The Chief Architect of the Indian Constitution is:

(1) Mahatma Gandhi
(2) Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
(3) Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru
(4) Sarojini Naidu

Who is the author of the book ‘Language, Religion and Politics in North India’?

(1) Paul Brass
(2) Bipan Chandra
(3) David Miller
(4) Rajeev Bhargava

Name the family structure where the newly married couple stays with the woman’s parents.

(1) Patriarchal
(2) Matriarchal
(3) Matrilocal
(4) Patrilocal

Who defined western nationalism as exclusive nationalism?

(1) Rabindranath Tagore
(2) Nehru
(3) Gandhi
(4) Marx

In sociology minority also implies:

(1) Numerical distinction
(2) Relative advantage
(3) Collectivity having group solidarity
(4) Dominance

What do Nakarattars of Tamil Nadu represent?

(1) Marginalised group
(2) Landlords
(3) Caste‑based banking system
(4) Dominant caste

The social movement led by Birsa Munda is known as:

(1) Tebhaga Movement
(2) Santhal Hool
(3) Ulgulan
(4) Swadhaya Parivar Movement

Scholars have agreed that all major social institutions and specially the institution of caste underwent major changes during a particular period. Identify this period.

(1) Ancient
(2) Medieval
(3) Post‑Independence
(4) Colonial

Women emerging as the main source of agricultural labour is leading to:

(1) Womanisation of agricultural labour
(2) Secularisation of agricultural labour
(3) Feminisation of agricultural labour
(4) Westernisation of agricultural labour

The report of 2004 on Culture and Democracy was carried out by:

(1) UNDP
(2) UNICEF
(3) UNESCO
(4) WHO

Read the statements given below and choose the option with the correct sequence.

(A) AITUC was formed in Bombay
(B) INTUC formed
(C) Textile Labour Association (TLA) formed
(D) 4th Factories Act passed

Options:

(1) (A), (B), (C), (D)
(2) (C), (A), (D), (B)
(3) (B), (C), (D), (A)
(4) (D), (C), (B), (A)

Match the author in List–I with the book in List–II.

Here is the correct match the following in a table format:

Choose the correct answer from the options given below

1) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
(2) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
(3) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
(4) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)

Identify the common features central to the public perception of ‘disability’

(A) It is understood as a biological given.
(B) The disabled person is seen as a winner.
(C) The very idea of disability suggests that they are in need of help.
(D) Disability is supposed to be linked with the social surrounding of the disabled.

Options:

(1) (A), (B), (C) only
(2) (B), (C), (D) only
(3) (A), (C), (D) only
(4) (A), (B), (D) only

Who said, a state is a “body that successfully claims a monopoly of legitimate force in a particular territory”?

(1) Karl Marx
(2) B. R. Ambedkar
(3) M. Weber
(4) Talcott Parson

Within India’s agrarian structure, “matrix event” is a term associated with:

(1) Farmers suicides
(2) Contract farming
(3) Globalisation of agriculture
(4) Farmer debt

Identify the global event that heralded the arrival of private satellite channels in India.

(1) Miss World pageants
(2) The Gulf War of 1991
(3) The end of the Cold War
(4) The breaking up of U.S.S.R.

“Dalit Women Talk Differently” is a book by:

(1) Tiplut Nongbri
(2) Sharmila Rege
(3) Ilina Sen
(4) Iravati Karve

Identify the body that determines the composition of the upper house of Parliament.

(1) Rajya Sabha
(2) Vidhan Sabha
(3) Lok Sabha
(4) Jan Sabha

Match definition in List – I with concept in List – II.

Options:

(1) (A)-(II), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
(2) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
(3) (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(III)
(4) (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)

The workforce involved in design and development, marketing, projects are known as :

(1) Global economy
(2) Electronic economy
(3) Liberalization
(4) Thin Air Economy / Knowledge Economy

Emile Durkheim is famous for his study on :

(1) Children
(2) Women
(3) Suicides
(4) Birth

Reddys of Andhra Pradesh is an example of :

(1) Tribe
(2) Dominant Caste
(3) Upper Caste
(4) Race

“Scientific Management” system of increasing industrial output has been given by :

(1) Frederick Winslow Taylor
(2) Henry Ford
(3) Karl Marx
(4) Amitai Etzioni

Match the social reformer in List – I with their contribution in List – II

Options:

(1) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
(2) (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
(3) (A)-(III), (B)-(II), (C)-(I), (D)-(IV)
(4) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)

What does ‘Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao’ policy aims to improve ?

(1) Maternal Mortality Rate
(2) Infant Mortality Rate
(3) Child Sex Ratio
(4) Birth Rate

Revolutionary Social Movements attempt to :
(1) Radically transform social relations
(2) Not to capture state power
(3) Bring change through incremental steps
(4) Not to change the existing structure

Farmers from which states have initiated to enter into contract with multinational companies like Pepsi Co.:

(A) Punjab
(B) Kerala
(C) Uttar Pradesh
(D) Karnataka
(E) Delhi

Options:

(1) (A) and (B) only
(2) (E) and (D) only
(3) (B) and (C) only
(4) (A) and (D) only

In private companies workers are taking early retirement as the work is exhausting and repetitive. From Marx’s perspective what does this situation reflect ?

(1) Scientific Management
(2) Labour Power
(3) Alienation
(4) Commodification

Identify the important turning point that led to the conversion of the forest policy in Assam.

