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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Master of Arts in Sociology (MA Sociology) , Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) .
| 51. |
………….assumes that historically Indian society and culture are unique. |
| A. | indological approach |
| B. | regional approach |
| C. | sanskritized approach |
| D. | indian approach |
| Answer» A. indological approach | |
| 52. |
………..is an approach which helps to understand the uniqueness or specificity of Indian social realities with the help of ancient texts |
| A. | civilizational approach |
| B. | cultural approach |
| C. | dialectical approach |
| D. | indological approach |
| Answer» D. indological approach | |
| 53. |
What is another name of Indological approach? |
| A. | textual perspective |
| B. | field view |
| C. | subaltern perspective |
| D. | colonial perspective |
| Answer» A. textual perspective | |
| 54. |
................ who look upon agriculture as a business proposition |
| A. | rich landlords |
| B. | rich farmers |
| C. | capitalists |
| D. | peasants |
| Answer» B. rich farmers | |
| 55. |
Who cultivate their own land and hire labourers only for certain operations or at certain points of time. |
| A. | rich peasants |
| B. | landlords |
| C. | middle peasants |
| D. | intermediaries |
| Answer» C. middle peasants | |
| 56. |
............ has become an essential for modern democratic nation States to ensure a strong sense of identification whether the polity based on a commonsense of identity |
| A. | secularism |
| B. | communalism |
| C. | democratism |
| D. | seacularism |
| Answer» A. secularism | |
| 57. |
Who made the classic study India as a secular state |
| A. | george holyoake |
| B. | herbert spencer |
| C. | roland barthes |
| D. | donald eugine smith |
| Answer» D. donald eugine smith | |
| 58. |
................. is an ideology which states that society is divided in to religious communities those interest differ and one at times, even opposed to each other |
| A. | communalism |
| B. | secularism |
| C. | communism |
| D. | capitalism |
| Answer» A. communalism | |
| 59. |
Who among the following wrote the book 'Indian Village'? |
| A. | s c dube |
| B. | r c dube |
| C. | m n srinivas |
| D. | mckim marriot |
| Answer» A. s c dube | |
| 60. |
The concept of 'Dominant Caste' first appeared in the book…………….. |
| A. | caste in modern india |
| B. | social change in modern india |
| C. | remembered village |
| D. | india’s village |
| Answer» C. remembered village | |
| 61. |
Who wrote the book ho*mo hierarchicus |
| A. | herbert risely |
| B. | louis dumont |
| C. | ketkar |
| D. | john munro |
| Answer» B. louis dumont | |
| 62. |
A.R. Desai Social change refers to change in…………………. |
| A. | function of society |
| B. | structure of society |
| C. | society |
| D. | change in social institution |
| Answer» B. structure of society | |
| 63. |
Cultural traits are acquired through…………………… |
| A. | society |
| B. | non-material culture |
| C. | material culture |
| D. | socialization |
| Answer» D. socialization | |
| 64. |
Who among the following sociologists has considered purity and pollution as the primary characteristic of the caste system? |
| A. | g s ghurye |
| B. | m n srinivas |
| C. | louis dumont |
| D. | s c dube |
| Answer» C. louis dumont | |
| 65. |
With whom among the following are the concepts Universalization and Parochialization associated? |
| A. | mckim marriot |
| B. | yogendra singh |
| C. | robert redfield |
| D. | n k bose |
| Answer» A. mckim marriot | |
| 66. |
What is the meaning of Great tradition? |
| A. | elite culture |
| B. | higher culture |
| C. | great culture |
| D. | primitive culture |
| Answer» A. elite culture | |
| 67. |
What is the meaning of Little tradition? |
| A. | little culture |
| B. | elite culture |
| C. | folk culture |
| D. | material culture |
| Answer» C. folk culture | |
| 68. |
Which are the two types of pollution conceptualized by Louis Dumont? |
| A. | simple and complex |
| B. | permanent and temporary |
| C. | material and non-material |
| D. | caste and sub-caste |
| Answer» B. permanent and temporary | |
| 69. |
Which is a situation produced the temporary pollution? |
| A. | child birth |
| B. | birth in specific caste |
| C. | pollution by approach of lower caste |
| D. | birth in lower caste |
| Answer» A. child birth | |
| 70. |
Which is the central characteristic of caste system as mentioned by Dumont? |
| A. | traditional occupation |
| B. | pollution |
| C. | civil and religious disabilities |
| D. | mythical ancestor |
| Answer» B. pollution | |
| 71. |
Under………………society is divided into several small social group called caste |
| A. | class system |
| B. | varna system |
| C. | caste system |
| D. | class system |
| Answer» C. caste system | |
| 72. |
The caste can be graded and arranged into a hierarchy on the basis of their ……………. |
| A. | social status |
| B. | occupation |
| C. | varna status |
| D. | social precedence |
| Answer» D. social precedence | |
| 73. |
The hierarchy present in the caste system is reflected through …………..in society |
| A. | division of labour |
| B. | birth order |
| C. | hierarchy |
| D. | occupation |
| Answer» A. division of labour | |
| 74. |
Civil and religious disabilities of caste system are reflected through …………………. |
| A. | rule |
| B. | culture |
| C. | society |
| D. | unequal distribution of disabilities and privileges |
| Answer» D. unequal distribution of disabilities and privileges | |
| 75. |
What is a major civil and religious disability practiced related with caste system? |
| A. | keep distance from higher caste |
| B. | division of labour |
