1. Who stated social structures are as real as an individual organism?

Nadel

Durkheim

Radcliffe-Brown

Firth

2. According to whom culture is an 'energy capturing system'?

Leslie White

Julian Steward

A.L. Kroeber

Gordon Childe

3. In the works of Julian steward culture core is the area which is most directly related to

stability

continuity

change

adaptation

4. According to whom the evolution of human society is a natural and inevitable continuation of organic evolution?

Morgan

Herbert Spencer

Radcliffe-Brown

Montesquieu

5. Who among the following applied the concept of structure to culture?

Malinowski

Leach

Herskovits

Tylor

6. Ethnographic present shall engage in

Freezing of time and maintain present tense

Predicting in the present, since society is rule bound

Illuminating the present in consideration of the past

Discording the past and historical antecedents

7. The strength of ethnography lies mostly in

Methodological validity

Reliability of the research

Relating and combining both validity and reliability

Increasing the quality of research

8. In ethnographic engagement the search is essentially for

Translation of cultural ideas and concepts

Exploring the meanings and translate them by interpretation

Describing actions of the people systematically

Narrating the behaviour as observed without any bias

9. Name the scholar, who argued strongly that highly stratified societies outside South . ........,Asia share important characteristics with Indian caste system.

William Wiser

Louis Dumont

Gerald Berreman

Nur Yalman

10. Indian villages have been described as little republics by

M.N Srinivas

Charles Metcalf

Baden Powel

S.C Dube

11. In his Homo Hierarchicus what does Dumont mean, when he says, "... it is by implicit reference to this opposition that the society of castes appears consistent and rational to those who live in it."?

Pure-impure

Sacred-profane

Jati-Varna

Brahman-Shudra

12. For whom Jajmani system is a feudalistic system of hereditary obligations between castes?

Kathleen Gough

Thomas Beidelman

William Wiser

M.N.Srinivas

13. Nicholas Dirk's Castes ofMind is essentially about

A psychological analysis of caste

An essentialist interpretation of caste

An ethno-historical approach to caste

An indological approach to caste

14. Which Articles of the Indian Constitution deals with the declaration of tribes as Scheduled Tribes?

Article 357

Article 342

Article 312

Article 333

15. There is ample evidence to say that wherever there has been radical betterment of the economic conditions of sectors of the Indian populations, correspondingly great changes have been found in:

The pattern of family life. (Structurally, change from joint to nuclear family)

Attitudes towards marginalized sections of the society

Life cycle rituals

All the above

16. A comprehensive study of a social unit be, that unit a person, a group, a social institution, a district or community is called

Comparative method

Interview method

Case study method

Observation method

17. Which of the following is not a type of probability sampling?

Random sampling

stratified sampling

Purposive sampling

Snow ball sample

18. Method which moves from known to unknown and reality to theory is called

Deductive

Inductive.

Adductive

Inclusive.

19. The sampling technique which involves using some members of the groups of interest to identify other members is called

Purposive sampling

Snow ball sampling

Multistage sampling

Random Sampling.

20. Caste in India is the best example of a closed system of social stratification as

It is hierarchically arranged

Its members are recruited on the basis of ascribed status

It is founded on the criterion of ritual kinship

It is confined to the Indian society only

21. A "four-clan" rule of marriage in North Indian kinship is not applicable to

A man cannot marry in his father's clan

A man cannot marry in his mother's clan

A man cannot marry in his father's mother's clan

A man cannot marry in his sister's husband's clan

22. Which of the following tribes are not involved in shifting cultivation in India?

Soara and Juang of Odisha

Jenu Kurumbas in Karnataka

Yerukulas and Yanadis of Andhra Pradesh

Khasi and Garo of Northe East India

23. Which of the following is true?

The per cent of institutional deliveries have increased in case of tribals but the per cent is much less compared to general population

Over the years, the gap between the literacy levels of general population and tribal population has increased.

Both a and b

None of the above

24. Which of the following is a component of tribal development approach in the 5th Five

1. Cluster Development Projects

2. Integrated Tribal Development Project

3. Modified Area Development Approach;

4. Primitive Tribal Group Projects


1,2 and 3

2,3 and 4

1,3 and 4

1,2 and 4

25. Which of the following schemes is introduced for the benefit of the tribals?

Post matric scholarship

Book bank .

Up gradation of the Merit

all the above

26. According to Radcliffe-Brown, social system has a certain kind of unity which may be called as

Structural unity

Functional unity

Cultural unity

Integration

27. One of the following said that social anthropology studies societies as moral or symbolic systems and not as natural systems

Firth

Evans-Pritchard

Victor Turner

Malinowski

28. For whom family is not a structural group

Leach

Linton

Evans-Pritchard

Barth

29. The atom of kinship according to Levi-Strauss is

Family

Marriage

Incest

Consanguinity

30. Conscious models are

Values

Norms

Structures

Functions

31. Who defined social anthropology as that branch of sociology that deals with primitive societies?

Kroeber

Frazer

Radcliffe-Brown

Spencer

32. One of the central premises of diffusionist perspective is

independent inventions were common

primitive people had the capacity to develop innovate ideas

cultural features around the world have arisen in several places

cultural features around the world have arisen in few places

33. The theory of domestic mode of production' is developed by

Marshal Sahlins

Andrew Vayda

Elman Service

Julian steward

34. 'Thick description' is a method of

collecting extensive ethnographic data

detailed description

interpretation

qualitative analysis

35. Structural anthropology is concerned with

the search for the conscious grammar of culture

varying human thought process in all cultural forms

elementary structure of human behavior

deep structures embedded in the human mind

36. The participatory methodology is different from ethnographic method in this respect

It employs participant observation technique

It considers analytical insights of the respondents

It depends mainly on the qualitative data

It employs both qualitative and quantitative methods

37. The comparative method in anthropology covers according to Radcliffe-Brown

Ethnological study

Comparative sociology

Historical study and comparative sociology

None of the above

38. Who articulated on the value of 'cultural relativism' in anthropology?

Bronislaw Malinowski

Franz Boas

Radcliffe-Brown

Morris Bloch

39. Who is the better judge of an ethnography?

Reader who is not anthropologist

People about whom it is written

Other anthropologist

None of the above

40. One of the major problems that anthropological research concerns with its

Validity

Reflexivity

Reliability

Objectivity

41. The postmodern critique of ethnography is about

Context of research

The author's disposition

Theoretical questions of research

Lack of people's participation

42. Extended case study does not involve in one of the following

Extension of observer in the world of the participant

Extension of observation over time and space

Extension from micro level observations to macro surveys

Extension of theory

43. In dealing with the concept of hierarchy, Louis Dumont was influenced by the theories of this French scholar

Levi-Struasss

Senart

Emile Durkhiem

Bougle

44. Match the following and choose the correct answer.

Indian village M.N Srinivas

II) Village India Milton Singer

III) Traditional India Mckim Marriott

IV) India's villages S.C Dube

I-D II-C III-B IV-A

I-A II-C III-B IV-D

I-D II-B III-C IV-A

I-D II-A III-B IV-C

45. One of the following is not a heterogenetic change

Islamization

Westernization

Sanskritization

Globalization

46. In which region of India Iravati Karve's study (1953) demonstrates dominance of some castes over others?

Marathwada region ofMaharashtra

Telangana region of undivided Andhra Pradesh

Malabar coast of Kerala

South Kannada districts of Karnataka

47. Which goddess ofLittle Tradition in Kishangarhi could have been universalized into the goddess Lakshmi of the Great Tradition by Mckim Marriott?

Saraswati

Saruti

Sati

Saswati

48. Both N.K.Bose and Surajit Sinha followed a common approach to the study ofIndian society, which is

Indological approach

Historical approach

Civilizational approach

Dialectical approach

49. L.P. Vidyarthi had developed the concept ofMan-Nature-Spirit Complex with reference to the following tribal community

Oraon

Maler

Birhor

Santal

50. The custom that forbids a woman to marry a man of lower social status is known as

Hypergamy

Hypogamy

Exogamy

Endogamy

51. Who rejected the classification of cultivators in rural areas in three categories: landlords, tenants, and laborers and instead preferred to use the terms Malik, Kisan and Majdoor.

Andre Beteille

Daniel Thorner

Cathelene Gough

Joan Menchor

52. Tribal people of India can be classified mainly in to three speech families. They are

Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, and Austric

Sino-Tibetan, Austric, and Indo-European

Dravidian, Austric, And Tibeto-Chinese

Mundari, Kolorian, and Austric

53. Who argued that Indian society or culture cannot be described in dichotomies like great tradition and little tradition and proposed a six fold classification of traditions in India

S.C Dube

M.N Srinivas

Yogender Singh

Milton Singer

54. Who suggested that the motive for Sanskritization is not imitation per se but an expression of challenge and revolt against the socio-economic deprivation.

Harold Gould

E.B Harper

T.K Oomen

K.M Pannikkar

55. In his essay on 'Village Studies, Participant Observation and Social Science Research in India', M.N.Srinivas observed that:

Indian Economists in general depended on secondary data and the idea that they should themselves undertake field work does not seem to have occurred to them.

The rationality does not exist in vacuum, but in a cultural context.

Phrases such as 'social engineering', 'planned change', 'directed social change' further the allusion that the government is able to change the lives of the citizens in any manner it wants.

All the above.

56. The contribution of anthropology to the development theories is primarily from:

Anthropological theories

Anthropological field studies

Activist Anthropologists

All the above

57. The study ofAnthropologists is significant in designing programmes and policy as they help in the understanding of:

Symbols and values

Communication and choice making

Understanding the social relations in their cultural contexts.

All the above

58. Who of the following, referring to economists, argued that the lack of field work tradition has alienated them from grass roots reality and led to fanciful assumptions about the behaviour of ordinary people.

M.N.Srinivas

Rangarajan .C

Max Weber

All the above

59. The anthropological studies revealed that:

The decision making process is not as complex as economists have assumed

The peasant economic and agricultural behaviour is influenced only by superstitions.

the productive systems of non-western communities are often poorly adjusted to their natural and ecological environment.

Destruction of extended kinship system and complex ceremonial is not a prerequisite for development.

60. Which of the following can be agreed to in regard to the contribution of anthropologists to research on development? I. Anthropology provides highly reliable data for small stratified samples.

2. Anthropological study serves as a pilot study.

3. Helps in asking meaningful questions.

4. It helps in generating hypothesis for testing.

1,2and3

3and4

1,3and4

All the above

61. Which of the following is taken as an important index for understanding development today?

Human Development Index

Human Delight Index

Farmers' Suicides

None of the above

62. Large Sized Multipurpose Co-Operative Societies,(LAMPS) were started on the recommendations of:

Bawa Committee

Bose Committee

H.S.Brahma Committee

None of the above

63. Which of the following is not correctly matched?

The Scheduled District Act -1874

Tribes Advisory Council-5th Schedule of the Constitution

Extension of the provisions of the 6th schedule to Tripura-July2006.

"Excluded Areas" and "Partially Excluded Areas" -GOI Act 1935.

64. Which of the following committees is/are associated with tribal development in India?

Elwin Committee

Dhebar Commission

Shilu Ao Committee

All the above

65. Ethnography is

Generalized socio-cultural anthropology

Particularized social cultural anthropology

A sub division of anthropology

Not related to anthropology

66. A device employed in order to aid the interpretation of reality and the building of theory is known as

Article

Behaviour

Nature ·

Model

67. As an observer of facts, anthropologist cannot remain as spectator but has to involve himself into interaction with people whom he studies. This is called

Interview

Case study

Genealogical method

Participant observation

68. Idiographic studies and nomothetic studies are the varieties of

Cross cultural studies

Racial studies

Social studies

Psychological studies

69. According to inductive assumption, the collection of data was to be objective, unbiased and

Free of theory

(b)-Obtained by application of theory

Hypothetical

Imaginative

70. One starts from some general law and applies it to a particular instance or applying a theory to a particular case is known as

Inductive method

Deductive method

Abductive method

Survey technique

71. Which research paradigm is based on the pragmatic view of reality?

quantitative research

qualitative research

mixed research

none of the above

72. PRA technique was introduced by

Chomsky

Malinowski

Chambers

Young

73. Match the following and choose the correct answer.

Bisipara Andre Beteille

II) Kishangarhi FG Bailey

III) Shamirpet Mckim Marriott

IV) Sripuram S.C Dube

I-D II-B III-C IV-A

I-A II-B III-C IV-D

I-D II-C III-B IV-A

I-B II-C III-D IV-A

74. Which of the following caused displacement of tribes most?

Mining and industry

Wild Life sanctuaries

Construction of dams

Natural calamities

75. Which of the following are correctly matched?

1. Indian Forest Act -1865

2. National Forest Policy-1988

3. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act -2016

1 2

2 3

1 3

1,2 3