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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
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2)
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
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2)
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
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2)
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
3)


Incentives for institutional virtues were high during the Cold War because:

[Question ID = 2634]
1. Profits were not as important before the 1990s. [Option ID = 10535]
2. of political empowerment that the ruling elites provided to rule of law. [Option ID = 10533]
3. Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4. Justice was valued as a fundamental by the ruling elites. [Option ID = 10536]
Correct Answer :-
Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
3)


Incentives for institutional virtues were high during the Cold War because:

[Question ID = 2634]
1. Profits were not as important before the 1990s. [Option ID = 10535]
2. of political empowerment that the ruling elites provided to rule of law. [Option ID = 10533]
3. Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4. Justice was valued as a fundamental by the ruling elites. [Option ID = 10536]
Correct Answer :-
Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4)


The autonomy of law is seen in this passage as:

[Question ID = 2633]
1. a subaltern and naturalized image. [Option ID = 10532]
2. a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
3. a dominant and self-congratulatory image. [Option ID = 10531]
4. a dominant image that is no longer upheld. [Option ID = 10530]
Correct Answer :-
a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
3)


Incentives for institutional virtues were high during the Cold War because:

[Question ID = 2634]
1. Profits were not as important before the 1990s. [Option ID = 10535]
2. of political empowerment that the ruling elites provided to rule of law. [Option ID = 10533]
3. Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4. Justice was valued as a fundamental by the ruling elites. [Option ID = 10536]
Correct Answer :-
Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4)


The autonomy of law is seen in this passage as:

[Question ID = 2633]
1. a subaltern and naturalized image. [Option ID = 10532]
2. a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
3. a dominant and self-congratulatory image. [Option ID = 10531]
4. a dominant image that is no longer upheld. [Option ID = 10530]
Correct Answer :-
a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
1)


The relationship between law and politics according to the passage above is:

[Question ID = 2635]
1. self-congratulatory rhetoric. [Option ID = 10539]
2. detrimental to the political soul of law. [Option ID = 10538]
3. fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
4. has a dark and a bright side. [Option ID = 10540]
Correct Answer :-
fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic14
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2)
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
3)


Incentives for institutional virtues were high during the Cold War because:

[Question ID = 2634]
1. Profits were not as important before the 1990s. [Option ID = 10535]
2. of political empowerment that the ruling elites provided to rule of law. [Option ID = 10533]
3. Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4. Justice was valued as a fundamental by the ruling elites. [Option ID = 10536]
Correct Answer :-
Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4)


The autonomy of law is seen in this passage as:

[Question ID = 2633]
1. a subaltern and naturalized image. [Option ID = 10532]
2. a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
3. a dominant and self-congratulatory image. [Option ID = 10531]
4. a dominant image that is no longer upheld. [Option ID = 10530]
Correct Answer :-
a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
1)


The relationship between law and politics according to the passage above is:

[Question ID = 2635]
1. self-congratulatory rhetoric. [Option ID = 10539]
2. detrimental to the political soul of law. [Option ID = 10538]
3. fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
4. has a dark and a bright side. [Option ID = 10540]
Correct Answer :-
fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic14
2)


What does the passage reveal about Gowalkar?s attitude towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2640]
1. He said that Hindus should not treat the cow as sacred. [Option ID = 10560]
2. He saw the cow as the wealth of the nation. [Option ID = 10558]
3. Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
4. The cow had no significance for him. [Option ID = 10557]
Correct Answer :-
Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
3)


Incentives for institutional virtues were high during the Cold War because:

[Question ID = 2634]
1. Profits were not as important before the 1990s. [Option ID = 10535]
2. of political empowerment that the ruling elites provided to rule of law. [Option ID = 10533]
3. Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4. Justice was valued as a fundamental by the ruling elites. [Option ID = 10536]
Correct Answer :-
Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4)


The autonomy of law is seen in this passage as:

[Question ID = 2633]
1. a subaltern and naturalized image. [Option ID = 10532]
2. a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
3. a dominant and self-congratulatory image. [Option ID = 10531]
4. a dominant image that is no longer upheld. [Option ID = 10530]
Correct Answer :-
a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
1)


The relationship between law and politics according to the passage above is:

[Question ID = 2635]
1. self-congratulatory rhetoric. [Option ID = 10539]
2. detrimental to the political soul of law. [Option ID = 10538]
3. fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
4. has a dark and a bright side. [Option ID = 10540]
Correct Answer :-
fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic14
2)


