Kerala SET 2019 Feb Question Paper Sociology

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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

2. The concept of ‘collective representation’ in sociology was propounded by:
A) Emile Durkheim B) Max Weber
C) Auguste Comte D) Karl Marx

3. Which one of the following is not an agency of socialization?
A) Family B) School C) Peer - Group D) Media

4. Any social arrangement in which the behaviour of the majority is governed by norms
and roles is known as:
A) Association B) Community C) Institution D) Culture

5. According to ----- “man’s uniqueness lies in his possession of culture”.
A) R. Hyman B) E. Durkheim C) R. Benedict D) K. Davis

6. Which one of the following is not an ascribed status?
A) Sex B) Age C) Occupation D) Kinship

7. A statement of relationship between variables to be tested is known as ------
A) Research question B) Hypothesis
C) Objective of the study D) Problem of the study

8. Who wrote the famous book ‘Prison Note Book’?
A) Jacquess Derrida B) Ritzer
C) Peter Berger D) Antonio Gramsci

9. ‘Taravad’ is a kind of ---------
A) A kinship usage B) A rule of avoidence
C) An extended family D) A community

10. Match List-I with items in List-II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:
List – I List – II
(Concepts) (Authors)
a. Primary group 1 Freud
b. Generalized other 2. Cooley
c. Super ego 3. Durkheim
d. Collective Consciousness 4. Mead
Codes:
A) a-1, b-2, c-4, d-3 B) a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1
C) a-2, b-4, c-1, d-3 D) a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

11. Which one is the correct statement about socialization?
A) An election process B) A time taking process
C) A policy making process D) A role seeking process

12. Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical perspective makes use of the concept of capital. Which
of the following is not a part of this concept?
A) Economic Capital B) Political Capital
C) Social Capital D) Cultural Capital

13. Which term is used to describe various aspects of an individual’s identity such as
class, ethnicity, gender, disability and location?
A) Intersectionality B) Ascription
C) Meritocracy D) Mobility

14. Malinowski is best known for emphasizing the importance of which one of the
following?
A) Oral History B) Content Analysis
C) Ethnography D) Narratives

15. According to Marx ‘when people become aware of their conflicting relations with
other classes’ then it results into ----------
A) Class in itself B) Division of labour
C) Class for itself D) Development of leadership

16. Who has stated that ‘the conflict is dysfunctional, if the structures are rigid’?
A) Karl Marx B) L.A. Coser C) E. Durkheim D) J.C. Alexander

17. Who has written the book ‘Rules of Sociological Method’?
A) Max Weber B) Auguste Comte
C) Emile Durkheim D) Karl Marx

18. According to Anthony Giddens, ‘structure’ is----------
A) Itself the form and shape of human life
B) Outside or external to human action
C) Itself exists in time and space
D) Constraining and enabling

19. The distinction between in-group and out-group was given by:
A) G. Simmel B) P. Sorokin C) W.G. Sumner D) H. Spencer

20. Which is not an attribute of rural society?
A) Joint family
B) Agrarian economy
C) Pre-dominance of natural environment
D) Anonimity

21. Who has promoted sociology as the ‘science of society’ and treated society as a
distinct object?
A) Comte B) Weber C) Durkheim D) Merton

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22. Match items in List-I with items in List-II and select the correct code from codes
given below:
List-I List-II
a. Primary group 1. Summer, W.G
b. Reference group 2. Bierstedt, Robert
c. In-groups and Out-groups 3. Hyman, R
d. Organised group 4. C H Cooley
Codes:
A) a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4 B) a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3
C) a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1 D) a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2

23. Who provides an account of ‘the role of common sense knowledge in the social
construction of everyday life and institution’?
A) Peter Berger B) George Lucas C) Max Weber D) Erving Goffman

24. Match items in List-I with items in List-II and select the correct code from codes
given below:
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Concepts)
a. Max Weber 1. Circulation of elites
b. V. Pareto 2. Symbolic Interactionism
c. G.M. Mead 3. Interpretative understanding
d. Herbert Blumer 4. Self
Codes:
A) a-3, b-1, c-4, d-2 B) a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4
C) a-3, b-4, c-1, d-2 D) a-2, b-1, c-3, d-4

