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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.
| 151. |
Family level groups are called |
| A. | Band |
| B. | State |
| C. | Chiefdoms |
| D. | Tribes |
| Answer» B. State | |
| 152. |
Sexual relations between unmarried persons is |
| A. | Fornication |
| B. | Illegal law |
| C. | Sin |
| D. | Non of these |
| Answer» B. Illegal law | |
| 153. |
When the researcher asks the respondent face to face question, this method is called |
| A. | Interview schedule |
| B. | Questioner |
| C. | Observation |
| D. | Interview guide |
| Answer» B. Questioner | |
| 154. |
The sociogram is best described as a sociological |
| A. | Concept |
| B. | Fact |
| C. | Theory |
| D. | Technique |
| Answer» E. | |
| 155. |
The process by which the individuals are socially attached to their parents are called |
| A. | Assimilation |
| B. | Affine |
| C. | Filiations |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 156. |
A family consisting of step relations is called |
| A. | Plural family |
| B. | Joint family |
| C. | Extended Family |
| D. | Compound family |
| Answer» D. Compound family | |
| 157. |
Applied anthropology make somewhat greater use of |
| A. | Qualitative method |
| B. | Quantitative method |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. both a and b | |
| 158. |
The systematic, theoretical analysis is |
| A. | Office work |
| B. | field of study |
| C. | Class work |
| D. | Technical |
| Answer» C. Class work | |
| 159. |
Cross-cultural comparison are |
| A. | interrelation |
| B. | Kinship ideology |
| C. | Slavery |
| D. | Adhesion |
| Answer» E. | |
| 160. |
All human societies have exchange institutions which is said by |
| A. | Malinowski |
| B. | Karl Polanyi |
| C. | both a and b |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. both a and b | |
| 161. |
Among the Hopi, as indicated in "Ties that Bind," clan heads and chiefs of religious societies |
| A. | Are typically worse off materially than the average member of the clan |
| B. | Expect others to create ritual gifts for them on a weekly basis |
| C. | Establish heads of household by gender-neutral design |
| D. | Receive land as payment for their roles as elders of the clan |
| Answer» B. Expect others to create ritual gifts for them on a weekly basis | |
| 162. |
Significant Others" is the term coined by |
| A. | Max Weber |
| B. | Ferdinand Tonnies |
| C. | George H. Mead? |
| D. | Harry Stack Sullivan |
| Answer» E. | |
| 163. |
Human kinship relations through marriage |
| A. | Affinity |
| B. | patterns of social relationships |
| C. | Interaction within the community |
| D. | A father in relation to a child |
| Answer» B. patterns of social relationships | |
| 164. |
Who has given the "Deterministic or Single Factor Theory" about social change in the society ? |
| A. | Emil Durkheim |
| B. | Alcott Parsons |
| C. | Karl Marx |
| D. | Herbert Spenser |
| Answer» D. Herbert Spenser | |
| 165. |
As stated in "The Adaptive Value of Religious Ritual, every known culture practices some form of |
| A. | Religion |
| B. | Ostracism |
| C. | Economic exploitation |
| D. | Ritual sacrifice |
| Answer» B. Ostracism | |
| 166. |
A property given by a family to its daughter upon marriage for the benefit of her new conjugal household is |
| A. | Gift |
| B. | Dowry |
| C. | Give and take |
| D. | Gift |
| Answer» C. Give and take | |
| 167. |
Food production was began more then how many years ago? |
| A. | 5000 |
| B. | 10000 |
| C. | 14000 |
| D. | 12000 |
| Answer» C. 14000 | |
| 168. |
Which of the following statements is true of chimpanzee dominance hierarchies? |
| A. | The largest and strongest male is at the top of the dominance hierarchy |
| B. | They are mostly formed by the females the males are not particularly interested in their relative po |
| C. | We now know that they do not exist. |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 169. |
The process of gradual change taking place in all societies from simple to complex |
| A. | Social evolution |
| B. | Decay in social system |
| C. | Social system |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Decay in social system | |
| 170. |
The essential requirement of any sample is that it is known to be |
| A. | As large as possible |
| B. | As convenient to obtain as possible |
| C. | Representative |
| D. | Equal to entire population |
| Answer» D. Equal to entire population | |
| 171. |
Morgan's systems of consanguinity and affinity of the human family was introduced in |
| A. | 1871 |
| B. | 1891 |
| C. | 1881 |
| D. | 1855 |
| Answer» B. 1891 | |
| 172. |
Feminist anthropology focused on |
| A. | Women and women's |
| B. | women and male |
| C. | Male and Female |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. women and male | |
| 173. |
Family headed by a male member is called |
| A. | Petri local |
| B. | Conjugal |
| C. | Patrilineal |
| D. | Patronymic |
| Answer» D. Patronymic | |
| 174. |
The practice of women being married up in social status and marriage exchange, the practice of wife-givers as lower in status then wife-takers are called to be |
