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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.
| 701. |
Douglas expanded her structural model in her next book natural symbols in |
| A. | 1970a |
| B. | 1960 |
| C. | 1969 |
| D. | 1975 |
| Answer» B. 1960 | |
| 702. |
Symbolic is a sign of |
| A. | Primitive religion |
| B. | Culture and Personality |
| C. | Myth and Ritual |
| D. | Strauss and Unconscious |
| Answer» D. Strauss and Unconscious | |
| 703. |
The split between the idealism of the symbolic anthropologists and the materialism of the structuralisms was |
| A. | 1960s to 1970s. |
| B. | 1950 to 1960 |
| C. | 1970 to 1980 |
| D. | 1960 to 1980 |
| Answer» B. 1950 to 1960 | |
| 704. |
A caste system as a pure theoretical type is based upon |
| A. | Ascribed status |
| B. | Social status |
| C. | Achieved status |
| D. | Both Achieved and Ascribed status |
| Answer» B. Social status | |
| 705. |
Sociology is introduced as an academic discipline by |
| A. | Ibn-e-Khaldun |
| B. | August Comte |
| C. | George Simile |
| D. | Herbert Spencer |
| Answer» C. George Simile | |
| 706. |
One of the unique aspects of cultural anthropology is |
| A. | spending long periods living in the communities they study |
| B. | The use of questionnaires in their fieldwork |
| C. | The collection of quantitative behavior data |
| D. | Subjecting people to laboratory experimentation |
| Answer» B. The use of questionnaires in their fieldwork | |
| 707. |
Nuclear families contain only |
| A. | One generation |
| B. | three generation |
| C. | one generation |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 708. |
Demography is a scientific study of human population with respect to |
| A. | Size of population |
| B. | Structure of population |
| C. | Composition of population |
| D. | Size, structure and composition of population |
| Answer» E. | |
| 709. |
Education may be differentiated by caste, class or gender are |
| A. | Redistribution |
| B. | Distribution |
| C. | Developments |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Developments | |
| 710. |
The following animals is not a primate |
| A. | Humans |
| B. | Apes |
| C. | All are primates |
| D. | Monkeys |
| Answer» E. | |
| 711. |
Marriages out of family is |
| A. | Exogamy |
| B. | Endogamy |
| C. | Affinity |
| D. | Descent group |
| Answer» B. Endogamy | |
| 712. |
Who focused on cross-cultural analysis of dance and its symbolic cognitive and affective of nature |
| A. | Archeologists |
| B. | Anthropologists |
| C. | Zoologists |
| D. | Sociology |
| Answer» C. Zoologists | |
| 713. |
Who gave the ethnography of children and opened up inquiry into the role of culture in child development ? |
| A. | Margaret Mead |
| B. | E.B Taylor |
| C. | Morgan |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. E.B Taylor | |
| 714. |
A research technique that involves gathering of verbal data through questions or conversation between at least two people are |
| A. | Discussion |
| B. | Observation |
| C. | Interview |
| D. | Questionnaire |
| Answer» E. | |
| 715. |
Movement of people between positions on different levels |
| A. | Traveling of groups from one place to another |
| B. | Participation in the cultural activities of modern age |
| C. | Migration from rural to urban areas |
| D. | Social Mobility |
| Answer» E. | |
| 716. |
Applied anthropology is the solution of |
| A. | Practical problem |
| B. | Technical Problem |
| C. | Mechanical Problem |
| D. | Electrical Problem |
| Answer» B. Technical Problem | |
| 717. |
In which of the following primate social group patterns is the nuclear family the basic social unit? |
| A. | Monogamous |
| B. | Single female and her offspring |
| C. | Fission-fusion |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Single female and her offspring | |
| 718. |
Ecological anthropology and social evolutionism was emerged in the period between |
| A. | 1955, 1960 |
| B. | 1950, 1970 |
| C. | 1951 965 |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. 1951 965 | |
| 719. |
How does anthropology differ from other social sciences such as economics and sociology |
| A. | Anthropology is holistic and integrative in its approach. |
| B. | The other social sciences are holistic and integrative in their approach |
| C. | Anthropology specialize in the workings of specific systems |
| D. | Anthropology is more important |
| Answer» B. The other social sciences are holistic and integrative in their approach | |
| 720. |
Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, are the student of |
| A. | Morgan |
| B. | E.B Taylor |
| C. | Franz Boas |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 721. |
In kinship studies, an affine is a Ego by marriage is |
| A. | Backbone |
| B. | Consanguine |
| C. | Affinity |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 722. |
In a patriarchal family the major decision are taken by the |
| A. | Old men and women |
| B. | The male or female head of the family |
| C. | The male head of the family who wields all powers |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 723. |
Feelings of uneasiness, loneliness, and anxiety that occurs when a person has shifted from one culture to another is |
| A. | Culture shock |
| B. | Cultural relativism |
| C. | Culture |
| D. | Fear of culture |
| Answer» B. Cultural relativism | |
| 724. |
Father of Anthropology is |
| A. | Franz Boas |
| B. | Durkheim |
| C. | Bronze Law Malinowski |
| D. | Taylor |
| Answer» B. Durkheim | |
| 725. |
Levirate means |
| A. | The marriage of a woman to her deceased husband?s brother |
| B. | Cousin's marriage |
| C. | Marriage of men by decade of their wife sister |
| D. | Cousin?s marriage |
| Answer» C. Marriage of men by decade of their wife sister | |
| 726. |
Subfield of anthropology could be described as studying 'other people's garbage |
| A. | primatologist |
| B. | Archaeology |
| C. | paleoanthropologist |
| D. | linguistics |
| Answer» C. paleoanthropologist | |
