UGC NET Sociology 2024 Question Paper & Answers
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UGC NET Sociology 2024 (December 2024 / January 2025 cycle, Paper 2)
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Sample questions from UGC NET Sociology 2024 (December 2024 / January 2025 cycle, Paper 2)
1Creative hermeneutics deals with :
- A) Magic
- B) Interpreation of religious texts
- C) Interpreation of Bible only
- D) Understanding of sacred
Answer: D
2Identify the study field of Friedrich Schleirmacher.
- A) Sociology of Religion
- B) Hermeneutics
- C) Philosophy of Religion
- D) Culture
Answer: B
3As per Emile Durkheim, "Totem" is creation of :
- A) Machinical solidarity
- B) Organic solidarity
- C) Multifaith solidarity
- D) Secular solidarity
Answer: A
4Among the following identify a psychological definition of the religion.
- A) Religion is universal obsessional neurosis of humanity.
- B) Religion is a belief in totem.
- C) Religion is a personal experience.
- D) Religion is a belief in magic.
Answer: A
5Lotus Temple in Delhi is the house of worship for the faith of :
- A) Sikh
- B) Hindu
- C) Bahāi
- D) Pārasī
Answer: C
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UGC NET Sociology 2024 (June 2024 cycle re-exam, Paper 2)
120 Mins 200 Marks
100Questions
200Max Marks
Sample questions from UGC NET Sociology 2024 (June 2024 cycle re-exam, Paper 2)
1K. Manheim states that idea emerge from specific sectors of the social world. Therefore, ideas can be referred as:-
- A) inherently limited, one-sided and distorted.
- B) not limited inherently, multi-sided and distorted.
- C) inherently limited, one-sided and not-distorted.
- D) inherently limited, multi-sided and distorted.
Answer: D
2A social science having as its main focus the study of the social institutions brought into being by the industrial transformations of the past two or three centuries… (it involves) a historical anthropological and critical sensitivity. Who has explained this?
- A) Edward Said
- B) Michel Foucault
- C) Manuel Castells
- D) Anthony Giddens
Answer: D
3In, ‘The Elementary Form of Religious Life’, Emile Durkheim refutes:-
- A) Comteian epistemology as it is based on idealistic and aprioristic assumption.
- B) Hegelian epistemology as it is based on idealistic and aprioristic assumption.
- C) Weberian epistemology as it is based on idealistic and aprioristic assumption.
- D) Kantian epistemology as it is based on idealistic and aprioristic assumption.
Answer: A
4G. H. Mead defines ‘I’ as the:-
- A) incalculable, unpredictable and creative aspect of the self.
- B) calculable, predictable and non-creative aspect of the self.
- C) calculable, unpredictable and creative aspect of the self.
- D) incalculable, predictable and creative aspect of the self.
Answer: B
5Phenomenological approach of Alfred Schutz refers to ‘life world’ as-
- A) ‘taken-for-granted’ and not based on ‘mundane reality’.
- B) ‘taken-for-granted’ and based on ‘mundane reality’.
- C) not ‘taken-for-granted’ but based on ‘mundane reality’.
- D) not ‘taken-for-granted’ and not based on ‘mundane reality’.
Answer: C
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