Society, Culture and Social Change | CUET PG Sociology – Solved PYQs

Q1. Who argued that society has progressed through three stages namely theological, metaphysical and positive? (2021)

A. Emile Durkheim
B. Max Weber
C. Karl Marx
D. Auguste Comte

Q2. When there is a gap between keeping the same pace between the technical development of a society and its moral and legal institutions, it is called as (2021)

A. Cultural lacuna
B. Cultural imbalance
C. Cultural lag
D. Cultural disturbance

Q3. A laptop and a mobile are the examples of (2021)

A. Non-material culture
B. Material culture
C. Values
D. Norms

Q4. The conflict analysis in sociology discipline begins with the usage of (2021)

A. Auguste Comte’s theoretical analysis
B. Emile Durkheim’s theoretical analysis
C. Karl Marx’s theoretical analysis
D. Max Weber’s theoretical analysis

Q5. Who is the author of the book The Elementary Forms of Religious Life? (2021)

A. Auguste Comte
B. Max Weber
C. Karl Marx
D. Emile Durkheim

Q6. What do you understand by ‘anti-urban bias’? (2021)

A. Assumption that urban life is superior to rural life
B. Assumption that rural life is not fruitful
C. Assumption that urban life is inferior to rural life
D. Assumption that both urban and rural life are equal

Q7. The initial efforts of modernity during the Renaissance period were to set out a broadly _______ conception of rationality. (2021)

A. Humanist
B. Bureaucratic
C. Consumerist
D. Evolutionary

Q8. The process by which the transfer of power was made from the church to the state and it also signifies the decline of religion in society is termed as (2021)

A. Globalization
B. Regularization
C. Urbanization
D. Secularization

Q9. The notion of social evolution was taken from the theories of _______ evolution. (2021)

A. Physical
B. Chemical
C. Biological
D. Celestial

Q10. In which of the following thinkers’ analysis of social change have the elements of technological development (productive forces) and the relations between social classes been of prime importance? (2021)

A. Karl Marx
B. Herbert Spencer
C. Vilfredo Pareto
D. Emile Durkheim

Q11. The 1987 report on development, which is a pioneer in defining sustainable development, is also known as (2021)

A. Brundtland Report
B. Mayo Report
C. Pachauri Report
D. Warford Report

Q12. GNP stands for? (2021)

A. Gained National Product
B. Given National Product
C. Governed National Product
D. Gross National Product

Q13. According to Auguste Comte, the stage in which the belief that abstract forces like nature, rather than personalized gods, explain virtually everything, is termed as (2021)

A. Theological
B. Metaphysical
C. Scientific
D. Positivistic

Q14. Karl Marx adopted the dialectical mode of logic from (2021)

A. Kant
B. Socrates
C. Hegel
D. Plato

Q15. Max Weber’s thoughts on verstehen were primarily derived from the field of (2021)

A. Kinetics
B. Mechanics
C. Physics
D. Hermeneutics