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** This paper contains fifty (50) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
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1. Which one of the following statements represents the idea of C. Wright Mills about sociological imagination ?
(1) Looking social world as social fact.
(2) Understanding differences among the classical theorists.
(3) Bringing together private troubles and public issues.
(4) Avoiding individual based explanation.

2. Who amongst the following says that sociology is the study of collective representation ?
(1) Weber
(2) Durkheim
(3) Comte
(4) Spencer

3. According to Max Weber, an ideal type is
(1) The most common situation in a given society
(2) Philosophical model of an ideal society
(3) Conceptual or analytical tool to understand social phenomena
(4) Statistical evidences collected by social researcher

4. According to whom internalized ‘shared values’ are regarded as playing a decisive role in
the social integration of any society ?
(1) T. Parsons
(2) B. Malinowski
(3) E. Durkheim
(4) R.K. Merton

5. Which according to Robert Redfield is not the characteristic of Little Community ?
(1) Distinctiveness
(2) Homogeneity
(3) Location
(4) Self-sufficiency

6. Match the items in List – I with List – II :
List – I (Books) List – II (Authors)
a. Patterns of Culture i. T.S. Eliot
b. Primitive Culture ii. E.B. Taylor
c. A Scientific Theory of Culture iii. Ruth Benedict
d. Notes Towards the Definition of Culture iv. B. Malinowski
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Codes :
a b c d
(1) i ii iii iv
(2) iii ii iv i
(3) ii iii iv i
(4) iv i ii iii

7. Which one of the following is not the characteristic of a community ?
(1) Territory
(2) A set of social relationships
(3) We feeling
(4) Language

8. The change of statuses occurring with sufficient frequency, as to be socially patterned, can be designated as a
(1) Status-Set
(2) Status-Conflict
(3) Social-Status
(4) Status-Sequence

9. When the performer of a role adopts a subjective detachment from the role, it is called as :
(1) Role – Conflict
(2) Role – Taking
(3) Role – Distance
(4) Role – Incompatibility

10. According to whom, role is the dynamic aspect of status, where ‘status’ refers to the position and ‘role’ to its performance ?
(1) Ralph Linton
(2) R.K. Merton
(3) Max Weber
(4) P.L. Kendall

11. By what term Merton designated the range of role relationships which persons have by virtue of occupying a particular social status ?
(1) Multiple Roles
(2) Role Set
(3) Role Networks
(4) Status Role

12. Which are not the characteristics of a primary group ?
A. Own norms / rules
B. Age
C. Sex
D. Face to face interaction
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Codes :
(1) A and B
(2) A and D
(3) B and D
(4) B and C

13. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below the
lists :
List – I (Concepts) List – II (Authors)
a. Militant and Industrial Society i. E. Durkheim
b. Mechanical and Organic Solidarity ii. H. Spencer
c. Folk-Urban Continuum iii. F. Tonnies
d. Gemeinschaft and Geselleschaft iv. R. Redfield
Codes :
a b c d
(1) ii i iii iv
(2) ii i iv iii
(3) i ii iv iii
(4) iv iii i ii

14. Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and other as Reason (R) :
Assertion (A) : All groups are social networks.
Reason (R) : All networks are not social groups.
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Codes :
(1) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(2) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(3) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(4) (A) is false, but (R) is true.

15. Type of authority in a religious sect is :
(1) Traditional
(2) Bureaucratic
(3) Rational
(4) Legal

16. What an individual, as an organism, does not have at birth that is relevant to the process of socialization ?
(1) Instincts
(2) Capacities
(3) Reflexes
(4) Attitude

17. Who among the following is the author of ‘Mind, Self and Society’ ?
(1) Talcott Parsons
(2) Margaret Mead
(3) George H. Mead
(4) Gardner Murphy

18. The Functional Theory of social stratification was expounded in the writings of :
(1) Davis & Black
(2) Davis & Moore
(3) Parsons & Bales
(4) Wiser & Wiser

19. In a family, the grandfather was a potter in a village and father taught in a school of a town
and now son is an engineer in a multi-national company in a metro city. This illustrates :
(1) Cultural Mobility
(2) Horizontal Mobility
(3) Intra-generational Mobility
(4) Inter-generational Mobility

20. Which view among the following is the oldest view of social change ?
(1) Cyclical
(2) Linear
(3) Evolutionary
(4) Dialectical