Sociology Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers - Set 35

Questions

1 According to Habermas’s view in modern societies science and technical rationality function as :

1 Raising fundamental questions about human ends

2 Ideologies

3 Reason against ignorance

4 Reason against oppression

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Answer:Ideologies

2 According to L. Althusser the mode of production involves complex articulation of :

1 only economic practices

2 only political practices

3 economic, political and ideological practices

4 economic and political practices

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Answer:economic, political and ideological practices

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3 Who has considered ‘modernity as an unfinished project’ ?

1 J. Derrida

2 A. Giddens

3 L. Althusser

4 J. Habermass

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Answer:J. Habermass

4 Who popularised the conception of an ‘epistemological break’ between young Marx and the mature Marx ?

1 L. Althusser

2 J. Habermass

3 J.C. Alexander

4 R. Dahrendorf

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Answer:L. Althusser

5 Which among the following is not the work of Michel Foucault ?

1 Forms of Talk

2 History of Sexuality

3 Madness and Civilization

4 Discipline and Punish

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Answer:Forms of Talk

6 Which one of the following concepts is not given by Derrida ?

1 Cultural Capital

2 Logocentrism

3 Deconstruction

4 Difference

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Answer: Cultural Capital

7 Which of the following constitutes an important methodological component in Foucault’s works ?

1 Structuration Theory

2 Archaeology of Knowledge

3 Phenomenological Perspective

4 Symbolic Interactionism

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Answer:Archaeology of Knowledge

8 Which of the following concepts Giddens uses in his theory of structuration ?

1 Dual Analysis

2 Dual Roles

3 Duality of structure

4 Structural dualism

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Answer:Duality of structure

9 To whom, the sign, strictly speaking, must always stand ‘under erasure’, as necessary but inadequate ?

1 Louis Althusser

2 Michel Foucault

3 Anthony Giddens

4 Jacques Derrida

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Answer:Jacques Derrida

10 Which of the following is not the feature of caste system ?

1 Hierarchy

2 Hereditary occupation

3 Exogamous marriages

4 Untouchability

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Answer:Exogamous marriages

11 “Caste is a Brahmanic child of Indo-Aryan culture craddled in the land of Ganges and thence transferred to other parts of India”. Whose statement is this ?

1 D.P. Mukherjee

2 M.N. Srinivas

3 G.S. Ghurye

4 L. Dumont

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Answer:G.S. Ghurye

12 Who did extensive field work in North East Frontiers Agency of India for his research work ?

1 N.K. Bose

2 D. Hardiman

3 Surajit Sinha

4 D.P. Mukherji

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Answer:N.K. Bose

13 Who did field research among the Jwang tribes of Orissa ?

1 G. S. Ghurye

2 N. K. Bose

3 David Hardiman

4 Surajit Sinha

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Answer:N. K. Bose

14 Ethnicity refers to :

1 Achieved socio - cultural attributes

2 Inherited socio - cultural attributes

3 Inherited socio - cultural attributes

4 Inherited and achieved socio - cultural attributes

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Answer:Inherited socio - cultural attributes

15 The concept “Culture of Poverty” was introduced by :

1 Oscar Lewis

2 Michal Harrington

3 Walter B. Miller

4 Kenneth Little

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Answer:Oscar Lewis

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