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The legitimacy of the legal systems of modern democracies depends heavily on the degree to which the systems operate in a manner consistent with their own stated procedural standards of justice...Because the outcomes of sentencing decisions are among the most visible of legal processing, the legal system's claim to legitimacy is especially dependent on the public's perception of the pattern of such outcomes. (Source: Kleck, G. 1981 Racial Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing: A Critical Evaluation of the Evidence with Additional Evidence on the Death Penalty. American Sociological Review, 46(6), 783-805) Which of the following statements is supported by the above passage?
1. [Question ID = 7982] Standards of justice are decided by public perception in modern democracies
  1. [Option ID = 31922]
2. Legal systems will lose their legitimacy if the public perceives any of their sentencing decisions as unjust
  1. [Option ID = 31923]
3. Legal processes are heavily dependent on public perception of the pattern of legal outcomes
  1. [Option ID = 31924]
4. To be legitimate, patterns of sentencing decision outcomes need to be consistent with stated procedural standards of justice
  1. [Option ID = 31925]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - To be legitimate, patterns of sentencing decision outcomes need to be consistent with stated procedural standards of justice
    1. [Option ID = 31925]
The term 'shame' is often used inconsistently in philosophical, sociological and psychological literature. Many thinkers take for granted a folk (or everyday and unexamined) understanding of shame and use the term to denote a wide and varied range of experiences. Due to shame's inherent complexity and ambiguity, it is frequently conflated with other (some argue distinct) self-conscious emotions such as humiliation, embarrassment and guilt. (Source: Luna Dolezal 2015 The Body and Shame: Phenomenology, Feminism, and the Socially Shaped Body, p. 3) From the above passage, it follows that:-
A. Shame-unlike embarrassment and humiliation-has a somewhat narrow reference
B. Scholarship on shame often uses popular notions of this emotion
C. Many thinkers differentiate between shame and guilt
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D. Emotions like humiliation and embarrassment are not complex or ambiguous.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. [Question ID = 7983] A and C only
  1. [Option ID = 31926]
2. B and D only
  1. [Option ID = 31927]
3. B only
  1. [Option ID = 31928]
4. C only
  1. [Option ID = 31929]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - B only
    1. [Option ID = 31928]
The military metaphor in medicine first came into wide use in the 1880s, with the identification of bacteria as agents of disease. Bacteria were said to 'invade' or 'infiltrate.' But talk of siege and war to describe disease now has, with cancer, a striking literalness and authority. Not only is the clinical discourse of the disease and its medical treatment thus described, but the disease itself is conceived as the enemy on which society wages war. (Source: Susan Sontag 1991 Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and its Metaphors, p. 67)
In the passage above, the author is arguing that:-
1. [Question ID = 7984] In the 1880s, invasive bacteria were thought to cause cancer
  1. [Option ID = 31930]
2. The military metaphor fits all diseases equally well
  1. [Option ID = 31931]
3. The military metaphor fits cancer particularly well
  1. [Option ID = 31932]
4. The military metaphor does not suit diseases other than cancer
  1. [Option ID = 31933]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - The military metaphor fits cancer particularly well
    1. [Option ID = 31932]
Intersectionality is an approach to research that focuses upon mutually constitutive forms of social oppression rather than on single axes of difference. Intersectionality is not only about multiple identities but is about relationality, social context, power relations, complexity, social justice and inequalities. (Source: Hopkins, P. (2019). Social geography I: Intersectionality. Progress in Human Geography, 43(5), 937-947)
From the above passage we can infer that intersectionality:
A. Is a social practice which facilitates different forms of oppressions
B. Helps us understand how different forms of oppressions relate with each other
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C. Is another term for relationality
D. Rejects mono-causal explanations of oppression.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. [Question ID = 7985] A and B only
  1. [Option ID = 31934]
2. B and D only
  1. [Option ID = 31935]
3. A, B and D only
  1. [Option ID = 31936]
4. B, C and D only
  1. [Option ID = 31937]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - B and D only
    1. [Option ID = 31935]
There have been three profound shifts in the Western conceptualization of the categories of conception, reproduction, and parenthood. The first occurred in response to the separation of intercourse from reproduction through birth control methods ... A second shift occurred in response to the emergence of assisted reproductive technologies ... it became possible for pregnancy to occur without necessarily having been "preceded by sexual intercourse" The third shift occurred in response to further advances in reproductive medicine that called into question the "organic unity of fetus and mother" (Source: Helena Ragoné. 1996. 'Chasing the Blood Tie: Surrogate Mothers, Adoptive Mothers and Fathers', American Ethnologist 23(2): 353)
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According to the passage, the shifts in the conceptualisation of conception, reproduction, and motherhood:
