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Sociology of Indian Society | Set 2
1. Who authored the work “Remembered village”?
A. g s ghurye
B. m n srinivas
C. mckim marriot
D. irawati karve
Correct : B. m n srinivas
2. Which book of M N Srinivas mentioned the concepts of sanskritisation and westernization?
A. social change in modern india
B. social system in mysore village
C. social structure in ancient india
D. indian village
Correct : A. social change in modern india
3. Which is the predecessor of the concept sanskritisation as founded by M N Srinivas?
A. westernization
B. modernization
C. brahmanization
D. elite emulation
Correct : C. brahmanization
4. Which is the approach applied by S C Dube in his study of villages?
A. structural
B. structural-functional
C. functional
D. indological
Correct : B. structural-functional
5. Which is the prominent approach analyzed the concept on the basis of civilization?
A. dialectical approach
B. structural-functional approach
C. indological approach
D. cultural approach
Correct : D. cultural approach
6. Who is the prominent historical Anthropologist combined the field and archival data in a very early period of Indian Anthropology?
A. n k bose
B. surajith chandra sinha
C. irawati karve
D. m n srinivas
Correct : B. surajith chandra sinha
7. Who wrote the famous book Primitive Tribes-The First Step?
A. surajith sinha
B. e b tylor
C. s c dube
D. d n majumdar
Correct : A. surajith sinha
8. When did Surajith Chandra Sinha born?
A. 1923
B. 1920
C. 1926
D. 1852
Correct : C. 1926
9. Who is the famous Anthropologist born in Durgapur Upazila
A. g s ghurye
B. l r vidyarthi
C. franz boas
D. surajith chandra sinha
Correct : D. surajith chandra sinha
10. Who is the famous theorist studied about the Indian Tribe in Central India known as Bhumij
A. n k bose
B. surajith sinha
C. s c dube
D. g s ghurye
Correct : B. surajith sinha
11. …………….is the model followed by civilizational approach
A. civilizational
B. functional
C. structural
D. evolutionary
Correct : C. structural
12. ………..is an approach analyzed society in a class angle
A. dialectical approach
B. indological approach
C. structural approach
D. structural-functional approach
Correct : A. dialectical approach
13. Who was known as Marxologist?
A. a r desai
B. d p mukherjee
C. i p desai
D. karl marx
Correct : B. d p mukherjee
14. Who is the author of the work Modern Indian Culture: A Sociological Study
A. d p mukherjee
B. r k mukherjee
C. m n srinivas
D. a r desai
Correct : A. d p mukherjee
15. Who presented modernization as a process can never be achieved by a mere imitation?
A. m n srinivas
B. yogendra singh
C. max weber
D. d p mukherjee
Correct : D. d p mukherjee
16. What is the Sanskritic meaning of tradition?
A. continuation
B. parampara
C. jana
D. parambarya
Correct : B. parampara
17. How D P Mukherjee classifies tradition?
A. high, middle and low
B. little and great tradition
C. primary, secondary and tertiary
D. indian and western
Correct : C. primary, secondary and tertiary
18. Mukherjee intended by primary tradition?
A. ancient culture in india
B. medieval culture in west
C. modern culture in india
D. primitive and authentic to indian culture
Correct : D. primitive and authentic to indian culture
19. What is meant by secondary tradition?
A. the culture emerged with muslim contact
B. the culture emerged with british contact
C. the culture evolved with western contact
D. the culture emerged in india
Correct : A. the culture emerged with muslim contact
20. What are the three principles influence the traditions?
A. smriti, dharma and artha
B. jana, varna and jati
C. sruti, smriti and anubhava
D. parambarya, believe and contact
Correct : C. sruti, smriti and anubhava
21. Who is an Indian sociologist who strongly criticizes the tight compartmentalization of social sciences?
A. durjati prasad mukherjee
B. andre betteille
C. m n srinivas
D. robert k merton
Correct : A. durjati prasad mukherjee
22. …………….is the major base used by A R Desai to analyze Indian social structure
A. social
B. economy
C. institution
D. class
Correct : B. economy
23. ………………work of Ghurye tried to make a reconstruction of a very orthodox traditional and age old characteristics of caste in India.
