Delhi University Entrance Test (DUET) 2019 MA Sociology Previous Queston Papers
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
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Descripti
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Question Body Options
23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
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Descripti
on
Question Body Options
23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
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on
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
23660:It is because
women have to take care
of the family that they
acquire less human capital ,
23661:The status of
women compared to men
may not be secondary
across societies. ,
23662:Cultural particulars
and human universals are
often contradictory to each
other ,
23663:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but remains
constant within a society. ,
23664:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but their
secondary status is a
universal across cultures. ,
23665:News is an
objective representation of
whatever happens in the
world ,
23666:News is just a mask
for the profit orientation of
media managers ,
26 13416 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q26
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between
two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we
explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides us with one
of the more challenging problems to be dealt with. The secondary status
of woman in society is one of the true universals, a pan-cultural fact. Yet
within that universal fact, the specific cultural conceptions and
symbolizations of woman are extraordinarily diverse and even mutually
contradictory. Further, the actual treatment of women and their relative
power and contribution vary enormously from culture to culture, and
over different periods in the history of particular cultural traditions.
(Source: Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to
culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and
society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 68-87.)We can infer
from the above passage that:
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
23660:It is because
women have to take care
of the family that they
acquire less human capital ,
23661:The status of
women compared to men
may not be secondary
across societies. ,
23662:Cultural particulars
and human universals are
often contradictory to each
other ,
23663:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but remains
constant within a society. ,
23664:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but their
secondary status is a
universal across cultures. ,
23665:News is an
objective representation of
whatever happens in the
world ,
23666:News is just a mask
for the profit orientation of
media managers ,
26 13416 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q26
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between
two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we
explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides us with one
of the more challenging problems to be dealt with. The secondary status
of woman in society is one of the true universals, a pan-cultural fact. Yet
within that universal fact, the specific cultural conceptions and
symbolizations of woman are extraordinarily diverse and even mutually
contradictory. Further, the actual treatment of women and their relative
power and contribution vary enormously from culture to culture, and
over different periods in the history of particular cultural traditions.
(Source: Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to
culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and
society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 68-87.)We can infer
from the above passage that:
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
23667:The business
interests and political links
of media owners shapes
the news ,
23668:Journalists are the
prime selectors of news. ,
23669:desire to marry
daughters into wealthier
households and the desire
that they don?t have to
work too much overall. ,
23670:Withdrawal of
women from paid work and
the practice of hypergamy ,
23671:Women?s
objectification as status
good and their level of
domestic work ,
23672:Diminishing
household work and
diminishing work in public ,
23673:Common sense is
chaotic and ethnography is
always orderly ,
23674:Ethnography
disrupts society as it is
intrinsically political in the
sense proposed by Gramsci
,
28 13418 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q28
The practice of hypergamy that developed among Lewa Patels was
founded at least partly on the premise that daughters married into
wealthier households would neither have to sell their labor power nor
work in the fields; in short, their work in public would be minimized.
There was no guarantee, however, that their household work would
diminish as well, but this really was not a decisive element for
distinction. Ironically, then, the de-objectification of women?s work (her
dual withdrawal from commoditized work and public work) went hand-in-
hand with women?s objectification as status goods within the Lewa Patel
community. (Source: Gidwani, V. 2008. Capital,Interrupted. Agrarian
Development and the Politics of Work in India. University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, London, pg. 173)?The main argument of the passage
above is that there is a direct relationship between:
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
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2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
23660:It is because
women have to take care
of the family that they
acquire less human capital ,
23661:The status of
women compared to men
may not be secondary
across societies. ,
23662:Cultural particulars
and human universals are
often contradictory to each
other ,
23663:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but remains
constant within a society. ,
23664:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but their
secondary status is a
universal across cultures. ,
23665:News is an
objective representation of
whatever happens in the
world ,
23666:News is just a mask
for the profit orientation of
media managers ,
26 13416 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q26
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between
two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we
explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides us with one
of the more challenging problems to be dealt with. The secondary status
of woman in society is one of the true universals, a pan-cultural fact. Yet
within that universal fact, the specific cultural conceptions and
symbolizations of woman are extraordinarily diverse and even mutually
contradictory. Further, the actual treatment of women and their relative
power and contribution vary enormously from culture to culture, and
over different periods in the history of particular cultural traditions.
(Source: Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to
culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and
society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 68-87.)We can infer
from the above passage that:
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
23667:The business
interests and political links
of media owners shapes
the news ,
23668:Journalists are the
prime selectors of news. ,
23669:desire to marry
daughters into wealthier
households and the desire
that they don?t have to
work too much overall. ,
23670:Withdrawal of
women from paid work and
the practice of hypergamy ,
23671:Women?s
objectification as status
good and their level of
domestic work ,
23672:Diminishing
household work and
diminishing work in public ,
23673:Common sense is
chaotic and ethnography is
always orderly ,
23674:Ethnography
disrupts society as it is
intrinsically political in the
sense proposed by Gramsci
,
28 13418 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q28
The practice of hypergamy that developed among Lewa Patels was
founded at least partly on the premise that daughters married into
wealthier households would neither have to sell their labor power nor
work in the fields; in short, their work in public would be minimized.
There was no guarantee, however, that their household work would
diminish as well, but this really was not a decisive element for
distinction. Ironically, then, the de-objectification of women?s work (her
dual withdrawal from commoditized work and public work) went hand-in-
hand with women?s objectification as status goods within the Lewa Patel
community. (Source: Gidwani, V. 2008. Capital,Interrupted. Agrarian
Development and the Politics of Work in India. University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, London, pg. 173)?The main argument of the passage
above is that there is a direct relationship between:
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
23675:New knowledge is
produced by disruptions of
earlier categories and
assumptions ,
23676:Ethnography relies
on categories that are
familiar to the
ethnographer but not to
those being studied ,
23677:The passage is a
comparison between
Borges and Bu?uel where
Borges stands against the
?tyranny? of modernism and
Bu?uel stands for the
universalism of Western
Culture. ,
23678:The passage is a
comparison between
Bu?uel and Claude L?vi-
Strauss and their position
on western Universalism. ,
23679:The passage is a
discussion on
cosmopolitanism where the
author refers to Claude
L?vi-Strauss, Borges and
Bu?uel. ,
23680:All of these ,
23681:The importance of
Hongkong?s industrial
development. ,
30 13420 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q30
I begin with this encounter between Borges and Bu?uel because it
illustrates some of the ambiguities of the cosmopolitan. In Borges?s case,
cosmopolitanism was, first, a modernist argument against the tyranny of
?tradition? as narrow parochialisms and ethnocentrism: this was the
critical aspect of his cultural universalism (?our patrimony is the
universe?)?in much the same way that the universalism of ?structure?
was to Claude L?vi-Strauss a critical safeguard against ethnocentric bias.
The problem begins when this universalism is identified with Western
culture (?I believe our tradition is all of Western culture . . . ?).(Source:
Ackbar Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and
Hongkong. Public Culture 12(3): 769-786. pp 770-771.)?Q. In the light of
the above passage, which of the following statements is correct?
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
23660:It is because
women have to take care
of the family that they
acquire less human capital ,
23661:The status of
women compared to men
may not be secondary
across societies. ,
23662:Cultural particulars
and human universals are
often contradictory to each
other ,
23663:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but remains
constant within a society. ,
23664:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but their
secondary status is a
universal across cultures. ,
23665:News is an
objective representation of
whatever happens in the
world ,
23666:News is just a mask
for the profit orientation of
media managers ,
26 13416 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q26
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between
two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we
explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides us with one
of the more challenging problems to be dealt with. The secondary status
of woman in society is one of the true universals, a pan-cultural fact. Yet
within that universal fact, the specific cultural conceptions and
symbolizations of woman are extraordinarily diverse and even mutually
contradictory. Further, the actual treatment of women and their relative
power and contribution vary enormously from culture to culture, and
over different periods in the history of particular cultural traditions.
(Source: Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to
culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and
society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 68-87.)We can infer
from the above passage that:
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
23667:The business
interests and political links
of media owners shapes
the news ,
23668:Journalists are the
prime selectors of news. ,
23669:desire to marry
daughters into wealthier
households and the desire
that they don?t have to
work too much overall. ,
23670:Withdrawal of
women from paid work and
the practice of hypergamy ,
23671:Women?s
objectification as status
good and their level of
domestic work ,
23672:Diminishing
household work and
diminishing work in public ,
23673:Common sense is
chaotic and ethnography is
always orderly ,
23674:Ethnography
disrupts society as it is
intrinsically political in the
sense proposed by Gramsci
,
28 13418 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q28
The practice of hypergamy that developed among Lewa Patels was
founded at least partly on the premise that daughters married into
wealthier households would neither have to sell their labor power nor
work in the fields; in short, their work in public would be minimized.
There was no guarantee, however, that their household work would
diminish as well, but this really was not a decisive element for
distinction. Ironically, then, the de-objectification of women?s work (her
dual withdrawal from commoditized work and public work) went hand-in-
hand with women?s objectification as status goods within the Lewa Patel
community. (Source: Gidwani, V. 2008. Capital,Interrupted. Agrarian
Development and the Politics of Work in India. University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, London, pg. 173)?The main argument of the passage
above is that there is a direct relationship between:
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
23675:New knowledge is
produced by disruptions of
earlier categories and
assumptions ,
23676:Ethnography relies
on categories that are
familiar to the
ethnographer but not to
those being studied ,
23677:The passage is a
comparison between
Borges and Bu?uel where
Borges stands against the
?tyranny? of modernism and
Bu?uel stands for the
universalism of Western
Culture. ,
23678:The passage is a
comparison between
Bu?uel and Claude L?vi-
Strauss and their position
on western Universalism. ,
23679:The passage is a
discussion on
cosmopolitanism where the
author refers to Claude
L?vi-Strauss, Borges and
Bu?uel. ,
23680:All of these ,
23681:The importance of
Hongkong?s industrial
development. ,
30 13420 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q30
I begin with this encounter between Borges and Bu?uel because it
illustrates some of the ambiguities of the cosmopolitan. In Borges?s case,
cosmopolitanism was, first, a modernist argument against the tyranny of
?tradition? as narrow parochialisms and ethnocentrism: this was the
critical aspect of his cultural universalism (?our patrimony is the
universe?)?in much the same way that the universalism of ?structure?
was to Claude L?vi-Strauss a critical safeguard against ethnocentric bias.
The problem begins when this universalism is identified with Western
culture (?I believe our tradition is all of Western culture . . . ?).(Source:
Ackbar Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and
Hongkong. Public Culture 12(3): 769-786. pp 770-771.)?Q. In the light of
the above passage, which of the following statements is correct?
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
23682:? The injection of
capital and human
resources into Shanghai,
1950?s onwards. ,
23683:The emigration of
21 industrialist families out
of Hongkong. ,
23684:The emigration of
21 industrialist families
from Shanghai to
Hongkong. ,
23685:A version of a
Marxist historiography of
Science ,
23686:An analysis of
manufacturing science ,
23687:A history of
intellectual traditions ,
23688:Mechanistic
Manufacture ,
23689:An entity where the
individual members are not
conscious of themselves as
a class ,
23690:The French nation
which is composed purely
of farmers ,
32 13422 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q32
Boris Hessen?s ?The Social and Economic Roots of Newton?s ?Principia??
(1931) and Henryk Grossmann?s ?The Social Foundation of Mechanistic
Philosophy and Manufacture? (1935) are the classic programmatic
examples of Marxist historiography of science. The two works were
produced completely independent of one another, but both scholars were
working within the same intellectual tradition with the same conceptual
tools on the same topic. . . .They have enough in common that the
enlarged thesis that emerges from their work may be called the ?Hessen-
Grossmann-Thesis.? While many Marxists have contributed to the
historiography of science, Hessen?s and Grossmann?s work displays a
specifically Marxist approach: they conceptualize science as one kind of
labor within the system of social production.(Source: G. Freudenthal and
P. McLaughlin, 2009. The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific
Revolution. Springer Publications, pg. 1)?According to the passage, what
is the ?Hessen-Grossmann-Thesis??
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
23660:It is because
women have to take care
of the family that they
acquire less human capital ,
23661:The status of
women compared to men
may not be secondary
across societies. ,
23662:Cultural particulars
and human universals are
often contradictory to each
other ,
23663:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but remains
constant within a society. ,
23664:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but their
secondary status is a
universal across cultures. ,
23665:News is an
objective representation of
whatever happens in the
world ,
23666:News is just a mask
for the profit orientation of
media managers ,
26 13416 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q26
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between
two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we
explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides us with one
of the more challenging problems to be dealt with. The secondary status
of woman in society is one of the true universals, a pan-cultural fact. Yet
within that universal fact, the specific cultural conceptions and
symbolizations of woman are extraordinarily diverse and even mutually
contradictory. Further, the actual treatment of women and their relative
power and contribution vary enormously from culture to culture, and
over different periods in the history of particular cultural traditions.
