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PAPER-II
SOCIOLOGY

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SOCIOLOGY
Paper – II
Note : This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions, each question carrying two
(2) marks. Attempt all the questions.

1. Who said that society is a super organic aggregate ?
(A) Herbert Spencer
(B) Charles Darwin
(C) Emile Durkheim
(D) Bronislaw Malinowski

2. Who said this, “Social organization is a general social agreement” ?
(A) Herbert Spencer
(B) A. Comte
(C) E. Durkheim
(D) Max Weber

3. In his ‘Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism’ Weber considered religion to be _________ for the development of modern capitalism.
(A) the only cause of
(B) of no consequence in
(C) one of the important causes
(D) not a cause of

4. The early functionalists often drew an analogy between society and an organism such as the human body. This is called
(A) organic analogy
(B) organic similarity
(C) organic analysis
(D) organism

5. Many of the founding fathers of Sociology believed that it would be possible to create a science of society based on the same principles and procedures as the natural sciences. This approach is known as
(A) positivism
(B) evolutionism
(C) functionalism
(D) phenomenology

6. Ideal types are ______
(A) tools to be used in the analysis of empirical reality
(B) tools to be used to trace the evolutionary scheme of societies
(C) tools to be applied to the study of past societies
(D) not tools but are examples of actually existing societies

7. Assertion (A) : Many sub-human species have an orderly system of social life.
Reason (R) : Sub-human social life is based on instinct, and not on social learning.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are individually true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are individually true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

8. Assertion (A) : A culture is a system of behaviour shared by the members of a society.
Reason (R) : A society is a group of people who share a common culture.
(A) Both (A) and (R) are individually true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are individually true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

9. A Sociologist is primarily interested in
(A) the ways in which human beings influence each other
(B) anything which is related in a causal way to the behaviour of man
(C) the individual, because he is convinced that it is the individual who make the society
(D) the similarities between human behaviour and the behaviour of other animals

10. According to Durkheim,
(A) Anomie is a chronic state of disturbance of social affairs in the modern socio-economic system.
(B) Anomie occurs in modern socio-economic system at the time of economic upheavals.
(C) Anomic occurs in modern socio-economic system at the time of political upheavals.
(D) Anomic does not occur in modern socio-economic system.

11. Under certain conditions the religious beliefs can be a major influence on economic behaviour.
Who made use of the above idea in his study on development of capitalism ?
(A) Durkheim
(B) Marx
(C) Malinowski
(D) Weber

12. Merton wrote on how political ideology such as communism can provide a ______ to religion in communist society.
(A) dysfunction
(B) functional alternative
(C) functional unity
(D) functional pre-requisite

13. Which is the crucial feature of a good sample ?
(A) Small size
(B) Representativeness
(C) Easily approachable
(D) Easy to study

14. Whose view is this “without likeness and the sense of likeness there could be no mutual recognition of belonging together and therefore no society.” ?
(A) MacIver
(B) Durkheim
(C) Weber
(D) Ogburn

15. The most essential step in making interview a successful method of data collection is
(A) use of an interview schedule
(B) establishing rapport
(C) obtaining secondary information before the interview
(D) having a research design

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