Padma Shri awardees:-

Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous) – Literature and Education (Literature – Urdu)

Sitavva Joddati – Social Work

Manas Bihari Verma – Science & Engineering (Defence)

Abhay Bang (Duo) – Medicine
Rani Bang (Duo) – Medicine

Damodar Ganesh Bapat – Social Work

Prafulla Govinda Baruah – Literature and Education-Journalism

Mohan Swaroop Bhatia – Art-Folk Music

Sudhanshu Biswas – Social Work

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu – Sports-Weightlifting

Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi – Literature and Education-Journalism

Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner) – Trade & Industry

Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi – Art-Weaving

Somdev Devvarman – Sports-Tennis

Yeshi Dhoden – Medicine

Arup Kumar Dutta – Literature and Education

Doddarange Gowda – Art-Lyrics

Arvind Gupta – Literature and Education

Digamber Hansda – Literature and Education

Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner) – Art-Dance

Piyong Temjen Jamir – Literature and Education

Malti Joshi – Literature and Education

Manoj Joshi – Art-Acting

Rameshwarlal Kabra – Trade & Industry

Pran Kishore Kaul – Art

Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner) – Others-Architecture

Vijay Kichlu – Art-Music

Tommy Koh (Foreigner) – Public Affairs

Lakshmikutty – Medicine-Traditional

Joyshree Goswami Mahanta – Literature and Education

Narayan Das Maharaj – Others-Spiritualism

Pravakara Maharana – Art-Sculpture

Hun Many (Foreigner) – Public Affairs

Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner) – Others- Yoga

Zaverilal Mehta – Literature and Education-Journalism

Krishna Bihari Mishra – Literature and Education

Sisir Purushottam Mishra – Art-Cinema

Subhasini Mistry – Social Work

Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner) – Literature and Education

Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner) – Others-Spiritualism

Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar – Literature and Education

Thant Myint – U (Foreigner) – Public Affairs

V Nanammal – Others-Yoga

Sulagitti Narasamma – Social Work

Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan – Art-Folk Music

I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner) – Art-Sculpture

Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner) – Social Work

Gobaradhan Panika – Art-Weaving

Bhabani Charan Pattanaik – Public Affairs

Murlikant Petkar – Sports-Swimming

Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner) – Literature and Education

M R Rajagopal – Medicine-Palliative Care

Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous) – Social Work

Chandra Sekhar Rath – Literature and Education

S S Rathore – Civil Service

Amitava Roy – Science and Engineering

Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner) – Medicine-Ophthalmology

R Sathyanarayana – Art-Music

Pankaj M Shah – Medicine-Oncology

Bhajju Shyam – Art-Painting

Maharao Raghuveer Singh – Literature and Education

Kidambi Srikanth – Sports-Badminton

Ibrahim Sutar – Art-Music

Siddeshwara Swamiji – Others-Spiritualism

Lentina Ao Thakkar – Social Work

Vikram Chandra Thakur – Science and Engineering

Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan (Duo) – Art-Music
Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Thyagarajan (Duo) – Art-Music

Nguyen Tien Thien (Foreigner) – Others-Spiritualism

Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi – Literature and Education

Rajagopalan Vasudevan – Science and Engineering

Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji – Literature and Education

Romulus Whitaker – Others-Wildlife Conservation

Baba Yogendra – Art

A Zakia – Literature and Education

Padma Vibhushan:-

Illaiyaraja – Art-Music

Ghulam Mustafa Khan – Art-Music

P Parameswaran- Literature and Education

Padma Bhushan awardees:-

Pankaj Advani – Sports-Billiards/Snooker

Philipose Mar Chrysostom – Others-Spiritualism

Mahendra Singh Dhoni – Sports-Cricket

Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/Posthumous) – Public affairs

