Organisation : Central Board Of Secondary Education
Exam : National Eligibility Test (NET)
Document Type : Model/Previous Question Paper
Subject : Sociology
Date/Year : 10.07.2016 & 28.08.2016
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Sociology Model Question Paper :
Time : 2 1/2 hours
Maximum Marks : 150
Note :
** This paper contains seventy five (75) objective type questions of two (2) marks each.
** All questions are compulsory.
1. Who among the following is of the view that people grasp the consciousness of others while they live within their own stream of consciousness ?
(1) Erving Goffman
(2) Alfred Schutz
(3) Peter Berger
(4) Michel Foucault
2. Which one of the following concepts is not used by Erving Goffman in his approach ?
(1) Impression Management
(2) Front Stage
(3) Teams (4) Accounts
3. Match the following lists :
List – I (Concepts) List – II (Authors)
a. Breaching Experiment i. Erving Goffman
b. Life World ii. P. Berger and J. Luckmann
c. Dramaturgy iii. H. Garfinkel
d. Social Construction iv. Alfred Schutz
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Codes :
a b c d
(1) i iv ii iii
(2) ii iii i iv
(3) iv iii ii i
(4) iii iv i ii
4. A theoretical approach which sets out to uncover the methods that members of social groups employ in constructing their sense of social reality is known as :
(1) Ethnomethodology
(2) Ethnography
(3) Phenomenology
(4) Psychology
5. Who provides an account of the role of common-sense knowledge in the social construction of everyday life and institutions ?
(1) Berger and Luckmann
(2) Husserl and Schutz
(3) Parsons and Merton
(4) Davis and Moore
6. According to whom, ‘the ideological superstructure is not merely a reflection of the economy but also in part condition of its existence ?
(1) L. Althusser
(2) A. Giddens
(3) K. Marx
(4) J. Habermass
7. Match the following lists :
List – I (Perspectives) List – II (Thinkers)
a. Structural Marxist i. J. Alexander
b. Critical Theorist ii. A. Giddens
c. Neo-Functionalism iii. L. Athusser
d. Structuration Theorist iv. J. Habermass
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Codes :
a b c d
(1) i iv iii ii
(2) iii ii i iv
(3) iii iv i ii
(4) ii iii i iv
8. Who is the author of the book ‘Legitimation crises’ ?
(1) J. Alexander
(2) J. Habermass
(3) L. Althusser
(4) H. Garfinkel
9. Who has defined neo-functionalism as “a self-critical strand of functional theory that seeks to broaden functionalism’s intellectual scope while retaining its theoretical core” ?
(1) T. Parsons and E. Shills
(2) J. Alexander and P. Colomy
(3) J. Alexander and J. Turner
(4) P. Cohen and A. Gouldner
10. For whom, the lifeworld is a ‘culturally transmitted and linguistically organized stock of interpretative patterns’ ?
(1) J. Habermass
(2) A. Schutz
(3) M. Weber
(4) H. Garfinkel
11. Match the following lists :
List – I (Concepts) List – II (Authors)
a. Neo functionalism gives almost equal attention to action and order
i. L. Althusser
b. Undistorted communication ii. J. Alexander
c. Duality of structure iii. J. Habermass
d. Over-determination iv. A. Giddens
Select the correct answer from the codes given below :
Codes :
(1) ii iv iii i
(2) i ii iii iv
(3) iii iv i ii
(4) ii iii iv i
12. A French Philosopher has influenced very much the sociological thinking by drawing a methodology of human language. Who is he ?
(1) A. Giddens
(2) J. Derrida
(3) M. Foucault
(4) None of the above
13. Who, in his theory, advances an account of interrelation of structure and agency in which primacy is granted to neither ?
(1) A. Giddens
(2) J. Derrida
(3) J. Habermass
(4) J. Alexander
14. Who has contributed to a debate on reason, language, knowledge and power that contributed much to sociological theories ?
(1) J. Derrida
(2) L. Althuser
(3) M. Foucault
(4) None of the above
15. A repudiation of the logo centric construction of grand narratives is termed as :
(1) Metanarrative
(2) Legitimation
(3) Discourse
(4) Deconstruction
16. A mode of thinking that applies truth claims to universal propositions is known as :
(1) Habitus
(2) Logo centrism
(3) Simulation
(4) Hyper real
17. For whom the signifier has no stable relations to the signified ?
(1) J. Derrida
(2) M. Foucault
(3) A. Giddens
(4) J. Habermass
18. Which one of the following is not a source of diversity in India ?
(1) Religion
(2) Language
(3) National Emblem
(4) Culture
19. Milton Singer and McKim Marriott studied social change in India using which concepts ?
(1) Westernisation and Modernisation
(2) Little and Great Tradition
(3) Structure and Function
(4) Industrialisation and Globalisation
20. In the past, who among foreign travellers observed and recorded that unity in diversity has become a part of India’s self-identity ?
(1) Megasthenes
(2) Hiuen Tsang
(3) Alberuni
(4) All of the above