List of practice Questions

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?
This founder of the Lucknow Department of Economics and Sociology called upon the discipline of Sociology “to combat the tyranny of Economics”. He argued, ‘No choice in the economic field can be appropriate or “rational” which is inconsistent with human norms and values in political, familial and other fields of man’s institutional life.’ Identify this sociologist from the following options:

Match Talcott Parsons’ functional pre-requisites in Column I with the associated social institutions in Column II.


 

In the book Suicide: A Study in Sociology, Durkheim states, “Those experiencing either downswing or uplift in their material circumstances are placed in a situation in which their habitual expectations come under strain.” This could lead to _______

Fill in the blank with the CORRECT option.
The term _______ was coined by Francis Galton in 1883. It promotes positive selection of people with particular genes who are thought to be intelligent and negative selection of people considered to be inferior or defective.
Which of the following option(s) is/are CORRECT about Max Weber’s argument(s) about bureaucracy?
Which of the following option(s) is/are CORRECT?
Consider a two-dimensional reflection experiment, where a horizontal boundary between two layers is at a depth of 500 m below the free surface. A source and geophone are placed on the free surface with an offset of 2000 m. The P-wave velocity of the top layer is 3000 m/s. The travel time of a recorded free-surface reflection multiple, which got reflected twice at the free surface, is ________ s.