McqkartGet appPractise

Exams · UGC NET · Sociology · UGC NET December 2019 Sociology Paper II

UGC NET December 2019 Sociology Paper II — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET December 2019 Sociology Paper II (UGC NET) — each with the correct answer and a clear explanation. Use it as an answer key, or practise the full paper below.

  1. 'Kula' exchange is associated with which tribe? · Ans: D
  2. The ability of workers to use muscles and brain to transform their environment is called · Ans: B
  3. Who saw much in common between theatrical performance and the kind of 'acts' people put on in everyday life? · Ans: A
  4. The rationality that leads an actor to transcend daily realities to understand the world as a meaningful cosmos is · Ans: A
  5. Who is the author of the book 'The Religion of Java'? · Ans: C
  6. Who among the following is considered as a practitioner of 'Theoretical Pluralism'? · Ans: B
  7. Who talks about structuration as the structuring of social relations across time and space? · Ans: D
  8. From among the following sociologists, who has written on the 'Kinship Systems' in different regions of India? · Ans: B
  9. Who had given the name 'Harijan' to the 'Untouchables'? · Ans: B
  10. Who said that globalization is the growing reciprocal interdependence and integration of various economies around the globe? · Ans: B
  11. Who has conceptualized social structure as a complex of principal groups and institutions which constitute societies? · Ans: C
  12. Who among the following holds the view that an 'Indian Tribe' is converted to an Indian caste when it loses a territorial meaning and social significance? · Ans: A
  13. Who among the following viewed status as an 'effective claim to social esteem'? · Ans: C
  14. Which one of the following is the least inequitable metropolitan city of India? · Ans: C
  15. In which Census year was the data related to slums in India first collected? · Ans: A
  16. How many metropolises were there in India according to Census 2001? · Ans: B
  17. Bhil and Meena tribes are largely living in the state of · Ans: C
  18. Who among the following has said that the caste system has organic links with the tribal culture in India? · Ans: A
  19. Who has criticized the emerging political culture of corruption and criminality in her work on Indian Politics? · Ans: C
  20. Where was the largest and longest protest in the 1980s organized by Bhartiya Kisan Union under the leadership of Mahendra Singh Tikait? · Ans: D
  21. Who has written the book 'Social Background of Indian Nationalism'? · Ans: C
  22. What term is used to describe a system of ceremonial exchange by certain groups of tribes in the Trobriand Islands? · Ans: A
  23. What term is best suited to describe an ideology based upon a rethinking and a reassertion of classical liberalism? · Ans: C
  24. The process of buying and selling produce by electronic means is known as · Ans: C
  25. The process by which technology lowers the cost of storing, sharing and analyzing data is known as · Ans: B
  26. Which one of the following is not an objective of the Greenpeace Movement? · Ans: C
  27. In which year did the Government of India promulgate the National Rehabilitation Policy for project displaced persons? · Ans: B
  28. Which among the following is the most common form of domestic violence in the world? · Ans: B
  29. Which of the following family laws in India was enacted in 1956? · Ans: A
  30. By which year is the number of older persons expected to be more than children aged less than 10 years? · Ans: A
  31. Which one of the following tribes is patrilineal? · Ans: D
  32. Who is the author of the book 'The Virtual Community'? · Ans: B
  33. Who among the following considered 'time' and 'space' as 'a priori'? · Ans: D
  34. Who among the following have conceptualized media as a 'Cultural Industry'? · Ans: C
  35. Which one is the common element in most conceptions of piety? · Ans: C
  36. Any signifier which signifies a concept or meaning, the signified, is called · Ans: C
  37. While discussing religion, who has paid attention to the development of moral ideas? · Ans: C
  38. According to Durkheim, the unit of significance in ritual is · Ans: B
  39. The symbol deals with · Ans: A
  40. Who views education as the action exercised by the older generations upon those who are not yet ready for social life? · Ans: A
  41. Which two of the following principles explain the Alliance theory? · Ans: D
  42. The stages in the development of property according to Marx can broadly be classified as · Ans: D
  43. What are the two main factors that can help in bridging the digital divide? · Ans: A
  44. Which of the following are examples of material culture? · Ans: D
  45. The studies of Indian rural society by sociologists and social anthropologists largely focused upon · Ans: A
  46. The earlier popular studies of Indian society were largely based on the interest of sociologists to · Ans: A
