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UGC NET June 2021 Sociology Paper II — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET June 2021 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. According to Ivan Illich, schools have developed which of the following four basic functions? · Ans: B
  2. Which one of the following is NOT a harbinger of cultural change? · Ans: B
  3. Of the following, who has not worked on the functioning of the Jajmani system as a binding force among castes? · Ans: C
  4. Assertion A: Democracy has become a global force; while it has become widespread, all is not well with this political system and it has got into difficulties almost everywhere. Reason R: For its failure, it is not the… · Ans: C
  5. Who is the author of "Private Lives and Public Surveillance"? · Ans: C
  6. Which of the following scholar(s) has not emphasized the term 'Underclass'? · Ans: A
  7. Who said, "empty land sitting useless, if homeless people can live there, what is wrong?" · Ans: B
  8. Levi-Strauss interpreted the sign systems of 'Primitive culture' examining everything from the: · Ans: C
  9. Which term is used to refer to the characteristics or properties of the studied object? · Ans: A
  10. Which two of the following concepts are related with R. Robertson? · Ans: C
  11. According to R. Wallis, the three broad categories World-affirming, World-rejecting and World-accommodating movements are associated with which of the following? · Ans: C
  12. Which three of the following are the primary models of ethnic integration adopted by multi-ethnic societies? · Ans: D
  13. The concept of Habitus as a basis for a cultural approach to structural inequality, with a focus on the embodiment of cultural representation in human habits and routines, was originally used by: · Ans: B
  14. According to P.M. Kolenda, which family types were NOT discussed for a comparative evaluation? · Ans: D
  15. According to new ideas in the industry: · Ans: C
  16. A megacity is one whose population is: · Ans: B
  17. If nephews and nieces are brought up in their maternal uncle's family, the arrangement is referred to as: · Ans: A
  18. Who is the author of "Myth and Meaning"? · Ans: C
  19. Which book on research methodology, considered one of his first works, was written by Emile Durkheim? · Ans: D
  20. Which one of the following is NOT correct according to Marx? · Ans: B
  21. Which two of the following major greenhouse gases contribute to global warming? · Ans: D
  22. Match List I (Thinkers) with List II (Concepts) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  23. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: B
  24. A relationship between two variables is considered significant according to the Chi-square test at which of the following levels of error? · Ans: A
  25. Statement I: Some major concepts about social change in India can be grouped as Sanskritisation and Westernisation. Statement II: The term Sanskritisation was used by M.N. Srinivas to describe the process of structural transformation in the Indian social… · Ans: C
  26. Achievement, Self-discipline and Individualism, which are instrumental and task-oriented, represent which type of societies? · Ans: A
  27. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: B
  28. Distinct economic systems characterized by a specific set of relations of production combined with forms of productive forces are called: · Ans: C
  29. Wangala village in Mysore was studied by which scholar? · Ans: D
  30. The impact of industry on religion, according to Elton Mayo, is a transformation from: · Ans: C
  31. An idea associated with Marshall McLuhan, who saw the spread of electronic communication as binding the world into a coherent single community, is called: · Ans: D
  32. Which among the following are NOT the works of Irawati Karve? · Ans: C
  33. The Munda and the Oraon of Chotta Nagpur, who live close to each other and share much of their cultural life, belong to which speech groups respectively? · Ans: A
  34. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  35. Among the earlier industrial sociologists, who wrote the book Social Framework of an Indian Factory? · Ans: C
  36. Arrange the occurrence of the following technological revolutions in chronological order from the earliest to the latest: · Ans: B
  37. The title of the Brundtland Report is: · Ans: D
  38. Who wrote the book Urbanization and Family Change in the Indian context? · Ans: C
  39. Who among the following divided globalization into two camps, the optimists and the pessimists? · Ans: D
  40. Robin Cohen argued for which of the following categories of diaspora? · Ans: A
  41. Who among the following traced the evolution of citizenship in three key stages of civil rights, political rights and social rights? · Ans: D
  42. Which of the following are included in structuralist semiotics? · Ans: C
  43. Who first proposed "semiology" as a scientific study of signs in society? · Ans: B
  44. Which environmentalist received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for contributions to sustainable development, democracy and peace? · Ans: D
  45. Clifford Geertz's framework of Symbolic Anthropology accepts which of the following? · Ans: C
  46. Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau is well known for his work on which of the following? · Ans: D
  47. Arrange the following activities in sequence as per their occurrence during a year: · Ans: A
  48. Who gave the concept of plastic sexuality? · Ans: A
  49. Which of the following characteristics of the caste system were NOT emphasized by G.S. Ghurye? · Ans: D