A. indian sadhus
B. the scheduled tribes of india
C. caste, class and occupation
D. caste and race in india
Correct : D. caste and race in india
24. When did caste system originated as part of race?
A. primitive period
B. aryan period
C. vedic period
D. post-vedic period
Correct : C. vedic period
25. ……….is the arrangement of hereditary group in a rank order
A. class
B. hierarchy
C. pyramid
D. status group
Correct : B. hierarchy
26. In opinion of M N Srinivas …………is the microcosm of Indian society and civilization
A. village
B. caste
C. urban
D. rural
Correct : A. village
27. ……………. is the process of treating all the religion in India as equal and neutral.
A. democracy
B. secularization
C. equalization
D. ho*mo equals
Correct : B. secularization
28. Who opined that villages are semi-autonomous
A. s c dube
B. andre beteille
C. m n srinivas
D. g s ghurye
Correct : A. s c dube
29. Who studied Shamirpet village in Madhya Pradesh
A. a m shah
B. m n srinivas
C. s c dube
D. mckim marriot
Correct : C. s c dube
30. M N Srinivas opined that all changes in society are reflected through the transformation in …………
A. institution
B. caste structure
C. social structure
D. village structure
Correct : B. caste structure
31. What is the base of social change in the opinion of M N Srinivas?
A. cultural mobility
B. caste mobility
C. structural mobility
D. social mobility
Correct : D. social mobility
32. Who is the prominent Anthropologist studied the Juang tribe in Chottanagpur
A. g s ghurye
B. irawati karve
C. n k bose
D. surajith chandra sinha
Correct : C. n k bose
33. Evolutionary growth of tribal societies occurring through the intensity of the relationship between ………………
A. tribal communities and non-tribal societies
B. tribal communities and wider societies
C. western societies and tribal communities
D. tribal communities and other tribal societies
Correct : B. tribal communities and wider societies
34. Who advocated that India would be truly independent only when the poorest of its people become free of human suffering?
A. jawhar lal nehru
B. rabindranth tagore
C. mahatma gandhi
D. jayaprakash narayanan
Correct : A. jawhar lal nehru
35. Which one of the following program was launched in the year of 2000?
A. national rural livelihood mission
B. the mahatma gandhi national rural employment guarantee act
C. pradhan mantri awaas yojna- gramin
D. pradhan mantri gramodaya yojana
Correct : A. national rural livelihood mission
36. Which among the following is the method to estimate the poverty line in India?
A. tax method
B. income method
C. census method
D. sampling method
Correct : C. census method
37. Women and children under the age of five are food insecure population due to?
A. unemployment
B. unequal distribution
C. malnutrition
D. poverty
Correct : B. unequal distribution
38. Which one of the social group is volunerable to poverty?
A. other backward caste
B. scheduled caste
C. marginalized
D. minority
Correct : A. other backward caste
39. Where is the contradiction of tradition and modernity ends up in opinion of Mukherjee?
A. conflict & synthesis
B. conflict & contradiction
C. conflict & contravention
D. assimilation & accommodation
Correct : B. conflict & contradiction
40. Who coined the term subaltern?
A. georg simmel
B. antonio gramsci
C. ambedkar
D. david hardiman
Correct : C. ambedkar
41. Which is the work of Gramsci firstly mentioned the term subaltern?
A. media and cultural studies
B. the antonio gramsci
C. prison notebooks
D. the southern question
Correct : A. media and cultural studies
42. When did the term subaltern get popularized?
A. with the development of colonial studies
B. with the british administration
C. post- independence period
D. modern period
Correct : D. modern period
43. Where is the birthplace of David Hardiman?
A. nadiad
B. chandannagar
C. ganeshgudi
D. rawalpindi
Correct : B. chandannagar
44. Which is the work of Hardiman applied the subaltern perspective?
A. histories for the subordinate
B. the coming of devi
C. peasant resistance in india
D. subaltern studies
Correct : A. histories for the subordinate
45. How Ambedkar called Dalits?
A. antya
B. scheduled caste
C. untouchables
D. aadhya
Correct : C. untouchables
46. Why Ambedkar called Dalits as Antya?
A. they are arranged in lower part of hierarchy
B. they coming from last
C. they live at the end of village
D. they live in outskirts of village
Correct : A. they are arranged in lower part of hierarchy
47. ……………refers to the inability of an individual to secure basic needs even in social surroundings of general prosperity
A. relative poverty
B. case poverty
C. absolute poverty
D. poverty
Correct : B. case poverty