FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1997 – SOCIOLOGY
TIME ALLOWED: 3 HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100
NOTE: Attempt five questions including Question No. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.
- Sociology is social science of human interaction. Please elucidate.
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Ethnocentrism leads to sectarianism. Is it so? How both are number one problems of Pakistan? What are the remedies?
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Who was Ibne-Khuldun? What is his contribution to Sociology with which publication of Pakistan? Is he father of sociology?
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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. -
What is Hypothesis? Formulate five hypothesis indicating variables of each.
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What is the difference of caste and class? How socio-cultural change effects both?
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Are primary groups synonymous to the reference groups? Please argue defining both and then comparing them with examples.
COMPULSORY QUESTION
- 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