110+ Basic of Social Anthropology Solved MCQs

101.

Who is the father of Indian ethnography?

A. g s ghurye
B. l p vidyarthi
C. nirmal kumar bose
D. rai bahadur chandra ray
Answer» D. rai bahadur chandra ray
102.

Whole way of life is in process of change under the influence of another culture, it is called ……………….?

A. acculturation
B. assimilation .
C. cooperation
D. diffussionism
Answer» A. acculturation
103.

When a growing child learns to conform to his own cultural traditions, the process may be called ……………………?

A. assimilation
B. transculturation
C. enculturation
D. evolution
Answer» B. transculturation
104.

The sociologist, who is more concerned with the survival of society than that of the individual only as well as point out that integration with in a culture being the only way to secure the survival of society?

A. ralph dahrendorf
B. habermas
C. radcliffe brown
D. m e opler
Answer» C. radcliffe brown
105.

The word ‘Teleology’ means ………………….?

A. study of cosmology
B. everything is determined by purpose
C. rational analysis of phenomena
D. study of relationship
Answer» B. everything is determined by purpose
106.

Which if the sociologist proposed that “Society as a functionally interrelated system in which general laws or functions operate”?

A. emile durkeheim
B. radcliffe brown
C. karl marx
D. habermas
Answer» B. radcliffe brown
107.

“Argonauts of the western pacific” written by?

A. auguste comte
B. talcott parson
C. malinowski
D. emile durkheim
Answer» C. malinowski
108.

It is a method, …..…………. Involves going put and staying out, learning a new language and actively participating the activities as well as experiencing the lives of the people you are studying?

A. genealogy
B. focused interview
C. case study
D. participant observation
Answer» D. participant observation
109.

“The clans consider themselves as having descended from a plant or animal or any other animate or inanimate object”, the term refers to ……………………?

A. descend
B. animism
C. totemism
D. naturism
Answer» C. totemism
110.

Malinowski’s functionalism is also known as ……………………?

A. socio-structural approach
B. bio-cultural approach
C. symbolic approach
D. socio- cultural approach
Answer» B. bio-cultural approach
111.

Which of the following tribal group mainly involved in food gathering and hunting for their livelihood?

A. chenchus
B. bharwads
C. todas
D. gujjars
Answer» A. chenchus
112.

According to Majumdar and TN Madan, Anthropology may be conveniently divided into …………………?

A. sociocultural, physical, anthropological, linguistic
B. paleo anthropology, primatology, prehistoric archeology, ethno archeology
C. classical archeology, linguistic archeology, archeological anthropology, applied anthropology
D. physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnology, applied anthropology
Answer» D. physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnology, applied anthropology
113.

The tribes of south India, such as Irulas, Kadars and Paniyas, belonging to which racial composition of tribes in India?

A. proto-austaloid
B. mangloid
C. dravidian
D. negrito
Answer» C. dravidian
114.

The term ‘Thick Description’ proposed by …………………….?

A. a l kroeber
B. clifford geertz
C. l h morgan
D. robert redfield
Answer» B. clifford geertz
115.

When the culture of a society evolves some new inventions, a customs or a trait and it is passed on to another culture, it is called …………………?

A. diffusion
B. assimilation
C. accommodation
D. acculturation
Answer» A. diffusion
116.

The arrangements of the interrelations of the part is the ………………….?

A. social segregation
B. social unity
C. social structure
D. social system
Answer» C. social structure
117.

Who is considered as the father of Structuralism in cultural anthropology?

A. edmund husserl
B. claude levistrauss
C. louis dumont
D. louis althusser
Answer» B. claude levistrauss
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