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UGC NET June 2022 Sociology Paper II — Solved Previous Year Questions

99 previous-year questions from UGC NET June 2022 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. In his famous work on the changing stratification of a Tanjore village, Andre Beteille observed changes in: · Ans: D
  2. Production characterised by a large number of standardized products made by highly specialized workers is known as: · Ans: C
  3. Which were the general land tenure systems prevalent in rural India before independence? · Ans: D
  4. Who is known as the "bourgeois Marx"? · Ans: B
  5. Which sociologist coined the concept 'social relationship' to describe patterned human interaction which is intentional, meaningful and symbolic? · Ans: C
  6. The structural features of the caste system are: · Ans: C
  7. Assertion A: Discrimination is a mode of behaviour. Reason R: To discriminate means to deny an individual or a group a privilege, opportunity or pleasure that is thereupon reserved for one's own group. · Ans: A
  8. Match List I (Terms) with List II (Domain) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: B
  9. A biological being is transformed into a social being with the help of: · Ans: A
  10. Select the correct statement(s) about research approaches: · Ans: C
  11. Who has written the book 'The Family in India: Critical Essays'? · Ans: C
  12. Assertion A: Prejudice is one thing; discrimination is something else. Reason R: Prejudice is a matter of belief; discrimination is a mode of behaviour. · Ans: A
  13. Who wrote the book "The Lonely Crowd"? · Ans: C
  14. Adopting a historical approach to the dispersal of people, R. Cohen identifies which categories of diasporas? · Ans: D
  15. Examples of nominal measures are: · Ans: B
  16. Which among the following are relevant and related to the national policy on education? · Ans: C
  17. ............ is an approach originally developed by Dorothy Smith (1978) to better understand women's everyday experiences by discovering the power relations that shape those experiences. · Ans: C
  18. Statement I: Karl Marx, Max Weber and Michel Foucault are the most influential figures in an intellectual movement known as post-structuralism. Statement II: Michel Foucault has had immense influence on the social sciences. · Ans: D
  19. Which one of the following is NOT correctly matched? · Ans: D
  20. Match List I (Principles) with List II (Meaning) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  21. Who has written the book 'World Revolution and Family Patterns'? · Ans: A
  22. The features of the "Kula Ring" described by Malinowski are: · Ans: C
  23. People under the class structure who are economically, politically and socially marginalized and excluded comprise the: · Ans: C
  24. Match List I (Thinkers) with List II (Concepts) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  25. "Cultural identities are shaped by a complex set of factors, which are associated with the process of evolution of cultural practices and beliefs of a people in the course of their historical experiences." Who stated this? · Ans: B
  26. Which of the following constitutes an important methodological component in Foucault's works? · Ans: B
  27. Relative poverty refers to: · Ans: C
  28. ............ is the channelling of an increasing number of women into low-status, poorly paid manual work. · Ans: B
  29. Who has classified political institutions into republic, aristocracy, monarchy and autocracy? · Ans: B
  30. Statement I: A major problem for empirical researchers is the connection between theory and observation, referred to as rules of correspondence. Statement II: In sociology, the passage from observation to conceptualisation and back again requires a close examination… · Ans: A
  31. Assertion A: Enhancing global consciousness is a vital dimension of increasing environmental awareness. Reason R: Our choices and actions are responsible for our impact on ecology. · Ans: A
  32. Who among the following used the 'Comparative and Historical Research Method' in their study? · Ans: D
  33. Statement I: Some of the developing countries have embarked successfully on a process of rapid industrialization. Statement II: They are referred to as the Newly Industrializing Countries. · Ans: A
  34. Which one of the following is NOT correct? · Ans: D
  35. According to Louis Wirth, the following variables are important in making urban life impersonal: · Ans: C
  36. Assertion A: Sociologists usually distinguish between absolute and relative poverty. Reason R: In developed countries, with established welfare systems, absolute poverty is rare. · Ans: B
  37. Which one of the following influences deviance? · Ans: B
  38. The durable relations between a food-producing family and the families that supply them with goods and services are known as: · Ans: D
  39. Match List I (Thinkers) with List II (Work/Concept) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  40. There are two levels of meaning implicit in Sanskritization. These are: · Ans: A
  41. Match List I (Description) with List II (Type of Migration) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  42. Which one of the following practises a matrilineal family structure? · Ans: A
  43. Who has suggested six dimensions of communalism: assimilationist, welfarist, retreatist, retaliatory, separatist and secessionist? · Ans: C
  44. The book "Patterns of Culture" is written by: · Ans: C
  45. Who has classified action into logical and non-logical action? · Ans: C
