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Question Paper Name: Social Systems 28th May 2019 Shift1 Set1

Subject Name: Social Systems

Creation Date: 2019-05-28 15:19:44

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Duration: 180

Total Marks: 100

Display Marks: Yes

Share Answer Key With Delivery Engine: Yes

Actual Answer Key: Yes

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Social Systems

Group Number: 1

Group Id: 12820692

Group Maximum Duration: 0

Group Minimum Duration: 120

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Revisit allowed for view?: No

Revisit allowed for edit?: No

Break time: 0

Group Marks: 100

PART A

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Section Id: 128206212

Section Number: 1

Section type: Online

Mandatory or Optional: Mandatory

Number of Questions: 42

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Number of Questions to be attempted: 42

Section Marks: 100

Display Number Panel: Yes

Group All Questions: No

Sub-Section Number: 1

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Sub-Section Id: 128206217

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Number: 1 Question Id: 1282064875 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Variance is a statistical measure useful for

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A. Measuring how far a set (random) numbers are spread out from their average values

B. Measuring how far a set of (random) variables are spread out from their dependent variable

C. Measuring how far a set of (random) samples are spread out in the population

D. None of the above

12820619282. A

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12820619283. B

12820619284. C

12820619285. D

Question Number: 2 Question Id: 1282064876 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which of the following Articles of the Indian Constitution provide for political reservation in the parliament and the legislative assemblies?

A. Articles 334-335

B. Articles 340-341

C. Articles 330-332

D. Articles 331-341

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Options:

12820619286. A

12820619287. B

12820619288. C

12820619289. D

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Question Number: 3 Question Id: 1282064877 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Who among the following said, "The kinship terms by definition are also parts of speech and must be treated directly by the method of linguistics"?

A. Franz Boas

B. Levi-Strauss

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C. Edmund Leach

D. Raymond Firth

Options:

12820619290. A

12820619291. B

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12820619292. C

12820619293. D

Question Number: 4 Question Id: 1282064878 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

Who among the following has defined culture as, "essentially a response to human needs"?

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A. Robert Linton

B. Robert Redfield

C. A.R. Radcliffe Brown

D. Bronislaw Malinowski

Options:

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12820619294. A

12820619295. B

12820619296. C

12820619297. D

Question Number: 5 Question Id: 1282064879 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

A type of research in which the researcher not only studies social phenomena, but assists in changing it is called

A. Proactive research

B. Action research

C. Experimental research

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D. Participatory research

Options:

12820619298. A

12820619299. B

12820619300. C

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12820619301. D

Question Number: 6 Question Id: 1282064880 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Judging another culture based on values and standards from one's own culture is called

A. Ethnocentrism

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B. Ethnocide

C. Ethnography

D. Ethnology

Options:

12820619302. A

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12820619303. B

12820619304. C

12820619305. D

Question Number: 7 Question Id: 1282064881 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

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In social demography, a group of people born around the same time is known as

A. Primary group

B. Generational group

C. Age cohort

D. All of the above

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Options:

12820619306. A

12820619307. B

12820619308. C

12820619309. D

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Question Number: 8 Question Id: 1282064882 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Acquiring new roles and attitudes in preparation for joining a group is called

A. Preparatory socialization

B. Anticipatory socialization

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C. Acculturation

D. Enculturation

Options:

12820619310. A

12820619311. B

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12820619312. C

12820619313. D

Question Number: 9 Question Id: 1282064883 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

According to Gramsci, 'Hegemony' refers to

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A. Domination without consent

B. Coercion

C. Domination with consent

D. None of the above

Options:

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12820619314. A

12820619315. B

12820619316. C

12820619317. D

Question Number: 10 Question Id: 1282064884 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which of the following concepts is not integral to the alliance theory of kinship?

A. Joking relationship

B. Reciprocity

C. Incest taboo

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D. Exogamy

Options:

12820619318. A

12820619319. B

12820619320. C

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12820619321. D

Question Number: 11 Question Id: 1282064885 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which of the following is NOT a correct match?

