McqkartGet appPractise

Exams · UGC NET · Sociology · UGC NET June 2023 Sociology Paper II

UGC NET June 2023 Sociology Paper II — Solved Previous Year Questions

100 previous-year questions from UGC NET June 2023 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 the calculation of the organic composition of capital, which of the following are calculated? · Ans: B
  2. What was a key theoretical premise in Edward Said's discussion of Orientalism? · Ans: D
  3. Arrange the following peasant movements in chronological order: · Ans: B
  4. Who among the following has written the book 'Civilizing the Savage'? · Ans: A
  5. Who among the following has advocated for the tribe-caste continuum? · Ans: C
  6. Who propounded the idea of the hidden curriculum? · Ans: C
  7. Who among the following urges that the major function of religion is to maintain order in society? · Ans: D
  8. 'World Revolution in Family Patterns' was the book written by whom? · Ans: A
  9. Identify those who have identified the functions of conflict: · Ans: C
  10. Which among the following theorists regarded that population increase brings change in society? · Ans: B
  11. Domestic violence, according to feminist scholars, is related to: · Ans: A
  12. Who wrote the book 'The Religion of India: The Sociology of Hinduism and Buddhism'? · Ans: C
  13. Match List I (Theory/Contribution) with List II (Theorists) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: D
  14. Identify the type of sampling in which inferential statistics cannot be applied: · Ans: C
  15. Arrange the order of the economy in economic sociology: · Ans: B
  16. Auguste Comte gave three stages of thinking for the development of society. Which is the third stage? · Ans: B
  17. The classical notion of poverty includes: · Ans: B
  18. The merit of the interview method of data collection is that: · Ans: C
  19. The game of Tic-Tac-Toe, as referred to by M. Lynch, is closely related to which phenomenon? · Ans: C
  20. Arrange the following steps of research from the initial to the final stage: · Ans: B
  21. Arrange the various sciences in a hierarchy from complex to simple as provided by Auguste Comte: · Ans: D
  22. Habermas identified which of the following types of capitalist societies? · Ans: D
  23. The famous book 'The Theory of Communicative Action' is authored by whom? · Ans: B
  24. Who introduced the idea of the global village in the study of mass media? · Ans: C
  25. Which of the following terms are used to refer to the new religious movement? · Ans: D
  26. Explaining the effects of globalization, George Ritzer wrote a book titled: · Ans: D
  27. Assertion A: The theoretical synthesis of dialectic and functionalism holds that society is not a system of equilibrium but a nebulous structure of imperfectly coordinated elements held together by the coercion of some elements and the subjection of… · Ans: A
  28. Which of the following basic institutions was NOT discussed by Anthony Giddens in defining modernity? · Ans: C
  29. Who gave the concept of 'Anti-Minotaur' to demolish the myth of 'value-neutral sociology'? · Ans: B
  30. Which among the following scholars used the comparative method in their analysis? · Ans: D
  31. Match List I (Social Scientists) with List II (Contributions) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  32. Match List I (Concepts) with List II (Sociologists) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  33. An aggregate which lacks structure or organization and whose members may be unaware or less aware of the existence of the grouping is known as: · Ans: A
  34. Which sociologist wrote the book 'Sociology as an Art Form'? · Ans: D
  35. Arrange the sources of knowledge in the order of their usage or performance in social research: · Ans: C
  36. Karl Marx identified various forms of the division of labour as stages of development in the history of Europe. Identify the correct sequence: · Ans: C
  37. Who among the following are NOT associated with hermeneutics? · Ans: D
  38. The biomedical model refers to: · Ans: A
  39. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: D
  40. Who among the following contributed to the mode of production debate by identifying agrarian classes in terms of Malik, Kisan and Mazdoor? · Ans: C
  41. Assertion A: According to H. Blumer, human beings act towards things on the basis of the meanings they have. Reason R: The meanings are derived through the interpretative process while handling the things. · Ans: A
  42. According to Eric R. Wolf, the prerequisites for a sustained peasant rebellion are: · Ans: A
  43. Arrange the works of Anthony Giddens in chronological order: · Ans: C
  44. Which of the following sociologists have discussed the family from a functionalist perspective? · Ans: C
  45. Conceptually, the incest taboo refers to what? · Ans: C
  46. Who defines 'culture change' as the process by which the existing order of society, that is its social, spiritual and material dimensions, is transformed from one type to another? · Ans: C
  47. Who suggested a 'value reference' instead of 'value judgment' as a methodology to give sociology the status of an objective science? · Ans: D
  48. Who has studied the changing agrarian relations in Sripuram, located in Tanjore district, Tamil Nadu? · Ans: B
  49. What does NOT refer to the rites of passage? · Ans: C
  50. David Held (1999) did NOT divide the globalization debate into which of the following? · Ans: C
  51. Which among the following is NOT a mode of motivational orientation according to Talcott Parsons? · Ans: B
