HSST Sociology(Jr) 340/2017 Answer Key

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Post : HSST Sociology(Jr)
Department : Higher Secondary Education
Category Code : 340/2017
Qualification : Master's Degree in Sociology / B.Ed Degree in the Sociology
Date of Test : 22-03-2018



  1. As per Social Constructivism, whoever may scaffold the learning of the child?
    • Teacher
    • parent
    • Peer group member
    • All these

  2. Portfolio assessment means, assessment based on the
    • Responses of the child
    • Performance of the child
    • Products of learning
    • Anecdotal record

  3. Among the following who is not associated with Critical Pedagogy
    • Michael Apple
    • John Dewey
    • Paulo Freire
    • Peter McLaren

  4. In Whole Language Approach
    • We move from whole to parts
    • The order of LSRW is strictly followed
    • Language skills are learned separately
    • Alphabets are learned directly

  5. As per modern concept of learning, it should be
    • Teacher centered
    • Learner centered
    • Activity centered
    • Assessment centered

  6. The type of research which focuses on describing the culture of a group of people is called
    • Survey
    • Case study
    • Ethnography
    • Phenomenology

  7. A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation is called
    • Guess
    • Prediction
    • Hypothesis
    • Theory

  8. In research, data collection is immediately followed by
    • Analysis of data
    • Interpretation of data
    • Extrapolation upon available data
    • Formation of inference based on data

  9. A research can be considered empirical because of
    • Its basis on observation and experimentation
    • Sequential procedure
    • Controlling variables
    • The use of statistical procedures

  10. The main advantage of Seminar over Assignment is
    • Inculcation of self awareness
    • Acquisition of presentation skills
    • Generation of new ideas
    • Tolerance to others views
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  11. Definite locality is the basic characteristics of ______________
    • Association
    • Communuity
    • Groups
    • Society

  12. Who defined society as web of social relationship?
    • C. H. Codly
    • Parsons
    • Mac Iver
    • Ginsberg

  13. Who classified society as folk society and urban society?
    • Spencer
    • Durkheim
    • Tonnies
    • Red Field

  14. __________________ is an organized group of people pursuing some common interest.
    • Association
    • Community
    • Institution
    • Society

  15. Who coined the term Ethnocentrism?
    • Ogburn
    • Wisler
    • W. G. Sumner
    • Krober

  16. The concept of "cultural reproduction" is discussed by
    • O. Lewis
    • MacIver and Page
    • P. Bourdieu
    • Morris Opler

  17. Any group accepted as model or guide for our judgements and actions is called
    • Primary group
    • In group
    • Voluntary group
    • Reference group

  18. The concept of "Role set" has given by
    • Merton
    • Coolery
    • Linton
    • Tylor

  19. Behaviour desired by a majority of people is called
    • Norms
    • Mores
    • Customs
    • Values

  20. White color crime refers to the deviant activities committed by
    • Common people
    • Business and services class
    • Rural people
    • None of these

  21. "Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature the sentiment of a heartless world and the soul of soulless condition". Who made the statement?
    • L. Feurbach
    • G. Lukacs
    • K. Marx
    • V. I. Lenin

  22. Who of the following is the author of the book "Economy and Society"?
    • Max Weber
    • Anthony Giddens
    • Durkhain
    • A. Comte

  23. The concept of imperatively coordinated associations was contributed by
    • Talcott Parson
    • Ralph Dahrendrof
    • C. Wrisat Mills
    • Karl Marx

  24. The book "street corner society" was authored by
    • L. A Coser
    • Max Weber
    • Willian F. Whyte
    • B. Malinowski

  25. Match the List I with List II : List I List II a. G. H. Mead 1. Verstehen b. V. Pareto 2. Alienation c. Max Weber 3. Role taking d. Karl Marx 4. Circulation of Elites
    • 3, 1, 4, 2
    • 3, 2, 1, 4
    • 3, 4, 2, 1
    • 3, 4, 1, 2

  26. Who among the following in not regarded as a post-modernist thinker?
    • J. Alexander
    • J. Derrida
    • I. Jameson
    • J. F. Lyotard

