NTA UGC NET/JRF Exam., June 2020 Sociology (Paper-II)

Total Questions: 100

1. Concept of 'runaway world' is used by

Correct Answer: (a) Anthony Giddens
Solution:The words of Anthony Giddens' accessible modern classic 'Runaway World' immediately suggests to the reader that views globalisation as an unpredictable, destabilsing process. Giddens says that "We are the first generation to live in global society, whose contours we can as yet only dimly see."

2. In modern Industrialized society the status of women in industry

Correct Answer: (b) Has gradually risen
Solution:In modern industrialized society the states of women in industry has gradually risen. This meant that clothing shifted from being traditionally a role of women to a mass produced good in factories. As a result of the impacts of the Industrial Revolution, women entered the workforce in textile mills and coal mines in large numbers. Also women entered the workforce in order to help support the family.

3. Who is of the view that incest taboo enables relationship with wider society?

Correct Answer: (a) C. Levi-Strauss
Solution:Claude Levi - Strauss is of view that incest taboo enables relationship with wider society. The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss developed a general argument for the universality of the incest taboo in human societies. His argument begins with the claim that the incest taboo is in effect a prohibition against endogamy, and the effect is to encourage exogamy.

4. According to Goffman when passers by glance at one another quickly and then look away again. it is called

Correct Answer: (d) Civil inattention
Solution:Civil inattention : Normally strangers quickly glance at each other and then look away. Through this ritual, which sociologist Erving Goffman calls "Civil inattention", we demonstrate that we recognize the other person's presence, are not seeking a sustained interaction, and have no hostile intention.

5. Who is regarded as the leading scholar of 'symbolic anthropology'?

Correct Answer: (a) Clifford Geertz
Solution:Clifford Geertz is regarded as the leading scholar of 'symbolic anthropology'. Geertz was an American anthropologist who earned fame for his work on symbolic (or interpretive) anthropology. His unique focus was to analyse not just the form of cultural objects, but what those objects actually meant to specific groups of people. Geertz's field work led to his theory that "things" within a culture can hold important symbolic meaning and help to form perspectives about the surrounding world.

6. Mead delineates three stages in which the concept of self arises and develops: the stage of imitative acts. The play stage and the –––––

Correct Answer: (c) Game stage
Solution:Sociologist George Mead theorized that there are three stages of self-development: Preparatory stage, the play stage and the game stage. Examine the game stage and its role in shaping behaviors and attitudes to meet pre-established expectations in society.

7. The primary philosophical assumption in 'null hypothesis' science research is ––––––

Correct Answer: (c) Falsifiability
Solution:The primary philosophical assumption in 'null hypothesis' in social science research is falsifiability. The concept of 'Falsifiability' is central to distinguishing between system of knowledge and understanding, specifically between scientific theories of understanding the world and those considered nonscientific.

8. The transformation of time in modern society in the form of 'timelessness' was emphasized by which scholar?

Correct Answer: (c) Manuel Castells
Solution:The transformation of time in modern society in the form of 'timelessness' was emphasized by Scholar Manuel Castells. In the rise of the Network Society, Manuel Castells elaborated on what is well-known today, namely, the nation of a society marked by networks of electronically mediated communication networks, as well as networks undergirding economic exchanges worldwide. In this article a dissonance issuing from a feature of the network society is explored, namely what Castells calls the 'transformation of space and time in the human experience'.

9. According to R.K. Merton Manifest functions are:

Correct Answer: (b) Intended and recognized
Solution:Merton defines manifest functions as "those objective consequences contributing to the adjustment or adaptation of the system which are intended and recognized by participants in the system". By contrast, latent functions are "those which are neither intended nor recognized".

10. Malinowski’s functionalism is often termed as –––––

Correct Answer: (d) Psychological functionalism
Solution:Bronislaw Malinowski said, 'culture is a need surveying system'. Culture ios a system which satisfies needs such as food, reproduction, security, health, protection etc. As Malinowski gave importance to individual needs so his functionalism is also known as 'Psychological Functionalism'.