Odisha CPET 2022 Question Paper Sociology

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COMMON P.G. ENTRANCE TEST–2022 (CPET-2022)

Subject Code : 38 Test Booklet No.:

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1. Which of the following period is earmarked as the period of population explosion in
India?

(A) 1901-1921

(B) 1921-1951

(C) 1951-1981

(D) 1981-2001

2. What do you mean by” Demographic dividend”?

(A) When the population is in rising mode.

(B) When the nonworking population overthrows the working population.

(C) When the working population outnumbers the non-working population.

(D) None of the above

3. What does NFHS stand for?

(A) National Family Household Survey

(B) National Family Health Survey

(C) National Finance Household Survey

(D) National Foundational Health Survey

4. Which is the state with the highest population of Scheduled Tribe in India?

(A) Madhya Pradesh

(B) Gujarat

(C) Maharashtra

(D) Orissa

5. Which of the following is true regarding the opening of trade?

(A) Choice of goods in the markets started rising.

(B) Collaborated production saw an upward stride.

(C) Foreign Direct Investment increased in developing countries.

(D) All of the above.

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6. What is the process of opening the borders of different countries called?

(A) Globalisation

(B) Liberalisation

(C) Privatisation

(D) Integration

7. Which of the following is said to be a powerful stimulant of the process of globalisation?

(A) People’s desire

(B) Development of ICT

(C) Country’s commitments

(D) Investment of money

8. What does SEZ stand for?

(A) Special Economic Zone

(B) Spatial Economic Zone

(C) Special Ecology Zone

(D) Supra Economic Zone

9. Which of the following is not an impact of globalisation?

(A) Wealth divide

(B) Increasing pollution

(C) Increasing understanding among people

(D) Market diversity

10. What type of human exchange takes place under globalisation according to Malcolm
Waters?

(A) Material exchanges

(B) Power exchanges

(C) Symbolic exchanges

(D) All the above

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11. Who among the following is a sceptical theorist of globalisation?

(A) Hirst and Thompson

(B) Anthony Giddens

(C) Roland Robertson

(D) Malcolm Waters

12. Removal of trade licensing takes place under which of the following processes?

(A) Globalisation

(B) Modernisation

(C) Liberalisation

(D) Privatisation

13. Who among the following gave the concept of “Social ecology?

(A) Dunlap

(B) Murray Bookchin

(C) Craig Humphrey

(D) Samuel Klausner

14. Who among the following viewed that the entire problem of environmental hazards

large-scale and speedy industrialization?

(A) JawaharLal Nehru

(B) BalGangadharTilak

(C) Jaya Prakash Narayan

(D) Mahatma Gandhi

15. Attempting to live with a changing climate by altering the living style is called what?

(A) Adaptation

(B) Mitigation

(C) Vulnerability

(D) All the above
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16. Which dam construction was resented by the Narmada Bachao Movement?

(A) BhakraNangal Dam

(B) SardarSarovar Dam

(C) Tehri Dam

(D) Godavari Dam

17. In which place Chipko movement was initiated?

(A) Reni village

(B) Gopeshwar village

(C) Chamoli village

(D) Dehradun

tragedy?

(A) Germany

(B) France

(C) U.S.A.

(D) England

19. What is a Questionnaire?

(A) It is a tool.

(B) It is a technique.

(C) It is a method.

(D) It is a type of research design.

20. Which of the following in not a method?

(A) Historical

(B) Etic

(C) Comparative

(D) Feminist

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(A) G.S. Ghurye

(B) Louis Dumont

(C) M.N. Srinivas

(D) B. R. Ambedkar

22. Which of the following is not a primary data?

(A) Diary

(B) Letter

(C) Speech

(D) Journal

23. When a research is meant to test a social theory, what is it called?

(A) Inductive Research

(B) Deductive Research

(C) Theoretical Research

(D) Experimental Research

24. Census Surveys mostly use which of the following designs?

(A) Descriptive

(B) Exploratory

(C) Experimental

(D) Diagnostic

25. How many goals were there in the Millennium Development Goals?

(A) 7

(B) 10

(C) 8

(D) 17

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26. To which school of feminism does Shulamith Firestone belong?

