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1. |
Proximity to nature is a characteristic feature of– |
A. | Agrarian society |
B. | Urban society |
C. | Industrial society |
D. | Post-industrial society |
Answer» A. Agrarian society |
2. |
The total organisation of social life within a limited area may be termed as– |
A. | A community |
B. | An association |
C. | An institution |
D. | A society |
Answer» A. A community |
3. |
Which of the following will not be considered as Primary group? |
A. | Family |
B. | Peer Group |
C. | Neighbourhood |
D. | Crowd |
Answer» B. Peer Group |
4. |
As per Hindu Dharrnsastra marriage between a Brahmin woman and a man from 'Vaishya Varna' is called– |
A. | Pratiloma |
B. | Anuloma |
C. | Exogamy |
D. | Love marriage |
Answer» A. Pratiloma |
5. |
___________ borrowed the administrative model of the persian empire. |
A. | British |
B. | Mughal, |
C. | Mauryan |
D. | Gupta |
Answer» C. Mauryan |
6. |
Kushans brought the famous_______ art. |
A. | Kathakali |
B. | Mohiniyatam, |
C. | Kathak |
D. | Gandharan |
Answer» D. Gandharan |
7. |
Social mobility is the most important feature of . |
A. | Urban society |
B. | Rural society |
C. | Tribal society |
D. | Industrial Society |
Answer» A. Urban society |
8. |
The natural boundaries provide India is. |
A. | Cultural unity |
B. | Political unity |
C. | Religious unity |
D. | Geographical unity |
Answer» D. Geographical unity |
9. |
Government which year human rights act as commissioners in census? |
A. | 1911 |
B. | 1950 |
C. | 1942 |
D. | 1921 |
Answer» A. 1911 |
10. |
Who defined the ‘religion is an attitude towards superhuman powers’ |
A. | Mac Iver |
B. | Page |
C. | Ogburn |
D. | Ginsberg |
Answer» C. Ogburn |
11. |
Islam religion comes to India in century. |
A. | 12 |
B. | 13 |
C. | 10 |
D. | 14 |
Answer» A. 12 |
12. |
Who was the founder of Sikhism? |
A. | Guru Nanak, |
B. | Guru Govind |
C. | Mahveer |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» A. Guru Nanak, |
13. |
Who was the census commissioner in 1911? |
A. | Herbert Risely |
B. | Jawaharlal Nehru |
C. | M.N. Srinivas |
D. | G S Gurye |
Answer» A. Herbert Risely |
14. |
The concept of mother India also indicates _______ . |
A. | The realization of geographical unity |
B. | Natural boundaries |
C. | Land of Bharat |
D. | Indian diaspora |
Answer» A. The realization of geographical unity |
15. |
What are the factors of language growth |
A. | level of literacy |
B. | cultural growth |
C. | both |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. both |
16. |
Racial groups are divided into three by __________ |
A. | anthropologists |
B. | Sociologists |
C. | Scientist |
D. | Administrators |
Answer» A. anthropologists |
17. |
The villages are the symbol of cultural homogeneity and the cities symbolize. |
A. | Homogeneity |
B. | Isolation |
C. | Cultural heterogeneity |
D. | Alienation |
Answer» C. Cultural heterogeneity |
18. |
Who says that diversity of physical and social type, language, customand religion which strike the observance in India? |
A. | M.N. Srinivas |
B. | Herbert Risely |
C. | Harvard Wood |
D. | A R Desai |
Answer» B. Herbert Risely |
19. |
Mangoloids are concentrated in _________ |
A. | India |
B. | America |
C. | U.K |
D. | Europe |
Answer» A. India |
20. |
Language of Negritos |
A. | Andamanis and Ongan |
B. | Andamanis and Burma |
C. | Ongan |
D. | Devanagiri |
Answer» A. Andamanis and Ongan |
21. |
Negritos are concentrated in _________ |
A. | Andaman island |
B. | India |
C. | Sreelanka |
D. | North East India |
Answer» A. Andaman island |
22. |
Specialty of mangoloids are __________ |
A. | fair |
B. | black |
C. | both |
D. | None of the above |
Answer» A. fair |
23. |
___________ is the major concern of man. |
A. | Family |
B. | Religion |
C. | Society |
D. | Community |
Answer» B. Religion |
24. |
According to the 1931 census there were ______ religious groups in India. |
A. | 10 |
B. | 20 |
C. | 22 |
D. | 14 |
Answer» A. 10 |
25. |
__________ is the oldest religion of the world. |
A. | Christianity |
B. | Hinduism |
C. | Jainism |
D. | Islam |
Answer» B. Hinduism |
26. |
--------- is the basic unit of Indian rural social structure. |
A. | Marriage |
B. | Caste system |
C. | Family |
