NTA UGC NET//JRF Exam, June-2023 Sociology (Paper-II)

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the following paragraph and answer the questions:

In the present study we are concerned exclusively with relations of authority, for these alone are part of social structure and therefore permit the systematic derivation of group conflicts from the organization of total societies and associations within them. The significance of such group conflicts resets with the fact that they are not the product of structurally fortuitous relations of power but come forth wherever authority is exercised-and that means in all societies under all historical conditions. (1) Authority relations are always relations of superordinate (2) Where there are authority relations, the super ordinate element is socially expected to control, by orders and commands, warning and prohibitions, the behavior of the subordinate elements. (3) Such expectations attach to relatively permanent social positions rather than to the character of individuals; they are in this sense legitimate. (4) By virtue of this fact, they always involve specification of the persons subject to control and of the spheres within which control is permissible, Authority, as distinct from power, is never a relation of generalized control over others. (5) Authority being a legitimate relation, noncompliance with authoritative commands can be sanctioned; it is indeed one of the functions of the legal system (and of course quasi-legal customs and norms) to support the effective exercise of legitimate authority.

 Select the incorrect statement.

Correct Answer: (d) Quasi-legal customs can't support effective exercise of authority
Solution:

According to the above passage, quasi-legal customs cannot support the effective exercise of authority. Hence the statements are wrong and the other statements in the question are correct.

92. Identify the incorrect statement with regard to the relationship of authority.

Correct Answer: (b) Authority relations are exterior to Social structure
Solution:

According to the above passage, authority relations are external to the social structure. This statement is wrong regarding power. The other questioned statement is correct regarding power.

93. Exercise of authority produces _____ .

Correct Answer: (b) Social conflict
Solution:According to the above passage, the use of power creates social conflict.

94. Exercise of authority does not involve exercise of ______.

Correct Answer: (b) Pursuation
Solution:

According to the above passage, power does not involve the exercise of following.

95. Authority relations are _____.

Correct Answer: (b) Relations of super ordination and sub ordination
Solution:

According to the above passage, authority relationship is the relationship of superior-subordinate and subordinate-superior.

96. Read the following paragraph and answer the questions:

A main characteristic of rural caste is the coming together or various caste-sections living in a village in order to produce food and goods and services needed locally. In other words, caste system at the village level is locked into production system and vice versa. Thus the household of a landowner has enduring symbiotic relations with particular households of blacksmith, carpenter, potter, oilman, barber, washerman, priest and tenants or labourers. The symbol of the this is what is called the jajmani system in which specified quantities of grain-with-straw are paid by the landowner after harvest to the heads of the artisan, labouring and servicing households who have worked for him during the previous agricultural year. Traditionally, the rates remained stable over long stretches of time, and a landowner was expected to keep his workers so long as they did not persistently default on their tasks, and in turn the workers could not change their masters without serious reason, lndeed, patron-client and master-servant relationships tended to be hereditary, a land-owner inheriting, as it were, a body of specialists to work on his land just as the latter inherited him. Inter-caste and interfamilial relations in the village were enduring and multi stranded.

Who among the following groups has enduring relationships with the service providers like blacksmith, potter, barbers etc?

Correct Answer: (a) Landowners
Solution:According to the above passage, the landowner group has established long term relationship with service providers like blacksmith, carpenter, potter, barber etc.

97. Identify the correct statement. Cast groups in rural areas come together in order to _____.

Correct Answer: (d) Uniformity in social intercouse
Solution:

According to the above passage, caste groups in rural areas organise together for homogeneity in social interaction.

98. Traditional inter-caste relations in rural India are _____.

Correct Answer: (a) Heriditary in nature
Solution:

According to the above passage, traditional inter-caste relations in rural India are hereditary in nature.

99. Service provider recieve grain with straw after the harvest for the work they have done during the previous year under which one of the following system _____.

Correct Answer: (c) Jajmani
Solution:

According to the above passage, under Jajmani, the service providers are provided with grains along with straw and hay after harvesting for the work done during the previous year.

100. Caste system at the village level is locked into the system of _____.

Correct Answer: (a) Production
Solution:

According to the above passage, the caste system at the rural level is bound as a production system.