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(1) Indological perspective does not include :
(1) A Book View
(2) A Static View
(3) A Great Traditional View
(4) A Field View
Answer: A Field View
(2) Who has coined the concept ‘culture of poverty’ ?
(1) Oscar Lewis
(2) Gunnar Myrdal
(3) M.N. Srinivas
(4) A.R. Desai
Answer: Oscar Lewis

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(3) Who conducts the periodical study for estimating poverty line in India ?
(1) National Census Organization
(2) National Sample Survey Organization
(3) Sample Survey Organization
(4) Anthropological Survey of India
Answer: National Sample Survey Organization
(4) In which census year, increase of total urban population was more than the increase in rural population of India ?
(1) 2001
(2) 1951
(3) 2011
(4) 1991
Answer: 2011
(5) Which State among the special category of States in India has highest growth rate of gross domestic product ?
(1) Sikkim
(2) Arunachal Pradesh
(3) Uttarakhand
(4) Himachal Pradesh
Answer: Sikkim
(6) Which type of development projects have displaced minimum number of persons ?
(1) Industrial
(2) Mining
(3) Wild Life Sanctuaries
(4) Dams
Answer: Wild Life Sanctuaries
(7) Suicide caused by excessive individualization in modern societies is called :
(1) Anomic
(2) Egoistic
(3) Altruistic
(4) Fatalistic
Answer: Egoistic
(8) Who defined deviance as “the tendency on part of one or more of the component actors to behave in such a way as to disturb the equilibrium of interactive process” ?
(1) R.K. Merton
(2) T. Parsons
(3) C.H. Cooley
(4) G.H. Mead
Answer: T. Parsons
(9) Who among the following was the first sociologists to systematically study what has come to be known as “White collar crime” ?
(1) C. Shaw and H.D. Mckay
(2) M.B. Clinard
(3) E.H. Sutherland
(4) F. Carson
Answer: E.H. Sutherland
(10) According to whom, from the following scholars, deviant behaviour is the result of conflict between the ‘id’ and the ‘ego’ ?
(1) Bottomore
(2) Durkheim
(3) Freud
(4) Lombroso
Answer: Freud
(11) Who among the following argued that deviance results not from ‘pathological personalities’ but from the culture and structure of society itself ?
(1) A.K. Cohen
(2) R.K. Merton
(3) E.M. Lemert
(4) Karl Marx
Answer: R.K. Merton
(12) Which State, among the following is known for higher consumption of drugs ?
(1) Himachal Pradesh
(2) Punjab
(3) Kerala
(4) Mizoram
Answer: Punjab
(13) The ‘quest of identity’ in a plural society on the basis of race and language is known as :
(1) Diversity
(2) Ethnicity
(3) Plurality
(4) Sociability
Answer: Ethnicity
(14) The ‘Compression of time and space’ is attributed to which one of the following ?
(1) Industrialisation
(2) Modernisation
(3) Globalization
(4) Urbanisation
Answer: Globalization
(15) Who, on the basis of empirical data from Maharashtra and Punjab, has stated that ‘ethnicized politics is communalism and not fundamentalism’ ?
(1) M. Mohanty
(2) C.P. Bhambri
(3) T.K. Oommen
(4) Dipankar Gupta
Answer: Dipankar Gupta

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