WB SET 2020 Question Paper 2 Sociology

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SOCIOLOGY
PAPER II

1. Which one of the following movements of people 5. Case study method may be used when a study is
cannot be termed as migration? not based on:
(A) Primitive migration of people (a) Comparative analysis
(B) People move from their country of origin to (b) Cross-cultural analysis
a country of destination for performing (c) Longitudinal analysis
specific assignment for three months (d) Quantitative analysis
(C) Refugee movement Choose the correct one from the below:
(D) Periodic migration of people (A) (a) and (b) are incorrect
(B) (a) and (d) are correct
(C) (a) and (c) are correct
2. The reason behind the failure of attempt to integrate (D) (b) and (c) are incorrect
communities:
(A) Ethnic groups are living in proximity
(B) Attempt to develop a degree of homogeneity
doomed to failure
(C) To have desirable consequences from ethnic
groups there should have some friendly 6. A. R. Desai has identified following major trends
attempt to reduce the gap between them of rural social change:
(D) Derecognition of minority ethnic cultures. (1) Rapid transformation of agrarian society from
subsistence economy to market economy.
(2) Rapid transformation followed by the
3. According to 2011 Census among all Indian States introduction of modern technology.
West Bengal has: (3) Moderate level of transformation resulted
(A) highest population concentration. from gradual induction of Indian technology.
(B) least population concentration. (4) Abolition of intermediaries such as jamindar
& biswedar.
(C) second population concentration.
(5) Emergence of various associations and
(D) fourth highest population concentration. institutions having non-linkages with urban
and national organizations.
4. The term rationalization in sociology means: Find the correct combination from the following:
(a) it is very difficult for people of a country to (A) (1), (2) & (3) are false, (4) & (5) are true.
influence each other through social (B) (1), (3) & (4) are false, (2) & (5) are true.
networking. (C) (2), (3) & (4) are false, (1) & (5) are true.
(b) it is the replacement of traditions, values and (D) (1), (2) & (3) are true, (4) & (5) are false.
emotions for behaviour in society.
(c) it indicates moderate living space with
inappropriate urban planning by a
government.
(d) to obstract the process of globalization in the
modern era. 7. Which one of the following is not a correct variation
Find the correct answer from the code given below: of tenants available in Colonial India?
(A) Only (c) is true, (d) is false. (A) Croppers & Crop-share tenants
(B) Only (a) is true, (b) is false. (B) Landowners’ sponsored tenants
(C) Only (c) is false, (d) is true. (C) Cash & share-cash tenants
(D) Only (a) is false, (b) is true. (D) Other & unspecified tenants

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8. The share of urban population to the total 13. The piece, Annihilation of Caste, was written by
population, according to 2011 census, is close to (A) G. S. Ghurye
(A) 30% (B) David Hardiman
(B) 31% (C) B. R. Ambedkar
(C) 32% (D) M. N. Srinivas
(D) 33%

9. Subaltern refers to that category of people
(i) who has access to the hegemonic power of 14. The notion of “Hindu Method of Tribal
the society. Absorption” was advanced by
(ii) who can raise its voice about the different (A) M. K. Gandhi
problems of the society. (B) D. P. Mukherjee
(iii) who socially, politically and culturally or in (C) G. S. Ghurye
any other way exists outside the power (D) N. K. Bose
structure.
(iv) who finds special mention in the conventional
historigraphy of the society.
Choose the right combination from the below:
(A) (iv) is true, (iii) is false. 15. The Indian sociologist who did not sympathize
(B) (ii) is true, (i) is false. with the Marxian perspective was
(C) (ii) is false, (i) is true. (A) A. R. Desai
(D) (iv) is false, (iii) is true. (B) Ramkrishna Mukherjee
(C) M. N. Srinivas
(D) D. N. Dhanagare
10. Sanskritization promotes:
(A) Structural mobility
(B) Functional mobility
(C) Downward mobility
(D) Inter-religious mobility 16. In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Max Weber has pointed out the elective affinity between
the attributes of capitalism and
(A) Catholic religion
11. Which one of the following Scheduled Caste (B) Judaism
groups has the highest representation to the total Scheduled
(C) Calvinism
Caste population of West Bengal?
(D) Hinduism
(A) Namasudra
(B) Rajbanshi
(C) Pod
(D) Bagdi

17. The substitution of Malinowski’s cultural
functionalism by structural-functionalism to better explain
12. Ethnocentrism in a multicultural society results in: the nature of social relationships was made first by:
(A) Cultural harmoney (A) Talcott Parsons
(B) Cultural conflict (B) Claude Levi-Strauss
(C) Cultural reciprocity (C) R. K. Merton
(D) Cultural lag (D) A. R. Radcliffe-Brown