A. Structuration - Anthony Giddens

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B. Structuralism - Claude Levi-Strauss

C. Richard Emerson - Exchange theory

D. Peter M. Blau - Ethnomethodology

Options:

Question Number: 12 Question Id: 1282064886 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

The phrase 'Is female to male as nature is to culture?' was formulated by

A. Mary Douglas

B. Sherry Ortner

C. Judith Butler

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D. Sandra Harding

Options:

12820619326. A

12820619327. B

12820619328. C

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12820619329. D

Question Number: 13 Question Id: 1282064887 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

In the study of power, 'Panopticon' is a metaphor for

A. Surveillance

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B. Size of the institution

C. Authority

D. Visual field

Options:

12820619330. A

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12820619331. B

12820619332. C

12820619333. D

Question Number: 14 Question Id: 1282064888 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

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Which among the following thinkers advocated the approach of 'Critical Traditionalism' to the study of Indian society?

A. Leela Dube

B. G.S. Ghurye

C. J.P.S. Uberoi

D. Ashis Nandy

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Options:

12820619334. A

12820619335. B

12820619336. C

12820619337. D

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Question Number: 15 Question Id: 1282064889 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

Who wrote about the 'Power elite'?

A. C. Wright Mills

B. Max Weber

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C. Karl Marx

D. Ralf Dahrendorf

Options:

12820619338. A

12820619339. B

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12820619340. C

12820619341. D

Question Number: 16 Question Id: 1282064890 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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How does structuralism differ from structural functionalism?

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A. Dialectics

B. Ideology

C. Relating structure to mental framework

D. Notion of self

Options:

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12820619342. A

12820619343. B

12820619344. C

12820619345. D

Question Number: 17 Question Id: 1282064891 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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From among the options given below, select the states in which the Sixth Schedule of Indian Constitution is operationalized

1. Nagaland

2. Mizoram

3. Manipur

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4. Tripura

5. Meghalaya

6. Assam

A. 1, 2, 5 and 6 only

B. 3, 4 and 6 only

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C. 2, 4, 5 and 6 only

D. All of the above

Options:

12820619346. A

12820619347. B

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Sub-Section Number: 2

Sub-Section Id: 128206218

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Id: 1282064892 Question Type: COMPREHENSION Sub Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes Group Comprehension Questions: No

Question Numbers: (18 to 22)

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Question Number: 18 Question Id: 1282064893 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Based on the passage, what are the tasks of sociologists, according to the author?

A. The rejection of cultural relativism and the acceptance of cultural subordination

B. The acceptance of cultural subordination and the resistance towards cultural pluralism

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C. The resistance towards cultural pluralism and the rejection of cultural relativism

D. The rejection of cultural relativism and the resistance towards cultural hegemonisation

Options:

12820619350. A

12820619351. B

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12820619352. C

12820619353. D

Question Number: 19 Question Id: 1282064894 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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The third question that the sociologists need to ask as part of their scientific task is related to:

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A. The explanation of the phenomenon under study

B. The description of the phenomenon under study

C. The classification of phenomenon under study

D. The verification of phenomenon under study

Options:

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12820619354. A

12820619355. B

12820619356. C

12820619357. D

Question Number: 20 Question Id: 1282064895 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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When the author is talking about the conceptual history of globalization, he/she is trying to answer the question(s)

A. Why is it?

B. Why is it and what will it be?

C. What is it and how is it?

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D. What is it and what it ought to be?

Options:

12820619358. A

12820619359. B

12820619360. C

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12820619361. D

Question Number: 21 Question Id: 1282064896 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which among the following is related to a prescriptive and normative orientation and therefore becomes the ideological task of a sociologist?

