Sociology Multiple Choice Questions(MCQs) and Answers for Competitive Exams | Sociology Quiz Set 35

(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Answer: Oscar Lewis

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