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18. Which one of the following is an essential feature 23. The belief in spiritual existance of animals, plants
of historical materialism? and inanimate objects on the earth is described as
(A) Society takes birth, grows and matures like (A) Animism
an organism. (B) Positism
(B) Society is inherently mutable in which (C) Spiritualism
changes are produced by internal (D) Holism
contradiction.
(C) Society starts as a small aggregate and with 24. When a person marries wife’s sister it is termed as
the passage of time grows in size. the practice of:
(D) Society develops with the development of (A) Sororal Polyandry
scientific personnel. (B) Fraternal Polyandry
(C) Fraternal Polygyny
(D) Sorral Monogamy

19. The relation between the rain-mating ceremony of 25. Who among the following elaborated the notion
a community and the gathering together of persons of gender regime?
performing it is, according to Merton, an example of (A) Margaret Mead
(A) Manifest function (B) Bob Connell
(B) Manifest dysfunction (C) Alva Mirdal
(C) Latent dysfunction (D) Ester Boserup
(D) Latent function
26. Select the correct statement:
(A) Deducting reasoning works from general to
specific while the inducting reasoning works
from specific to general.
20. Tick the pair which does not find a room in the
inventory of ‘pattern variables’ suggested by Talcott (B) Deductive reasoning works from specific to
Parsons: general while inductive reasoning works from
general to specific.
(A) Quietism vs. Aggressive action
(C) Both the deducting and inducting reasonings
(B) Self-orientation vs. Collective orientation
work from general to specific in the industrial
(C) Affectivity vs. Affective neutrality
society.
(D) Universalism vs. Particularism
(D) Both the deducting and inducting reasonings
work from general to specific in all societies.

27. Match List-I with List-II:
21. Ghotul is an example of youth dormitory List-I List-II
traditionally found among the: (1) Max Weber (a) Habitus
(A) Santal of Bihar (2) Karl Marx (b) Binary Opposition
(B) Angami Naga of Nagaland (3) Emile Durkheim (c) Primitive Accumulation
(C) Muria of Chattisgarh (4) Claude Levi (d) Social Fact
(D) Jarwa of Andaman Strauss
(5)Pierre Bourdien (e) Social Action
Select the correct answer:
22. Which one of the following is a matrilineal Code:
community? (1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
(A) Muria of Chattisgarh (A) (a) (d) (c) (e) (b)
(B) Khasis of Meghalaya (B) (d) (a) (c) (e) (b)
(C) Bhills of Madhya Pradesh (C) (e) (c) (d) (b) (a)
(D) Oraon of West Bengal (D) (d) (e) (c) (b) (a)

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28. The term ‘Global Village’ is coined by: 33. The essentialist view on identity is that Identities
(A) Talcott Parsons are
(B) Marshall McLuhan (A) constructed but not reconfigured.
(C) Adam Smith (B) given and are available for reconstruction.
(D) Ulrich Beck (C) given and cannot be constructed or
reconstructed.
(D) dynamic aspects of human action that can be
29. Who among the following coined the term ‘Virtual situationally reconfigured.
Community’ to describe communities engaged in social
discussions in internet?
(A) Howard Rheingold
(B) Bob Connell 34. In the Indian Constitution, the provisions that
(C) Manual Castells empower the state to make special arrangement for
(D) Peter Drucker women and children is incorporated in
(A) Article 12
(B) Article 15
30. The notion of ‘time space compression’ is used by (C) Article 21
the sociologists in the context of: (D) Article 37
(A) Pre-agrarian society
(B) Agrarian society
(C) Industrial society
(D) Information/Knowledge society 35. Secularism in India stands for:
(A) separation between state and religion.
(B) equal treatment to all religion.
31. In Action Frame of Reference, Parsons arranged (C) separation of executive, legislative and
the sub-systems of social action on the basis of judiciary.
(A) Unequal control elements. (D) elemination of collective rights.
(B) unequal distribution of energy and
information.
(C) Religiocity.
(D) Sacredness. 36. India gets the hightest share of her Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) from which sector of the econony?
(A) Agriculture
32. Match the following and Select the correct answer: (B) Industry
List-I List-II (C) Service
(1) D. N. Dhanagare (a) Caste, Class and Power (D) All sectors equally
(2) Andre Bateille (b) Hindu Samajer Gadan
(3) N. K. Bose (c) India’s Changing Villages
(4) Yogendra Singh (d) Peasant Movements in
Colonial India 37. The Human Development perspective considers
(5) S. C. Dube (e) Modernisation of Indian economic growth:
Tradition (A) as an end in itself.
(B) as a means to maximise profit for further
Code:
investment.
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5)
(C) as a means to improve the state of education,
(A) (a) (d) (b) (c) (e) health, housing and employment and social
(B) (c) (e) (b) (a) (d) equality in society.
(C) (d) (a) (b) (e) (c) (D) as a means to protect the government
(D) (b) (a) (d) (c) (e) establishment from external aggration.