D. | Community |
Answer» C. Family |
27. |
The main duty of the family |
A. | schooling |
B. | socialization |
C. | internalization |
D. | Agriculture |
Answer» B. socialization |
28. |
The caste system based on ---------- |
A. | Religion |
B. | Endogamy |
C. | Marriage |
D. | Region |
Answer» A. Religion |
29. |
Economic system of the village is based on ------ |
A. | Functional specialization |
B. | Political system |
C. | Training |
D. | Homogeneous |
Answer» A. Functional specialization |
30. |
Buddhism was founded by _______ |
A. | Mahaveer |
B. | Gautama Buddha |
C. | Allah |
D. | Prophets |
Answer» B. Gautama Buddha |
31. |
Jainism was founded by _________ |
A. | Mahaveer |
B. | Allah |
C. | Christ |
D. | Goutama Budda |
Answer» A. Mahaveer |
32. |
___________ is the major feature of rural society. |
A. | Social heterogeneity |
B. | Dynamic life |
C. | Homogeneity |
D. | Social mobility |
Answer» C. Homogeneity |
33. |
Self sufficiency is a major feature of ___________ |
A. | Rural society |
B. | urban society |
C. | tribal society |
Answer» A. Rural society |
34. |
India is a land of ----------- |
A. | villages |
B. | Cities |
C. | Township |
D. | Rururbs |
Answer» A. villages |
35. |
A village has less than __________ individuals |
A. | 10000 |
B. | 15000 |
C. | 5000 |
D. | 25000 |
Answer» C. 5000 |
36. |
____ is the main occupation of the Indians |
A. | Business |
B. | Agriculture |
C. | Priesthood |
D. | Cottage industries |
Answer» B. Agriculture |
37. |
_____ is a land of diversities |
A. | Village |
B. | Kerala |
C. | Nepal |
D. | India |
Answer» D. India |
38. |
The important feature of the Indian social structure? |
A. | Mono religious |
B. | Multi-religious |
C. | Rigid mentality |
D. | Social mobility |
Answer» B. Multi-religious |
39. |
The villages economic activities are determined by the ------------- |
A. | Economic conditions |
B. | Social conditions |
C. | Cultural conditions |
D. | Political conditions |
Answer» B. Social conditions |
40. |
What is the basic unit of Society? |
A. | Marriage |
B. | Family |
C. | Kinship |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Family |
41. |
What is the first and most immediate social environment to which a child is exposed? |
A. | Family |
B. | Nuclear family |
C. | Society |
D. | both (a) and (b) |
Answer» A. Family |
42. |
Family is a ..................... group |
A. | Social |
B. | Institution |
C. | Universal |
D. | both (a) & (c) |
Answer» A. Social |
43. |
In the Industrial Society the family is limited to husband, wife and their children is called |
A. | Extended family |
B. | family |
C. | Nuclear family |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Nuclear family |
44. |
The word family is derived from.......................... |
A. | Greek |
B. | Spanish |
C. | Latin |
D. | Portuguese |
Answer» C. Latin |
45. |
The term bharat varsha stands for. |
A. | Fundamental unity, |
B. | Unity and diversity |
C. | Geographical unity |
D. | Cultural unity |
Answer» A. Fundamental unity, |
46. |
_____________ says about “The unity of India” |
A. | M.N. Srinivas |
B. | Merton |
C. | Gupta |
D. | Ashoka |
Answer» A. M.N. Srinivas |
47. |
_____ was the root of both pali and prakit? |
A. | Hindi |
B. | Sanskrit, |
C. | Malayalam |
D. | Konkini |
Answer» B. Sanskrit, |
48. |
The constitution of India in its height recognizes _____official languages. |
A. | 42 |
B. | 22 |
C. | 2, |
D. | 5 |
Answer» B. 22 |
49. |
Name the official languages of India? |
A. | Assamese |
B. | Bengali |
C. | Devnagiri |
D. | Hindi |
Answer» D. Hindi |
50. |
Who defined the family is a biological Social unit composed of husband wife and children? |
A. | Mac Iver |
B. | Burgess |
C. | Eliot |
D. | M.F. Nimkoff |
Answer» A. Mac Iver |
51. |
What is the main basis of the structure of family? |
A. | Husband |
B. | Mother |
C. | Both (a) and (b) |
D. | Marriage |
Answer» C. Both (a) and (b) |
52. |
What is the second basis of the structure of the family? |
A. | Husband and Mother |
B. | Marriage |
C. | Procreation |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Procreation |
53. |
......................... is one of the main aim of family life? |
A. | Procreation |
B. | Marriage |
C. | Production of child |
D. | Sexual satisfaction |
