom, rituals, beliefs, ideology and style of life of a high and in particular, a twice born (dwij) caste,’ this process is called

    • (a) Modernization
    • (b) Universalization
    • (c) Westernization
    • (d) Sanskritization
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    Answer: (d)

  32. 32. Which of the following does not fall in the agencies of formal social control ?

    • (a) Law
    • (b) Prison
    • (c) Religion
    • (d) State
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    Answer: (c)

  33. 33. When a man of lower varna marries the girl of a higher varna, then it is called

    • (a) Anulom marriage
    • (b) Pratilom marriage
    • (c) Monogamy
    • (d) Polygamy
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    Answer: (b)

  34. 34. Who among the following has given the concept of ‘Collective Representation’ ?

    • (a) Weber
    • (b) Durkheim
    • (c) Auguste Comte
    • (d) Spencer
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    Answer: (b)

  35. 35. In India ‘disguised unemployment’ is found in

    • (a) Industrial sector
    • (b) Agricultural sector
    • (c) Trade sector
    • (d) Service sector
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    Answer: (b)

  36. 36. Who of the following has developed the twin concepts of ‘Parochialization’ and ‘Universalization’ ?

    • (a) S.C. Dube
    • (b) G.S. Ghurye
    • (c) Mckim Marriot
    • (d) Andre Beteille
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    Answer: (c)

  37. 37. Who has the first time studied the Jajmani system in India ?

    • (a) S.C. Dube
    • (b) M.N. Srinivas
    • (c) H.M. Johnson
    • (d) W.H. Wiser
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    Answer: (d)

  38. 38. Secularization means

    • (a) Equal respect to all the religions
    • (b) No faith in any religion
    • (c) Hatred towards each religion
    • (d) None of these
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    Answer: (a)

  39. 39. Who used the word ‘Backward Hindu’ for scheduled tribes ?

    • (a) B.S. Guha
    • (b) G.S. Ghurye
    • (c) Kaka Kalelkar
    • (d) B.R. Ambedkar
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    Answer: (b)

  40. 40. Who among the following is regarded to be the propounder of Phenomenology ?

    • (a) Lauri Sparling
    • (b) Albert Husserl
    • (c) Peter Berger
    • (d) T. Luckman
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    Answer: (b)

  41. 41. Which one of the following is ‘White collar crime’ ?

    • (a) Pilferage
    • (b) Gambling
    • (c) Theft
    • (d) Bribery
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    Answer: (d)

  42. 42. Who has defined, “By social change is meant only such alterations as occur in social organization – that is, the structure and functions of society” ?

    • (a) Ginsberg
    • (b) Davis
    • (c) Gillin and Gillin
    • (d) MacIver and Page
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    Answer: (b)

  43. 43. What is the main basis of distinguishing between an adult criminal and a juvenile delinquent ?

    • (a) Felony
    • (b) Misconduct
    • (c) Age
    • (d) Arrest warrant
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    Answer: (c)

  44. 44. Who among the following has propounded the ‘Organic Theory’ of society ?

    • (a) Spencer
    • (b) Durkheim
    • (c) Weber
    • (d) Auguste Comte
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    Answer: (a)

  45. 45. ‘Gol Gadhero’ is related to which tribe ?

    • (a) Bhil
    • (b) Nayar
    • (c) Toda
    • (d) Khariya
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    Answer: (a)

  46. 46. What name was proposed by J.S. Mill for the Comte’s new science (Sociology) ?

    • (a) Social Physics
    • (b) Ecology
    • (c) Ethology
    • (d) Social Philosophy
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    Answer: (c)

  47. 47. ‘Peasant society is a Half Society’, who stated like this ?

    • (a) George Foster
    • (b) Robert Redfield
    • (c) M.N. Srinivas
    • (d) Oskar Lewis
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    Answer: (a)

  48. 48. When we see the family as an organised group of persons, then it is called

    • (a) Association
    • (b) Institution
    • (c) Community
    • (d) Out-group
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    Answer: (a)

  49. 49. What is the percentage of reservation for ‘other backward classes’ in Government service in India ?

    • (a) 21
    • (b) 27
    • (c) 22
    • (d) 28
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    Answer: (b)

  50. 50. Who among the following sociologists has given the concept of structuration ?

