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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?
Husband
Mother
Both (a) and (b)
Marriage
2. What is the second basis of the structure of the family?
Husband and Mother
Marriage
Procreation
None of these
3. ______is one of the main aim of family life?
Procreation
Marriage
Production of child
Sexual satisfaction
4. Family is an agent of .______
Marriage
Society
Socialisation
Social Institution
5. What is the meaning of ?Famulus??
Family
Servant
Group
None of these
6. _______is a basic definite and enduring group.
Marriage
Society
Family
Both (b) and (c )
7. _________is formed by the relatively durable companionship of husband and wife.
Family
Marriage
Social Institution
Kinship
8. Family provides ......................... status?
Achieved
Ascribed
Both (a) and (b)
Ethnic
9. It is a type of family in which husband, wife and their unmarried children is called .............
Joint family
Nuclear Family
Extended family
None of these
10. ____family the bride resides with the husband?s family
patrilocal
Matrilocal
patriarchal
patriarchal
11. In the _______ family the ancestors are men
Matrilineal
Partilocal
Partiarchal
Patrilineal
12. On the basis of power and authority families can be divided in to ______
Patriarchal
Matriarchal
Both (a) and (b)
None of these
13. What are the two main rules of marriage?
Monogamy
endogamy
exogamy
both (b) and (c )
14. Endogamy is a rule of marriage in which the life partners are to be selected within the
group
country
society
None of these
15. ______is a rule of marriage in which a man has many outside his own group
monogamy
endogamy
exogamy
Hypergamy
16. Who says that, Marriage is a contract for the production and maintenance of children?
Alfred MC Clung Lee
Edward Westmark
Robert H. Lowie
Malinowski
17. __________ is the form of marriage in which man marries one woman.
Polygyny
Exogamy
Polyandry
Monogamy
18. ________ is a marriage between two equals
exogamy
Village gothra
Pinda exogamy
Isogamy
19. What are the two forms of an isogamy marriage?
Hypergamy
Hypogamy
Anuloma
both (a) & (b)
20. is a marriage of a woman with a man of higher varna or Superior Caste.
Hyper gamy
Hypogamy
Anuloma
Prathiloma
21. _______ is a marriage of higher caste man with lower caste women.
Hypogamy
Hyper gamy
Anuloma
Prathiloma
22. is a marriage of woman to a man from a lower caste
Hypogamy
Prathiloma
Anuloma
Hyper gamy
23. is a form of marriage in which one man marries more than women at a time
Polygyny
Polyandry
Monogamy
Group Marriage
24. The Latin work Soror stands for ______
Brother
Sister
Father
None of these
25. ______ is a form of marriage of one woman with more than one man
Polyandry
Polyandry
Monogamy
Polygyny
26. Several brothers share the same wife which practice is often called __________
Sororal polygyny
Non-Sororal
Fraternal polyandry
None of these
27. ______ is a form of marriage of a man to a woman at a time
Polyamy
exogamy
Monogamy
Polyandry
28. ______is a form of marriage a woman or a man have more than one spouse
Polyanchy
Monogamy
Polygyny
Polygamy
29. What are the two forms of Polygamy marriage?
Polygny
Monogamy
Polyandry
both (a) and ?
30. _______ is the most common and acceptable form of marriage
Monogamy
Exogamy
Polygamy
Polyandry
31. Choose the main aims of marriage
Dharma
Rathi
Praja
All these
32. ______is an instrument of culture Transmission and an agent of socialisation
Society
Social control
Family
None of these
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 _____
Patriarchal
Matrilineal
Patrilocal
Matrilocal
34. A marriage of two or more woman with two or more men, is known as _____
Sororal Polygyny
Monogamy
Serial monogamy
Group marriage
35. The bond of blood is called .______Kinship
affinal kinship
Primary
consanguineous Kinship
None of these
36. The bond of blood or marriage which binds people together in group is called _____
Kinship
Affinial kinship
Consanguineous kinship
None of these
37. The .............. refers to a set of Principles by which an individual trace the descent.
Matrilineal descent
Patrilineal descent
Bilateral descent
rule of descent
38. _______ Desent traced through the father?s or men line
Matrilineal desent
Patrilineal descent
Bilateral descent
Rule of descent
39. Some relatives are very close and near that is called
Affinal
Primary kins
Secondary kins
Consanguineous
40. Primary kins of a primary kin is called ...............
Affinal kin
Primary kin
Tertiary kin
Secondary kin
41. Who told that Kinship is simply the relations between ?kin? that is persons related by real pulative or fictative Consanguinity?
Aberchrombie
Robin fox
A.R. Radcliffe
Nimkoff
42. The bond of marriage is called ................ Kinship
affinal kinship
Consanguineous kinship
both (a) and (b)
None of these
43. Primary kin of our secondary kin is called
Tertiary kin
Primary kin
Secondary kin
None of these
44. The term caste is derived from_____
Latin
Spanish
Portuguese
Greek
45. The word caste means?
Race
Varna
Class
None of these
46. The Jathi are locally defined _____
Varna
Colour
Kula
Group
47. present the most elevated condition of purity
Kshathriya
Brahmin
Shudra
Vyshya
48. Who first use the term sanskritization?
M.N. Sreenivas
C.H. Coole
T.N. Majundar
T.N. Madan
49. Who introduced the term modernization?
Lundbekg
Gait
Page
Daniel Lerner
50. is a process whereby people of lower castes collectively try to adopt upper caste practices and beliefs and acquire higher status
Modernisation
Sanskritization
ndustrialization
Westernisation
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