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(1) Who among the following defined social structure as : ‘Abstraction from the concrete population and its behaviour, the pattern or network (or ‘system’) of relationships obtaining between actors in their capacity of playing roles relative to one another’.
(1) C.W. Mills
(2) S.F. Nadel
(3) H. Gerth
(4) R.K. Merton
Answer: S.F. Nadel
(2) Who said that “Social change was the result of natural process of adaption” ?
(1) Darwin
(2) Spencer
(3) Marx
(4) Hegel
Answer: Spencer

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(3) ‘Sociology of Economic life’ is authored by :
(1) Weber
(2) Parsons
(3) Merton
(4) Smelser
Answer: Smelser
(4) Cognates mean kins through :
(1) Female line
(2) Both (1) and (2)
(3) Male line
(4) None of the above
Answer: Both (1) and (2)
(5) Who regarded the state as “a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie” ?
(1) Robert A. Dahl
(2) V. Pareto
(3) K. Marx
(4) C.W. Mills
Answer: K. Marx
(6) A biological being is transformed into a social being with the help of the following ?
(1) Socialization
(2) Resocialization
(3) Desocialization
(4) Anticipatory socialization
Answer: Socialization
(7) Which of the following is not an agency of socialization ?
(1) Family
(2) Peer group
(3) Police
(4) School
Answer: Police
(8) Socialization process is more effective if the agents behaviour is __________.
(1) Based on understanding
(2) Based on sympathy
(3) Based on the feeling
(4) All the above
Answer: All the above
(9) Among the following who says that social stratification is functional necessity of the society ?
(1) Yogendra Singh
(2) Andre Beteille
(3) R. Collins
(4) K. Davis
Answer: K. Davis
(10) Caste based stratification is :
(1) Ascribed
(2) Achieved
(3) Open
(4) Neither open nor closed
Answer: Ascribed
(11) The consequence of Sanskritization is :
(1) Structural change in caste system
(2) Cultural mobility of a caste
(3) Change in caste ideology
(4) Change in religious system
Answer: Cultural mobility of a caste
(12) Which model of change suggests that change occurs through conflict and resolution ?
(1) Evolutional
(2) Dialectic
(3) Cyclical
(4) Progressive
Answer: Dialectic
(13) Who is odd one among the following social thinkers of social change ?
(1) Julian Steward
(2) A. Comte
(3) K. Marx
(4) Saint – Simon
Answer: Julian Steward
(14) Who was of the opinion that revolutions are locomotives of history ?
(1) E. Kant
(2) K. Marx
(3) Hegel
(4) Engels
Answer: K. Marx
(15) Who is said to be the founder of structuralism in Sociology and Social Anthropology ?
(1) Anthony Giddens
(2) C. Levi - Strauss
(3) L. Althusser
(4) A.R. Radcliffe – Brown
Answer: C. Levi - Strauss

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