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1. Who said that the four Varna division is not a vertical, but a horizontal one with all castes placed on equal footing?




2. Who is of the opinion that, nothing can emancipate the outcastes except the destruction of the caste system?




3. Who wrote the Book ?Homo Hirearchicus??




4. Who differentiated two approaches to the study if Indian society as the Book View and the Field View?




5. A.R. Desai Social change refers to change in




6. Cultural traits are acquired through




7. Satya Shodhak Samaj was founded by




8. Who among the following sociologists has considered purity and pollution as the primary characteristic of the caste system?




9. Which one of the following is NOT a feature of modernization process?




10. Modernity as concept in Sociology is understood as




11. With whom among the following are the concepts universalization and parochrialisation associated?




12. Who among the following originally used the term ?Relative Deprivation??




13. Which of the following tribes initiated the Jharkhand Movement?




14. Which is the peasant movement of India mobilized by Gandhi?




15. Which one of the following impacts of globalization on relative deprivation is true




16. The theories which assume that all societies follow the same path, evolving from simple to complex through uniform sequences are known as:




17. A large numbers of people, who, through deliberate and sustained efforts, organize themselves to promote the interest of a particular section or a common cause of society represent




18. An increase in the earth?s temperature due to the greenhouse effect is known as:




19. A world system in which we use our physical environment and natural resources to meet the just needs of humanity and leave an enriched environment to the next generation is called




20. Which one of the following is NOT one of the stages of a social movement identified by Sociologists?




21. The birth and growth of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s can be an example of




22. Who facilitated the Appko Movement in Uttara Kannada district of Karnataka?




23. Distinct from government and business, civil society can be understood as:




24. An aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest and act for furthering the interests and will of citizens is known as:




25. Civil society organizations work for




26. The agency that is expected to play the three roles of a watchdog, scorekeeper and gatekeeper in contemporary society is




27. There are two types of newspapers, Broadsheets and




28. Arrange the following media in descending order as source of news in India




29. The form of media which probes deeply into a topic of interest, such as serious crimes, political corruption or corporate wrongdoing is known as




30. Suppression, regulation and prohibition of visual and audio matter in media that people consider as offensive and obscene is termed as