Match List I with List II:

List I (Books) List II (Authors)

(A) Political Parties (I) C. Wright Mills

(B) Ruling Class (II) Robert Michels

(C) The Power Elite (III) Gaetano Mosca

(D) The Mind and Society (IV) Vilfredo Pareto

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UGC NET Paper 2: Political Science 11 Oct 2022 Shift 1

Answer 1

The correct answer is 4.

Key Points

List I (Books)		List II (Authors)
(A)	Political Parties	(II)	Robert Michels In his 1911 book Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy, Italian sociologist Robert Michels introduced the idea of the iron law of oligarchy for the first time. It is regarded as a classic in the social sciences, especially political science and sociology.
(B)	Ruling Class	(III)	G.Mosca Gaetano Mosca proposed in The Ruling Class, published in 1939, that there must be two classes of people: The Rulers and the Ruled. The majority of the wealth, power, and prestige in society are in the control of the ruling class, while the ruled lack the skills to do so. Whatever kind of governance may be chosen, this few will always be the ones who control everything in society.
(C)	The Power Elite	(I)	C.Wright Mills In his 1956 book The Power Elite, sociologist C. Wright Mills highlights the interconnected agendas of the heads of the military, corporate, and political spheres of society and contends that the average person in contemporary society is a relatively helpless target of manipulation by those three institutions.
(D)	The Mind and Society	(IV)	Vilfredo Pareto Vilfredo Pareto, an Italian economist and sociologist, published The Mind and Society in 1916 under the title "Treatise on General Sociology" (1848–1923). Pareto introduces the first sociological cycle theory in this work, which is based on the idea of an affluent social class.

Hence, the correct option is (A) - (II), (B) - (III), (C) - (I), (D) - (IV).