(A) Radical Feminism

(B) Liberal Feminism

(C) Marxist Feminism

(D) Ecofeminism

27. Which of the following approach is associated with Chipko Movement?

(A) Gandhian

(B) Anti- Capitalist

(C) Environmentalist

(D) All of the above

28. Gender Related index was introduced in which year?

(A) 1990

(B) 1989

(C) 1995

(D) 1975

29. Who among the following is a cyclical theorist?

(A) Oswald Splenger

(B) Karl Marx

(C) Herbert Spencer

(D) Malinowski

30. Not many women professionals being seen in defense services, is an example of what?

(A) Horizontal Segregation

(B) Glass Ceiling

(C) Vertical Segregation

(D) Gender stereotyping in work

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31. Which goal of the SDG aims at ensuring equal and inclusive education for all?

(A) 15

(B) 4

(C) 7

(D) 2

32. In which World Women’s Conference, there was a shift in focus from women to
gender?

(A) First

(B) Second

(C) Third

(D) Fourth

33. Esther Boserup’s work, Women’s role in Economic Development was associated with
which approach?

(A) WID

(B) WAD

(C) GAD

(D) GDI

34. Which of the following is a Strategic Gender Need?

(A) Water

(B) Sanitation

(C) Shelter

(D) Land Rights

(A) Australia

(B) Unites States of America

(C) Newzealand

(D) Great Britain
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36. When a social position issecured through one’s ability, what is it called?

(A) Social Status

(B) Ascribed Status

(C) Achieved Status

(D) Status Set

37. According to F. Tonnies, a society which is based on contractual relationship is called
what?

(A) Simple Society

(B) Modern Society

(C) Gemeinschaft

(D) Gesellschaft

38. From which of the following factors, Organic Solidarity results?

(A) Similarities

(B) Differences

(C) Likeness

(D) Hatred

39. Which of the following is not an informal agency of social control?

(A) Culture

(B) Religion

(C) Neighbour

(D) Police

40. Who has developed the concept “Sick Role”?

(A) Ralph Linton

(B) Talcott Parsons

(C) Ralph Nadel

(D) C.H. Cooley

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41. When a girl learns the role of daughter -in-law in her parent’s home, what is it
called?

(A) Anticipatory Socialization

(B) Re-socialization

(C) Pre –socialization

(D) Gendered Socialization

42. Name the author of the book “Peasant Movements in India”?

(A) M.S.A Rao

(B) G. Shah

(C) A. R Desai

(D) D. N. Dhanagare

43. In which year NRLM was launched by MoRD?

(A) 2011

(B) 2012

(C) 2013

(D) 2014

44. Which of the following is not an attribute of rural society?

(A) Low density of population

(B) Predominance of primary relationship

(C) Cottage Industry

(D) Presence of tertiary sector

45. What does a NGO signalise?

(A) Association

(B) Organization

(C) A collaboration

(D) All of the above

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46. Which of the following does not characterise Peasant society?

(B) Homogeneity

(C) Family Labour

(D) Agricultural Economy

47. Who termed Indian villages as “Little Republics”?

(A) M.K Gandhi

(B) Jawaharlal Nehru

(C) Charles Metcalf

48. What is marriage with deceased wife’s sister called?

(A) Sororate

(B) Levirate

(C) Hypergamy

(D) Hypogamy

49. Which one is not a part of ethnic diversity of Indian Society?

(A) Caste

(B) Class

(C) Tribe

(D) Religion

50. Which one is not included in the family of Orientation?

(A) Siblings

(B) Parents

(C) Grand Parents

(D) Spouse

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51. Which article prohibits discrimination on the ground of caste?