What does the passage reveal about Gowalkar?s attitude towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2640]
1. He said that Hindus should not treat the cow as sacred. [Option ID = 10560]
2. He saw the cow as the wealth of the nation. [Option ID = 10558]
3. Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
4. The cow had no significance for him. [Option ID = 10557]
Correct Answer :-
Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
3)


What are Dr. Kurien?s views towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2639]
1. Dr Verghese Kurien did not believe in the sacred attributes of cows. [Option ID = 10553]
2. Dr. Verghese Kurien was a politician who promoted the purity of milk. [Option ID = 10555]
3. Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10556]
Correct Answer :-
Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
3)


Incentives for institutional virtues were high during the Cold War because:

[Question ID = 2634]
1. Profits were not as important before the 1990s. [Option ID = 10535]
2. of political empowerment that the ruling elites provided to rule of law. [Option ID = 10533]
3. Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4. Justice was valued as a fundamental by the ruling elites. [Option ID = 10536]
Correct Answer :-
Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4)


The autonomy of law is seen in this passage as:

[Question ID = 2633]
1. a subaltern and naturalized image. [Option ID = 10532]
2. a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
3. a dominant and self-congratulatory image. [Option ID = 10531]
4. a dominant image that is no longer upheld. [Option ID = 10530]
Correct Answer :-
a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
1)


The relationship between law and politics according to the passage above is:

[Question ID = 2635]
1. self-congratulatory rhetoric. [Option ID = 10539]
2. detrimental to the political soul of law. [Option ID = 10538]
3. fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
4. has a dark and a bright side. [Option ID = 10540]
Correct Answer :-
fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic14
2)


What does the passage reveal about Gowalkar?s attitude towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2640]
1. He said that Hindus should not treat the cow as sacred. [Option ID = 10560]
2. He saw the cow as the wealth of the nation. [Option ID = 10558]
3. Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
4. The cow had no significance for him. [Option ID = 10557]
Correct Answer :-
Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
3)


What are Dr. Kurien?s views towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2639]
1. Dr Verghese Kurien did not believe in the sacred attributes of cows. [Option ID = 10553]
2. Dr. Verghese Kurien was a politician who promoted the purity of milk. [Option ID = 10555]
3. Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10556]
Correct Answer :-
Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4)


For the Jan Sangh:

[Question ID = 2637]
1. the cow is a political icon. [Option ID = 10548]
2. the cow is a domestic animal. [Option ID = 10545]
3. the cow was primarily a ritual animal. [Option ID = 10547]
4. the ecology of cattle rearing is significant. [Option ID = 10546]
Correct Answer :-
the ecology of cattle rearing is significant. [Option ID = 10546]
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What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
3)


Incentives for institutional virtues were high during the Cold War because:

[Question ID = 2634]
1. Profits were not as important before the 1990s. [Option ID = 10535]
2. of political empowerment that the ruling elites provided to rule of law. [Option ID = 10533]
3. Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4. Justice was valued as a fundamental by the ruling elites. [Option ID = 10536]
Correct Answer :-
Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4)


The autonomy of law is seen in this passage as:

[Question ID = 2633]
1. a subaltern and naturalized image. [Option ID = 10532]
2. a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
3. a dominant and self-congratulatory image. [Option ID = 10531]
4. a dominant image that is no longer upheld. [Option ID = 10530]
Correct Answer :-
a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
1)


The relationship between law and politics according to the passage above is:

[Question ID = 2635]
1. self-congratulatory rhetoric. [Option ID = 10539]
2. detrimental to the political soul of law. [Option ID = 10538]
3. fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
4. has a dark and a bright side. [Option ID = 10540]
Correct Answer :-
fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic14
2)


What does the passage reveal about Gowalkar?s attitude towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2640]
1. He said that Hindus should not treat the cow as sacred. [Option ID = 10560]
2. He saw the cow as the wealth of the nation. [Option ID = 10558]
3. Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
4. The cow had no significance for him. [Option ID = 10557]
Correct Answer :-
Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
3)


What are Dr. Kurien?s views towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2639]
1. Dr Verghese Kurien did not believe in the sacred attributes of cows. [Option ID = 10553]
2. Dr. Verghese Kurien was a politician who promoted the purity of milk. [Option ID = 10555]
3. Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10556]
Correct Answer :-
Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4)


For the Jan Sangh:

[Question ID = 2637]
1. the cow is a political icon. [Option ID = 10548]
2. the cow is a domestic animal. [Option ID = 10545]
3. the cow was primarily a ritual animal. [Option ID = 10547]
4. the ecology of cattle rearing is significant. [Option ID = 10546]
Correct Answer :-
the ecology of cattle rearing is significant. [Option ID = 10546]
1)


What were the attitudes of the two organizations towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2638]
1. For the VHP the cow was a thought provoking animal. [Option ID = 10552]
2. The VHP refused to acknowledge the economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10551]
3. The VHP had no understanding of economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10550]
4. The Jan Sangh and the VHP did not agree on the sacred quality of the cow. [Option ID = 10549]
Correct Answer :-
The VHP refused to acknowledge the economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10551]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic15
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
3)


Incentives for institutional virtues were high during the Cold War because:

[Question ID = 2634]
1. Profits were not as important before the 1990s. [Option ID = 10535]
2. of political empowerment that the ruling elites provided to rule of law. [Option ID = 10533]
3. Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4. Justice was valued as a fundamental by the ruling elites. [Option ID = 10536]
Correct Answer :-
Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4)


The autonomy of law is seen in this passage as:

[Question ID = 2633]
1. a subaltern and naturalized image. [Option ID = 10532]
2. a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
3. a dominant and self-congratulatory image. [Option ID = 10531]
4. a dominant image that is no longer upheld. [Option ID = 10530]
Correct Answer :-
a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
1)


The relationship between law and politics according to the passage above is:

[Question ID = 2635]
1. self-congratulatory rhetoric. [Option ID = 10539]
2. detrimental to the political soul of law. [Option ID = 10538]
3. fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
4. has a dark and a bright side. [Option ID = 10540]
Correct Answer :-
fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic14
2)


What does the passage reveal about Gowalkar?s attitude towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2640]
1. He said that Hindus should not treat the cow as sacred. [Option ID = 10560]
2. He saw the cow as the wealth of the nation. [Option ID = 10558]
3. Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
4. The cow had no significance for him. [Option ID = 10557]
Correct Answer :-
Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
3)


What are Dr. Kurien?s views towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2639]
1. Dr Verghese Kurien did not believe in the sacred attributes of cows. [Option ID = 10553]
2. Dr. Verghese Kurien was a politician who promoted the purity of milk. [Option ID = 10555]
3. Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10556]
Correct Answer :-
Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4)


For the Jan Sangh:

[Question ID = 2637]
1. the cow is a political icon. [Option ID = 10548]
2. the cow is a domestic animal. [Option ID = 10545]
3. the cow was primarily a ritual animal. [Option ID = 10547]
4. the ecology of cattle rearing is significant. [Option ID = 10546]
Correct Answer :-
the ecology of cattle rearing is significant. [Option ID = 10546]
1)


What were the attitudes of the two organizations towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2638]
1. For the VHP the cow was a thought provoking animal. [Option ID = 10552]
2. The VHP refused to acknowledge the economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10551]
3. The VHP had no understanding of economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10550]
4. The Jan Sangh and the VHP did not agree on the sacred quality of the cow. [Option ID = 10549]
Correct Answer :-
The VHP refused to acknowledge the economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10551]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic15
2)


Acording to Bourdieu, phenomenologists are interested in:

[Question ID = 2700]
1. practical comprehension. [Option ID = 10799]
2. personal singularities of an intention. [Option ID = 10800]
3. objective intentions of practices and works. [Option ID = 10797]
4. automatic and impersonal practices. [Option ID = 10798]
Correct Answer :-
personal singularities of an intention. [Option ID = 10800]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
3)


Incentives for institutional virtues were high during the Cold War because:

[Question ID = 2634]
1. Profits were not as important before the 1990s. [Option ID = 10535]
2. of political empowerment that the ruling elites provided to rule of law. [Option ID = 10533]
3. Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4. Justice was valued as a fundamental by the ruling elites. [Option ID = 10536]
Correct Answer :-
Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4)


The autonomy of law is seen in this passage as:

[Question ID = 2633]
1. a subaltern and naturalized image. [Option ID = 10532]
2. a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
3. a dominant and self-congratulatory image. [Option ID = 10531]
4. a dominant image that is no longer upheld. [Option ID = 10530]
Correct Answer :-
a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
1)


The relationship between law and politics according to the passage above is:

[Question ID = 2635]
1. self-congratulatory rhetoric. [Option ID = 10539]
2. detrimental to the political soul of law. [Option ID = 10538]
3. fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
4. has a dark and a bright side. [Option ID = 10540]
Correct Answer :-
fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic14
2)


What does the passage reveal about Gowalkar?s attitude towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2640]
1. He said that Hindus should not treat the cow as sacred. [Option ID = 10560]
2. He saw the cow as the wealth of the nation. [Option ID = 10558]
3. Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
4. The cow had no significance for him. [Option ID = 10557]
Correct Answer :-
Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
3)


What are Dr. Kurien?s views towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2639]
1. Dr Verghese Kurien did not believe in the sacred attributes of cows. [Option ID = 10553]
2. Dr. Verghese Kurien was a politician who promoted the purity of milk. [Option ID = 10555]
3. Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10556]
Correct Answer :-
Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4)


For the Jan Sangh:

[Question ID = 2637]
1. the cow is a political icon. [Option ID = 10548]
2. the cow is a domestic animal. [Option ID = 10545]
3. the cow was primarily a ritual animal. [Option ID = 10547]
4. the ecology of cattle rearing is significant. [Option ID = 10546]
Correct Answer :-
the ecology of cattle rearing is significant. [Option ID = 10546]
1)


What were the attitudes of the two organizations towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2638]
1. For the VHP the cow was a thought provoking animal. [Option ID = 10552]
2. The VHP refused to acknowledge the economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10551]
3. The VHP had no understanding of economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10550]
4. The Jan Sangh and the VHP did not agree on the sacred quality of the cow. [Option ID = 10549]
Correct Answer :-
The VHP refused to acknowledge the economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10551]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic15
2)


Acording to Bourdieu, phenomenologists are interested in:

[Question ID = 2700]
1. practical comprehension. [Option ID = 10799]
2. personal singularities of an intention. [Option ID = 10800]
3. objective intentions of practices and works. [Option ID = 10797]
4. automatic and impersonal practices. [Option ID = 10798]
Correct Answer :-
personal singularities of an intention. [Option ID = 10800]
3)


Habitus produces commonsense world endowed with objectivity, by

[Question ID = 2698]
1. continuous reinforcement of meaning interpreted schemes. [Option ID = 10790]
2. harmonizing agents' experiences. [Option ID = 10789]
3. securing consensus on the meaning of practices. [Option ID = 10791]
4. All of these [Option ID = 10792]
Correct Answer :-
securing consensus on the meaning of practices. [Option ID = 10791]
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Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic01


What are the organizational changes that the author is referring to? [Question ID = 2447]
1. All of these [Option ID = 9788]
2. development of new agencies, [Option ID = 9785]
3. procurement of personnel, [Option ID = 9786]
4. new norms, and changes in bases of legitimation [Option ID = 9787]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 9788]
1)

What can change the circular stability of a zero-sum power system?

[Question ID = 2446]
1. economic investment [Option ID = 9783]
2. administrative measures [Option ID = 9781]
3. judicial interaction [Option ID = 9784]
4. leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Correct Answer :-
leadership independent of routine power position [Option ID = 9782]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic02
2)


From the above passage we can definitively conclude that feminists and environmentalists: [Question ID = 2525]
1. Have the same set of concerns [Option ID = 10097]
2. Have much to learn from each other [Option ID = 10098]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10100]
4. Are both sceptical of judicial activism [Option ID = 10099]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10100]


From the above paragraph, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2522]
1. The feminist movement can learn from the challenges faced by the environmental movement [Option ID = 10085]
2. The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3. The quality of life issues of the newly assertive and growing middle class is responsible for the loss of livelihood of the poor. [Option ID = 10088]
4. Judicial activism allows the cooptation of environmentalists by the liberal state. [Option ID = 10086]
Correct Answer :-
The efficacy and desirability of judicial activism may be debated. [Option ID = 10087]
3)
4)


According to the above passage, judicial activism is associated with: [Question ID = 2523]
1. Development of more specific legal instruments [Option ID = 10091]
2. Reformulating the environmental question [Option ID = 10089]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10092]
4. Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]
Correct Answer :-
Reframing the well being of women in a rights framework [Option ID = 10090]


Which of the following should be entirely avoided according to Indian feminist scholarship?


a. Casting of issues in a rights framework

b. Making bureaucratic delivery of services more accountable

c. Litigation to develop more specific legal instruments

d. Judicial activism [Question ID = 2524]
1. a, c, and d [Option ID = 10095]
1)
2)
2. All of these [Option ID = 10093]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10096]
4. a and d [Option ID = 10094]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10096]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic03