25. A hypothesis that suggests no relationship among the variables selected under study is
called --------------
A) Conflict hypothesis B) Comfort hypothesis
C) Null hypothesis D) Contrary hypothesis

26. In which qualitative approach the primary goal is to gain access to individuals’ inner
world experiences?
A) Case study B) Ethnography
C) Phenomenology D) Grounded theory

27. Match items in List-I with items in List-II and select the correct code from codes
given below:
List – I List – II
(Concepts) (Thinkers)
a. Exchange 1. Erving Goffman
b. Dramaturgey 2. P.M. Blau
c. Inter subjectivity 3. H. Garfinkel
d. Indexicality 4. Alfred Shutz
Codes:
A) a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4 B) a-3, b-4, c-2, d-1
C) a-4, b-1, c-3, d-2 D) a-2, b-1, c-4, d-3

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28. Who among the following can be classified as a ‘critical theorist’?
A) Alexander Jeffrey B) Max Horkheimer
C) Althusser D) Bourdieu

29. Who among the following makes use of the concept of ‘communicative action’ in the
process of making ‘validity claims’?
A) Turner B) Althusser
C) Habermas D) Giddens

30. An important aspect of Giddens’ structuration theory that gives dynamism to
modernity is ---------
A) Modern Institutions B) Life World
C) Time and Space D) Self identity

31. Match items in List-I with items in List-II and select the correct code from codes
given below:
List – I List – II
(Thinkers) (Concepts)
a. Foucault 1. Structuration
b. Habermas 2. Logocentrism
c. Giddens 3. Public Sphere
d. Derrida 4. Panopticon
Codes:
A) a-3, b-2, c-1, d-4 B) a-4, b-3, c-1, d-2
C) a-1, b-2, c-3, d-4 D) a-1, b-3, c-2, d-4

32. According to Giddens ‘structure’ refers to ---------
A) Rules and Resources B) Network of Social Relationships
C) A definite pattern D) Norms and Values

33. Who among the following has developed the concept of ‘discourse’ in his writings?
A) J. Alexander B) A. Giddens
C) M. Foucault D) J. Derrida

34. Who, among the following, are associated with Indianisation of Sociology?
A) G.S. Ghurye, A.K. Saran, D.P. Mukherji
B) G.S. Ghurye, T.K. Oommen, A.K. Saran
C) G.S. Ghurye, Andre Beteille, D.P. Mukherji
D) G.S. Ghurye, T.K. Oommen, A.R. Desai

35. Of the following who is well known for using subaltern perspective in studying the
Indian Society?
A) D.P. Mukherji B) Louis Dumont
C) Renjith Guha D) N.K. Bose

36. Population pyramid is graphic representation of which aspect of population?
A) Mortality and life expectancy
B) Age-sex distribution at a given time.
C) Fertility and birth control
D) Mortality and fertility ratio.

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37. In our country the child labour is actually practiced in ------------
A) Service sector in the formal organizations
B) Formal productive units
C) Software units
D) Cottage industries

38. According to R.K. Merton, which path is followed by the drug addicts?
A) Ritualism B) Frustration
C) Rejectionism D) Retreatism

39. Which one is not the part of dependency theories of development?
A) Centre-Periphery B) Under development
C) Core D) Smart City

40. Which one of the following gender-related issues, according to the Supreme Court
guidelines, formed into an Act in 2013?
A) Dowry deaths
B) Honour killings
C) Sexual Harassment at the workplace
D) Domestic Violence

41. The concept of primary group was introduced by
A) Charles Horton Cooley B) P. Sorokin
C) H. Spencer D) Max Weber

42. According to Tonnies which term denoted ‘Community’?
A) Gemeinschaftlich B) Gesellschaftlich
C) Gemeinschaft D) Gesellschaft

43. “Sociology is the science of understanding of the meaning of social action.” The
statement was made by:
A) Max Weber B) Auguste Comte
C) Herbert Spencer D) Emile Durkheim

44. Which one of the following is not an example of domestic violence?
A) Wife battering B) Child abuse
C) Elderly abuse D) Abusing a domestic helper

