Deck 5: Anthropology and Sociological Concepts

Question 1

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 1

rai bahadur chandra ray

Question 2

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 2

acculturation

Question 3

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 3

transculturation

Question 4

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

Question 5

The word 'Teleology' means ………………….?

A)study of cosmology
B)everything is determined by purpose
C)rational analysis of phenomena
D)study of relationship

Question 6

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

Question 7

"Argonauts of the western pacific" written by?

A)auguste comte
B)talcott parson
C)malinowski
D)emile durkheim

Question 8

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

Question 9

"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

Question 10

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

A)socio-structural approach
B)bio-cultural approach
C)symbolic approach
D)socio- cultural approach

Question 11

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

A)chenchus
B)bharwads
C)todas
D)gujjars

Question 12

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

Question 13

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

Question 14

The term 'Thick Description' proposed by …………………….?

A)a l kroeber
B)clifford geertz
C)l h morgan
D)robert redfield

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

A)social segregation
B)social unity
C)social structure
D)social system

Question 17

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

A)edmund husserl
B)claude levistrauss
C)louis dumont
D)louis althusser