Question

The following passage consists of 6 sentences. The first and sixth sentences of the passage are at their correct positions, while the middle four sentences (represented by 2, 3, 4, and 5) are jumbled up. Choose the correct sequence of the sentences so that they form a coherent paragraph: 

1. Most obviously, mobility is taken to be a geographical as well as a social phenomenon. 
2. Much of the social mobility literature regarded society as a uniform surface and failed to register the geographical intersections of region, city and place, with the social categories of class, gender and ethnicity. 
3. The existing sociology of migration is incidentally far too limited in its concerns to be very useful here. 
4. Further, I am concerned with the flows of people within, but especially beyond, the territory of each society, and how these flows may relate to many different desires, for work, housing, leisure, religion, family relationships, criminal gain, asylum seeking and so on. 
5. Moreover, not only people are mobile but so too are many 'objects'. 
6. I show that sociology's recent development of a 'sociology of objects' needs to be taken further and that the diverse flows of objects across societal borders and their intersections with the multiple flows of people are hugely significant. 
 

• A. 3, 2, 5, 4
• B. 2, 3, 4, 5
• C. 5, 4, 3, 2
• D. 4, 2, 5, 3

Hint:

For jumbled paragraph questions, track the logical flow: - Introductory idea $\to$ critique of past work $\to$ elaboration $\to$ expansion $\to$ transition $\to$ conclusion. Checking coherence across transitions ensures the correct sequence.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Step 1: Sentence 1 introduces the theme. "Mobility" is both geographical and social. So the next sentence must expand on how traditional social mobility studies treated society — this is sentence 2.

Step 2: Logical follow-up. After criticizing the older literature in (2), the author notes that even migration sociology is limited. This is sentence 3.

Step 3: Expanding concern. Then comes sentence 4, which broadens the scope to flows of people beyond societies (work, asylum, etc.).

Step 4: Transition to objects. Sentence 5 logically introduces the idea that not only people but also objects are mobile, which prepares the ground for sentence 6.

Step 5: Conclusion. Sentence 6 then emphasizes the "sociology of objects" and their intersection with people's flows, completing the passage. \[ \text{Final sequence: } 1 \; \to \; 2 \; \to \; 3 \; \to \; 4 \; \to \; 5 \; \to \; 6 \] Thus, the correct option is (B) 2, 3, 4, 5.