List of practice Questions

Which of the following statement(s) is/are true for the Forest Rights Act (2006) of India?

The Ethnographic Survey of India as part of the Census 1901 was conducted to __________________________.

____________________ and ____________________ propounded conflict theory.

Which of the following is/are NOT aspect(s) of secularization process?

Which of the following statement(s) is/are INCORRECT?

According to David Pocock, the Indian Jajmani system reflects _____.

Which of the following is/are NOT characteristic(s) of the {class system?}

Which of the following concept(s) is/are NOT propounded by Emile Durkheim?

The example(s) of relations of production is/are ____}.

While ____________________ emerges around a charismatic figure, idea or vision, ____________________ emerges as a breakaway group from a preexisting body of belief, rituals, or believers.

There are four forms of triangulation, namely data triangulation, ______________________, theory triangulation and ______________________.

____________________ is the process by which groups seek to preserve some advantage by monopolizing resources and restricting access to the group.

Correlation coefficient lies between ______________ and ________________, and probability lies between ______________ and ________________.

Match the following concepts as given in Column P with the Sociologists as given in Column Q:

Column P	Column Q
A) Systematic falsification	I) Thomas Kuhn
B) Systematic verification	II) Emile Durkheim
C) Consensus	III) Karl Popper
D) Social fact	IV) Positivism

Match the following approaches and village study as given in Column P with Sociologists as given in Column Q:

Column P	Column Q
A. Rampura village	I. Sharmila Rege
B. Indology	II. M.N. Srinivas
C. Marxist approach	III. A.R. Desai
D. Feminist perspective	IV. Irawati Karve

According to the World Commission on Environment and Development, ‘sustainable development’ refers to __________________.

____________________ is NOT a characteristic feature of M.N. Srinivas’s concept of ‘dominant caste’.

Max Weber’s instrumental rationality refers to ________________.

The stable pattern of ‘modern men’ formulated by Alex Inkeles does not include ________________.

________ refers to the careful consideration of the ways in which researchers’ past experiences, points of view, and roles impact these same researchers’ interactions with, and interpretations of, the research scene.

_______ introduced the concept of_______ to describe situations where people accept, consent to, and internalize values and norms that are not in their best interests.

____________________ is the process by which researchers begin by identifying several participants who fit the study’s criteria and then ask these people to suggest a colleague, a friend, or a family member who also fits the study’s criteria.

If standard deviation is 0.3, then its corresponding variance would be ______

Under __________________________ land tenurial system during the British rule in India, the individual cultivator/peasant had some ownership right over land holding.

______________________________ introduced the concept of ‘reconstructive science’.