(Source: Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to
culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and
society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 68-87.)We can infer
from the above passage that:
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
23667:The business
interests and political links
of media owners shapes
the news ,
23668:Journalists are the
prime selectors of news. ,
23669:desire to marry
daughters into wealthier
households and the desire
that they don?t have to
work too much overall. ,
23670:Withdrawal of
women from paid work and
the practice of hypergamy ,
23671:Women?s
objectification as status
good and their level of
domestic work ,
23672:Diminishing
household work and
diminishing work in public ,
23673:Common sense is
chaotic and ethnography is
always orderly ,
23674:Ethnography
disrupts society as it is
intrinsically political in the
sense proposed by Gramsci
,
28 13418 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q28
The practice of hypergamy that developed among Lewa Patels was
founded at least partly on the premise that daughters married into
wealthier households would neither have to sell their labor power nor
work in the fields; in short, their work in public would be minimized.
There was no guarantee, however, that their household work would
diminish as well, but this really was not a decisive element for
distinction. Ironically, then, the de-objectification of women?s work (her
dual withdrawal from commoditized work and public work) went hand-in-
hand with women?s objectification as status goods within the Lewa Patel
community. (Source: Gidwani, V. 2008. Capital,Interrupted. Agrarian
Development and the Politics of Work in India. University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, London, pg. 173)?The main argument of the passage
above is that there is a direct relationship between:
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
23675:New knowledge is
produced by disruptions of
earlier categories and
assumptions ,
23676:Ethnography relies
on categories that are
familiar to the
ethnographer but not to
those being studied ,
23677:The passage is a
comparison between
Borges and Bu?uel where
Borges stands against the
?tyranny? of modernism and
Bu?uel stands for the
universalism of Western
Culture. ,
23678:The passage is a
comparison between
Bu?uel and Claude L?vi-
Strauss and their position
on western Universalism. ,
23679:The passage is a
discussion on
cosmopolitanism where the
author refers to Claude
L?vi-Strauss, Borges and
Bu?uel. ,
23680:All of these ,
23681:The importance of
Hongkong?s industrial
development. ,
30 13420 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q30
I begin with this encounter between Borges and Bu?uel because it
illustrates some of the ambiguities of the cosmopolitan. In Borges?s case,
cosmopolitanism was, first, a modernist argument against the tyranny of
?tradition? as narrow parochialisms and ethnocentrism: this was the
critical aspect of his cultural universalism (?our patrimony is the
universe?)?in much the same way that the universalism of ?structure?
was to Claude L?vi-Strauss a critical safeguard against ethnocentric bias.
The problem begins when this universalism is identified with Western
culture (?I believe our tradition is all of Western culture . . . ?).(Source:
Ackbar Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and
Hongkong. Public Culture 12(3): 769-786. pp 770-771.)?Q. In the light of
the above passage, which of the following statements is correct?
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
23682:? The injection of
capital and human
resources into Shanghai,
1950?s onwards. ,
23683:The emigration of
21 industrialist families out
of Hongkong. ,
23684:The emigration of
21 industrialist families
from Shanghai to
Hongkong. ,
23685:A version of a
Marxist historiography of
Science ,
23686:An analysis of
manufacturing science ,
23687:A history of
intellectual traditions ,
23688:Mechanistic
Manufacture ,
23689:An entity where the
individual members are not
conscious of themselves as
a class ,
23690:The French nation
which is composed purely
of farmers ,
32 13422 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q32
Boris Hessen?s ?The Social and Economic Roots of Newton?s ?Principia??
(1931) and Henryk Grossmann?s ?The Social Foundation of Mechanistic
Philosophy and Manufacture? (1935) are the classic programmatic
examples of Marxist historiography of science. The two works were
produced completely independent of one another, but both scholars were
working within the same intellectual tradition with the same conceptual
tools on the same topic. . . .They have enough in common that the
enlarged thesis that emerges from their work may be called the ?Hessen-
Grossmann-Thesis.? While many Marxists have contributed to the
historiography of science, Hessen?s and Grossmann?s work displays a
specifically Marxist approach: they conceptualize science as one kind of
labor within the system of social production.(Source: G. Freudenthal and
P. McLaughlin, 2009. The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific
Revolution. Springer Publications, pg. 1)?According to the passage, what
is the ?Hessen-Grossmann-Thesis??
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23691:Collection of French
Potato Farmers each
cultivating their potato
patches ,
23692:All of these ,
23693:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies ,
23694:In colonial India the
Government justified its
failure to provide
opportunities by referring
to the essential difference
of the East ,
23695:The values of the
East and West can never
meet ,
23696:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies & ?justifies?its
failure?by referring to the
essential difference of the
East ,
34 13424 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q34
In India we are suffering from this conflict between the spirit of the West
and the Nation of the West. The benefit of the Western civilization is
doled out to us in a miserly measure by the Nation, which tries to
regulate the degree of nutrition as near the zero-point of vitality as
possible. The portion of education allotted to us is so raggedly
insufficient that it ought to outrage the sense of decency of a Western
humanity. We have seen in these countries how the people are
encouraged and trained and given every facility to fit themselves for the
great movements of commerce and industry spreading over the world,
while in India the only assistance we get is merely to be jeered at by the
Nation for lagging behind. While depriving us of our opportunities and
reducing our education to the minimum required for conducting a foreign
government, this Nation pacifies its conscience by calling us names, by
sedulously giving currency to the arrogant cynicism that the East is east
and the West is west and never the twain shall meet. [Source:
Rabindranath Tagore. 1918 Nationalism. Macmillan.]?The essence of this
passage is that:
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
23660:It is because
women have to take care
of the family that they
acquire less human capital ,
23661:The status of
women compared to men
may not be secondary
across societies. ,
23662:Cultural particulars
and human universals are
often contradictory to each
other ,
23663:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but remains
constant within a society. ,
23664:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but their
secondary status is a
universal across cultures. ,
23665:News is an
objective representation of
whatever happens in the
world ,
23666:News is just a mask
for the profit orientation of
media managers ,
26 13416 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q26
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between
two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we
explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides us with one
of the more challenging problems to be dealt with. The secondary status
of woman in society is one of the true universals, a pan-cultural fact. Yet
within that universal fact, the specific cultural conceptions and
symbolizations of woman are extraordinarily diverse and even mutually
contradictory. Further, the actual treatment of women and their relative
power and contribution vary enormously from culture to culture, and
over different periods in the history of particular cultural traditions.
(Source: Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to
culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and
society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 68-87.)We can infer
from the above passage that:
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
23667:The business
interests and political links
of media owners shapes
the news ,
23668:Journalists are the
prime selectors of news. ,
23669:desire to marry
daughters into wealthier
households and the desire
that they don?t have to
work too much overall. ,
23670:Withdrawal of
women from paid work and
the practice of hypergamy ,
23671:Women?s
objectification as status
good and their level of
domestic work ,
23672:Diminishing
household work and
diminishing work in public ,
23673:Common sense is
chaotic and ethnography is
always orderly ,
23674:Ethnography
disrupts society as it is
intrinsically political in the
sense proposed by Gramsci
,
28 13418 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q28
The practice of hypergamy that developed among Lewa Patels was
founded at least partly on the premise that daughters married into
wealthier households would neither have to sell their labor power nor
work in the fields; in short, their work in public would be minimized.
There was no guarantee, however, that their household work would
diminish as well, but this really was not a decisive element for
distinction. Ironically, then, the de-objectification of women?s work (her
dual withdrawal from commoditized work and public work) went hand-in-
hand with women?s objectification as status goods within the Lewa Patel
community. (Source: Gidwani, V. 2008. Capital,Interrupted. Agrarian
Development and the Politics of Work in India. University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, London, pg. 173)?The main argument of the passage
above is that there is a direct relationship between:
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
23675:New knowledge is
produced by disruptions of
earlier categories and
assumptions ,
23676:Ethnography relies
on categories that are
familiar to the
ethnographer but not to
those being studied ,
23677:The passage is a
comparison between
Borges and Bu?uel where
Borges stands against the
?tyranny? of modernism and
Bu?uel stands for the
universalism of Western
Culture. ,
23678:The passage is a
comparison between
Bu?uel and Claude L?vi-
Strauss and their position
on western Universalism. ,
23679:The passage is a
discussion on
cosmopolitanism where the
author refers to Claude
L?vi-Strauss, Borges and
Bu?uel. ,
23680:All of these ,
23681:The importance of
Hongkong?s industrial
development. ,
30 13420 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q30
I begin with this encounter between Borges and Bu?uel because it
illustrates some of the ambiguities of the cosmopolitan. In Borges?s case,
cosmopolitanism was, first, a modernist argument against the tyranny of
?tradition? as narrow parochialisms and ethnocentrism: this was the
critical aspect of his cultural universalism (?our patrimony is the
universe?)?in much the same way that the universalism of ?structure?
was to Claude L?vi-Strauss a critical safeguard against ethnocentric bias.
The problem begins when this universalism is identified with Western
culture (?I believe our tradition is all of Western culture . . . ?).(Source:
Ackbar Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and
Hongkong. Public Culture 12(3): 769-786. pp 770-771.)?Q. In the light of
the above passage, which of the following statements is correct?
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
23682:? The injection of
capital and human
resources into Shanghai,
1950?s onwards. ,
23683:The emigration of
21 industrialist families out
of Hongkong. ,
23684:The emigration of
21 industrialist families
from Shanghai to
Hongkong. ,
23685:A version of a
Marxist historiography of
Science ,
23686:An analysis of
manufacturing science ,
23687:A history of
intellectual traditions ,
23688:Mechanistic
Manufacture ,
23689:An entity where the
individual members are not
conscious of themselves as
a class ,
23690:The French nation
which is composed purely
of farmers ,
32 13422 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q32
Boris Hessen?s ?The Social and Economic Roots of Newton?s ?Principia??
(1931) and Henryk Grossmann?s ?The Social Foundation of Mechanistic
Philosophy and Manufacture? (1935) are the classic programmatic
examples of Marxist historiography of science. The two works were
produced completely independent of one another, but both scholars were
working within the same intellectual tradition with the same conceptual
tools on the same topic. . . .They have enough in common that the
enlarged thesis that emerges from their work may be called the ?Hessen-
Grossmann-Thesis.? While many Marxists have contributed to the
historiography of science, Hessen?s and Grossmann?s work displays a
specifically Marxist approach: they conceptualize science as one kind of
labor within the system of social production.(Source: G. Freudenthal and
P. McLaughlin, 2009. The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific
Revolution. Springer Publications, pg. 1)?According to the passage, what
is the ?Hessen-Grossmann-Thesis??
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23691:Collection of French
Potato Farmers each
cultivating their potato
patches ,
23692:All of these ,
23693:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies ,
23694:In colonial India the
Government justified its
failure to provide
opportunities by referring
to the essential difference
of the East ,
23695:The values of the
East and West can never
meet ,
23696:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies & ?justifies?its
failure?by referring to the
essential difference of the
East ,
34 13424 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q34
In India we are suffering from this conflict between the spirit of the West
and the Nation of the West. The benefit of the Western civilization is
doled out to us in a miserly measure by the Nation, which tries to
regulate the degree of nutrition as near the zero-point of vitality as
possible. The portion of education allotted to us is so raggedly
insufficient that it ought to outrage the sense of decency of a Western
humanity. We have seen in these countries how the people are
encouraged and trained and given every facility to fit themselves for the
great movements of commerce and industry spreading over the world,
while in India the only assistance we get is merely to be jeered at by the
Nation for lagging behind. While depriving us of our opportunities and
reducing our education to the minimum required for conducting a foreign
government, this Nation pacifies its conscience by calling us names, by
sedulously giving currency to the arrogant cynicism that the East is east
and the West is west and never the twain shall meet. [Source:
Rabindranath Tagore. 1918 Nationalism. Macmillan.]?The essence of this
passage is that:
33 13423 DU_J19_
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O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23697:Human races are
defined by genetic
difference ,
23698:The category of a
racial group is itself
problematic ,
23699:? Genetic groups are
identified by the variations
within each group. ,
23700:None of these ,
23701:Sociologists should
share their information
with participants only after
concluding research ,
23702:Sociologists must
share the purpose and
details of their research
before inviting participation
,
23703:Ethical research
depends on not sharing
research protocols so as to
maintain total objectivity ,
23704:Research ethics are
peculiar to sociologists ,
36 13426 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q36
Ethical considerations are of particular importance to sociologists
because sociologists study people. Thus, sociologists must adhere to a
rigorous code of ethics. In the context of sociological research, a code of
ethics refers to formal guidelines for conducting research, consisting of
principles and ethical standards concerning the treatment of human
individuals.The most important ethical consideration in sociological
research is that participants in a sociological investigation are not
harmed in any way. Exactly what this entails can vary from study to
study, but there are several universally recognized considerations. For
instance, research on children and youth always requires parental
consent. All sociological research requires informed consent, and
participants are never coerced into participation. Informed consent in
general involves ensuring that prior to agreeing to participate, research
subjects are aware of details of the study including the risks and benefits
of participation and in what ways the data collected will be used and kept
secure. Participants are also told that they may stop their participation in
the study at any time. (Source:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-sociology/chapter/ethics-
in-sociological-research/)?Based on the above passage, we can say that
35 13425 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q35
In the United States both scholars and the general public have been
conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions
within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the
vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has
become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly
demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of
genetics (e.g. DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%,
lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial"
groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This
means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between
them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and
their phenotypic (physical) expressions. Throughout history whenever
different groups have come into contact, they have interbred. The
continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind
as a single species.[Source: American Anthropological Association
Statement on Race 1998]?According to this passage:
FirstRanker.com - FirstRanker's Choice
Sr.No
Questi
on Id
Question
Descripti
on
Question Body Options
23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
23660:It is because
women have to take care
of the family that they
acquire less human capital ,
23661:The status of
women compared to men
may not be secondary
across societies. ,
23662:Cultural particulars
and human universals are
often contradictory to each
other ,
23663:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but remains
constant within a society. ,
23664:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but their
secondary status is a
universal across cultures. ,
23665:News is an
objective representation of
whatever happens in the
world ,
23666:News is just a mask
for the profit orientation of
media managers ,
26 13416 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q26
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between
two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we
explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides us with one
of the more challenging problems to be dealt with. The secondary status
of woman in society is one of the true universals, a pan-cultural fact. Yet
within that universal fact, the specific cultural conceptions and
symbolizations of woman are extraordinarily diverse and even mutually
contradictory. Further, the actual treatment of women and their relative
power and contribution vary enormously from culture to culture, and
over different periods in the history of particular cultural traditions.