A. Weakened the connection between conception, reproduction and parenthood
B. Were as much a result of social changes as of developments in reproductive technologies
C. Made motherhood contingent on use of assisted reproductive technologies
D. Changed the discourse on motherhood
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Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. [Question ID = 7986] A only
  1. [Option ID = 31938]
2. A and B only
  1. [Option ID = 31939]
3. B and C only
  1. [Option ID = 31940]
4. D only
  1. [Option ID = 31941]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - A only
    1. [Option ID = 31938]
The most obvious change in the felt flow of moral experiences among Xiajia villagers is the transformation of the domestic power structure, namely, the decline of parental power, authority, and prestige, which was accompanied by a rise of youth autonomy and independence. (Source: Yan, Yunxiang. 2003. Private Life under Socialism: Love Intimacy, and Family Change in a Chinese Village 1949-1999. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press: 218)
According to the passage, the major familial change in rural China can be summed up as:-
1. [Question ID = 7987] A transformation of conjugal relations
  1. [Option ID = 31942]
2. Rise of individualism
  1. [Option ID = 31943]
3. A change in inter-generational domestic relations
  1. [Option ID = 31944]
4. Reversal in the relation between parents and children
  1. [Option ID = 31945]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - A change in inter-generational domestic relations
    1. [Option ID = 31944]

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The minority of gay people who had been disowned were not the only ones who participated in the elaboration of gay kinship. Many who classified relations with their biological or adoptive relatives as cordial to excellent employed the opposition between gay and straight family. Among those whose relations with their straight families had gradually improved over the years, ties to chosen kin generally had not diminished in importance. (Source: Kath Weston 1991. Families We Choose: Lesbians, Gays, Kinship. New York: Columbia University Press. 116)
The above passage suggests that:
A. Gay people who are disowned by their biological kin tend to form gay families
B. As ties with their straight families improve, chosen kin ties lose their relevance
C. The chosen gay family is a substitute for loss of connections with the family of origin
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D. Gay kinship was significant for gay people regardless of their relations with their biological kin
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:-
1. [Question ID = 7988] A and C only
  1. [Option ID = 31946]
2. B and D only
  1. [Option ID = 31947]
3. A only
  1. [Option ID = 31948]
4. D only
  1. [Option ID = 31949]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - D only
    1. [Option ID = 31949]
Thus in the earlier periods, these [family] secrets were often about illegitimate births, conceptions prior to marriage, and the informal adoption of children into families to disguise the fact a child was born to an unmarried daughter. But current secrets were less likely to be about unwed conceptions, as this was no longer a matter of shame, and were more likely to be about paternity uncertainty and assisted reproduction. (Source: Carol Smart. 2010. 'Law and the Regulation of Family Secrets', International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 24(3): 402.)
In the passage, the continuity in family secrets about children has been related to:-
1. [Question ID = 7989] The circumstances of their birth
  1. [Option ID = 31950]
2. The fact that they were intentionally conceived
  1. [Option ID = 31951]
3. The fact that they were not intentionally conceived
  1. [Option ID = 31952]
4. The need to protect them from social exclusion
  1. [Option ID = 31953]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - The circumstances of their birth
    1. [Option ID = 31950]
As parental need relates to both life stage and functional capacity, the status of 'old' is deeply contested. This is not only because what is defined as old in life stage and functional terms may not coincide in practice, but because the status of 'old' also confers differential needs, rights and obligations. (Source: Penny Vera-Sanso. 2007. 'Increasing consumption, decreasing support: A multi-generational study of family relations among South Indian Chakkliyars', Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.) 41 (2): 225-48).
The above passage suggests that the designation of a parent as old is contested, because:-
1. [Question ID = 7990] It is an objective, biological category
  1. [Option ID = 31954]
2. It creates new rights and obligations
  1. [Option ID = 31955]
3. It leads to decline in functional capacities
  1. [Option ID = 31956]
4. There is no clarity regarding the age at which someone is defined as old
  1. [Option ID = 31957]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - It creates new rights and obligations
    1. [Option ID = 31955]
The 'devaluation' of women as sex objects and as commodities that is so striking a feature of the contemporary mass media is not the only mode of objectification/reification of women that one can see around. Equally significant is the veritable deification of women in certain of their social roles: the pure virgin, the loyal and obedient wife and, most importantly of all, the 'mother'. (Source: Patricia Uberoi 1990. 'Feminine Identity and National Ethos in Indian Calendar Art', Economic and Political Weekly XXV (17): WS41-WS48)
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Which statement can be directly inferred from the above passage?