  27. Match the followings : List - I List - II (Concepts) (Authors) a. Cultural lag i. K. marx b. False consciousness ii. Ogburn c. Law of similarity and contact iii. J. Farzer d. Institutionalization of class conflict iv. R. Dahrendrof
    • ii, i, iii, iv
    • iv, iii, i, ii
    • iii, iv, ii, iii
    • i, iv, ii, iii

  28. Who among the following describes society as "Sui-generis"?
    • Radcliffe Brown
    • Malinowski
    • E. Durkheim
    • R. Benedict

  29. Who among the following is associated with the idea of "Risk society"?
    • H. S. Becker
    • Ulrich Beck
    • Denical Bell
    • Susan Baker

  30. Who among the following theorists sees contemporary society as a death culture, with death being the "paradigm of all social exclusion and discrimination"?
    • J. Baudrillard
    • V. Beck
    • M. Foucault
    • J. F. Lyotard

  31. Who regards American society as a "great sale room" filled with hypocrisy, deceit and insincerity?
    • R. K. Merton
    • C. Wright Mills
    • T. Parson
    • E. Durkheim

  32. What do the critical theorists state?
    • Economic determinism was wrong
    • Economic determinism was not wrong
    • Economic determinism was not wrong, but should be concerned with other aspects of social life
    • Economic determinism was wrong and should be concerned with other aspects of social life

  33. Who was contended, among the Neo-Marxists, that mature Marx did not believe in any human nature?
    • Habermas
    • Harvery
    • Dahrendorf
    • Althusser

  34. Who has observed a link between the structures of the mind and the structures of the society?
    • Lemert
    • Radeliff-Brown
    • Levi-Strauss
    • Foucault

  35. From among the following who believed in social Darwinism?
    • Diffusionists
    • Evolutionists
    • Functionalists
    • All these

  36. Urbanisation is a process, urbanism is a way of life, and urbanity is a _______________
    • Urban culture
    • Law of urban life
    • State of mind
    • Way of urban thinking

  37. Who Considered Modernity as "an unfinished project"?
    • Derrida
    • Giddens
    • Althusser
    • Habermas

  38. What does Macdonaldization Mean?
    • Universal application of the ideas of Dwigat Macdonald
    • The process of extension of the cartoon of Donald Duck
    • Spread of the new means of consumption across the world
    • Diffusion of modern agricultural practices

  39. Durkheim's study of suicide helps as to understand
    1. Society's hold over the individual.
    2. Individual's hold on the society.
    3. Suicide rates of various societies.
    4. Degree of social integration of a society.
    • 2 and 3
    • 1 and 2
    • 1 and 4
    • 2 and 4

  40. Who has given the concept of "Total Institution"?
    • Summer
    • C. H. Cooley
    • Spencer
    • Goffman

  41. Who has distinguished between ascribed and achieved status?
    • R. Merton
    • T. Parsons
    • Ralph Linton
    • M. Waber

  42. A role is "a set of socially expected and approved patterns", who defined?
    • Linton
    • Ogburn and Nimkoff
    • G. H. Meal
    • R. K. Merton

  43. The leader of Guruvayur Sathyagraha was
    • K. Madhavan nair
    • K. Kelappan
    • K. P. Kesavamenon
    • M. Kumaran

  44. In his evolutionary frame work Marx arranged societies in the order of 1. Primitive communism 2. Fudelism 3. Capitalism 4. Socialism The correct order is :
    • 3, 2, 1, 4
    • 2, 3, 4, 1
    • 1, 4, 3, 2
    • 1, 2, 3, 4

  45. "Reasoning from general to perticular" is called
    • Inductive
    • Deductive
    • Experimental
    • Generalization

  46. Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) is established in
    • 1979
    • 1989
    • 1969
    • 1999

  47. In research a tentative solution of the problem is may call
    • Research problem
    • Research design
    • Research solution
    • Hypothesis

  48. "Emperically varifiable observations" is called
    • Logical statement
    • Theory
    • Method
    • Facts

  49. To test a hypothesis suggesting a causal relationship between variables, for this purpose researcher use.
    • Exploratory
    • Descriptive design
    • Diagnostic design
    • Experiment

