R4RIN – MCQs, Mock Tests | Sociology Social Structure and change in India Part 2

What is the main basis of the structure of family?

1. Husband
2. Mother
3. Both (a) and (b)
4. Marriage

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the second basis of the structure of the family?

1. Husband and Mother
2. Marriage
3. Procreation
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

______is one of the main aim of family life?

1. Procreation
2. Marriage
3. Production of child
4. Sexual satisfaction

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Family is an agent of .______

1. Marriage
2. Society
3. Socialisation
4. Social Institution

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What is the meaning of ?Famulus??

1. Family
2. Servant
3. Group
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

_______is a basic definite and enduring group.

1. Marriage
2. Society
3. Family
4. Both (b) and (c )

✅ Correct Answer: 3

_________is formed by the relatively durable companionship of husband and wife.

1. Family
2. Marriage
3. Social Institution
4. Kinship

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Family provides ......................... status?

1. Achieved
2. Ascribed
3. Both (a) and (b)
4. Ethnic

✅ Correct Answer: 2

It is a type of family in which husband, wife and their unmarried children is called .............

1. Joint family
2. Nuclear Family
3. Extended family
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

____family the bride resides with the husband?s family

1. patrilocal
2. Matrilocal
3. patriarchal
4. patriarchal

✅ Correct Answer: 1

In the _______ family the ancestors are men

1. Matrilineal
2. Partilocal
3. Partiarchal
4. Patrilineal

✅ Correct Answer: 4

On the basis of power and authority families can be divided in to ______

1. Patriarchal
2. Matriarchal
3. Both (a) and (b)
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

What are the two main rules of marriage?

1. Monogamy
2. endogamy
3. exogamy
4. both (b) and (c )

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Endogamy is a rule of marriage in which the life partners are to be selected within the

1. group
2. country
3. society
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

______is a rule of marriage in which a man has many outside his own group

1. monogamy
2. endogamy
3. exogamy
4. Hypergamy

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Who says that, Marriage is a contract for the production and maintenance of children?

1. Alfred MC Clung Lee
2. Edward Westmark
3. Robert H. Lowie
4. Malinowski

✅ Correct Answer: 4

__________ is the form of marriage in which man marries one woman.

1. Polygyny
2. Exogamy
3. Polyandry
4. Monogamy

✅ Correct Answer: 4

________ is a marriage between two equals

1. exogamy
2. Village gothra
3. Pinda exogamy
4. Isogamy

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What are the two forms of an isogamy marriage?

1. Hypergamy
2. Hypogamy
3. Anuloma
4. both (a) & (b)

✅ Correct Answer: 4

is a marriage of a woman with a man of higher varna or Superior Caste.

1. Hyper gamy
2. Hypogamy
3. Anuloma
4. Prathiloma

✅ Correct Answer: 1

_______ is a marriage of higher caste man with lower caste women.

1. Hypogamy
2. Hyper gamy
3. Anuloma
4. Prathiloma

✅ Correct Answer: 1

is a marriage of woman to a man from a lower caste

1. Hypogamy
2. Prathiloma
3. Anuloma
4. Hyper gamy

✅ Correct Answer: 2

is a form of marriage in which one man marries more than women at a time

1. Polygyny
2. Polyandry
3. Monogamy
4. Group Marriage

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Latin work Soror stands for ______

1. Brother
2. Sister
3. Father
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 2

______ is a form of marriage of one woman with more than one man

1. Polyandry
2. Polyandry
3. Monogamy
4. Polygyny

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Several brothers share the same wife which practice is often called __________

1. Sororal polygyny
2. Non-Sororal
3. Fraternal polyandry
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

______ is a form of marriage of a man to a woman at a time

1. Polyamy
2. exogamy
3. Monogamy
4. Polyandry

✅ Correct Answer: 3

______is a form of marriage a woman or a man have more than one spouse

1. Polyanchy
2. Monogamy
3. Polygyny
4. Polygamy

✅ Correct Answer: 4

What are the two forms of Polygamy marriage?

1. Polygny
2. Monogamy
3. Polyandry
4. both (a) and ?

✅ Correct Answer: 4

_______ is the most common and acceptable form of marriage

1. Monogamy
2. Exogamy
3. Polygamy
4. Polyandry

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Choose the main aims of marriage

1. Dharma
2. Rathi
3. Praja
4. All these

✅ Correct Answer: 4

______is an instrument of culture Transmission and an agent of socialisation

1. Society
2. Social control
3. Family
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

Father is the head of the family and the familial power and authority rests in the father this type of family is known as _____

1. Patriarchal
2. Matrilineal
3. Patrilocal
4. Matrilocal

✅ Correct Answer: 1

A marriage of two or more woman with two or more men, is known as _____

1. Sororal Polygyny
2. Monogamy
3. Serial monogamy
4. Group marriage

✅ Correct Answer: 4

The bond of blood is called .______Kinship

1. affinal kinship
2. Primary
3. consanguineous Kinship
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The bond of blood or marriage which binds people together in group is called _____

1. Kinship
2. Affinial kinship
3. Consanguineous kinship
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The .............. refers to a set of Principles by which an individual trace the descent.

1. Matrilineal descent
2. Patrilineal descent
3. Bilateral descent
4. rule of descent

✅ Correct Answer: 4

_______ Desent traced through the father?s or men line

1. Matrilineal desent
2. Patrilineal descent
3. Bilateral descent
4. Rule of descent

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Some relatives are very close and near that is called

1. Affinal
2. Primary kins
3. Secondary kins
4. Consanguineous

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Primary kins of a primary kin is called ...............

1. Affinal kin
2. Primary kin
3. Tertiary kin
4. Secondary kin

✅ Correct Answer: 4

Who told that Kinship is simply the relations between ?kin? that is persons related by real pulative or fictative Consanguinity?

1. Aberchrombie
2. Robin fox
3. A.R. Radcliffe
4. Nimkoff

✅ Correct Answer: 2

The bond of marriage is called ................ Kinship

1. affinal kinship
2. Consanguineous kinship
3. both (a) and (b)
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Primary kin of our secondary kin is called

1. Tertiary kin
2. Primary kin
3. Secondary kin
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The term caste is derived from_____

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

✅ Correct Answer: 3

The word caste means?

1. Race
2. Varna
3. Class
4. None of these

✅ Correct Answer: 1

The Jathi are locally defined _____

1. Varna
2. Colour
3. Kula
4. Group

✅ Correct Answer: 4

present the most elevated condition of purity

1. Kshathriya
2. Brahmin
3. Shudra
4. Vyshya

✅ Correct Answer: 2

Who first use the term sanskritization?

1. M.N. Sreenivas
2. C.H. Coole
3. T.N. Majundar
4. T.N. Madan

✅ Correct Answer: 1

Who introduced the term modernization?

1. Lundbekg
2. Gait
3. Page
4. Daniel Lerner

✅ Correct Answer: 4

is a process whereby people of lower castes collectively try to adopt upper caste practices and beliefs and acquire higher status

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

✅ Correct Answer: 2