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Yojna a weekly journal

Kurukshetra a journal on rural development is published by

Devaluation of a currency means

In ruby laser, the stimulated emission is due to transition from

The respiratory quotient during cellular respiration would depend on

10^-6 M NaOH is diluted 100 times. The pH of the diluted base is

Which Delhi Sultan captured Qutub Minar while it was under construction?

Where did the First Battle of Panipat take place?

Who built the Jama Masjid of Delhi?

The iconic Humayun's Tomb was built by:

The Iron Pillar near Qutub Minar was originally from:

Which is the national game of Bhutan ?

When was the Constituent Assembly of India formed?

What is the lithosphere composed of ?

Which ministry launched the Green Hydrogen Certification Scheme of India (GHCI)?

Who publishes the Special 301 Report?

Which startup tested its green propulsion system, VYOM 2U, aboard ISRO’s PSLV C60?

Where was the 24th Rashtriya Vanvasi Krida Pratiyogita held?

Which institute's startup developed the VYOM 2U green propulsion system?

How many such pairs of letters are there in the word ‘CLEANLINESS’ each of the which has as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabet, in the same sequence?

Team A has scored more goals than Team B
Team C has scored fewer goals than Team B
Team A has scored fewer goals than Team C .
If the first two statements are true, the third statement is

If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the second, the third, the sixth and the eight letters of the word FRAGMENT using each only once, which of the following will be the third letter of that word ? If no such word can be formed, give ‘X’ as the answer and if more than one such word can be formed, give ‘Y’ as the answer.

How many such letters are there in the word ORIENTAL each of which is as far away from the beginning of the word as when they are arranged alphabetically?

How many such pairs of letters in the word CREDIT each of which has as many letters between them in the word as in the English alphabet?

How many meaningful words can be made from the letters ‘LMEA’ using each letter only once in each word?

If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the first, the second, the seventh and the eighth letters of the word TEMPORAL, which of the following will be the first letter of that word? If more than one such word can be made, give ‘Y’ as the answer and if no such word can be made, give ‘X’ as the answer.

If the letters of the word HANDOVER are arranged alphabetically from left to right how many letters will remain at the same position?

How many such pairs of letters are there in the word EXCURSION, each of which has as many letters between them in the word as they have in the English alphabet?

If it is possible to make only one meaningful word with the first, the second, the third, the sixth and the eighth letters of the word DEVIATION first letter of that word is your answer? If more than one such word can be made formed your answer is ‘A’  and if no such word can be formed your answer is ‘B’.

Which letter in this alphabet is the eighth letter to the right of the letter and which is tenth letter to the left of the last but one letter of the alphabet ?

If the third alphabet of each of the words is changed to the next alphabet in the English alphabetical series, which of the following will form a meaningful English word?

If the given words are arranged in the order as they would appear in a dictionary from left to right, which of the following will be second from the right ?

If second alphabet in each of the words is changed to next alphabet in the English alphabetical order, how many words having two vowels (same or different vowels) will be formed ?

How many letters are there in the English alphabetical series between the second letter of the word which is second from the right and the second letter of the word which is second from the left of the given words?

If in each of the given words, each of the consonant is changed to previous letter and each vowel is changed to next letter in the English alphabetical series, in how many words thus formed will no vowels appear?

If the third alphabet in each of the words is changed to the next alphabet in the English alphabetical order, how many words having two vowels (same or different vowels) will be formed?

If the position of the first and the second alphabets of each of the words are interchanged, which of the following will form a meaningful English word?

If the given words are arranged in the order as they would appear in a dictionary from left to right, which of the following will be exactly in the middle of the five words?

If in each of the given words, each of the consonants is changed to previous letter and each vowel is changed to next letter in the English alphabetical series, in how many words thus formed will the same alphabet appear twice?

The cash difference between the selling prices of an article at a profit of 4% and 6% is Rs. 3. The ratio of the two selling prices is:__________ ?

Which of the following numbers is irrational ?

356 x 936 – 356 x 836 = ?

Arrange in descending order: 5/8, 7/10, 3/4

What is (3^{^}{4} times 9^{^}{2}) ?