1. [Question ID = 7991] The representations of women in which they are deified are much more desirable than those that project them as commodities
  1. [Option ID = 31958]
2. The objectification of women through representations that deify them is more common than mass media images that project them as sex objects
  1. [Option ID = 31959]
3. Worshipping women as mothers also objectifies women
  1. [Option ID = 31960]
4. Contemporary media thrives on objectification of women
  1. [Option ID = 31961]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - Worshipping women as mothers also objectifies women
    1. [Option ID = 31960]
The celebration of India's spiritual superiority over the material West could be understood in the context of nationalist imagination. Invoking spiritual/cultural superiority by the nationalist thinkers and leaders by implication seeks to ignore the internal forms of humiliation that emanate from the social practices based on caste, untouchability, and gender discrimination. (Source: Gopal Guru 2009. 'Introduction: Theorising Humiliation', In Gopal Guru (ed.) Humiliation: Claims and Context. Delhi: Oxford University Press.)
According to the above passage, invoking spiritual and cultural superiority enables the nationalist imagination to:-
1. [Question ID = 7992] Assert India's and its leaders' moral superiority over the West
  1. [Option ID = 31962]
2. Leave unquestioned caste and gender based practices
  1. [Option ID = 31963]
3. Address the importance of non material dimensions of life
  1. [Option ID = 31964]
4. Overtake the West both spiritually and materially
  1. [Option ID = 31965]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - Leave unquestioned caste and gender based practices
    1. [Option ID = 31963]

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What happens when disinformation spreads fast in cyberspace? Readers will be reading this column a day before Facebook's 16th birthday. Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The consolidation of technology companies in controlling the information flow has taken place in less than a decade. After denying for nearly 15 years that they are in the profession of publishing, platform companies now acknowledge their role in the spread of misinformation and malicious propaganda. (A.S. Panneerselvan. 2020. 'Differing trajectories of legacy and social media'. February 3, 2020. www.FirstRanker.com)
Statements which can be inferred from the above passage are:
A. The technology platform companies took control of information flow relatively fast
B. Technology platforms never acknowledge their part in the dissemination of rumours
C. Technology platforms accept that they are part of the mass media
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D. True and false information can barely be distinguished in the cyberage
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. [Question ID = 7993] A and D only
  1. [Option ID = 31966]
2. B and D only
  1. [Option ID = 31967]
3. A and C only
  1. [Option ID = 31968]
4. A and B only
  1. [Option ID = 31969]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - A and C only
    1. [Option ID = 31968]
A source of anxiety in sociological research is the increasing inroads made by the proliferation of NGOs, media, local and multilateral research foundations and institutions that have come to dominate in research output at the expense of universities. It is alleged that their research output is project driven rather than long term. Their influence is usually felt due to the funding that they bring to shape both the agenda and the market for social science research. (Source: S.C. Lahiri, 2020, Doing Social Research.)
Why are sociologists worried about the proliferation of social research outside the Universities?
1. [Question ID = 7994] Because non-university research is being paid for by universities research funds
  1. [Option ID = 31970]
2. Because they believe that NGOs and media organizations are not qualified to do sociological research
  1. [Option ID = 31971]
3. Because research by non-sociologists is driven by long term interests and ignores more immediate concerns
  1. [Option ID = 31972]
4. Because non-university research may end up determining the research programmes of universities and academic disciplines
  1. [Option ID = 31973]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - Because non-university research may end up determining the research programmes of universities and academic disciplines
    1. [Option ID = 31973]
More than ever before men now live in the shadow of the state. What they want to achieve individually or in groups, www.FirstRanker.com
aity depends on the state's sanction and support. But since that sanction and support are not bestowed seek to influence and shape the state's power and purpose, or try and priate ittaltogethers it is for the state's attention, or for its control, that men compete; and it is against the state that beat the waves of social conflict. Therefore, it comne state confront other men. (Source: Miliband, R. 1976. The State in Capitalist Society).
