Class 12 Sociology - Social Change And Development in India : Chapter 8:Social Movements - Questions and Answers

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Q 1.The author of the book The Logic of Collective Action is _______________.
a) Mancur Olson
b) E. P. Thompson
c) Karl Marx
d) Emile Durkheim
(Chapter 8:Social Movements)

Ans:a) Mancur Olson

Q 2.Name the person who feels "Social movement is an aggregation of rational individual actors pursuing their self-interest".
a) Mancur Olson
b) E. P. Thompson
c) Karl Marx
d) Emile Durkheim
(Chapter 8:Social Movements)

Ans: a) Mancur Olson

Q 3.Resource mobilisation theory was proposed by :
a) Emile Durkheim
b) McCarthy and Zald
c) Mancur Olson
d) E. P. Thompson
(Chapter 8:Social Movements)

Ans: b) McCarthy and Zald

Q 4. The Bolshevik revolution belongs to _________ .
a) India
b) China
c) Russia
d) Japan
(Chapter 8:Social Movements)

Ans: c) Russia

Q 5. A _________ is an act of defiance against legitimate authority.
a) mutiny
b) struggle
c) rebellion
d) None of the above
(Chapter 8:Social Movements)

Ans: a) mutiny

Q 6.The author of the book Reinventing Revolution is ____________
a) Gail Omvedt
b) Emile Durkheim
c) McCarthy
d) None of the above
(Chapter 8:Social Movements)

Ans: a) Gail Omvedt

Q 7.The Chipko movement, an example of the ______________ movement.
a) ecological
b) biological
c) social
d) cultural
(Chapter 8:Social Movements)

Ans: a) ecological

Q 8.The author of the book Unquiet Woods, is __________
a) Ramachandra Guha
b) Emile Durkheim
c) McCarthy
d) None of the above
(Chapter 8:Social Movements)

Ans: a) Ramachandra Guha

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