Competitive Exams: Sociology MCQs (Practice_Test 88 of 95)
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- In which of the following communities is the marriage with one՚s father՚s sister՚s daughter permitted?
- Coorgs and Marathas of northern Maharashtra
- Marathas of Southern Maharashtra and Okkaligas of Mysore (Karnataka)
- Marathas of entire Maharashtra
- The Coorgs
- Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists:
List-I (Forms of Marriage) List-II (Tribes) - Marriage with mother՚s brother
- Fraternal polyandry
- Both fraternal and non-fraternal polyandry
- Levirate
- Todas
- Tibetans
- Coorgs
- Deshastha branch of Karnataka
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 4
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 4
- 3
- 2
- ‘Dudhalutana’ as a form of cross-cousin marriage prevalent among the:
- Gonds of Madhya Pradesh
- Santhals of Orissa
- Mundas of Chhota Nagpur
- Bhils of Rajasthan
- Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists
List-I (Names of Family) List-II (Tribes/Castes) - Gharawad
- Okka
- Nok
- Illam
- Coorgs
- Nayars
- Gatos
- Namboodiris
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 1
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 3
- Marriage between single pairs, without involving the rights of exclusive cohabitation with each other is referred to as:
- synadasnian family
- conjugal family
- patriarchal family
- promiscurous family
- A ‘Tarwad’ is composed of a woman:
- her sons daughters, daughters ′ daughters and Sons
- her husband, her Sons and Sons՚ daughter and sons
- her daughters, husbands and daughters ‘daughters her Sons’ wives and daughters.
- Match List I with List II and select the correct answer by using the codes given below the lists:
List-I (Terms of Kinship of Family) List-II (Names of Sociologists who used them) - ‘Primary, secondary tertiary relatives’
- Family of ‘procreation’ and family or ‘Orientation.’
- ‘Joking relationship’
- Elementary family
- Parsons
- Murdock
- Redcliffe-Brown
- Ogburn
- A
- B
- C
- D
- 1
- 2
- 4
- 3
- 2
- 1
- 3
- 4
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 2
- 1
- 4
- 3
- Ritual kinship refers to:
- legally defined marriage relationship
- kins related to one another through blood
- kinship on the basis of functional social relationship
- persons related to each other through rituals
- Consider the following countries:
- Pakistan
- India
- Indonesia
- Bangladesh
The correct sequence of these countries in descending order in terms of the Muslim population is:
- 2,3, 4,1
- 3,2, 4,1
- 3,2, 1,4
- 2,3, 1,4
- Which one of the following statements is not true?
- Social stratification means the same as social differentiation
- Social stratification is a particular from of ranking
- Gender inequality is a form of social stratification
- It is possible for social inequality to exist without social strata
- Who among the following said that wealth increases in the same proportion as poverty?
- Marx
- Engels
- Weber
- Hegel
- A person belonging to a dalit caste gives up eating on vegetation food and adopts ritualistic worship. Which one of the following best describes this behaviour?
- Sanskritization
- Acculturation
- Enculturation
- Socialization
- The concept of ‘respect of pollution’ was put forward by
- L Dumont
- Milton Singer
- S C Dubey
- E B Harper
- Which one of the following was believed to represent the vertical unit of castes?
- Varna system
- Jajmani system
- Sanskritization
- Endogamy
- Which of the following pairs are correctly matched?
- Sanskritization
- M N Srinivas
- Little and Great Tradition
- Meckim Marriott
- Lirabminization
- Aiyappan
- Parochialization
- F G Bailey
Select the correct answer from the codes given below:
- 2,3 and 4
- 1,3 and 4
- 1,2 and 4
- 1,2 and 3