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This set of Basic of Social Anthropology Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Basic Of Social Anthropology Set 5

Q1 | Who is the father of Indian ethnography?
  • g s ghurye
  • l p vidyarthi
  • nirmal kumar bose
  • rai bahadur chandra ray
Q2 | Whole way of life is in process of change under the influence of another culture, it is called……………….?
  • acculturation
  • assimilation .
  • cooperation
  • diffussionism
Q3 | When a growing child learns to conform to his own cultural traditions, the process may becalled ……………………?
  • assimilation
  • transculturation
  • enculturation
  • evolution
Q4 | The sociologist, who is more concerned with the survival of society than that of theindividual only as well as point out that integration with in a culture being the only way to secure the survival of society?
  • ralph dahrendorf
  • habermas
  • radcliffe brown
  • m e opler
Q5 | The word ‘Teleology’ means ………………….?
  • study of cosmology
  • everything is determined by purpose
  • rational analysis of phenomena
  • study of relationship
Q6 | Which if the sociologist proposed that “Society as a functionally interrelated system inwhich general laws or functions operate”?
  • emile durkeheim
  • radcliffe brown
  • karl marx
  • habermas
Q7 | “Argonauts of the western pacific” written by?
  • auguste comte
  • talcott parson
  • malinowski
  • emile durkheim
Q8 | It is a method, …..…………. Involves going put and staying out, learning a new languageand actively participating the activities as well as experiencing the lives of the people you are studying?
  • genealogy
  • focused interview
  • case study
  • participant observation
Q9 | “The clans consider themselves as having descended from a plant or animal or any otheranimate or inanimate object”, the term refers to ……………………?
  • descend
  • animism
  • totemism
  • naturism
Q10 | Malinowski’s functionalism is also known as ……………………?
  • socio-structural approach
  • bio-cultural approach
  • symbolic approach
  • socio- cultural approach
Q11 | Which of the following tribal group mainly involved in food gathering and hunting for theirlivelihood?
  • chenchus
  • bharwads
  • todas
  • gujjars
Q12 | According to Majumdar and TN Madan, Anthropology may be conveniently divided into…………………?
  • sociocultural, physical, anthropological, linguistic
  • paleo anthropology, primatology, prehistoric archeology, ethno archeology
  • classical archeology, linguistic archeology, archeological anthropology, applied anthropology
  • physical anthropology, cultural anthropology, ethnology, applied anthropology
Q13 | The tribes of south India, such as Irulas, Kadars and Paniyas, belonging to which racialcomposition of tribes in India?
  • proto-austaloid
  • mangloid
  • dravidian
  • negrito
Q14 | The term ‘Thick Description’ proposed by …………………….?
  • a l kroeber
  • clifford geertz
  • l h morgan
  • robert redfield
Q15 | When the culture of a society evolves some new inventions, a customs or a trait and it ispassed on to another culture, it is called …………………?
  • diffusion
  • assimilation
  • accommodation
  • acculturation
Q16 | The arrangements of the interrelations of the part is the ………………….?
  • social segregation
  • social unity
  • social structure
  • social system
Q17 | Who is considered as the father of Structuralism in cultural anthropology?
  • edmund husserl
  • claude levistrauss
  • louis dumont
  • louis althusser