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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.
| 351. |
A systematic inquiry of a sample is called |
| A. | life history |
| B. | Event analysis |
| C. | survey |
| D. | strategy of adaptation |
| Answer» D. strategy of adaptation | |
| 352. |
A patrician is a clan organized by |
| A. | Mother side |
| B. | Family members |
| C. | Head of the family |
| D. | Father side |
| Answer» E. | |
| 353. |
Social processes are |
| A. | Cooperation |
| B. | Over Conflicts |
| C. | Competition |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 354. |
Which of the following kinds of work would applied anthropology include? |
| A. | Cultural resource management |
| B. | Medical anthropology |
| C. | Ethno botany |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. Medical anthropology | |
| 355. |
The existence of a paternal and a maternal descent system within the same culture |
| A. | Double descent |
| B. | Maternal descent system |
| C. | Father?s lineage |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Maternal descent system | |
| 356. |
Brain washing' consists of extreme and intensive |
| A. | Reciprocal roles |
| B. | Identification |
| C. | Disorientation |
| D. | Resocialization |
| Answer» D. Resocialization | |
| 357. |
Anthropology is primarily interested in the prehistory and early history of societies and their cultures which are |
| A. | Archaeology |
| B. | Forensics |
| C. | Ethno botany |
| D. | Cultural anthropology |
| Answer» B. Forensics | |
| 358. |
Feminist anthropology is the study of |
| A. | Male |
| B. | Both Male and Female |
| C. | Women and women's |
| D. | Genders |
| Answer» D. Genders | |
| 359. |
An account of the series of events making up a person's life |
| A. | Genealogical Data |
| B. | History |
| C. | Life History |
| D. | Biography |
| Answer» D. Biography | |
| 360. |
Dealing with offenders while at liberty to a specified period of supervision by an officer of the court |
| A. | Absconded offender |
| B. | Probation |
| C. | Murder of a criminal |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Murder of a criminal | |
| 361. |
The people of northern Alaska and Canada keep their bodies warm mostly by |
| A. | Eating more high calorie food |
| B. | Reducing peripheral blood flow by vasoconstriction |
| C. | Increasing peripheral blood flow by vasodilating |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Reducing peripheral blood flow by vasoconstriction | |
| 362. |
The division of labor in society in 1933 was introduced by |
| A. | E.B Taylor |
| B. | Karl Max |
| C. | Emile Durkheim |
| D. | Karl Mannheim |
| Answer» D. Karl Mannheim | |
| 363. |
Research method that emphasizes generating descriptive information which are |
| A. | Qualitative Data |
| B. | Quantities Data |
| C. | Numeric Data |
| D. | Data analysis |
| Answer» B. Quantities Data | |
| 364. |
The belief system of living things and non living objects are |
| A. | Primitive religion |
| B. | Origin of religious |
| C. | Animatisms |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 365. |
The founder of economy in anthropology was |
| A. | Karl Polanyi |
| B. | E.B Taylor |
| C. | Morgan |
| D. | Malinowski |
| Answer» B. E.B Taylor | |
| 366. |
The process by which cultural traits spread from one group or society to another is called |
| A. | Folkways |
| B. | cultural diffusion |
| C. | counter culture |
| D. | cultural complexes |
| Answer» C. counter culture | |
| 367. |
Feminist theories developed in |
| A. | Asia and China |
| B. | Europe and America |
| C. | Japan and India |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Japan and India | |
| 368. |
Socially approved ways of behaving are called |
| A. | Cultural- traits |
| B. | Folkways |
| C. | Social norms |
| D. | Mores |
| Answer» D. Mores | |
| 369. |
There are four fields sociocultural, linguistic, physical, and archaeological studies are called |
| A. | Political science |
| B. | Gender studies |
| C. | Anthropology |
| D. | Sociology |
| Answer» D. Sociology | |
| 370. |
Omaha terminologies are normally associated with matrilineal kinship because |
| A. | A person uses a single term for all the men within his or her mother's patrilineage |
| B. | A person uses a single term for all the men within his or her patrilineage |
| C. | They include more terms for male relatives than female ones |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. A person uses a single term for all the men within his or her patrilineage | |
| 371. |
According to "When Brothers Share a Wife," in a polyandrous marriage |
| A. | The wife always shows favor to the youngest brother |
| B. | Children can tell who their real father is and address him by a special title |
| C. | There is only one set of heirs in a generation |
| D. | if one brother decides to leave, the wife is returned to her own family |
| Answer» D. if one brother decides to leave, the wife is returned to her own family | |
| 372. |
Power that people consider legitimate is known as |
| A. | Force |
| B. | Right |
| C. | Authority |
| D. | Knowledge |
| Answer» D. Knowledge | |
| 373. |
Those who have no sharp divisions of rank, status, and wealth are |
| A. | Egalitarian society |
| B. | Elite society |
| C. | State |
| D. | Society |
| Answer» B. Elite society | |
| 374. |
Research is usually use in the field of |
| A. | Biology and chemistry |
| B. | Math's and physics |
| C. | Sociology and anthropology |
| D. | Urdu and English |
| Answer» D. Urdu and English | |
| 375. |
Principle of descent in which people define themselves in relation to only one side, either their mother's side or their father's side is called |
| A. | Unilateral descent |
| B. | Bilateral descent |