If 3⁴X^-2 = 729, then find the value of X.

Convert 0.6 into fraction ?

The no. plate of a bus had peculiarity. The bus number was a perfect square. It was also a perfect square when the plate numbers were reversed. The bus company had only five hundred buses numbered from 1 to 500. What was the number ?

If a and b are positive integers, such that ab = 125, then (a-b)^a+b-4 = ?

If x^*y = x² + y² – xy, then value of 9^*11 is

Which is greater ?

If sum of two numbers is 42 and their product is 437, then find their difference.

Write the 44000 in Roman numerals

Convert 0.0909… into fraction ?

What is (98 times 102) ?

Which is smaller ?

Convert 0.5777… into fraction ?

Convert 0.81 into fraction ?

(63)² – (12)² =?

Which is greater ?

'ऋ' अर् में बदलता है -

निम्न में कौनसा नासिक्य व्यंजन है - 

निम्न में से उत्क्षिप्त व्यंजन है -

निम्न में से अल्प प्राण नहीं है -

तालव्य व्यंजन है-

'अ' स्वर का उच्चारण स्थान क्या है -

निम्लखित मे कंट- तालव्य स्वर कौनसे है ?

जो धातु या शब्द के अंत में जोड़ा जाता है उसे कहते है ?

प्रख्यात में प्रयुक्त उपसर्ग है -

'साखी' शब्द का तत्सम रूप है -

किस क्रम में वृत्तमुखी स्वर नहीं है -

उपसर्ग का प्रयोग होता है -

'पंडित दूध पीता है' इस वाक्य में कारक है -

 'ने' किस कारक का चिह्न है -

'वह जहाँ चाहे, जाये; मुझे क्या लेना-देना।' यह कैसा वाक्य है -

व्याकरण के नियमानुसार किस वाक्य में पदक्रम सही है -

'अधिकरण' कारक का चिह्न है - 

स्वर होते हैं -

निम्नलिखित में से  वर्त्स्य  है -

'दित्व' का प्रयोग किस शब्द में नहीं हुआ है ?

I go to Madurai by —– Vaigai Express

Have the car stolen!

The payment was collected by the hardworking salesman.

I had to stop all my work to complete this project.

They have published the names of all the successful candidates.

The online shopping site lowered the prices.

Who taught you to drive a truck ?

We shall invite Suresh.

Dark clouds have overcast the evening sky.

The partners will celebrate their triumph tomorrow. 

Assets

Affidavit

Hollow

Cosset 

Ogle

Intrinsic

Coalesce

Loiter

The protests were......... at ......... awareness among the elite and the educated.

Match the following  :
List-I                                                                 List-II
(Concepts)                                                       (Authors)
a. Cultural Lag                                                 (i)  K. Marx
b. False Consciousness                                 (ii)  Ogburm
c. Law of Similarity and Contact                  (iii)  J. Frazer
d. Institutionalization of class conglict       (iv)   R. Dahrendorf

Fill in the blank :  An institution is composed of  ---------------

George Summer's classification of group as 'Monad', 'Days', 'Triad' is based on  :

An area if social living which is marked by some degree of social cohernce and  similarity is called :

C. W. Mills' perspective takes into account :
(i)   Biography               (ii)  Sociography
(iii)  History                   (iv)  Geography
(v)  Ethnography
Select the correct alternatives :

Which of the following instances may not be considered as a reference group behaviour ?

Which of the following is a set of informal groups ?

Who argued that the school prepares children to move towards universalistic standards and achieved status of adult society?

Who defined religion in terms of a distinction between the sacred and the profone ?

The capacity of any person, group or institution to issue commands is called :

A statement of relationship between variables to be tested is known as :

For Marx, human potential is actualized :

A relationship in which change in one variable always induce change in another variable is known  as :

When did the term sociology coined ?

Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A)  and  the other  labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : Both Lewis Coser and Randall Collins are grounded under the conflict school.
Reason (R) : Both of them highlight the function of conflict in maintaining the society..

