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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (BA Sociology) .
| 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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