| C. | restriction on taking water from public well |
| D. | restriction on common dining |
| Answer» C. restriction on taking water from public well | |
| 76. |
Which is known as the rule followed by the caste members should marry within their own caste? |
| A. | endogamy |
| B. | endogamy |
| C. | incest taboo |
| D. | matrilocal |
| Answer» B. endogamy | |
| 77. |
Who wrote the work The Remembered Village? |
| A. | s c dube |
| B. | mckim marriot |
| C. | robert redfield |
| D. | m n srinivas |
| Answer» D. m n srinivas | |
| 78. |
Who introduces the concept of Brahmanization? |
| A. | m n srinivas |
| B. | yogendra singh |
| C. | robert redfield |
| D. | ambedkar |
| Answer» A. m n srinivas | |
| 79. |
Which was the work of Srinivas define sanskritisation? |
| A. | remembered village |
| B. | indian village |
| C. | social change in modern india |
| D. | social system of mysore village |
| Answer» C. social change in modern india | |
| 80. |
Sanskritisation promotes……………. |
| A. | cultural mobility |
| B. | structural mobility |
| C. | social mobility |
| D. | functional mobility |
| Answer» B. structural mobility | |
| 81. |
The Indian sociologist who does not sympathize with the Marxian perspective was ………. |
| A. | m n srinivas |
| B. | d p mukherjee |
| C. | a r desai |
| D. | r k mukherjee |
| Answer» A. m n srinivas | |
| 82. |
Who among the following the prominent advocators of structural-functionalist approach in Indian sociology |
| A. | parsons & coser |
| B. | n k bose & s sinha |
| C. | tagore & nehru |
| D. | m n srinivas & s c dube |
| Answer» D. m n srinivas & s c dube | |
| 83. |
Where did Shyam Charan Dube born? |
| A. | nadiad |
| B. | narsinghpur |
| C. | mysore |
| D. | kishangarhi |
| Answer» B. narsinghpur | |
| 84. |
S C Dube applied structural-functional approach for studying the ……………… |
| A. | indian village community |
| B. | village |
| C. | caste |
| D. | culture |
| Answer» A. indian village community | |
| 85. |
Which is the prominent village near Hyderabad studied by Dube |
| A. | kishangarhi |
| B. | rampura |
| C. | shamirpet |
| D. | nadiad |
| Answer» C. shamirpet | |
| 86. |
Which is the tribal group studied by Dube? |
| A. | the kamar |
| B. | bhoms |
| C. | kadar |
| D. | paniya |
| Answer» A. the kamar | |
| 87. |
Who wrote the work Indian Village? |
| A. | m n srinivas |
| B. | mckim marriot |
| C. | mukherjee |
| D. | s c dube |
| Answer» D. s c dube | |
| 88. |
Who wrote the book entitled as India’s changing Villages? |
| A. | veena dube |
| B. | m n srinivas |
| C. | s c dube |
| D. | g s ghurye |
| Answer» C. s c dube | |
| 89. |
Which work of Dube described about the how villages can be seen in diversifies framework? |
| A. | india’s village |
| B. | indian village |
| C. | changing village |
| D. | mysore village |
| Answer» B. indian village | |
| 90. |
Cultural approach is otherwise known as ………………. |
| A. | civilizational approach |
| B. | culturological approach |
| C. | textual approach |
| D. | indological approach |
| Answer» A. civilizational approach | |
| 91. |
Who is the sociologist firstly designed civilizational perspective? |
| A. | robert redfield |
| B. | yogendra singh |
| C. | n k bose |
| D. | surajith sinha |
| Answer» A. robert redfield | |
| 92. |
Which is the prominent approach analyzed the growth and development of society from its original core to the modern form through assimilation or acculturation? |
| A. | indological perspective |
| B. | civilizational perspective |
| C. | structural-functional perspective |
| D. | dialectical perspective |
| Answer» B. civilizational perspective | |
| 93. |
Which is the study of Redfield applied civilizational perspective? |
| A. | study about kamar |
| B. | study about ahom |
| C. | study about mexican village community |
| D. | study about bhils community |
| Answer» C. study about mexican village community | |
| 94. |
……………society is small, isolated, non-literate and socially homogeneous |
| A. | folk |
| B. | rural |
| C. | agrarian |
| D. | simple |
| Answer» A. folk | |
| 95. |
Through the civilizational approach Redfield analyzed……………. |
| A. | peasant-urban continuum |
| B. | peasant-rural continuum |
| C. | tribal-urban continuum |
| D. | folk-urban continuum |
| Answer» D. folk-urban continuum | |
| 96. |
Which is the main conceptual framework made by Singer and Marriot to explain the civilizational perspective? |
| A. | peasant and urban tradition |
| B. | traditional and scientific tradition |
| C. | little and great tradition |
| D. | tribal and peasant tradition |
| Answer» C. little and great tradition | |
| 97. |
Which are the two stages of growth of civilization put forwarded by Yogendra Singh? |
| A. | indigenous and western |
| B. | western and british |
| C. | indian and western |
| D. | orthogenetic and heterogenetic |
| Answer» A. indigenous and western | |
| 98. |
Which is the conceptual framework of evolutionary model put forwarded by Surajith Sinha for explaining civilizational approach? |
| A. | tribe-caste-peasant-caste continuum |
| B. | primitive-caste-elite continuum |
| C. | tribe-class- caste continuum |
| D. | primitive-caste-tribe caste continuum |
| Answer» B. primitive-caste-elite continuum | |
| 99. |
Which is the prominent approach concentrates on the idea that every system has a clear
|
| A. | socio-structural approach |
| B. | structural-functional approach |
| C. | system approach |
| D. | socio-cultural perspective |
| Answer» D. socio-cultural perspective | |
| 100. |
Who wrote the book “Social change in Modern India”? |
| A. | milton singer |
| B. | robert redfield |
| C. | louis coser |
| D. | m n srinivas |
| Answer» D. m n srinivas | |
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