From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2541]
1. Human rights discourse uses notions of personhood which may be egocentric but not sociocentric. [Option ID = 10162]
2. Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3. Anthropological notion of personhood has contributed to the human rights discourse. [Option ID = 10164]
4. The concern with personhood is largely an academic fad. [Option ID = 10163]
Correct Answer :-
Anthropological notion of personhood problematises the concept of abstract humanity. [Option ID = 10161]
3)


Renteln?s work argued that:

[Question ID = 2540]
1. Lex talionis should be the basis of international human rights because of its universality. [Option ID = 10157]
2. Lex talionis is concerned with an abstract concept of humanity. [Option ID = 10158]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10160]
4. The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
Correct Answer :-
The idea of universal human rights has very little empirical foundation. [Option ID = 10159]
1)
From the above passage it can be inferred that Renteln?s findings were uncontroversial for anthropologists because:

[Question ID = 2539]
1. Anthropologists are not committed to cultural relativism. [Option ID = 10154]
2. Anthropologists have long accepted the idea of international human rights. [Option ID = 10153]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10156]
4. She focused on the concept of the person which has a wide currency in anthropology. [Option ID = 10155]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10156]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic04
2)


From the above passage it can be inferred that:

[Question ID = 2545]
1. There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
2. Illegitimacy of divorce is common due to its customary character. [Option ID = 10177]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10180]
4. The idea that divorce brings about loss of status is very common across social groups. [Option ID = 10179]
Correct Answer :-
There is much historical evidence which disproves the idea of indissolubility of Hindu marriage. [Option ID = 10178]
3)


From the above passage, it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2543]
1. None of these [Option ID = 10172]
2. Divorce is largely unknown in Indian subcontinent. [Option ID = 10171]
3. Hindu marriages are a sacrament. [Option ID = 10170]
4. Hindu marriages have always been indissoluble. [Option ID = 10169]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10172]


1)
2)
From the above passage it can be inferred that: [Question ID = 2544]
1. Because marriages are indissoluble among Hindus, divorce is illegitimate in various degrees. [Option ID = 10176]
2. There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of law
and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
3. Divorce was recognized by the precolonial rulers although this changed in colonial times. [Option ID = 10175]
4. Divorce is much more common in modern times than in the past and this is owing to its legal recognition. [Option ID = 10173]
Correct Answer :-
There was a balance between the people?s law and the rulers law which permitted a greater acceptability of divorce than the subsequent separation of
law and custom. [Option ID = 10174]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic05


Which of the following statements can be inferred from the above passage? [Question ID = 2548]
1. Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
2. Sociologists have been supportive of philosophers. [Option ID = 10191]
3. Historians are not in favor of the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10189]
4. Philosophers of science have supported the sociology of scientific knowledge. [Option ID = 10190]
Correct Answer :-
Some sociologists find some philosophical questions meaningless. [Option ID = 10192]
1)


The author suggests that the empirical evidence in Laboratory Life is likely to change the minds of those who have an ontological bent of
mind. [Question ID = 2547]
1. None of these is true. [Option ID = 10188]
2. The above statement is true. [Option ID = 10186]
3. The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
4. The passage is unclear about the statement. [Option ID = 10187]
Correct Answer :-
The above statement is untrue. [Option ID = 10185]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic06


The proportionate increase in total enrolment between 2001-02 and 2004-05 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2553]
1. In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]
2. In Education. [Option ID = 10210]
2)
3)
3. In Engineering. [Option ID = 10209]
4. In Law. [Option ID = 10211]
Correct Answer :-
In Medicine. [Option ID = 10212]


The increase in the share of women in total enrolment between 2004-05 and 2007-08 is the highest:

[Question ID = 2552]
1. In Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10207]
2. In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]
3. In Education and Engineering. [Option ID = 10206]
4. In Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10205]
Correct Answer :-
In Education and Medicine. [Option ID = 10208]


Which of these statements is false?

[Question ID = 2550]
4)
5)
1. Women?s enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10197]
2. Engineering has always had more women enrolled than any other faculty. [Option ID = 10199]
3. Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]
4. The faculty with the second highest number of women enrolled is the same in all three years. [Option ID = 10200]
Correct Answer :-
Total enrolment in all four faculties has been increasing continuously over the three years. [Option ID = 10198]


Which of these statements is true?

