Deck 9: Philosophical and Political, Justice, and Democracy

Question 1

The idea of 'reverse discrimination' implies:

A)Discriminiation in a decreasing order
B)Equating rich and poor as in the electoral arena
C)Bestowing favoured treatment to the hithere deprived sections
D)Establishing institutional checks against arbitrary distinctions

Answer 1

Bestowing favoured treatment to the hithere deprived sections

Question 2

Who among the following holds the view that right are those conditions of social life without which man cannot be his best self?

A)Green
B)Laski
C)Barker
D)None of the above

Answer 2

Laski

Question 3

Who among the following opines that a right is a power clamined and recognized as contributory to common good?

A)Green
B)Laski
C)Barker
D)None of the above

Answer 3

Green

Question 4

In their essence rights are:

A)Legal injunctions
B)Moral impreatives
C)Conditions of law
D)Aspects of social life

Question 5

Who among the following held the view that right is man's capacity of influencing the acts of another by means of the opinion and force of society?

A)Bluntschli
B)Bodin
C)Holland
D)Locke

Question 6

The work Law and Rights is authored by:

A)W.E Hocking
B)L.T Hobhouse
C)Harold Laski
D)None of the above

Question 7

Rights are broadly divided into three categories: natural rights, moral rights and legal rights

A)Civil rights
B)Political rights
C)Economic rights
D)All of the above

Question 8

Which of the following is the use to which the term 'liberty' can be put?

A)Freedom from constraint, captivity or tyranny
B)The unrestrained enjoyment of natural rights
C)Power of free choice
D)All the above

Question 9

Inequality in society was supported by:

A)Pericls
B)Plato
C)Aristotle
D)Both (b) and (c)

Question 10

In the nineteenth century, a vigorous demand for socio -econimic equality was raised by:

A)Working class
B)Peasantry
C)Propertied class
D)None of the above

Question 11

The work liberty, Equality, Fraternity is authored by:

A)J.F. Stephen
B)J.F. Kennedy
C)J.F. Ribero
D)None of the above

Question 12

Legal equality implies:

A)Equal subjection of all citizens to the law
B)Equal protection of the law for all citizens
C)Equal distribution of material goods to all
D)Both (a) and (b)

Question 13

Justice is a dynamic idea because

A)Its realization is a continuous process
B)Progress towards its realization depends upon the development of social consciousness
C)Both (a) and (b)
D)The term justice suggests the quality of being just or right or reasonable

Question 14

The earliest concept of justice in Greek thought is found to be in the writings of

A)Pericles
B)Socrates
C)Sophists
D)Early pythagoreans

Question 15

The concept of positive law is

A)Roman in origin
B)Greek in origin
C)Liberals
D)None of the above

Question 16

Who has termed social consciousness is modern consciousness in the context of the determination of the meaning of justice?

A)Barker
B)D.D.Raphael
C)Laski
D)Sabine

Question 17

Legal justice is broadly applied in the context of :

A)Justice according to law
B)Law according to justice
C)Both (a) and (b)
D)Law and justice according to morality

Question 18

Who among the following viewed that justice consisted in an efficient administration of law and it should not be tested on some imaginary moral values?

A)Antony Giddens
B)Alf Ross
C)Almond
D)None of the above

Question 19

Democratic or political participation is the hall mark of democracy and

A)Political modernization
B)Political development
C)Both (a) and (b)
D)Political communication

Question 20

In the long run broadened participation is a variable of :

A)Political communication
B)Social and economic modernization
C)Cultural revolution
D)Social justice

Question 21

The book India's Development Experience is authored by:

A)Manmohan Singh
B)Atul Kohli
C)I.J.Ahluwalia
D)Tarlock Singh

Question 22

The system which enables the majority of a constituency in Switzerland to call back their representative from his office if they are not satisfied with his office and if they are not satisfied with his work is:

A)Proportional representation
B)Recall
C)Spoil system
D)Plebiscite

Question 23

The work ideology and Utopia is authored by:

A)Karl Mannheim
B)S.M. Lipset
C)Saint Simon
D)A.F. Bentley

Question 24

Who among the following insists on the 'mono-national state' as a condition of successful democracy?

A)Thomas Hobbes
B)Hannah Arendt
C)J.S Mill
D)Laski

Question 25

The "iron law of oligarchy" was propounded by:

A)James Burnham
B)Robert Michels
C)Gaetano Mosca
D)Graham Wallas