  50. A scale defines the relative position of objects or persons with respect to a characteristics with no implication of the distances between position is called
    • Norminal scale
    • Ordinal scale
    • Interval scale
    • Ratio scale

  51. In content analysis, 'content' stand for
    • Research problem
    • Description of research
    • Manifest from of communication
    • A method of communication

  52. Concepts represent various degree of
    • Formulations
    • Calculations
    • Abstractions
    • Specifications

  53. A Blue print of research work is called
    • Research method
    • Research design
    • Research techniques
    • Research problem

  54. Which of the following is not a characteristics of city life?
    • Homoginity
    • Anonymity
    • Social distance
    • Regimentation

  55. Which of the following articles in Indian Constitution employers the president to appoint a commission to investigate the condition of Back ward classes?
    • Article 342
    • Article 340
    • Article 338
    • Article 344

  56. The marriage of a women to a man from a lower caste is called
    • Levirate marriage
    • Hypergamy
    • Hypogamy
    • Sororate marriage

  57. Marriage among Muslim community is a
    • Contract
    • Duty
    • Religious bond
    • Sacrament

  58. A custom by which on the death of a women, her husband marries her sister is called
    • Sororal
    • Sororate
    • Anisogamy
    • Hypogamy

  59. A Namboodiri joint family is called
    • Thavawad
    • Padippura
    • Illam
    • Nallukettu

  60. A family in which the husband lives at his wife's parent's house
    • Patrilocal
    • Matrileneal
    • Matriarchal
    • Matrilocal

  61. Match the following and chose the correct code : a. G. S. Ghurye
    b. M. N. Srinivas
    c. A. R. Desai
    d. B. R. Ambedkar
    1. Social change in modern India
    2. Subaltern approach
    3. Indian sadhus
    4. Marxian approach
    • 1, 4, 2, 3
    • 4, 1, 2, 3
    • 2, 1, 3, 4
    • 3, 1, 4, 2

  62. Who wrote the book 'Kinship Organisation in India'?
    • Murdock
    • Mc Kim Marriott
    • Iravati Karve
    • Louis Dumont

  63. The first state which implemented the Panchayathi Raj System in India
    • Kerala
    • Rajasthan
    • Karnataka
    • West Bengal

  64. The system under which maternal uncle gets prominent place in kinship is known as
    • Couvade
    • Amitate
    • Avunclate
    • Takanonymy

  65. Vaikom Sathyagraha was commenced on
    • 30th March 1924
    • 30th April 1944
    • 19th Feb. 1924
    • 8th March 1925

  66. International Monetary Fund was formed in the year
    • 1935
    • 1945
    • 1955
    • 1965

  67. The process whereby the members of upper castes are coming closer to the members of lower castes is denoted by the concept of
    • Westernisation
    • Sanskritization
    • Desanskritization
    • Debrahmanization

  68. Competition of economy by fewer and fewer corporation in a complex modern society is known as
    • Oligopoly
    • Bureaucratization
    • Professionalization
    • Oligarchy

  69. Who gave the 'Axiate Hypothesis' while discussing the process of urbanisation?
    • Burgess
    • Homer Hyot
    • Galpin
    • Spengler

  70. Mandal Commission was set up by the Janata party government in
    • 1978
    • 1979
    • 1980
    • 1981

  71. Article 47 of Indian Constitution deals with
    • Reservation of appointment
    • Level of nutrition and standard of living
    • Appointment of commission
    • Manner of election of President

  72. Which of the following explains the process of Westernization in India?
    • Ethnocentrism
    • Accommodation
    • Reference group
    • Assimilation

  73. Which among the following is not a 'sangam' work?
    • Akananuru
    • Purananuru
    • Patittupathu
    • Keralolpathi

  74. The famous 'Mamankam' festival was conducted at
    • Ponnani
    • Thirunavaya
    • Pattambi
    • Kozhikode

  75. Which among the following is not an Anti-Caste Movement in Kerala?
    • Channar Lahala
    • Guruvayur Sathyagraha
    • Vaikom Sathyagraha
    • Chengara Agitation

  76. Which among the following is not a Tribal Movement in Kerala?
    • Nilppusamaram
    • Panavally Agitation
    • Muthang Agitation
    • Channar Agitation