If in a family, the offspring’s inherit the mother’s name, the family is called -

Assertion (A) : Townsend asserts that poverty can be defined objectively only in terms of the concept of relative deprivation.
Reason (R) :  Society determines people's needs,  patterns of food consumption.

Who suggested that God is society divinized?

In an Indian family the parents prepare their daughter to be a good wife/daughter in her in-laws,  home,  this is an example of  :

Who among the following has distinguished between lions and foxes as types of elites ?

"Sociology is a Science which attempts an interpretative understanding of social action." who defined Sociology in this manner ? 

"Culture is man's guide, it liberates as well as enslaves him as all guides do." Which of the following school represents this view?

The term 'Sociological Imagination' was coined by whom?

Every man in society occupies a number of statuses. Different statuses associated with a single person are known as :

We gotcha of the following are the physical conditions of a primary group?
(i)   Physical proximity
(ii)   Attraction
(iii)  Smallness
(iv)  Endurance

Which of the following is not a primary group?

Which of the following are fundamental features of a social group?
(i)   Organisation 
(ii)  We-feeling
(iii)  Self - sufficiency
(iv)  Explicit cultural  goals

Given below are two statements labelled as Assertion (A),  and  the other labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion  (A) :  According to Durkheim education perpetuates and reinforces among neity in society  among itself members.
Reason (R)  :  Schools inclucate society's norms and  values providing link between individual and society.

Match List-I  with List-II.
List -I                                           List-II
(Books)                                       (Authors)
a. De-schooling Society           (i)  R. D. Laing
b. The Politics of Family          (ii)  S. Bowled and H. Gintis
c. Anti-social Family                 (iii)  Ivan Illich
d. Schooling in Capitalist        (iv)   M. Barrett & M. MacIn-tosh
      America

Match  List-I  with  List-II
List-I                         List-II
(Terms)                   (Features)
a.  Church               (i)   Usually more individualistic and  lacks sharply defined belief system
b.  Sect                   (ii) Usually conservative but not closely related to State.
c.  Denomination (iii) Often closely related to State and claim promptly on religious truth
d.  Cult                    (iv)  Less conservative and connected with lower class

Which one of the following is not a characteristic of a primary group?

Who of the following is the author of the book "Economy and Society"?

Which one of the following is not an element of rural community?

Choose the correct sequence of following in order of increasing complexity :

Sociology is characterized by a perspective that places..............  in the foreground :

When two people interact with each other,  they form :

Which one of the following Max Muller believed to be the earliest form of religion  ?

Ridicule is a :

The term 'Reference group' was first introduced by :

Match List -I with List-II  and  mark the correct answer from the codes given below  the lists :
List-I                        List-II
(Author)                  (Change Perspective)
a.  Sorokin              (i)  Structural-functional
b.  Daherdorf         (ii)   Cyclical
c.  Spencer             (iii)   Dialectical
d.  Durkheim         (iv)  Evolutionary

A statement of relationship between variables to be tested is known as :

For Marx, human potential is actulized :

A relationship in which change in one variable always induce change in another variable is known as :

Who among these theorist were the intellectual fountain heads of conflict theories ?

Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other labelled as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : Both Lewis Coser and Randall Collins are grouped under the conflict school .
Reason (R) : Both of them highlight the functiion of conflict in mantaining the society .

The reasons for insurgency in the North Eastern region are :

Assertion (A) : Townsend asserts that poverty can be defined objectively only in terms of the concept of relative deprivation .Reason (R) : Society determines people’s needs, patterns of food consumption.

Who suggested that God is society divinized ?

In an Indian family the parents prepare their daughter to be a good wife/daughter in her-in-law, home, this is an example of :

Which theory among the following States that people are motivated by self-interest in the interactions with other people ?

Who among the following propounded the concept of ‘Latent’ and ‘Manifest’ function ?

Who among the following made distinction between tow types of conflict namely "realistic" and 'non-realistic' ?

In which of the following sampling methods, equal number of units are selected from each substratum regardless of their strength in the population and sub-population ?

Cumulative frequency curve is known as :

Who has made distinction between normal and pathological function ?

P.A. Sorokin is noted for his distinction between :

Who among the following was the first one to use case study method in social research ?

