SOLVED PYQs UGC NET (SOCIOLOGY)
Miscellaneous Questions
UGC NET SOCIOLOGY
Sociological Theory (UNIT 1)
1. Neo-functionalism operates with descriptive model of society that sees society as composed of elements which form a pattern. Who has stated this view? (JUNE 2012)
(A) P. Colomy
(B) J. Alexander
(C) T. Parsons
(D) R.K. Merton
2. Which problems neofunctionalism needed to surmount? (JUNE 2012)
(A) Anti-individualism and idealism
(B) Antagonism to change and anti-empirical bias
(C) Both A and B
(D) None of the above
3. How does critical school of theorists rectify the imbalance of economic determinism and other aspects of social life? (JUNE 2012)
(A) By focusing on the economic and social realm.
(B) By focusing on the economic and historical realm.
(C) By focusing on the economic and cultural realm.
(D) By focusing on the economic and productive realm.
4. According to neo-Marxists, which of the ideas about human nature have often been used to argue against any social change? (JUNE 2012)
(A) Our natural greed and our natural gender differences
(B) Our natural tendency to violence
(C) Both A and B
(D) None of the above
5. Which perspective is based on the assumption that Indian society is unique and the Indian social institutions can be better studied through the texts? (DEC 2012)
(A) Subaltern
(B) Indological
(C) Civilizational
(D) Structural/Functional
6. “World System Theory” of development explains the relationships between the ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries. Who among the following gave ‘World System Theory’ of development? (DEC 2012)
(A) Gunnar Myrdal
(B) Wallerstein
(C) M.K. Gandhi
(D) A. Sen
7. The basic difference between classical and modern sociological perspectives is visible in the (DEC 2012)
(A) Silent shift from macro to micro theoretical perspective
(B) Radical shift from micro to macro perspective
(C) Development of middle range theories
(D) None of the above
8. Who has stated that neofunctionalism devotes roughly equal attention to ‘action and order’? (DEC 2012)
(A) J. Alexander
(B) P. Colomy
(C) G. Rhoades
(D) All the above
9. Who has criticized the economic determinism to be implicit in parts of Marx’s original work? (DEC 2012)
(A) Habermas
(B) Bottomore
(C) Morrow
(D) Althusser
10. According to postmodernists which ideas of modernity are considered gone by or dead? (DEC 2012)
(A) Reason, rationality and progress.
(B) Rationality, progress and objectivity.
(C) Legality, rationality and objectivity.
(D) Objectivity, rationality, reason.
11. Which one of the following is correct about Ethnomethodology? (DEC 2012)
(A) Macro Sociology
(B) Micro Sociology
(C) Certainly not Macro Sociology
(D) Certainly not Micro Sociology
12. Who has defined neofunctionalism as “a self-critical strand of functional theory”? (DEC 2012)
(A) Alexander & Giesen
(B) Colomy and Rhoades
(C) Rhoades & Giesen
(D) Alexander and Colomy
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| 1 | B | 2 | C | 3 | C | 4 | C | 5 | B |
| 6 | B | 7 | A | 8 | A | 9 | D | 10 | A |
| 11 | B | 12 | D | 13 | C | 14 | D | 15 | B |
| 16 | A | 17 | B | 18 | C | 19 | B | 20 | B |
| 21 | A | 22 | C | 23 | * | 24 | A | 25 | A |
| 26 | D | 27 | B | 28 | B | 29 | A | 30 | C |
| 31 | A | 32 | C | 33 | A | 34 | A | 35 | B |
| 36 | A | 37 | C | 38 | D | 39 | D | 40 | A |
| 41 | C | 42 | B | 43 | B | 44 | A | 45 | C |
| 46 | A | 47 | C | 48 | B | 49 | C | 50 | D |
| 51 | A | 52 | C | 53 | C | 54 | D | 55 | A |
| 56 | D | 57 | D | 58 | C | 59 | A | 60 | A |
| 61 | A | 62 | B | 63 | C | 64 | A | 65 | C |
| 66 | D | 67 | C | 68 | D | 69 | A | 70 | A |
| 71 | A | 72 | D | 73 | B | 74 | C | 75 | C |
| 76 | A | 77 | C | 78 | B | 79 | A | 80 | D |
| 81 | C | 82 | C | 83 | A | 84 | A | 85 | B |
| 86 | B | 87 | C |
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