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This set of Basic of Social Anthropology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Basic Of Social Anthropology Set 3

Q1 | According Radcliffe Brown, the concept of ………………… refers to an arrangements ofparts or components related to one another?
  • natural diffusion
  • structure
  • norms
  • cultural traits
Q2 | Which of the following statement is correct regarding social structure?
  • abstraction of empirical reality
  • exists independently of the individuals
  • not concerned with the particular or unique
  • all of the above
Q3 | Which of the following movement led by Medha Patkar?
  • chipko movement
  • navdanya movement
  • narmada bachao andolan
  • jungle bachao andolan
Q4 | “The fusion or blending of two previously distinct groups into one” the term refers to…………………?
  • assimilation
  • accommodation
  • cooperation
  • acculturation
Q5 | …………………… means transmission of cultural elements from one social group toanother.
  • contravention
  • accommodation
  • acculturation
  • assimilation
Q6 | Culture has two distinctive part, one is Material culture and another is ……….……….
  • mass culture
  • non material culture
  • pop culture
  • micro culture
Q7 | “Primitive Culture” written by ………………….?
  • edward tylor
  • lh morgan
  • bronislaw malinowski
  • levi strauss
Q8 | Who defined “case study as a comprehensive study of a social unit be that unit a person, agroup, a social institution, a district or a community”?
  • john m cooper
  • marvin harris
  • ralph linton
  • pauline v young
Q9 | Herskovitz argue that the process of enculturation is a process of ……………………?
  • segregation
  • assimilation
  • adaptation
  • contravention
Q10 | It is an intensive and comprehensive data collection method, in which researcher aim is toobtain complete and detailed data of a social phenomenon or social unit?
  • focused interview
  • archeology method
  • case study
  • geneological method
Q11 | Which of the following functionalist proposed that “Culture is a means to satisfy humanneeds”?
  • malinowski
  • robert k merton
  • emile durkheim
  • talcott parson
Q12 | The Khasis and the Jaintias tribes of Meghalaya speak in language belonging to the…………….. language family?
  • dravaidian
  • tibeto-chinese
  • indo-aryan
  • austro-asiatic
Q13 | Anthropology is a specialized branch in ……………………..?
  • socio-cultural
  • physical
  • archeological
  • linguistic anthropology
Q14 | To ……………….., culture is an instrument which enables man to secure his bio-psychicsurvival and a higher mental intellectual survival?
  • bronislaw malinowski
  • talcott parson
  • edward burnett tylor
  • lewis henry morgan
Q15 | According to D N Majumdar and T N Madan, which of the following classification related totribal zone demarcated in India?
  • north-north eastern zone, middle zone, south zone, west zone
  • himalayan region, middle india, western india, south india, the islands
  • north-eastern india, middle india, southern india, north-western himalayas, andaman and nicobar islands zone
  • north-north eastern, the central or the middle, southern zone
Q16 | The term “Jhum” is used to represent …………………..?
  • terrace cultivation
  • hill cultivation
  • hoe and burn cultivation
  • shifting cultivation
Q17 | Which of the following is not an acculturation study?
  • jan breman’s study of tribals of south gujarat
  • sl doshis study of bhils
  • beteilles study of sripuram village
  • srinivas study of rampura village
Q18 | “Structure and function in primitive society” written by ……………………..?
  • malinowski
  • c h cooley
  • radcliffe brown
  • s f nadel
Q19 | Which of the anthropologists termed anthropology as “Child of Darwin”?
  • r h lowie
  • john evans
  • james george frazer
  • r r marret
Q20 | In which state Kuki tribes live?
  • manipur
  • mizoram
  • arunachal pradesh
  • assam
Q21 | According to K. S. Singh the term Tribe defined for the first time in the Census of
  • 1872
  • 1901
  • 1991
  • 1891
Q22 | it is both a conscious and an unconscious conditioning process where a man, as child andadult, achieves competence in his culture, internalizes his culture and becomes thoroughly enculturated." Can be defined as ………………….?
  • assimilation
  • acculturation
  • enculturation
  • contravention
Q23 | “The change in individuals whose primary learning has been in one culture and who takeover traits from another culture” defined as ………………….?
  • acculturation
  • assimilation
  • enculturation
  • diffusion
Q24 | Culture regarded as an integrated whole, which includes ………………
  • beliefs and customs
  • language and norm
  • morals and art
  • all of the above
Q25 | The concept “Parochialization” propounded by ……………………?
  • mckim marriot
  • c h cooley
  • georg simmel
  • kingsley davis