140+ Sociology of Indian Society Solved MCQs

101.

Who authored the work “Remembered village”?

A. g s ghurye
B. m n srinivas
C. mckim marriot
D. irawati karve
Answer» B. m n srinivas
102.

Which book of M N Srinivas mentioned the concepts of sanskritisation and westernization?

A. social change in modern india
B. social system in mysore village
C. social structure in ancient india
D. indian village
Answer» A. social change in modern india
103.

Which is the predecessor of the concept sanskritisation as founded by M N Srinivas?

A. westernization
B. modernization
C. brahmanization
D. elite emulation
Answer» C. brahmanization
104.

Which is the approach applied by S C Dube in his study of villages?

A. structural
B. structural-functional
C. functional
D. indological
Answer» B. structural-functional
105.

Which is the prominent approach analyzed the concept on the basis of civilization?

A. dialectical approach
B. structural-functional approach
C. indological approach
D. cultural approach
Answer» D. cultural approach
106.

Who is the prominent historical Anthropologist combined the field and archival data in a very early period of Indian Anthropology?

A. n k bose
B. surajith chandra sinha
C. irawati karve
D. m n srinivas
Answer» B. surajith chandra sinha
107.

Who wrote the famous book Primitive Tribes-The First Step?

A. surajith sinha
B. e b tylor
C. s c dube
D. d n majumdar
Answer» A. surajith sinha
108.

When did Surajith Chandra Sinha born?

A. 1923
B. 1920
C. 1926
D. 1852
Answer» C. 1926
109.

Who is the famous Anthropologist born in Durgapur Upazila

A. g s ghurye
B. l r vidyarthi
C. franz boas
D. surajith chandra sinha
Answer» D. surajith chandra sinha
110.

Who is the famous theorist studied about the Indian Tribe in Central India known as Bhumij

A. n k bose
B. surajith sinha
C. s c dube
D. g s ghurye
Answer» B. surajith sinha
111.

…………….is the model followed by civilizational approach

A. civilizational
B. functional
C. structural
D. evolutionary
Answer» C. structural
112.

………..is an approach analyzed society in a class angle

A. dialectical approach
B. indological approach
C. structural approach
D. structural-functional approach
Answer» A. dialectical approach
113.

Who was known as Marxologist?

A. a r desai
B. d p mukherjee
C. i p desai
D. karl marx
Answer» B. d p mukherjee
114.

Who is the author of the work Modern Indian Culture: A Sociological Study

A. d p mukherjee
B. r k mukherjee
C. m n srinivas
D. a r desai
Answer» A. d p mukherjee
115.

Who presented modernization as a process can never be achieved by a mere imitation?

A. m n srinivas
B. yogendra singh
C. max weber
D. d p mukherjee
Answer» D. d p mukherjee
116.

What is the Sanskritic meaning of tradition?

A. continuation
B. parampara
C. jana
D. parambarya
Answer» B. parampara
117.

How D P Mukherjee classifies tradition?

A. high, middle and low
B. little and great tradition
C. primary, secondary and tertiary
D. indian and western
Answer» C. primary, secondary and tertiary
118.

Mukherjee intended by primary tradition?

A. ancient culture in india
B. medieval culture in west
C. modern culture in india
D. primitive and authentic to indian culture
Answer» D. primitive and authentic to indian culture
119.

What is meant by secondary tradition?

A. the culture emerged with muslim contact
B. the culture emerged with british contact
C. the culture evolved with western contact
D. the culture emerged in india
Answer» A. the culture emerged with muslim contact
120.

What are the three principles influence the traditions?

A. smriti, dharma and artha
B. jana, varna and jati
C. sruti, smriti and anubhava
D. parambarya, believe and contact
Answer» C. sruti, smriti and anubhava
121.

Who is an Indian sociologist who strongly criticizes the tight compartmentalization of social sciences?

A. durjati prasad mukherjee
B. andre betteille
C. m n srinivas
D. robert k merton
Answer» A. durjati prasad mukherjee
122.

…………….is the major base used by A R Desai to analyze Indian social structure

A. social
B. economy
C. institution
D. class
Answer» B. economy
123.

………………work of Ghurye tried to make a reconstruction of a very orthodox traditional and age old characteristics of caste in India.

A. indian sadhus
B. the scheduled tribes of india
C. caste, class and occupation
D. caste and race in india
Answer» D. caste and race in india
124.