Answer» D. Sexual satisfaction |
54. |
Family is an agent of ................. |
A. | Marriage |
B. | Society |
C. | Socialisation |
D. | Social Institution |
Answer» C. Socialisation |
55. |
What is the meaning of ‘Famulus’? |
A. | Family |
B. | Servant |
C. | Group |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Servant |
56. |
................... is a basic definite and enduring group. |
A. | Marriage |
B. | Society |
C. | Family |
D. | Both (b) and (c) |
Answer» C. Family |
57. |
................... is formed by the relatively durable companionship of husband and wife. |
A. | Family |
B. | Marriage |
C. | Social Institution |
D. | Kinship |
Answer» A. Family |
58. |
Family provides ......................... status? |
A. | Achieved |
B. | Ascribed |
C. | Both (a) and (b) |
D. | Ethnic |
Answer» B. Ascribed |
59. |
It is a type of family in which husband, wife and their unmarried children is called ............. |
A. | Joint family |
B. | Nuclear Family |
C. | Extended family |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Nuclear Family |
60. |
............... family the bride resides with the husband’s family |
A. | patrilocal |
B. | Matrilocal |
C. | patriarchal |
D. | Matriarchal |
Answer» A. patrilocal |
61. |
In the .............. family the ancestors are men |
A. | Matrilineal |
B. | Partilocal |
C. | Partiarchal |
D. | Patrilineal |
Answer» D. Patrilineal |
62. |
On the basis of power and authority families can be divided in to ................ |
A. | Patriarchal |
B. | Matriarchal |
C. | Both (a) and (b) |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Both (a) and (b) |
63. |
What are the two main rules of marriage? |
A. | Monogamy |
B. | endogamy |
C. | exogamy |
D. | both (b) and (c) |
Answer» D. both (b) and (c) |
64. |
Endogamy is a rule of marriage in which the life partners are to be selected within the … |
A. | group |
B. | country |
C. | society |
D. | None of these |
Answer» A. group |
65. |
..................... is a rule of marriage in which a man has many outside his own group |
A. | monogamy |
B. | endogamy |
C. | exogamy |
D. | Hypergamy |
Answer» C. exogamy |
66. |
Who says that, Marriage is a contract for the production and maintenance of children? |
A. | Alfred MC Clung Lee |
B. | Edward Westmark |
C. | Robert H. Lowie |
D. | Malinowski |
Answer» D. Malinowski |
67. |
..................... is the form of marriage in which man marries one woman. |
A. | Polygyny |
B. | Exogamy |
C. | Polyandry |
D. | Monogamy |
Answer» D. Monogamy |
68. |
...................... is a marriage between two equals |
A. | exogamy |
B. | Village gothra |
C. | Pinda exogamy |
D. | Isogamy |
Answer» D. Isogamy |
69. |
What are the two forms of an isogamy marriage? |
A. | Hypergamy |
B. | Hypogamy |
C. | Anuloma |
D. | both (a) & (b) |
Answer» D. both (a) & (b) |
70. |
........... is a marriage of a woman with a man of higher varna or Superior Caste. |
A. | Hyper gamy |
B. | Hypogamy |
C. | Anuloma |
D. | Prathiloma |
Answer» A. Hyper gamy |
71. |
................ is a marriage of higher caste man with lower caste women. |
A. | Hypogamy |
B. | Hypergamy |
C. | Anuloma |
D. | Prathiloma |
Answer» A. Hypogamy |
72. |
............. is a marriage of woman to a man from a lower caste |
A. | Hypogamy |
B. | Prathiloma |
C. | Anuloma |
D. | Hypergamy |
Answer» B. Prathiloma |
73. |
.................... is a form of marriage in which one man marries more than women at a time. |
A. | Polygyny |
B. | Polyandry |
C. | Monogamy |
D. | Group Marriage |
Answer» A. Polygyny |
74. |
The Latin work Soror stands for ........................ |
A. | Brother |
B. | Sister |
C. | Father |
D. | None of these |
Answer» B. Sister |
75. |
..................... is a form of marriage of one woman with more than one man |
A. | Polyandry |
B. | Polyandry |
C. | Monogamy |
D. | Polygyny |
Answer» B. Polyandry |
76. |
Several brothers share the same wife which practice is often called ............. |
A. | Sororal polygyny |
B. | Non-Sororal |
C. | Fraternal polyandry |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Fraternal polyandry |
77. |
................ is a form of marriage of a man to a woman at a time |
A. | Polyamy |
B. | exogamy |
C. | Monogamy |
D. | Polyandry |
