Sociology Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers - Set 4

Questions

1 Who is said to have deconstructed language and social institutions ?

1 Derrida

2 Godelier

3 Foucault

4 Smith

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Answer: Derrida

2 Who has envisioned an alternative stage (an alternative society) in which “speech will cease to govern the stage”

1 Foucault

2 Derrida

3 Lemert

4 None of the above

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Answer: Derrida

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3 According to post modernists which ideas of modernity are considered gone by or dead ?

1 Reason, rationality and progress.

2 Rationality,progress and objectivity.

3 Legality, rationality and objectivity

4 Objectivity, rationality, reason

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Answer:Reason, rationality and progress.

4 Who considers modernity as ‘an unfinished project’ ?

1 Derrida

2 Giddens

3 Althusser

4 Habermas

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Answer:Habermas

5 Who had initiated the work on the total communities of India namely “People of India Project”?

1 N.K. Bose

2 K.S. Singh

3 Yogendra Singh

4 M.N. Srinivas

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Answer:K.S. Singh

6 Who has stated that the entire course of Indian History shows tribal elements being fused into a general society ?

1 A.R. Radcliffe-Brown

2 D.D. Kosambi

3 S.S. Sarkar

4 M. Marriott

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Answer: D.D. Kosambi

7 Who is of the opinion that the notion of fundamental opposition between the pure and the impure is the hallmark of the caste system ?

1 M.N. Srinivas

2 Louis Dumont

3 Surajit Sinha

4 B.R. Ambedkar

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Answer:Louis Dumont

8 Which perspective is based on the assumption that Indian society is unique and the Indian social institutions can be better studied through the texts ?

1 Subaltern

2 Indological

3 Civilizational

4 Structural/Functional

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Answer: Indological

9 Which type of poverty refers to a lack of basic resources needed to maintain health and bodily functioning ?

1 Absolute poverty

2 Relative poverty

3 Culture of poverty

4 Enforced poverty

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Answer:Absolute poverty

10 Prof. S.C. Dube’s study on village compost pit and its failure is due to

1 Inequality of caste and gender

2 Religious disharmonies

3 Intergenerational conflict

4 None of the above

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Answer: Inequality of caste and gender

11 Who in developing the theory of deviance utilized explanatory factors that are typical of functional analysis, namely, cultural goals and institutionalized norms ?

1 Durkheim

2 Merton

3 Parsons

4 Weber

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Answer:Merton

12 Who has propounded the “Theory of Differential Association” ?

1 R.K. Merton

2 R.H. Burke

3 G. Tarde

4 E.H. Sutherland

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Answer: E.H. Sutherland

13 Death resulting out of failure in love affair is an example of

1 Fatalistic suicide

2 Egoistic suicide

3 Altruistic suicide

4 Anomic suicide

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Answer: Anomic suicide

14 Community Policing System’ aims at prevention and control of Crime through

1 Public

2 Police

3 Police and Public

4 Army

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Answer:Police and Public

15 Drug de-addiction centres provide which of the following facility/facilities ?

1 Counselling

2 Medical assistance

3 Yogic exercise

4 All the above

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Answer: All the above

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