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Q41

Match the following in the term of Concepts and Authors:

List I (Concepts)	List II (Authors)
a. Social Morphology	1. Levi-Strauss
b. Reciprocity	2. Ferdinand de Saussure
c. Alliance Theory	3. Radcliffe Brown
d. Structural-Linguist	4. Marcel Mauss

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Q42

Which of these terms do Ethnomethodologists use in order to describe the ways social actors explain specific situations?

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Q43

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:

List I (Authors)	List II (Concepts)
a. Max Weber	1. Circulation of elites
b. V. Pareto	2. Symbolic Interactionism
c. G. M. Mead	3. Interpretive understanding
d. Herbert Blumer	4. Self

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Q44

Who classified action in logical and non-logical categories?

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Q45

The state exists and should aim at "the greatest good of all." Who is the author of these words?

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Q46

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:

List I (Thinker)	List II (Conflict)
a. Durkheim	1. As pathological
b. Marx	2. As essential and complementary aspect of harmony
c. Simmel	3. As vehicle of social change
d. Ibne Khaldun	4. Fundamental to the evolution of civilisation

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Q47

Match List-I with List-II and select the correct answer:

List I (Social Anthropologist)	List II (Field Studies)
a. I. A. Schapera	1. Bechauna
b. Mayer Fortes	2. Tallensi
c. S. F. Nadel	3. Nupe of Nigeria
d. Hilda Kuper	4. Swazi
	5. Nuer of sudan

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Q48

Central to Durkheim's functionalism was a distinction between which forms of social organisation?

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Q49

Who defined religion in terms of a distinction between the sacred and the profane?

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Q50

Malinowski is best known for emphasising the importance of which one of the following?

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