[Question ID = 2551]
1. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]
2. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2001-02. [Option ID = 10203]
3. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education in all the three years. [Option ID = 10201]
4. Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education only in 2004-05. [Option ID = 10204]
Correct Answer :-
Women?s share in total enrolment is the highest in Education except in 2007-08. [Option ID = 10202]


The table suggests that male domination (in terms of numbers) has been the greatest in: [Question ID = 2554]
1. The table does not provide any information on men?s enrolment. [Option ID = 10216]
2. Engineering and Medicine. [Option ID = 10213]
1)
2)
3. Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
4. Medicine and Law. [Option ID = 10214]
Correct Answer :-
Engineering and Law. [Option ID = 10215]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic07


Many observers were declaring that ?Indians were disappearing? because:

[Question ID = 2556]
1. No more than 2.7 percent of the populace ever voted. [Option ID = 10222]
2. Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3. Modernity is a force that destroys identity. [Option ID = 10223]
4. Colonizer?s value systems had not become hegemonic. [Option ID = 10221]
Correct Answer :-
Few Indians were self-identifying as Indians. [Option ID = 10224]
3)


From the above passage it can be definitively concluded that:

[Question ID = 2557]
1. Anthropologists were wrong about Indians disappearing. [Option ID = 10226]
2. Evo Morales was the first indigenous president of Bolivia. [Option ID = 10225]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10228]
4. National citizenship and indigenous identity contradict each other. [Option ID = 10227]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10228]

1)
2)

It can be inferred from the above passage that:

[Question ID = 2558]
1. Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
2. Bolivian national elections do not allow for Indian identity to be asserted. [Option ID = 10230]
3. Evo Morales was elected president of Bolivia because of his indigenous identity. [Option ID = 10232]
4. ?Indian? and ?African? identities are unclear in Bolivian public life. [Option ID = 10229]
Correct Answer :-
Indigenous identity existed in Bolivia even in the twentieth century when it was not publicly asserted. [Option ID = 10231]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic08


The central argument of this passage is about the:

[Question ID = 2560]
1. relationship between core and periphery. [Option ID = 10239]
2. ecological consequences of total consumption. [Option ID = 10237]
3. struggles over material flows. [Option ID = 10240]
4. scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
Correct Answer :-
scale of analysis of ecological sustainability. [Option ID = 10238]
3)


The relation between consumption and environmental degradation:

[Question ID = 2561]
1. is inversely related in core and periphery. [Option ID = 10241]
2. cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]
3. cannot be measured accurately. [Option ID = 10244]
4. is achieved through global interdependencies and commodity chains. [Option ID = 10243]
Correct Answer :-
cannot be understood within narrow territorial limits. [Option ID = 10242]


The passage suggests that without an emphasis on material flows:

[Question ID = 2562]
1. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10247]
2. Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
3. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10246]
4. Consequences of consumption may be overestimated in the periphery. [Option ID = 10248]
1)
2)
Correct Answer :-
Consequences of consumption may be underestimated in core regions. [Option ID = 10245]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic09


The critical edition of the Mahabharat was compiled by:

[Question ID = 2564]
1. Choosing a text which is internally consistent. [Option ID = 10255]
2. Finding the oldest extant text and terming it the critical edition. [Option ID = 10253]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10256]
4. Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
Correct Answer :-
Comparing existing manuscripts and taking what is common to them all as the oldest text. [Option ID = 10254]
3)


The task of compiling the critical edition was undertaken by:

[Question ID = 2565]
1. Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
2. the Government of India, Ancient Epics Publication Division. [Option ID = 10258]
3. scholars based at the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Pune. [Option ID = 10257]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10260]
Correct Answer :-
Indian scholars and foreign scholars in collaboration. [Option ID = 10259]
4)


Which of the following statements is correct according to the passage:

[Question ID = 2566]
1. A 10
th
century Kashmiri manuscript appears to be the oldest extant one for the most part. [Option ID = 10263]
2. There are manuscripts of the Mahabharat only in Bengali, Hindi, Marathi, Telugu and Malyalam. [Option ID = 10262]
3. None of these [Option ID = 10264]
4. The Mahabharat has many versions, but only the version published by the Gita Press is right. [Option ID = 10261]
Correct Answer :-
None of these [Option ID = 10264]
1)