(A) Article 14

(B) Article 15

(C) Article 16

(D) Article 17

52. Which of the following is a matrilineal community?

(A) Santals

(B) Mundas

(C) Khasis

(D) Bhils

53. Which one of the following stages is not included in Auguste Comte’s theory of social
evolution?

(A) The Positive Stage

(B) The Metamorphic stage

(C) The Theological stage

(D) The Metaphysical stage

54. Auguste Comte’s theological stage explains to which of the following statements?

55. According to Emile Durkheim, anomic suicide occurs when

(A) A person feels highly integrated with the society

(B) A person feels highly disconnected from the society due to lack of social integration

(C) A person feels oppressive conditions due to extreme social regulation

(D) A person feels high stress and frustration due to lack of social regulation in
sudden changes
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56. To which solidarity Emile Durkheim explains that there is society with relatively
greater division of labour and its individuals functioning much like the interdependent
but differentiated organs of a living body?

(A) Inorganic solidarity

(B) Mechanical solidarity

(C) Capital solidarity

(D) Organic solidarity

57. The book “Das Kapital” was written by

(A) Max Weber

(B) Emile Durkheim

(C) Karl Marx

(D) Georg Simmel

58. Which one of the concepts does not explain about Marx’s theoretical perspective on
society and history?

(A) Dialectical materialism

(B) Economic determinism

(C) Historical materialism

(D) Cultural determinism

59. According to Max Weber which one of the bases the legal-rational authority deals
with

(A) Unwritten laws

(B) Non-hierarchy principles

(C) Written laws

(D) Dysfunctional systemic order

60. A value oriented action is otherwise called

(A) Wert-rational action

(B) Affective action

(C) Zweckrational action

(D) Traditional action
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61. Which was not the purpose behind the rise of Mahar movement in Maharashtra?

(A) Bringing untouchable castes onto a single platform

(B) Enabling untouchable castes to create a separate political party

(C) Inspiring untouchable castes towardBuddhist conversion movement

(D) Uniting untouchable castes toward capitalism and extremism of communist
ideology

62. Which of the followings not a correct pair?

(A) Bardoli Satyagraha- Gujarat

(B) Tebhaga movement- Lucknow

(C) Eka Movement –Hardoi and Sitapur

(D) Kisan Sabha Movement - Bihar

63. Who was the founder of the Satya Shodhak Samaj?

(A) Rama Swami Naiker

(B) Jyotiba Phule

(C) B. R. Ambedkar

(D) Narayan Guru

(A) Transition zone

(B) Workingmen’s zone of homes

(C) Residential zone

(D) Holidaying zone

65. What is or are the true objective/objectives of Smart Cities Mission?

(A) To promote cities that provide core infrastructure

(B) To provide clean and sustainable environment

(C) To give a decent quality of life in city through smart solution

(D) All the above objectives

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66. Which one is not true about urban development programme known as AMRUT?
(A) The full form of AMRUT is Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban
Transformation
(B) It replaced the National Urban Livelihood Mission
(C) Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission was renamed to Atal
Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation
(D) It ensures adequate robust sewage networks and water supply for urban
transformation
67. The book “The City” published in 1921 was written by
(A) G. Simmel
(B) Max Weber
(C) Talcott Parsons
(D) Emile Durkheim
68. How sex ratio is measured in India?
(A) It is measured in term of the number of females per 1,000 males
(B) According to the number of girls on 100 boys
(C) According to the number of women on 100 men
(D) According to the number of men on 1000 women
69. Which of the following women’s movement started in 2006 against sexual abuse and
sexual harassment where people publicize allegations of sex crimes?
(A) The #MeToo Movement
(B) The Chipko movement
(C) SEWA (Self-Employed Women’s Association)
(D) The Gulabi Gang

with social differences
(A) George Simmel
(B) Max Weber
(C) Louis Wirth
(D) Karl Marx
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