PRACTICE QUESTIONS UGC NET (SOCIOLOGY)
Social Change and Processes
UGC NET SOCIOLOGY
Basic Concepts and Institutions (UNIT 3)
1. Who has linked the theory of social change with organism?
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Auguste Comte
(c) Herbert Spencer
(d) Talcott Parsons
2. Who has given the ‘Deterministic or Single Factor Theory’, about social change?
(a) Emile Durkheim
(b) Talcott Parsons
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Auguste Comte
3. Who has defined social selection saying “Social selection as a process of creating conditions for survival”:
(a) Lewis Morgan
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Herbert Spencer
(d) MacIver
4. Who among the following is regarded as technological determinist of social change?
(a) E Durkheim
(b) WF Ogburn
(c) Pitirim A Sorokin
(d) Thorstein Veblen
5. Which one of the following principles is not related to PA Sorokin’s cultural theory of change?
(a) The principle of cyclical change
(b) The principle of immanent change
(c) The principle of limit
(d) The principle of social equilibrium
6. Which of the concepts given below are concerned with analysis of cyclical change?
(a) Social static and social dynamics
(b) Morphostatics and morphogenesis
(c) Social telesis and social genesis
(d) Residues and derivations
7. Who among the following has proposed a model to explain the differentiation of social system based on an analysis of the way, in which a particular system responds to forces for change?
(a) NJ Smelser
(b) Talcott Parsons
(c) Daniel Bell
(d) Ulrich Beck
8. Who among the following offered a cyclic theory of social change which views the societies oscillating between three different types of mentalities?
(a) V Pareto
(b) PA Sorokin
(c) Veblen
(d) K Marx
9. Which of the following concepts are applied to analyse the process of civilisational change?
(a) Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft
(b) Zweckrationalitat and Wertrationalitat
(c) Mechanical and Organic Solidarity
(d) Sensate and Ideational Culture
10. Which one of the following groups of thinkers belong to the linear view of social change?
(a) Comte, Pareto and Marx
(b) Pareto, Sorokin and Ogburn
(c) Comte, Ogburn and Marx
(d) Comte, Spencer and Pareto
| 1 (c) | 2 (d) | 3 (c) | 4 (b) | 5 (d) | 6 (d) | 7 (b) | 8 (b) | 9 (d) | 10 (d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (a) | 12 (a) | 13 (b) | 14 (d) | 15 (a) | 16 (d) | 17 (c) | 18 (c) | 19 (a) | 20 (c) |
| 21 (b) | 22 (b) | 23 (a) | 24 (c) | 25 (b) | 26 (a) | 27 (a) | 28 (d) | 29 (a) | 30 (a) |
| 31 (d) | 32 (b) | 33 (d) | 34 (d) | 35 (b) | 36 (b) | 37 (b) | 38 (b) | 39 (c) | 40 (b) |
| 41 (c) | 42 (b) | 43 (a) | 44 (b) | 45 (b) | 46 (a) | 47 (a) | 48 (b) | 49 (c) | 50 (d) |
| 51 (c) | 52 (a) | 53 (c) | 54 (c) | 55 (a) | 56 (b) | 57 (d) | 58 (d) | 59 (a) | 60 (b) |
| 61 (d) | 62 (a) | 63 (b) | 64 (b) | 65 (d) | 66 (c) | 67 (c) | 68 (b) | 69 (a) | 70 (a) |
| 71 (c) | 72 (c) | 73 (a) | 74 (a) | 75 (c) | 76 (a) | 77 (a) | 78 (d) | 79 (a) | 80 (a) |
| 81 (b) | 82 (c) | 83 (d) | 84 (c) | 85 (c) | 86 (a) | 87 (a) | 88 (d) | 89 (d) | 90 (c) |
| 91 (d) | 92 (a) | 93 (d) | 94 (c) | 95 (a) | 96 (b) | 97 (d) | 98 (d) | 99 (b) | 100 (c) |
| 101 (b) | 102 (a) | 103 (d) | 104 (d) | 105 (b) | 106 (b) | 107 (a) | 108 (b) | 109 (b) | 110 (a) |
| 111 (a) | 112 (c) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |