R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Sociology Social Structure and change in India Part 3

To know about sanskritization M.N. Srreenivas made his study in ...........

1. Mysore
2. Coorgs
3. Banglore
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Caste is an ............... Group

1. Universal
2. Open
3. Endogamous
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Caste system is often regarded as a ..........

1. Endogamous
2. open group
3. Closed society
4. social group

✅ Correct Answer: 3

who wrote the book ?Religion and society among the Coorgs?

1. Max Weber
2. Durkheim
3. Page
4. M.N. Sreenivas

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The term Brahminisation means?

1. Westernisation
2. Modernisation
3. Sanskritlization
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

refers to the changes brought about in Indian Society and culture as a result of over 150 years of British rule

1. Westernisation
2. Modernisation
3. Brahminisation
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

is a process which indicates the adoption of the modern ways of life and values

1. Industrialization
2. Modernisation
3. Westernisation
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who wrote the book Social change in modern India

1. M.N. Sreenivas
2. E.A.H. Blunt
3. Ketkar
4. Risley

✅ Correct Answer: 1

is a broader term and it can subsume in itself the narrower process of brahminisation

1. Industrialization
2. Westernisation
3. Modernisation
4. Sanskritization

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who critcied the concept of modernisation?

1. Yogendra Singh
2. M.N. Sreenivas
3. Ram Ahuja
4. Page

✅ Correct Answer: 2

defends the concept of modernisation?

1. Yogendra Singh
2. Ketkar
3. Ketkar
4. Gait

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who wrote the book Indian Social System?

1. Mac Iver
2. H. Maine
3. Ram Ahuja
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who introduced the modern secular education in India?

1. Portuguese
2. Arabians
3. Duch
4. British

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who coined the term Dominant Caste?

1. Anderson
2. Parker
3. T.N. Majundar
4. M.N. Sreenivas

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When a special role is given to the father?s sister, it is known as ............

1. Avoidance
2. Amitate
3. Couvade
4. Tecknonymy

✅ Correct Answer: 2

usage is found among many primitive tribes

1. Couvade
2. Teknonymy
3. Amitate
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The marriage assigns each mother a husband and makes her children thereby creating a special group of father mother and children, which we call ......

1. Kinship
2. Family
3. Marriage
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The kin is not referred to directly but he is referred to through another kin is called

1. Avunclate
2. Tecknonymy
3. Amitate
4. Joking relationship

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who use the word Tecknonymy in Antropology for the first time?

1. Tylor
2. Clare
3. Murdock
4. Durkheim

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The word tecknonymy has been came from ......................

1. Greek
2. Latin
3. Spanish
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

means that the two kin should remain away from each other

1. Amitate
2. Avunclate
3. Avoidance
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The term uncle is a ................ system.

1. Classificatory system
2. Descriptive
3. Kinship
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who established the Sathya Sodhak Samaj?

1. Jyothi Rao Phooley
2. Vivekanandan
3. Dayananda Saraswathi
4. Rajaram Mohan Roy

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who lounched the movement against the Brahmin Supermacy

1. Vivekanandan
2. Jyothi Rao Phooley
3. Dayananda Saraswathi
4. Rajaram Mohan Roy

✅ Correct Answer: 4

When did the Caste Disabilities Removal act established?

1. 1931
2. 1879
3. 1872
4. 1873

✅ Correct Answer: 3

M.N. Sreenivas considered the term modernisation is more .............

1. Subjective
2. Objective
3. Preferable
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

refers to the unprecedented growth and expansion of industries

1. Urbanisation
2. Modernisation
3. Industrialisation
4. Westernisation

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The word Harijan means ..................

1. Children of god
2. Children of the state
3. Brahmins
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Caste and occupation are two structural Criteria which we could use to define the term

1. Brahmin
2. Kshathriya
3. Vyshya
4. Backward class

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Untouchables who are now known as ...................

1. Scheduled caste
2. Scheduled Tribe
3. Other backward class
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who use the Marxian theory while analysing the Indian class structure in agrarian relation

1. A.R. Desai
2. Pager
3. Mac Iver
4. Dhurkhiem

✅ Correct Answer: 1

who own but do not cultivate land

1. Poor peasants
2. Rich farmers
3. Landlords
4. Middle peasants

✅ Correct Answer: 3

who look upon agriculture as a business proposition

1. landless agricultural workers
2. Middle peasants
3. Landlords
4. Rich famers

✅ Correct Answer: 4

who cultivate their own land and hire labourers only for certain operations or at certain points of time

1. landlords
2. tenants
3. Middle peasants
4. artisans

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who described communalism as the Indian version of fascism?

1. Gandhi
2. Nehru
3. Ambedkar
4. Balagangadhar Thilak

✅ Correct Answer: 2

has become an essential for modern democratic nation states to ensure a strong sense of identification whether the polity based on a commonsense of identity

1. secularism
2. Regionalism
3. Communalism
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who put forward the word secularism?

1. Ram Ahuja
2. Abdul Ahamed
3. Bipin Chandra
4. George Jacob Holyoake

✅ Correct Answer: 4

refers to the process of growth and expansion of cities

1. Industralization
2. Urbanisation
3. Modernisation
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The word ................ is used for the untouchables ill-treated and humiliated castes

1. Scheduled Caste
2. Scheduled Tribe
3. Dalit
4. OBC

✅ Correct Answer: 3

is one who is culturally, socially, economically and politically supressed and exploited in the name of religion

1. Dalith
2. Other backward class
3. Untouchables
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who called the name Harijan was given to the Untouchables

1. Nehru
2. Nadabai Navaroji
3. Ambedkar
4. Ghandhi

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The word secularism is came from ....................

1. Portuguese
2. Greek
3. Latin
4. Spanish

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who made the classic study India as a secular state

1. Shankar Rao
2. Mac Iver
3. Page
4. Donald Eugene smith

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The main thrust of the new economic policy is

1. globalization
2. liberalization
3. privatization
4. westernisation

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who started liberalization?

1. Manmohan Singh
2. A.B Vajpayee
3. Pranab Mukharji
4. Pranab Mukharji

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Liberalization of economy means?

1. Market friendly state
2. Controlled by private sector
3. Dergulation of licenses
4. All the above

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Which article provides a citizen of India, shall not discriminate against anyone on the basis of religion, caste, sex

1. Article 15
2. Article 17
3. Article 28
4. Article 27

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Article gives the freedom to all religions to set up trusts and institutions and acquire property & manage their own affairs

1. Article 325
2. Article 28
3. Article 326
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

is a feeling or an ideology among a section of people

1. Regionalism
2. Dravida movement
3. Communalism
4. Secularism

✅ Correct Answer: 1

movement initially focused on empowering delith, non brahmin?s & poor peoples

1. Dalith
2. Dravida
3. Bodomovement
4. Thelungana

✅ Correct Answer: 2