Deck 3: Thinkers and Movements in Structuralism, Orientalism, and Historiography

Question 1

The most famous thinkers associated with …………. include the linguist Roman Jakobson, the anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic Roland Barthes.

A)post-structuralism
B)structuralism
C)relativism
D)nihilism

Answer 1

structuralism

Question 2

The term..........itself appeared in the works of French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and gave rise, in France, to the "structuralist movement", which spurred the work of such thinkers as Louis Althusser, the psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, as well as the structural Marxism of Nicos Poulantzas.

A)structuralism
B)post-structuralism
C)anti-humanism
D)relativism

Answer 2

structuralism

Question 3

The Elementary Structures of Kinship was the work of ……………..

A)claude lévi-strauss
B)jean-pierre bardet
C)georges freche
D)jean-claude perrot

Answer 3

claude lévi-strauss

Question 4

Who defined structuralism as "a method and not a doctrine"?

A)jacques derrida
B)jean piaget
C)michel foucaul
D)gilles deleuze.

Question 5

…...........'s book is The Order of Things.

A)michel foucault
B)leonard bloomfield
C)louis hjelmslev
D)alf sommerfelt

Question 6

Rodney Needham and Edmund Leach were highly influenced by ………..

A)deconstruction
B)structuralism
C)post-structuralis
D)anti-humanism

Question 7

Maurice Godelier and Emmanuel Terray combined ………….with structural anthropology in France.

A)marxism
B)post-structuralism
C)anti-humanism
D)nihilism

Question 8

…........is a label formulated by American academics to denote the heterogeneous works of a series of French intellectuals who came to international prominence in the 1960s and '70s.

A)post-structuralism
B)relativism
C)nihilism
D)extremism

Question 9

In 1968, …………….. published "The Death of the Author"

A)foucault
B)roland barthes
C)edmund husserl
D)martin heidegger

Question 10

….........is an approach to literary criticism and literary theory based on the premise that a literary work should be considered a product of the time, place, and circumstances of its composition rather than as an isolated creation.

A)structuralism
B)new historicism
C)orientalism
D)marxism

Question 11

..........may refer to a range of perceptions and attitudes evinced by the western scholarship towards the Indian civilisation in the 18th and early 19th centuries and since then to a wider intellectual exercise at global level to study and interpret the East in relation to the West.

A)orientalism
B)new historicism
C)structuralism
D)modernism

Question 12

The father of orientalism was ……………………

A)j.h harington
B)william carey
C)sir william jones
D)h.h wilson

Question 13

The Asiatic society was founded in ……………

A)1784
B)1788
C)1789
D)1794

Question 14

The Asiatic society was founded in 1784 at …………….

A)madras
B)bombay
C)calcutta
D)bihar

Question 15

Who was the founder of the Asiatic society ?

A)hold mackenzie
B)wb bayley
C)william jones
D)wh macnaughten

Question 16

Who wrote the book what is History?

A)e. h. carr
B)r. g. collingwood
C)g. m. trevelyan
D)friedrich meinecke

Question 17

E.H. Carr was born in ……………

A)holland
B)germany
C)london
D)calcutta

Question 18

The book 'The Twenty Years' Crisis' was written by ………………..

A)r. g. collingwood
B)g. m. trevelyan
C)e.h. carr
D)friedrich meinecke

Question 19

Who stated that:"Study the historian before you begin to study the facts"?

A)e.h. carr
B)r. g. collingwood
C)hugh trevor-roper
D)g.r.elton

Question 20

"The facts are really not at all like fish on the fishmonger's slab. They are like fish swimming about in a vast and sometimes inaccessible ocean; and what the historian catches will depend partly on chance, but mainly on what part of the ocean he chooses to fish in and what tackle he chooses to use - these two factors being, of course, determined by the kind of fish he wants to catch. By and large, the historian will get the kind of facts he wants".who said

A)e.h. carr
B)friedrich meinecke
C)r. g. collingwood
D)hugh trevor-roper

Question 21

Who was the author of the book 'The Tudor Revolution in Government?'

A)joan scott
B)michel foucault
C)hayden white
D)g.r.elton

Question 22

Who wrote the book 'The Practice of History'?

A)joan scott
B)hayden white
C)michel foucault
D)g.r.elton

Question 23

Keith Jenkins is a …………….historiographer.

A)africa
B)india
C)america
D)british

Question 24

Who was the author of 'Why History'?

A)keith jenkins
B)michel foucault
C)joan scott
D)earl babbie

Question 25

………….is a methodology in the social sciences for studying the content of communication.

A)structuralism
B)indology
C)sinology
D)textual analysis