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38. Identify the major objectives of land reform in 43. Select the correct match on the caste and village
India: studies in India:
(A) Agro-industrialisation, employment (A) McKim Marriot — Bisipara Village
generation and land consolidation (B) F. G. Bailey — Kisangarli Village
(B) Land ceiling, land distribution, agro- (C) Adrian Mayer — Ramkheri Village
industrialisation and commercialisation of (D) Andre Beteille — Rampura Village
agriculture, rural-urban continuum
(C) Land distribution, commercialisation of
agriculture and rurbanisation
(D) Land ceiling, land distribution, land
consolidation, tenural security and increasing 44. Ethnographic research is intrinsically linked to:
agricultural productivity
(A) Participant observation
(B) Non-participant observation
39. Which one of the following is a feature of (C) Quasi-participant observation
Bureaucracy? (D) Survey research of macro magnititude
(A) Formal arrangement, hierarchy, fixed tenure,
impersonality, formal educational
qualification
(B) Informal arrangement, homogeneity,
traditional faith of fratarnity 45. The sampling technique through which researchers
(C) Hierachy and gender differentiation, personal ensure that each sample unit has the equal chance to be
choice, rule founded on social norms represented in the universe of the study is know as:
(D) Beck and call, informal arrangement, (A) Random Sampling
hierachy, formal educational qualification (B) Quota Sampling
(C) Stratified Sampling
(D) Snow ball Sampling
40. Who among the following is the author of
Dynamics of a Rural Society?
(A) Radha Kamal Mukherjee
(B) Andre Beteillie
(C) N. K. Bose 46. Who among the following sociologists
(D) Ramkrishna Mukherjee recommended for ‘value reference’ instead of value
judgement for scientific research in social sciences?
41. Who among the following sociologists emphasised (A) Karl Marx
market position and life chances in elaborating the concept (B) Radcliffe-Brown
of social class? (C) Max Weber
(A) Karl Marx (D) Malinowski
(B) Max Weber
(C) Ralf Dahrendorf
(D) Lewis A. Coser

47. Select the correct Match:
42. The process of depeasantization in rural India has (A) Rules of Sociological Method — Max Weber
been accelarated by: (B) The Logic of Scientific Discovery — Karl
(A) growing off-farm equipment opportunities Popper
(B) large scale rural to urban migration (C) Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
(C) loss of Land by small and marginal farmers — Durkheim
(D) capitalist penetration in agricultural sector (D) Economy and Society — Karl Marx

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48. According to Durkheim social facts are to be 53. A villager is a school teacher, a well-off jotedar, a
considered as things. Which one of the following is not an member of the Panchayt Samiti and also an organizer of
element of such things? the annual football tournament in the locality. All these
(A) Belief system, customs and institutions positions together are referred to in sociology as
(B) Choices of individuals (A) Role-set
(C) Non-choice by individuals (B) Multiple statuses
(D) External to individuals (C) Status-set
(D) Status sequence

49. Anthony Giddens has described the contemporary 54. The totality learned and shared products of
society as a ‘run away society’ which is characterised by: collective life, that justify a certain specific type of
(A) Migration and mobility of people behaviour in a given society is known as
(B) Increasing sportsmanship (A) Custom
(C) Peace and social stability (B) Values
(D) New risk and uncertainties (C) Norms
(D) Culture

55. State which is not a characteristic of ‘networks’:
50. Which one of the following is not a feature of caste
system in India? (A) Members having a common focus
(A) Purity and Pollution (B) Clearly defined hierarchies
(B) Endogamy (C) Emergent norms over time
(D) Communications oriented
(C) Ritual Hierarchy
(D) Exogamy

56. Choose the statement which is not correct:
(A) M.K.Gandhi mooted the proposal for seperate
representation of the Scheduled Castes in
51. Which feminist theory is characterized by its Legislatures.
assertion that patriarchy is the major cause of women’s
(B) B. R. Ambedkar gave emphasis to horizontal
oppression?
mobilization of the Scheduled Castes in
(A) Socialist Feminism independent India.
(B) Radical Feminism (C) State policy for special treatment of the
(C) Cultural Feminism Scheduled Castes in education and
(D) Liberal Feminism employment is a type of protective
discrimination to moderate inequality.
(D) Bhakti Movement provided opportunities to
the lowly castes for social mobility.