(Source: Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to
culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and
society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 68-87.)We can infer
from the above passage that:
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
23667:The business
interests and political links
of media owners shapes
the news ,
23668:Journalists are the
prime selectors of news. ,
23669:desire to marry
daughters into wealthier
households and the desire
that they don?t have to
work too much overall. ,
23670:Withdrawal of
women from paid work and
the practice of hypergamy ,
23671:Women?s
objectification as status
good and their level of
domestic work ,
23672:Diminishing
household work and
diminishing work in public ,
23673:Common sense is
chaotic and ethnography is
always orderly ,
23674:Ethnography
disrupts society as it is
intrinsically political in the
sense proposed by Gramsci
,
28 13418 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q28
The practice of hypergamy that developed among Lewa Patels was
founded at least partly on the premise that daughters married into
wealthier households would neither have to sell their labor power nor
work in the fields; in short, their work in public would be minimized.
There was no guarantee, however, that their household work would
diminish as well, but this really was not a decisive element for
distinction. Ironically, then, the de-objectification of women?s work (her
dual withdrawal from commoditized work and public work) went hand-in-
hand with women?s objectification as status goods within the Lewa Patel
community. (Source: Gidwani, V. 2008. Capital,Interrupted. Agrarian
Development and the Politics of Work in India. University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, London, pg. 173)?The main argument of the passage
above is that there is a direct relationship between:
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
23675:New knowledge is
produced by disruptions of
earlier categories and
assumptions ,
23676:Ethnography relies
on categories that are
familiar to the
ethnographer but not to
those being studied ,
23677:The passage is a
comparison between
Borges and Bu?uel where
Borges stands against the
?tyranny? of modernism and
Bu?uel stands for the
universalism of Western
Culture. ,
23678:The passage is a
comparison between
Bu?uel and Claude L?vi-
Strauss and their position
on western Universalism. ,
23679:The passage is a
discussion on
cosmopolitanism where the
author refers to Claude
L?vi-Strauss, Borges and
Bu?uel. ,
23680:All of these ,
23681:The importance of
Hongkong?s industrial
development. ,
30 13420 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q30
I begin with this encounter between Borges and Bu?uel because it
illustrates some of the ambiguities of the cosmopolitan. In Borges?s case,
cosmopolitanism was, first, a modernist argument against the tyranny of
?tradition? as narrow parochialisms and ethnocentrism: this was the
critical aspect of his cultural universalism (?our patrimony is the
universe?)?in much the same way that the universalism of ?structure?
was to Claude L?vi-Strauss a critical safeguard against ethnocentric bias.
The problem begins when this universalism is identified with Western
culture (?I believe our tradition is all of Western culture . . . ?).(Source:
Ackbar Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and
Hongkong. Public Culture 12(3): 769-786. pp 770-771.)?Q. In the light of
the above passage, which of the following statements is correct?
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
23682:? The injection of
capital and human
resources into Shanghai,
1950?s onwards. ,
23683:The emigration of
21 industrialist families out
of Hongkong. ,
23684:The emigration of
21 industrialist families
from Shanghai to
Hongkong. ,
23685:A version of a
Marxist historiography of
Science ,
23686:An analysis of
manufacturing science ,
23687:A history of
intellectual traditions ,
23688:Mechanistic
Manufacture ,
23689:An entity where the
individual members are not
conscious of themselves as
a class ,
23690:The French nation
which is composed purely
of farmers ,
32 13422 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q32
Boris Hessen?s ?The Social and Economic Roots of Newton?s ?Principia??
(1931) and Henryk Grossmann?s ?The Social Foundation of Mechanistic
Philosophy and Manufacture? (1935) are the classic programmatic
examples of Marxist historiography of science. The two works were
produced completely independent of one another, but both scholars were
working within the same intellectual tradition with the same conceptual
tools on the same topic. . . .They have enough in common that the
enlarged thesis that emerges from their work may be called the ?Hessen-
Grossmann-Thesis.? While many Marxists have contributed to the
historiography of science, Hessen?s and Grossmann?s work displays a
specifically Marxist approach: they conceptualize science as one kind of
labor within the system of social production.(Source: G. Freudenthal and
P. McLaughlin, 2009. The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific
Revolution. Springer Publications, pg. 1)?According to the passage, what
is the ?Hessen-Grossmann-Thesis??
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23691:Collection of French
Potato Farmers each
cultivating their potato
patches ,
23692:All of these ,
23693:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies ,
23694:In colonial India the
Government justified its
failure to provide
opportunities by referring
to the essential difference
of the East ,
23695:The values of the
East and West can never
meet ,
23696:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies & ?justifies?its
failure?by referring to the
essential difference of the
East ,
34 13424 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q34
In India we are suffering from this conflict between the spirit of the West
and the Nation of the West. The benefit of the Western civilization is
doled out to us in a miserly measure by the Nation, which tries to
regulate the degree of nutrition as near the zero-point of vitality as
possible. The portion of education allotted to us is so raggedly
insufficient that it ought to outrage the sense of decency of a Western
humanity. We have seen in these countries how the people are
encouraged and trained and given every facility to fit themselves for the
great movements of commerce and industry spreading over the world,
while in India the only assistance we get is merely to be jeered at by the
Nation for lagging behind. While depriving us of our opportunities and
reducing our education to the minimum required for conducting a foreign
government, this Nation pacifies its conscience by calling us names, by
sedulously giving currency to the arrogant cynicism that the East is east
and the West is west and never the twain shall meet. [Source:
Rabindranath Tagore. 1918 Nationalism. Macmillan.]?The essence of this
passage is that:
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23697:Human races are
defined by genetic
difference ,
23698:The category of a
racial group is itself
problematic ,
23699:? Genetic groups are
identified by the variations
within each group. ,
23700:None of these ,
23701:Sociologists should
share their information
with participants only after
concluding research ,
23702:Sociologists must
share the purpose and
details of their research
before inviting participation
,
23703:Ethical research
depends on not sharing
research protocols so as to
maintain total objectivity ,
23704:Research ethics are
peculiar to sociologists ,
36 13426 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q36
Ethical considerations are of particular importance to sociologists
because sociologists study people. Thus, sociologists must adhere to a
rigorous code of ethics. In the context of sociological research, a code of
ethics refers to formal guidelines for conducting research, consisting of
principles and ethical standards concerning the treatment of human
individuals.The most important ethical consideration in sociological
research is that participants in a sociological investigation are not
harmed in any way. Exactly what this entails can vary from study to
study, but there are several universally recognized considerations. For
instance, research on children and youth always requires parental
consent. All sociological research requires informed consent, and
participants are never coerced into participation. Informed consent in
general involves ensuring that prior to agreeing to participate, research
subjects are aware of details of the study including the risks and benefits
of participation and in what ways the data collected will be used and kept
secure. Participants are also told that they may stop their participation in
the study at any time. (Source:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-sociology/chapter/ethics-
in-sociological-research/)?Based on the above passage, we can say that
35 13425 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q35
In the United States both scholars and the general public have been
conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions
within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the
vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has
become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly
demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of
genetics (e.g. DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%,
lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial"
groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This
means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between
them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and
their phenotypic (physical) expressions. Throughout history whenever
different groups have come into contact, they have interbred. The
continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind
as a single species.[Source: American Anthropological Association
Statement on Race 1998]?According to this passage:
23705:a group of people
are excluded from the use
of value producing
resources. ,
23706:The opportunity to
use the resource and
capture the returns is used
to strengthen the boundary
between groups. ,
23707:A clique works
efficiently together. ,
23708:a group of people
are excluded from the use
of value producing
resources?& these
resources are used to
strengthen the
exclusionary?boundary
between groups. ,
23709:Cold War Mushroom
Clouds ,
23710:Radioactive
Isotopes ,
23711:Noise Pollution from
Agitating Crowds ,
23712:Chemical Leaks ,
23713:Self-reflexivity is
common among
sociologists ,
38 13428 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q38
We can discern growing concern in the social sciences and humanities
with questions of atmosphere. Much of it has been an accounting of
atmospheric violences, fast and slow. Increasingly explicative
attunements to the air track its defilement from gas warfare and gas
chambers through a roster of toxic airborne events wherein atmospheres
are forced into explicitness in a thanatopolitics of compromised life: Cold
War mushroom clouds, windblown radioactive isotopes, chemical leaks,
nuclear accidents, tear gas assaults on an agitating crowd; these and
others compose a repertoire of atmospheric trespasses, mapping a
proliferation of airspaces filled with danger. (Timothy Choy and Jerry
Zee, 2015. ?Condition. Suspension?. Cultural Anthropology Vol.30(2):
210-223. P211)?According to the above passage, in the growing concern
with questions of atmosphere, which of the following cannot be included?
37 13427 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q37
In opportunity hoarding, the clique excludes people on the opposite
boundary from use of the value-producing resource, captures the
returns, and devotes some of the returns to reproducing the boundary.
For instance, people in the diamond trade organize ethnically recruited
circuits for acquisition, cutting, polishing, distribution, and sale of
different types of gems, excluding others from their sections of the
trade. Some of the monopoly's return goes into reinforcing ethnic ties,
thus making new recruits to the trade available. (Tilly, Charles. 2003.
Changing Forms of Inequality. Sociological Theory, 21 (1): 31-36. P.
34)?Please mark the incorrect answer ?According to the passage above,
opportunity hoarding refers to a system by which:
39 13429 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q39
If it is true that only some sociologists are women and some women are
self-reflexive, we can conclude that:
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
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2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
23660:It is because
women have to take care
of the family that they
acquire less human capital ,
23661:The status of
women compared to men
may not be secondary
across societies. ,
23662:Cultural particulars
and human universals are
often contradictory to each
other ,
23663:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but remains
constant within a society. ,
23664:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but their
secondary status is a
universal across cultures. ,
23665:News is an
objective representation of
whatever happens in the
world ,
23666:News is just a mask
for the profit orientation of
media managers ,
26 13416 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q26
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between
two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we
explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides us with one
of the more challenging problems to be dealt with. The secondary status
of woman in society is one of the true universals, a pan-cultural fact. Yet
within that universal fact, the specific cultural conceptions and
symbolizations of woman are extraordinarily diverse and even mutually
contradictory. Further, the actual treatment of women and their relative
power and contribution vary enormously from culture to culture, and
over different periods in the history of particular cultural traditions.
(Source: Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to
culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and
society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 68-87.)We can infer
from the above passage that:
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
23667:The business
interests and political links
of media owners shapes
the news ,
23668:Journalists are the
prime selectors of news. ,
23669:desire to marry
daughters into wealthier
households and the desire
that they don?t have to
work too much overall. ,
23670:Withdrawal of
women from paid work and
the practice of hypergamy ,
23671:Women?s
objectification as status
good and their level of
domestic work ,
23672:Diminishing
household work and
diminishing work in public ,
23673:Common sense is
chaotic and ethnography is
always orderly ,
23674:Ethnography
disrupts society as it is
intrinsically political in the
sense proposed by Gramsci
,
28 13418 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q28
The practice of hypergamy that developed among Lewa Patels was
founded at least partly on the premise that daughters married into
wealthier households would neither have to sell their labor power nor
work in the fields; in short, their work in public would be minimized.
