1. Which of the following is not a characteristics of culture?
Correct : A. culture is inborn
2. In functionalist approach, distinguished the three levels, such as biological, the social
structural and symbolic, proposed by ……………………..?
Correct : D. malinowski
3. According to 2011 census, how many tribal groups are notified?
Correct : B. 705
4. The term ‘cultural lag’ is coined by …………………………..?
Correct : A. ogburn
5. Who said “Culture is Manifest in act and artifact”?
Correct : C. robert redfield
6. According to Majumdar, which of the following tribal area is included in North-North Eastern
zone?
Correct : A. kashmir, punjab, himachal pradesh, sikkim
7. It is a method of data collection, in which consists small groups of peoples, organized by
researcher or a moderator to acquire attitudes, opinions, feelings and ideas about a particular topic?
Correct : B. focused group interview .
8. According to Herskovitz, Integration has two approach, Functional and …………………….?
Correct : D. configurational
9. It is a process of coordination into a single unit, we can call …………………..?
Correct : D. integration
10. The word “Tribe” derived from the Latin word ……………………?
Correct : C. tribus
11. Non material culture is……………
Correct : A. abstract
12. It is an observation method, researcher participate in observing or studying a phenomenon?
Correct : C. participant observation
13. Who defined “culture as the complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals,
law, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”?
Correct : D. e b tylor
14. The term “Ethos” means …………………..?
Correct : A. race and people
15. ……………….. is a term used to refer that society also passes through various phases of
development like an organism.
Correct : B. organic analogy
16. Find out an Example of associative social process?
Correct : C. acculturation
17. The term Enculturation was coined by …………………….?
Correct : A. melville herskovits
18. Which of the following statement is true regarding case study method?
Correct : D. all of the above
19. Which of the following statement is not true regarding diffusion?
Correct : B. changes produced in a culture by the influence of another culture
20. Which district in Kerala has the third largest tribal population?
Correct : A. palakkad
21. ………………… are those tribes who were earlier listed under the British Government’s
Criminal Tribes Act of 1871?
Correct : C. de-notified tribe
22. Which of the following statement true regarding Integration process?
Correct : D. all of the above
23. When individuals or groups of people borrows certain cultural elements from another culture
and incorporate into his own lifestyle.
Correct : B. acculturation
24. The concept of “social evolution” proposed by ……………………..?
Correct : A. herbert spencer
25. Which of the following statement refers to the idea of cultural lag?
Correct : B. the phenomenon that occur when change in material culture faster than non-material culture
26. ………………. Constitute the material things that created by individuals in a society?
Correct : B. material culture
27. Which of the following cultural process closely related to socialization process?
Correct : D. enculturation
28. As per the 2011 census, scheduled tribe population constitute …………………. Of the total
population of India?
Correct : B. 8.6%
29. ……………… is an administrative categorization used for those Scheduled Tribe
communities who were identified as more isolated from the extensive community and who conserve a particular cultural identity?
Correct : A. primitive tribe
30. Find out an example for De-notified tribe?
Correct : D. all of the above
31. Which is the second most populous tribal community in Kerala?
Correct : C. kurichyar
32. According to Krober, …….……….. is the formal appearance of a culture that derived from
its constituents?
Correct : A. eidos
33. Which of the following school propagating that various culture complexes develop at various
times in different part of the world and later on diffuse over corresponding portions of the earth?
Correct : B. kulturkreise school
34. “The division of labour” written by ……………………?
Correct : D. emile durkheim
35. “The process of mutual cultural diffusion through which persons and groups come to share a
common culture is called ……………………”
Correct : A. assimilation
36. Claude Levistrauss mainly associated with the theoretical perspective of ………………….?
Correct : C. structuralism
37. Herbert Spencer introduced his evolutionary (Social Evolution) concept in …………………?
Correct : B. first principle
38. The observer stay outside to the gathering being studying a particular phenomenon?
Correct : D. non participant observation
39. In terms of social evolution, the concept “Survival of the fittest” Proposed by …………….?
Correct : B. herbert spencer
40. “It is a way life with shared symbols, norms and values in a social organization” defined as ....?
Correct : B. culture
41. The concept “Organic analogy” propounded by …………………?
Correct : C. herbert spencer
42. “Immigrants acquire new customs, values, attitudes through contact and communication with
a new society” it is an example for ………………..?
Correct : A. assimilation
43. Which of the following tribe celebrating Karma festival?
Correct : A. oraons
44. According to 2011 Census, tribal communities in Kerala constitute ………………. of the
state’s total population?
Correct : B. 1.20 %
45. The aspects of culture, such as Ethos and Eidos, proposed by …………………..?
Correct : D. kroeber
46. Which of the following theory consider ‘culture are integrated whole’?
Correct : C. functionalism
47. “The elementary structures of kinship” written by …………………?
Correct : A. levistrauss
48. “Alliance theory” proposed by ……………………?
Correct : C. levistrauss
49. Kui language is spoken by ……………….. tribes of Orissa
Correct : B. kandh
50. Which of the following is not a feature of participant observation?
Correct : B. associates with the studying group as a researcher with formal procedure
51. According Radcliffe Brown, the concept of ………………… refers to an arrangements of
parts or components related to one another?