45. Who has argued that ‘punishment is a social reaction to crime; it serves not simply the
functions of retribution for the criminal and general deterrence of crime but also
maintaining the objection to criminal activity’?
A) Merton B) Parsons C) Durkheim D) Coser

46. According to whose terminology, person’s ‘class situation’ is basically his ‘market
situation’?
A) Karl Marx B) Max Weber
C) Talcot Parsons D) Kingsley Davis and Wibert E.Moore

47. Who wrote “Elementary Forms of Religious Life”?
A) Max Weber B) Talcott Parsons
C) E. Durkheim D) B. Malinowski

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48. Match items in List-I with items in List-II and select the correct code from codes
given below:
List – I List – II
(Authors) (Books)
a. G.H. Mead 1. Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society
b. H. Blumer 2. Mind, Self and Society
c. L. Coser 3. The Functions of Social Conflict
d. R. Dahrendorf 4. Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method.
Codes:
A) a-4, b-2,c-1,d-3 B) a-2,b-4,c-3,d-1
C) a-3,b-1,c-2,d-4 D) a-1,b-3,c-4,d-2

49. The terms ‘rentiers’ and ‘speculators’ were analysed and explained in the context of
social change by ---------------
A) Karl Marx B) V. Pareto C) Max Weber D) G.H. Mead

50. Which of the following is an example of cross cousin marriage?
A) A man marrying his mother’s sister’s daughter.
B) A man marrying his father’s brother’s daughter.
C) A man marrying his sister’s daughter.
D) A man marrying his mother’s brother’s daughter.

51. Which of the following goes well with positivism?
A) Skepticism B) Scientiesm
C) Nihilism D) Ethanomethodology

52. Marx borrowed the method of dialectism from ---------
A) Hegel B) Lenin C) Stalin D) Engels

53. Weber viewed that introduction of cash economy was one of the causes of -------
A) Bureaucracy B) Western capitalism
C) Ideal type D) Modernism

54. Who has explained the four stages in the process of exchange?
A) Homans B) Blau C) Garfinkel D) G. Simmel

55. Parsons analysed society as -------- system
A) Cultural B) Biological C) Social D) Political

56. The elementary structure of kinship is written by --------
A) Levis Strauss B) Talcott Parsons
C) Merton D) Ghurey

57. Use of multiple methods of data collection in the same area of interest is known as ------
A) Field research B) Ethnography
C) Triangulation D) Variation

58. Domestic violence means ------
A) Violence against animals
B) Violence against married women
C) Violence against girl children
D) Physical, sexual, mental, verbal abuse of a person in household setting

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59. Theorist who distinguished religion into sacred and profane is -----------
A) Durkheim B) Weber C) Pareto D) Mead

60. -------- is not associated with quantitative social research
A) Positivism B) Hermeneutics
C) Empiricism D) Induction

61. --------- State was selected by Government of India to be the first site to try new crop
as part of green revolution
A) Uttarakhand B) Punjab C) Kerala D) Tamil Nadu

62. The collection of roles that goes with a given status is termed as ---------.
A) Multiple roles B) Conflict roles
C) Role set D) Summation of roles

63. Evolutionary process takes place through ---------.
A) All kinds of social change
B) Radical transformation of society
C) Gradual movement from simple to complex
D) Social change in a definite direction

64. Panchayati raj is a -------political system.
A) South Asian B) North Asian
C) West Asian D) East Asian

65. Relative deprivation is central to --------behaviour.
A) Cultural B) Urban
C) Individual D) Reference group

66. Sociology has been said to be the product of ---------revolution.
A) Chinese B) Russian C) French D) American

67. Who introduced the term ‘folkways’ in sociological literature?
A) Simmel B) Merton C) Sherif D) Sumner

68. An approach that claims Indian society can be understood only through the concepts,
theories and frameworks of Indian civilization is ------------
A) Indological B) Sociological
C) Anthropological D) Historical

69. “Caste and race in India” is written by ------------
A) G.S. Ghurye B) Louis Dumount
C) M.N. Srinivas D) S.C Dube

70. The theory of development which suggests that societies move from traditional to
modern industrial forms of organization is called ------------
A) Westernisation B) Modernisation
C) Industrialisation D) Dependency theory

