Deck 5: Anthropological Concepts and Personalities in Indian Society

Question 1

Who authored the work "Remembered village"?School of Distance EducationSociology of Indian Society Page 20

A)g s ghurye
B)m n srinivas
C)mckim marriot
D)irawati karve

Answer 1

m n srinivas

Question 2

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 2

social change in modern india

Question 3

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

A)westernization
B)modernization
C)brahmanization
D)elite emulation

Answer 3

brahmanization

Question 4

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

A)structural
B)structural-functional
C)functional
D)indological

Question 5

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

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

When did Surajith Chandra Sinha born?

A)1923
B)1920
C)1926
D)1852

Question 9

Who is the famous Anthropologist born in Durgapur Upazila

A)g s ghurye
B)l r vidyarthi
C)franz boas
D)surajith chandra sinha

Question 10

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

Question 11

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

A)civilizational
B)functional
C)structural
D)evolutionary

Question 12

__________.is an approach analyzed society in a class angle

A)dialectical approach
B)indological approach
C)structural approach
D)structural-functional approach

Question 13

Who was known as Marxologist?

A)a r desai
B)d p mukherjee
C)i p desai
D)karl marx

Question 14

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

Question 15

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

Question 16

What is the Sanskritic meaning of tradition?

A)continuation
B)parampara
C)jana
D)parambarya

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

What is meant by secondary tradition?School of Distance EducationSociology of Indian Society Page 23

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

Question 20

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

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

A)social
B)economy
C)institution
D)class

Question 23

__________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

Question 24

When did caste system originated as part of race?

A)primitive period
B)aryan period
C)vedic period
D)post-vedic period

Question 25

__________is the arrangement of hereditary group in a rank order

A)class
B)hierarchy
C)pyramid
D)status group