Social Science and Pedagogy MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

The verified authorship is: Hindu Social Organisation by P. H. Prabhu, Marriage and Family in India by K. M. Kapadia, History of Human Marriage by Westermarck, and Kinship Organisation in India by Irawati Karve. This gives the sequence 1-d, 2-c, 3-b, 4-a. Therefore option A is correct.

India's major economic reform process began in 1991, when liberalisation and structural reforms were introduced after the balance-of-payments crisis. The other years given in the options do not mark the start of that reform phase. Hence B is correct.

The cited sociology reference attributes the view on Moksha to K. M. Kapadia, explaining Moksha as the end of life and the realization of inner spirituality in man. This directly matches the statement in the question. Therefore option A is correct.

When two commodities are complementary, a change in the price of one affects the demand for the other in the opposite direction, so their cross elasticity of demand is negative. The question describes goods whose purchased quantities rise or fall together, which is the usual complement relation. Therefore option A is correct.

Classical organisation theory mainly studies the internal structure, hierarchy, division of work and rules of the organisation. It generally treats the organisation as a self-contained or closed system, unlike later open-system approaches that stress environment. Hence option C is correct.