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71. Frank made the claim that 'underdeveloped' societies were --------.
A) Insufficiently involved in the international capitalist economy
B) Reluctant to surrender their traditional ways of life
C) Economically dependent of the wealthy countries that exploit them
D) The metropolis to which satellite countries were attached

72. Meritocracy is a system in which rewards and social positions are based on -------.
A) Class and gender B) Ability and ethnicity
C) Achievement and class D) Ability and achievement

73. Karl Marx argues that religion -------.
A) Justifies poverty and oppression B) Promotes positive change
C) Unites different social classes D) Promotes alienation from production

74. When a research method is repeatedly applied and consistently produces the same
results in a study it is said to be --------.
A) Valid B) Reliable C) Relevant D) Standardised

75. When cultural trait spread from one society to another the process is called--------.
A) Assimilation B) Diffusion C) Pluralism D) Evolution

76. Looking Glass theory is associated with --------.
A) Talcott Parsons B) George Herbert Mead
C) Sigmund Freud D) Charles Cooley

77. Phenomenology is a micro perspective which focuses on -------.
A) How meanings are created B) Specifications
C) Lack of meaning of phenomena D) Importance of the imagined experience

78. As a basis for comparison, --------proposes four different categories, core, semi-
periphery, periphery, and external, into which all regions of the world can be placed.
A) Immanuel Wallerstein B) Samir Amin
C) Karl Marx D) E F Schumacher

79. --------took a historical approach in suggesting that developed countries have tended to
pass through 5 stages to reach their current degree of economic development.
A) Walt Rostow B) Samir Amin
C) Mahatma Gandhi D) Immanuel Waller Stein

80. --------Theory states that people are motivated by self-interest in the interactions with
other people.
A) Conflict B) Exchange C) Interaction D) Structural

81. Under the Companies Act, 2013, a certain class of profitable companies are required
to spend at least --------of their three-year annual average net profit towards CSR
works in a fiscal.
A) 2 per cent B) 4 per cent C) 6 per cent D) 8 per cent

82. Who coined the term Public Sociology?
A) Michael Burawoy B) Max Weber
C) Peter Blau D) Neil Smelser

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83. Which of the following thinkers used a system of binary opposition in structural
approach to social phenomena?
A) Nadel B) Radcliffe-Brown
C) Levi-Strauss D) Malinowski

84. Which type of sampling method is ideally suited, where there is no knowledge about
population?
A) Convenient sampling method B) Purposive sampling method
C) Quota sampling method D) Snowball sampling method

85. “The phenomenology of the social world” - Whose work is this?
A) Peter Berger B) Alfred Schutz
C) Edmund Husserl D) Louis Althusser

86. “The Social Construction of Reality” is the work of?
A) C.H. Cooley B) Peter Berger and Luckman
C) Irwin Goffman D) George Homans and Nadel

87. Symbolic interactionism tends to focus on------------
A) Macro-level social change B) Small-scale social change
C) Meso-level social change D) Change in the behaviour of the ego

88. Which of the following does not explain Coser’s Theory of Social Conflict?
A) Conflict is a universal phenomenon
B) Conflict leads to destruction
C) Conflict has some positive functions
D) Conflict may lead to social change

89. Who had applied the reference group theory to analyse mobility within the caste system?
A) M.S.A. Rao B) G.S. Ghurye C) M.N. Srinivas D) Yogendra Singh

90. Rise of new information communication technologies leading to greater globalisation
is a feature of------------
A) Agrarian society B) Industrial society
C) Post-industrial society D) Rural society

91. The 73rd Constitutional Amendment (Article 243 A) created an institutional set- up for
participatory democracy by the creation of ------------
A) Gramasabha B) Nagarapalika bill
C) Women reservation D) SC/ST reservation

92. The world is divided between rich ‘centre’ countries and poor ‘peripheral’ countries.
Who claims this notion?
A) W.W. Rostow B) Samir Amin
C) Immanuel Wallerstein D) M.K. Gandhi

93. India first started the process of globalisation and liberalisation in 1991under the
Union Finance Minister ------------
A) Morarji Desai B) Manmohan Singh
C) A.B. Vajpayee D) Arun Jaitley

