Top 150+ Solved Basic of Social Anthropology MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Which if the sociologist proposed that “Society as a functionally interrelated system inwhich general laws or functions operate”?
a. emile durkeheim
b. radcliffe brown
c. karl marx
d. habermas
Q. “Argonauts of the western pacific” written by?
a. auguste comte
b. talcott parson
c. malinowski
d. emile durkheim
Q. It is a method, …..…………. Involves going put and staying out, learning a new languageand 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
Q. “The clans consider themselves as having descended from a plant or animal or any otheranimate or inanimate object”, the term refers to ……………………?
a. descend
b. animism
c. totemism
d. naturism
Q. Malinowski’s functionalism is also known as ……………………?
a. socio-structural approach
b. bio-cultural approach
c. symbolic approach
d. socio- cultural approach
Q. Which of the following tribal group mainly involved in food gathering and hunting for theirlivelihood?
a. chenchus
b. bharwads
c. todas
d. gujjars
Q. 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
Q. The tribes of south India, such as Irulas, Kadars and Paniyas, belonging to which racialcomposition of tribes in India?
a. proto-austaloid
b. mangloid
c. dravidian
d. negrito
Q. The term ‘Thick Description’ proposed by …………………….?
a. a l kroeber
b. clifford geertz
c. l h morgan
d. robert redfield
Q. When the culture of a society evolves some new inventions, a customs or a trait and it ispassed on to another culture, it is called …………………?
a. diffusion
b. assimilation
c. accommodation
d. acculturation
Q. The arrangements of the interrelations of the part is the ………………….?
a. social segregation
b. social unity
c. social structure
d. social system
Q. Who is considered as the father of Structuralism in cultural anthropology?
a. edmund husserl
b. claude levistrauss
c. louis dumont
d. louis althusser