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

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the following passage carefully :

Although, India has the second largest urban population in the world and it also has a large size of slum population, till 2001 Census data on slums was not available. The Registrar General of India enumerated slum population is the country for the first time in India in 2001 and that too only for 743 towns and cities. Only 640 towns and cities were reported having any slum out of the total 5161 towns in India in India in 2001. In 2011 Census, data on slums was collected from 4041 cities and towns and only 2542 reported having any slum and the slum population was only 68 million. Pronab Sen Committee constituted by the Planning Commission in 2010 had estimated slum population at 93 million. On the other hand, UN-Habitat (2006) put this number at estimated 170 million.

Answer the following questions on the basis of facts described in the above passage:

In which census year data on slums was collected for the first time?

Correct Answer: (c) 2001
Solution:In 2001, India had collected the data figure of slum population for the first time wherein there were about 743 slums in towns and cities.

92. How many towns/cities were surveyed, and reported having slum population is 2001?

A. 740
B. 743
C. 540
D. 640

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) B and D
Solution:In the year 2001, as many as 743 and 640 towns and cities were reported to have had slum populations.

93. Calculate the % of Towns/Cities having slum population out of total number of Town / Cities according to census 2001.

Correct Answer: (b) 12.3%
Solution:As per 2001 census in India, the total percentage which accounted for the number of towns and cities having slum population was 12.3%.

94. In how many towns / cities slums were found in 2011 census?

Correct Answer: (b) 2542
Solution:In the 2011 census of India, out of 4041 towns and cities, only 2542 were reported to have any slum or slum population

95. What was the slum population according Pronab Sen Committee?

Correct Answer: (b) 93 million
Solution:According to Pronab Sen Committee which was constituted by the planning committee in 2010 had estimated 93 million slum population.

96. Read the following passage carefully :

In the field of human sciences, interdisciplinary research can result from two separate but interrelated needs. First is the 'need for information' and more data, and the second is the need for more common structures or for analytical integration. At the first level, an interdisciplinary collaboration poses little or no problems. It involves exchange of information among related disciplines in the belief that such exchange enriches a discipline’s understanding of the phenomena under study. A discipline’s boundaries and autonomy in explanatory terms are not eroded by interdisciplinary contacts at the level of information or data. It may sometimes lead to adoption of common methods by related disciplines, which in turn, may pave the way for a possible integration at the level of analysis or perspectives or interpretative scheme. The fulfillment of this second need for common structures, or what we have termed as analytical integration, is beset with several difficulties. Unlike in the natural sciences, in the social sciences there is no linear order of sciences ranged between 'decreasing generality' and 'increasing complexity' : On the contrary, in some of the social sciences, there is a marked tendency to reduce explanations of diverse social phenomena to a single perspective peculiar to that science. Sociologists are often accused of reducing everything to sociology and their reductionism is often pejoratively dubbed as ‘sociological imperialism’ Similar tendencies are noticeable, with differences in degree, among some economists, political scientists, linguists, psychologists, and soon.

Answer the following questions based on the facts/information described in the above passage :

Inter-disciplinary research in human sciences results from

Correct Answer: (d) Two separate but inter-related needs.
Solution:Inter-disciplinary research in human sciences derives from two separate and inter-related needs. First is the need for information and data and secondly, there is a need for analytical integration.

97. Interdisciplinary collaboration sometimes involves -

Correct Answer: (c) Adoption of common method by related disciplines
Solution:If may sometimes lead to adoption of common methods by related disciplines, which in turn, may pave the way for a possible integration at the level of analysis or perspectives or interpretative scheme.

98. The difficulties in analytical integration are due to:

Correct Answer: (a) Social sciences having no linear order
Solution:Unlike in the natural sciences, in the social science the is no linear order of sciences ranged between 'decreasing generality' and 'increasing complexity'. On the contrary, in some of the social science, there is a marked tendency to reduce explanations of diverse social phenomena to a single perspective peculiar to that science.

99. What is the common tendency among some social sciences?

Correct Answer: (c) To reduce explanations of diverse phenomena to one perspective
Solution:In some of the social sciences, there is a marked tendency to reduce explanations of diverse social phenomena to a single perspective peculiar to that science.

100. ‘Sociological imperialism’ is associated with –––

Correct Answer: (c) Sociological reductionism
Solution:Sociologists are often accused of reducing everything to sociology and their reductionism is often pejoratively dubbed as 'sociological imperialism'.