There was no guarantee, however, that their household work would
diminish as well, but this really was not a decisive element for
distinction. Ironically, then, the de-objectification of women?s work (her
dual withdrawal from commoditized work and public work) went hand-in-
hand with women?s objectification as status goods within the Lewa Patel
community. (Source: Gidwani, V. 2008. Capital,Interrupted. Agrarian
Development and the Politics of Work in India. University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, London, pg. 173)?The main argument of the passage
above is that there is a direct relationship between:
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
23675:New knowledge is
produced by disruptions of
earlier categories and
assumptions ,
23676:Ethnography relies
on categories that are
familiar to the
ethnographer but not to
those being studied ,
23677:The passage is a
comparison between
Borges and Bu?uel where
Borges stands against the
?tyranny? of modernism and
Bu?uel stands for the
universalism of Western
Culture. ,
23678:The passage is a
comparison between
Bu?uel and Claude L?vi-
Strauss and their position
on western Universalism. ,
23679:The passage is a
discussion on
cosmopolitanism where the
author refers to Claude
L?vi-Strauss, Borges and
Bu?uel. ,
23680:All of these ,
23681:The importance of
Hongkong?s industrial
development. ,
30 13420 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q30
I begin with this encounter between Borges and Bu?uel because it
illustrates some of the ambiguities of the cosmopolitan. In Borges?s case,
cosmopolitanism was, first, a modernist argument against the tyranny of
?tradition? as narrow parochialisms and ethnocentrism: this was the
critical aspect of his cultural universalism (?our patrimony is the
universe?)?in much the same way that the universalism of ?structure?
was to Claude L?vi-Strauss a critical safeguard against ethnocentric bias.
The problem begins when this universalism is identified with Western
culture (?I believe our tradition is all of Western culture . . . ?).(Source:
Ackbar Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and
Hongkong. Public Culture 12(3): 769-786. pp 770-771.)?Q. In the light of
the above passage, which of the following statements is correct?
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
23682:? The injection of
capital and human
resources into Shanghai,
1950?s onwards. ,
23683:The emigration of
21 industrialist families out
of Hongkong. ,
23684:The emigration of
21 industrialist families
from Shanghai to
Hongkong. ,
23685:A version of a
Marxist historiography of
Science ,
23686:An analysis of
manufacturing science ,
23687:A history of
intellectual traditions ,
23688:Mechanistic
Manufacture ,
23689:An entity where the
individual members are not
conscious of themselves as
a class ,
23690:The French nation
which is composed purely
of farmers ,
32 13422 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q32
Boris Hessen?s ?The Social and Economic Roots of Newton?s ?Principia??
(1931) and Henryk Grossmann?s ?The Social Foundation of Mechanistic
Philosophy and Manufacture? (1935) are the classic programmatic
examples of Marxist historiography of science. The two works were
produced completely independent of one another, but both scholars were
working within the same intellectual tradition with the same conceptual
tools on the same topic. . . .They have enough in common that the
enlarged thesis that emerges from their work may be called the ?Hessen-
Grossmann-Thesis.? While many Marxists have contributed to the
historiography of science, Hessen?s and Grossmann?s work displays a
specifically Marxist approach: they conceptualize science as one kind of
labor within the system of social production.(Source: G. Freudenthal and
P. McLaughlin, 2009. The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific
Revolution. Springer Publications, pg. 1)?According to the passage, what
is the ?Hessen-Grossmann-Thesis??
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23691:Collection of French
Potato Farmers each
cultivating their potato
patches ,
23692:All of these ,
23693:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies ,
23694:In colonial India the
Government justified its
failure to provide
opportunities by referring
to the essential difference
of the East ,
23695:The values of the
East and West can never
meet ,
23696:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies & ?justifies?its
failure?by referring to the
essential difference of the
East ,
34 13424 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q34
In India we are suffering from this conflict between the spirit of the West
and the Nation of the West. The benefit of the Western civilization is
doled out to us in a miserly measure by the Nation, which tries to
regulate the degree of nutrition as near the zero-point of vitality as
possible. The portion of education allotted to us is so raggedly
insufficient that it ought to outrage the sense of decency of a Western
humanity. We have seen in these countries how the people are
encouraged and trained and given every facility to fit themselves for the
great movements of commerce and industry spreading over the world,
while in India the only assistance we get is merely to be jeered at by the
Nation for lagging behind. While depriving us of our opportunities and
reducing our education to the minimum required for conducting a foreign
government, this Nation pacifies its conscience by calling us names, by
sedulously giving currency to the arrogant cynicism that the East is east
and the West is west and never the twain shall meet. [Source:
Rabindranath Tagore. 1918 Nationalism. Macmillan.]?The essence of this
passage is that:
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23697:Human races are
defined by genetic
difference ,
23698:The category of a
racial group is itself
problematic ,
23699:? Genetic groups are
identified by the variations
within each group. ,
23700:None of these ,
23701:Sociologists should
share their information
with participants only after
concluding research ,
23702:Sociologists must
share the purpose and
details of their research
before inviting participation
,
23703:Ethical research
depends on not sharing
research protocols so as to
maintain total objectivity ,
23704:Research ethics are
peculiar to sociologists ,
36 13426 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q36
Ethical considerations are of particular importance to sociologists
because sociologists study people. Thus, sociologists must adhere to a
rigorous code of ethics. In the context of sociological research, a code of
ethics refers to formal guidelines for conducting research, consisting of
principles and ethical standards concerning the treatment of human
individuals.The most important ethical consideration in sociological
research is that participants in a sociological investigation are not
harmed in any way. Exactly what this entails can vary from study to
study, but there are several universally recognized considerations. For
instance, research on children and youth always requires parental
consent. All sociological research requires informed consent, and
participants are never coerced into participation. Informed consent in
general involves ensuring that prior to agreeing to participate, research
subjects are aware of details of the study including the risks and benefits
of participation and in what ways the data collected will be used and kept
secure. Participants are also told that they may stop their participation in
the study at any time. (Source:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-sociology/chapter/ethics-
in-sociological-research/)?Based on the above passage, we can say that
35 13425 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q35
In the United States both scholars and the general public have been
conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions
within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the
vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has
become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly
demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of
genetics (e.g. DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%,
lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial"
groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This
means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between
them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and
their phenotypic (physical) expressions. Throughout history whenever
different groups have come into contact, they have interbred. The
continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind
as a single species.[Source: American Anthropological Association
Statement on Race 1998]?According to this passage:
23705:a group of people
are excluded from the use
of value producing
resources. ,
23706:The opportunity to
use the resource and
capture the returns is used
to strengthen the boundary
between groups. ,
23707:A clique works
efficiently together. ,
23708:a group of people
are excluded from the use
of value producing
resources?& these
resources are used to
strengthen the
exclusionary?boundary
between groups. ,
23709:Cold War Mushroom
Clouds ,
23710:Radioactive
Isotopes ,
23711:Noise Pollution from
Agitating Crowds ,
23712:Chemical Leaks ,
23713:Self-reflexivity is
common among
sociologists ,
38 13428 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q38
We can discern growing concern in the social sciences and humanities
with questions of atmosphere. Much of it has been an accounting of
atmospheric violences, fast and slow. Increasingly explicative
attunements to the air track its defilement from gas warfare and gas
chambers through a roster of toxic airborne events wherein atmospheres
are forced into explicitness in a thanatopolitics of compromised life: Cold
War mushroom clouds, windblown radioactive isotopes, chemical leaks,
nuclear accidents, tear gas assaults on an agitating crowd; these and
others compose a repertoire of atmospheric trespasses, mapping a
proliferation of airspaces filled with danger. (Timothy Choy and Jerry
Zee, 2015. ?Condition. Suspension?. Cultural Anthropology Vol.30(2):
210-223. P211)?According to the above passage, in the growing concern
with questions of atmosphere, which of the following cannot be included?
37 13427 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q37
In opportunity hoarding, the clique excludes people on the opposite
boundary from use of the value-producing resource, captures the
returns, and devotes some of the returns to reproducing the boundary.
For instance, people in the diamond trade organize ethnically recruited
circuits for acquisition, cutting, polishing, distribution, and sale of
different types of gems, excluding others from their sections of the
trade. Some of the monopoly's return goes into reinforcing ethnic ties,
thus making new recruits to the trade available. (Tilly, Charles. 2003.
Changing Forms of Inequality. Sociological Theory, 21 (1): 31-36. P.
34)?Please mark the incorrect answer ?According to the passage above,
opportunity hoarding refers to a system by which:
39 13429 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q39
If it is true that only some sociologists are women and some women are
self-reflexive, we can conclude that:
23714:Sociology is a self-
reflexive discipline ,
23715:Some sociologists
are not self-reflexive ,
23716:None of these ,
23717:All three can be
concluded ,
23718:? Only 1 & 2 ,
23719:Only 1 & 3 ,
23720:None of the three
can be concluded ,
23721:Death penalty
reduces violent crime ,
23722:Developing
countries should also rely
on the death penalty to
reduce violent crime ,
23723:Death penalty
should be abolished ,
23724:None of these ,
23725:Only 1 follows ,
23726:Both 1 and 2 follow ,
23727:Neither 1 nor 2
follow ,
23728:Either 1 or 2 follows
,
23729:2 & 3 ,
23730:Only 2 ,
23731:All of the above ,
23732:None of the above ,
23733:Simone de Beauvoir
,
40 13430 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q40
Some animals are insects. Some insects are butterflies. All butterflies are
colourful things. Based only on the three preceding statements, we can
conclusively show that?1. Some colourful things are insects2. Some
insects are animals?3. Some colourful things are animals
39 13429 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q39
If it is true that only some sociologists are women and some women are
self-reflexive, we can conclude that:
42 13432 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q42
If all biologists are scientists and all botanists are biologists, which of the
following conclusions follow:1. All botanists are scientists.?2. Some
biologists are botanists.
41 13431 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q41
Some Western countries still use the death penalty to reduce violent
crime. What conclusion can be made based only on the preceding
statement
44 13434 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q44
Books by authors Margaret Mead, Simone de Beauvoir, Irawati Karve,
Pierre Bourdieu, Talcott Parsons and George Simmel are stacked one on
top of each other on a table. There are three books between books by
Talcott Parsons and George Simmel, and two books between books of
Margaret Mead and Irawati Karve. George Simmel?s book is placed below
Talcott Parsons, and Margaret Mead is placed above. There is at least
one book below?Simone de Beauvoir's?book. Which is the second book
from the top in this stack?
43 13433 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q43
Some artists are eccentric. All painters are artists. Some artists are
women. Which of the following conclusions can be drawn based on these
statements??1. Women artists are eccentric?2. Some women are
eccentric?3. Some painters are eccentric
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
23660:It is because
women have to take care
of the family that they
acquire less human capital ,
23661:The status of
women compared to men
may not be secondary
across societies. ,
23662:Cultural particulars
and human universals are
often contradictory to each
other ,
23663:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but remains
constant within a society. ,
23664:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but their
secondary status is a
universal across cultures. ,
23665:News is an
objective representation of
whatever happens in the
world ,
23666:News is just a mask
for the profit orientation of
media managers ,
26 13416 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q26
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between
two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we
explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides us with one
of the more challenging problems to be dealt with. The secondary status
of woman in society is one of the true universals, a pan-cultural fact. Yet
within that universal fact, the specific cultural conceptions and
symbolizations of woman are extraordinarily diverse and even mutually
contradictory. Further, the actual treatment of women and their relative
power and contribution vary enormously from culture to culture, and
over different periods in the history of particular cultural traditions.
(Source: Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to
culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and
society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 68-87.)We can infer
from the above passage that:
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
23667:The business
interests and political links
of media owners shapes
the news ,
23668:Journalists are the
prime selectors of news. ,
23669:desire to marry
daughters into wealthier
households and the desire
that they don?t have to
work too much overall. ,
23670:Withdrawal of
women from paid work and
the practice of hypergamy ,
23671:Women?s
objectification as status
good and their level of
domestic work ,
23672:Diminishing
household work and
diminishing work in public ,
23673:Common sense is
chaotic and ethnography is
always orderly ,
23674:Ethnography
disrupts society as it is
intrinsically political in the
sense proposed by Gramsci
,
28 13418 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q28
The practice of hypergamy that developed among Lewa Patels was
founded at least partly on the premise that daughters married into
wealthier households would neither have to sell their labor power nor
work in the fields; in short, their work in public would be minimized.
