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COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1997.
SOCIOLOGY
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100
NOTE: Attempt five questions including Question No. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.

1. Sociology is social science of human interaction. Please elucidate.

2. Ethnocentrism leads to sectarianism. Is it so? How both are number one problems of Pakistan? What are the remedies?

3. Who was Ibne-Khuldun? What is his contribution to Sociology with which publication of Pakistan? Is he father of sociology?

4. Please define and corroborate any of the two sets below:
(a) Value and Norm
(b) Culture and Sub-Culture
(c) Delinquent and Offender
(d) Social environment and Social Ecology.

5. What is Hypothesis? Formulate five hypothesis indicating variables of each.

6. What is the difference of caste and class? How socio-cultural change effects both?

7. Are primary groups synonymous to the reference groups? Please argue defining both and then comparing them with examples.


COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the questions.

(1) Inference means:
(a) Argument
(b) Logic
(c) Theorem
(d) Finding

(2) Anomie is:
(a) A type of delinquency
(b)A serious offence
(c) A value clash behaviour
(d) A self indulgence

(3) Social stratification describes:
(a) Correlation of man to society
(b) Status and roles in groups
(c) Role of individuals in society
(d) Division of work

(4) Cultural lag is a slate in a society when:
(a) Value clash to change
(b) The society stagnates
(c) Advancement is rejected
(d) A culture fails

(5) ?
(a) Census
(b) Motivating voters
(c) Population study
(d) Trends of people

(6) Demography is the social science of:
(a) A person
(b) Type of attitude
(c) Mid of the way
(d) Average

(7) Diffusion is a stage of:
(a) Confusion
(b) Integration
(c) Losing identity
(d) Mental disturbance

(8) Resocialization is:
(a) Social get together
(b) Group assimilation
(c) Adjusting offender to family
(d) Victim offender relation

(9) Variance is:
(a) A finding in research
(b) Variety of things
(c) Negation of facts
(d) Justified difference

(10) “Contemporary Sociological Theories” was written by:
(a) Ogburn and Nimkoff
(b) Cuber
(c) Pitrim Sorokin
(d) Merton
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