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Social Structure and change in India Part 2

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1. What is the main basis of the structure of family?




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




3. ______is one of the main aim of family life?




4. Family is an agent of .______




5. What is the meaning of ?Famulus??




6. _______is a basic definite and enduring group.




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




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




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




10. ____family the bride resides with the husband?s family




11. In the _______ family the ancestors are men




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




13. What are the two main rules of marriage?




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




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




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




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




18. ________ is a marriage between two equals




19. What are the two forms of an isogamy marriage?




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




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




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




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




24. The Latin work Soror stands for ______




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




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




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




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




29. What are the two forms of Polygamy marriage?




30. _______ is the most common and acceptable form of marriage




31. Choose the main aims of marriage




32. ______is an instrument of culture Transmission and an agent of socialisation




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




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




35. The bond of blood is called .______Kinship




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




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




38. _______ Desent traced through the father?s or men line




39. Some relatives are very close and near that is called




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




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




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




43. Primary kin of our secondary kin is called




44. The term caste is derived from_____




45. The word caste means?




46. The Jathi are locally defined _____




47. present the most elevated condition of purity




48. Who first use the term sanskritization?




49. Who introduced the term modernization?




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