A. To resist cultural homogenization

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B. To reject ethnocentrism

C. To nurture cultural pluralism

D. All of the above

Options:

12820619362. A

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12820619363. B

12820619364. C

12820619365. D

Question Number: 22 Question Id: 1282064897 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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In this passage, the author is posing the sociologists' tasks as

A. Scientific and descriptive

B. Ethical and political

C. Ideological and scientific

D. Ideological and political

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Options:

12820619366. A

12820619367. B

12820619368. C

12820619369. D

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Sub-Section Number: 3

Sub-Section Id: 128206219

Question Shuffling Allowed: Yes

Question Number: 23 Question Id: 1282064898 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

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An approach to knowledge, which defines the subject matter of a discipline, explains how that subject matter is constituted, provides precisely defined conceptual tools and procedures, and defines the limits of the discipline, is known as

A. Perspective

B. Theory

C. Techniques of data collection

D. Methodology

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Options:

12820619370. A

12820619371. B

12820619372. C

12820619373. D

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Question Number: 24 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Karl Marx disagreed with Hegel on the following premises while propounding his own theory of history.

1. Marx disagreed with Hegel regarding the role he assigned to philosophy.

2. Marx disagreed with Hegel over the role of ideas in history.

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3. Marx disagreed with Hegel over the ultimate role of society and state.

4. Marx disagreed with Hegel over his understanding of human hardship and social inequality

A. 1, 2 and 3

B. 4 only

C. 3 and 4

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D. All the above

Options:

12820619374. A

12820619375. B

12820619376. C

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12820619377. D

Question Number: 25 Question Id: 1282064900 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

The most significant impact of the Newtonian physics model on the social sciences is/are:

1. Social scientists look for origin of every social phenomenon.

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2. Social scientists look for laws that govern social phenomena.

3. Social scientists started using empirical methods of investigation.

4. Social scientists started exploring social phenomenon using organic analogy.

A. 1 only

B. 1, 2 and 3

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C. 1, 2 and 4

D. 1 and 2

Options:

12820619378. A

12820619379. B

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12820619380. C

12820619381. D

Question Number: 26 Question Id: 1282064901 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Which of the following statement is true about the simple random sample?

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A. Every unit that constitutes the population has equal chance of being paired with another unit in that given population as component of the sample.

B. Every unit has an equal chance of being selected as part of the sample.

C. Each sample of a fixed size in a given population has equal chance of being selected as the sample

D. All of the above

Options:

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12820619382. A

12820619383. B

12820619384. C

12820619385. D

Question Number: 27 Question Id: 1282064902 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

Which of the following match is incorrect?

A. G H. Mead - 'Generalized Other'

B. Max Weber - 'Charismatic Authority'

C. Ferdinand Tonnies - 'Gemeinschaft'

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D. Emile Durkheim - Psychology of suicide

Options:

12820619386. A

12820619387. B

12820619388. C

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12820619389. D

Question Number: 28 Question Id: 1282064903 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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Ethnomethodology is

A. The study of the methods which people use to maintain an ongoing sense of reality in a situation

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B. The study of an ethnic community

C. The study of how people carry on their ordinary day-to-day life

D. The study of ordinary day-to-day practices of interaction

Options:

12820619390. A

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12820619391. B

12820619392. C

12820619393. D

Question Number: 29 Question Id: 1282064904 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

Correct Marks: 2 Wrong Marks: 0

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The concept of medicalisation refers to

A. The spread of pharmaceutical companies

B. The shift from natural to chemical substances to cure diseases in the modern period

C. The prescription of medicines for non-medical and social problems

D. The prescription of wrong medicines

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Options:

12820619394. A

12820619395. B

12820619396. C

12820619397. D

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Question Number: 30 Question Id: 1282064905 Question Type: MCQ Option Shuffling: No Display Question Number: Yes Single Line Question Option: No Option Orientation: Vertical

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An ethnographic study is

A. Qualitative study of a small group

B. A mixed method study of a bounded unit

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C. Participant observation of a group

D. A complete qualitative study of a bounded unit

Options:

12820619398. A

12820619399. B

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