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Exam Date: 05-Oct-2020

Exam Time: 09:00-12:00

Examination: 1. Course Code - M.Phil.

2. Field of Study - Social Systems (SOCP)

SECTION 1 - SECTION 1

Question No.1 (Question Id - 2)

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Statement 1:

W.F. Ogburn was one of the first to examine the phenomena systematically and to undertake quantitative studies of the rate of change, especially in the sphere of technological invention.

Statement II :

Herbert Spencer's theory of social change was in some respects less comprehensive, and was based less adequate empirical data, than that of August Comte.

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Based on the above statements choose the correct answer from the options given below :

1. Both Statement I and Statement II are true
2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3. Statement I is true but Statement II is false (Correct Answer)
4. Statement I is false but Statement II is true

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Question No.2 (Question Id - 81)

Who among the following defined power as "the chance of a man or a number of men to realize their own will in a social action even against the resistance of others who are participating in the action"?

1. Karl Marx
2. Max Weber (Correct Answer)
3. Antonio Gramsci

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4. Steven Lukes

Case Study - 3 to 5 (Question Id - 52)

Read the following text carefully and answer questions given below:

Question No.3 (Question Id - 53)

While Muslim incomes went up in UP between 2004-05 and 2011-12 with reference to the Scheduled Castes, where did they lose the most in relation to OBCs?

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1. Assam (Correct Answer)
2. Haryana
3. A.P.
4. Kerala

Question No.4 (Question Id - 54)

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Overall, where has the Muslims position improved in relation to all the Hindus, OBC and SCs?

1. Only in Maharashtra
2. All of South India
3. Rajasthan, UP, J&K and Maharashtra
4. Only in Rajasthan (Correct Answer)

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Question No.5 (Question Id - 55)

When calculated percentage of states where OBCs have experienced upward economic mobility in relation to the Muslims, the total is:

1. 78.57 (Correct Answer)
2. 68.72
3. 75.33

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4. 33.33

Question No.6 (Question Id - 89)

Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

1. Nearly 8 crore people living in urban areas in India live below poverty line
2. Marriage is one of the largest factors of internal migration in India

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3. Education contributes to upward economic mobility among Dalits
4. At Ph.D. level, maximum numbers of students in India are enrolled in Social Science stream (Correct Answer)

Question No.7 (Question Id - 28)

'Nothing about us, without us' is a slogan in :

1. Disability Movements (Correct Answer)

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2. Dalit Movements
3. Indigenous Movements
4. Black Movements

Question No.8 (Question Id - 30)

Which of the following is not a type of non-probability sampling?

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1. Judgmental
2. Stratified (Correct Answer)
3. Haphazard
4. Snowball

Question No.9 (Question Id - 49)

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"Status encompasses power". Who coined this formulation and in which context ?

1. Louis Dumont in context of the Hindu caste system (Correct Answer)
2. Karl Marx in context of pre-capitalist societies
3. Max Weber in context of German Enlightenment
4. Pierre Bourdieu in context of social capital in France

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Question No.10 (Question Id - 42)

Indian village and agrarian society are generally understood as being organized around caste. However, there are some scholars who have also advocated the use of class perspective. Identify the correct groups of scholars :

1. S.C. Dube, Karl Marx, M.N. Srinivas
2. Daniel Thorner, Karl Marx, T.N. Madan
3. D.N. Dhanagre, Kathleen Gough, Daniel Thorner (Correct Answer)

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4. Karl Marx, C.J. Fuller, R.S. Khare

Question No.11 (Question Id - 27)

Queer theory examines :

1. Sexualities
2. Bodies

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3. Gender
4. All of the above (Correct Answer)

Question No.12 (Question Id - 35)

Given below are two statements, one is labeled as Assertion A and the other is labeled as Reason R.

Assertion A:

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In the study of popular culture, we should always start here: with the double-stake in popular culture, the double movement of containment and resistance, which is always inevitably inside it.

Reason R:

The study of popular culture has tended to oscillate wildly between the two alternative poles of that dialectic - containment/resistance.