Ramachandran Nagaswamy – Others-Archaeology

Ved Prakash Nanda (OCI) – Literature and Education

Laxman Pai – Art-Painting

Arvind Parikh – Art-Music

Sharda Sinha – Art-Music

Sociology UGC Net Paper 3^rd | Lesson 8 | Most Important Question-Answer

1.    Structuration deals with System-Agency Relationship.

2.    The Major proponent of Structuration is Anthony Giddens.

3.    Who has been attributed with the use of term “Post-Modernism”?

(Charles Jencks)

'उत्तर-आधुनिकता' शब्द का उपयोग किसने किया है? (Charles Jencks)

4.    “The Language of Post-Modern Architecture? (Charles Jencks)

5.    Who has propounded the Mirror Theory of Knowledge? (Robert King Merton)

ज्ञान के दर्पण सिद्धांत को किसने पेश किया है? (Robert King Merton)

6.    Anthony Giddens was a British Sociologist.

7.    Giddens , in his works, is well known for Interdisciplinary Approach. (अंतःविषय दृष्टिकोण)

8.    Giddens Contribution of Structuration analyses the social structures and peoples Freedom to act.

Giddens संरचना के सिद्धांत का योगदान सामाजिक संरचनाओं और लोगों की स्वतंत्रता का विश्लेषण करती है।

9.    Giddens idea of Renaissance holds that both individual and society are defines in relation to one another.

Anthony Giddens का पुनजार्गरण के बारे में विचार है कि व्यक्ति और समाज दोनों एक दूसरे के सम्बन्ध में परिभाषित होते है|

1.  Third way is the Giddens Sociological Philosophy.

11.  Some Important Books:-

A.    The Class Structure of Advance Societies (Anthony Giddens)

B.    The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (Charles Jencks)

C.    Violence and Metaphysics (Jacques Derrida)

12.  Some Important Ideas:-

A.    Deconstruction (विखंडन) (Jacques Derrida)

B.    Third Way (Anthony Giddens)

C.    Mirror Theory of Knowledge (Rorty Richard)

1. The term 'Demographic transition' was coined by

(a) T. Malthus

(b) D. Hobman

(c) Warren S. Thompson

(d) L.H. Morgan

2. Usually the developing countries are characterized by

(a) Low birth rate and low death rate

(b) High birth rate and low death rate

(c) High birth rate and high death rate

(d) Low birth rate and high death rate

3. The ideal stage in which the population would be provided with a level of well being is known as

(a) Incipient decline

(b) Transitional growth

(c) High potential growth

(d) Longitudinal growth

4. Conflicts usually emerge when there is social disequilibrium. Who makes us believe that conflicts take place when there is shortage in the supply of articles or subsistence?

(a) Malthus

(b) Vincent

(c) F.E. Lumby

(d) K. Young

5. Which of the following is best defined as change in the diversity and adoption of population of organisms?

(a) Cultural diffusion

(b) Vertical mobility

(c) Cultural evolution

(d) Biological evolution

6. A periodic enumeration and summation of information about a population is called

(a) Census

(b) Observation

(c) Case study

(d) Interval-sampling

7. Who wrote first "Essay on Population"

(a) John Locke

(b) Malthus?

(c) Rousseau

(d) T. Hobbes

8. Who opined that population grows an exponential rate while the means of subsistence grows at a linear rate?

(a) Malthus

(b) Marx

(c) Cose

(d) Spencer

9. Malthus was regarded as a

(a) Preventive measure

(b) Positive check

(c) Destructive element

(d) National calamity

10. The name of a population pyramid indicating a high proportion of children and rapid growth and which has a broad base is

(a) Structured pyramid

(b) Constructive pyramid

(c) Stationary pyramid

(d) Expansion pyramid

11. Who was of the view that demographic density is a major determinant of social revolution?

(a) Emile Durkheim

(b) Herbert Spencer

(c) G. Simmel

(d) Morgan

12. In which state of India men is outnumbered by women according to 1991 census?

(a) Rajasthan

(b) Meghalaya

(c) Kerala

(d) Goa

13. Among the following causes of mortality which do you attribute to society?

(a) Capital punishment

(b) Medical treatment

(c) Child infanticide

(d) Magical treatment

14. Who among the following has developed the theory of 'step migration'?

(a) Revenstein

(b) R. Redfield

(c) Mumford

(d) H. Spencer

15. Who among the following voiced against Malthus and held that the core reason of overpopulation was not to be found in biological power of reproduction but in prevailing capitalist mode of production?

