Top 150+ Solved Basic of Social Anthropology MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which of the following functionalist proposed that “Culture is a means to satisfy humanneeds”?
a. malinowski
b. robert k merton
c. emile durkheim
d. talcott parson
Q. The Khasis and the Jaintias tribes of Meghalaya speak in language belonging to the…………….. language family?
a. dravaidian
b. tibeto-chinese
c. indo-aryan
d. austro-asiatic
Q. Anthropology is a specialized branch in ……………………..?
a. socio-cultural
b. physical
c. archeological
d. linguistic anthropology
Q. To ……………….., culture is an instrument which enables man to secure his bio-psychicsurvival and a higher mental intellectual survival?
a. bronislaw malinowski
b. talcott parson
c. edward burnett tylor
d. lewis henry morgan
Q. According to D N Majumdar and T N Madan, which of the following classification related totribal zone demarcated in India?
a. north-north eastern zone, middle zone, south zone, west zone
b. himalayan region, middle india, western india, south india, the islands
c. north-eastern india, middle india, southern india, north-western himalayas, andaman and nicobar islands zone
d. north-north eastern, the central or the middle, southern zone
Q. The term “Jhum” is used to represent …………………..?
a. terrace cultivation
b. hill cultivation
c. hoe and burn cultivation
d. shifting cultivation
Q. Which of the following is not an acculturation study?
a. jan breman’s study of tribals of south gujarat
b. sl doshis study of bhils
c. beteilles study of sripuram village
d. srinivas study of rampura village
Q. “Structure and function in primitive society” written by ……………………..?
a. malinowski
b. c h cooley
c. radcliffe brown
d. s f nadel
Q. Which of the anthropologists termed anthropology as “Child of Darwin”?
a. r h lowie
b. john evans
c. james george frazer
d. r r marret
Q. According to K. S. Singh the term Tribe defined for the first time in the Census of
a. 1872
b. 1901
c. 1991
d. 1891
Q. "it is both a conscious and an unconscious conditioning process where a man, as child andadult, achieves competence in his culture, internalizes his culture and becomes thoroughly enculturated." Can be defined as ………………….?
a. assimilation
b. acculturation
c. enculturation
d. contravention
Q. “The change in individuals whose primary learning has been in one culture and who takeover traits from another culture” defined as ………………….?
a. acculturation
b. assimilation
c. enculturation
d. diffusion
Q. Culture regarded as an integrated whole, which includes ………………
a. beliefs and customs
b. language and norm
c. morals and art
d. all of the above
Q. The concept “Parochialization” propounded by ……………………?
a. mckim marriot
b. c h cooley
c. georg simmel
d. kingsley davis