52. Tick the correct option:
The recent legislation by the Indian Parliament on
Talaq of the Muslim women has: 57. Who is the author of the book Cultural Imperialism?
(A) abolished the talaq system (A) Karl Marx
(B) abolished the tripple talaq (B) Karl Mannheim
(C) prohibited instantaneous tripple talaq (C) Edward Said
(D) ended patriarchy in the Muslim society (D) Jurgen Habermas

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58. Who studied Bhoodan-Gramdan (Land Gift) 63. Who among the following used the method of
movement in Rajasthan by applying Weber’s perspective Concomittent Variation?
on social change?
(A) Karl Marx
(A) M. S. A. Rao
(B) Talcott Parsons
(B) T. K. Oommen
(C) Max Weber
(C) D. N. Dhanagare
(D) E. Durkhiem
(D) M. S. Gore

64. The deductive approach as an alternative
methodology in both natural science and sociology is
59. “The study of Indian tradition is the first and supported by whom?
inevitable duty of Indian Sociologist”— who said this? (A) Thomas Kuhn
(A) D. N. Majumdar (B) Max Weber
(B) Surajit Sinha (C) Karl Popper
(C) D. P. Mukherjee (D) Fayerabend
(D) Radha Kamal Mukherjee

65. Who defines Praxis as practical reflective activity
in critical social research?
60. According to whom, “Acceleration in (A) Lee Harvey
Westernisation does not slow down the process of (B) Max Weber
Sanskritisation rather both go hand in hand.” (C) Thomas Kuhn
(A) Yogendra Singh (D) Douglas
(B) Andre Beteille
(C) S.C. Dube
(D) M.N. Srinivas
66. The basic principles of symbolic interactionism
include:
(a) human capacity for thought process.
(b) social institutions and social interactions.
61. Among the following, who did not establish the (c) mind and Social Consciousness,
positive relationship between population growth and (d) meanings and symbols that facilitate action
Social change? and interaction.
(A) Karl Marx
Select the appropriate code from the following:
(B) Max Weber
(A) (a) and (b)
(C) Talcott Parsons
(B) (b) and (c)
(D) Auguste Comte
(C) (c) and (d)
(D) (a) and (d)

62. Who considered that “most often action is routine 67. Who among the following elaborated the concept
and relatively unreflexive”? of “functional imperative”?
(A) M. Garfinkel (A) Talcott Parsons
(B) Alfred Schutz (B) B. Malinowski
(C) Max Weber (C) A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
(D) E. Scheller (D) Robert K. Merton

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68. Who differentiated between “we relations” and 73. What does Mcdonaldisation mean?
“they-relations” within the social world? (A) Universal application of the ideas of Mcdonald
(A) C. H. Gooley (B) The process of extention of the cartoons of
(B) Alfred Schutz Donald Duck
(C) E. Husserl (C) Spread of the new means of consumption
(D) H. Garfinkel across the world
(D) Diffusion of modern agricultural production

69. Who among the following is the author of the 74. Which one of the following sociologists
work on “When a Great Tradition Modernises”? differentiated between the sacred and the secular?
(A) M. N. Srinivas (A) Emile Durkheim
(B) Milton Singer (B) Howard Becker
(C) M. Marriot (C) Max Weber
(D) Kathleen Gough (D) Karl Marx

75. Who is a ‘critical citizen’ according to Juergen
70. The ‘Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Habermas?
Peasant Resistance in the Himalayas’ is written by (A) One who sustains critical consciousness at all
(A) Chandi Prasad Bhatt times
(B) Sunderlal Bahuguna (B) One who criticizes yet support the state
(C) Ramchandra Guha (C) One who extends constructive criticism to
(D) D. N. Majumder the system
(D) One who actively works for the system

71. The first Government Policy of resettlement and 76. Which one of the following is not an element of a
rehabilitation was announced as National Rehabilitation dominant caste according to M. N. Srinivas?
Policy for Project affected family in which year? (A) Numerical Strength
(A) 1990 (B) Superior position in the ritual hierarchy
(B) 1999 (C) Landholding and political position
(C) 2004 (D) High rate of professional educational
(D) 2019 attainment

77. Society that extensively collects information to
72. Which one according to Malinowski is not a basic monitor and control the activities of the individuals and
need? groups is described by the sociologists as:
(A) Sexuality (A) Information society
(B) Dress (B) Controlled society
(C) Food (C) Closed society
(D) Cosmetics (D) Surveillance society

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78. Feminization of labour means: 83. Who is the author of the book ‘The Politics of
(A) an industry where all managers are women. Untouchability’?
(B) an industry where all workers are women. (A) Oscar Leuis
(C) gradual replacement of male labour by female (B) Ouen Lynch
labour. (C) Sudha Pai
(D) gradual replacement of female labour by (D) W. H. Wiser
male labour.