Which of the following statements is false based on what the author tells us

[Question ID = 2567]
1. All of these [Option ID = 10268]
2. The two versions which begin the story are both equally plausible as the oldest version and have therefore been included. [Option ID = 10267]
3. The critical edition has managed to achieve almost total internal consistency. [Option ID = 10265]
4. The critical edition is much longer than all the editions because it includes all the variations. [Option ID = 10266]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10268]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic10
2)


According to the author, Hitler?s model for extermination was:

[Question ID = 2569]
1. British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
2. Massacre of Armenians in the 1900s. [Option ID = 10274]
3. German extermination of Herero peoples. [Option ID = 10275]
4. Stalin?s purge of Kulaks. [Option ID = 10273]
Correct Answer :-
British, French and other European treatment of natives in their colonies. [Option ID = 10276]
1)


According to the author,

[Question ID = 2570]
1. the holocaust is an exact copy of other genocides. [Option ID = 10277]
2. all historical events are unique. [Option ID = 10278]
3. all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10280]
Correct Answer :-
all genocides are both unique and comparable. [Option ID = 10279]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic11
2)


Transnational families:

[Question ID = 2574]
1. import husbands for their daughters. [Option ID = 10293]
2. reinforce and subvert kinship structures. [Option ID = 10297]
3. All of these [Option ID = 10299]
4. want spouses from the homeland for their children. [Option ID = 10295]
Correct Answer :-
All of these [Option ID = 10299]
3)


In the passage, which of the following is suggested:

[Question ID = 2577]
1. A ghar damad is a valued member in his marital home. [Option ID = 10308]
2. A ghar damad is a necessary outcome of migration. [Option ID = 10304]
3. A ghar damad loses his status in his parental home. [Option ID = 10306]
4. A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
Correct Answer :-
A ghar damad is a powerless figure in his marital home. [Option ID = 10302]
1)


Asma refused to cry at her wedding:

[Question ID = 2572]
1. Asma thought her new husband should cry at their wedding. [Option ID = 10288]
2. because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
3. because she was marrying the man of her choice. [Option ID = 10285]
4. because she was an unconventional girl. [Option ID = 10286]
Correct Answer :-
because she would remain in her natal home. [Option ID = 10287]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic12
2)


How does the author expect to discuss the question of rights? [Question ID = 2626]
1. As a development over time. [Option ID = 10501]
2. The role of moral and political rights. [Option ID = 10503]
3. The development of controversies over time. [Option ID = 10502]
4. To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
Correct Answer :-
To discuss current controversies about rights. [Option ID = 10504]
3)


If ?rights as prohibitions? are compared to ?rights as permissions?, which of the following statement is true? [Question ID = 2630]
1. Permissions do not involve moral authority. [Option ID = 10520]
2. Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
3. Both involve political authority. [Option ID = 10517]
4. Prohibitions are not about moral authority. [Option ID = 10519]
Correct Answer :-
Both involve a relationship with moral authority. [Option ID = 10518]
4)


Which of the following statements is most likely to be true? [Question ID = 2629]
1. The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
2. The passage is a discussion on moral philosophy. [Option ID = 10514]
3. The passage is a discussion on global politics. [Option ID = 10515]
4. The passage is a discussion on political authorities. [Option ID = 10516]
Correct Answer :-
The passage is a discussion on the study of rights. [Option ID = 10513]
5)


Which role of rights has predominated in ?traditional discussions'?

[Question ID = 2628]
1. Rights that allow persons to pursue projects of their own choosing. [Option ID = 10509]
2. Rights that protect individual from encroachments by political authorities. [Option ID = 10510]
3. Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
4. Rights that allow ?moral breathing room? rather than ?moral armor?. [Option ID = 10512]
Correct Answer :-
Rights that allow ?moral armor? rather than ?moral breathing room?. [Option ID = 10511]
1)


What, according to the author, are the most important controversies?