(a) Karl Marx

(b) Herbert Spencer

(c) F. Engels

(d) M. Weber

16. Which one of the following statements is not correct?

(a) Heterogeneity of population is a characteristic of a city community

(b) Social changes occur more rapidly in the cities than in the towns and villages

(c) The planning of cities is a modern innovation

(d)Most of the major cities of India located on the coast or on navigable rivers.

17. The capacity of women for giving live births is called

(a) Fecundity

(b) Fertility

(c) Mortality

(d) Morbidity

18. The discipline concerned with the statistical analysis and description of population composition and change is called

(a) Demography

(b) Census

(c) Population growth

(d)Population statistics

19. The study of composition of marital status of a group of population is called

(a) Eugenics

(b) Alliance

(c) Gamalogy

(d) Nuptiality

20. As per the 1991 census of India, the state with the highest percentage of urban population is

(a) Maharashtra

(b) Kerala

(c) Karnataka

(d) Gujarat

21. Demography is

(a) An experimental science

(b) A behavioural science

(c) More an experimental science than observational

(d) More an observational science than experimental

22. Malthus, a well known scholar of population studied

(a) Favoured population growth and thought that it leads to social solidarity

(b)Disfavored population growth and thought it to lead to mass poverty and misery

(c) Disfavored population growth but did not think that it will lead to any kind of change in society

(d) Fertility as a way to express herself for women.

23. Demographic Transition Theory is a way of conceptualizing the changes in population which accompanied industrialisation, seeing in these changes a transformation from a system with high birth rate balanced by high death rates to one with low death rates balanced by low

(a) Birth rate

(b) Death rate

(c) Fertility

(d) Feundity

24. Counting people for census purposes as residing in their usual or normal place of residence is called

(a) De facto census method

(b) De jure census method

(c) Demographic equation

(d) Normal census

25. Which among the following record selected population events as they occur?

(a) De factor census method

(b) Vital registration system

(c) De jure census method

(d) Reporting census

Answer Key

1. (c)	2. (b)	3. (a)	4. (a)	5. (d)
6.(a)	7. (b)	8. (a)	9.(b)	10. (c)
11. (a)	12. (c)	13. (c)	14. (a)	15. (a)
16.(c)	17. (a)	18. (a)	19. (d)	20. (a)
21. (b)	22. (b)	23. (a)	24. (b)	25. (d)

1. Demographers do not take into account

(a) Age, sex and racial composition of the population

(b)Height and weight of the population

(c) Birth and death rate

(d)Density of population

2. What is meant by sex-ratio?

(a) The relation between male and female

(b)The ration between the number of adult male and adult females in a population

(c) The ratio between number of female and number of male in a population

(d)The number of females per 1000 males in a population

3. Which of the following statements is correct?

(a) Demographic studies do not forecast future population movement

(b)Demographic studies attempt to forecast future population movement

(c) Demographic studies only take present stock of population's size and its structure

(d)Demographic studies only take past account of a population in terms of age, sex and occupation of a population

4. Demography is derived from a

(a) Latin word

(b) Greek word

(c) Spanish word

(d) Polynesian word

5. According to Demographic Transition Theory 'a rapid increase in population consisting high fertility and falling mortality' represents

(a) Stage -1

(b) Stage - II

(c) Stage - II

(d) Stage -1V"

6. When did birth, as the controlling factor of status start declining?

(a) When religious renaissance started

(b) When socialist states started in world politics

(c) Since industrial revolution

(d) Since cold war

7. Fill in the blank _____________ is the number under 5 years of age divided by the of women 15-44 years of age mull 1000.

