NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Political Science MCQs (Practice_Test 28 of 150)
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- Consider the following statements about rationalism:
- Rationalism represents a philosophical doctrine that the world is known by reason.
- Rationalism represents the pursuit of value free science.
- Rationalism represents the solutions in place of religious beliefs.
- Rationalism studies reasons for social actions.
- Which of the statements given above are correct?
- 1 and 3
- 1,3 and 4
- 2 and 4
- 2,3 and 4
- With whom of the following is conservatism as a political ideology associated?
- Burke
- Hobbes
- Hegel
- Oakeshott
- Select the correct answer using the codes given below:
- 1,2 and 3
- 2 and 4
- 1 and 3
- 1,3 and 4
- Robert Merton՚s concept of “political machine” on a large city is associated with
- Comparative with
- Structuralism
- Behaviouralism
- Functionalism
- Consider the following statements: Post-Behaviouralism
- Rejects Behaviouralism.
- Modifies Behaviouralism.
- Permits values in the study
- Calls for active engagement with the world.
- Which of the statements given above are correct?
- 1 and 3
- 3 and 4
- 2 and 3
- 1,2 and 4
- Theorists who believe that “State is an association of associations” are best described as
- Socialist
- Federalists
- Anarchists
- Pluralists
- With which one of the following can the organic conception of the state be associated?
- Machiavelli
- Aristotle
- Thomas Hobbes
- Karl Marx
- The distinction between the private sphere of “family” and the public sphere of “political” is central to which one of the following trends of thought?
- Athenian (Greek) philosophy
- Liberalism
- Marxism
- Gandhism
- The pluralist theory view power as 7 of 13
- Control over resources
- A fixed quality
- Relational
- Repressive
- Consider the following statements: Legitimacy entails
- Generating beliefs that ensure the survival of democracy in capitalist societies
- A process by which power gains acceptance.
- An efficient police system for maintaining law and order
- The absence of coercion.
- Which of the statements given above are correct?
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- 2,3 and 4
- 1,2 and 4
- 1,3
- Participatory democracy seeks to enhance which one of the following?
- Decentralization
- Representation of disadvantaged sections
- Active citizenship
- Political accountability
- Cultural nationalism is a form of nationalism that places primary emphasis on the regeneration of the nation as
- A discrete political community
- A distinctive civilization
- A modern state
- An artificial entity
- In which one of the following systems of government is bicameralism an essential feature?
- Presidential system
- Parliamentary system
- Federal system
- Unitary system
- Which one of the following countries was described by China as a “Social imperialist power”
- USA
- USSR
- India
- Japan
- Consider the following statements: Civil rights
- Belong to the citizen by virtue of his citizenship.
- Are interchangeable with human rights.
- Aim to minimize discrimination
- Which of the statements given above are correct?
- 1,3 and 4
- 1,2, 3 and 4
- 2 and 4
- 1 and 3
- “Rights are those conditions of social life without which no man can seek in general to be himself at his best” -This statements was made by which one of the following thinkers?
- Kant
- Hegel
- Green
- Laski