    • (a) A. Giddens
    • (b) Levi Strauss
    • (c) T. Parsons
    • (d) Saussure
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    Answer: (a)

  51. 51. Who has developed the concept of ‘Ideal Type’ in the methodology of sociology ?

    • (a) Auguste Comte
    • (b) Durkheim
    • (c) Weber
    • (d) Spencer
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    Answer: (c)

  52. 52. Who said “Alcoholism is uncontrolled drinking” ?

    • (a) W.C. Reckless
    • (b) W. Roger
    • (c) E.H. Johnson
    • (d) E.S. Bogardus
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    Answer: (a)

  53. 53. What is the correct order of the objectives of marriage in traditional Hindu society ?

    • (a) Praja, rati and dharma
    • (b) Praja, dharma and rati
    • (c) Dharma, praja and rati
    • (d) Dharma, rati and praja
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    Answer: (c)

  54. 54. Who has opinioned that occupation and only occupation is responsible for the origin of caste ?

    • (a) R. Nesfield
    • (b) G.S. Ghurye
    • (c) M.N. Srinivas
    • (d) J.H. Hutton
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    Answer: (a)

  55. 55. Who has given the concept of dominant caste ?

    • (a) K.M. Kapadia
    • (b) M.N. Srinivas
    • (c) G.S. Ghurye
    • (d) A.R. Desai
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    Answer: (b)

  56. 56. Who has given the concept of ‘Non-material Culture’ ?

    • (a) Sorokin
    • (b) Max Weber
    • (c) Pareto
    • (d) Ogburn
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    Answer: (d)

  57. 57. In which year was held the first regular census in India ?

    • (a) 1911
    • (b) 1931
    • (c) 1881
    • (d) 1880
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    Answer: (c)

  58. 58. Srinivas used the term ‘sanskritization’ in which of his following books ?

    • (a) India’s Village
    • (b) Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India
    • (c) Social Change in Modern India
    • (d) The Cohesive Role of Sanskritization
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    Answer: (b)

  59. 59. Who has differentiated between ‘real’ and ‘normal’ social structure ?

    • (a) Nadel
    • (b) Durkheim
    • (c) Merton
    • (d) Radcliffe Brown
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    Answer: (d)

  60. 60. ‘Sociology’ is a compound from two words ‘Socius’ and ‘Logos’. ‘Logos’ belongs to which language ?

    • (a) Latin
    • (b) German
    • (c) Greek
    • (d) French
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    Answer: (c)

  61. 61. When people in large numbers try to achieve their goals through illegitimate means, then this condition is called

    • (a) Social disorganization
    • (b) Personal disorganization
    • (c) Family disorganization
    • (d) Cultural disorganization
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    Answer: (a)

  62. 62. “Sociology is about social relationships”, whose statement is this ?

    • (a) MacIver and Page
    • (b) Gillin and Gillin
    • (c) Giddings
    • (d) Durkheim
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    Answer: (a)

  63. 63. What is Muslim marriage ?

    • (a) A sacred sanskar
    • (b) A contract
    • (c) ‘A’ and ‘B’ both
    • (d) None of the above
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    Answer: (b)

  64. 64. When in India was ‘Community Development Programme’ started ?

    • (a) 1958
    • (b) 1952
    • (c) 1955
    • (d) 1953
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    Answer: (b)

  65. 65. Who among the following has correlated the rise of capitalism with the teachings of ‘Protestant Religion’ ?

    • (a) Karl Marx
    • (b) Herbert Spencer
    • (c) Max Weber
    • (d) Emile Durkheim
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    Answer: (c)

  66. 66. “Conflict, competition and cooperation all are independent. They are ever present aspects of human society”, who has stated ?

    • (a) MacIver and Page
    • (b) K. Davis
    • (c) E. Bogardus
    • (d) M. Ginsberg
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    Answer: —

  67. 67. Who has classified ‘slavery’, ‘estates’, ‘castes’ and ‘social class’ as four types of social stratification ?

    • (a) Johnson
    • (b) Bottomore
    • (c) Parsons
    • (d) Sumner
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    Answer: (b)

  68. 68. Who has propounded the theory of evolution of society ?

    • (a) Marx
    • (b) Coser
    • (c) Spencer
    • (d) Weber
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    Answer: (c)

  69. 69. The ‘Sharda Act’ was passed to prevent what ?