Based on the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

1. Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A

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2. Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A (Correct Answer)
3. A is correct, but R is incorrect
4. A is incorrect, but R is correct

Question No.13 (Question Id - 41)

A conception that enables Bourdieu to transcend the dichotomy of objectivism and subjectivism; and to reconcile structure and agency is :

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1. Structuration
2. Habitus (Correct Answer)
3. Cultural capital
4. Doxa

Question No.14 (Question Id - 26)

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The concept of Disability examines :

1. Body
2. Materiality
3. Inequality
4. All of the above (Correct Answer)

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Question No.15 (Question Id - 46)

Which of the following is an example of 'Latent Function" of rain dance ?

1. Entertainment and enjoyment in rainy season
2. Helps in overcoming illnesses caused by rains
3. Helps in pleasing the rain gods

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4. Helps in social integration (Correct Answer)

Question No.16 (Question Id - 61)

Which option chronologically depicts the developmental stages of Post-Structuralism?

1. Structural Anthropology, Structural Psychoanalysis, Structural Linguistic, Post-Structuralism
2. Structural Linguistics, Structural Psychoanalysis, Structural Anthropology, Post-Structuralism

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3. Structural Linguistics, Post-Structuralism, Structural Psychoanalysis, Structural Anthropology
4. Structural Linguistics, Structural Anthropology, Structural Psychoanalysis, Post- Structuralism (Correct Answer)

Question No.17 (Question Id - 90)

Who among the following is associated with the concept 'social capital' ?

1. Robert Putman (Correct Answer)

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2. Manual Castells
3. Robert E Merton
4. Auguste Comte

Question No.18 (Question Id - 95)

Given below are two statements, one is labeled as Assertion A and the other is labeled as Reason R.

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Assertion A:

Social stratification is a universal phenomenon

Reason R :

Social inequality first appeared with modern globalization

Based on the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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1. Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
2. Both A and R are true, but R is NOT the correct explanation of A
3. A is false, but R is true
4. A is true, but R is false (Correct Answer)

Question No.19 (Question Id - 29)

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What is the level of measurement for the variable "social class" measured as 'upper class, upper middle class, middle class, lower middle class, lower class' ?

1. Nominal
2. Interval
3. Horizontal
4. Ordinal (Correct Answer)

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Question No.20 (Question Id - 18)

Ethnography is :

1. A study of a community
2. A study of ethnic community
3. A research perspective (Correct Answer)

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4. A style of writing

Question No.21 (Question Id - 31)

"The mean can be meaningfully calculated from a variable measured at the nominal level". "Read the statement".

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

1. Agree

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2. Disagree (Correct Answer)
3. Above average
4. Below average

Question No.22 (Question Id - 91)

The concept 'global city' has been propounded by :

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1. Robert Redfield
2. Jeff Goodwin
3. Saskia Sassen (Correct Answer)
4. Allen J. Scott

Question No.23 (Question Id - 82)

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Who said that 'Every state is founded on force,'?

1. Leon Trotsky (Correct Answer)
2. Karl Marx
3. Vladimir Lenin
4. M.K. Gandhi

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Question No.24 (Question Id - 64)

The Marxist Concept of alienation is rooted in which scholar's philosophy?

1. Saint Simon
2. Adam Smith
3. Hegel (Correct Answer)

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4. Proudon

Question No.25 (Question Id - 80)

The author of 'Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy' is :

1. Talcott Parsons
2. Neil Smelser

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3. Milton Friedman
4. Joseph Schumpeter (Correct Answer)

Question No.26 (Question Id - 87)

Match the following:

Choose the correct answer from the following options:

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1. A-III, B - IV, C - I, D - V, E - II
2. A-II, B - I, C - V, D - III, E - IV
3. A-II, B - I, C - IV, D - V, E - III
4. A-V, B - IV, C - II, D - I, E - III (Correct Answer)

Question No.27 (Question Id - 70)

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The concept of Hegemonic Masculinity is proposed by which of the following scholars ?

1. R.W. Connell (Correct Answer)
2. Talcott Parsons
3. Margret Mead
4. Judith Butler

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Question No.28 (Question Id - 73)

Pierre Bourdieu transcends the dichotomy of objectivity in structuralism and subjectivity in by synthesizing them in his semiotic phenomenology.

1. Phenomenology (Correct Answer)
2. Post-structuralism
3. Ethnography

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4. Liberalism

Question No.29 (Question Id - 66)

"Das Kapital (Capital) of Karl Marx was influenced by which discipline ?

