Karl Marx & Engels
1. Who among the following critics appropriates the following statement by Karl Marx?
“They cannot represent themselves: the must be represented”.
[1] Ruth Vanita
[2] Kamla Bhasin
[3] Flaria Agnes v
[4] Chandra Talpade Mohanty
Answer: 4
Antonio Gramsci
1. According to the Italian Marxist theorist Antonio Gramsci:
(A) Hegemony is synonymous with domination
(B) Hegemony involves a degree of consent on the part of subject people.
(C) Hegemony involves a degree of coercion on the part of a dominant political entity.
(D) Hegemony is synonymous with subjugation
Answer: (B)
2. From whom does Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak borrow the term ‘subaltern’?
A. Friedrich Engels
B. Karl Marx
C. Louis Althusser
D. Antonio Gramsci
Answer: D
3. Who among the following is associated with a ‘philosophy of praxis’?
A- .Antonio Gramsci
B- Georg Lukacs
C- Raymond Williams
D- Stuart Hall
Answer: A
Pierre Bourdieu
1. which two concepts developed by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, have become increasingly influential in cultural studies?
1. Dissemination
2. Gynesis
3. Cultural capital
4. Habitus
Choose the correct option:
1. (a) and (c)
2. (b) and (c)
3. (c) and (d)
4. (b) and (d)
Answer: 3
2. Which two terms from among the following are specially linked to the work of Pierre Bourdieu?
A. habitus
B. consciousness
C. desire
D. distinction
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
1. A and C only
2. A and D only
3. B and D only
4. C and D only
Answer: 2
3. Who, among the following, played the most significant role in mobilizing the concept of ‘cultural intermediaries’?
A. Karl Marx
B. Luis Althusser
C. Pierre Bourdieu
D. Jurgen Habermas
Answer: C
Paul Ricoeur
1. The hermeneutics of suspicion is a term coined by Paul Ricoeur .
a. to designate the postcolonial tendency to see theory and related reading manoeuvres as a global conspiracy.
b. to describe interpretive bids that challenge and seek to overcome compartmentalized cultural experiences.
c. who, following Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, held that textual appearances are deceptive and texts do not gracefully relinquish their meanings.
d. to describe a mode of interpretation that adopts a distrustful attitude towards texts in order to elicit otherwise inaccessible meanings or implications.
The right combination according to the code is :
(1) (a) and (b)
(2) (a) and (d)
(3) (c) and (d)
(4) (b) and (c)
Answer: 3