Based on the above passage, we can conclude that:-
1. [Question ID = 7995] We now live in a time of shadow states
  1. [Option ID = 31974]
2. Today, most of the needs of citizens are met by private rather than state institutions
  1. [Option ID = 31975]
3. Nowadays states are competing with each other to control citizens
  1. [Option ID = 31976]
4. The state is more central to social conflicts than it was in the past
  1. [Option ID = 31977]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - The state is more central to social conflicts than it was in the past
    1. [Option ID = 31977]

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One could say that the combination of health as both a credence good (my physician knows more about it than I do) as well as an experience good (but I know that I don't feel better regardless of what my blood reports say) make the determination of what is the real, what is a fact, what is it that I am experiencing, hard to determine. This is what I meant about the 'incoherence' created by disease....the interpretation of a disease event is never secure since the scepticism regarding institutions (Is this laboratory reliable? Do I need this test or is it being prescribed because the doctor gets a cut from the laboratory?) marks everyday life. (Source: Veena Das 2017. 'Companionable thinking.' HAU, p. 119).
According to the above passage, disease creates 'incoherence' because:
A. We do not trust medical institutions
B. Diseases undermine our ability to interpret our experience rationally
C. Health is both a credence good and an experience good
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D. There is usually a discrepancy in patient experience and doctor's interpretation
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. [Question ID = 7996] A and B only
  1. [Option ID = 31978]
2. C and D only
  1. [Option ID = 31979]
3. A and C only
  1. [Option ID = 31980]
4. B and D only
  1. [Option ID = 31981]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - A and C only
    1. [Option ID = 31980]
A collective feeling of timepass and associated resentment over educational decay, corruption and privatization has resulted in the emergence of different sets of young male political animators among unemployed students in Meerut. These varied agent provocateurs coordinated with each other to mobilize students, who were able to make small but significant gains through their petitioning and demonstrations.... This collective action reflected students' somewhat similar structural position within society - as people preoccupied by the problems of boredom, joblessness and educational decline - and a type of political commonsense ... wherein it was imagined that protests should be both fun and civilized'. (Source: Craig Jeffrey. 2010. Timepass. Youth, Class and the Politics of Waiting in India. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 133).
According to the passage, which of the following is not a cause of student unrest
1. [Question ID = 7997] Petitions and demonstrations
  1. [Option ID = 31982]
2. Privatization of higher education
  1. [Option ID = 31983]
3. Corruption in educational institutions
  1. [Option ID = 31985]
4. Correct Answer :-
  - Petitions and demonstrations
    1. [Option ID = 31982]
Telling a story is a relational act...[it] is effective [because] not only is it about something but also does something....it can work as an action because it can engender certain effects in the listener. Because efficacy depends on the rhetorical power of words to persuade and influence the listener. The audience plays an active role in the creation of meaning. In telling stories narrators moralize the events they recount and seek to convince others to see some part of reality in a particular way. (Source: L. Caro and C. Mattingly 2000 Narrative and Cultural Construction of Illness and Healing, p. 11)
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Which of the following cannot be inferred from the passage above?
1. [Question ID = 7998] Storytelling creates a relation between the teller and the listener
  1. [Option ID = 31986]
2. Stories are inherently persuasive and do not depend on rhetoric
  1. [Option ID = 31987]
3. The audience is a co-creator of meaning in a storytelling session
  1. [Option ID = 31988]
4. Stories are forms of description as well as action
  1. [Option ID = 31989]
5. Correct Answer :-
  - Stories are inherently persuasive and do not depend on rhetoric
    1. [Option ID = 31987]
Nothing is therefore more important for you to remember than the fact that endogamy is foreign to the people of India. The various Gotras of India are and have been exogamous: so are the other groups with totemic organization. It is no exaggeration to say that with the people of India exogamy is a creed and none dare infringe it, so much so that, in spite of the endogamy of the Castes within them, exogamy is strictly observed and that there are more rigorous penalties for violating exogamy than there are for violating endogamy. You will, therefore, readily see that with exogamy as the rule there could be no Caste, for exogamy means fusion. But we have Castes; consequently, in the final analysis, creation of Castes, so far as India is concerned, means the superposition of endogamy on exogamy. However, in an originally exogamous population an easy working out of endogamy (which is equivalent to the creation of Caste) is a grave problem, and it is in the consideration of the means utilized for the preservation of endogamy against exogamy that we may hope to find the solution of our problem. [Source: Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar. Writing and Speeches. 1979. Compiled by Vasant Moon, Government of Maharashtra].
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