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1. Possession of attributes, like human nature, agency, self-awareness among other is defined as:
(A) Personhood
(B) Personality
(C) Embodiment
(D) Entitlement

2. Human Development Index (HDI) measures the level of development amongst various countries includes the following set of indicators. Mark the right answer:
(A) Health, Education and Income
(B) Freedom, equality and fraternity
(C) Equity, social justice and liberty
(D) Openness, freedom and equality

3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of bureaucracy according to Weber?
(A) Specialization
(B) Flexibility
(C) Impersonality
(D) Hierarchy

4. Social networks can be described as:
(A) Set of nodes and a set of ties that connect some or all of these nodes
(B) Social groups with defined boundaries
(C) Connections among individuals overtime which result in social bonds
(D) Informal organizations

5. Elite theory of power is developed by:
(A) Pareto V.
(B) Parsons T.
(C) Engels F.
(D) Miliband R.

6. Which of the following statements is not true about a custom?
(A) Custom is flexible
(B) It is specific and clear
(C) It emerges spontaneously without any direction
(D) It needs a specialized institution for enforcement

7. In Sociology ………… comprises the social assets of a person (education, intellect, style of speech etc.) that promote social mobility in society.
(A) Cultural capital
(B) Professional capital
(C) Economic capital
(D) Symbolic capital

8. Symmetrical family refers to ……….
(A) Family transforms from joint to Nuclear family
(B) Men are taking up family responsibility
(C) Overtime, families becoming more egaliterian in the distribution of roles and responsibilities
(D) Only women still continue to bear family responsibility

9. In which census year data for slum was collected for the first time in India?
(A) 1991
(B) 1981
(C) 2001
(D) 2011

10. Denotified tribes are also known as …………………. .
(A) Weavers
(B) Ex-criminal tribes
(C) Untouchables
(D) Scheduled tribes

11. Widowhood reflects a structure of control over all aspects of woman’s life including her sexuality. Whose views are these?
(A) Maitrayee Chaudhuri
(B) Karuna Chanana
(C) Martha A. Chen
(D) Veena Das

12. Which project has been initiated by the Government of India for creating a cloud computing environment at National level?
(A) e-Bharat
(B) Megh Raj
(C) Project Arrow
(D) e-Kranti

13. Which one of the following cities has moved from colonial notions of ‘‘pensioners’ paradise’’ to the globalisation driven ‘‘silicon valley of India’’?
(A) Hyderabad
(B) Bengaluru
(C) Pune
(D) Dehradun

14. Which view focuses on society as fundamentally a ‘‘patriarchy in which men dominate and oppress women’’?
(A) Post-structural feminism
(B) Feminist existentialism
(C) Liberal-feminism
(D) Radical-feminism

15. In elementary structures of kinship, the alliance is based upon:
(A) Rules of exogamy
(B) Positive marriage rules
(C) Negative marriage rules
(D) Generalized exchange

16. Oriental despotism is the feature of:
(A) Asiatic Mode of Production
(B) Feudal Mode of Production
(C) Primitive Mode of Production
(D) Ancient Mode of Production

17. Who is the author of the book ‘‘The Brave New World of Work’’?
(A) Anthony Giddens
(B) George Ritzer
(C) Ulrich Beck
(D) Pierre Bourdieu

18. Which economic system is based on market exchange principle?
(A) Primitive economies
(B) Modern economies
(C) Rural economies
(D) Small economies

19. The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act in India was passed in which year?
(A) 2007
(B) 2011
(C) 2013
(D) 2016

20. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Family is unable to provide care and support to elderly.
Reason (R): Family has shrunken in size.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
Codes:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true

21. Given below the two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Maharashtra state has the largest number of slum dwellers in India.
Reason (R): It has the largest number of urban dwellers. Select the correct answer from the
codes given below:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true

22. Which Anthropologist has differentiated between folk community and urban community?
(A) Robert Redfield
(B) Radcliffe-Brown
(C) Bronislaw Malinowski
(D) Claude Levi-Strauss

23. Which concept of Darwin suggests that certain social characteristics played key role in the survivability of groups in the natural environment?
(A) Human Ecology
(B) Natural Selection
(C) Human Environment
(D) Existential Dualism

24. Gidden’s structuration theory, is the theory of the relationship between:
(A) Structure and Agency
(B) Agency and Structure
(C) Actors and Agency
(D) Culture and System