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94. Which of the following cause global warming?
A) Disasters B) Rise in the earth’s temperature
C) Nano-technology D) None of the above

95. A two dimensional frequency density diagram is called ------------
A) Histogram B) Frequency Polygon
C) Bar Diagram D) Pie diagram

96. --------is a group of persons having a common definite territory, dialect, name,
religion and culture.
A) Class B) Race C) Tribe D) Caste

97. Meeting the needs of today, and considering the needs of tomorrow is called--------.
A) Un-development B) Sustainable development
C) Under development D) Social development

98. The forced movement of people from their locality or environment and occupational
activities are known as --------.
A) Displacement B) Migration C) Diaspora D) Emigration

99. According to-------"an Action is 'social' if the acting individual takes account of the
behaviour of others and is thereby oriented in its course".
A) Karl Marx B) Talcott Parsons
C) Max Weber D) Vilfredo Pareto

100. Power legitimized by respect for long-established cultural patterns is -------.
A) Charismatic Authority B) Traditional authority
C) Legitimate authority D) Bureaucratic authority

101. Which of the following concepts can be related to the statement ‘subjective
detachment of performer from the role being performed’?
A) Role taking B) Role distance C) Role making D) Role exit

102. Rewards and punishment associated with role expectations are called
A) Mores B) Sanctions C) Norms D) Values

103. -------test that look for an association between variables.
A) ANOVA B) Correlational C) Regression D) Non-Para metric test

104. -------is a statistical test used to compare expected data with what we collected.
A) Chi-square test B) ANOVA test
C) t- test D) Mode test

105. Who is said to be the founder of structuralism in sociology and social anthropology?
A) Anthony Giddens B) Levis Strauss
C) L. Althusser D) Radcliff Brown

106. Which of the following categories can be placed in Althusser's concept of ideological
state apparatus?
A) Education B) Family C) Religion D) State Bureaucracy

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107. What is trade union?
A) An association B) Organized interest group
C) Federation D) All the above

108. According to --------there is a "Duality of structure" by which social practice, which is
the principal unit of investigation, has both a structural and an agency-component.
A) Gramsi B) Giddens C) Weber D) Durkehim

109. Mc Donaldisation is associated with ------
A) Food culture B) Media
C) Development D) Corruption

110. According to ------------the term social structure applies to the particular arrangement
of the interrelated institutions, agencies and social patterns as well as the statuses and
roles which each person assumes in the group
A) Talcott Parsons B) Durkheim C) Karl Marx D) Max Weber

111. Functionalism grew out of the writings of English philosopher and biologist, -----
A) Garfinkel B) Giddens C) Spencer D) Collins

112. ------------believed that society is a complex system of interrelated and interdependent
parts that work together to maintain stability.
A) Durkheim B) Merton C) Mead D) Goffman

113. Privatization of Education is a consequence of which one of the following?
A) Urbanization
B) Globalization
C) Development of Science and Technology
D) Increase in Population

114. Climate change refers to:
A) Day to day changes B) Long term changes
C) Drought D) Excess rain

115. According to ---------Manifest functions are the consequences of a social process that
are sought or anticipated, while latent functions are the unsought consequences of a
social process.
A) Robert Merton B) Vilfredo Pareto
C) Emile Durkheim D) Levis Strauss

116. The American philosopher George H. Mead introduced this perspective to American
sociology in the 1920s.
A) Symbolic interactionism B) Functionalism structural
C) Functionalism D) Structuralism

117. Functionalists believe that society is held together by ----------in which members of the
society agree upon, and work together to achieve, what is best for society as a whole.
A) Social consensus B) We feeling
C) Face to face interaction D) Alienation

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118. ‘Even change in Indian society can be understood by studying its traditions.” Who has
argued this?
A) Radha Kamal Mukherjee B) D.P. Mukherjee
C) M.N. Srinivas D) S.C. Dube

119. Which tribal group dominates in Kollam – Thiruvananthapuram border?
A) Mala arayans B) Paniyans C) Kanikkars D) Kadars

120. ------ is a closed status group.
A) Class B) Power C) Caste D) Lions club

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