  50. Who is the author of the book "Human Ecology"? · Ans: A
  51. Give the correct chronological sequence of the works of B.R. Ambedkar: · Ans: C
  52. Match List I (Thinkers) with List II (Works) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  53. A Hindu marriage ceremony consists of a series of ritual performances, which are: · Ans: C
  54. The reasoning which proceeds from a general truth to a particular truth is called: · Ans: A
  55. Of the following, what are the causes of the weakening of the nation-state? · Ans: A
  56. Who defined class as "when a number of people have in common a specific causal component of their life chances"? · Ans: D
  57. According to Durkheim, sociology can claim to be a science that systematizes, classifies and explains on the basis of which of the following? · Ans: A
  58. The Exchange Theory was propounded and/or advanced by which of the following sociologists? · Ans: A
  59. Arrange the writings of Durkheim in chronological order: · Ans: B
  60. Statement I: According to A. Van Gennep, a direct rite is a curse or a spell. Statement II: Direct rites are designed to produce results immediately, without intervention by any outside agent. · Ans: A
  61. Which village was studied by Andre Beteille in his work on 'Caste, Class and Power'? · Ans: D
  62. According to Manuel Castells, the Informational Revolution is: · Ans: A
  63. In which type of reading does the reader accept the dominant codes and conventions but may question their use in terms of his or her own experience? · Ans: C
  64. Which of the following aspects is/are NOT associated with the works of M.N. Srinivas? · Ans: A
  65. According to Pippa Norris, the concept of the digital divide encompasses which three distinct aspects? · Ans: B
  66. Match List I (Ideas) with List II (Explanation) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  67. Who said that monogamous marriage developed not to unite men and women in marital bliss, but to protect private property? · Ans: A
  68. Arrange the following functionalists in chronological order as they contributed: · Ans: D
  69. Statement I: According to A. Schutz, the world of everyday life is not permeated by the epoche of the natural attitude. Statement II: All the objects of the social world are constituted within a framework of familiarity and… · Ans: D
  70. "All truths are ideologically biased; all truths ultimately reflect the interests and biases of social groups." Whose views are these? · Ans: C
  71. Match List I (Concepts) with List II (Sociologists) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  72. Within the feminist movement a wide range of theories have emerged. Arrange these perspectives in sequence: · Ans: C
  73. Arrange the following states according to their level of urbanization in descending order as per Census 2011: · Ans: B
  74. Who devised a theory of social conflict based on understanding the central characteristics of the "nomadic" and "sedentary" societies of his time? · Ans: B
  75. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  76. Michel Foucault has used which of the following pairs of concepts? · Ans: B
  77. Match List I (Book/Works) with List II (Sociologists) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  78. Who emphasized the significance of the dialectical model in studying rural society? · Ans: C
  79. Arrange the three stages proposed by Auguste Comte in the proper sequence: · Ans: B
  80. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  81. Who among the following considered person-to-person relations and actually existing relations as constituting the social structure? · Ans: A
  82. Which of the following are the four institutional imperatives of science according to Robert K. Merton? · Ans: C
  83. Power commands: · Ans: A
  84. Arrange the Varna Ashramas of the Hindu way of life in the correct sequence: · Ans: C
  85. In which of the following approaches was the sexual division of labour taken for granted and treated as natural? · Ans: D
  86. Depletion of the ozone layer in the stratosphere is responsible for: · Ans: D
  87. Which of the following are true about the sociology of consumption? · Ans: B
  88. Which two of the following were the cleanest cities of India as per the Government of India survey of 2020? · Ans: D
  89. Which one of the following is a suspicion of outsiders combined with a tendency to evaluate the culture of others in terms of one's own culture? · Ans: B
  90. Assertion A: Eradicating poverty in all its forms, including extreme poverty, is the greatest global challenge. Reason R: It is an indispensable requirement for sustainable development. · Ans: C
  91. Archaeologists can detect, in the form of hand axes, a change in: · Ans: C
  92. What was the knowledge embodied in the hand axes of the Old Stone Age? · Ans: D
  93. Technological progress is the result of the accumulation of: · Ans: A
  94. The distinction of knowledge has been emphasized in the passage through: · Ans: C
  95. Serviceable tools were needed to supplement the deficiencies of: · Ans: A
  96. What is assumed about Indian bureaucracy in the passage? · Ans: B
  97. Indian bureaucracy suffers mainly from which one of the following? · Ans: B
  98. What is the orientation of bureaucrats in India due to which the bureaucratic structure becomes dysfunctional? · Ans: A
  99. Which one of the following institutions offers a stable structural foundation and the growth of normative order in Indian society? · Ans: B
  100. In Indian society, dysfunction seems to be related to which one of the following? · Ans: C

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