1.

Proximity to nature is a characteristic feature of–

(A) Agrarian society
(B) Urban society
(C) Industrial society
(D) Post-industrial society

2. The total organisation of social life within a limited area may be termed as–
(A) A community
(B) An association
(C) An institution
(D) A society

3. Which of the following will not be considered as Primary group?

(A) Family
(B) Peer Group
(C) Neighbourhood
(D) Crowd

4. As per Hindu Dharrnsastra marriage between a Brahmin woman and a man from 'Vaishya
Varna' is called–
(A) Pratiloma
(B) Anuloma
(C) Exogamy
(D) Love marriage

5) ___________ borrowed the administrative model of the persian empire.

A) British
B) Mughal,
C) Mauryan
D) Gupta

6) Kushans brought the famous_______ art.

A) Kathakali
B) Mohiniyatam,
C)Kathak
D)Gandharan

7) Social mobility is the most important feature of .

A) Urban society
B) Rural society
C)Tribal society
D) Industrial Society

8) The natural boundaries provide India is.

A) Cultural unity
B) Political unity
C) Religious unity
D)Geographical unity

9) Government which year human rights act as commissioners in census?

A)1911
B) 1950
C) 1942
D) 1921

10)Who defined the „religion is an attitude towards superhuman powers‟

A) Mac Iver
B) Page
C) Ogburn
D) Ginsberg
11) Islam religion comes to India in century.
A) 12
B) 13
C) 10
D)14

12) Who was the founder of Sikhism?

A) Guru Nanak
B) Guru Govind
C) Mahveer
D)None of the above

13) Who was the census commissioner in 1911?

A) Herbert Risely
B) Jawaharlal Nehru
C) M.N. Srinivas
D) G S Gurye

14) The concept of mother India also indicates _______ .

A) The realization of geographical unity
B) Natural boundaries
C) Land of Bharat
D) Indian diaspora

15) What are the factors of language growth

A) level of literacy
B) cultural growth
C) both
D) None of these

16) Racial groups are divided into three by __________

A) anthropologists
B) Sociologists
C) Scientist
D) Administrators

17) The villages are the symbol of cultural homogeneity and the cities symbolize.
A) Homogeneity
B) Isolation
C) Cultural heterogeneity
D)Alienation

18) Who says that diversity of physical and social type, language, customand religion which
strike the observance in India?
A) M.N. Srinivas
B) Herbert Risely
C) Harvard Wood
D) A R Desai

19) Mangoloids are concentrated in _________

A) India
B) America
C) U.K
D) Europe

20) Language of Negritos

A) Andamanis and Ongan
B) Andamanis and Burma
C)Ongan
D) Devanagiri
21) Negritos are concentrated in _________
A) Andaman island
B) India
C) Sreelanka
D)North East India

22) Specialty of mangoloids are __________

A) fair
B) black
C) both
D)None of the above

23) ___________ is the major concern of man.

A) Family
B) Religion
C) Society
D)Community

24) According to the 1931 census there were ______ religious groups in India.
A) 10
B) 20
C) 22
D)14

25) __________ is the oldest religion of the world.

A) Christianity
B) Hinduism
C) Jainism
D)Islam

26) --------- is the basic unit of Indian rural social structure.

A) Marriage
B) Caste system
C) Family
D)Community

27) The main duty of the family

A) schooling
B) socialization
C) internalization
D)Agriculture

28) The caste system based on ----------

A) Religion
B) Endogamy
C) Marriage
D)Region

29) Economic system of the village is based on ------

A) Functional specialization
B) Political system
C) Training
D)Homogeneous

30) Buddhism was founded by _______

A) Mahaveer
B) Gautama Buddha
C) Allah
D) Prophets
31) Jainism was founded by _________
A) Mahaveer
B) Allah
C) Christ
D)Goutama Budda

32) ___________ is the major feature of rural society.

A) Social heterogeneity
B) Dynamic life
C) Homogeneity
D) Social mobility

33) Self sufficiency is a major feature of ___________

A) Rural society
B) urban society
C) tribal society

34) India is a land of -----------

A) villages
B) Cities
C) Township
D) Rurals

35) A village has less than __________ individuals

A) 10000
B) 15000
C) 5000
D)25000

36) ____ is the main occupation of the Indians

A) Business
B) Agriculture
C) Priesthood
D) Cottage industries

37) _____ is a land of diversities

A) Village
B) Kerala
C) Nepal
D) India

38) The important feature of the Indian social structure?