There was no guarantee, however, that their household work would
diminish as well, but this really was not a decisive element for
distinction. Ironically, then, the de-objectification of women?s work (her
dual withdrawal from commoditized work and public work) went hand-in-
hand with women?s objectification as status goods within the Lewa Patel
community. (Source: Gidwani, V. 2008. Capital,Interrupted. Agrarian
Development and the Politics of Work in India. University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, London, pg. 173)?The main argument of the passage
above is that there is a direct relationship between:
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
23675:New knowledge is
produced by disruptions of
earlier categories and
assumptions ,
23676:Ethnography relies
on categories that are
familiar to the
ethnographer but not to
those being studied ,
23677:The passage is a
comparison between
Borges and Bu?uel where
Borges stands against the
?tyranny? of modernism and
Bu?uel stands for the
universalism of Western
Culture. ,
23678:The passage is a
comparison between
Bu?uel and Claude L?vi-
Strauss and their position
on western Universalism. ,
23679:The passage is a
discussion on
cosmopolitanism where the
author refers to Claude
L?vi-Strauss, Borges and
Bu?uel. ,
23680:All of these ,
23681:The importance of
Hongkong?s industrial
development. ,
30 13420 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q30
I begin with this encounter between Borges and Bu?uel because it
illustrates some of the ambiguities of the cosmopolitan. In Borges?s case,
cosmopolitanism was, first, a modernist argument against the tyranny of
?tradition? as narrow parochialisms and ethnocentrism: this was the
critical aspect of his cultural universalism (?our patrimony is the
universe?)?in much the same way that the universalism of ?structure?
was to Claude L?vi-Strauss a critical safeguard against ethnocentric bias.
The problem begins when this universalism is identified with Western
culture (?I believe our tradition is all of Western culture . . . ?).(Source:
Ackbar Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and
Hongkong. Public Culture 12(3): 769-786. pp 770-771.)?Q. In the light of
the above passage, which of the following statements is correct?
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
23682:? The injection of
capital and human
resources into Shanghai,
1950?s onwards. ,
23683:The emigration of
21 industrialist families out
of Hongkong. ,
23684:The emigration of
21 industrialist families
from Shanghai to
Hongkong. ,
23685:A version of a
Marxist historiography of
Science ,
23686:An analysis of
manufacturing science ,
23687:A history of
intellectual traditions ,
23688:Mechanistic
Manufacture ,
23689:An entity where the
individual members are not
conscious of themselves as
a class ,
23690:The French nation
which is composed purely
of farmers ,
32 13422 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q32
Boris Hessen?s ?The Social and Economic Roots of Newton?s ?Principia??
(1931) and Henryk Grossmann?s ?The Social Foundation of Mechanistic
Philosophy and Manufacture? (1935) are the classic programmatic
examples of Marxist historiography of science. The two works were
produced completely independent of one another, but both scholars were
working within the same intellectual tradition with the same conceptual
tools on the same topic. . . .They have enough in common that the
enlarged thesis that emerges from their work may be called the ?Hessen-
Grossmann-Thesis.? While many Marxists have contributed to the
historiography of science, Hessen?s and Grossmann?s work displays a
specifically Marxist approach: they conceptualize science as one kind of
labor within the system of social production.(Source: G. Freudenthal and
P. McLaughlin, 2009. The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific
Revolution. Springer Publications, pg. 1)?According to the passage, what
is the ?Hessen-Grossmann-Thesis??
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23691:Collection of French
Potato Farmers each
cultivating their potato
patches ,
23692:All of these ,
23693:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies ,
23694:In colonial India the
Government justified its
failure to provide
opportunities by referring
to the essential difference
of the East ,
23695:The values of the
East and West can never
meet ,
23696:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies & ?justifies?its
failure?by referring to the
essential difference of the
East ,
34 13424 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q34
In India we are suffering from this conflict between the spirit of the West
and the Nation of the West. The benefit of the Western civilization is
doled out to us in a miserly measure by the Nation, which tries to
regulate the degree of nutrition as near the zero-point of vitality as
possible. The portion of education allotted to us is so raggedly
insufficient that it ought to outrage the sense of decency of a Western
humanity. We have seen in these countries how the people are
encouraged and trained and given every facility to fit themselves for the
great movements of commerce and industry spreading over the world,
while in India the only assistance we get is merely to be jeered at by the
Nation for lagging behind. While depriving us of our opportunities and
reducing our education to the minimum required for conducting a foreign
government, this Nation pacifies its conscience by calling us names, by
sedulously giving currency to the arrogant cynicism that the East is east
and the West is west and never the twain shall meet. [Source:
Rabindranath Tagore. 1918 Nationalism. Macmillan.]?The essence of this
passage is that:
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23697:Human races are
defined by genetic
difference ,
23698:The category of a
racial group is itself
problematic ,
23699:? Genetic groups are
identified by the variations
within each group. ,
23700:None of these ,
23701:Sociologists should
share their information
with participants only after
concluding research ,
23702:Sociologists must
share the purpose and
details of their research
before inviting participation
,
23703:Ethical research
depends on not sharing
research protocols so as to
maintain total objectivity ,
23704:Research ethics are
peculiar to sociologists ,
36 13426 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q36
Ethical considerations are of particular importance to sociologists
because sociologists study people. Thus, sociologists must adhere to a
rigorous code of ethics. In the context of sociological research, a code of
ethics refers to formal guidelines for conducting research, consisting of
principles and ethical standards concerning the treatment of human
individuals.The most important ethical consideration in sociological
research is that participants in a sociological investigation are not
harmed in any way. Exactly what this entails can vary from study to
study, but there are several universally recognized considerations. For
instance, research on children and youth always requires parental
consent. All sociological research requires informed consent, and
participants are never coerced into participation. Informed consent in
general involves ensuring that prior to agreeing to participate, research
subjects are aware of details of the study including the risks and benefits
of participation and in what ways the data collected will be used and kept
secure. Participants are also told that they may stop their participation in
the study at any time. (Source:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-sociology/chapter/ethics-
in-sociological-research/)?Based on the above passage, we can say that
35 13425 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q35
In the United States both scholars and the general public have been
conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions
within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the
vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has
become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly
demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of
genetics (e.g. DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%,
lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial"
groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This
means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between
them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and
their phenotypic (physical) expressions. Throughout history whenever
different groups have come into contact, they have interbred. The
continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind
as a single species.[Source: American Anthropological Association
Statement on Race 1998]?According to this passage:
23705:a group of people
are excluded from the use
of value producing
resources. ,
23706:The opportunity to
use the resource and
capture the returns is used
to strengthen the boundary
between groups. ,
23707:A clique works
efficiently together. ,
23708:a group of people
are excluded from the use
of value producing
resources?& these
resources are used to
strengthen the
exclusionary?boundary
between groups. ,
23709:Cold War Mushroom
Clouds ,
23710:Radioactive
Isotopes ,
23711:Noise Pollution from
Agitating Crowds ,
23712:Chemical Leaks ,
23713:Self-reflexivity is
common among
sociologists ,
38 13428 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q38
We can discern growing concern in the social sciences and humanities
with questions of atmosphere. Much of it has been an accounting of
atmospheric violences, fast and slow. Increasingly explicative
attunements to the air track its defilement from gas warfare and gas
chambers through a roster of toxic airborne events wherein atmospheres
are forced into explicitness in a thanatopolitics of compromised life: Cold
War mushroom clouds, windblown radioactive isotopes, chemical leaks,
nuclear accidents, tear gas assaults on an agitating crowd; these and
others compose a repertoire of atmospheric trespasses, mapping a
proliferation of airspaces filled with danger. (Timothy Choy and Jerry
Zee, 2015. ?Condition. Suspension?. Cultural Anthropology Vol.30(2):
210-223. P211)?According to the above passage, in the growing concern
with questions of atmosphere, which of the following cannot be included?
37 13427 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q37
In opportunity hoarding, the clique excludes people on the opposite
boundary from use of the value-producing resource, captures the
returns, and devotes some of the returns to reproducing the boundary.
For instance, people in the diamond trade organize ethnically recruited
circuits for acquisition, cutting, polishing, distribution, and sale of
different types of gems, excluding others from their sections of the
trade. Some of the monopoly's return goes into reinforcing ethnic ties,
thus making new recruits to the trade available. (Tilly, Charles. 2003.
Changing Forms of Inequality. Sociological Theory, 21 (1): 31-36. P.
34)?Please mark the incorrect answer ?According to the passage above,
opportunity hoarding refers to a system by which:
39 13429 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q39
If it is true that only some sociologists are women and some women are
self-reflexive, we can conclude that:
23714:Sociology is a self-
reflexive discipline ,
23715:Some sociologists
are not self-reflexive ,
23716:None of these ,
23717:All three can be
concluded ,
23718:? Only 1 & 2 ,
23719:Only 1 & 3 ,
23720:None of the three
can be concluded ,
23721:Death penalty
reduces violent crime ,
23722:Developing
countries should also rely
on the death penalty to
reduce violent crime ,
23723:Death penalty
should be abolished ,
23724:None of these ,
23725:Only 1 follows ,
23726:Both 1 and 2 follow ,
23727:Neither 1 nor 2
follow ,
23728:Either 1 or 2 follows
,
23729:2 & 3 ,
23730:Only 2 ,
23731:All of the above ,
23732:None of the above ,
23733:Simone de Beauvoir
,
40 13430 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q40
Some animals are insects. Some insects are butterflies. All butterflies are
colourful things. Based only on the three preceding statements, we can
conclusively show that?1. Some colourful things are insects2. Some
insects are animals?3. Some colourful things are animals
39 13429 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q39
If it is true that only some sociologists are women and some women are
self-reflexive, we can conclude that:
42 13432 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q42
If all biologists are scientists and all botanists are biologists, which of the
following conclusions follow:1. All botanists are scientists.?2. Some
biologists are botanists.
41 13431 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q41
Some Western countries still use the death penalty to reduce violent
crime. What conclusion can be made based only on the preceding
statement
44 13434 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q44
Books by authors Margaret Mead, Simone de Beauvoir, Irawati Karve,
Pierre Bourdieu, Talcott Parsons and George Simmel are stacked one on
top of each other on a table. There are three books between books by
Talcott Parsons and George Simmel, and two books between books of
Margaret Mead and Irawati Karve. George Simmel?s book is placed below
Talcott Parsons, and Margaret Mead is placed above. There is at least
one book below?Simone de Beauvoir's?book. Which is the second book
from the top in this stack?
43 13433 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q43
Some artists are eccentric. All painters are artists. Some artists are
women. Which of the following conclusions can be drawn based on these
statements??1. Women artists are eccentric?2. Some women are
eccentric?3. Some painters are eccentric
23734:Talcott Parsons ,
23735:Irawati Karve ,
23736:Pierre Bourdieu ,
23737:Uttarakhand and
train ,
23738:MP and bus ,
23739:JK and car ,
23740:AP and flight ,
23741:Kishan ,
23742:Guddu ,
23743:Munni ,
23744:Bantu ,
23745:Cooking ,
23746:Washing ,
23747:Mopping ,
23748:None of the above ,
23749:Laila and Elena?s
dogs ,
23750:Alia and Raj?s dogs ,
23751:Laila and Rumi?s
dogs ,
23752:Elena and Laila?s
dogs ,
44 13434 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q44
Books by authors Margaret Mead, Simone de Beauvoir, Irawati Karve,
Pierre Bourdieu, Talcott Parsons and George Simmel are stacked one on
top of each other on a table. There are three books between books by
Talcott Parsons and George Simmel, and two books between books of
Margaret Mead and Irawati Karve. George Simmel?s book is placed below
Talcott Parsons, and Margaret Mead is placed above. There is at least
one book below?Simone de Beauvoir's?book. Which is the second book
from the top in this stack?
46 13436 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q46
Four friends Kishan, Guddu, Munni and Bantu are sharing a pizza with 5
slices and decide the extra slice will go to the youngest person. Bantu is
two months older than Kishan, who is four months younger than Munni.
Guddu is one month older than Bantu. Who gets the extra slice?
45 13435 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q45
Four friends Ramirez, Ananya, Tashi and Mutul come to Delhi from four
places AP, Uttarakhand, J&K and MP using different modes of transport,
train, bus, airplane, and car. Tashi never travels by road as she gets car
sick, Ananya took a flight from AP, Ramirez travelled from MP, and there
is no convenient train connection from JK. Where did Tashi come from
and by which mode of transport?
48 13438 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q48
Rumi?s dog is bigger than Laila?s dog but smaller than Elena?s dog. Alia?s
dog is the same size as Raj?s dog, which is bigger than Laila?s dog, but
smaller than Rumi?s dog. If bigger dogs are friendlier and smaller dogs
are more obedient, which of the following pairs lists the most friendly
and most obedient dog in that order?