Correct : B. structure
52. Which of the following statement is correct regarding social structure?
Correct : D. all of the above
53. Which of the following movement led by Medha Patkar?
Correct : C. narmada bachao andolan
54. “The fusion or blending of two previously distinct groups into one” the term refers to
…………………?
Correct : A. assimilation
55. …………………… means transmission of cultural elements from one social group to
another.
Correct : C. acculturation
56. Culture has two distinctive part, one is Material culture and another is ……….……….
Correct : B. non material culture
57. “Primitive Culture” written by ………………….?
Correct : A. edward tylor
58. Who defined “case study as a comprehensive study of a social unit be that unit a person, a
group, a social institution, a district or a community”?
Correct : D. pauline v young
59. Herskovitz argue that the process of enculturation is a process of ……………………?
Correct : C. adaptation
60. It is an intensive and comprehensive data collection method, in which researcher aim is to
obtain complete and detailed data of a social phenomenon or social unit?
Correct : C. case study
61. Which of the following functionalist proposed that “Culture is a means to satisfy human
needs”?
Correct : A. malinowski
62. The Khasis and the Jaintias tribes of Meghalaya speak in language belonging to the
…………….. language family?
Correct : D. austro-asiatic
63. Anthropology is a specialized branch in ……………………..?
Correct : B. physical
64. To ……………….., culture is an instrument which enables man to secure his bio-psychic
survival and a higher mental intellectual survival?
Correct : A. bronislaw malinowski
65. According to D N Majumdar and T N Madan, which of the following classification related to
tribal zone demarcated in India?
Correct : D. north-north eastern, the central or the middle, southern zone
66. The term “Jhum” is used to represent …………………..?
Correct : B. hill cultivation
67. Which of the following is not an acculturation study?
Correct : D. srinivas study of rampura village
68. “Structure and function in primitive society” written by ……………………..?
Correct : C. radcliffe brown
69. Which of the anthropologists termed anthropology as “Child of Darwin”?
Correct : D. r r marret
70. In which state Kuki tribes live?
Correct : A. manipur
71. According to K. S. Singh the term Tribe defined for the first time in the Census of
Correct : B. 1901
72. "it is both a conscious and an unconscious conditioning process where a man, as child and
adult, achieves competence in his culture, internalizes his culture and becomes thoroughly enculturated." Can be defined as ………………….?
Correct : C. enculturation
73. “The change in individuals whose primary learning has been in one culture and who take
over traits from another culture” defined as ………………….?
Correct : A. acculturation
74. Culture regarded as an integrated whole, which includes ………………
Correct : D. all of the above
75. The concept “Parochialization” propounded by ……………………?
Correct : A. mckim marriot
76. Among the notified tribal communities,…………….. is the dominant tribal community in
Kerala.
Correct : C. paniyar
77. Who defined as culture as communicable intelligence?
Correct : B. marret
78. Which of the following factors is a hindering to assimilation process?
Correct : D. all of the above
79. Which district in Kerala has the largest tribal population?
Correct : B. wayanad
80. In which district of Kerala did the Chengara agitation take place?
Correct : B. pathanamhtitta
81. …………….. Means adopting the characteristics of culture from other society?
Correct : C. diffusion
82. Which of the following features is an incorrect statement regarding the tribe?
Correct : B. cultural heterogeneity
83. According to 2011 census, how many major tribal communities identified in Kerala?
Correct : A. 35
84. When there is exchange of culture traits and complexes, it may be called …………………?
Correct : B. transculturation
85. The term “Little tradition and Great tradition” proposed by ………………..?
Correct : D. robert redfield
86. Which of the following statement is true regarding assimilation?
Correct : D. all of the above
87. It is a process by which a minority integrates socially, culturally and politically into a larger
or a dominant culture of a society?
Correct : C. assimilation
88. The Koragar tribe is mainly located in the ...........................district of Kerala.
Correct : D. kasargod
89. What is the meaning of “Anthropos”?
Correct : B. man
90. Who defined ‘a tribe as a social group of simple kind, the members of which speak a
common dialect, have a single government, and act together for such common purposes as warfare’
Correct : A. w.h.r. rivers
91. The de-notified tribes were earlier known as
Correct : C. criminal tribes
92. Which of the following is not a type of case study method?
Correct : A. selective case study
93. ………………… is the primitive tribe and only found in the Malappuram District?
Correct : C. cholanaikkans
94. Who defined "Evolution is the integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which matter passes from an indefinite incoherent homogeneity to definite, coherent
heterogeneity, and during which the retained motion undergoes a parallel transformation."
Correct : D. herbert parson
95. It is a cultural process in which individuals acquire the knowledge, skills, attitudes, norms
and values that enable them to become functioning members of their societies?
Correct : B. enculturation
96. The term “cultural lag” introduced in the work of ……………………..?
Correct : A. social change with respect to culture and original nature
97. Which of the following features of a tribe is correct?
Correct : D. all of the above
98. David Hardiman used ………………… term to refer tribal people in Gujarat?
Correct : C. kaliparaja
99. The Irular tribe is mainly located in the .............................. district of Kerala.
Correct : A. palakkad
100. Physical anthropology is the study of ……………………..?