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(1) Who is said to have deconstructed language and social institutions ?
(1) Derrida
(2) Godelier
(3) Foucault
(4) Smith
Answer: Derrida
(2) Who has envisioned an alternative stage (an alternative society) in which “speech will cease to govern the stage”
(1) Foucault
(2) Derrida
(3) Lemert
(4) None of the above
Answer: Derrida

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(3) According to post modernists which ideas of modernity are considered gone by or dead ?
(1) Reason, rationality and progress.
(2) Rationality,progress and objectivity.
(3) Legality, rationality and objectivity
(4) Objectivity, rationality, reason
Answer: Reason, rationality and progress.
(4) Who considers modernity as ‘an unfinished project’ ?
(1) Derrida
(2) Giddens
(3) Althusser
(4) Habermas
Answer: Habermas
(5) Who had initiated the work on the total communities of India namely “People of India Project”?
(1) N.K. Bose
(2) K.S. Singh
(3) Yogendra Singh
(4) M.N. Srinivas
Answer: K.S. Singh
(6) Who has stated that the entire course of Indian History shows tribal elements being fused into a general society ?
(1) A.R. Radcliffe-Brown
(2) D.D. Kosambi
(3) S.S. Sarkar
(4) M. Marriott
Answer: D.D. Kosambi
(7) Who is of the opinion that the notion of fundamental opposition between the pure and the impure is the hallmark of the caste system ?
(1) M.N. Srinivas
(2) Louis Dumont
(3) Surajit Sinha
(4) B.R. Ambedkar
Answer: Louis Dumont
(8) Which perspective is based on the assumption that Indian society is unique and the Indian social institutions can be better studied through the texts ?
(1) Subaltern
(2) Indological
(3) Civilizational
(4) Structural/Functional
Answer: Indological
(9) Which type of poverty refers to a lack of basic resources needed to maintain health and bodily functioning ?
(1) Absolute poverty
(2) Relative poverty
(3) Culture of poverty
(4) Enforced poverty
Answer: Absolute poverty
(10) Prof. S.C. Dube’s study on village compost pit and its failure is due to
(1) Inequality of caste and gender
(2) Religious disharmonies
(3) Intergenerational conflict
(4) None of the above
Answer: Inequality of caste and gender
(11) Who in developing the theory of deviance utilized explanatory factors that are typical of functional analysis, namely, cultural goals and institutionalized norms ?
(1) Durkheim
(2) Merton
(3) Parsons
(4) Weber
Answer: Merton
(12) Who has propounded the “Theory of Differential Association” ?
(1) R.K. Merton
(2) R.H. Burke
(3) G. Tarde
(4) E.H. Sutherland
Answer: E.H. Sutherland
(13) Death resulting out of failure in love affair is an example of
(1) Fatalistic suicide
(2) Egoistic suicide
(3) Altruistic suicide
(4) Anomic suicide
Answer: Anomic suicide
(14) Community Policing System’ aims at prevention and control of Crime through
(1) Public
(2) Police
(3) Police and Public
(4) Army
Answer: Police and Public
(15) Drug de-addiction centres provide which of the following facility/facilities ?
(1) Counselling
(2) Medical assistance
(3) Yogic exercise
(4) All the above
Answer: All the above

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