  47. Which of the following are examples of primary sources of data? · Ans: D
  48. Which of the following are elements of the ethics of social research? · Ans: C
  49. Sociology originated largely in a philosophical ambition to · Ans: A
  50. Which one of the following metropolises have the highest percentage and the lowest percentage of scheduled castes? · Ans: C
  51. Who among the following are associated with the theory of 'Urbanism as a way of life' and 'Culture of Poverty'? · Ans: C
  52. Which of the following were the slum populations in India in the 2001 and 2011 Census years? · Ans: B
  53. Which two of the following are associated with the 'Right to the City' and 'Slums' study? · Ans: B
  54. From among the classical sociologists, who have used the comparative method but in different ways? · Ans: D
  55. According to T.B. Bottomore, the historical approach in sociology has taken two principal forms which are influenced by · Ans: D
  56. The Tamilians' movement in Sri Lanka is an example of · Ans: A
  57. The question 'Why is it' about a social phenomenon is the key to which type of research design? · Ans: C
  58. Who has advocated the scientific method for the study of social phenomena? · Ans: B
  59. Which of the following is correct about informal education? · Ans: C
  60. Which option is correct about the 'Social fact' according to Durkheim? · Ans: D
  61. Which are the essential characteristics of bureaucracy? · Ans: C
  62. In Indian weddings there is predominance of what is called 'conspicuous consumption'. This can be applied to indicate two things: · Ans: D
  63. Epistemology for a division includes which of the following? · Ans: B
  64. Which two of the following states are the most urbanized and the least urbanized in India? · Ans: C
  65. Match List A (Books) with List B (Authors/Editors). · Ans: D
  66. Match the type of technology with the time period in which they broadly originated and evolved. · Ans: B
  67. Match List I (Feminist Perspective) with List II (Gender Issues). · Ans: A
  68. Match List I (Sociologist) with List II (Book). · Ans: A
  69. Match List I (Sociologist) with List II (Concepts). · Ans: B
  70. Match the following authors with their books. · Ans: A
  71. Match List I (Peasant Movement) with List II (Place). · Ans: D
  72. Match List I (Method) with List II (Sociologist). · Ans: B
  73. Match List I (Author) with List II (Book). · Ans: A
  74. Match List I (Tribes) with List II (State/Region). · Ans: A
  75. Identify the correct sequence of different laws passed in India to improve women's status in society. · Ans: D
  76. Arrange the below given states according to their level of urbanization in descending order. · Ans: B
  77. Which is the correct sequence of the following steps of social research? · Ans: D
  78. What is the correct sequence of the elements or parts of a research report? · Ans: B
  79. Which set of international development organizations works towards fighting against poverty? · Ans: B
  80. Arrange the following technological revolutions in chronological order. · Ans: B
  81. Arrange the following forms of urban areas in ascending order. · Ans: B
  82. Arrange the following mega cities in descending order according to their rate of growth during 2001 to 2011. · Ans: D
  83. Which of the following is the correct sequence of the steps in data analysis? · Ans: A
  84. What is the correct sequence of the publication year of the following books on Indian Rural Society? · Ans: C
  85. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
  86. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
  87. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: B
  88. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
  89. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: B
  90. Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and the other as Reason (R). Choose the correct answer using the code given below. · Ans: A
  91. In which respects are Indian villages undergoing change? · Ans: C
  92. Which has been the major source of economic change in Indian villages? · Ans: C
  93. Which of the following has had a great impact on the units of social structure in the villages in India? · Ans: B
  94. Which are the measures of land reform that have been implemented in the villages in India? · Ans: C
  95. How have land reforms in different regions of India been implemented? · Ans: D
  96. What was the rate of increase of Census towns during 2001 to 2011? · Ans: B
  97. How many towns were in India in 2001? · Ans: B
  98. A Class I agglomeration in India should have at least the population of · Ans: B
  99. What is the percentage of population to the total urban population which lives in Class I urban agglomerations and towns as per the 2011 Census? · Ans: B
  100. How many urban agglomerations were added between the years 2001 and 2011? · Ans: B

Practise this paper →