47 13437 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q47
The following household chores are shared between the members of a
household: Cooking, sweeping, mopping, washing and dusting. Father,
mother, son, daughter and uncle do one household chore on one day of
the week between Monday and Friday. Father does the sweeping on
Friday, and Mother does housework only on Thursday. Daughter does the
Washing and Cooking is done on Tuesday, and the Son does housework
on Wednesday. What household task does Uncle do?
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23561:Both?are items of
head covering? ,
23562:Both?have been
banned in French public
schools? ,
23563:Both?are religious
symbols ,
23564:All?of these ,
23565:? The?nature of their
fan clubs ,
23566:The?amount of
international sponsorship ,
23567:The composition of
the sport: team vs.
individual ,
23568:All?of these ,
23569:Different biological
capabilities of men and
women ,
23570:Individual choice ,
23571:Gender-typing of
occupation ,
23572:Sociology has a
high demand for women ,
23573:The process of
adding up empirical
instances to come to a
general conclusion ,
DU MA Sociology
2 13392 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q02
What is different sociologically in the following set of?items: football?and
wrestling
1 13391 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q01
What is common sociologically to the following set of items:
turbans?and?burqas
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
3 13393 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q03
There are a large number of women in sociology and few in engineering.
This reflects
23574:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle ,
23575:Inference in which
the conclusion is of no
greater generality than the
premises ,
23576:The inference of
particular instances by
reference to a general law
or principle & Inference in
which the conclusion is of
no greater generality than
the premises ,
23577:If the permanent
change of residence does
not involve crossing an
international boundary, it is
not referred to as
migration. ,
23578:International
migration is caused not
only by the push factors of
the origin countries, but
also by the pull factors of
the destination countries. ,
4 13394 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q04
Deduction as a method refers to:
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
23579:Migration decisions
are made not only by
isolated individuals but also
by larger units, such as
families and households. ,
23580:Networks make it
easier for new migrants to
find jobs in destination
countries. ,
23581:1 & 2 ,
23582:1, 2, & 3 ,
23583:1, 2 & 4 ,
23584:2,3 & 4 ,
23585:1 & 4 ,
23586:?? 2 & 3 ,
23587:1 & 3 ,
6 13396 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q06
Cricket fans may be forgiven for not noticing the caste differences in
Indian cricket, but as the country takes a leading role in the sport
worldwide, questions are being asked. Why is the national team made up
mostly of high caste players? In the Indian Test team's nearly 86-year
history only four low-caste dalits, formerly the "untouchables", players
have made the national team out of 289?. A recent article in Mumbai's
Political and Economic Weekly raised the question of affirmative action
calling on selectors to take a leaf from South Africa, which two years ago
decreed the national team must include six players of colour. (Source:
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/why-no-dalit-cricketers-in-india-
20180531-p4zim6.html)?Now read the following statements?1.
International sports is concerned about the ethnic composition of
teams?2. Indian cricket has been dominated by upper castes?3. One
solution to inequality in access to cricket could be reservation for dalits
in the Indian cricket team?4. There must be ten percent reservation for
economically depressed classes because cricket is an expensive
game?Which of the following is true based on the passage
5 13395 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q05
Which of the following is not true
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
23588:3 & 4 ,
23589:1 & 4 ,
23590:1 & 2 ,
23591:2 & 4 ,
23592:3 & 4 ,
23593:There are marked
differences between urban
and rural communities. ,
23594:There is always a
conflict when urban and
rural communities come
together. ,
23595:Sociologists study
either rural or urban
communities but not both
together ,
23596:There will be a new
social world when rural and
urban communities merge.
,
8 13398 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q08
Seventeen of the hottest years in history were all within the last 18
years ? Changing climate will ?affect human health with primarily
negative consequences? (IPCC). These facts and figures can feel dense
and impersonal, but we must remember there are people already
suffering the consequences of that data, people like my patients in rural
India. (Source: Anup Agarwal and Jennifer Bass, Climate Change has
made healthcare a bigger concern for vulerable communities. The Wire,
16 February 2019.)?1. Climate Change affects all individuals equally?2.
Climate change cannot be seen through its individual impacts but only
mass data?3. Climate Change impacts vulnerable communities more?4.
Climate change has impacts on human health?Based on the passage and
the statements which follow which of the following is correct
7 13397 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q07
Some American Executives visiting Japan have expressed surprise that
so many Japanese directors are unable to explain the details of their own
enterprise. They rely cheerfully on their beloved and trusted
subordinates to run the business. One would have to search widely in
Japan to find the company, so common in the west, run by only one or
two men?at the top while the employees act as simple tools.?It follows
from this that:?1. Japanese and American enterprises have very different
leadership structures?2. Japanese directors do not work much?3.
Relations between employers and employees are very strong in the
Japanese business enterprise.?4. Business enterprises are culturally
neutral?Choose the appropriate option:
9 13399 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q09
The influence of the city continues to be dominant in our civilization. But
the urban and rural communities cannot be viewed as always standing
apart, in relative isolation and frequently in antagonism. For there is a
tendency for these two types of social organization and human
environment to coalesce, a trend according to one Sociologist ?in which
the specifically urban and rural traits are merged together, preserving
the plusses of both and decreasing the shortcomings of each of these
agglomerations. This new trend is emerging in only a few regions and
countries, but it is bound to develop more and more, creating a new
form of socio-cultural world.? (Source: MacIver and Page. 2007. Society:
An Introductory Analysis. New Delhi: MacMillan, pg. 341).?Choose the
option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
23597:The sociology of
India is shaped by the
interaction between
colonial history and
different cultural traditions.
,
23598:Indian sociology is
primarily an offshoot of
British colonial sociology. ,
23599:Indian sociology is
primarily a product of
Indian culture and
intellectual traditions. ,
23600:The sociology of
India can be understood
primarily as a series of
methodological and
theoretical innovations. ,
23601:Sports?transcends
Identity ,
23602:The French football
team is composed of
foreigners of dubious
patriotism ,
23603:The FLN leader is
anti-football ,
23604:Racism is present in
sports ,
23605:1 & 2 ,
10 13400 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q10
A review of the growth of sociology in India from the perspective of
dominant theoretical innovations, changes in methodology and
technique, its interactions with other social sciences, its own
infrastructure as a profession, and the contribution that all these
tendencies have made to the ?universalization? of this discipline during
the period of a quarter of a century (1952-77) cannot be undertaken
meaningfully without a framework of analysis that would be of a
sociology of knowledge within the context of history. Colonialism, and its
impact on the intellectual and cultural traditions in India, of which
sociology and other social sciences are at a certain level manifestations,
provides an important historical backdrop for its theoretic, ideological
and professional evaluation. (Source: Singh, Y. 2004. Ideology and
Theory in Indian Sociology. New Delhi: Rawat Publications,pg95).?Choose
the option which best communicates the central meaning of the passage.
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
11 13401 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q11
Zidane and Mbapp? bookend a couple of decades where the ethnic make-
up of the national team has come under fierce scrutiny, often taking
worringly racist forms?Questions about the French team?s ethnic
credentials were present even before their 1998 victory against Brazil.
The far-right leader of the Front National (FN), Jean-Marie Le Pen argued
that some in the team were ?foreigners? who didn?t know how to sing the
national anthem. When Le Pen made it to the second round of the
presidential election in 2002, some of the world cup-winning footballers,
including the captain, Marcel Desailly, campaigned hard against him.
(Source: http://theconversation.com/success-of-french-football-team-
masks-underlying-tensions-over-race-and-class-99781)?This passage
suggests
23606:2 & 4 ,
23607:3 & 4 ,
23608:1 & 4 ,
23609:? the common blood
and substance shared with
the child ,
23610:efforts in ensuring
the child eats and plays
rightly ,
23611:shared blood and
knowledgeable care of the
child?s body ,
23612:recognition in the
neighbourhood as being
special. ,
23613:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered ,
23614:are actively
constructed by scientists
working in specific contexts
,
23615:are pure truths
about the natural world
that are discovered and are
actively constructed by
scientists working in
specific contexts ,
12 13402 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q12
The active connections with memories through visual and material
cultures constitute processes of identification for (British Asians). The
prismatic qualities of material cultures ensure that these cultures
become nodes of connection in a network of people, places, and
narration of past stories, history and traditions. Solid materials are
charged with memories that activate common connections to pre-
migratory landscapes and environments. These memories signify
geographical nodes of connection which shape and shift contemporary
social geographies in Britain, post migration. This form of memory-
history geographically locates the post-colonial within landscapes,
mobilized in the process of migration. These landscapes are neither
bounded nationalistic landscapes or lived tangible everyday spaces;
?these remembered locations situate the post-colonial migrant. (Source:
Divya Tolia-Kelly, Locating Processes of Identification, Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep.,
2004), pp. 314-329)?1. For migrants, objects evoke a connection to the
place of immigration.?2. For migrants, objects evoke connections with
the place of emigration.?3. For migrants, objects evoke their
cosmopolitan global identity.?4. For migrants, objects form a virtual
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
13 13403 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q13
Such a parent, in this view, shares body with the child twice over. First is
the body of genetic inheritance, a given, a matter regarded colloquially
as being of common blood or common substance. Second is the body
that is a sign of the parent's devotion ? or neglect ? and in this middle
class milieu it is above all through the application of knowledge that the
parent's efforts make this body. ? what the child ate or played with
reflected back on to the mother's local reputation. ? Parents are a
special case because of all a child?s caretakers and teachers only parents
share both bodies with the child. [Source: Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship,
Law and the Unexpected: Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, pg. 5]?In the context described, a parent is
special because of
23616:None of these ,
23617:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child ,
23618:are acceptable if
they enable parents to
have a baby with specific
characteristics ,
23619:are acceptable to
increase the number of
single parents ,
23620:are acceptable as
enabling the desire of a
couple to have a child and
are acceptable if they
enable parents to have a
baby with specific
characteristics ,
23621:It is culture specific.
,
23622:It is easily
translatable to reveal
human elements shared
across cultures. ,
23623:It is what underlies
poems and philosophical
discourses ,
23624:Stories?are more
translatable than poems. ,
14 13404 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q14
Scientific facts are shown not simply as `pure truths', placidly awaiting
discovery in a natural world, but as actively constructed by scientists
whose work practices, gendered identities, and career paths situated
them in particular historical and cultural milieus.The view that scientific
facts are as much made as they are discovered has radical implications
because it runs directly counter to Western assumptions about the
`natural world'.[Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press. pp. 10-11]?The author suggests that scientific facts
16 13406 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q16
To raise the question of narrative is to invite reflection on the nature of
culture and possibly on the nature of humanity itself?. Narrative might
well be a solution to a general human concern, namely, the problem of
how to translate knowing into telling, the problem of fashioning human
experience into a form assimilable into structures of meaning that are
generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to
comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture but we have
relatively less difficulty in understanding a story coming from another
culture, however exotic that culture may appear to us. As Barthes says,
narrative is translatable without fundamental damage in a way that a
lyric poem or a philosophical discourse is not? This suggests that far
from being one code among many that a culture may utilize for
endowing experience with meaning, narrative is a meta-code, a human
universal on the basis of which transcultural messages about the nature
of a shared reality can be transmitted. (Source: Hayden White 1990The
Content of the Form. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, pg.
1)?Narrative is a meta-code because
15 13405 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q15
Techniques welcomed to solve the problems of potential nuclear families
may be regarded as suspicious if their end result is more single parent
families. Although the desire to have a baby may be taken positively as
thoroughly natural, the desire to have a child of a particular kind or for a
particular purpose can be taken negatively as an example of parental
selfishness. [Strathern, M. 2005. Kinship, Law and the Unexpected:
Relatives are always a Surprise. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
pg. 18]?In the reasoning described in this passage, new techniques
23625:1, 2 & 4 ,
23626:2 & 4 ,
23627:1 & 4 ,
23628:2, 3 & 4 ,
23629:Natural laws were
considered the template
for social laws ,
23630:In some theories,
culture is thought to be an
adaptation to
environmental and genetic
constraints. ,
23631:Other theories
disputed the central role of
nature ,
23632:All of these ,
18 13408 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q18
For over forty years the nature-culture dichotomy has been a central
dogma in anthropology?Materialists considered nature as a basic
determinant of social action and would import from the natural sciences
models of causal explanation which, they hoped, would give sounder
foundations and a wider scope to the social sciences. For cultural
ecology, sociobiology, and some brands of Marxist anthropology, human
behaviour, social institutions and specific cultural features were seen as
adaptive responses to, or mere expressions of, basic environmental or
genetic constraints. Internal or external nature?defined in the
ethnocentric terms of modern scientific language?was the great driving
force behind social life. As a result, little attention was paid to how non-
western cultures conceptualized their environment and their relation to
it, except to evaluate possible convergences or discrepancies between
bizarre emic ideas and the etic orthodoxy embodied in the laws of
nature. (Source: Philippe Descola 2013 The Ecology of Others, Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, pg. 2)?The nature-culture dichotomy has
17 13407 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q17
[I]n the study of Sanskritization it is important to know the kind of caste
which dominates in a particular region. If they are Brahmans, or a caste
like the Lingayats, then Sanskritization will probably be quicker and
Brahmanical values will spread, whereas if the dominating caste is a local
Kshatriya or Vaishya caste, Sanskritization will be slower, and the values
will not be Brahmanical. The non-Brahmanical castes are generally less
Sanskritized than the Brahmans, and where they dominate, non-
Sanskritic customs may get circulated among the people. It is not
inconceivable that occasionally they may even mean the de-
Sanskritization of the imitating castes. (Srinivas, M.N. 1956. ?A Note on
Sanskritization and Westernization?.The Far Eastern Quarterly, 15(4):
481-496. pg.496)?From the passage above we understand that the
process of Sanskritization?1. always involves imitating the customs and
habits of Brahmans.?2. could result in castes getting de-sanskritized.?3.
does not refer to imitation of the Kshatriyas or Vaishyas?4. cannot be
understood without an understanding of the particular power dynamics in
a region.