  46. Assertion A: There is an increasing prevalence of borderless diseases. Reason R: There is an increase in global travel and an increasing rate of human migration. · Ans: A
  47. An Italian consuming paneer tikka in Rome and an Indian consuming pizza in Varanasi is an example of: · Ans: D
  48. ............ is a set of socially constructed ideas that accommodate the interests of men and patriarchy and involve the compliance of females. · Ans: B
  49. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  50. Consider the following statements about types of city and choose the correct answer: · Ans: D
  51. Chronologically arrange the following schools of thought as they appeared in the history of sociology: · Ans: C
  52. The #MeToo movement is a part of which wave of feminism? · Ans: D
  53. Who gave the concept of "modes of individual adaptation"? · Ans: C
  54. A ............ entails the collection of data on more than one case (usually quite a lot more than one) at a single point in time. · Ans: A
  55. The concept of "habitus" deals with: · Ans: C
  56. Match List I (Books) with List II (Authors) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  57. Statement I: Correspondence analysis is a statistical method for analysing cross-tabulated data by finding a geometrical representation. Statement II: Well-known applications of correspondence analysis are presented by Pierre Bourdieu in Distinction. · Ans: A
  58. Assertion A: N.K. Bose emphasised the need to bring ethnology and indology together in the study of Indian society. Reason R: It is possible to reconstruct the structure of the Indian Constitution through these two approaches. · Ans: C
  59. Which academic journal is published by the Indian Sociological Society? · Ans: C
  60. Who among the following criticised the effects of "mass media" and the "culture industry" on the population? · Ans: C
  61. Match List I (Tribe) with List II (Dormitory) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  62. Use of public office for private gain is known as: · Ans: B
  63. The main features of class are: · Ans: B
  64. Definite procedures or rules which people are expected to observe are known as: · Ans: A
  65. Which of the following is NOT a defining feature of a tribe? · Ans: A
  66. Match List I (Thinkers) with List II (Concept/Theory) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  67. Which one of the following was NOT a direct cause of the decline of pre-British village artisan industries? · Ans: C
  68. The disharmony between the rapid growth of technology and the slower transformation of social institutions and beliefs is known as: · Ans: C
  69. The most systematic general theory of cultural reproduction is given by: · Ans: B
  70. Match List I (Thinkers) with List II (Concepts/Ideas) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: B
  71. Match List I (Thinkers) with List II (Theory/Approach/Model) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: D
  72. Cultural phenomena combining inputs and impositions from other cultures with local realities are: · Ans: C
  73. The unit of production in a tribal economy is the: · Ans: C
  74. Match List I (Personalities) with List II (Recognition) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  75. ............ was first developed by sociologists B. Glaser and A. Strauss (1967) in an attempt to come to grips with their clinical research in medical sociology. · Ans: D
  76. The concept of "conspicuous consumption" denotes that: · Ans: C
  77. A structure of relationships linking social actors, or the set of actors and the ties among them, is a: · Ans: B
  78. Who wrote the book 'Caste and Race in India'? · Ans: B
  79. Consider the following statements about quantitative and qualitative research and choose the correct answer: · Ans: D
  80. What are the main features of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016? · Ans: D
  81. What is the appropriate term to describe a woman marrying the brother of her deceased husband? · Ans: B
  82. Caste-based stratification is: · Ans: C
  83. The middle attribute in the ranked distribution of observed attributes is known as: · Ans: D
  84. Who has conducted the study on the Nayars of Kerala? · Ans: B
  85. Match List I (Types of Religious Organization) with List II (Definition) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: C
  86. ............ is an epistemological position that advocates the application of the methods of the natural sciences to the study of social reality and beyond. · Ans: C
  87. "Conurbation" means: · Ans: A
  88. The concept of "the generalized elsewhere" has been given by: · Ans: D
  89. Which is the largest form of urban life today? · Ans: B
  90. According to the passage, in more developed agricultural societies: · Ans: C
  91. "Property is to be conceived in terms of the control of man over things." Who said this? · Ans: B
  92. According to the passage, which of the following are possessed by primitive people as personal private property? · Ans: C
  93. According to the passage, for the pastoralists: · Ans: B
  94. According to the passage, in primitive societies the principal economic resources are: · Ans: C
  95. Myrdal's theory of social change and development is based on: · Ans: C
  96. According to the passage, constructing universal evolutionary stages of growth may involve: · Ans: C
  97. Which of the following factors is NOT described by Myrdal for the development of South Asian countries? · Ans: A
  98. According to Myrdal, it is easier: · Ans: B
  99. According to the passage, the modernization process in India is: · Ans: C

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