| C. | Parallel descent |
| D. | Double descent |
| Answer» B. Bilateral descent | |
| 376. |
Culture Complex means |
| A. | A cluster of related culture traits |
| B. | Artifacts used by primitive people |
| C. | Originally an approach to culture |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 377. |
The concept of CULTURAL LAG was propounded by |
| A. | Ibn-i-Khaldun |
| B. | Max Weber |
| C. | Merton |
| D. | Ogburn & Nimkoff |
| Answer» E. | |
| 378. |
Who is the founder of Sociology? |
| A. | Imam Ghazali |
| B. | Parsons |
| C. | Ibn-i-khaldun |
| D. | Auguste Comte |
| Answer» E. | |
| 379. |
Mode of production based on keeping domesticated animal herds and gathering their products such as meat, and milk, for most of the diet |
| A. | Foraging |
| B. | Horticulture |
| C. | Pastoralism |
| D. | Agriculture |
| Answer» D. Agriculture | |
| 380. |
Movement from one class to another |
| A. | Social mobility |
| B. | Change in the closeness to members of other groups |
| C. | Immigrants |
| D. | Migrate |
| Answer» B. Change in the closeness to members of other groups | |
| 381. |
Which of the following is a universal feature of the shamanism? |
| A. | A person inherits the position of shaman and is never selected |
| B. | Training to be a shaman is brief and is completed before reaching adulthood |
| C. | Shamanic practices involve direct contact with the spirits |
| D. | Shamans always use their power to heal others and never to harm |
| Answer» D. Shamans always use their power to heal others and never to harm | |
| 382. |
Who are leaders in economic, military, political and religious affairs ? |
| A. | King |
| B. | Big man |
| C. | Chiefs |
| D. | Political leader |
| Answer» D. Political leader | |
| 383. |
There is a extensive use of bone, stone, plant fiber and wood for tools and objects is the field of |
| A. | Ecology |
| B. | Economy |
| C. | Agriculture |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» C. Agriculture | |
| 384. |
The absence of a marriage rule that is a system which is neither Endogamous nor Exogamous is |
| A. | Polyandry |
| B. | Polygamy |
| C. | Agamy |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 385. |
Which one is the first step in social Research during field work ? |
| A. | Questionnaire |
| B. | Assumption |
| C. | Literature Review |
| D. | Survey |
| Answer» C. Literature Review | |
| 386. |
Functionalist anthropologists focused on dance as a means to reinforce communal sentiments who gave this concept of ? |
| A. | Radcliffe-Brown |
| B. | Margaret med |
| C. | Davis |
| D. | Ruth |
| Answer» B. Margaret med | |
| 387. |
The attainment of maturity for anthropological purpose as social maturity is |
| A. | Immature |
| B. | Young |
| C. | Adulthood |
| D. | Relationship |
| Answer» D. Relationship | |
| 388. |
The data collection techniques of anthropology are |
| A. | Interviewing key informants |
| B. | Phone interviews |
| C. | Collecting life histories |
| D. | Event analysis |
| Answer» C. Collecting life histories | |
| 389. |
There are two types of Kula ring which are |
| A. | Shell and goods |
| B. | Necklaces and shells |
| C. | Necklace and Shelter |
| D. | Necklace and goods |
| Answer» C. Necklace and Shelter | |
| 390. |
Individual supposedly reared apart from human society and hence imperfectly socialized |
| A. | A socialized individual |
| B. | An individual rears in a cultural society |
| C. | Feral man |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» D. None of these | |
| 391. |
Which of the following terms is consistent with the definition ?Integration is managed differently for different groups?? |
| A. | Multiculturalism |
| B. | Integration |
| C. | Assimilation |
| D. | Conformity |
| Answer» B. Integration | |
| 392. |
The creative potential of personality is accounted by |
| A. | Stimulus-response psychology |
| B. | Drive psychology |
| C. | Trait psychology |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Trait psychology | |
| 393. |
Sweating is most effective as a cooling mechanism when the air is |
| A. | Hot |
| B. | hot and dry |
| C. | Cold |
| D. | a and b |
| Answer» C. Cold | |
| 394. |
Human rights are those that any person naturally deserves, merely by virtue of being human to survive was written by |
| A. | Donnelly |
| B. | Margaret med |
| C. | Morgan |
| D. | Ruth Benith |
| Answer» B. Margaret med | |
| 395. |
Demography means |
| A. | Human Population |
| B. | Male population |
| C. | Female Population |
| D. | Adult Population |
| Answer» B. Male population | |
| 396. |
Maximum number of years that one can live |
| A. | Life span |
| B. | Passing form one year to next year |
| C. | Average life that one can life |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» B. Passing form one year to next year | |
| 397. |
Modern colonialism can be classified according to the |
| A. | Time and manner |
| B. | Time and knowledge |
| C. | Knowledge and power |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» B. Time and knowledge | |
| 398. |
The transfer of information among organisms, with the purpose of behavior of all participants are the process of |
| A. | Participant observation |
| B. | Communication |
| C. | Language |
| D. | Transfer of data |
| Answer» C. Language | |
| 399. |
Qualitative Data Means |
| A. | Expressed in number |
| B. | Expressed in words |
| C. | Both of these |
| D. | None of these |
| Answer» C. Both of these | |
| 400. |
According to Tannen, appropriate alternatives to the argument culture include |
| A. | Managing conflict by means of dialogue |
| B. | An emphasis upon debates to the exclusion of other forms of discussion |
| C. | letting opponents fight it out in physical combat |
| D. | All of the above |
| Answer» D. All of the above | |