A) Mono religious
B) Multi-religious
C) Rigid mentality
D) Social mobility

39) The villages economic activities are determined by the -------------

A) Economic conditions
B) Social conditions
C) Cultural conditions
D) Political conditions

40) What is the basic unit of Society?

A) Marriage
B) Family
C) Kinship
D) None of these
41. What is the first and most immediate social environment to which a child is exposed?
A) Family
B) Nuclear family
C) Society
D) both (a) and (b)

42. Family is a ..................... group

A) Social
B) Institution
C) Universal
D) both (a) & (c)

43. In the Industrial Society the family is limited to husband, wife and their children is called
A.Extended family
B) family
C) Nuclear family
D) None of these

44) The word family is derived from..........................

A) Greek
B) Spanish
C) Latin
D) Portuguese

45) The term bharat varsha stands for.

A) Fundamental unity
B) Unity and diversity
C) Geographical unity
D)Cultural unity

46) _____________ says about “The unity of India”

A) M.N. Srinivas
B) Merton
C) Gupta
D)Ashoka

47) _____ was the root of both pali and prakit?

A) Hindi
B) Sanskrit
C) Malayalam
D)Konkini

48) The constitution of India in its height recognizes _____official languages.

A) 42
B) 22
C) 2,
D) 5

49) Name the official languages of India?

A) Assamese
B) Bengali
C) Devnagiri
D) Hindi

50) Who defined the family is a biological Social unit composed of husband wife and children?
A) MacIver
B) Burgess
C) Eliot
D) M.F. Nimkoff
51) What is the main basis of the structure of family?
A) Husband
B) Mother
C) Both (a) and (b)
D) Marriage

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

A) Husband and Mother
B) Marriage
C) Procreation
D) None of these

53. ......................... is one of the main aim of family life?

A) Procreation
B) Marriage
C) Production of child
D) Sexual satisfaction

54. Family is an agent of .................

A) Marriage
B) Society
C) Socialisation
D) Social Institution

55) What is the meaning of „Famulus‟?

a) Family
B) Servant
C) Group
D) None of these

56) ................... is a basic definite and enduring group.

A) Marriage
B) Society
C) Family
D) Both (b) and (c)

57. ................... is formed by the relatively durable companionship of husband and wife.
A) Family
B) Marriage
C) Social Institution
D)Kinship

58) Family provides ......................... status?

A) Achieved
B) Ascribed
C) Both (a) and (b)
D) Ethnic

59. It is a type of family in which husband, wife and their unmarried children is called .............
A) Joint family
B) Nuclear Family
C) Extended family
D) None of these

60. ............... family the bride resides with the husband‟s family
A) patrilocal
B) Matrilocal
C) patriarchal
D) Matriarchal
61. In the .............. family the ancestors are men
A) Matrilineal
B) Partilocal
C) Partiarchal
D) Patrilineal

62. On the basis of power and authority families can be divided in to ................
A) Patriarchal
B) Matriarchal
C) Both (a) and (b)
D) None of these

63) What are the two main rules of marriage?

A) Monogamy
B) endogamy
C) exogamy
D) both (b) and (c)

64. Endogamy is a rule of marriage in which the life partners are to be selected within the …
A) group
B) country
C) society
D) None of these

65) ..................... is a rule of marriage in which a man has many outside his own group
A) monogamy
B) endogamy
C) exogamy
D) Hypergamy

66. Who says that, Marriage is a contract for the production and maintenance of children?
A) Alfred MC Clung Lee
B) Edward Westmark
C) Robert H. Lowie
D) Malinowski

67) ..................... is the form of marriage in which man marries one woman.
A) Polygyny
B) Exogamy
C) Polyandry
D) Monogamy

68. ...................... is a marriage between two equals

A) exogamy
B) Village gothra
C) Pinda exogamy
D) Isogamy

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

A) Hypergamy
B) Hypogamy
C) Anuloma
D) both (a) & (b)

