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

Total Questions: 100

71. Who of the following social scientists developed the idea of reflexive society?

A. C.W. Mills
B. G.M. Mead
C. P. Bourdieu
D. A. Giddens E. E.

Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (c) C and D only
Solution:

P. Bodru and A. The Gedains Socialist presented the idea of reflex (reflective) sociology. Gidmen stressed with its perception of 'reconciled modernity' and argued that over time the society is becoming increasingly more self -conscious and reflective.

And for this, it is becoming recouctive.Bodru even gave that social scientists are naturally filled with prejudices, and only by being aware of those prejudices, social scientists can free themselves from them. And can aspire to practice an objective science.

72. Who of the following is known for sociological studies of body?

A. B.S. Turner and Sue Scott
B. David Morgan and B.S. Turner
C. B.S. Turner and Michel Foucault
D. Talcott Parsons and Pitrim Sorokin
E. E.E. Evans-Pritchard and Marc Bloch

Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (a) A, B and C only
Solution:

B.S. Turner, Sue Scott, David Morgan and Michel Foucault are famous for the sociological study of the body.

73. Who among the following have not significantly contributed to the analyses of their contemporary capitalist society.

A. Karl Marx
B. A.R. Radeliffe-Brown
C. Max Weber
D. Claude Levi-Strass
E. Emile Durkheim

Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below:

Correct Answer: (b) B and D only
Solution:

A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Claude LeviStrauss have not made significant contributions to the analysis of contemporary capitalist society whereas Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim have made significant contributions to the analysis of contemporary capitalist society.

74. Whose sociology had outlined a method for the study of ideas as functions of Social involvement?

Correct Answer: (a) Karl Mannheim
Solution:

Karl Mannheim outlined a method for studying ideas as a function of social involvement in sociology. According to Mannheim, ideology necessarily reflects a specific perspective. It is relative to a particular place.

His main argument regarding the sociology of knowledge has been that the knowledge that is constructed in society is determined by the organization of society, i.e., its culture and structure.

75. Who among the following saw the gaze as a kind of language, a language without words?

Correct Answer: (b) Michel Foucault
Solution:

Michel Foucault considers the gaze as a form of language, i.e., a wordless language. Foucault developed the concept of the gaze in his book Discipline and Punish:

The Birth of the Prison to understand the dynamics of socio-political power relations and the social dynamics of the disciplinary field of society.

76. Who among the following gave the essential idea of explaining individual phenomena by the state of collectivity, and not state of collectivity by individual phenomena?

Correct Answer: (d) Emile Durkheim
Solution:

Emile Durkheim introduced the fundamental idea of explaining individual phenomena by the state of the collectivity, rather than individual phenomena by the state of the collectivity.

77. Who defined religion as 'a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things'?

Correct Answer: (c) E. Durkheim
Solution:

E. Durkheim defined religion as ‘an integrated system of generalities and practices concerning sacred things.’ In his later writings, Durkheim defined religion as a collective thing.

78. Radha Kamal Mukhrjee does not offer an alternative worldview of sociology from which one of following philosophical tradition?

Correct Answer: (c) Zorastrian
Solution:

Radha Kamal Mukherjee does not offer an alternative worldview of sociology from the Zoroastrian tradition.

79. The secularization theory explains :

A. Rise of industrial society
B. Modernization of culture
C. Pluralization of life worlds
D. Criminalization of market
E. Marginalization of political groups

Choose the appropriate answer from the options given below :

Correct Answer: (a) A, B and C only
Solution:

Secularization has been explained in terms of the rise of industrial society, the modernization of culture, and the pluralization of the life world. Secularization expresses the idea that European Enlightenment modernization, through the lens of rationalization, accompanied by the rise of science and technology, erodes economic authority in all aspects of social life and governance.

80. What causes the change from mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity according to Durkheim?

Correct Answer: (a) Dynamic density
Solution:

According to Durkheim, due to dynamic (changing) density mechanical unity is transformed into organic unity.