According to Max Weber status groups are identified by :

Which one of the following does not fall into sociological understanding of status ?

Match items in List-l with items in List-ll and choose the correct answer from the codes given below :         
List-l                                            List-ll (Sociologists)
(A)Evolution                                (i) Structural change
(B)Progess                                   (ii) Change in stages
(C)Revolution                              (iii) Quantitative change
(D)Transformation                      (iv) Qualitative change

‘Differences between natural and social science arise from cognitive intentions of the investigator, whose view is this ?

Match List-l with List-ll and select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists :         
List-l (Concepts)                                    List-ll (Sociologists)
A.Internal structure of role                      (i) C. Levi-strauss
B.Structure of myth                               (ii) B. Malinowski
C.Functions of rituals                            (iii) S. F. Nadel
D.Basic and derived needs                    (iv) T. Parsons        
                                                          (v) A. R. Radcliffe-Brown                                                                                        

Who has written the book ‘structure and function in primitive society’ ?

Who has stated that the basic characteristics of human mind determine the possible varieties of social structure ?

Who has given a functional theory based on basic and derived needs ?

Who has written the book ‘A scientific theory of culture’ ?

Who has distinguished between simple society on the basis of mechanical and organic solidarity ?

Who has given the concept of ‘functional alternatives’ as a possibility of studying social change by using functional theory ?

The concept ‘generalised other’ was given by :

Match the items in List-l with List-ll :     
List-l (Methods)                          List-ll (Thinkers)
A.Comparative method              (i) Karl Marx
B.Verstehen method                  (ii) E. Durkheim
C.Historical method                    (iii) Max Weber
D.Ideal type method                   (iv) R. K. Merton
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

Sociology is considered as a :

The concept of ‘positivsm’ was coined by which one of the following ?

Methods of Sociology include :

An example of community is :

Which one is an example of Social Institution ?

The book "social structure of values" was written by ---------------.

Who among the following defined social structure as :‘Abstraction from the concrete population and its behaviour, the pattern or network (or ‘system’) of relationship obtaining between actors in their capacity of playing rules relative to one another’ .

Who said that "Social change was the result of natural process of adaption" ?

Match the items in List-l with List-ll :         
List-l  (Books)                                                  List-ll (Authors)                     
A.White Collar: The American Middle Class     (i) G.P. Murdock
B.The Ruling class                                          (ii) Victor.S. D’Souza
C.Social Structure                                           (iii) G. Mosca
D.Social Structure of a planned city                 (iv) C.W. Mills
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :

1.Match the items in List-l with List-ll :        
List-l (Concepts)                                          List-ll (Authors)
A.Militant and Industrial Society                 (i) Tonnies          
B.Little Community                                       (ii) H. Spencer
C.Mechanical and Organic Solidarity            (iii) R. Redfield
D.Gemeinschaft and Gesellaschaft              (iv) E. Durkheim      
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :  

Which one of the following statements represents the idea of C. Wright Mills about sociological inagination ?

Who amongst the following says that sociology is the study of collective representation ?

When the offsprings inherit the father’s name, the family is called -

According to whom internalized ‘shared values’ are regarded as playing a decisive role in the social integration of any society ?

Which according to Robert Redfield is not the characeristic of Little Community ?

1.Match the Items in List-I with List-II:
List-l  (Books)                                                    List-ll  (Authors)
A.Patterns of Culture                                           (i)  T.S. Eliot
B.Primitive Culture                                              (ii)  E.B. Taylor
C.A Scientific Theory of Culture                           (iii)  Ruth Benedict
D.Notes Towards the Definition of Culture             (iv)  B. Malinowski                          
 Select the correct answer from the codes given below:

Which one of the following is not the characteristic of a community ?

The change of statuses occurring with sufficient frequency, as to be sicially patterned, can be designated as a:

When the perfomer of a role adopts a subjective detachment from the role, it is called as:

According to whom role is the dynamic aspect of status, where ‘status’ refers to the position and ‘role’ to its perfomance ?

Who was concerned, in his methodology, with ‘the way in which people grasp the consciousness of others while they live within their own stream of consciousness’?

