UGC-NET Sociology Previous Year Paper
1. Who has stated that the history of society is the history of the class struggle?
(A) Emile Durkheim (B) George Herbert mead
(C) Erving Goffmann (D) Karl Marx
Ans. (D)
2. Who has propounded the concept of‘collective representation’ in sociology?
(A) Emile Durkheim (B) Max Weber
(C) Auguste Comte (D) Karl Marx
Ans. (A)
3. A Society which pessimistically depicts the social transformation brought about by modernization is a :
(A) Global society (B) Local society
(C) Mass society (D) Civil society
Ans. (B)
4. In any social arrangement in which the behaviour of majority is governed by norms and roles is known as :
(A) Association (B) Community
(C) Institution (D) Culture
Ans. (B)
5. Lack of appropriate cultural resources like language and knowledge is known as :
(A) Cultural materialism (B) Cultural deprivation
(C) Cultural trait (D) Cultural pluralism
Ans. (B)
6. Who has said that “man’s uniqueness lies in his possession of culture”?
(A) R.M. Maclver (B) E. Durkheim
(C) R. Benedict (D) K. Davis
Ans. (C)
7. Which one of the following is not an ascribed status?
(A) Sex (B) Age
(C) Occupation (D) Kinship
Ans. (D)
8. Which one of the following refers to an individual whose behaviour in a particular role provides a pattern upon which another individual bases his behaviour in performing the same role?
(A) Ideal role (B) Role model
(C) Perceived role (D) Internalized role
Ans. (B)
9. Who has observed that ‘each person in society inevitably occupies multiple statuses and that, for each of these statuses, there is an associated role’?
(A) R.K. Merton (B) R. Linton
(C) T. Newcomb (D) W.F. Ogburn
Ans. (A)
10. The distinction between in-group and out-gyoup was given by :
(A) G. Simmel (B) P. Sorokin
(C) W.G. Sumner (D) H. Spencer
Ans. (C)
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