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