23633:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) ,
23634:The form of
representation affects the
political visibility of women ,
23635:It has a dual
meaning of standing-in-for
as well as framing (re-
presenting) and The form
of representation affects
the political visibility of
women ,
23636:None of these ,
23637:The hand cursor
does not point to select
passages to show and
teach. ,
23638:It offers a vertical
rather than horizontal
reading surface. ,
23639:It shows only as it
positions selected regions
of the page image for the
viewer. ,
23640:All of these ,
20 13410 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q20
The Acrobat Reader?s hand shaped cursor works as a foil for both the
disciplined writing hand and the mechanized typing one. Called the ?hand
tool? for ?navigation? by Adobe? the cursor represents the reader?s hand
not an author?s or editor?s hand? it is a part of a long tradition in which
reading has been considered hand oriented?.They have also long been
figured graphically on the page? the small pointing hand or ?manicule? is
a visually striking version of the most common marginal notation ? nota
or nota bene. Thousand of manicules were drawn on the pages of early
modern books where they point, they index, literally with an index
finger, and they select, all in the expanded sense of ?showing and
teaching?. The Acrobat hand cursor, by contrast does not point. It shows
only as it positions selected regions of the page image for view?Limited
in its movements across the plane of the window it abets the ?dictatorial
perpendicular? of modern reading?Computer screens offer reading
surfaces that are more vertical than horizontal and at odds with the kind
of penetrative or absorptive reading that a book might inspire?as it lies
open on a table?(Source:Lisa Gitelman 2014 Paper Knowledge, NC:
Duke University Press, pp. 129-130)?How is the Acrobat hand cursor
different from the manicule?
19 13409 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q19
But politics and representation are controversial terms. On the one hand,
representation serves as the operative term within a political process
that seeks to extend visibility and legitimacy to women as political
subjects; on the other hand, representation is the normative function of
a language which is said either to reveal or to distort what is assumed to
be true about the category of women. For feminist theory, the
development of a language that fully or adequately represents women
has seemed necessary to foster the political visibility of women (Judith
Butler. 1999. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity.
New York: Routledge, pg.3)?According to Butler, representation is
controversial for the following reason
23641:Compulsory
environmental education
for all school teachers. ,
23642:FM radio campaign
asking people to take a
pledge not to use polluting
fire crackers ,
23643:Large public signs
indicating pollution levels in
the city ,
23644:All of these ,
23645:A deep religious
perspective in which
religion helps people to
reconcile to their fate ,
23646:A skeptical
perspective in which
religion conceals
oppression and exploitation
,
23647:A pluralist
perspective in which all
religions are equal and in
their own place ,
23648:A symbolic
perspective in which
religion symbolizes hope ,
23649:? recognised
through blood alone ,
22 13412 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q22
Religion does not simply cushion the effects of oppression; it is also an
instrument of that oppression. It acts as a mechanism of social control,
maintaining the existing system of exploitation and reinforcing class
relationships. Put simply, it keeps people in their place. By making
unsatisfactory life bearable, religion tends to discourage people from
attempting to change their situation. By justifying the existing social
structure, it dissuades ideas to alter it. By offering an illusion of hope in
a hopeless situation, it prevents thoughts of overthrowing the system.
(Source: Haralambos M. Sociology: Themes and Perspectives. 1980.
Oxford University Press,pg 461)?Which of the following perspectives does
this passage represent
21 13411 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q21
An extreme idealist might claim that the world can be changed by
thinking about it. If people decide, for instance, that it is a good idea to
start behaving cooperatively, non-aggressively and benignly towards
nature, then they can do so. If you want to change society in these
directions, then you need to change attitudes and values, particularly
those in the minds of people who run the institutions where we learn our
values and ideologies?media and education, for instance. (Source:
Pepper, David 2002. Eco-Socialism: From Deep Ecology to Social Justice.
New York: Routledge)?According to this passage, which of the following
represents an idealist strategy?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
23650:built through
conceptual categories that
are universal through time
for specific cultures ,
23651:contextual and
based on actual practices ,
23652:None of these ,
23653:? Myths, beliefs and
rituals fulfill specific needs ,
23654:Myths, beliefs and
rituals are based on false
consciousness ,
23655:Science can
discover which myths and
beliefs are true and which
are false ,
23656:The stated reason
for the existence of a belief
is the only reason possible ,
23657:Human capital is
the income per capita, or
the capital that a single
human can acquire ,
23658:Men naturally have
more human capital than
women ,
23659:It is because
women have less human
capital that they are
assigned a greater role in
family care ,
24 13414 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q24
It is a fundamental postulate of sociology that a human institution
cannot rest upon error and falsehood. If it did it could not endure. If it
had not been grounded in the nature of things, in those very things it
would have met resistance that it could not have overcome. The most
bizarre or barbarous rites and the strangest myths translate some
human need and some aspect of life, whether social or individual. The
reasons the faithful settle for in justifying those rites and myths may be
mistaken, and more often are; but the true reasons exist nonetheless,
and it is the business of science to discover. (Source: Durkheim. E. 1995
The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.The Free Press pg. 2)What does
Durkheim mean to say in?this?passage?
23 13413 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q23
Rather than taking the content of `kinship' for granted, they build from
first principles a picture of the implications and the lived experience of
relatedness in local contexts. It is a truism that people are always
conscious of connections to other people. It is equally a truism that some
of these connections carry particular weight - socially, materially,
affectively. And, often but not always, these connections can be
described in genealogical terms, but they can also be described in other
ways. (Source: Carsten J. (ed.). 2000. Cultures of Relatedness: New
Approaches to the Study of Kinship. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, pg 1)?Kinship relations are connections
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
23660:It is because
women have to take care
of the family that they
acquire less human capital ,
23661:The status of
women compared to men
may not be secondary
across societies. ,
23662:Cultural particulars
and human universals are
often contradictory to each
other ,
23663:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but remains
constant within a society. ,
23664:The actual
treatment of women varies
across cultures but their
secondary status is a
universal across cultures. ,
23665:News is an
objective representation of
whatever happens in the
world ,
23666:News is just a mask
for the profit orientation of
media managers ,
26 13416 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q26
Much of the creativity of anthropology derives from the tension between
two sets of demands: that we explain human universals, and that we
explain cultural particulars. By this canon, woman provides us with one
of the more challenging problems to be dealt with. The secondary status
of woman in society is one of the true universals, a pan-cultural fact. Yet
within that universal fact, the specific cultural conceptions and
symbolizations of woman are extraordinarily diverse and even mutually
contradictory. Further, the actual treatment of women and their relative
power and contribution vary enormously from culture to culture, and
over different periods in the history of particular cultural traditions.
(Source: Ortner, Sherry B. 1974. Is female to male as nature is to
culture? In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere (eds), Woman, culture, and
society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, pp. 68-87.)We can infer
from the above passage that:
25 13415 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q25
Human capital theorists argue that women have less human capital than
men because of their position in the family. Women?s work as carers of
children (and also of husbands and elderly parents) precludes their
acquisition of as many qualifications and as much labour force
experience as men. (Source: Walby, S. 1990 Theorising
Patriarchy.Oxford: Basil Blackwell).?The following can be inferred from
the passage
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
23667:The business
interests and political links
of media owners shapes
the news ,
23668:Journalists are the
prime selectors of news. ,
23669:desire to marry
daughters into wealthier
households and the desire
that they don?t have to
work too much overall. ,
23670:Withdrawal of
women from paid work and
the practice of hypergamy ,
23671:Women?s
objectification as status
good and their level of
domestic work ,
23672:Diminishing
household work and
diminishing work in public ,
23673:Common sense is
chaotic and ethnography is
always orderly ,
23674:Ethnography
disrupts society as it is
intrinsically political in the
sense proposed by Gramsci
,
28 13418 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q28
The practice of hypergamy that developed among Lewa Patels was
founded at least partly on the premise that daughters married into
wealthier households would neither have to sell their labor power nor
work in the fields; in short, their work in public would be minimized.
There was no guarantee, however, that their household work would
diminish as well, but this really was not a decisive element for
distinction. Ironically, then, the de-objectification of women?s work (her
dual withdrawal from commoditized work and public work) went hand-in-
hand with women?s objectification as status goods within the Lewa Patel
community. (Source: Gidwani, V. 2008. Capital,Interrupted. Agrarian
Development and the Politics of Work in India. University of Minnesota
Press, Minneapolis, London, pg. 173)?The main argument of the passage
above is that there is a direct relationship between:
27 13417 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q27
In sum, the dominant media firms are quite large businesses; they are
controlled by very wealthy people or by managers who are subject to
sharp constraints by owners and other market-profit-oriented forces;
and they are closely interlocked, and have important common interests,
with other major corporations, banks, and government. This is the first
powerful filter that will affect news choices. (Source: Herman, S Edward
and Chomsky, Noam. Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of
the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon Books, pg. 14)?According to this
passage,
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
23675:New knowledge is
produced by disruptions of
earlier categories and
assumptions ,
23676:Ethnography relies
on categories that are
familiar to the
ethnographer but not to
those being studied ,
23677:The passage is a
comparison between
Borges and Bu?uel where
Borges stands against the
?tyranny? of modernism and
Bu?uel stands for the
universalism of Western
Culture. ,
23678:The passage is a
comparison between
Bu?uel and Claude L?vi-
Strauss and their position
on western Universalism. ,
23679:The passage is a
discussion on
cosmopolitanism where the
author refers to Claude
L?vi-Strauss, Borges and
Bu?uel. ,
23680:All of these ,
23681:The importance of
Hongkong?s industrial
development. ,
30 13420 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q30
I begin with this encounter between Borges and Bu?uel because it
illustrates some of the ambiguities of the cosmopolitan. In Borges?s case,
cosmopolitanism was, first, a modernist argument against the tyranny of
?tradition? as narrow parochialisms and ethnocentrism: this was the
critical aspect of his cultural universalism (?our patrimony is the
universe?)?in much the same way that the universalism of ?structure?
was to Claude L?vi-Strauss a critical safeguard against ethnocentric bias.
The problem begins when this universalism is identified with Western
culture (?I believe our tradition is all of Western culture . . . ?).(Source:
Ackbar Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and
Hongkong. Public Culture 12(3): 769-786. pp 770-771.)?Q. In the light of
the above passage, which of the following statements is correct?
29 13419 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q29
Ethnographic research obliges the ethnographer to confront the gap
between the chaotic ?common sense? of lived realities and the schemes
he or she must apply in seeking to make sense of them. It disrupts the
ethnographer?s prior categories and assumptions, exposing uncharted
territory where familiar categories don?t hold. As it disrupts, it opens up
the possibility of generating new knowledge and connections. This kind
of intellectual work is intrinsically political in the definition proposed by
the Italian scholar Antonio Gramsci. (Source: Li, T.M. 2014. Lands End.
Capitalist Relations on an Indigenous Frontier.NC: Duke University
Press.)?We can conclude from the above passage that:
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
23682:? The injection of
capital and human
resources into Shanghai,
1950?s onwards. ,
23683:The emigration of
21 industrialist families out
of Hongkong. ,
23684:The emigration of
21 industrialist families
from Shanghai to
Hongkong. ,
23685:A version of a
Marxist historiography of
Science ,
23686:An analysis of
manufacturing science ,
23687:A history of
intellectual traditions ,
23688:Mechanistic
Manufacture ,
23689:An entity where the
individual members are not
conscious of themselves as
a class ,
23690:The French nation
which is composed purely
of farmers ,
32 13422 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q32
Boris Hessen?s ?The Social and Economic Roots of Newton?s ?Principia??