    • (a) Widow Remarriage
    • (b) Child Marriage
    • (c) Devdasi Pratha
    • (d) Dowry System
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    Answer: (b)

  70. 70. ‘Remand Homes’ and ‘Borstal Schools’ are meant for correction of whom ?

    • (a) Juvenile delinquents
    • (b) Hardened offenders
    • (c) Adult offenders
    • (d) Habitual offenders
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    Answer: (a)

  71. 71. Which of the following is determinant of population growth ?

    • (a) Birth rate
    • (b) Death rate
    • (c) Migration
    • (d) All above
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    Answer: (d)

  72. 72. “When a class is somewhat strictly hereditary, we may call it a caste,” who defined it ?

    • (a) C.H. Cooley
    • (b) J.H. Hutton
    • (c) H.H. Risley
    • (d) S.V. Ketkar
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    Answer: (a)

  73. 73. When was ‘Untouchability Removal’ Act passed ?

    • (a) 1952
    • (b) 1951
    • (c) 1955
    • (d) 1953
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    Answer: (c)

  74. 74. Who has described competition as ‘peaceful struggle’ ?

    • (a) Coser
    • (b) Spencer
    • (c) Weber
    • (d) Durkheim
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    Answer: (c)

  75. 75. Sociology is the study of what ?

    • (a) Socio-political institutions
    • (b) Political system
    • (c) Human behaviour
    • (d) Society
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    Answer: (d)

  76. 76. Who among the following pays ‘dower’ ?

    • (a) Bride’s father to groom’s parents
    • (b) Groom’s father to bride’s parents
    • (c) Bride to groom
    • (d) Groom to bride
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    Answer: (d)

  77. 77. Who said “Religion is Opium for the People” ?

    • (a) J. Frazer
    • (b) E.B. Tylor
    • (c) Karl Marx
    • (d) B. Malinowski
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    Answer: (c)

  78. 78. In which of the following is found the first mention of ‘Varn-Vyavastha’ ?

    • (a) Rigved
    • (b) Atharvaved
    • (c) Yajurved
    • (d) Samved
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    Answer: (a)

  79. 79. ‘Quit India’ movement is concerned with whom ?

    • (a) Jawahar Lal Nehru
    • (b) Bal Gangadhar Tilak
    • (c) Subhashchandra Bose
    • (d) Mahatma Gandhi
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    Answer: (d)

  80. 80. In the context of decentralization of power in rural areas, who said, “It is admitted that no democracy can succeed without decentralization” ?

    • (a) R.N. Inamdar
    • (b) K.L. Sharma
    • (c) B. Mehta
    • (d) B. Singh
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    Answer: (c)

  81. 81. Who has given the concept of ‘rural-urban continuum’ ?

    • (a) Louis Wirth
    • (b) Robert E. Park
    • (c) Robert Redfield
    • (d) Henry Maine
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    Answer: (c)

  82. 82. Who is the writer of the book ‘What is Sociology’ ?

    • (a) Alex Inkeles
    • (b) T.B. Bottomore
    • (c) H.M. Johnson
    • (d) M. Ginsberg
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    Answer: (a)

  83. 83. ‘Population increases in geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases in arithmetical ratio’, who stated like this ?

    • (a) Malthus
    • (b) Freud
    • (c) K. Davis
    • (d) MacIver and Page
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    Answer: (a)

  84. 84. Which ashram is called the union of dharma, artha and kama ?

    • (a) Brahmachary
    • (b) Grihasth
    • (c) Vanprasth
    • (d) Sanyas
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    Answer: (b)

  85. 85. Who among the following is advocate of ‘Formal School of Sociology’ ?

    • (a) George Simmel
    • (b) Auguste Comte
    • (c) Emile Durkheim
    • (d) T. Parsons
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    Answer: (a)

  86. 86. Who has propounded the concept of ‘Middle Range Theory’ ?

    • (a) Sorokin
    • (b) R. K. Merton
    • (c) M. Tumin
    • (d) T. Parsons
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    Answer: (b)

  87. 87. Who said, "Social disorganization is the process by which the relationships between members of a group are broken or dissolved" ?