Answer» C. Monogamy |
78. |
................ is a form of marriage a woman or a man have more than one spouse |
A. | Polyanchy |
B. | Monogamy |
C. | Polygyny |
D. | Polygamy |
Answer» D. Polygamy |
79. |
What are the two forms of Polygamy marriage? |
A. | Polygny |
B. | Monogamy |
C. | Polyandry |
D. | both (a) and (c) |
Answer» D. both (a) and (c) |
80. |
................. is the most common and acceptable form of marriage |
A. | Monogamy |
B. | Exogamy |
C. | Polygamy |
D. | Polyandry |
Answer» A. Monogamy |
81. |
Choose the main aims of marriage |
A. | Dharma |
B. | Rathi |
C. | Praja |
D. | All these |
Answer» D. All these |
82. |
..................... is an instrument of culture Transmission and an agent of socialisation |
A. | Society |
B. | Social control |
C. | Family |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. Family |
83. |
Father is the head of the family and the familial power and authority rests in the father this type of family is known as .............................. |
A. | Patriarchal |
B. | Matrilineal |
C. | Patrilocal |
D. | Matrilocal |
Answer» A. Patriarchal |
84. |
A marriage of two or more woman with two or more men, is known as ......... |
A. | Sororal Polygyny |
B. | Monogamy |
C. | Serial monogamy |
D. | Group marriage |
Answer» D. Group marriage |
85. |
The bond of blood is called ......................... kinship |
A. | affinal kinship |
B. | Primary |
C. | consanguineous Kinship |
D. | None of these |
Answer» C. consanguineous Kinship |
86. |
The bond of blood or marriage which binds people together in group is called .................. |
A. | Kinship |
B. | Affinial kinship |
C. | Consanguineous kinship |
D. | None of these |
Answer» A. Kinship |
87. |
The .............. refers to a set of Principles by which an individual trace the descent. |
A. | Matrilineal descent |
B. | Patrilineal descent |
C. | Bilateral descent |
D. | rule of descent |
Answer» D. rule of descent |
88. |
.................... Desent traced through the father’s or men line |
A. | Matrilineal desent |
B. | Patrilineal descent |
C. | Bilateral descent |
D. | Rule of descent |
Answer» B. Patrilineal descent |
89. |
Some relatives are very close and near that is called .............. |
A. | Affinal |
B. | Primary kins |
C. | Secondary kins |
D. | Consanguineous |
Answer» B. Primary kins |
90. |
Primary kins of a primary kin is called ............... |
A. | Affinal kin |
B. | Primary kin |
C. | Tertiary kin |
D. | Secondary kin |
Answer» D. Secondary kin |
91. |
Who told that Kinship is simply the relations between ‘kin’ that is persons related by real pulative or fictative Consanguinity? |
A. | Aberchrombie |
B. | Robin fox |
C. | A.R. Radcliffe |
D. | Nimkoff |
Answer» B. Robin fox |
92. |
The bond of marriage is called ................ kinship |
A. | affinal kinship |
B. | Consanguineous kinship |
C. | both (a) and (b) |
D. | None of these |
Answer» A. affinal kinship |
93. |
Primary kin of our secondary kin is called ..................... |
A. | Tertiary kin |
B. | Primary kin |
C. | Secondary kin |
D. | None of these |
Answer» A. Tertiary kin |
94. |
The term caste is derived from.................... |
A. | Latin |
B. | Spanish |
C. | Portuguese |
D. | Greek |
Answer» C. Portuguese |
95. |
The word caste means? |
A. | Race |
B. | Varna |
C. | Class |
D. | None of these |
Answer» A. Race |
96. |
The Jathi are locally defined .................. |
A. | Varna |
B. | Colour |
C. | Kula |
D. | Group |
Answer» D. Group |
97. |
......... present the most elevated condition of purity |
A. | Kshathriya |
B. | Brahmin |
C. | Shudra |
D. | Vyshya |
Answer» B. Brahmin |
98. |
Who first use the term sanskritization? |
A. | M.N. Sreenivas |
B. | C.H. Coole |
C. | T.N. Majundar |
D. | T.N. Madan |
Answer» A. M.N. Sreenivas |
99. |
Who introduced the term modernization? |
A. | Lundbekg |
B. | Gait |
C. | Page |
D. | Daniel Lerner |
Answer» D. Daniel Lerner |
100. |
........... is a process whereby people of lower castes collectively try to adopt upper caste practices and beliefs and acquire higher status |
A. | Modernisation |
B. | Sanskritization |
C. | Industrialization |
D. | Westernisation |
Answer» B. Sanskritization |
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