When did caste system originated as part of race?

A. primitive period
B. aryan period
C. vedic period
D. post-vedic period
Answer» C. vedic period
125.

……….is the arrangement of hereditary group in a rank order

A. class
B. hierarchy
C. pyramid
D. status group
Answer» B. hierarchy
126.

In opinion of M N Srinivas …………is the microcosm of Indian society and civilization

A. village
B. caste
C. urban
D. rural
Answer» A. village
127.

……………. is the process of treating all the religion in India as equal and neutral.

A. democracy
B. secularization
C. equalization
D. ho*mo equals
Answer» B. secularization
128.

Who opined that villages are semi-autonomous

A. s c dube
B. andre beteille
C. m n srinivas
D. g s ghurye
Answer» A. s c dube
129.

Who studied Shamirpet village in Madhya Pradesh

A. a m shah
B. m n srinivas
C. s c dube
D. mckim marriot
Answer» C. s c dube
130.

M N Srinivas opined that all changes in society are reflected through the transformation in …………

A. institution
B. caste structure
C. social structure
D. village structure
Answer» B. caste structure
131.

What is the base of social change in the opinion of M N Srinivas?

A. cultural mobility
B. caste mobility
C. structural mobility
D. social mobility
Answer» D. social mobility
132.

Who is the prominent Anthropologist studied the Juang tribe in Chottanagpur

A. g s ghurye
B. irawati karve
C. n k bose
D. surajith chandra sinha
Answer» C. n k bose
133.

Evolutionary growth of tribal societies occurring through the intensity of the relationship between ………………

A. tribal communities and non-tribal societies
B. tribal communities and wider societies
C. western societies and tribal communities
D. tribal communities and other tribal societies
Answer» B. tribal communities and wider societies
134.

Who advocated that India would be truly independent only when the poorest of its people become free of human suffering?

A. jawhar lal nehru
B. rabindranth tagore
C. mahatma gandhi
D. jayaprakash narayanan
Answer» A. jawhar lal nehru
135.

Which one of the following program was launched in the year of 2000?

A. national rural livelihood mission
B. the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act
C. pradhan mantri awaas yojna- gramin
D. pradhan mantri gramodaya yojana
Answer» A. national rural livelihood mission
136.

Which among the following is the method to estimate the poverty line in India?

A. tax method
B. income method
C. census method
D. sampling method
Answer» C. census method
137.

Women and children under the age of five are food insecure population due to?

A. unemployment
B. unequal distribution
C. malnutrition
D. poverty
Answer» B. unequal distribution
138.

Which one of the social group is volunerable to poverty?

A. other backward caste
B. scheduled caste
C. marginalized
D. minority
Answer» A. other backward caste
139.

Where is the contradiction of tradition and modernity ends up in opinion of Mukherjee?

A. conflict & synthesis
B. conflict & contradiction
C. conflict & contravention
D. assimilation & accommodation
Answer» B. conflict & contradiction
140.

Who coined the term subaltern?

A. georg simmel
B. antonio gramsci
C. ambedkar
D. david hardiman
Answer» C. ambedkar
141.

Which is the work of Gramsci firstly mentioned the term subaltern?

A. media and cultural studies
B. the antonio gramsci
C. prison notebooks
D. the southern question
Answer» A. media and cultural studies
142.

When did the term subaltern get popularized?

A. with the development of colonial studies
B. with the british administration
C. post- independence period
D. modern period
Answer» D. modern period
143.

Where is the birthplace of David Hardiman?

A. nadiad
B. chandannagar
C. ganeshgudi
D. rawalpindi
Answer» B. chandannagar
144.

Which is the work of Hardiman applied the subaltern perspective?

A. histories for the subordinate
B. the coming of devi
C. peasant resistance in india
D. subaltern studies
Answer» A. histories for the subordinate
145.

How Ambedkar called Dalits?

A. antya
B. scheduled caste
C. untouchables
D. aadhya
Answer» C. untouchables
146.

Why Ambedkar called Dalits as Antya?

A. they are arranged in lower part of hierarchy
B. they coming from last
C. they live at the end of village
D. they live in outskirts of village
Answer» A. they are arranged in lower part of hierarchy
147.

……………refers to the inability of an individual to secure basic needs even in social surroundings of general prosperity

A. relative poverty
B. case poverty
C. absolute poverty
D. poverty
Answer» B. case poverty
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