List of top Sociology Questions asked in GATE XH- C6

‘The City and the Grassroots’ authored by _________ is among the most important books published on urban social movements.

In which of the following ways did the founding scholars usually distinguish New Social Movements (NSMs) from Old Social Movements?

Read the following statements:
(1) Throughout the developing world, poverty rates among households headed by women are higher than those headed by men.
(2) The greater ‘investment value’ associated with the survival of boys in a household in comparison with girls leads to discrimination against girl children and adult women.
(3) The unequal allocation of resources within households results in differential allotments of nutrition and healthcare that reflect the perceived inferior short-term and long-term value of females.
(4) In all transitional economies, an increase in prostitution and trafficking of women has been observed.
The above statements are all examples of

The Jonestown massacre of 1978 in the United States saw the death of 900 persons including children. Reverend Jones, leader of an American cult, ordered his followers ‘The Peoples Temple’ to kill a US Congressman and several journalists and then commit mass suicide by drinking fruit punch laced with cyanide. In Durkheim’s view, this would be a case of

A fisherman in southwest Sri Lanka has received a warning that a cyclone may hit his coastal region and he has to decide whether to evacuate or stay put. He knows that the probability of the cyclone striking is 70%. He has the means to evacuate and his property is worth three times the cost of evacuation. He calculates accurately that his best chance to protect himself and his assets lies in evacuation. At a later meeting of the whole community, the village elders decide that no one will evacuate because the village shrines cannot be left unattended indefinitely. Hence in deference to the elders, the fisherman decides to stay put.
In Max Weber’s terms, his decision is closest to

Pierre Bourdieu defined __________ as “Systems of durable dispositions, structured structures predisposed to function as structuring structures … collectively orchestrated without being the product of the orchestrating action of a conductor.”
Which of the following completes the above sentence?

The avunculate refers to the relationship between

“An ideal society should be mobile, should be full of channels for conveying a change taking place in one part to other parts. In an ideal society there should be many interests consciously communicated and shared. There should be varied and free points of contact with other modes of association. In other words there must be social endosmosis.”
On the basis of the above statement, which one of the following can be asserted?

In an experimental design, the dependent variable is

M. N. Srinivas’ principal work was built around the method of

M.N. Srinivas called his work on Rampura ‘The Remembered Village’ because

Who among the following Indian sociologists argued against Verrier Elwin’s proposal of preserving the ‘tribal way of life’ on the grounds that the Indian tribes are not ‘aborigines’ but are ‘imperfectly integrated classes of Hindu society’ or are ‘Backward Hindus’?

The term {kulak refers to}