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

Total Questions: 100

11. Among the following who supported ideal typical theme of Hinduism?

Correct Answer: (a) M.K. Gandhi
Solution:M. K. Gandhi has supported the ideal typical cultural theme of Hinduism. Event at this early stage, Gandhi defined Hinduism as a tolerant religion which belives that there are different paths leading to the same truth, and he protested against any attempt at deviations from what he believed was the true spirit of Hinduism.

12. Which one of the following in NOTe the work of G.S. Ghurye?

Correct Answer: (b) The Scheduled Community
Solution:Among the following were the books called The Scheduled Community not the work of G. S Ghurye. Hence option (b) is the correct answer.

13. According to Max Weber, which entities are always struggling for domination?

Correct Answer: (b) Parties
Solution:According to Max Weber, parties entities are always struggling for domination. Weber defines domination ''as the probabality that certain specific commands will be obeyed by a given group of persons.'' Features associated with domination are obedience, interest, belief, and regularity.

14. Who analyzed the ways in which economic and social transformation in capitalism connect to the information technology revolution?

Correct Answer: (c) Manuel Castells
Solution:Manuel Castells has analyzed the ways in which economic and social transformation in capitalism connect to the information technology revolution. Castell's hypothesis is that exclusion is not just a phenomenon that will be gradually wiped out as technological change embraces everyone on the planet, as in the case that everyone has a mobile phone, for example. He argues that exclusion is a built-in, structural feature of the network society.

His major writings are:
• The Rise of the Network Society
• The Power of Identity
• Communication Power
• The Internet Galaxy
• End of Millennium
• Informational city
• Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective
• Another Economy is Possible: Culture and Economy in a Time of Crisis.
• Rupture: The Crisis of Liberal Democracy

15. The use of phonemes in relation to kinship system was done by whom?

Correct Answer: (a) C. Levi-Strauss
Solution:The use of phonemes in relation to kinship system was done by C. Live-Strauss. He also held that affinal relations framed the most basic and irreducible unit of kinship-what he called the ''atom of kinship.'' Where descent theorists defined a set of parents and children as the core of kinship relations, Levi-Strauss defined it as a husband and wife, their son, and the wife's brother.

16. Who is associated with the concept 'Reflexive Modernization'?

Correct Answer: (d) Anthony Giddens
Solution:Anthony Giddens is associated with the concept 'Reflexive modernization'. Reflexivity is a defining characteristic of modern society and people which produces a built-in dynamic of cognitively and politically bounded social change.

Reflexive modernization- a theory of late modern social change led by Ulrich Beck in association with Anthony Giddens, and so on-is a form of social change driven by judgments and actions which are supposedly scientific or rational, but in practice comprised of reflexes, and therefore destined to engender a risk- ridden state of affairs in society.

17. In Goffman's dramaturgy, which one of the following is NOT included?

Correct Answer: (a) Side stage
Solution:Side stage is not included in Goffman's dramaturgy. Goffman uses the terms "front stage" and "back stage" refer to different behaviours that people engage in everyday.

18. Which of the following pairs is NOT correct?

Correct Answer: (a) Robert Redfield - America
Solution:Robert Redfield-America Robert Redfield (December 4, 1897-October 16, 1958) was an American anthropologist and ethnolinguist, Whose ethnographic work in Tepoztlan, Mexico is considered a landmark of Latin American ethnography.

19. What is meant by 'operationalization of a conecpt'?

Correct Answer: (a) Indicating an empirical referent of a concept
Solution:Operationalization of a concept is meant by indicating an empirical referent of a concept. The process of transforming an abstract concept into a precise definition that is measurable and testable: creating operational definitions.

20. Who has written the books, The structure of Scientific Revolutions?

Correct Answer: (b) Thomas S. Kuhn
Solution:Thomas S. Kuhn has written the book. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. He argued that scientific research and thought are defined by ''paradigms'' or conceptual world-views, that consist of formal theories, classic experiments, and trusted methods.

His other books:-
The Essential Tension – 1977
The Copernican Revolution – 1957
Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity → 1894-1912