1. Philosophy of Money
2. Political Economy (Correct Answer)

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3. Philosophy of Law
4. Political Philosophy

Question No.30 (Question Id - 98)

In Michael Goldman's conceptualization of 'speculative urbanism' which of the following is NOT true ?

1. A new architecture of investment capital

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2. A new architecture of urban governance
3. A global architecture of expertise on cities (Correct Answer)
4. Inter-urban cooperation and inter-referencing

Question No.31 (Question Id - 50)

Which survey design best describes panel longitudinal survey?

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1. Doing survey of a panel of experts familiar with the subject
2. Surveying the exactly the same set of individuals over a period of time (Correct Answer)
3. Surveying a fix number of individuals with similar social background over a period of time
4. Surveying a panel of experts familiar with the subject over a period of time

Question No.32 (Question Id - 25)

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Joint Family is based on:

1. Tradition (Correct Answer)
2. Kinship
3. Number of residents
4. Business

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Question No.33 (Question Id - 65)

Which of the following scholars has not written about Socio-biology?

1. Herbert Spencer (Correct Answer)
2. E.O. Wilson
3. Richard Dawkins

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4. Marshal Shahlins

Question No.34 (Question Id - 7)

Concept of 'surplus value' is related with which of the following?

1. Emile Durkheim
2. Talcott Parsons

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3. Robert K. Merton
4. Karl Marx (Correct Answer)

Question No.35 (Question Id - 88)

Given below are two statements :

Statement I:

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Equality is a state of being equal in status, rights and opportunities.

Statement II :

Equality is the same as equity.

Based on the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below :

1. Both Statement I and Statement II are true

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2. Both Statement I and Statement II are false
3. Statement I is true and Statement II is false (Correct Answer)
4. Statement I is false but Statement II is true

Case Study - 36 to 37 (Question Id - 43)

Read the following text carefully and answer questions given below:

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Cultural capital can exist in three forms: in the embodied state, i.e., in the form of long-lasting dispositions of the mind and body; in the objectified state, in the form of cultural goods (pictures, books, dictionaries, instruments, machines, etc.), which are the trace or realization of theories or critiques of these theories, problematics, etc.; and in the institutionalized state, a form of objectification which must be set apart because, as will be seen in the case of educational qualifications, it confers entirely original properties on the cultural capital which it is presumed to guarantee. The reader should not be misled by the somewhat peremptory air which the effort at axiomization may give to my argument. The notion of cultural capital initially presented itself to me, in the course of research, as a theoretical hypothesis which made it possible to explain the unequal scholastic achievement of children originating from the different social classes by relating academic success, i.e., the specific profits which children from the different classes and class fractions can obtain in the academic market, to the distribution of cultural capital between the classes and class fractions.

This starting point implies a break with the presuppositions inherent both in the commonsense view, which sees academic success or failure as an effect of natural aptitudes, and in human capital theories. Economists might seem to deserve area for explicitly raising the question of the relationship between the rates of profit on educational investment and on economic investment (though their measurement of this investment takes account only of monetary investments and profits, or those directly convertible into money, such as the costs of schooling and the cash equivalent of time devoted to study; they are unable to explain the different proportions of their resources which different agents or different social classes allocate to economic investment and cultural investment because they fail to take systematic account of the structure of the differential chances of profit which the various markets offer these agents or classes as a function of the volume and the composition of their assets (see esp. Becker 1964b). Furthermore, because they neglect to relate scholastic investment strategies to the whole set of educational strategies and to the system of reproduction strategies, they inevitably, by a necessary paradox, let slip the best hidden and socially most determinant educational investment, namely, the domestic transmission of cultural capital. Their studies of the relationship between academic ability and academic investment show that they are unaware that ability or talent is itself the product of an investment of time and cultural capital (Becker 1964a, pp. 63-66). Not surprisingly, when endeavouring to evaluate the profits of scholastic investment, they can only consider the profitability of educational expenditure for society as a whole, the "social rate of return," or the "social gain of education as measured by its effects on national productivity" (Becker 1964b, pp. 121, 155). This typically functionalist definition of the functions of education ignores the contribution which the educational system makes to the reproduction of the social structure by sanctioning the hereditary transmission of cultural capital.

From the very beginning, a definition of human capital, despite its humanistic connotations, does not move beyond economism and ignores, inter alia, the fact that the scholastic yield from educational action depends on the cultural capital previously invested by the family. Moreover, the economic and social yield of the educational qualification depends on the social capital, again inherited, which can be used to back it up.