84. Privatisation of education is a consequence of
79. “Welfarism” means a political ideology where which one of the following?
(A) State governs by promoting welfare of the (A) Population growth
citizens. (B) Development of Science and Technology
(B) State governs by consulting the citizens. (C) New Liberal Globalisation
(C) Bureaucracy induced development.
(D) Democratisation
(D) State governs by the principle of universal
brotherhood.

85. Deleberations on the theme “Sharing Water”
should facilitate
80. Who among the following has said that critical
consciousness is possible only if there is “ideal speech (A) regular evaluation of sustainable development
community”? Goals.
(A) Edward Said (B) role of Private Sector presenting water
resources.
(B) Pierre Bourdieu
(C) the establishment of institutional framework.
(C) Michel Foucault
(D) Jurgen Habermas (D) sensetisation of Government authorities.

81. Who among the following scholars has given a 86. Who has given the concept of Isolated Nuclear
critique of modern civilization? Family?
(A) Claude Levi-Strauss (A) A. M. Shah
(B) Robert K. Merton (B) K. M. Kapadia
(C) Talcott Parsons (C) A. D. Ross
(D) A. R. Radcliff-Brown (D) Talcott Parsons

82. Which perspective facilitates the researcher in 87. Who conceptualised Impression Management for
maintaining objectivity? analysing social interaction?
(A) Eric Perspective (A) G. H. Mead
(B) Etic Perspective (B) S. Freud
(C) Case Study Perspective (C) E. Goffman
(D) Participatory Action Perspective (D) C. H. Cooley

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88. Accoding to whom “social group comes first, and 94. Which of the following statements does not apply
it leads to the development of self-conscious mental to citizenship?
states”? (A) Citizenship combines both rights and
(A) Peter Berger responsibilities
(B) G. H. Mead (B) Citizenship is rooted in Constitution
(C) C. H. Cooley (C) Citizenship means right to rebel against the
(D) H. Garfinkel State
(D) Citizenship guarantees civil rights

89. The Tebhaga Movement took place in Bengal
demanding share of the total produce for the sharecroppers
amounting to
(A) 1/3 rd 95. Which of the following statements is true about
Neoliberalism?
(B) 2/3 rd
(A) State does not interfere in market
(C) 3/4 th
(B) State plays a measured role and facilities the
(D) 1/2 growth of market
(C) State takes complete control of the market
90. The term to explain the disabilities of a poor dalit (D) Market is completely globalised
woman in our country is:
(A) Intersubjectivity
(B) Intersectionality
(C) Antifeminism 96. The Hindu Succession Act,1956, has been
(D) Impoverishment amended to Hindu Succession (Amendment Act) in the
year
(A) 1998
91. “I”, according to Mead, is: (B) 2000
(A) Independent of the “generalised other”
(C) 2003
(B) The internalized part of the generalised other
(D) 2005
(C) That part of self which is developed through
socialization
(D) The uncritical self

97. Who among the following has given a critique of
92. Who among the following authors has said that Freudian Theory of Sexuality?
knowledge is an instrument of control in the hands of the (A) L. Althusser
powerful? (B) A. Gramsci
(A) Anthony Giddens (C) Simone de Beauvior
(B) Manuel Castells (D) Michel Foucault
(C) Michel Foucault
(D) Talcott Parsons

93. Which of the following sociologists has preferred 98. According to Indian Census, a class-I city is one
the study of family over the study of household? which has a population of at least
(A) A. M. Shah (A) One million
(B) I. P. Desai (B) Ten million
(C) K. M. Kapadia (C) One Lakh
(D) Patricia Uberoi (D) Five Lakh

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99. Urbanism, according to Wirth, can be defined as 100. Which of the following, according to Gramsci, is
(A) a process of urbanisation. not a part of the civil society?
(B) an urban way of life. (A) The Parliament
(C) rural to urban migration. (B) The Media
(D) increase of size, density and heterogeneity of (C) Intellectuals
population. (D) Trade Unions

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