(a) Age Pyramid

(b) Sex Pyramid

(c) Fertility ratio

(d) Dependency ratio

8. Who among the following used the 'demography' for the first time?

(a) Achilles Guillard

(b) T. Malthus

(c) Herbert Spencer

(d) Ricardo L

9. 'Population tends to increase in geometrical ratio whereas agricultural produce inert in arithmetical ratio.' This statement is i by

(a) Spencer H.

(b) Malthus

(c) Plato

(d) Karl Marx

10. The concept of 'Positive' and 'Preventive checks were elaborated by

(a) T. Malthus

(b) H. Spencer

(c) C. Darwin

(d) W. Pareto

11. "The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power of the earth produce subsistence for man". It is said

(a) H. Spencer

(b) Adam Smith

(c) T. Malthus

(d) Pareto

12. In which theory does the total population follow an S-shaped curve?

(a) Social capillary theory

(b) Law of logistic curve

(c) Pivots principle

(d) Malthusian theory

13. 'De-facto' census method

(a) Distributes the people on the basis of their usual place of residence

(b) Counts the population where it is residing for month preceding the census

(c) It counts the population according to where it is on the night preceding the census

(d) It counts the population where it is residing since a decade

14. By transitional growth we mean

(a) High birth rate and low death rate

(b) High birth rate and high death rate

(c) Low death rate and low birth rate

(d) Low death rate and high birth rate

15. Which among the following covers the study of population and social structure including social groups and institutions according to Ginsberg?

(a) Social institutions

(b) Social morphology

(c) Social anatomy

(d) Social processes

16. Which among the following is not an important factor for India's rapidly growing population?

(a) Low death rate

(b) Immigration

(c) High birth rate

(d) Emigration

17. Male-female ratio i.e., sex ratio in India since 1901 has been

(a) Decreased

(b) Stagnant

(c) Increased

(d) Demographers now not taking this into account

18. The base of age pyramid in India is broad. This is due to

(a) High birth rate

(b) High death rate

(c) High morbidity

(d) High fecundity

19. Among the following causes of mortality, which do you attribute to society?

(a) Spread of communicable diseases

(b) High rate of capital punishment

(c) Practice of black magic

(d) Child infanticide

20. The word 'Optimum Population' means

(a) Maximum population size

(b) Best population size

(c) Negative growth of population

(d) High rate of fertility

21. Which among the following states has the largest population?

(a) Madhya Pradesh

(b) Uttar Pradesh

(c) West Bengal

(d) Maharashtra

22. The population of India is steadily increasing particularly in the metropolis and cities. The causes of this increase are many, therefore, the population check is most urgently required in the

(a) Metropolis

(b) Cities

(c) Towns

(d) Villages

23. Age specific birth rate is marked by

(a) The number of births annually per thousand persons of total population

(b) The number of births annually per thousand in the 15-49 children bearing ages

(c) The number of children born per thousand women in specific age class, say 30-34 years of age

(d) Children of a particular age group say 5- 9 or 9-14 years.

24. Which among the following is an unconscious method of population control?

(a) Using contraceptives

(b) Limiting the size of family

(c) Social legislations prohibiting marriage before attaining a certain age

(d) Taboos on sexual 'intercourse

25. According to the theory of demographic transaction, in the pre-transitional stage

(a) Both death rates and the birth rates are high

(b) Death rate is low but birth rate is high

(c) Death rate is high but birth is low

(d) Both death rate and birth rates are low

Answer Key

1(b)	2.(d)	3. (b)	4.(b)	5. (a)
6. (a)	7. (c)	8. (a)	9. (b)	10. (a)
11.(c)	12. (b)	13. (c)	14. (d)	15. (b)
16. (b)	17. (a)	18. (a)	19. (d)	20. (b)
21.(b)	22. (d)	23. (c)	24. (d)	25. (a)

1.  