Which one of the following approaches mainly focuses on ‘consciousness’ ?

According to whom ideology must be seen not merely as ‘false’ consciousness’ but as an important part of real social relations ?

Match the List-I with List-II and Select the correct answer from the codes given below the lists :
    List-I                             List-II
(Concepts)                  (Thinkers)
(a) Exchange              (i) Erving Goffman
(b) Dramaturgey          (ii) P.M. Blau
(c) Inter subjectivity     (iii) H. Garfinkel
(d) Indexicality             (iv) Alfred Shutz
  

Unlike Functionalism, neofunctionalism devotes roughly equal attention to which of the following ?

Who has stated that the history of society is the history of the class struggle ?

Who has propounded the concept of‘collective representation’ in sociology?

A Society which pessimistically depicts the social transformation brought about by modernization is a :

In any social arrangement in which the behaviour of majority is governed by norms and roles is known as :

Lack of appropriate cultural resources like language and knowledge is known as :

......... is the channelling of an increasing number of women into low-status, poorly paid manual work.

An Italian consuming paneer tikka in Rome and an Indian consuming pizza in Varanasi is an example of

Who had given the concept of 'modes of individual adaptation' ?

Consider the following statements and state which of the following is/are correct ?
I. Quantitative research is any research method that involves the analysis of numerical data derived usually from surveys and experiments.
II. Qualitative research is any research method that involves the analysis of numerical data derived usually from surveys and experiments.
III. Inferential statistics does not allow researchers to use data from a relatively small group to speculate with some level of certainty about a larger group.
IV. Quantitative research methods do not require statistical methods for collecting and reporting data.
V. Statistics is the mathematical method used to analyse numerical data.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

.................. is an epistemological position that advocates the application of the methods of natural science to the study of social reality and beyond.

A ......... entails the collection of data on more than one case (usually quite a lot more than one) and at a single point in time.

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I (Thinkers)                     List - II (Concepts/Ideas)
A. A Comte                              I. Size and density
B. E Durkheim                          II. Level of intellectual development
C. K Marx                                III. Evolution and complexity
D. H Spencer                           IV. Economic influence

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Who among the following criticised the effects of 'mass media' and 'culture industry' on population ?

Cultural phenomena combining and impositions from the other cultures with local realities is

Who has suggested six dimensions of communalism: assimilationist, welfarist, retreatist, retaliatory, separatist and secessionist ?

Which of the following is not a defining feature of tribe ?

Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : NK Bose emphasised the need to bring Ethnology and Indology together in the study of Indian Society.
Reason (R) : It is possible to reconstruct the structure of the Indian Constitution through these two approaches.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Examples of nominal measures are
I. Gender
II. Religious affiliation
III. Birth place
IV. Social classes
V. Intellectual sophistication
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : There is the increasing prevalence of borderless diseases.
Reason (R) : There is the increase in global travel and an increasing rate of human migration.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

The concept of 'habitus' deals with

According to Louis Wirth, the following variables are important in making urban life impersonal.
I. Location
II. Affluence
III. Size
IV. Density
V. Heterogeneity
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Which were the general land tenure system prevalent in rural India before independence ?
I. Zamindari
II. Sajhedari
III. Ryotwari
IV. Hawaldari
V. Mahelwari
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Use of public office for private gain is known as

Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Sociologists usually distinguish between absolute and relative poverty.
Reason (R) : In developed countries with established welfare systems, absolute poverty is rare.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Which is the largest form of Urban life today ?

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I (Tribe)                     List - II (Dormitories)
A. Gonds                              I. Kichuki
B. Oraon                              II. Dhumkuria
C. Bhutia                             III. Gotul
D. Angami Naga                   IV. Rang - Bang

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Prejudice is one thing. Discrimination is something else.
Reason (R) : Prejudice is a matter of belief. Discrimination is a mode of behaviour.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Who has classified action into logical and non - logical action ?

Who wrote the book, 'Caste and Race in India' ?

