NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam., December 2019 Sociology (Paper-II)

Total Questions: 100

61. Which are the essential characteristics of bureaucracy?

(1) Hierarchy of power
(2) Unlimited power
(3) Channelling of communication
(4) Informal relations between the officials

Choose the correct option:

Correct Answer: (c) (1) and (3)
Solution:Hierarchy of power and Channelling of communication are the essential chatacteristics of bureaucra. Bureaucracy, specific form of orgnization defined by complexity, division of labour, permanence, professional management, hierarchical coordination and control, strict chain of command and legal authority. It is distinguished from informal and collegial organizations.

62. In Indian weddings there is prodominance of what is called ''Conspicuous consumption''. This can be applied to indicate two things:

(1) Reflection of the caste of a person
(2) Display of wealth
(3) Prociding expensive food
(4) Demonstration of one's status

Choose the correct option:

Correct Answer: (d) (2) and (4)
Solution:In Indian weddings there is prodominance of what is called ''Conspicuous consumption''. This can be applied to indicate two things are display of wealth and demonstration of one's status.
Conspicuous consumption is the purchase of goods or services for the specific purpopse of displaying one's wealth. Conspicuous consumption is a means to show one's social status, especially when publicly displayed goods and services are too expensive for other members of a person's class.

63. Epistemology for a division includes which of the following?

(1) Objectivity
(2) Subjectivity
(3) Empiricism
(4) Rationalism

Choose the correct option:

Correct Answer: (b) (2) and (3)
Solution:Epistemology for a division includes of subjectivity and empiricism. Empirics, in philosophy, the view that all concepts originate in experience, that all concepts are about or applicable to things that can be experienced, or that all rationally acceptable beliefs or propositions are justifiable or knowable only through experience.
Subjectivity is an innumerable social mode that comes about through innumerable intractios within society.

64. Which two of the following states are most urbanized and least urbanized in India?

(A) Tamil Nadu
(B) Kerala
(C) Himachal Pradesh
(D) Assam

Choose the correct option:

Correct Answer: (b) (A) and (C)
Solution:Tamilnadu and Himachal Pradesh are the two most urbanized and least urbanized states in India. That is all the options are incorrect except option (b).

65. Match List A with List B:

List-I (Books) List-II (Authors/Editors)
(A) Family, Kinship and Marriage in and Marriage in(i) T.N. Madan
(B) Changing Kinship Family and gender relations(ii) Rajni Parliwala
(C) Family and Kinship(iii) Patricia Uberoi
(D) Marrying in South Asia(iv) Ravinder Kaur and Rajani Palriwala

Choose the correct option:

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Correct Answer: (d)
Solution:Family, Kinship and marriage in India is edited by Patricia uberoi, Changing Kinship, family and gender relations author is Rajni Parliwala, family and kinship is written by T.N. Madan and the book of marrying in South Asia is edited by Ravindra kaur and rajni parliwala. Option (d) is a right answer.

66. Match the ' type of technology with the time period in which they brodly originated and Nolved :

List-I (Type of Technology)List-II (Time period)
(A) Electronic computing, nuclear power, genetic engineering(i) Medieval period
(B) Textile, Mining, Metallurgy(ii) 19ᵗʰ Century
(C) Sugar mills, paper mills, wind mills(iii) 18ᵗʰ Century
(D) Transportation,  construction manufacturing(iv) 20ᵗʰ -21ᵗʰ Century

Choose the correct option:

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Correct Answer: (b)
Solution:
List-I (Type of Technology)List-II (Time period)
(A) Electronic computing, nuclear power, genetic engineering(iv) 20ᵗʰ -21ᵗʰ Century
(B) Textile, Mining, Metallurgy(iii) 18ᵗʰ Century
(C) Sugar mills, paper mills, wind mills(i) Medieval period
(D) Transportation,  construction manufacturing(ii) 19ᵗʰ Century

67. Match List-I with List-II:

List-I (Fiminist Perspective)List-II (Gender Issues)
(A) Cultural(i) Gende Inequality
(B) Liberal(ii) Gender Oppression
(C) Radical(iii) Structural  Oppression
(D) Socialist(iv) Gender differences

Choose the correct option:

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Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:Culrural differences were larger for genderrole beliefs than for sharing behavior. Liberal feminist perspective aims to understand the nature of gender inequality and examines women's social roles, experiences and interests. Redical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts, that is gender oppression. Socialist feminist perspective matched structural oppression.

68. Match List-I with List-II:

List-I (Sociologist) List-II (Book) 
(A) K.M. Kapadia(i) Human society
(B) G.P. Murdock (ii) Marriage and Family in India
(C) Kingsley Davis(iii) Social structure
(D) P.N. Prabhu(iv) Hindu Social Organizati

Choose the correct option:

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Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:Marriage and family in India: K.M. Kapadia (1966) Murdock, in his book social structure (1949), examined kinship systems in preliterate societies. The book Human society was authored by kingsley Davis. Hindu social organization: A study in sociapsychological and ideological foundations is written by Pandharinath H. Prabhu.

69. Match List I with List II:

List-I (Sociologist) List-II (Concepts) 
(A) W.F. Ogburn(i) Social evolution and social progress
(B) K. Marx(ii) Civilization and culture
(C) A. Weber(iii) Basic and superstructure
(D) L.T. Hobhouse(iv) Material and Non material culture

Choose the correct option:

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Correct Answer: (b)
Solution:W.F. Ogburn divide culture into two types such as material and non-material culture. Marx defines the base as the social relations between men which create and produce materials that are eventually put up for exchange. So, for Marx, art and literature are a superstructure of society. Alfred Weber was an important contributor to the debate about Civilization and Culture. The concept of Social evolution and Social progress used by sociologist L.T. Hobhouse.

70. Match the following authors with their books

List-I (Author)List-II (Books)
(A) Pierre Bourdieu(i) Legitimation Crisis
(B) Jurgen Habermas(ii) The Constitution of Society
(C) Edward Said(iii) Distinction
(D) Anthony Giddens(iv) Orientalism

Choose the correct option:

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Correct Answer: (a)
Solution:Distinction: A social critique of the Judgement of Taste is a 1979 book by Pierre Bourdieu. Legitimation Crisis is a 1973 book by the philosopber Jurgen Habermas. Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. said. The constitution of society outline of the theory of structuration by Anthony Giddens.