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(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Answer: All of the above

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