Question 31 : Which is the most important factor which seems to be acting to reduce class differences in India?
1. Missionaries of social workers
2. Rise in standard of living of the working class
3. Spread of information through mass- media such as the T.V
4. Government's legal and social welfare efforts on improving the lot of the weaker sections of the society
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Question 32 : A state has a large population, but not sufficient territory. What among the following it cannot do?
1. Destroy all the new-born
2. Raise multi storey buildings
3. Let its people migrate to other countries
4. Popularise check on the growing population
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Question 33 : Among the scheduled castes of India, which is the main cause of social mobility?
1. Education
2. Television
3. Migration
4. Political awakening
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Question 34 : Which of the following simple societies possess distinct political institutions?
1. The Zulu
2. The Ba Nyankole
3. The Ba Mangwato
4. All of these
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Question 35 : The essential attributes of a state are
1. Population
2. Sovereignty
3. Government
4. All of these
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Question 36 : Modernisation implies mobility which may be of any kind except
1. Social mobility
2. Psychic mobility
3. Physical mobility
4. Scientific mobility
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Question 37 : One of the several features of Indian educa­tion promoting divisive tendencies and thwarting national integration is
1. Rivalry among students being encoura­ged by students' unions
2. Indifference to education being encouraged by unemployment
3. Caste loyalties being encouraged by private and public schools
4. Rivalry among teachers being encouraged by teachers' associations
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Question 38 : Which is the most correct statement?
1. Modernisation is the outcome of social change
2. Social change is the outcome of modernisation
3. Social change and modernisation mean the same thing
4. None of these is incorrect
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Question 39 : The realization of the aspirations of the people of India involves
1. Industrialization
2. Economic growth
3. Agricultural innovations
4. Change in the knowledge, skills, interests and values of the people as a whole through education
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Question 40 : Application of principles of sociology to education is known as
1. Educational sociology
2. Sociology of education
3. Social science of education
4. Social foundations of education
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