1. Sociology aims as explaining men

(a) Group behaviour

(b) Interpersonal relationship

(c) Both a & b

(d) None the above

2. The Central theme in Sociology is

(a) Biological interaction

(b) Social interaction

(c) Chemical interaction

(d) Physical interaction

3. Sociology analyzes the concept of

(a) Civilization

(b) Juvenile delinquency

(c) Other ills

(d) All of the above

4. Sociology also Studies the possibility of directing changes in the ultimate interest of

(a) Family welfare

(b) Social welfare

(c) Human welfare

(d) All of the above

5. Sociology is the study of the individual only from

(a) Cultural angle

(b) Economic angle

(c) Political angle

(d) None of the above

6. Social life consists of

(a) Music's

(b) Participation in drams

(c) Games

(d) All of the above

7. Sociology analyzes the 'process of interaction' as

(a) Cooperation

(b) Conflict

(c) Competition

(d) All of the above

8. 'Social development is which includes the development of

(a) Co-operativenes

(b) Friendliness

(c) Social attitudes

(d) All of the above

9. The theory that study of sociology is human relationship is given by

(a) Merritt

(b) Eldridge

(c) Both a & b

(d) None of the above

10. Sociology is the study of

(a) Human relationship

(b) Psychological relationship

(c) Cultural relationship

(d) All of the above

11. Sociology studies 'process of interaction' as

(a) Assimilation

(b) Accommodation

(c) Cooperation

(d) All of the above

12. When one learns something and makes use of what he has learned is called

(a) Assimilation

(b) Co-operation

(c) Competition

(d) Conflict

13. The idea that people of high and low status were all equal in the eyes of God first comes with

(a) Huns

(b) Muslims

(c) Portuguese

(d) Englishman

14. Sociology examines

(a) Social Change

(b) Social control

(c) Both a & b

(d) All the above

15. In Ginsberg's view Sociology is

(a) All that happens to society

(b) All that happens to human beings

(c) All that happens to animals

(d) All of the above

16. Incorporating learned behaviour into own personality and makes them his 'style of life' is

(a) Assimilation

(b) Co-operation

(c) Competition

(d) Conflict

17. The idea of equality was welcomed by the

(a) Lower caste in Hindu society

(b) Kshatriya

(c) Brahman

(d) Backwards

18. Sociology should reflect the

(a) Community

(b) Customs

(c) Culture

(d) All of the above

19. Caste system weakened in the 20th century's -

(a) Last fifty decades

(b) First fifty decades

(c) In the middle decades

(d) None of the above

20. When a group of people learn something and change their behaviour and attitudes as a result then we can say that this group has learning

(a) Co-operated

(b) Assimilated

(c) Competited

(d) Conflicted

21. Sociology is the study of society of the web tissue of human interaction and inter-relation said by

(a) Ginsberg

(b) Moore

(c) Merritt

(d) Duncan

22. Social interaction includes

(a) Interaction with culture

(b) Interaction with society

(c) Interaction with family

(d) All of the above

23. Which of the following is not correct?

(a) Apart from the above there can be named other pollutants of social environment such as backwardness, poverty, blind faith, bad social tradition of religion and society which have diseased our society and polluted the environment. The education is required to give light and someone all sorts of darkness from the minds of the students. The aim of education is to help in all round growth of the child and development of his mind, spirit and body. The effect of the polluted social environment is required to be washed away by the educational system.

(b) Polluted social environment deeply affects the development of the child. The students are required to be kept away from the criminal world. An educator has a great role to play in moulding the

(c) In the sphere of natural environment, we see lots of pollution in air, water, and around etc. All sorts of natural environment pollution affects our life in several ways and the government, the society and educators are required to do their lot to control the same.

