Top 150+ Solved Basic of Social Anthropology MCQ Questions Answer
Q. The de-notified tribes were earlier known as
a. scheduled tribe
b. primitive tribe
c. criminal tribes
d. primitive society
Q. Which of the following is not a type of case study method?
a. selective case study
b. single case study
c. deviant case study
d. comparative case study
Q. ………………… is the primitive tribe and only found in the Malappuram District?
a. kadars
b. kattunaikans
c. cholanaikkans
d. kurumbas
Q. Who defined "Evolution is the integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to definite, coherentheterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation."
a. charles darwin
b. august comte
c. talcott parson
d. herbert parson
Q. It is a cultural process in which individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, normsand values that enable them to become functioning members of their societies?
a. diffusion
b. enculturation
c. assimilation
d. accommodation
Q. The term “cultural lag” introduced in the work of ……………………..?
a. social change with respect to culture and original nature
b. social changes in 1931
c. the social construction of reality
d. on culture and social change
Q. Which of the following features of a tribe is correct?
a. least functional interdependence within the community
b. inhabiting a specific geographical area or territory
c. known by a distinct name and strong sense of belongingness
d. all of the above
Q. David Hardiman used ………………… term to refer tribal people in Gujarat?
a. girijan
b. jana jati
c. kaliparaja
d. adim jati
Q. The Irular tribe is mainly located in the .............................. district of Kerala.
a. palakkad
b. malappuram
c. pathanamthitta
d. wayanad
Q. Physical anthropology is the study of ……………………..?
a. racial and cultural distribution of man
b. the study of works of man
c. application of the findings of cultural and ethnology
d. human evolution and growth
Q. Who is the father of Indian ethnography?
a. g s ghurye
b. l p vidyarthi
c. nirmal kumar bose
d. rai bahadur chandra ray
Q. 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
Q. When a growing child learns to conform to his own cultural traditions, the process may becalled ……………………?
a. assimilation
b. transculturation
c. enculturation
d. evolution
Q. The sociologist, who is more concerned with the survival of society than that of theindividual 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
Q. The word ‘Teleology’ means ………………….?
a. study of cosmology
b. everything is determined by purpose
c. rational analysis of phenomena
d. study of relationship