  77. SNDP was formed in
    • 1903 May, 15
    • 1908 June, 17
    • 1905 March, 15
    • 1910 April, 10

  78. The first Ministry of Kerala was sworn in
    • 31st July, 1959
    • 5th April 1957
    • 6th April, 1956
    • 14th August, 1958

  79. Mahatma Ayyankali was born in
    • 1864
    • 1884
    • 1863
    • 1872

  80. Kerala Pulaya Maha Sabha was formed by
    • A. K. Gopalan
    • Kellappan
    • Kumara Gurudevan
    • P. K. Chattan Master

  81. National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC), has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of India in
    • Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association and Another V. Union of India (2015)
    • Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association and Another V. Union of India (2016)
    • Supreme Court Advocates on Record Association and Another V. Union of India (1993)
    • Kesavananda Bharathi V. State of Kerala (1973)

  82. Right to Privacy is a constitutional right under Article ______________ of Indian Constitution.
    • Article 15
    • Article 14
    • Article 21
    • Article 19

  83. Which among the following is not a fundamental duty?
    • To upload and protect the sovereignty, unity and integrity of India
    • To safeguard public property and to adjure violence
    • To render legal aid
    • Who is a parent or guardian to provide opportunities for education to his child or as the case may be, ward between the age of six and fourteen years

  84. Right to Education is a
    • Fundamental Right
    • Legal Right
    • Directive Principle
    • None of these

  85. ______________ is not a basic feature of our Constitution.
    • Parliamentary System
    • Supremacy of the Constitution
    • Unity and Integrity of the Nation
    • None of these

  86. Nutritional Support to Pregnant Women and Lactating Mothers is a Statutory Right under
    • Maternity Relief Act, 1967
    • The National Food Security Act, 2013
    • The National Food Safety and Standards Act, 2006
    • None of these

  87. The National Green Tribunal Act was adopted in the year
    • 1999
    • 2000
    • 2010
    • 2012

  88. The new name of central ministry dealing with environmental affairs is
    • Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change
    • Ministry of Environment and Forests
    • Ministry of Climate Change
    • None of these

  89. Sexual harassment to women in work place according to Sexual Harassment of Women at Work Place (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 does not include
    • Physical contact and advances
    • Demand or request for sexual favours
    • Sexually colored remarks
    • None of these

  90. NOTTO stands for
    • National Organ and Tissue Transplant Organization
    • National Organisms and Tissue Transfer Organization
    • New Organs and Tissues Transplant Organization
    • None of these

  91. The first LMS Missionary in Travancore
    • Charles Mead
    • W. T. Ringletaube
    • Henry Baker
    • Benjamin Bailey

  92. Who founded 'Samatwa Samajam'?
    • Vagbhatananda
    • Vaikunta Swamikal
    • Vakkom Maulavi
    • Agamananda Swamikal

  93. The editor of 'Mitavadi' magazine.
    • C. Krishnan
    • C. Kesavan
    • C. V. Kunjiraman
    • R. Sankar

  94. The poem 'Ente Gurunathan' about Mahatma Gandhi was written by __________
    • Kumaran Asan
    • Ulloor
    • Vallathol
    • Vailoppilli

  95. The tali or Mangalya Sutra related issue during Civil Disobedience Movement in Kerala was associated with whom among the following?
    • Mrs. L. S. Prabhu
    • Gracy Aaron
    • A. V. Kuttimalu Amma
    • Arya Pallom

  96. First artificial satellite in the world
    • INSAT-1 B
    • Cartosat
    • Sputnick I
    • Aryabhatta

  97. Chief Election Commissioner of India.
    • Gayrul Hassan
    • Y. V. Reddy
    • A. K. Mittal
    • Achal Kumar Jyothi
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  98. Longest bridge in India
    • Pamban bridge
    • Howrah bridge
    • Vidyasagar setu
    • Bhoopan Hazarika bridge

  99. Who wrote the book "Fragrance of Peace"?
    • Manasi Pradhan
    • Pramila Nesargi
    • Irom Sharmila
    • Amala Akkineni

  100. Who got Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016?
    • Kazuo Ishiguru
    • Rainer Weiss
    • Richard Henderson
    • Bob Dylan

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