PRACTICE QUESTIONS UGC NET (SOCIOLOGY)
Development, Displacement and Community Responses
UGC NET SOCIOLOGY
Environment and Society (UNIT 7)
1. Which of the following statements best describes the term Development?
(a) It is improvement in country’s economic and social conditions
(b) It is related only with the economic development of the country
(c) Development does not have any relation with social conditions
(d) None of the above
2. Which of the following author is of the view that the aim of development should be to make for conditions that lead to the realisation of the potentials of humans personality?
(a) Dudly Seers
(b) Todaro
(c) Karl Marx
(d) None of these
3. According to Seers, conditions that can make for achievement of development is
(a) equality that should be considered an objective in its own right.
(b) the capacity to obtain physical necessities
(c) Both a and b
(d) None of the above
4. Development is a term which
(a) has clearly been defined
(b) has no clear definition
(c) can be defined but no attempt has been made
(d) None of the above
5. Human scale development cells for
(a) Direct and participatory democracy
(b) Direct and non-participatory democracy
(c) Indirect and participatory democracy
(d) Indirect and non-participatory democracy
6. Who among the following has defined ‘Development is not purely and economic phenomenon but rather a multidimensional process?
(a) Dudley Seers
(b) Todaro
(c) Max Weber
(d) None of these
7. Which among the following are there objectives of development according to Todaro?
(a) Raising people’s living standards
(b) Creating condition, conducive to the growth of people’s self-esteem
(c) Increasing people’s freedom to choose by Enlarging the range of their choice
(d) All of the above
8. Liberal theory of development is also known as
(a) Classical theory of development
(b) Neo-classical theory of development
(c) Theory of entrepreneur
(d) Theory of economic maturely
9. Whose name is not associated with the liberal theory of development?
(a) Adam Smith
(b) Ricardo
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Malthus
10. According to classical thinkers which one was not a measuring yard for development?
(a) Land
(b) Labour
(c) Capital
(d) Education
11. According to liberal theory of development origin of all values was
(a) Land
(b) Labour
(c) Capital
(d) Mineral Wealth
12. Who gave the basic needs approach of development?
(a) Roslow
(b) International Labour Organisation
(c) UN Human Rights Commission
(d) Amnesty International
| 1 (a) | 2 (a) | 3 (c) | 4 (b) | 5 (a) | 6 (b) | 7 (d) | 8 (a) | 9 (c) | 10 (d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (a) | 12 (b) | 13 (c) | 14 (b) | 15 (a) | 16 (a) | 17 (c) | 18 (d) | 19 (b) | 20 (a) |
| 21 (d) | 22 (a) | 23 (d) | 24 (a) | 25 (a) | 26 (c) | 27 (b) | 28 (a) | 29 (b) | 30 (d) |
| 31 (a) | 32 (d) | 33 (b) | 34 (d) | 35 (d) | 36 (c) | 37 (b) | 38 (a) | 39 (a) | 40 (d) |
| 41 (b) | 42 (d) | 43 (b) | 44 (a) | 45 (b) | 46 (b) | 47 (b) | 48 (c) | 49 (d) | 50 (a) |
| 51 (a) | 52 (c) | 53 (a) | 54 (b) | 55 (a) | 56 (b) | 57 (b) | 58 (b) | 59 (d) | 60 (d) |
| 61 (c) | 62 (d) | 63 (b) | 64 (c) | 65 (d) | 66 (b) | 67 (b) | 68 (d) | 69 (d) | 70 (c) |
| 71 (c) | 72 (d) | 73 (c) | 74 (d) | 75 (b) | 76 (b) | 77 (b) | 78 (a) | 79 (a) | 80 (b) |
| 81 (d) | 82 (a) | 83 (a) | 84 (a) | 85 (c) | 86 (b) | — | — | — | — |