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This section includes 767 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your UGC-NET knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 651. |
Davis's work focused on issues of personality development, childhood socialization , and the educational testing of intelligence in |
| A. | 1940 |
| B. | 1950 |
| C. | 1930 |
| D. | 1941 |
| Answer» B. 1950 | |
| 652. |
An alpha male is |
| A. | A male who is at the top of the dominance hierarchy |
| B. | A healthy adult male |
| C. | A male who is not yet old enough to mate |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. A healthy adult male | |
| 653. |
Honor Killing is killing a person in name of |
| A. | Money |
| B. | Property |
| C. | Respect |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 654. |
The most common social group pattern among semi-terrestrial non-human primates is |
| A. | Monogamous |
| B. | Fission-fusion |
| C. | Multimale-multifemale |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 655. |
Who is the founder of "Theory of Class Consciousness"? |
| A. | Mannheim |
| B. | Karl Marx |
| C. | Al-Ghastly |
| D. | Edwin Sutherland |
| Answer» C. Al-Ghastly | |
| 656. |
A family who have a wife, husband, and their children is called |
| A. | Elementary families |
| B. | Necular families |
| C. | Joint family |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Necular families | |
| 657. |
Systems are ones in which kinship group membership and inheritance passes through the female line |
| A. | Matrilineal |
| B. | Patrilineal |
| C. | Matriarchy |
| D. | Patriarchy |
| Answer» B. Patrilineal | |
| 658. |
Which of the following statements is true of non-human primate communities? |
| A. | They are more or less closed to contact with members of other communities |
| B. | They usually are tied to a particular locale and rarely migrate outside of their home range |
| C. | They usually avoid or are aggressive towards members of other communities |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» E. | |
| 659. |
Research methodology is the use of |
| A. | Tools and techniques |
| B. | For office work |
| C. | For lecture |
| D. | For presentation |
| Answer» B. For office work | |
| 660. |
Anthropology and cultural anthropology are the study of |
| A. | Cultural and language |
| B. | Norms and Values |
| C. | Society and community |
| D. | Present and Past |
| Answer» C. Society and community | |
| 661. |
An Ecological anthropology is the study of |
| A. | Animal science |
| B. | Human beings |
| C. | Environmental science |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 662. |
Anthropology is traditionally divided into |
| A. | 3 Fields |
| B. | 6 Fields |
| C. | 2 Fields |
| D. | 4 Fields |
| Answer» E. | |
| 663. |
The work of economic historian was |
| A. | Malinowski |
| B. | Karl Polanyi |
| C. | August Comte |
| D. | C.W. Mills |
| Answer» C. August Comte | |
| 664. |
The most famous linguistic anthropologist to study with boas was |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Edward Sapir |
| C. | Malinowski |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Malinowski | |
| 665. |
The concept of feuding to social organization was given by |
| A. | E.B Taylor |
| B. | August Comte |
| C. | Margaret |
| D. | Evans-Pritchard |
| Answer» E. | |
| 666. |
What are the four sub-fields of anthropology |
| A. | Biological , Archaeology, Linguistic, and Cultural anthropology |
| B. | Cultural , Archaeology, Linguistic, and Civilized anthropology |
| C. | Sociological , Psychological, Language, and Cultural anthropology |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Cultural , Archaeology, Linguistic, and Civilized anthropology | |
| 667. |
Divorces are easier to acquire in matrilineal societies because |
| A. | Women are more likely to wish for a divorce |
| B. | Children are linked to the lineage through their uncle, not their father |
| C. | Children are linked to the matrilineal by their mother, so fatherhood has a diminished role in kinsh |
| D. | A group of women can successfully eject a male from their home |
| Answer» D. A group of women can successfully eject a male from their home | |
| 668. |
In which of the following social group types are adult females most likely to periodically leave their community and join a new one? |
| A. | Monogamous |
| B. | one-male-several-female |
| C. | fission-fusion |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 669. |
In our society, a stage between the attainment of physical maturity and adult status is |
| A. | Adolescence |
| B. | Immature |
| C. | Puberty |
| D. | Adult |
| Answer» B. Immature | |
| 670. |
The words ethnography and ethnology appears to have been introduced in |
| A. | 1985 |
| B. | 1955 |
| C. | 1975 |
| D. | 1995 |
| Answer» E. | |
| 671. |
Who presented that capitalism is the product of one sect of Christianity? |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Karl Max |
| C. | Emile Durkheim |
| D. | Spenser |
| Answer» B. Karl Max | |
| 672. |
Which of the following is true about anthropology |
| A. | It usually is preferable to do anthropological research alone rather than with a team of researchers |
| B. | Roots in 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe and North America |
| C. | Most anthropologists today are generalists |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Most anthropologists today are generalists | |
| 673. |
Action anthropology, development anthropology, research anthropology and advocacy anthropology is known as |