  52. The unintended and unrecognized functions, according to Merton, are called: · Ans: B
  53. Arrange the concepts associated with classical sociologists in chronological order: · Ans: A
  54. Match List I (Concept) with List II (Explanation) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  55. Assertion A: Contemporary societies experience the phenomenon of ethnic identity assertion. Reason R: The search for self-identity is intrinsic to the human condition. · Ans: B
  56. While following the deductive research strategy, Karl Popper advocated that: · Ans: A
  57. According to Malinowski, while studying diffusion at the field level, one is to focus on which unit of transformation? · Ans: D
  58. Match List I (Thinker) with List II (Concepts) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  59. Which one of the following forms of authority expounded by Max Weber is NOT a form of traditional authority? · Ans: B
  60. According to Talcott Parsons, the unit act of the social system includes: · Ans: D
  61. The sociology of emotions examines the relations of feelings with the following: · Ans: A
  62. Who among the following argues on the duality of structure? · Ans: A
  63. Who established the relationship between power, ideology and discourse in relation to modern organizations? · Ans: A
  64. Match List I (Researchers) with List II (Specific Area of Research) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: B
  65. Who among the following discussed the relation of advertisement and the preservation of capitalist society? · Ans: C
  66. Which of the following sociologists are known for emphasising the relation of morality and education? · Ans: A
  67. Who wrote the book 'The Subjection of Women'? · Ans: D
  68. Assertion A: According to Talcott Parsons, an action is the actor's orientation towards a situation. Reason R: According to Max Black, orientation towards a situation is not exactly action, but an attitude towards the situation. · Ans: B
  69. Statement I: Marx, Simmel and Dahrendorf are major theorists of the conflict perspective. Statement II: Max Weber was the first to offer a definitional description of conflict by treating it as a form of social relationship. · Ans: A
  70. Match List I (Authors) with List II (Books) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  71. Who among the following social scientists developed the idea of reflexive sociology or society? · Ans: C
  72. Who among the following are known for the sociological study of the body? · Ans: A
  73. Who among the following did NOT contribute significantly to the analysis of contemporary capitalist society? · Ans: B
  74. Whose sociology outlined a method for the study of ideas as functions of social involvement? · Ans: A
  75. Who among the following saw the gaze as a kind of language, a language without words? · Ans: B
  76. Who gave the essential idea of explaining individual phenomena by the state of the collectivity, and not the state of the collectivity by individual phenomena? · Ans: D
  77. Who defined religion as 'a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things'? · Ans: C
  78. Radhakamal Mukerjee does NOT offer an alternative worldview of sociology from which one of the following philosophical traditions? · Ans: C
  79. The secularization theory explains: · Ans: A
  80. What causes the change from mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity, according to Durkheim? · Ans: A
  81. In the definition of knowledge, identify the elements which are valid: · Ans: A
  82. Match List I (Social Movements) with List II (States) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  83. L.H. Morgan, in the book 'Ancient Society', elaborated the progression of society through which stages? · Ans: A
  84. Arrange the rural-urban continuum from the units provided below: · Ans: A
  85. In a social survey: · Ans: C
  86. According to Marx, the sequence of the progression of society was: · Ans: C
  87. Match List I (Thinker) with List II (Concepts) and choose the correct answer: · Ans: A
  88. Arrange the following events of Indian agrarian society in chronological order: · Ans: D
  89. Who among the following sociologists in India applied the theoretical insights of Claude Levi-Strauss to studying structure and cognition in Hindu society? · Ans: D
  90. Who among the following made a psychoanalytic study of childhood in Hindu families? · Ans: C
  91. According to the passage, select the incorrect statement: · Ans: D
  92. According to the passage, identify the incorrect statement with regard to authority relations: · Ans: B
  93. According to the passage, the exercise of authority produces: · Ans: B
  94. According to the passage, the exercise of authority does NOT involve the exercise of: · Ans: B
  95. According to the passage, authority relations are: · Ans: B
  96. According to the passage, which group has enduring relationships with service providers such as blacksmith, potter and barber? · Ans: A
  97. According to the passage, caste groups in rural areas come together in order to bring about: · Ans: D
  98. According to the passage, traditional inter-caste relations in rural India are: · Ans: A
  99. According to the passage, service providers receive grain with straw after the harvest for the work done during the previous year under which system? · Ans: C
  100. According to the passage, the caste system at the village level is locked into the system of: · Ans: A

Practise this paper →