1. The pivotal methodology of functionalist is

(A) Conjectural history
(B) Library work
(C) Field work
(D) Content analysis



2. Match List – I with List – II and select the correct answer from the codes given below:

List – I
List – II

a. Marriage and Family in India
i. A. M. Shah
b. Kinship organisation in India
ii. Robin Fox
c. Kinship and Marriage
iii. K. M. Kapadia
d. Family in India
iv. Iravati Karve

Codes:

      a b c d
(A) i ii iv iii
(B) iii iv ii i
(C) i iii iv ii
(D) ii iii iv i



3. Assertion (A): The purpose of privatization of Education was to improve the quality of Education.
Reason (R): Privatization of education has resulted into Mushroom growth of Educational Institution.

Codes:

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true, and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false, but (R) is true.



4. Right to Education was introduced as Fundamental Rights under which of the following Article of the Indian Constitution?

Codes:

(A) Article – 14
(B) Article – 21
(C) Article – 21 – A
(D) Article – 16



5. What does Macdonaldization mean?

(A) Universal application of the ideas of Dwight Macdonald
(B) The process of extension of the cartoons of Donald Duck.
(C) Spread of the new means of consumption across the world
(D) Diffusion of modern agricultural practices



6. A.R. Radcliffe – Brown conducted fieldwork among the

(A) Trobriand Islanders
(B) Andaman Islanders
(C) Todas
(D) Murias



7. Among the post structuralists who has focussed on the ‘linkage between knowledge and power’?

(A) Lemert
(B) Miller
(C) Levi-Strauss
(D) Foucault


8. According to post modernists which ideas of modernity are considered gone by or dead?

(A) Reason, rationality and progress.
(B) Rationality, progress and objectivity.
(C) Legality, rationality and objectivity.
(D) Objectivity, rationality, reason.



9. Which of the following concept does not figure in Malthusian Theory of Population?

(A) Arithmetic progression
(B) Positive checks
(C) ‘Stable population’
(D) Preventive checks



10. ‘Population pyramids’ reveals the following information:

(a) Dependency burden
(b) Birth and Death rate
(c) Sex ratios of different ages
(d) Approximate life expectancy of birth

From the above, find the combination for correct answer:

(A) (a) and (b) but not (c) and (d).
(B) All (a), (b), (c) and (d).
(C) (a) only but not (b), (c) and (d).
(D) (c) and (d) but not (a) and (b).

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