NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam, Dec.- 2021/June-2022 Sociology (Paper-II)

Total Questions: 100

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

Correct Answer: (c) A.M. Shah
Solution:The book “The Family in India: Critical Essays” has been written by Arvind M. Shah.

12. 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:

Correct Answer: (a) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A)
Solution:Prejudice is one thing, discrimination is something else because prejudice is a matter of belief whereas discrimination is a way of behavior. Hence, both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A.

13. Who wrote the book, "The Lonely Crowd"?

Correct Answer: (c) David Riesman
Solution:The author of the book “The Lonely Crowd” is David Rijman. His other major books are as follows-

- Abundance for what
- Faces in the Crowd
- The making of the Avicennan tradition
- On higher education

14. Adopting a historical approach to the dispersal of people, R. Cohen identifies the following categories of diasporas

A. Victim diasporas
B. Labour diasporas
C. Trading diasporas
D. Imperial diasporas
E. Cultural diasporas

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (d) A, B, C, D and E
Solution:Taking a historical approach to the spread of people, R. Cohen has identified the following categories of diaspora – victim diaspora, labor diaspora, merchant diaspora, imperial diaspora and cultural diaspora.

15. Examples of nominal measures are:

A. Gender
B. Religious affiliation
C. Birth place
D. Social classes
E. Intellectual sophistication

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) A, B and C only
Solution:Examples of the named scales in question are gender, religious affiliation and place of birth. S.S. Stevens has mentioned the following four scales
1. Designated scale
2. ordinal scale
3. Interval scale
4. proportional scale

16. Which among the following are relevant and related to the national policy on education?

A. Radha Krishnan Commission
B. Murlidhar Commission
C. Kidwai Commission
D. Kothari Commission
E. Tendulkar Commission

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) A, B and D only
Solution:Radhakrishnan Commission, Muralidhar Commission and Kothari Commission are relevant and related to the direction of national policy on education. The Radhakrishnan Commission was established on November 4, 1948 to review university education after independence.

Kothari Commission was established on July 14, 1964 to reform the Indian education sector. The main objective of the Muralidhar Commission was to examine the conditions of the secondary education system in the country and suggest ways to improve it.

17. ...... 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.

Correct Answer: (c) Institutional ethnography
Solution:Institutional ethnography An approach originally developed by Dorothy Smith (1978) that aims to better understand the power relations underlying women's everyday experiences.

18. 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 poststructuralism.
Statement II: Michel Foucault has had immense influence on social sciences.

In light of the above statements, choose th

Correct Answer: (d) Statement I is incorrect but Statement II is correct
Solution:Karl Marx, Max Weber and Michel Foucault are not post-structuralists, although Michel Foucault has had a strong influence on the social sciences. His main subjects have been knowledge, power and human body. Hence, Statement-I is wrong, but Statement-II is correct.

19. Which one of the following is not correctly matched?

Correct Answer: (d) Maclver: Human Geography
Solution:The correct matching is as follows-

Park and Burgess - Ecological School
H.W. Odom - Regional School
Dexter Huntington - Impact of Climatic Conditions on Human Society
MacIver - Society

20. Match List-I with List-II

List-I (Principles)List-II (Meaning) 
A. Phenomenalism1. Knowledge is arrived at through the gathering of facts that provide the basis for laws
B. Deductivism2. Asserts that social phenomena and their meanings are continually being accomplished by social actors
C. Inductivism3. The purpose of theory is to generate hypo
D. Constructionism4. Only phenomena and hence knowledge confirmed by the senses can be warranted as knowledge
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Code:ABCD
(a)IIIIIIIV
(b)IIIVIIII
(c)IVIIIIII
(d)IIIIIIIV
Correct Answer: (c)
Solution:The matched list is as follows - 

Phenomenologicalism - Only phenomena and hence knowledge confirmed by senses can be considered as knowledge.
Deductionism - The purpose of the theory is to create a hypothesis that can be tested.
Inductivism - Knowledge is reached by collecting facts that provide the basis for rules.
Constructivism - states that social phenomena and their meanings can be continuously shaped by social factors.