    • (a) E.L. Faris
    • (b) Ogburn and Nimcoff
    • (c) Thomas and Znaniecki
    • (d) Elliott and Merril
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    Answer: (d)

  88. 88. Who among the following has divided the criminals into two groups ‘accidental’ and ‘long term’ offender ?

    • (a) Alexander and Staw
    • (b) Henderson
    • (c) Sutherland
    • (d) K. Davis
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    Answer: (a)

  89. 89. Who classified Kinship terminology into two terms descriptive Kinship and classificatory Kinship ?

    • (a) L.H. Morgan
    • (b) G.P. Murdock
    • (c) Robert Lowie
    • (d) Radcliffe Brown
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    Answer: (a)

  90. 90. Joking relationships are found between whom ?

    • (a) Father and son
    • (b) Mother and daughter
    • (c) Father and daughter
    • (d) Brother-in-law and sister-in-law
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    Answer: (d)

  91. 91. Society consists of

    • (a) Individuals
    • (b) Institutions
    • (c) Relationships between individuals
    • (d) Associations
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    Answer: (c)

  92. 92. When the word ‘Sociology’ was invented ?

    • (a) 1914
    • (b) 1919
    • (c) 1938
    • (d) 1947
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    Answer: —

  93. 93. Who has given the ‘functional theory’ of social stratification ?

    • (a) Cooley
    • (b) K. Davis
    • (c) Karl Marx
    • (d) Max Weber
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    Answer: (b)

  94. 94. “All social changes take place through the medium of ideas”, who said ?

    • (a) K. Davis
    • (b) MacIver and Page
    • (c) M. Ginsberg
    • (d) Ogburn and Nimcoff
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    Answer: —

  95. 95. Which of the following forms of Hindu marriages, is not said to be superior form of marriage ?

    • (a) Brahma
    • (b) Daiva
    • (c) Gandharva
    • (d) Arsha
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    Answer: (c)

  96. 96. “The term secularization implies that what was previously regarded as religious is now ceasing to be such”, who defined ?

    • (a) A.R. Desai
    • (b) Yogendra Singh
    • (c) M.N. Srinivas
    • (d) S.C. Dube
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    Answer: (c)

  97. 97. Voluntary membership is related with

    • (a) Community
    • (b) Association
    • (c) Institution
    • (d) None above
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    Answer: (b)

  98. 98. Who among the following is concerned with the study of ‘Functionalism’ ?

    • (a) Auguste Comte
    • (b) W. Pareto
    • (c) R. K. Merton
    • (d) E. Bogardus
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    Answer: (c)

  99. 99. Who has classified ‘latent function’ and ‘manifest function’ ?

    • (a) Malinowski
    • (b) Merton
    • (c) Spencer
    • (d) Durkheim
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    Answer: (b)

  100. 100. Who among the following is not associated with ‘formal school of sociology’ ?

    • (a) G. Simmel
    • (b) L.T. Hobhouse
    • (c) F. Tonnies
    • (d) Von Wiese
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    Answer: (b)

  101. 101. Who among the following has described ‘caste as a closed class’ ?

    • (a) R.K. Mookerji
    • (b) D.P. Mookerji
    • (c) D.N. Majumdar
    • (d) A.R. Desai
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    Answer: (c)

  102. 102. Which is recognised as the basis of social stratification ?

    • (a) Varna
    • (b) Caste
    • (c) Power
    • (d) All above
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    Answer: (d)

  103. 103. Who has given the concept of ‘direct and indirect’ cooperation ?

    • (a) Green
    • (b) Weber
    • (c) MacIver and Page
    • (d) Johnson
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    Answer: (c)

  104. 104. Who has shown ‘Socialization’ as the fundamental process in the determination of social progress ?

    • (a) Simmel
    • (b) Burgess
    • (c) Ross
    • (d) Von Wiese
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    Answer: (b)

  105. 105. In modern society most of the social statuses are

    • (a) Man made
    • (b) God given
    • (c) Achieved
    • (d) Ascribed
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    Answer: (c)

  106. 106. Morgan has described how many forms of family in evolutionary succession ?

    • (a) Four
    • (b) Five
    • (c) Six
    • (d) Seven
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    Answer: (b)

  107. 107. Who developed the concept of ‘Culture of Poverty’ ?

