1. Who, of the following, is the author of the book “Economy and Society”?
(A) Max Weber
(B) Anthony Giddens
(C) E. Durkheim
(D) A. Comte



2. Match the items in List-I with the items in List-II and choose the correct codes given below:

List – I
(Books)
List – II
(Authors)
a. Sociology of Environment
1. S.N. Pawar & R. B. Patil
b. Staying Alive : Women, Ecology and Survival in India.
2. Alvin Toffler
c. The Third Wave
3. Vandana Shiva
d. Modernization, Protest and Change.
4. S.N. Eisenstadt

Codes:

       a b c d
(A) 2 1 3 4
(B) 4 1 2 3
(C) 1 3 2 4
(D) 3 2 1 4



3. The study of recorded human statement based on newspaper, magazines, songs, poems, speeches etc. are known as

(A) Statistical analysis
(B) Content analysis
(C) Historical analysis
(D) Comparative analysis



4. “Men make history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by them, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.” With whom is this statement related?

(A) Karl Mannheim
(B) Karl Marx
(C) Karl Popper
(D) Ralf Dahrendorf



5. The term ‘Reference group’ was first introduced by

(A) Hyman
(B) Merton
(C) Srinivas
(D) Cooley



6. Ferdinand Toennies mentioned Kuerville or artificial will as the basis of

(A) Gemeinschaft
(B) Gesellschaft
(C) Family
(D) Peer group



7. Talcott Parsons mentions the needs of a social system in a particular sequence. Which one of the following correctly mentions that sequence?

(A) Integration, Latency, Goal Maintenance, Adaptation
(B) Latency, Integration, Goal Maintenance, Adaptation
(C) Goal Maintenance, Integration, Adaptation, Latency
(D) Adaptation, Goal Maintenance, Integration, Latency



8. Who made the distinction of two opposing spheres of ‘Female world of emotion and cooperation and male world of rationality and competition’?

(A) John Bowlby
(B) Talcott Parsons
(C) Robin Fox
(D) George Peter Murdock


 9. Contribution of social division of labour has been discussed in depth by

(A) Emile Durkheim
(B) Max Weber
(C) Vilfredo Pareto
(D) Pitirim Sorokin



10. The term proximate determinants of fertility was coined by

(A) Kingsley Davis
(B) Judith Blake
(C) John Bongaarts
(D) Karl Marx


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