Which among the following are relevant and related to the National Policy on Education ?
I. Radha Krishnan Commission
II. Mudaliar Commission
III. Kidwai Commission
IV. Kothari Commission
V. Tendulkar Commission
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

The most systematic general theory of cultural reproduction is given by

Which of the following is a structure of relationships linking social actors, or the set of actors and the ties among them ?

Adopting a historical approach to the dispersal of people, R Cohen identifies the following categories of diasporas.
I. Victim diasporas
II. Labour diasporas
III. Trading diasporas
IV. Imperial diasporas
V. Cultural diasporas
Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Enhancing global consciousness is a vital dimension of increasing environmental awareness.
Reason (R) : Our choices and actions are responsible for our actions towards ecology.
In light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

The durable relations between a food - producing family and the families that supply them with goods and services are known as

The Generalised Elsewhere' has been given by

Match List - I with List - II.

    List - I                                               List - II
A. Harijan                               I. Constitutional and administrative
B. SC/ST                               II. Political and cultural
C. Dalit                                  III. Political and administrative
D. Maha - Dalit                       IV. Moral and ethical

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Who among the following used 'Comparative and Historical Research Method' in their study ?

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I  (Book)                                                     List - II (Authors)
A. The Sociology of Disaster                                 I. Jeffery D Sachs
B. Environmental Sociology                                  II. Ram Ahuja
C. The Age of Sustainable Development                III. Thomas E Drabek
D. Social Problems in India                                  IV. John Hannigan

Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Which one of the following was not a direct cause of the decline of the pre - British village artisan industries ?

......... was first developed by sociologists, B Glaser and A Strauss (1967), in an attempt to come to grips with their clinical research in medical sociology.

Given below are two statements. One is labelled as Assertion (A) and the other is labelled as Reason (R).
Assertion (A) : Discrimination is a mode of behaviour.
Reason (R) : To discriminate means to deny an individual or a group, a privilege or an opportunity or a pleasure that is thereupon reserved for one's own group.
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

There are two levels of meanings which are implicit in Sanskritisation. These are

Who is known as the 'Bourgeois Marx' ?

Match List - I with List - II.

  List - I (Principles)                                                          List - II (Meaning)
A. Phenominalism                           I. Knowledge is arrived at through the gathering of facts that provide the basis for laws.
B. Deductivism                                II. Asserts that social phenomena and their meanings are continually being accomplished by social actors.
C. Inductivism                                 III. The purpose of theory is to generate hypothesis that can be tested.
D. Constructionism                         IV. Only phenomena and hence knowledge confirmed by the senses can be warranted as knowledge.

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Consider the following statements and state which of the following is/are correct ?
I. Fantasy city is a type of city in which great emphasis is placed on creating a spectacle, especially for consumption, leisure and tourism.
II. Edge cities are located at the innermost rings of large cities.
III. Megacities are cities with population greater than 10 million people.
IV. Megalopolis is cluster of scantly populated cities that can stretch over great distances.
V. Metropolis is a large, powerful and culturally influential urban area consisting of a central city and surrounding suburbs.
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The #MeToo movement is a part of which wave of feminism ?
I. First Wave
II. Second Wave
III. Third Wave
IV. Fourth Wave
V. Fifth Wave
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....... is an approach originally developed by Dorothy Smith (1978) to better understand women's everyday experiences by discovering the power relations that shape those experiences.

Which one of the following is not correct ?

What are the main features of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 ?

A biological being is transformed into a social being with the help of the following

Who wrote the book, "The Lonely Crowd' ?

Match List - I with List - II

List - I (Thinkers)                    List - II (Work)
A. GH Mead                          I. Structuration
B. E Goffman                         II. Governmentality
C. M Foucault                        III. Symbolic interactionism
D. A Giddens                         IV. Total institutions

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Which of the following constitutes an important methodological components in Foucault's works ?
I. Discipline and Punish
II. The History of Sexuality
III. Madness and Civilisation
IV. The Archaeology of Knowledge
V. The Order of Things
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Given below are two statements.
Statement I : A major problem for empirical researchers is the connection between theory and observation referred to as rules of correspondence.
Statement II : In Sociology, the passage from observation to conceptualisation and back again requires a close examination of the manner in which our observations are organised and categorised, as well as, to the operationalisation of the concepts used to organise data.
In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

Match List - I with List - II.

