UGC NET September 2013: Question Papers with Answer Keys: Sociology Paper III

University Grants Commission organized the National Eligibility Test (NET) on 08 September 2013 at various centers across the country. UGC had to organise the NET June 2013 again on 08th September 2013 at Delhi and Ranchi Centers due to mis-management and aggression of students.

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1. Who argued that ''By studying traditions of Indian society change can be understood''?
(A) A.K. Saran
(B) M.N. Srinivas
(C) S.C. Dube
(D) D.P. Mukherjee

2. Choose the correct sequence of societal evolution in order of increasing complexity.
(A) Agriculture, Gathering-hunting and Industrial Societies
(B) Humting-gathering, Agriculture and Industrial Societies
(C) Humting-gathering, Industrial Societies and Agriculture
(D) Pastoral, Industrial and Agriculture

3. Match the following statements in List-I with concepts given in List-II
         List-I                            List-II
    (Statements)                  (Concepts)
a. Tendency of each      i. Wester-nisation
    group to take for
    superiority of its
    own culture
b. Which yields             ii. Dominant castes
    economical or
    and occupies a
    higher position
    in society
c.  People of lower        iii. Sanskritisation
    castes collectively
    try to adopt upper
    caste beliefs to
    acquire higher
    status
d. Explain the changes  iv. Ethnocentrism
    brought about the
    Indian societies
    through western
    contact
Codes:
      a  b  c   d
(A)  i  iii  iv  ii
(B) iii  i   ii   iv
(C) iv  ii  iii   i
(D) ii  iv   i   iii