motherteresawomenuniv.ac.in TNSET Sociology Question Paper 2017 : Tamil Nadu State Eligibility Test

University : Mother Teresa Women’s University
Exam : TNSET – Tamil Nadu State Eligibility Test 2017
Document Type : Sample Question Paper
Year : 2017
Subject : Sociology

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TNSET Sociology Question Paper :

Note :
a. Attempt all the questions.
b. Each question carries two (2) marks

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1. In developing the methods of sociological research much have been borrowed from
1) Physical sciences
2) Humanities
3) Social sciences
4) Medical sciences

2. Everyone is the product of his own environment and therefore cannot be held responsible for his own actions’-This is one of the leading fallacies that Masquerade as sociological
1) Values
2) Principles
3) Norms
4) Objectives

3. Which sociological perspective is usually associated with observation of face to face social institutions?
1) Functionalist
2) Symbolic Interaction
3) Socio-psychological
4) Conflict

4. It defines what is required or acceptable behaviour in certain groups or situations?
1) Values
2) Rights
3) Duties
4) norms

5. Democracy is a desirable form of government. This is an example of
1) Value
2) Norms
3) Mores
4) Sentiment

6. It is the feeling of unity among its members consequent upon this Common life.
1) Community sentiment
2) Neutrality
3) Likeness
4) Stability

7. The occupancy of a common territory by groups that have little or no direct interaction.
1) Amalgamation
2) Symbiosis
3) Competition
4) Accommodation

8. A community based on intimacy and emotional involvement.
1) Gemeinschaft
2) Gesellschaft
3) Caste
4) Ethnic group

9. This is power that is legitimized or institutionalized in a social system.
1) Authority
2) Prestige
3) Empowerment
4) Enlightenment

10. A deliberate and systematic effort to alter an individual’s current behaviour pattern and give him a new set of values, beliefs, and standards.
1) Socialization
2) Re-socialization
3) Anticipatory socialization
4) Adult socialization

11. Who analyzed social change in Mexican communities with the help of the concepts of little and great traditions?
1) Marxist
2) Singer
3) Yogendra Singh
4) Robert Redfield

12. All social systems, he asserted, are organised, in the sense that they are structurally differentiated, about two major axes’.
1) Durkheim
2) Malinowski
3) Merton
4) Parsons

13. Who is the founder of ethno methodology?
1) Erving Goffman
2) Harold Garfinkel
3) Mullins
4) Turner

14. Two or more nuclear families linked by common descent.
1) Extended family
2) Joint family
3) Conjugal family
4) Patrilocal family

15. A social research project that uses standardized interviews or questionnaires.
1) Data
2) Survey
3) Sampling
4) Case study

16. A sociological research project that is undertaken as part of a program of social improvement.
1) Scientific research
2) Social research
3) Action research
4) Social survey

17. A relationship in which a change in one variable results in a change in the other variable, but not vice-versa.
1) Symmetrical relationship
2) Asymmetrical relationship
3) Positive relationship
4) Negative relationship

18. Those projects which have as their purpose the discovery of hypothesis and insights, rather than the testing of well-developed hypothesis.
1) Descriptive studies
2) Explorative studies
3) Experimental studies
4) Diagnostic studies

19. According to August Comte, which of these concepts indicates that human societies develop and change through time
1) Social Status
2) Social dynamics
3) Positivism
4) Metaphysics

20. Which of the following are bases in Indian society on the basis of which a region is demarcated?
1. Cultural and linguistic factors
2. Historical and administrative factors
3. Political aspirations of people
Choose the correct answer from the codes given below :
1) 1, 2 and 3
2) 1 and 2
3) 2 and 3
4) 1 and 3

21. Match List I with List II and select the correct answer using the code given below the
lists : List I List II
A. Charles Cooley 1. Circulation of elites
B. Sigmund Freud 2. Charisma
C. Vilfredo Pareto 3. The ‘I’ and ‘Me’
D. George H. Mead 4. Looking-glass self
5. Ego & Super-ego A B C D
1) 3 5 2 4
2) 5 1 3 2
3) 4 2 1 5
4) 4 5 1 3

22. Who devised the ‘Social Distance’ scale?
1) Thurstone
2) Likert
3) Guttman
4) Bogardous

23. Pareto borrowed the concept of lions and foxes from
1) Machiavelli
2) T.Veblen
3) J.H.Goldthrope
4) C.W. Mills

24. Which one is NOT the characteristic of caste?
1) Hereditary status
2) Ascribed status
3) Fixed status
4) Achieved status

25. The idea of ‘Social Fact’ is associated with
1) Emile Durkheim
2) Karl Marx
3) August Comte
4) Max Weber

26. Shaking hands, brushing teeth, regularly taking bath daily are examples of
1) Habits
2) Customs
3) Folkways
4) Etiquette

27. Ethnocentrism is a tendency in which one
1) Loves everthing of one’s own group
2) Loves everything of other’s group
3) Judge every group actively on it merits
4) Praises qualities of the other group

28. Both status and role are
1) Dynamic elements of society
2) Static elements of society
3) Conflicting elements of society
4) Reformative elements of society

29. Marriage to father’s sister’s daughter is known as
1) Endogamy
2) Exogamy
3) Paternal cross cousin marriage
4) Maternal cross cousin marriage

30. Which of the following is not an institution?
1) Army
2) Family
3) Marriage
4) Factory