Sociological Concepts – Solved PYQs of Sociology – UGC NET

Social Structure

1. Sociological perspective is primarily related to an attempt to (JUNE 2012)

(A) change the social order
(B) understand the social order
(C) reform the social order
(D) adjust to the social order

2. What is trade union? (JUNE 2012)

(A) An association
(B) Organized interest group
(C) Federation
(D) All the above

3. When two people interact with each other, they form (DEC 2012)

(A) a society
(B) an institution
(C) an association
(D) a dyadic group

4. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of a primary group? (DEC 2012)

(A) Personal orientation
(B) Long term orientation
(C) Relations are end in themselves
(D) Relations are means to an end

5. Choose the correct sequence of following in order of increasing complexity: (DEC 2012)

(A) Hunting, Gathering, Agrarian, Pastoral, Industrial and Post-industrial societies
(B) Gathering, Pastoral, Hunting, Industrial and Post-industrial societies
(C) Hunting, Pastoral, Agrarian, Industrial and Post-industrial societies
(D) Agricultural, Gathering, Hunting, Horticultural, Industrial and Post-industrial societies

6. George Simmel’s classification of group as ‘Monad’, ‘Dyad’, ‘Triad’ is based on (JUNE 2013)

(A) Physical proximity
(B) Nature of membership
(C) Social relations
(D) Size of the group

7. Which of the following is a set of informal groups? (JUNE 2013)

(A) Clique, faction, caucus
(B) Gang, union, dacoits
(C) Slum, village, NGO
(D) Neighborhood, Peer group, Panchayat

8. Assertion (A): Personality system gets integrated into the social system through socialization.
Reason (R): Socialization helps actors to develop skills to play roles in society. (JUNE 2013)

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A)
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true

9. Which of the following is not a feature of association? (JUNE 2013)

(A) A collectivity of people
(B) Having certain objectives
(C) Voluntary membership
(D) Pursuing ideal norms

10. According to Dahrendorf, Marx’s Theory of Class Conflict is (DEC 2013)

(A) to be rejected universally
(B) to be accepted universally
(C) to be accepted and modified generally
(D) to be rejected, accepted and modified contextually