25. India gets maximum share of her GDP from which of the following sectors of economy?
(A) Agriculture
(B) Industry
(C) Service
(D) All share equally

26. In which of his books Foucault uses the term ‘gaze’ as a form of knowledge?
(A) The Birth of the Clinic
(B) Madness and Civilization
(C) Discipline and Punish
(D) The History of Sexuality

27. The productive organization of land, in recent times, does not consist of …………………. .
(A) Family labour
(B) Jajmani system
(C) Hired labour
(D) Tenancy

28. Tebhaga movement was mainly aimed at:
(A) Social reform
(B) Revolutionary transformation of the whole society
(C) Reduction of land taxes
(D) Fair price for the crops

29. Who was of the opinion that ‘revolutions are locomotives of history’?
(A) E. Kant
(B) K. Marx
(C) G.W.E. Hegel
(D) F. Engels

30. Which of the following forms is not an emerging form of family?
(A) Single parent families
(B) Stem families
(C) Reconstituted families
(D) Childless families

31. According to whom ‘‘The spread of mass media and mass entertainment cause the public sphere to become largely sham’’?
(A) Louis Althusser
(B) Jurgen Habermas
(C) John Thompson
(D) Daniel Learner

32. Which state has maximum area under forests?
(A) Madhya Pradesh
(B) Odisha
(C) Andhra Pradesh
(D) Chhattisgarh

33. Which one of the following is true about the open-ended questions?
(A) Difficulty in raising an issue
(B) Not easy to get free response
(C) Simple and easy to analyze the responses
(D) Fixed structure for respondents to reply

34. ‘The field of sports is often dominated by the males’. This shows ………… .
(A) There is connection between sports and patriarchy
(B) Women are weaker sportspersons
(C) There is connection between sports and politics
(D) Men are better sportspersons

35. Structural forms as analysed by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown are ……………….. .
(A) Abstract forms of social structure
(B) Concrete forms of social structure
(C) Integrative forms of social structure
(D) Functional forms of social structure

36. Which among the following is a dominant caste?
(A) Vokkaliga
(B) Kansara
(C) Banjara
(D) Matang

37. ‘McDonaldization’ term is coined by:
(A) Giddens
(B) Sassen
(C) Ritzer
(D) Coser

38. Habitus is not ………………… .
(A) Structured
(B) Durable
(C) Permanent
(D) Inculcated

39. In which year was ‘The Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act’ implemented in India?
(A) 2003
(B) 2005
(C) 2006
(D) 2011

40. Who popularized the phrase ‘‘Tragedy of Commons’’?
(A) Garret Hardin
(B) Thomas Kuhn
(C) Jean Baudrillard
(D) John Thompson

41. Which one of the following social groups is not experiencing the state of social exclusion?
(A) Indigenous people
(B) The poor
(C) Gated communities
(D) The homeless

42. According to Weber which of the following is the type of rational-legal Authority?
(A) Feudalism
(B) Bureaucracy
(C) Autocracy
(D) Slavery

43. Structured interview is used for:
(A) Life History
(B) Large Scale Data Collection
(C) Analysis of Images
(D) Creation of new theory and method

44. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of survey?
(A) It is based on a representative sample of a population.
(B) It is based on data directly sought from the respondents.
(C) It is concerned with more general and abstract problems.
(D) It covers large number of respondents compared with other methods

45. Which of the following is the least developed welfare state?
(A) Sweden
(B) USA
(C) Finland
(D) France

46. Who coined the term ‘mores’ to refer to norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance?
(A) Pierre Bourdieu
(B) W.G. Sumner
(C) C.H. Cooley
(D) Max Weber

47. The Supreme Court of India invalidated a part of Section 377 of the IPC decriminalizing?
(A) Attempt to suicide
(B) Prostitution
(C) Homosexuality
(D) Human trafficking

48. ‘Interpretivism’ is the position in ……………….. .
(A) Epistemological
(B) Theoretical
(C) Ontological
(D) Methodological

49. Which of the following statements about honour killings is not correct?
(A) Are different from dowry deaths
(B) Are not recognized by law
(C) Are mostly directed against women
(D) Occurs in South Asian countries only

50. Two statements are given, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and other as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): Reservations in jobs help the SC, ST to improve their situation.
Reason (R): In a democracy equity is a must to ensure equality.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
(A) Both (A) and (R) are correct and R is the correct explanation of A
(B) Both (A) and (R) are correct but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) A is false but (R) is true