Sociology Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers - Set 44

Questions

1 A theoretical approach which sets out to uncover the methods that members of social groups employ in constructing their sense of social reality is known as :

1 Ethnomethodology

2 Ethnography

3 Phenomenology

4 Psychology

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Answer:Ethnomethodology

2 Who provides an account of the role of common-sense knowledge in the social construction of everyday life and institutions ?

1 Berger and Luckmann

2 Husserl and Schutz

3 Parsons and Merton

4 Davis and Moore

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Answer:Berger and Luckmann

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3 According to whom, ‘the ideological superstructure is not merely a reflection of the economy but also in part condition of its existence ?

1 L. Althusser

2 A. Giddens

3 K. Marx

4 J. Habermass

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Answer:L. Althusser

4 Who is the author of the book ‘Legitimation crises’ ?

1 J. Alexander

2 J. Habermass

3 L. Althusser

4 H. Garfinkel

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Answer:J. Habermass

5 Who has defined neo-functionalism as “a self-critical strand of functional theory that seeks to broaden functionalism’s intellectual scope while retaining its theoretical core” ?

1 T. Parsons and E. Shills

2 J. Alexander and P. Colomy

3 J. Alexander and J. Turner

4 P. Cohen and A. Gouldner

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Answer:J. Alexander and P. Colomy

6 For whom, the lifeworld is a ‘culturally transmitted and linguistically organized stock of interpretative patterns’ ?

1 J. Habermass

2 A. Schutz

3 M. Weber

4 H. Garfinkel

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Answer:J. Habermass

7 A French Philosopher has influenced very much the sociological thinking by drawing a methodology of human language. Who is he ?

1 A. Giddens

2 J. Derrida

3 M. Foucault

4 None of the above

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Answer:J. Derrida

8 Who, in his theory, advances an account of interrelation of structure and agency in which primacy is granted to neither ?

1 A. Giddens

2 J. Derrida

3 J. Habermass

4 J. Alexander

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Answer:A. Giddens

9 Who has contributed to a debate on reason, language, knowledge and power that contributed much to sociological theories ?

1 J. Derrida

2 L. Althuser

3 M. Foucault

4 None of the above

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Answer:M. Foucault

10 A repudiation of the logo centric construction of grand narratives is termed as :

1 Metanarrative

2 Legitimation

3 Discourse

4 Deconstruction

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Answer:Deconstruction

11 A mode of thinking that applies truth claims to universal propositions is known as :

1 Habitus

2 Logo centrism

3 Simulation

4 Hyper real

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Answer:Logo centrism

12 For whom the signifier has no stable relations to the signified ?

1 J. Derrida

2 M. Foucault

3 A. Giddens

4 J. Habermass

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Answer:J. Derrida

13 Which one of the following is not a source of diversity in India ?

1 Religion

2 Language

3 National Emblem

4 Culture

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Answer:National Emblem

14 Milton Singer and McKim Marriott studied social change in India using which concepts ?

1 Westernisation and Modernisation

2 Little and Great Tradition

3 Structure and Function

4 Industrialisation and Globalisation

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Answer:Little and Great Tradition

15 In the past, who among foreign travellers observed and recorded that unity in diversity has become a part of India’s self-identity ?

1 Megasthenes

2 Hiuen Tsang

3 Alberuni

4 All of the above

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Answer:All of the above

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