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

Total Questions: 100

31. An idea associated with Marshall McLuhan, who saw the spread of electronic communication as binding the world into a coherent single community called

Correct Answer: (d) Global village
Solution:Global village, was defined by Marshall McLuhan, is that the world became like a small world through technology. People can share, communicate, and get information wherever they are and where they are. However this annotative way of connection has the affection on the people as well as good or bad.

32. Which among the following are NOT the works of Irawati Karve?

A. Hindu society: An interpretation.
B. Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in South India.
C. Religious Consciousness
D. Kinship Organization in India
E. Yuganta: The End of an Epoch

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) B and C only
Solution:The book Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in South India and Religous Consciousness are NOT the works of Irawati karve.
• Hierarchy and Marriage Alliance in South India (1957) – Louis Dumont
• Religious Consciousness (1920) – James Bissett Pratt

33. The Munda and the Oraon of the Chotta Nagpur who live close to each other and share much of their cultural life, belong to which speech group, respectively?

Correct Answer: (a) Austric and Dravidian speech group
Solution:The Munda and the Oraon of the Chotta Nagpur who live close to each other and share much of their cultural life, belong to Austric and Dravidian speech group respectively.

The Austric group of languages of India belong to the Austro-Asiatic sub-family, Represented by languages of Munda or Kol group spoken in central, eastern, and northeastern India.

The dravidian languages are divided into South, SouthCentral, Central and North groups; these groups are further organized into 24 subgroups. The four major literary languages-Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada-are recognized by the constitution of India.

34. Match List-I with List-II.

List-I (Books)List-II (Authors)
A. The Elementary Forms of Religious LifeI. M.N. Srinivas
B. Religion and Society among Coorgs of South IndiaII. A. Krober
C. The Science of CultureIII. Emile Durkheim
D. The Nature of CultureIV. Leslie White
Choose the correct answer from the options given below: 
Code:ABCD
(a)IIIIIIIV
(b)IIIIIIIV
(c)IIIIIVII
(d)IVIIIIII
Correct Answer: (c)
Solution:
List-I (Books)List-II (Authors)
A. The Elementary Forms of Religious LifeIII. Emile Durkheim
B. Religion and Society among Coorgs of South IndiaI. M.N. Srinivas
C. The Science of CultureIV. Leslie White
D. The Nature of CultureII. A. Krober

35. Among the earlier industrial sociologists, who has written the book, Social Framework of an Indian Factory?

Correct Answer: (c) N.R. Sheth
Solution:The Social Framework of An Indian Factory by N.R. Sheth.

36. Arrange the occurrence of the following technological revolutions in chronological order from the earliest to the latest

A. Printing revolution
B. Green revolution
C. Industrial revolution
D. Bio-technological revolution

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

Correct Answer: (b) A, C, B, D
Solution:(A). Printing Revolution:- Print revolution is revolution in which the hand printing change into machine printing. The first print machine was developed by the Gutenburg.

(C) Industrial Revolution:- Industrial Revolution refers to the major transition of the world that took place during the period 1760 to 1830, from a completely agrarian, manual and handicraft economy to a completely mechanized, modern one dominated by technology.
(B) Green Revolution:- The expression green revolution carried the conviction that agriculture was being peacefully transformed through the quiet working of science and technology, reaping the economic gains of modernization while avoiding the social costs of mass upheaval and disorder usually associated with rapid change.
(D) Bio - technological Revolution:- A technological revolution is a period in which one or more technologies is replaced by another, novel technology in a short amount of time. It is an era of accelerated technological progress characterized by new innovations whose rapid application and diffusion typically cause an abrupt change in society.

37. The title of the Brundtland Report is

Correct Answer: (d) 'Our Common Future'
Solution:Brundtland Report, also called Our Common Future publication released in 1987 by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) that introduced the concept of sustainable development and described how it could be achieved.

38. Who has written the book 'Urbanization and Family Change' in the Indian context?

Correct Answer: (c) M.S. Gore
Solution:Madhav Sadashiv Gore (1921-2010) was an Indian social scientist, writer academic and the chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Madhav Sadashiv Gore has written a book titled Urbanization and Family change in Indian context.

His other Major writings are:
• The Social Context of an Ideology.
• Social Aspects of Development
• Unity in Diversity
• Non-Brahman Movement in Maharashtra
• Social Development
• Indian Education : Structure and Process

39. Who among the following has divided globalization into two camps, the optimists and the pessimists?

Correct Answer: (d) Mike O' Donnell
Solution:Mike O' Donnell has divided globalization into two camps, the optimists and the pessimists. Pessimist globalist argue that globalization is a form of Western, American Imperialism. They see globalization as a process in which Western institutions and ideas are imposed on the rest of the world. Seabrook argues that, by definition, globalization makes all other cultures local, and by implication inferior.

Hyper-globalists believe that globalization is happening and that local cultures are being eroded primary because of the expansion of international capitalism and the emergence of a homogeneous global culture, they believe that globalization is a positive process characterized by economic growth, increasing prosperity and the spread of democracy.

40. Robin Cohen argued for which of the following categories of diaspora?

A. Victim
B. Imperial
C. Labour
D. Culture
E. Community

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) A, B, C and D only
Solution:Robin Cohen offers an alternative approach to setting a typology of diasporas. He outlines five different categories: Victim, labour, trade, imperial and cultural. His other major writings are:

• Global Diaspora
• Global Sociology
• Migration : The Movement of Human Kind from Prehistory to the Present
• Encountering difference
• Migration and Its Enemies
• Migration Diaspora and Citizenship
• Marxism and Africa