UGC NET/JRF EXAM, Dec.-2019 (Paper-II) POLITICAL SCIENCE

Total Questions: 100

91. Read the passage and answer the questions

Post modernist thinkers hold the view that there cannot be objective knowledge of social issues. For the Post-Modernist, knowledge is not simply a cognitive factor; knowledge is also normative and political. Power and knowledge are mutually supportive and they directly imply one another. The Post Modernist are critical of classical liberals as well as contemporary positivist who believed in objectivity and superiority of science. Through deconstruction, the post modernist want to look at every accepted or settled idea with new lenses.
Which of the following is Post Modernist thinker?

Correct Answer: (a) Jacques Derrida
Solution:

Post modernism is an intellectual movement against modernism. It challenged the notion that knowledge is eternal, linked to power and nonimpartial.
Same of the post modernist thinkers are Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean-Francois Lytard, Richard Rorty, Jean Bau drill and, Fredric Jameson and Douglas Kellner.

92. Who among the following is not a Post Modernist thinker?

Correct Answer: (d) J. Burton
Solution:J. Burton is not a post modernist thinker.

93. According to Post-Modernist thinker, which attribute of knowledge does not exist?

Correct Answer: (d) Objectivity
Solution:It is characterized by a general suspicion of reason, broad skepticism, subjectivism or relativisms. Thus objectivity attribute of knowledge does not exist.

94. Which of following term is not preferred by Post Modernist thinkers?

Correct Answer: (c) Modernism
Solution:Postmodernism, first emerged as a form of literacy criticism in the middle of the twentieth century as a critique of modernism.

95. Which one of the following statement is incorrect according to Post Modernist thinkers?

Correct Answer: (c) Knowledge leads to progress of world
Solution:According to the Liberalism view, "Knowledge leads to progress of the World." Post modernism is an intellectual movement against modernism.

96. Read the passage and answer the questions

The term "globalisation" primarily refers to economic activities like trade, movement of capital, goods, labour and communication system across boundaries facilitating higher levels of interconnectedness in the world. These economic activities have greater impact on socio-political sectors nationally and internationally.
The increasing strong presence of non-state actors like MNCs, the NGOs and IGOs has questioned the supermacy of state sovereignty. The rich states are benefited due to their superior control over the flow of capital, technology and communication system. A profit oriented global market can never think of benefit of all people of the world. The North-South divide has not been obliterated. Globalisation has benefited the countries of :

Correct Answer: (a) Europe and America
Solution:Globalization has indeed brought significant benefits to both Europe and America.

97. Globalisation has induced greater:

Correct Answer: (a) Urbanisation
Solution:Globalization has an impact on the size and scope of urban regions economic development. Because it was dependent on various technology and economic drivers throughout time.

98. Which one of the following has not limited state sovereignty?

Correct Answer: (d) Anomic Pressure Groups
Solution:

State sovereignty is the legal right and obligation of an independent state to run and control its political affairs free from outside interference. Anomic Pressure Groups have not limited state sovereignty.

99. The globalisation has increased the demand for

Correct Answer: (a) Laissez Faire state
Solution:Laissez-faire, a French proverb, means "let to do". It refers to a political philosophy that disapproves of the practice of government economic involvement.

100. Which one of the following is incorrect? The state has become weak in shaping the

Correct Answer: (d) Collection of revenues
Solution:

According to passage, "the term "globalisation" primarily refers to economic activities like trade, movement of capital, goods, labour and communication system across boundaries. So it decreased state power in controlling the flow of capital, internation trade and labour and finance.