Post Modernism, Post Structuralism and Post Colonialism – Sociology UGC NET – Practice Questions

1. Structuration deals with

(a) system agency relationship
(b) structures in society
(c) classconflict
(d) None of the above

2. The major proponent of structuration is

(a) Karl Marx
(b) Jacques Derrida
(c) Talcott Parsons
(d) Anthony Giddens

3. The term ‘conflation’ means

(a) social conflict
(b) managing the emotions
(c) the problem of reducing structure to action (and vice-versa)
(d) description of institution

4. Who among the following used the concept of relative deprivation?

(a) Karl Marx in his theory of exploitation
(b) Max Weber in his theory of class inequality
(c) Robert Merton in his theory of reference group behaviour
(d) Emile Durkheim in his theory of suicide

5. Which of the following is an advocate of the theory of civil legitimacy?

(a) John Locke
(b) Thomas Hobbes
(c) J J Rousseau
(d) Aristotle

6. According to Edward said, which one of the following is a feature of Orientalism.

(a) European colonial domination of the orient was integrally associated with how the orient was conceptualised, researched and talked about in Europe and presented as contrasting binary of Occident.
(b) The discourse about the orient naturalised the military and economic domination of the orient.
(c) Orientalism as an academic underlined by the millennia-old prejudice that the orient represents a backward and society and thus justified colonial rule by the Occident.
(d) All of the above

7. Orientalism is defined as?

(a) A history of the middle East.
(b) A story about belly dancers.
(c) A serious historical work cannot be done with scholars who are biased about their most assumptions of a region.
(d) An argues that different scholars had different perspective on the Orient.

8. What is Post-Colonialism?

(a) The Literature produced by a country after its independence from a colonial power.
(b) Sum total of all the various social, political, economic and cultural changes brought about by the impact of colonialism.
(c) Impact of colonialism on the colonising country ex Britain.
(d) All of the above

9. When was ‘Culture and Imperialism’ published

(a) 1993
(b) 1994
(c) 1990
(d) 1986

10. According to Edward said what is the relationship between culture and Imperialism of the West?

(a) If relationship is direct and dynamic.
(b) Culture is not free from prejudice, while Imperialiami also not objective and neutral.
(c) Vocabulary of classic nineteenth century are more of same-inferior’ ‘subject races’, secured and repeated in the great writings of British end French.
(d) All of the above