| A. | Archeological anthropology |
| B. | Intervention |
| C. | Practicing and applied anthropology |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 674. |
Fertility, Mortality and Migration is totally based on |
| A. | Population change |
| B. | Fertility and Mortality |
| C. | Mortality and Migration |
| D. | Fertility and Migration |
| Answer» B. Fertility and Mortality | |
| 675. |
In caste society groups of persons engaged in specific occupations and characteristics which is called |
| A. | Impurity |
| B. | Purity |
| C. | Clean |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Clean | |
| 676. |
A close connection between religion and economic forces was presented by |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Karl Max |
| C. | Emile Durkheim |
| D. | Morgan |
| Answer» B. Karl Max | |
| 677. |
The process used to collect information and data are |
| A. | Data base |
| B. | Research |
| C. | Tools |
| D. | Questioners |
| Answer» C. Tools | |
| 678. |
Reciprocity was the process which is used in |
| A. | Primitive society |
| B. | Modern era |
| C. | Present time |
| D. | Egalitarian |
| Answer» B. Modern era | |
| 679. |
Concept of Co-variation means |
| A. | When two variables vary together |
| B. | Remain Unchanged |
| C. | One variable changes, other remains unchanged |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Remain Unchanged | |
| 680. |
Which of the following kin term systems distinguishes between cross and parallel cousins |
| A. | Hawaiian |
| B. | Eskimo |
| C. | Sudanese |
| D. | Iroquois |
| Answer» E. | |
| 681. |
Feminist anthropology is approach of |
| A. | 6 field |
| B. | 5 field |
| C. | 4 field |
| D. | 2 field |
| Answer» D. 2 field | |
| 682. |
As Shamanism , shamans and shamanisms are found in |
| A. | Primarily in Asia |
| B. | Mostly in Africa |
| C. | Only in South America and Siberia |
| D. | Virtually throughout the entire world |
| Answer» E. | |
| 683. |
An overall outline of the procedures and operations that includes methods, techniques and tools of the study |
| A. | Research design |
| B. | The developing of techniques of data collection |
| C. | The decisions that a researcher makes/takes to verify the data |
| D. | The way to participate in an ongoing research project |
| Answer» B. The developing of techniques of data collection | |
| 684. |
Going out of home country is called |
| A. | Going out of home district |
| B. | Going out of home village |
| C. | Emigration |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 685. |
The anthropologist Edward Taylor stated that culture is |
| A. | Acquired by humans as members of society |
| B. | Adaptive. |
| C. | Taught directly |
| D. | Symbolic |
| Answer» B. Adaptive. | |
| 686. |
Technology is often narrowly defined as a tools and process of knowledge is |
| A. | Economic anthropology |
| B. | Archeology |
| C. | History |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. Archeology | |
| 687. |
The following social features is unique to state organization |
| A. | Kinship |
| B. | Prestige |
| C. | Differential access to resources |
| D. | Stratification |
| Answer» E. | |
| 688. |
Anthropology focuses on the role of |
| A. | Biology |
| B. | Religion |
| C. | Values |
| D. | Culture |
| Answer» E. | |
| 689. |
Another component for copying with the environmental crisis since is a cross cultural humans are spiritual animals are called |
| A. | Feminist |
| B. | Ecologist |
| C. | Religion |
| D. | Economy |
| Answer» D. Economy | |
| 690. |
Edward Tolman is related to |
| A. | Behaviorist Framework |
| B. | Cognitive approach |
| C. | Social & cognitive Framework |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Social & cognitive Framework | |
| 691. |
Applied anthropology always concerns about the |
| A. | Education and health |
| B. | Physical health |
| C. | Human beings |
| D. | both a and b |
| Answer» B. Physical health | |
| 692. |
Human's are spiritual elements in the field of |
| A. | Ecology |
| B. | Anthropology |
| C. | Sociology |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Anthropology | |
| 693. |
Social structure of a society is the network of |
| A. | Institutional Relations |
| B. | Value system |
| C. | Traditions |
| D. | Compliance to norms |
| Answer» E. | |
| 694. |
The term used to refer to the biological maximum number of birth is |
| A. | Sex ratio |
| B. | Fertility |
| C. | Fecundity |
| D. | Natural increase |
| Answer» D. Natural increase | |
| 695. |
A group of human beings including their language, beliefs, and things to by anthropologists as |
| A. | Religion |
| B. | Heritage |
| C. | Culture |
| D. | Environment |
| Answer» D. Environment | |
| 696. |
Agriculture is the production of |
| A. | Food and shelter |
| B. | Food and Goods |
| C. | Shelter and dress |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Food and Goods | |
| 697. |
Agriculture usually refers to |
| A. | Manage food |
| B. | Plantation |
| C. | Human activities |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 698. |
Boomerangs is using for |
| A. | Hunting rabbits |
| B. | Hunting kangaroos |
| C. | Hunting Ibex |
| D. | Non of these |
| Answer» C. Hunting Ibex | |
| 699. |
Changing of goods in many ways in the societies is |
| A. | Give and take |
| B. | Reciprocity system |
| C. | Gift exchange |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Gift exchange | |
| 700. |
Symbolic anthropology studies |
| A. | culture trait |
| B. | Political organization |
| C. | Symbols |
| D. | Globalization |
| Answer» D. Globalization | |