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

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According to Walt W. Rostow, all nations pass through _________ stages of economic development and _________ stage marks the interval when the old blocks and resistances to steady growth are finally overcome.
Which of the following statements are correct?
[i] Gustavo Esteva argues that the 1949 address of the US President Harry S. Truman marks the opening of the era of development.
[ii] According to Escobar, ‘development can best be described as an apparatus that links forms of knowledge about the Third World with the deployment of forms of power and intervention, resulting in the mapping and production of Third World societies’.
Which among the listed options most closely replicate(s) Jurgen Habermas’ idea of the public sphere?
In the light of given information, which pairs are correct?
What concepts were studied in the famous Milgram social experiment where teachers did not hesitate to give electric shocks to learners?
According to Max Weber, in addition to power what are the other TWO distinct components of stratification?
According to Talcott Parsons, the dichotomies of pattern variables or alternatives an actor can choose in society are: ascription vs _________; affectivity vs _________; and diffuseness vs _________.
According to Peter Blau, there is _______ price in social exchange but only _____ exchange ratio between two social benefits, because personal considerations and social norms influence the process of _____.
ANOVA means _________.
A researcher got excited on seeing a celebrity tweeting about COVID-19. She downloaded one million tweets using a software application. Then she analyzed the data to find out whether celebrities have a social conscience. What is this research approach called?
According to Robert Merton, innovation is a mode of adaptation when cultural goals are _________ and institutionalized means are _________.
According to Erving Goffman, _________ refers to an institution where all aspects of a person’s life are regulated by a single authority. Through a process of _________ ceremony, the person shall become secondary and invisible in the overbearing social environment.
Who among the following gave the concept of ‘global village’?
Commodity chain is defined as _________.
Which of the following is a process wherein socialist states guide economic growth through the planned allocation of public and human resources, as an alternative to allocation through the market?
An approach that reformulates development emphasizing essential human needs over and above rising incomes is referred to as _________.
Which of the following scholars emphasized the subaltern perspective in social movements involving peasants?
Which of the following institutions provides the structural link between caste and gender in kinship in India?
A researcher is conducting a survey about internet use among the students. She was asked to follow a probability sampling technique. Which one of the given options is most suitable?
Which is not a trait of a sociological theory?
According to Pierre Bourdieu, the way one speaks or having an accent is _________ form of cultural capital.
Which one of the given options is not a latent function of attending a university?
Who among the following highlighted the concept of ‘Swaraj’ in the reconstruction of traditional village life?
In the 1960s, India adopted a heavy usage of high yielding varieties of seed, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and new machines to raise the productivity of agricultural land. This process was described as _________.