| A. | Hydro gamy |
| B. | Hypotheses |
| C. | Hyper gamy |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 175. |
Davis, Allison 1902-83 was an |
| A. | Archeologists |
| B. | Sociologists |
| C. | Anthropologists |
| D. | Historian |
| Answer» D. Historian | |
| 176. |
Who strongly believed in social DARWINISM particularly the "survival of the fittest"? |
| A. | Karl Marx |
| B. | Spencer |
| C. | Ibn-i-Khaldun |
| D. | George Hegel |
| Answer» C. Ibn-i-Khaldun | |
| 177. |
Eskimo system is typically associated with |
| A. | Cognate descent |
| B. | Lineage system |
| C. | Descent groups |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Lineage system | |
| 178. |
A concept which is used to biological and physiological behavioral changes is |
| A. | Migrants |
| B. | Immigrants |
| C. | Adaptation |
| D. | Movement |
| Answer» D. Movement | |
| 179. |
The belief that one's own culture is superior to others is called |
| A. | Ethnocentrism |
| B. | Perception |
| C. | Beliefs |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Perception | |
| 180. |
Who said, "Custom intact is not merely prevailing habit, but also a rule or norm of action |
| A. | Mac lever |
| B. | Aristotle |
| C. | Ginsberg |
| D. | Karl Marx |
| Answer» C. Ginsberg | |
| 181. |
Applied anthropology falls into categories which are |
| A. | 4 |
| B. | 2 |
| C. | 1 |
| D. | 5 |
| Answer» C. 1 | |
| 182. |
Medical anthropology is the study about? |
| A. | Health |
| B. | Disease |
| C. | Mental health |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Mental health | |
| 183. |
The core method for ethnographic fieldwork are |
| A. | Controlled experiments |
| B. | Participant observation |
| C. | Excavation |
| D. | Household surveys |
| Answer» C. Excavation | |
| 184. |
Cultural ecology the process of |
| A. | Human nature |
| B. | Human Adaptation |
| C. | Human behavior |
| D. | Human made culture |
| Answer» C. Human behavior | |
| 185. |
The most common type of subgroup in a non-human primate community consists of |
| A. | A mother and her young children |
| B. | A father and his young children |
| C. | Adult male friends |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. A father and his young children | |
| 186. |
The modern anthropology in the field of action Is |
| A. | Actor |
| B. | Agent |
| C. | Third person |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Agent | |
| 187. |
Fact may be defined as |
| A. | A commonly shared reality |
| B. | What everyone knows as true |
| C. | Verified and verifiable statement |
| D. | That speaks itself |
| Answer» D. That speaks itself | |
| 188. |
How goods and services are transferred from one place to another is |
| A. | Distribution |
| B. | Transfer |
| C. | Exchange |
| D. | Migrate |
| Answer» B. Transfer | |
| 189. |
The father of scientific management is |
| A. | Fredrick W. Taylor |
| B. | Henry Fayol |
| C. | Robber Owen |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Henry Fayol | |
| 190. |
Gender is the sign of |
| A. | Sex difference |
| B. | Ritual difference |
| C. | Belief difference |
| D. | Social difference |
| Answer» B. Ritual difference | |
| 191. |
What includes two processes: participating, or being part of the people's lives while careful observing |
| A. | Participant observation |
| B. | Encentrism |
| C. | Applied observation |
| D. | Observing |
| Answer» B. Encentrism | |
| 192. |
The second name for diviner is called |
| A. | Supernatural power |
| B. | who have authority and power |
| C. | Shamanism |
| D. | Witches |
| Answer» D. Witches | |
| 193. |
Educational processes occur in all institutions, but where there are |
| A. | Home |
| B. | Hostel |
| C. | School |
| D. | Buildings |
| Answer» D. Buildings | |
| 194. |
Holism is a |
| A. | Personality |
| B. | Culture |
| C. | Believe |
| D. | Symbolic |
| Answer» E. | |
| 195. |
The attachment of an ideas or system of an idea is |
| A. | Psychology |
| B. | Feeling |
| C. | Mutual understanding |
| D. | Affect |
| Answer» E. | |
| 196. |
People related by marriage are called |
| A. | kindred |
| B. | Relatives. |
| C. | Consanguine |
| D. | Affine |
| Answer» E. | |
| 197. |
A person is consciously motivated primarily by his |
| A. | Social values |
| B. | Real traits |
| C. | Picture of himself |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Picture of himself | |
| 198. |
Symbolic anthropology was also a reaction against |
| A. | materialism and Marxism |
| B. | Material and economic |
| C. | symbols and mental |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Material and economic | |
| 199. |
The children of an individual (Ego) parents and siblings are called |
| A. | Relatives |
| B. | Cousins |
| C. | Friends |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Friends | |
| 200. |
Principle of descent in which people think of themselves related to both their mother's kin and their father's kin at the same time is called |
| A. | Bilateral descent |
| B. | Unilateral descent |
| C. | Double descent |
| D. | Parallel descent |
| Answer» B. Unilateral descent | |