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This set of Basic of Social Anthropology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Basic Of Social Anthropology Set 1

Q1 | Which of the following is not a characteristics of culture?
  • culture is inborn
  • culture is social
  • culture is transmissive
  • culture is gratifying
Q2 | In functionalist approach, distinguished the three levels, such as biological, the socialstructural and symbolic, proposed by ……………………..?
  • talcott parson
  • levistrauss
  • radcliffe brown
  • malinowski
Q3 | According to 2011 census, how many tribal groups are notified?
  • 710
  • 705
  • 698
  • 689
Q4 | The term ‘cultural lag’ is coined by …………………………..?
  • ogburn
  • malinowski
  • talsott parson
  • a l kroeber
Q5 | Who said “Culture is Manifest in act and artifact”?
  • evans pritchard
  • ralph linton
  • robert redfield
  • margaret mead
Q6 | According to Majumdar, which of the following tribal area is included in North-North Easternzone?
  • kashmir, punjab, himachal pradesh, sikkim
  • bengal, bihar, madya pradesh, orissa
  • hyderabad, orissa, karnataka, andra and madras
  • bengal, bihar, sikkim, east punjab
Q7 | It is a method of data collection, in which consists small groups of peoples, organized byresearcher or a moderator to acquire attitudes, opinions, feelings and ideas about a particular topic?
  • ethnography
  • focused group interview .
  • case study
  • survey
Q8 | According to Herskovitz, Integration has two approach, Functional and …………………….?
  • structural
  • phenomenological
  • interactional
  • configurational
Q9 | It is a process of coordination into a single unit, we can call …………………..?
  • isolation
  • accommodation
  • cooperation
  • integration
Q10 | The word “Tribe” derived from the Latin word ……………………?
  • tribos
  • tribum
  • tribus
  • tribows
Q11 | Non material culture is……………
  • abstract
  • concrete
  • materialisation
  • tangible
Q12 | It is an observation method, researcher participate in observing or studying a phenomenon?
  • unstructured observation
  • controlled observation
  • participant observation
  • uncontrolled observation
Q13 | Who defined “culture as the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals,law, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”?
  • robert biersted
  • radcliffe brown
  • malinowski
  • e b tylor
Q14 | The term “Ethos” means …………………..?
  • race and people
  • culture and integration
  • enculturation
  • human relations
Q15 | ……………….. is a term used to refer that society also passes through various phases ofdevelopment like an organism.
  • acculturation
  • organic analogy
  • structuralism
  • enculturation
Q16 | Find out an Example of associative social process?
  • competition
  • contravention
  • acculturation
  • conflict
Q17 | The term Enculturation was coined by …………………….?
  • melville herskovits
  • talcott parson
  • robert e park
  • ferdinand tonnies
Q18 | Which of the following statement is true regarding case study method?
  • take single or more such unit according to study purpose
  • the selected units studying intensively i.e. studied each every data minutely
  • this method mainly used in qualitative research not quantitative
  • all of the above
Q19 | Which of the following statement is not true regarding diffusion?
  • the process of diffusion can be call inter societal and cross cultural
  • changes produced in a culture by the influence of another culture
  • time and space inherent to diffusion
  • it ends ups in transformation
Q20 | Which district in Kerala has the third largest tribal population?
  • palakkad
  • idukki
  • malappuram
  • wayanad
Q21 | ………………… are those tribes who were earlier listed under the British Government’sCriminal Tribes Act of 1871?
  • primitive tribal group
  • primitive clan
  • de-notified tribe
  • chiefdom
Q22 | Which of the following statement true regarding Integration process?
  • it help us to increase stability and sense of belongingness in group
  • it is opposite to the isolation process
  • size of a group is one of the factor to affect integration
  • all of the above
Q23 | When individuals or groups of people borrows certain cultural elements from another cultureand incorporate into his own lifestyle.
  • cooperation
  • acculturation
  • competition
  • contravention
Q24 | The concept of “social evolution” proposed by ……………………..?
  • herbert spencer
  • robert k merton
  • jean baudrillard
  • emile durkheim
Q25 | Which of the following statement refers to the idea of cultural lag?
  • accepting new cultural pattern due to change in living area
  • the phenomenon that occur when change in material culture faster than non-material culture
  • non material culture change faster than material culture
  • the phenomenon that occur when change in one’s behavior due to gain new culture