NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, etc.), GATE, CUET, Olympiads etc.: Sociology MCQs (Practice_Test 73 of 95)
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- Which one of the following measures of fertility can be computed from date on sex and age alone from a single census?
- Child-woman ratio
- Total fertility rate
- Crude birth rate
- Age specific fertility rate
- Which of the following pair (s) is/are correctly matched?
- Match Item 1: Variation in mortality with age ‘J’ represents a shaped curve
- Match Item 2: Characteristic of developed countries.
- Match Item 1: Concept of proximate variables of fertility
- Match Item 2: Contribution of K Davis and Judith Blake.
- Match Item 1: Variation in mortality represents a ‘U’ shaped curve
- Match Item 2: Characteristic of underdeveloped countries.
- Match Item 1: Net Reproduction Rate (NRR) is equal to one
- Match Item 2: A stagnant population.
- Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
- 2 and 3
- 1 and 3
- 1,2 and 4
- 4 alone
- Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists:
Table Supporting: NET, IAS, State-SET (KSET, WBSET, MPSET, Etc.) , GATE, CUET, Olympiads Etc. : Sociology MCQs (Practice_Test 73 of 95) List-I (Demographic features as pet 1991 census) List-II (States/UT) - Most populous state of India
- Ranked first among states in literacy
- Had the highest population rate in 1981 − 91 decade
- Had the highest population density in the country
- Kerala
- Nagal
- UttarPradesh
- Bihar
- Delhi
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 1
- 2
- 5
- 4
- 1
- 5
- 3
- 3
- 5
- 2
- 4
- The practice of levirate is found in
- matrilineai societies
- partrilineal societies
- bi-lineal societies
- all the above societies
- A kibbutzim is:
- a tribal dance
- community of economically equal families
- garo term for extended family
- a religious sect of Mexico
- The term phratry refers to:
- clustering of several clans into exogamous blocks
- grouping of nuclear families in a common household
- followers of animistic religion
- a dyad of kula exchange partners
- Which one of the following kinship terms indicates that father՚s sisters is given greater importance than the mother?
- Amitate
- Couvade
- Avunculate
- Teknonymy
- Which one of the following pairs of concept and definition is correctly matched?
- Match Item 1: Exogamy
- Match Item 2: A rule requiring a person to choose a mate from the same community
- Match Item 1: Kin
- Match Item 2: People who are related either by blood or by marriage
- Match Item 1: Endogamy
- Match Item 2: A rule requiring a person to many outside his clan
- Match Item 1: Patrilocal family
- Match Item 2: A family in which persons belong to their father՚s lineage
- In double descent system, one inherits property from:
- father՚s matrilineal relatives and mother՚s patrilineal relatives
- father՚s patrilineal relatives and mother՚s matrilineal relatives
- father՚s patrilineal and matrilineal relatives
- mother՚s matrilineal and patrilineal relatives
- Practice of couvade refers to
- marriage with deceased wife՚s sister
- impurity related to child birth
- simulation of pregnancy by the husband
- promiscuity
- Assertion (A) : Protests by Scheduled Castes against the practice of untouchability and atrocities have increased.
- Reason (R) : Their action have stirred the government machinery to enforce law and order strictly.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : In pre-independence India, backward classes ′ movement was never strong enough to affect the whole country.
- Reason (R) : The various backward classes had serious internal differences and could never work together.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : The Telangana Movement is one of the importance militant peasant movement in India.
- Reason (R) : Indian National Congress gave it effective leadership.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : The higher the job opportunities for female population in the paid labour market, the higher the rate of acceptance of family planning.
- Reason (R) : Opportunity and cost of child is directly proportional to the employment status of mother.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true
- Assertion (A) : According to the World Health Organization (WHO) , in 1993, there were
- 5 million deaths due to infectious disease world wide. Reason (R) : Urbanization without health planning leads to the spread of diseases.
- Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
- Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
- A is true but R is false
- A is false but R is true