Question No.36 (Question Id - 44)

Why does author criticise economism?

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1. Economists fail to understand the value of capital investment.
2. Economists do make investments in scholastic enterprises.
3. They fail to appreciate how cultural capital is completely dependent upon the economic capital.
4. Economism fails to see the role of cultural capital in shaping educational achievements (Correct Answer)

Question No.37 (Question Id - 45)

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What does the author mean by scholastic yields of cultural capital ?

1. Wisdom acquired through tradition.
2. Educational achievements of a class of people who have always been rich.
3. Ability to acquire high quality education because of the quality education that the earlier generations have in the family. (Correct Answer)
4. Money spent on financing education as a cultural value, which is generally not a practice among those who lack common-sense.

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Question No.38 (Question Id - 23)

What is the relationship between Kinship and Gender?

1. Gender and kinship are same
2. Kinship is not gender
3. Kinship regulates gender relations (Correct Answer)

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4. Gender disrupts kinship relations

Question No.39 (Question Id - 69)

Which of the following arguments about power in society is closely associated with Michel Foucault?

1. That power is essentially dispersed and fragmented (Correct Answer)
2. That power is linked to Sovereignty

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3. That power is a form of dominance that emanates from the state
4. That power is linked with mode of Production

Question No.40 (Question Id - 37)

Who wrote the book "Cell Phone Nation" ?

1. Susan Wadley

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2. Jeffrey and Jeffrey
3. Elizabath Green (Correct Answer)
4. Christopher Jaffrelot

Question No.41 (Question Id - 77)

Given below are two statements :

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Statement I:

Oral accounts and the role of interviewing are crucial aspects of ethnographic research

Statement II :

Collection of documents and cultural artifacts is not part of ethnographic research

Based on the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

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1. Both Statement I and Statement II are correct
2. Both Statement I and Statement II are incorrect
3. Statement I is correct and Statement II is incorrect (Correct Answer)
4. Statement I is incorrect, but Statement II is correct

Question No.42 (Question Id - 92)

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Which of the following contribute to reproduction of privilege among individuals ?

A. Education

B. Inheritance

C. Inertia

D. High status

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Select the correct answer from the options given below :

1. A and B only (Correct Answer)
2. C and D only
3. A, B and C only
4. B, C and D only

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Question No.43 (Question Id - 67)

What is Semiotics? Select :

1. It is associated with Ralph Linton
2. It is associated with C.H. Peirce (Correct Answer)
3. It is associated with Roland Barthes

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4. It is associated with Alfred Schutz

Question No.44 (Question Id - 79)

'Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism', is a book written by:

1. Arthur Kleinman
2. Naomi Klein (Correct Answer)

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3. Karl Marx
4. Amartya Sen

Question No.45 (Question Id - 10)

Who was not influenced by Karl Marx ?

1. Max Weber

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2. Maurice Godelier
3. GWF Hegel (Correct Answer)
4. Karl Kautsky

Question No.46 (Question Id - 101)

What is the specific theoretical object of urban sociology as discussed in the above paragraphs ?

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1. Urbanism is the central theoretical object
2. Urbanization is the central theoretical object (Correct Answer)
3. Urban design is the central theoretical object
4. Urban sociology has no specific theoretical object

Question No.47 (Question Id - 102)

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According to the author, what is Louis Worth's theorization of urbanism ?

1. A relationship between urbanization and production of social forms
2. A collection of common-sense hypotheses lacking internal theoretical coherence
3. A process through which technico-social structure is infused with modernization (Correct Answer)
4. A synthesis of modernization, urbanization and westernization

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Question No.48 (Question Id - 103)

According to the author, the theory of urbanism is based on which of the following (two) theses ?

1. Urbanism is a form of social organization; capitalist industrialization produces social integration
2. City is the product of capitalist industrialization; it has a technico-social base
3. Modern societies have a distinctive cultural system; city as an ecological form produced by it

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4. City is a modern economic system; it has unintegrated sub-cultures (Correct Answer)

Question No.49 (Question Id - 104)

According to the author, which of the following is NOT a system of norms or values of urbanism?

1. A high degree of differentiation between individuals
2. Social and personal isolation

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3. Superficiality and utilitarianism in social
   

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