    • (a) R.H. Lowie
    • (b) Oskar Lewis
    • (c) John Rex
    • (d) Gunnar Myrdal
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    Answer: (b)

  108. 108. Who classified the Indian Agrarian class as ‘Malik, Kisan and Mazdoor’ ?

    • (a) Redfield
    • (b) Kroeber
    • (c) Danial Thorner
    • (d) M.N. Srinivas
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    Answer: (c)

  109. 109. Which is not included in primary groups as described by Cooley ?

    • (a) Family
    • (b) School
    • (c) Neighbourhood
    • (d) Play group of children
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    Answer: (b)

  110. 110. Who has mentioned ‘conscious and unconscious’ types of social control ?

    • (a) Charles Cooley
    • (b) Gurvitch and Moore
    • (c) Lapiar
    • (d) Karl Manheim
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    Answer: (a)

  111. 111. “Modernization is functionally associated with industrialization”, who has stated ?

    • (a) N.J. Smelsser
    • (b) A.T. Jones
    • (c) N. Jacob
    • (d) W. E. Moore
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    Answer: (d)

  112. 112. What is the basis of caste ?

    • (a) Dharma
    • (b) Birth
    • (c) Prestige
    • (d) Ritual
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    Answer: (b)

  113. 113. Who said “The social theories of Herbert Spencer have caused more controversy than those of any other writer in sociological field" ?

    • (a) E.S. Bogardus
    • (b) P.A. Sorokin
    • (c) R. Bierstedt
    • (d) F.S. Marvin
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    Answer: (a)

  114. 114. Who has said, “Religion is real but God is not the essence of religion” ?

    • (a) Auguste Comte
    • (b) Herbert Spencer
    • (c) Max Weber
    • (d) Emile Durkheim
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    Answer: —

  115. 115. Levirate is performed when a man marries with

    • (a) Sister of his dead wife
    • (b) Woman of a higher caste
    • (c) Woman of a lower caste
    • (d) Widow of his dead brother
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    Answer: (d)

  116. 116. “Criminals are born”, who is supporter of this theory ?

    • (a) C. Lombroso
    • (b) Charles Goring
    • (c) E.H. Sutherland
    • (d) W. Reckles
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    Answer: (a)

  117. 117. Who among the following studied the ‘Arunta’ tribe of Australia ?

    • (a) Max Weber
    • (b) B. Malinowski
    • (c) E. Durkheim
    • (d) James Frazer
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    Answer: (c)

  118. 118. Group short of giving intimate experiences is known as

    • (a) Primary group
    • (b) Secondary group
    • (c) Reference group
    • (d) In-group
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  119. 119. Who has given the concept of ‘rentier class’ ?

    • (a) Marx
    • (b) Veblen
    • (c) Spencer
    • (d) Pareto
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  120. 120. Who among the following has pleaded the scheme of ‘National Parks’ for the solution of problems of Tribes ?

    • (a) Majumdar
    • (b) N.K. Bose
    • (c) V. Elwin
    • (d) Ghurye
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    Answer: (c)

  121. 121. “Culture is therefore the key that opens the door to an analysis of human societies and human beings”, who said ?

    • (a) R. Bierstedt
    • (b) E.A. Hoebel
    • (c) C.H. Cooley
    • (d) E.T. Hiller
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    Answer: (a)

  122. 122. “Unemployment is a condition of the labour market in which the supply of labour power is greater than the number of available openings”, who defined ?

    • (a) Elliott and Merril
    • (b) Karl Pribram
    • (c) R. K. Merton
    • (d) I.C. Brown
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    Answer: (b)

  123. 123. Max Weber has categorised social action in how many types ?

    • (a) 6
    • (b) 8
    • (c) 4
    • (d) 10
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    Answer: (c)

  124. 124. Which type of marriage pattern is prevalent among Khas tribe in Jaunsar Bawar of India ?

    • (a) Monogamy
    • (b) Polygamy
    • (c) Polyandry
    • (d) Polygyny
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    Answer: (c)

  125. 125. Which of the following statements denotes an institution ?

    • (a) Group of persons at a place.
    • (b) An approved working procedure.
    • (c) Established rules and conditions of working procedure.
    • (d) Display of working culture.
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Answer key

Answer key from the U.P. Secondary Education Services Selection Board’s official answer key for this sitting. “—” means the key gave none: the question was deleted.

Sociology

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