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UGC NET June 2020 Sociology Paper II — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET June 2020 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. The concept of 'runaway world' is used by · Ans: A
2. In modern industrialized society, the status of women in industry · Ans: B
3. Who is of the view that the incest taboo enables relationship with wider society? · Ans: A
4. According to Goffman, when passers by glance at one another quickly and then look away again, it is called · Ans: D
5. Who is regarded as the leading scholar of 'symbolic anthropology'? · Ans: A
6. Mead delineates three stages in which the concept of self arises and develops: the stage of imitative acts, the play stage and the · Ans: C
7. The primary philosophical assumption in the 'null hypothesis' in science research is · Ans: C
8. The transformation of time in modern society in the form of 'timelessness' was emphasized by which scholar? · Ans: C
9. According to R.K. Merton, manifest functions are · Ans: B
10. Malinowski's functionalism is often termed as · Ans: D
11. Radcliffe Brown did not distinguish between social structure and · Ans: C
12. The Yellow Revolution is related to · Ans: A
13. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of a census town? · Ans: C
14. Which one of the following is the least urbanized state in India? · Ans: B
15. During which decade was the increase in total urban population more than the total increase in rural population of India? · Ans: B
16. Who has given a graphic account of the miserable situation of unmarried individuals in the most primitive societies? · Ans: A
17. Who said 'social structure is the complex of the principal groups and institutions which constitute societies'? · Ans: D
18. The study of people using participant observation and face to face interviewing is called · Ans: C
19. According to Durkheim, indirect experiment is the · Ans: D
20. Who used the historical approach in his sociological analysis? · Ans: B
21. Who used reflexive critique in his engagement with Kantian philosophy? · Ans: C
22. Who has systematically undertaken the influence of politics on science in his study of the sociology of science? · Ans: C
23. Who was the first to use the word 'falsifiability' in the context of social science? · Ans: D
24. The hermeneutic project in debates is related to realism and · Ans: B
25. Which term was used by Kuhn to state that science at any given time is dominated by a specific framework? · Ans: A
26. The doctoral thesis of Dr. Ambedkar is entitled · Ans: D
27. Among the following, which book is not written by M.N. Srinivas? · Ans: A
28. Who said that tribals should be assimilated into the Hindu caste? · Ans: B
29. Who is the author of Yuganta: The End of an Epoch? · Ans: C
30. Who was the first to use case materials in his comparative studies of different cultures? · Ans: C
31. A sample which fulfills the requirements of efficiency, representativeness, reliability and flexibility is called · Ans: B
32. De peasantization essentially means · Ans: A
33. Who among the following sees the relationship between the various strata in a stratified society as one of cooperation and interdependence? · Ans: B
34. Which one of the following incidents prompted Vinoba Bhave to initiate the Bhoodan Movement in India? · Ans: A
35. Who among the following started the Self Respect Movement in Tamil Nadu? · Ans: A
36. Which one of the following factors is negatively correlated with modernization? · Ans: D
37. In which state was the Champaran Satyagraha movement initiated? · Ans: D
38. Who has used the term 'serendipity' in sociological research? · Ans: A
39. Cultures of Relatedness by Janet Carsten is a study of · Ans: A
40. The practice of teknonymy is found among · Ans: B
41. The juvenile sex ratio in India was noticed as a serendipity in Indian census analysis when · Ans: A
42. Choose the two primary causes of physical domestic violence as per NFHS surveys and many other studies in India. · Ans: C
43. Gender inequalities in society are attributed to masochism and penis envy among females. This view is held by which of the following scholars? · Ans: B
44. The main works of Karl Marx were · Ans: A
45. Which of the following are elements of induction? · Ans: C
46. Who among the following have used the comparative method in their studies? · Ans: C
47. Which of the following elements are involved in data analysis? · Ans: D
48. According to T. Shanin, which of the following are characteristics of peasant societies? · Ans: D
49. Which of the following clauses in the Indian Constitution apply mainly to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes? · Ans: D
50. After independence, till 1970, the sociological and social anthropological studies showed a deep concern for which three developments in India? · Ans: D
51. Which three of the following characteristics did the feudal estates of medieval Europe have? · Ans: B
52. Which two of the following conditions are a must for an 'urban agglomeration'? · Ans: B
53. Which two of the following are among the biggest dams in India? · Ans: C
54. On which of the following dates are Earth Day and World Environment Day celebrated? · Ans: B
55. Which of the following books are authored or co authored by Stanley Cohen? · Ans: C
56. Michio Kaku in his three pillars of revolution talks of which of the following? · Ans: B
57. According to R.K. Merton, which of the following constitute the 'ethos of science'? · Ans: C
58. Which from among the following are determinants of biological sex, relevant in a gender test? · Ans: A
59. Which of the following are characteristics of the pre capitalist mode of production? · Ans: D
60. Which of the following are characteristics of a social movement? · Ans: C
61. Which of the following scholars contributed to 'education and cultural reproduction'? · Ans: A
62. Which two of the scholars are known to be influenced by the works of J. Lacan? · Ans: C
63. The works of P. Bourdieu were · Ans: A
64. Domestic and sexual violence in India is related to liberal laws concerning which of the following? · Ans: B
65. Sylvia Walby in her book Theorising Patriarchy talks of elements of patriarchy. Which of the following are not elements of it? · Ans: D
66. Match List I (Concept) with List II (Proponent). · Ans: A
67. Match List I (Author) with List II (Book). · Ans: C
68. Match List I (Author) with List II (Book). · Ans: B
69. Match List I (Scientist) with List II (Scientific contribution). · Ans: C
70. Match List I (Author) with List II (Book). · Ans: D
71. Match List I (Scholars) with List II (Work). · Ans: A
72. Match List I (Research work) with List II (Method). · Ans: A
73. Match List I (Works) with List II (Author or editor). · Ans: C
74. Match List I (Social thinkers) with List II (Concepts). · Ans: B
75. Match List I (Proponents) with List II (Concepts). · Ans: A
76. Arrange the following in sequence the development of human communication. · Ans: C
77. Talcott Parsons has given the following functions of the social system. Arrange them in the correct sequence. · Ans: D
78. Choose the correct chronological sequence of Yogendra Singh's books. · Ans: C
79. Give the chronological order of the kinship theories given below. · Ans: C
80. Which of the following is the correct sequence of the evolution of marriage according to L.H. Morgan? · Ans: A
81. Arrange the works of G.S. Ghurye chronologically. · Ans: A
82. Arrange the following in a sequence according to the scheme given by Merton. · Ans: B
83. Find the chronological sequence of the following. · Ans: D
84. Arrange the following cities according to their ranking in cleanliness given by the Ministry of Urban Development on the basis of the cleanliness index, 2017. · Ans: B
85. Choose the correct sequence of the stages of demographic transition. · Ans: C
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: A
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: B
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 census year was data on slums collected for the first time? · Ans: C
92. How many towns or cities were surveyed, and how many reported having a slum population, in 2001? · Ans: B
93. Calculate the percentage of towns or cities having a slum population out of the total number of towns or cities according to Census 2001. · Ans: B
94. In how many towns or cities were slums found in the 2011 Census? · Ans: B
95. What was the slum population according to the Pronab Sen Committee? · Ans: B
96. Inter disciplinary research in the human sciences results from · Ans: D
97. Interdisciplinary collaboration sometimes involves · Ans: C
98. The difficulties in analytical integration are due to · Ans: A
99. What is the common tendency among some social sciences? · Ans: C
100. 'Sociological imperialism' is associated with · Ans: C

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