PRACTICE QUESTIONS UGC NET (SOCIOLOGY)
Urban Society
UGC NET SOCIOLOGY
Rural and Urban Transformations (UNIT 4)
1. Urbanisation is best defined as
(a) People moving from rural areas to urban areas
(b) The growth in the population of urban areas as a result of several factors
(c) The incease in the proportion of people living in urban arvas
(d) People moving from urban areas to rural areas
2. Which of the following statements is correct about history of urban population
(a) Half the world’s population lived in urban areas
(b) Most of the world’s population lived in urban areas
(c) 51% of the world’s population lived in urban areas
(d) Most of the world’s population lived in rural areas
3. All of the following are reasons for urbanisation except?
(a) Rent is more affordable in urban areas
(b) Urban areas have better health care and educational facilities
(c) There are more jobs available in urban areas
(d) There are more opportunities for entertainment in urban areas
4. The term ‘Collective consumption’ (Castells 1977) refers to
(a) the privatisation of public services by the conservative government
(b) the life style practice of shopping in peer groups
(c) the form of tuberculosis suffered by those who collect stamps
(d) the provision of health, housing and education services by the state
5. What is Gentrification?
(a) The movement of the middle classes into suburban areas
(b) A policy aimed at renovating inner city council housing stock
(c) Building shopping centres in cities to create employment
(d) Renovation of run down city neighbourhood to attract high income groups
6. The theorist who associated city life with the development of a ‘blase attitude’ was
(a) Tonnies
(b) Simmel
(c) Weber
(d) Wirth
7. Who describe urbanism as a way of life?
(a) Park
(b) Hawley
(c) Wirth
(d) Burgess
8. Which of the follwing is an example of a pull factor?
(a) War or famine in the migrants country of origin
(b) Political persecution in a migrants home land
(c) Natural disaster that threatens a migrants home
(d) Plentiful jobs in the migrants chosen destination
9. Which of the following is not one of the features of urban community?
(a) Face to face relationships
(b) Complex life
(c) Materialistic
(d) Glamour in life
10. Which among the following is not a cause of growth of cities?
(a) Trade and commerce
(b) Industrialism
(c) Development of transport
(d) Hygienic outlook of people
| 1 (b) | 2 (c) | 3 (a) | 4 (d) | 5 (d) | 6 (b) | 7 (c) | 8 (d) | 9 (a) | 10 (d) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (a) | 12 (c) | 13 (c) | 14 (a) | 15 (d) | 16 (a) | 17 (a) | 18 (c) | 19 (a) | 20 (c) |
| 21 (b) | 22 (d) | 23 (a) | 24 (c) | 25 (c) | 26 (a) | 27 (a) | 28 (b) | 29 (c) | 30 (a) |
| 31 (a) | 32 (c) | 33 (b) | 34 (a) | 35 (b) | 36 (d) | 37 (b) | 38 (c) | 39 (b) | 40 (d) |
| 41 (c) | 42 (c) | 43 (c) | 44 (d) | 45 (b) | 46 (a) | 47 (a) | 48 (b) | 49 (a) | 50 (d) |
| 51 (a) | 52 (a) | 53 (d) | 54 (c) | 55 (d) | 56 (a) | 57 (c) | 58 (a) | 59 (c) | 60 (a) |
| 61 (a) | 62 (b) | 63 (a) | 64 (b) | 65 (c) | 66 (d) | 67 (a) | 68 (b) | 69 (b) | 70 (b) |
| 71 (a) | 72 (c) | 73 (c) | 74 (d) | 75 (b) | 76 (c) | 77 (b) | 78 (b) | 79 (b) | 80 (a) |
| 81 (a) | 82 (d) | 83 (d) | 84 (c) | — | — | — | — | — | — |