(1931) and Henryk Grossmann?s ?The Social Foundation of Mechanistic
Philosophy and Manufacture? (1935) are the classic programmatic
examples of Marxist historiography of science. The two works were
produced completely independent of one another, but both scholars were
working within the same intellectual tradition with the same conceptual
tools on the same topic. . . .They have enough in common that the
enlarged thesis that emerges from their work may be called the ?Hessen-
Grossmann-Thesis.? While many Marxists have contributed to the
historiography of science, Hessen?s and Grossmann?s work displays a
specifically Marxist approach: they conceptualize science as one kind of
labor within the system of social production.(Source: G. Freudenthal and
P. McLaughlin, 2009. The Social and Economic Roots of the Scientific
Revolution. Springer Publications, pg. 1)?According to the passage, what
is the ?Hessen-Grossmann-Thesis??
31 13421 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q31
The story is often told that it was an act of emigration, the flight of
twenty-one Shanghai industrialist families to Hong Kong with their
capital and business expertise, that formed the basis of Hong Kong?s
industrial development from the 1950s onwards. In chronological terms,
the rise of Hong Kong indeed succeeded the fall of Shanghai. The
injection of capital and human resources to the colony that followed was
certainly one factor in its growth as an international city, but it was not
the only or even necessarily the most important factor. (Source: Ackbar
Abbas, 2000. Cosmopolitan Descriptions: Shanghai and Hongkong. Public
Culture 12(3): 769-786, pg. 776.)?Q. What was an important factor in
the growth of Hongkong as an international city?
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23691:Collection of French
Potato Farmers each
cultivating their potato
patches ,
23692:All of these ,
23693:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies ,
23694:In colonial India the
Government justified its
failure to provide
opportunities by referring
to the essential difference
of the East ,
23695:The values of the
East and West can never
meet ,
23696:In Western
countries, the Government
helps citizens with training
and education while they
do not do the same for
their colonies & ?justifies?its
failure?by referring to the
essential difference of the
East ,
34 13424 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q34
In India we are suffering from this conflict between the spirit of the West
and the Nation of the West. The benefit of the Western civilization is
doled out to us in a miserly measure by the Nation, which tries to
regulate the degree of nutrition as near the zero-point of vitality as
possible. The portion of education allotted to us is so raggedly
insufficient that it ought to outrage the sense of decency of a Western
humanity. We have seen in these countries how the people are
encouraged and trained and given every facility to fit themselves for the
great movements of commerce and industry spreading over the world,
while in India the only assistance we get is merely to be jeered at by the
Nation for lagging behind. While depriving us of our opportunities and
reducing our education to the minimum required for conducting a foreign
government, this Nation pacifies its conscience by calling us names, by
sedulously giving currency to the arrogant cynicism that the East is east
and the West is west and never the twain shall meet. [Source:
Rabindranath Tagore. 1918 Nationalism. Macmillan.]?The essence of this
passage is that:
33 13423 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q33
Every single farmer family is almost self-sufficient; itself produces
directly the greater part of what it consumes; and it earns its livelihood
more by means of an interchange with nature than by intercourse with
society. We have the allotted patch of land, the farmer and his family;
alongside of that another allotted patch of land, another farmer and
another family. A bunch of these makes up a village; a bunch of villages
makes up a Department. Thus the large mass of the French nation is
constituted by the simple addition of equal magnitudes?much as a bag
with potatoes constitutes a potato-bag. In so far as millions of families
live under economic conditions that separate their mode of life, their
interests and their culture from those of the other classes, and that place
them in an attitude hostile toward the latter, they constitute a class; in
so far as there exists only a local connection among these farmers, a
connection which the individuality and exclusiveness of their interests
prevent from generating among them any unity of interest, national
connections, and political organization, they do not constitute a class.
(Source: K. Marx, 1852. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte,
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-
Brumaire.pdf)In this passage, the ?potato bag? is a metaphor for:
23697:Human races are
defined by genetic
difference ,
23698:The category of a
racial group is itself
problematic ,
23699:? Genetic groups are
identified by the variations
within each group. ,
23700:None of these ,
23701:Sociologists should
share their information
with participants only after
concluding research ,
23702:Sociologists must
share the purpose and
details of their research
before inviting participation
,
23703:Ethical research
depends on not sharing
research protocols so as to
maintain total objectivity ,
23704:Research ethics are
peculiar to sociologists ,
36 13426 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q36
Ethical considerations are of particular importance to sociologists
because sociologists study people. Thus, sociologists must adhere to a
rigorous code of ethics. In the context of sociological research, a code of
ethics refers to formal guidelines for conducting research, consisting of
principles and ethical standards concerning the treatment of human
individuals.The most important ethical consideration in sociological
research is that participants in a sociological investigation are not
harmed in any way. Exactly what this entails can vary from study to
study, but there are several universally recognized considerations. For
instance, research on children and youth always requires parental
consent. All sociological research requires informed consent, and
participants are never coerced into participation. Informed consent in
general involves ensuring that prior to agreeing to participate, research
subjects are aware of details of the study including the risks and benefits
of participation and in what ways the data collected will be used and kept
secure. Participants are also told that they may stop their participation in
the study at any time. (Source:
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/boundless-sociology/chapter/ethics-
in-sociological-research/)?Based on the above passage, we can say that
35 13425 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q35
In the United States both scholars and the general public have been
conditioned to viewing human races as natural and separate divisions
within the human species based on visible physical differences. With the
vast expansion of scientific knowledge in this century, however, it has
become clear that human populations are not unambiguous, clearly
demarcated, biologically distinct groups. Evidence from the analysis of
genetics (e.g. DNA) indicates that most physical variation, about 94%,
lies within so-called racial groups. Conventional geographic "racial"
groupings differ from one another only in about 6% of their genes. This
means that there is greater variation within "racial" groups than between
them. In neighboring populations there is much overlapping of genes and
their phenotypic (physical) expressions. Throughout history whenever
different groups have come into contact, they have interbred. The
continued sharing of genetic materials has maintained all of humankind
as a single species.[Source: American Anthropological Association
Statement on Race 1998]?According to this passage:
23705:a group of people
are excluded from the use
of value producing
resources. ,
23706:The opportunity to
use the resource and
capture the returns is used
to strengthen the boundary
between groups. ,
23707:A clique works
efficiently together. ,
23708:a group of people
are excluded from the use
of value producing
resources?& these
resources are used to
strengthen the
exclusionary?boundary
between groups. ,
23709:Cold War Mushroom
Clouds ,
23710:Radioactive
Isotopes ,
23711:Noise Pollution from
Agitating Crowds ,
23712:Chemical Leaks ,
23713:Self-reflexivity is
common among
sociologists ,
38 13428 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q38
We can discern growing concern in the social sciences and humanities
with questions of atmosphere. Much of it has been an accounting of
atmospheric violences, fast and slow. Increasingly explicative
attunements to the air track its defilement from gas warfare and gas
chambers through a roster of toxic airborne events wherein atmospheres
are forced into explicitness in a thanatopolitics of compromised life: Cold
War mushroom clouds, windblown radioactive isotopes, chemical leaks,
nuclear accidents, tear gas assaults on an agitating crowd; these and
others compose a repertoire of atmospheric trespasses, mapping a
proliferation of airspaces filled with danger. (Timothy Choy and Jerry
Zee, 2015. ?Condition. Suspension?. Cultural Anthropology Vol.30(2):
210-223. P211)?According to the above passage, in the growing concern
with questions of atmosphere, which of the following cannot be included?
37 13427 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q37
In opportunity hoarding, the clique excludes people on the opposite
boundary from use of the value-producing resource, captures the
returns, and devotes some of the returns to reproducing the boundary.
For instance, people in the diamond trade organize ethnically recruited
circuits for acquisition, cutting, polishing, distribution, and sale of
different types of gems, excluding others from their sections of the
trade. Some of the monopoly's return goes into reinforcing ethnic ties,
thus making new recruits to the trade available. (Tilly, Charles. 2003.
Changing Forms of Inequality. Sociological Theory, 21 (1): 31-36. P.
34)?Please mark the incorrect answer ?According to the passage above,
opportunity hoarding refers to a system by which:
39 13429 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q39
If it is true that only some sociologists are women and some women are
self-reflexive, we can conclude that:
23714:Sociology is a self-
reflexive discipline ,
23715:Some sociologists
are not self-reflexive ,
23716:None of these ,
23717:All three can be
concluded ,
23718:? Only 1 & 2 ,
23719:Only 1 & 3 ,
23720:None of the three
can be concluded ,
23721:Death penalty
reduces violent crime ,
23722:Developing
countries should also rely
on the death penalty to
reduce violent crime ,
23723:Death penalty
should be abolished ,
23724:None of these ,
23725:Only 1 follows ,
23726:Both 1 and 2 follow ,
23727:Neither 1 nor 2
follow ,
23728:Either 1 or 2 follows
,
23729:2 & 3 ,
23730:Only 2 ,
23731:All of the above ,
23732:None of the above ,
23733:Simone de Beauvoir
,
40 13430 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q40
Some animals are insects. Some insects are butterflies. All butterflies are
colourful things. Based only on the three preceding statements, we can
conclusively show that?1. Some colourful things are insects2. Some
insects are animals?3. Some colourful things are animals
39 13429 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q39
If it is true that only some sociologists are women and some women are
self-reflexive, we can conclude that:
42 13432 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q42
If all biologists are scientists and all botanists are biologists, which of the
following conclusions follow:1. All botanists are scientists.?2. Some
biologists are botanists.
41 13431 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q41
Some Western countries still use the death penalty to reduce violent
crime. What conclusion can be made based only on the preceding
statement
44 13434 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q44
Books by authors Margaret Mead, Simone de Beauvoir, Irawati Karve,
Pierre Bourdieu, Talcott Parsons and George Simmel are stacked one on
top of each other on a table. There are three books between books by
Talcott Parsons and George Simmel, and two books between books of
Margaret Mead and Irawati Karve. George Simmel?s book is placed below
Talcott Parsons, and Margaret Mead is placed above. There is at least
one book below?Simone de Beauvoir's?book. Which is the second book
from the top in this stack?
43 13433 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q43
Some artists are eccentric. All painters are artists. Some artists are
women. Which of the following conclusions can be drawn based on these
statements??1. Women artists are eccentric?2. Some women are
eccentric?3. Some painters are eccentric
23734:Talcott Parsons ,
23735:Irawati Karve ,
23736:Pierre Bourdieu ,
23737:Uttarakhand and
train ,
23738:MP and bus ,
23739:JK and car ,
23740:AP and flight ,
23741:Kishan ,
23742:Guddu ,
23743:Munni ,
23744:Bantu ,
23745:Cooking ,
23746:Washing ,
23747:Mopping ,
23748:None of the above ,
23749:Laila and Elena?s
dogs ,
23750:Alia and Raj?s dogs ,
23751:Laila and Rumi?s
dogs ,
23752:Elena and Laila?s
dogs ,
44 13434 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q44
Books by authors Margaret Mead, Simone de Beauvoir, Irawati Karve,
Pierre Bourdieu, Talcott Parsons and George Simmel are stacked one on
top of each other on a table. There are three books between books by
Talcott Parsons and George Simmel, and two books between books of
Margaret Mead and Irawati Karve. George Simmel?s book is placed below
Talcott Parsons, and Margaret Mead is placed above. There is at least
one book below?Simone de Beauvoir's?book. Which is the second book
from the top in this stack?
46 13436 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q46
Four friends Kishan, Guddu, Munni and Bantu are sharing a pizza with 5
slices and decide the extra slice will go to the youngest person. Bantu is
two months older than Kishan, who is four months younger than Munni.
Guddu is one month older than Bantu. Who gets the extra slice?
45 13435 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q45
Four friends Ramirez, Ananya, Tashi and Mutul come to Delhi from four
places AP, Uttarakhand, J&K and MP using different modes of transport,
train, bus, airplane, and car. Tashi never travels by road as she gets car
sick, Ananya took a flight from AP, Ramirez travelled from MP, and there
is no convenient train connection from JK. Where did Tashi come from
and by which mode of transport?
48 13438 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q48
Rumi?s dog is bigger than Laila?s dog but smaller than Elena?s dog. Alia?s
dog is the same size as Raj?s dog, which is bigger than Laila?s dog, but
smaller than Rumi?s dog. If bigger dogs are friendlier and smaller dogs
are more obedient, which of the following pairs lists the most friendly
and most obedient dog in that order?
47 13437 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q47
The following household chores are shared between the members of a
household: Cooking, sweeping, mopping, washing and dusting. Father,
mother, son, daughter and uncle do one household chore on one day of
the week between Monday and Friday. Father does the sweeping on
Friday, and Mother does housework only on Thursday. Daughter does the
Washing and Cooking is done on Tuesday, and the Son does housework
on Wednesday. What household task does Uncle do?
23753:Women ,
23754:Persons With
Disability ,
23755:Scheduled Tribes ,
23756:Other Minorities ,
23757:Only 1,
23758:Only 2,
23759: Both 1 and 2,
23760:Neither 1 nor 2,
50 13440 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q50
49 13439 DU_J19_
MA_SOCI
O_Q49
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