70. ........... is a marriage of a woman with a man of higher varna or Superior Caste.
A) Hyper gamy
B) Hypogamy
C) Anuloma
D) Prathiloma
71. ................ is a marriage of higher caste man with lower caste women.
A) Hypogamy
B) Hypergamy
C) Anuloma
D) Prathiloma

72) ............. is a marriage of woman to a man from a lower caste

A) Hypogamy
B) Prathiloma
C) Anuloma
D) Hypergamy

73. .................... is a form of marriage in which one man marries more than women at a time.
A) Polygyny
B) Polyandry
C) Monogamy
D) Group Marriage

74. The Latin work Soror stands for ........................

A) Brother
B) Sister
C) Father
D) None of these

75. ..................... is a form of marriage of one woman with more than one man
A) Polyandry
B) Polyandry
C) Monogamy
D) Polygyny

76. Several brothers share the same wife which practice is often called .............
A) Sororal polygyny
B) Non-Sororal
C) Fraternal polyandry
D) None of these

77) ................ is a form of marriage of a man to a woman at a time

A) Polyamy
B) exogamy
C) Monogamy
D) Polyandry

78) ................ is a form of marriage a woman or a man have more than one spouse
A) Polyanchy
B) Monogamy
C) Polygyny
D) Polygamy

79. What are the two forms of Polygamy marriage?

A) Polygny
B) Monogamy
C) Polyandry
D) both (a) and (c)

80) ................. is the most common and acceptable form of marriage

A) Monogamy
B) Exogamy
C) Polygamy
D) Polyandry
81) Choose the main aims of marriage
A) Dharma
B) Rathi
C) Praja
D) All these

82. ..................... is an instrument of culture Transmission and an agent of socialisation

A) Society
B) Social control
C) Family
D) None of these

83) Father is the head of the family and the familial power and authority rests in the father this
type of family is known as ..............................
A) Patriarchal
B) Matrilineal
C) Patrilocal
D) Matrilocal

84) A marriage of two or more woman with two or more men, is known as .........
A) Sororal Polygyny
B) Monogamy
C) Serial monogamy
D) Group marriage

85) The bond of blood is called ......................... kinship

A) affinal kinship
B) Primary
C) consanguineous Kinship
D) None of these

86) The bond of blood or marriage which binds people together in group is called ..................
A) Kinship
B) Affinial kinship
C) Consanguineous kinship
D) None of these

87) The .............. refers to a set of Principles by which an individual trace the descent.
A) Matrilineal descent
B) Patrilineal descent
C) Bilateral descent
D) rule of descent

88. .................... Desent traced through the father‟s or men line

A) Matrilineal desent
B) Patrilineal descent
C) Bilateral descent
D) Rule of descent

89. Some relatives are very close and near that is called ..............
A) Affinal
B) Primary kins
C) Secondary kins
D) Consanguineous

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

A) Affinal kin
B) Primary kin
C) Tertiary kin
D) Secondary kin
91) Who told that Kinship is simply the relations between „kin‟ that is persons related by real
pulative or fictative Consanguinity?
A) Aberchrombie
B) Robin fox
C) A.R. Radcliffe
D) Nimkoff

92) The bond of marriage is called ................ kinship

A) affinal kinship
B) Consanguineous kinship
C) both (a) and (b)
D) None of these

93) Primary kin of our secondary kin is called .....................

A) Tertiary kin
B) Primary kin
C) Secondary kin
D) None of these

94) The term caste is derived from....................

a) Latin
b) Spanish
c) Portuguese
d) Greek

95) The word caste means?

a) Race
b) Varna
c) Class
d) None of these

96. The Jathi are locally defined ..................

a) Varna
b) Colour
c) Kula
d) Group

97. ......... present the most elevated condition of purity

a) Kshathriya
b) Brahmin
c) Shudra
d) Vyshya

98. Who first use the term sanskritization?

a) M.N. Sreenivas
b) C.H. Coole
c) T.N. Majundar
d) T.N. Madan

99) Who introduced the term modernization?

a) Lundbekg
b) Gait
c) Page
d) Daniel Lerner

100) ........... is a process whereby people of lower castes collectively try to adopt upper caste
practices and beliefs and acquire higher status
a) Modernisation
b) Sanskritization
c) Industrialization
d) Westernisation