[Question ID = 2627]
1. Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
2. Global politics and political philosophy. [Option ID = 10505]
3. Substantive legal philosophy and conceptual political philosophy. [Option ID = 10508]
4. Rights as permissions and rights as prohibitions. [Option ID = 10506]
Correct Answer :-
Global politics, political philosophy and the concept of rights. [Option ID = 10507]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic13
2)


From the above passage, it can be infered that the progressive aspects of rule of law:

[Question ID = 2632]
1. were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
2. were a reflection of American hegemony. [Option ID = 10525]
3. are false historically and in the present. [Option ID = 10527]
4. are a consequence of ideas of justice. [Option ID = 10528]
Correct Answer :-
were encouraged by Cold War politics. [Option ID = 10526]
3)


Incentives for institutional virtues were high during the Cold War because:

[Question ID = 2634]
1. Profits were not as important before the 1990s. [Option ID = 10535]
2. of political empowerment that the ruling elites provided to rule of law. [Option ID = 10533]
3. Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4. Justice was valued as a fundamental by the ruling elites. [Option ID = 10536]
Correct Answer :-
Ruling elites had to persuade other countries that their system was better. [Option ID = 10534]
4)


The autonomy of law is seen in this passage as:

[Question ID = 2633]
1. a subaltern and naturalized image. [Option ID = 10532]
2. a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
3. a dominant and self-congratulatory image. [Option ID = 10531]
4. a dominant image that is no longer upheld. [Option ID = 10530]
Correct Answer :-
a dominant and unrealistic image. [Option ID = 10529]
1)


The relationship between law and politics according to the passage above is:

[Question ID = 2635]
1. self-congratulatory rhetoric. [Option ID = 10539]
2. detrimental to the political soul of law. [Option ID = 10538]
3. fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
4. has a dark and a bright side. [Option ID = 10540]
Correct Answer :-
fundamentally transforming for law. [Option ID = 10537]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic14
2)


What does the passage reveal about Gowalkar?s attitude towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2640]
1. He said that Hindus should not treat the cow as sacred. [Option ID = 10560]
2. He saw the cow as the wealth of the nation. [Option ID = 10558]
3. Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
4. The cow had no significance for him. [Option ID = 10557]
Correct Answer :-
Gowalkar wanted to embarrass the government. [Option ID = 10559]
3)


What are Dr. Kurien?s views towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2639]
1. Dr Verghese Kurien did not believe in the sacred attributes of cows. [Option ID = 10553]
2. Dr. Verghese Kurien was a politician who promoted the purity of milk. [Option ID = 10555]
3. Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4. None of these [Option ID = 10556]
Correct Answer :-
Dr. Verghese Kurien held that culling was necessary for the milk revolution. [Option ID = 10554]
4)


For the Jan Sangh:

[Question ID = 2637]
1. the cow is a political icon. [Option ID = 10548]
2. the cow is a domestic animal. [Option ID = 10545]
3. the cow was primarily a ritual animal. [Option ID = 10547]
4. the ecology of cattle rearing is significant. [Option ID = 10546]
Correct Answer :-
the ecology of cattle rearing is significant. [Option ID = 10546]
1)


What were the attitudes of the two organizations towards the cow?

[Question ID = 2638]
1. For the VHP the cow was a thought provoking animal. [Option ID = 10552]
2. The VHP refused to acknowledge the economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10551]
3. The VHP had no understanding of economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10550]
4. The Jan Sangh and the VHP did not agree on the sacred quality of the cow. [Option ID = 10549]
Correct Answer :-
The VHP refused to acknowledge the economic ecology of cattle rearing. [Option ID = 10551]
Topic:- DU_J18_MPHIL_SOCIO_Topic15
2)


Acording to Bourdieu, phenomenologists are interested in:

[Question ID = 2700]
1. practical comprehension. [Option ID = 10799]
2. personal singularities of an intention. [Option ID = 10800]
3. objective intentions of practices and works. [Option ID = 10797]
4. automatic and impersonal practices. [Option ID = 10798]
Correct Answer :-
personal singularities of an intention. [Option ID = 10800]
3)


Habitus produces commonsense world endowed with objectivity, by

[Question ID = 2698]
1. continuous reinforcement of meaning interpreted schemes. [Option ID = 10790]
2. harmonizing agents' experiences. [Option ID = 10789]
3. securing consensus on the meaning of practices. [Option ID = 10791]
4. All of these [Option ID = 10792]
Correct Answer :-
securing consensus on the meaning of practices. [Option ID = 10791]


Homogeneity of habitus enables:

[Question ID = 2699]
1. limiting the group of agents processing the schemes of production and interpretation of habitus. [Option ID = 10793]
2. making practices and works to be immediately intelligible and foreseeable. [Option ID = 10794]
3. deconstructing an agent?s taken for granted intentions. [Option ID = 10795]
4. All of these [Option ID = 10796]
Correct Answer :-
making practices and works to be immediately intelligible and foreseeable. [Option ID = 10794]
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