(d) None of these

24. The school socialized by imparting social interaction which is/are -

(a) Students vs staff

(b) Students vs student of different age

(c) Staff vs staff

(d) All of the above

25. From the sociological viewpoint the functions of education are

(a) Assimilation of tradition

(b) Development of new social patterns

(c) The creative and constructive role

(d) All of the above

Answer Key

1. (c)	2. (b)	3. (a)	4. (c)	5. (d)
6. (d)	7. (d)	8.(d)	9. (c)	10. (a)
11.(d)	12. (a)	13. (b)	14. (c)	15. (b)
16. (a)	17. (a)	18. (d)	19. (b)	20. (b)
21.(a)	22. (d)	23. (d)	24. (d)	25. (d)

1. The caste system showed signs of loosening up under the impact of

(a) Gandhiji

(b) Rajendra Prasad

(c) J.L. Nehru

(d) Raja Ram Mohan Roy

2. Sociology Studies the effect if changes on behaviour and personality development in

(a) Society

(b) Individual

(c) Both a & b

(d) None of the above

3. From the Sociological viewpoint education is regarded as a process in which there are two aspects

(a) The psychological

(b) The sociological

(c) Both a & b

(d) Biological & Sociological

4. Robbins definition for sociology deals with

(a) Whole world

(b) Whole man

(c) Whole society

(d) Whole organism

5. Games and Sports are

(a) Competitive

(b) Co-operative

(c) Assimilative

(d) None of the above

6. In view of all sociological principals, the/ curriculum should include the subject of

(a) Social studies

(b) Physical education

(c) Health

(d) All of the above

7. The group or individual have competition in

(a) Social

(b) Economic

(c) Political

(d) Competition in all areas

8. During periods of prosperity and trade expansion in Indian history there appears to have been considerable -

(a) Social mobility

(b) Caste mobility

(c) Both of the above

(d) None of these

9. Education should bring a change not only in the amount of knowledge gained but in -

(a) To acquire habits

(b) To do

(c) Ability to think

(d) All of the above

10. How many types of social processes involved in education

(a) 2

(b) 3

(c) 4

(d) 5

11. Sociological thinking in education has its impact -

(a) On objective

(b) Ends in education

(c) Both a & b

(d) None the above

12. In many socialist countries

(a) Co-operative housing

(b) There is co-operative farming

(c) Both a & b

(d) Either a or b

13. The phrase "Social aim in education" is the one which has been upheld in the -

(a) North America

(b) United kingdom

(c) Democratic countries

(d) All of the above

14. Education should train the

(a) Individual first

(b) Society first

(c) Nation first

(d) Family first

15. The common uniform dress abolishes all individual identity in the same way as the aims in

(a) Educations do

(b) Politics do

(c) Both a & b

(d) There is no relation between the subjects

16. The basic scheme of education emphasizes the need of a predominantly

(a) Agrarian population

(b) Rural population

(c) Both a & b

(d) All social classes

17. Education for social services or education for citizenship and aims at the good of the community laying stress on teaching

(a) Science

(b) Citizenship

(c) Religious

(d) Moral values

18. Social institution is/are -

(a) The state

(b) The school

(c) The family

(d) All of the above

19. A socially efficient individual conforms to

(a) Right way of conduct

(b) Moral standards of conduct

(c) Basic standards

(d) All of the above

20. The demands of society are given priority against the inclination of the -

(a) Community

(b) Individual

(c) Parents

(d) State

21. Social aims in education is the one which has been upheld in the -

(a) South Africa

(b) United Kingdom

(c) North America Smith Asia

22. Today enlighten thinking is needed, which can be promoted through the-

(a) In our schools

(b) Leaderships of teachers

(c) Both S & b

(d) All of the above

23. Several schools in different states are participating in the

(a) National Literacy Mission

(b) National unity

(c) National cultural change

(d) All of the above

24. If education is the result of social change it means that social change has created a demand for-

(a) Education

(b) Conscience

(c) Industrialization

(d) Economic prosperity

25. Participating in the removal of illiteracy is a

(a) Social change

(b) Conscience change

(c) Cultural change

(d) None of the above

Answer key

1. (a)	2. (b)	3. (b)	4. (b)	5. (a)
6.(d)	7. (d)	8. (c)	9.(d)	10. (c)
11. (c)	12. (c)	13. (d)	14. (a)	15. (a)
16. (c)	17. (b)	18. (d)	19. (b)	20. (b)
21. (b)	22. (c)	23. (a)	24. (b)	25. (a)