    List - I (Books)                                List - II (Authors)
A. World Risk Society                            I. M Castells
B. End of Millennium                              II. V Shiva
C. Development as Freedom                   III A Sen
D. Ecofeminism                                     IV. U Beck

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Which one of the following practice matrilineal family structure ?

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                 List - I                                                                              List - II
(Types of Religious Organisation)                                                       (Definition)
A. Sect                                                I. A small, new and exclusive group whose religious tradition has never been associated with and is often at odds with any established religious experience.
B. Church                                            II. A religious group that exhibits a general spirit of tolerance and acceptance of other religious bodies.
C. Cult                                                III. A large group of religiously oriented people that members are usually born into rather than consciously join.
D. Denomination                                  IV. A small group of people who see themselves a true believers and who voluntarily join a group, usually broken off from a more established religion to have a personal religious experience.

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Match List - I with List - II

List - I (Thinkers)                                List - II (Concept/Theory)
A. Georg Simmel                                 I. Network Society
B. Louis Wirth                                      II. Metropolis and Mental life
C. Manuel Castells                               III. Gesellschaft
D. Ferdinand Tonnies                            IV. Urbanism as a Way of Life

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The concept of 'conspicuous consumption' denotes
I. fetishism of commodities.
II. people want to show that they are simple - living.
III. people want to show others what they are consuming.
IV. people have access to commodities.
V. tragedy of culture.
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Caste - based stratification is

Given below are two statements.
Statement - I Some of the developing countries have embarked successfully on a process of rapid industrialisation.
Statement - II They are referred to as the Newly Industrialising Countries. In light of the above statements,
choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below.

The disharmony between the rapid growth of technology and slower transformation of social institutions and beliefs is known as

Who has written the book, World Revolution and Family Patterns' ?

The unit of production in tribal economy is

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I (Personalities)                                      List - II (Recognition)
A. Pandurang Hegde                             I. Goldman Environmental Prize
B. MC Mehta                                        II. Bishnoi Movement
C. Marimuthu Yoganathan                     III. Appiko Movement
D. Amrita Devi                                     IV. Eco - warrior

Codes :

The academic journal published by Indian Sociological Society
I. Man in India
II. Sociological Bulletin
III. Contributions to Indian Sociology
IV. International Sociology
V. Annals of Indian Sociology
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Given below are two statements.
Statement : I Karl Marx, Max Weber and Michel Foucault are the most influential figures in an intellectual movement known as post - structuralism.
Statement : II Michel Foucault has had immense influence on social sciences.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below.

Match List - I with List - II.

                          List - I                                                                                                                               List - II
A person enumerated outside the place of normal residence.                                                                         I. Migrant
B. Spouses and children joining the migrant in due course.                                                                           II. Forced migration
C. Persons displaced by war or violence.                                                                                                     III. Seasonal migration
D. Persons seeking work each year for a short - time in a place other than their normal residence.                   IV. Associative migration

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Chronologically arrange the following schools of thought as they appeared in the history of sociology.
I. Positivism
II. Symbolic interactionism
III. Postmodernism
IV. Functionalism
V. Structuralism
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What is the appropriate term to describe a woman marrying the brother of her deceased husband ?

"Cultural identities are shaped by a complex set of factors, which are associated with the process of evolution of cultural practices and beliefs of people in course of their historical experiences." Who stated this ?

.............. is a set of socially constructed ideas that accommodate the interests of men and patriarchy and involve the compliance of females.

The middle attribute in the ranked distribution of observed attributes is known as

Rewards and punishments associated with role expectations are called

'Conurbation' means

The main features of class are
I. Homogeneity and Simplicity
II. Individualism
III. Economic and professional values
IV. Rationalism
V. Traditionalism
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Select the correct statements.
I. Quantitative approach - Post-positivist worldview, experimental strategy of enquiry and pre and post-test measures of attitudes.
II. Qualitative approach - Constructivist worldview, ethnographic design and observation of behaviour.
III. Qualitative approach Participatory worldview, narrative design and open-ended interviewing.
IV. Mixed method approach - Pragmatic worldview, collection of both qualitative and quantitative data sequentially.
V. Qualitative approach - Post-positivist worldview, experimental strategy of enquiry and pre and post-test measures of attitudes.
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The book, 'Patterns of Culture' is written by

Who has conducted the study on Nayars of Kerala ?

