Question 1

Whole way of life is in process of change under the influence of another culture, it is called ……………….?

Accepted Answer

A)  acculturation
B)  assimilation .
C)  cooperation
D)  diffussionism A

Question 2

"The clans consider themselves as having descended from a plant or animal or any other animate or inanimate object", the term refers to ……………………?

Accepted Answer

A)  descend
B)  animism
C)  totemism
D)  naturism C

Question 3

Malinowski's functionalism is also known as ……………………?

Accepted Answer

A)  socio-structural approach
B)  bio-cultural approach
C)  symbolic approach
D)  socio- cultural approach B

Question 4

According to Majumdar and TN Madan, Anthropology may be conveniently divided into …………………?

Accepted Answer

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

Question 5

The tribes of south India, such as Irulas, Kadars and Paniyas, belonging to which racial composition of tribes in India?

Accepted Answer

A)  proto-austaloid
B)  mangloid
C)  dravidian
D)  negrito

Question 6

It is a method, …..…………. Involves going put and staying out, learning a new language and actively participating the activities as well as experiencing the lives of the people you are studying?

Accepted Answer

A)  genealogy
B)  focused interview
C)  case study
D)  participant observation

Question 7

Who is the father of Indian ethnography?

Accepted Answer

A)  g s ghurye
B)  l p vidyarthi
C)  nirmal kumar bose
D)  rai bahadur chandra ray

Question 8

When the culture of a society evolves some new inventions, a customs or a trait and it is passed on to another culture, it is called …………………?

Accepted Answer

A)  diffusion
B)  assimilation
C)  accommodation
D)  acculturation

Question 9

Which of the following tribal group mainly involved in food gathering and hunting for their livelihood?

Accepted Answer

A)  chenchus
B)  bharwads
C)  todas
D)  gujjars

Question 10

When a growing child learns to conform to his own cultural traditions, the process may be called ……………………?

Accepted Answer

A)  assimilation
B)  transculturation
C)  enculturation
D)  evolution

Question 11

Which if the sociologist proposed that "Society as a functionally interrelated system in which general laws or functions operate"?

Accepted Answer

A)  emile durkeheim
B)  radcliffe brown
C)  karl marx
D)  habermas

Question 12

The word 'Teleology' means ………………….?

Accepted Answer

A)  study of cosmology
B)  everything is determined by purpose
C)  rational analysis of phenomena
D)  study of relationship

Question 13

The arrangements of the interrelations of the part is the ………………….?

Accepted Answer

A)  social segregation
B)  social unity
C)  social structure
D)  social system

Question 14

"Argonauts of the western pacific" written by?

Accepted Answer

A)  auguste comte
B)  talcott parson
C)  malinowski
D)  emile durkheim

Question 15

Who is considered as the father of Structuralism in cultural anthropology?

Accepted Answer

A)  edmund husserl
B)  claude levistrauss
C)  louis dumont
D)  louis althusser

Question 16

The term 'Thick Description' proposed by …………………….?

Accepted Answer

A)  a l kroeber
B)  clifford geertz
C)  l h morgan
D)  robert redfield

Question 17

The sociologist, who is more concerned with the survival of society than that of the individual only as well as point out that integration with in a culture being the only way to secure the survival of society?

Accepted Answer

A)  ralph dahrendorf
B)  habermas
C)  radcliffe brown
D)  m e opler

Exam 5: Anthropology and Sociological Concepts