(1) The advent of the railway in Bengal
(2) The advent of British law in Bengal administration.
(3) The advent of Forest laws in Britain
(4) The First World War

In Khasi society it is true that:

(1) The line of descent and inheritance and the structure of authority and control overlap.
(2) The line of residence and the line of inheritance do not match.
(3) The line of descent and inheritance is separated from the structure of authority and control.
(4) The line of residence, descent and power reside in the same side.

In the Khasi system of inheritance identify the source reason of the conflict:

(1) Women are the power holders, while men control the property.
(2) Women have all the power and the non‑tribal wider society is patriarchal, so Khasi men feel inadequate.
(3) Inheritance passes from mother to daughter whereas control passes from uncle to nephew.
(4) Women and men share property jointly from both mother and father.

Name the system of inheritance followed in Khasi society.

(1) Patriarchal system
(2) Matriarchal system
(3) Patrilineal system
(4) Matrilineal system

In the above case study urban planners and dreamers would fall into the category of:

(1) Municipal corporations
(2) Nyaya Panchayats
(3) Khaap Panchayats
(4) Block Development offices

In the above case study, the issue of displacing the poor and lack of safe rehabilitation space for them would be taken up by which of the following organisations?

(1) Municipal corporations
(2) Pressure groups
(3) Nyaya Panchayats
(4) Party in power

Identify the groups that are organised to pursue specific interests in the political area, operating primarily by lobbying with the members of legislative bodies.

(1) Pressure groups
(2) Interest groups
(3) Political parties
(4) N.G.O.s

Identify the organisation that is formed towards achieving legitimate control of Government through the electoral process.

(1) Interest groups
(2) N.G.O.s.
(3) Pressure groups
(4) Political parties

Identify the full form of FICCI:

(1) Federation of International Companies and Corporate Investors
(2) Federation of Indian Chambers and Commerce
(3) Federation of Indian Companies and Corporations
(4) Federation of Indian Chambers and Companies

The intermediate castes become the dominant caste in the countryside as a result of:

(A) Land reforms that took away rights from absentee landlords
(B) By acquiring considerable economic power
(C) By the process of desanskritisation
(D) By gaining political power due to their large numbers
(E) By marrying into higher castes

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A), (B), (C) only
(2) (A), (B), (E) only
(3) (A), (B), (D) only
(4) (A), (E), (D) only

Which of the following is important goal of National Health Policy 2017?

(1) Increase life expectancy at birth from 60 to 70 by 2025.
(2) Increase life expectancy at birth from 65 to 70 by 2025.
(3) Increase life expectancy at birth from 67.5 to 70 by 2025.
(4) Increase life expectancy at birth from 70.5 to 80 by 2025.

Choose the correct statements.

(A) Urban areas may provide partial protection to socially oppressed groups from daily humiliation.
(B) In urban areas people humiliate each other on daily basis.
(C) Urban areas allow socially dominant rural groups to engage in low status work.
(D) Rural‑to‑urban migration has accelerated.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A), (B), (C) only
(2) (A), (C), (D) only
(3) (A), (B), (D) only
(4) (B), (C), (D) only

Arrange the following states in increasing order of Child Sex Ratio (0‑6 years) as per Census 2011:

(A) Bihar
(B) Haryana
(C) Kerala
(D) Himachal Pradesh

Options:

(1) (A), (B), (C), (D)
(2) (B), (D), (A), (C)
(3) (D), (B), (A), (C)
(4) (C), (A), (B), (D)

Disinvestment is:

(1) Privatisation of public sector
(2) Nationalisation of private sector
(3) Increase of government share in private sector
(4) Buying of private sector by government

Read the statements given below and choose the option with the correct ordering of statements.

(A) IT sector was formed
(B) The Government took over Defense and Transport
(C) Jute, Coal and Cotton were part of modern industries
(D) People moved to the organised sector

Options:

(1) (C), (B), (D), (A)
(2) (A), (B), (C), (D)
(3) (D), (C), (B), (A)
(4) (B), (A), (C), (D)

If we know the occupation and income of a child’s parents, we can clearly identify about child’s :

(1) Class group
(2) Religious group
(3) Caste group
(4) Racial group

Match the social reformer in List – I with their contribution in List – II

Options:

(1) (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
(2) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
(3) (A)-(I), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(IV)
(4) (A)-(IV), (B)-(I), (C)-(III), (D)-(II)

Out of the following who is most likely to get indulged in Bidi making :

(A) Children only
(B) Adult males and women
(C) Old aged people and men
(D) Women only

Options:

(1) (A) and (D) only
(2) (D) and (C) only
(3) (B) and (C) only
(4) (B) and (A) only

Identify the form of family that consists of two generations living under the same roof.

(1) Joint family

(2) Fictive family

(3) Nuclear family

(4) Extended family

Read the statements given below and choose the option with the correct sequence.

(A) The Zamindars controlled the land
(B) Green Revolution was introduced
(C) Zamindari system was abolished
(D) Shift in payment in kind to payment in cash

Options:

(1) (A), (B), (C), (D)
(2) (D), (C), (A), (B)
(3) (B), (A), (C), (D)
(4) (A), (D), (C), (B)

Read the statements given below and choose the option with the correct order.

(A) Industrialisation
(B) Secularisation
(C) Westernisation
(D) Sanskritisation

Options:

(1) (A), (D), (B), (C)
(2) (D), (A), (C), (B)
(3) (C), (B), (A), (D)
(4) (B), (C), (D), (A)

Match the groups in List – I with the identity in List – II.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A)-(I), (B)-(III), (C)-(II), (D)-(IV)
(2) (A)-(IV), (B)-(II), (C)-(III), (D)-(I)
(3) (A)-(IV), (B)-(III), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)
(4) (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(I), (D)-(II)