List of top Questions asked in GATE Humanities and Social Sciences- Sociology

In The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber’s finding(s) is/are:

Which of the following statement(s) about the concept of intersectionality as developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw is/are CORRECT?
Which of the following statement(s) about tribes is/are CORRECT?

Which of the following statement(s) about Arturo Escobar’s work Encountering Development is/are CORRECT?

In a class of 60 students, mathematics examination was conducted. All the students obtained 20 marks each. What would be the mean and standard deviation of marks in mathematics?
Patriliny is a kinship term that refers to

Match the following scholars in Column I and their contributions in Column II.


 

Match the authors from Column I with their approaches in Column II. 


 

In the Economic and Political Manuscripts of 1844, Marx states that alienation occurs
In Das Kapital, Volume 1, Marx states that exchange value of three different commodities such as corn, iron and linen _______
Fill in the blank with the CORRECT option.
________ is a non-probabilistic form of sampling that samples cases/participants relevant to research questions. This sampling does not allow the researcher to generalize to a population.
From the excerpt by Flavia Agnes (2013), which of the following statement(s) is/are CORRECT?
Which of the following is/are qualitative data analysis software?
In post-development theories, M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj is understood as a text that represents:
Which of the following is/are characteristic feature(s) of ethnography?
Which of the following statement(s) is/are CORRECT?
Which one of the following refers to an approach that was originally devised to understand or interpret theological texts?

Match the following sociologists in Column I with sociological theory/concept in Column II.


 

Match the following national leaders in Column I with their views on village in Column II.


 

Match the authors in Column I with their books in Column II. 


 

Which one of the following is defined by M. N. Srinivas as “the changes brought about in Indian society and culture as a result of over 150 years of British rule”?

Match the following authors in Column I with their books on caste in Column II. 


 

Match the scholars in Column I with their approaches in Column II: 


 

Fill in the blank with the CORRECT option.
The _______ opposed deforestation in the northern Indian tracts. This movement started in the early 1970s to prevent destruction of the forest by timber contractors and was carried forward by women, who were traditionally responsible for fuel, food and water in the family.
Who developed the concept of ‘seed and earth’ as a way to understand the gendered division of labour and cultural construction of gender?