| 727. |
Which field of anthropology would most likely be interested in the marriage patterns and kinship systems of different societies around the world? |
| A. | Cultural anthropology |
| B. | linguistic anthropology |
| C. | zoo archaeology |
| D. | all of the above |
| Answer» B. linguistic anthropology | |
| 728. |
Archaeology can be considered |
| A. | Both Social and Humanities |
| B. | Social Science |
| C. | Only Humanities |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Social Science | |
| 729. |
The community of study who provide anthropologists with information about the group and its culture have called |
| A. | Ethnographers |
| B. | Informants |
| C. | Ritual specialists |
| D. | Journalists |
| Answer» C. Ritual specialists | |
| 730. |
Which of the following statements is true of primate social group composition? |
| A. | All primate species are limited to only one of six basic patterns described in the tutorial |
| B. | The single female and her offspring group pattern is common for primates |
| C. | Monogamous family groups are the most common ones for humans but are rare for other primate species |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 731. |
A group with a pastoral economy is likely to be organized as a |
| A. | state |
| B. | chiefdom |
| C. | tribe |
| D. | state or chiefdom |
| Answer» B. chiefdom | |
| 732. |
All human societies have exchange institutions by goods and service are transferred from one place to another is called |
| A. | Distribution |
| B. | Redistribution |
| C. | Business |
| D. | Trade |
| Answer» E. | |
| 733. |
What term we usually use specifying that children are in the kin group of their father, and not their mother |
| A. | Patriarchy |
| B. | Matrilineal |
| C. | patriliny |
| D. | Patrilocal |
| Answer» D. Patrilocal | |
| 734. |
The following statements about a big man is |
| A. | Big men exist among the Yanomami |
| B. | The big man had authority among several villages |
| C. | Achieve the status of a big man |
| D. | The big man usually has less wealth than his neighbors |
| Answer» C. Achieve the status of a big man | |
| 735. |
Cognitive anthropology is the study of the relationship between |
| A. | Culture and society |
| B. | Class and status |
| C. | Mind and society |
| D. | Class and classification |
| Answer» D. Class and classification | |
| 736. |
One of the outcomes of the acculturations is the process of |
| A. | Assimilation |
| B. | Acculturation |
| C. | Association |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Acculturation | |
| 737. |
Growing a small number of crops is called |
| A. | Farming |
| B. | Agriculture |
| C. | Peasants |
| D. | Aggregation |
| Answer» C. Peasants | |
| 738. |
A residence pattern which allows a choice of virilocal or uxorilocal residence is |
| A. | Umbilical |
| B. | Patricidal |
| C. | Matrilineal |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Patricidal | |
| 739. |
Social class position in a true 'open class' structure is based upon in which |
| A. | Ascribed criteria |
| B. | Race |
| C. | Family position |
| D. | Achieved criteria |
| Answer» E. | |
| 740. |
As explained in "Eating Christmas in the Kalahari," Richard Borshay Lee found that |
| A. | An outsider should not visit the Bushmen without bringing a gift |
| B. | Bushmen do not welcome visitors at holidays |
| C. | The response of people to a gift can be instructive about their culture |
| D. | it is considered incorrect to insult guests within the Bushmen society |
| Answer» C. The response of people to a gift can be instructive about their culture | |
| 741. |
All societies have minimal status said by |
| A. | E.B Taylor |
| B. | Morgan |
| C. | Franz boas |
| D. | Sahlins |
| Answer» E. | |
| 742. |
The conceptual arrangement of things such as kinship, color, living things, race, disease, firewood, ceramics, automobiles, tools and time are |
| A. | Status |
| B. | Classification |
| C. | Race |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Race | |
| 743. |
Mary Douglas used a form of cultural analysis to decode a meal in |
| A. | 1971 |
| B. | 1981 |
| C. | 1991 |
| D. | 1972 |
| Answer» B. 1981 | |
| 744. |
A large kinship group whose members inhabit one geographic area and believe they are descendent from a common area is known as |
| A. | Clan |
| B. | Tribe |
| C. | Kin groups |
| D. | Class |
| Answer» C. Kin groups | |
| 745. |
In the society the sex ratio is |
| A. | The number of women per hundred men |
| B. | The number of children a woman has |
| C. | The number of men per hundred women |
| D. | The number of children biologically possible for a woman |
| Answer» D. The number of children biologically possible for a woman | |
| 746. |
Which of the many data collection techniques of anthropologists is based on kin relationships? |
| A. | Genealogy |
| B. | Cultural history |
| C. | language study |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Cultural history | |
| 747. |
Clifford Geertz characterized culture as |
| A. | A process of enculturation |
| B. | A biological necessity |
| C. | A set of control mechanisms and behavior |
| D. | only partially shared |
| Answer» D. only partially shared | |
| 748. |
In anthropology the study of people's accounts of their own histories is called |
| A. | Ethnology |
| B. | Ethnohostory |
| C. | Ethnoscience |
| D. | Ethnomusicology |
| Answer» C. Ethnoscience | |
| 749. |
To work for international development agencies, such as the World Bank and USAID the job of such development anthropologists is called |
| A. | Physical anthropology |
| B. | Psychological anthropology |
| C. | Applied anthropology |
| D. | None of the above |
| Answer» D. None of the above | |
| 750. |
The study of language and it's social and cultural context, across space and over time is called |
| A. | Applied anthropology |
| B. | Cultural anthropology |
| C. | Kinship anthropology |
| D. | Linguistic anthropology |
| Answer» E. | |