Who has written the book, "The Family in India: Critical Essays' ?

People under the class structure who are politically and socially and excluded comprise the economically, marginalised

Who has classified political institutions into republic, aristocracy, monarchy and autocracy ?

Given below are two statements.
Statement : I Correspondence analysis is a statistical method of analysis for cross-tabulated data by finding a geometrical representation.
Statement : II Well - known applications of correspondence analysis are presented by Pierre Bourdieu in Distinction. In light of the above statements,
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In his famous work on the changing stratification of a Tanjore village, Andre Beteille observed the changes in

Match List I with List II.

List I (Thinkers)                            List II (Concepts)
A. Alfred Schutz                             I. Stigma
B. Erving Goffman                           II. Field
C. Jurgen Habermas                       III. Recipe
D. Pierre Bourdieu                          IV. Communicative Action

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The features of 'Kula Ring', described by Malinowski are
I. It is an exchange cycle.
II. It had no monetary value.
III. It was seen as an exchange of gifts.
IV. It provided internal status to men.
V. It did not weld together, a large number of islands.
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Which sociologist coined the concept, 'social relationship' to describe patterned human interaction which is intentional, meaningful and symbolic ?

Production characterised by large number of standardised products made by highly specialised workers is known as

The structural features of caste system are
I. Openness
II. Segmental division
III. Hierarchy
IV. Non - hereditary occupations
V. Pollution and purity
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Which one of the following is not correctly matched ?

Match List - I with List - II.

List - I (Thinkers)                                      List - II (Theory/Approach/Model)
A. WW Rostow                                           I. World Systems Theory
B. Paul Baran                                             II. Take - off Model
C. Amartya Sen                                         III. Capabilities Approach
D. Immanuel Wallerstein                             IV. Dependency Theory

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Which one of the following influences deviance ?

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List - I (Authors)                                   List - II (Books)
A. JW de Wit                                 I. Sociology of Slum
B. Vinit Mukhija                             II. Shadow Cities A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World
C. Robert Neuwirth                         III. Policy, Poverty and Politics in Madras Slums
D. MS Dhadave                              IV. Squatters as Developers Slum Redevelopment in Mumbai

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Given below are two statements.
Statement I : Some major concepts and approaches about social change in India can be grouped as Sanskritisation and Westernisation.
Statement II : The term 'Sanskritisation' was used by MN Srinivas to describe the process of structural transformation in the Indian social structure. In light of the above statements,
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Arrange the following states according to their and level of urbanisation in descending order as per the Census 2011.
I. Himachal Pradesh
II. Tamil Nadu
III. Gujarat
IV. Haryana
V. Punjab
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A relationship between two quantitative or qualitative variables is considered significant according to the X². (Chi - square) test at which of the following levels of error ?
I. 1%
II. 2%
III. 3%
IV. 5%
V. 10%
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Of the following, who has not worked on the functioning of the Jajmani system as a binding force among castes ?
I. W H Wiser
II. K Ishwaran
III. M Opler
IV. K Gough
V. SC Dube
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Who said that monogamous marriage developed not to unite men and women in marital bliss, but to protect private property ?
I. Friedrich Engels
II. Karl Marx
III. Schulamith Firestone
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Who is the author of 'Private Lives and Public Surveillance' ?

Which one of the following is a suspicion of outsiders combined with a tendency to evaluate the culture of others in terms of one's own culture ?

Who has devised a theory of social conflict on understanding the central charteristics of the 'nomadic' and 'sedentary' societies of his time ?

Who is the author of 'Myth and Meaning' ?

Who among the following has divided globalisation into two camps, the optimists and the pessimists ?

Who among the following considered S person-to-person relations and actually existing relations as constituting the social structure ?