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(1)
The system under which boys and girls are allowed to mix with each other and are given maximum permissible mixing facility by society before marriage is known as:
[A]
probationary marriage
[B]
experimental marriage
[C]
compassionate marriage
[D]
none of these
Answer: probationary marriage
(2)
When the offsprings inherit the father’s name, the family is called-
[A]
Patronymic
[B]
Conjugal
[C]
Patrilineal
[D]
Patriarchal
(3)
One’s wife’s brother is one’s_________.
[A]
affinal secondary kin
[B]
secondary kin
[C]
primary kin
[D]
tertiary kin
(4)
If in a kinship system, maternal uncle enjoys a pre-eminent place in the life of his nephews and nieces as a matter of convention, the kinship usage is called_____________.
[A]
Avunculate
[B]
Matriliny
[C]
Amitate
[D]
Couvade
(5)
The principle or set of principles by which ego’s consanguineal relatives are determined is technically known as-
[A]
rules of descent
[B]
rules of kinship
[C]
rules of residence
[D]
none of the above
(6)
The Child Marriage Act amended in___________ (year) raised the minimum age of marriage for girls from 15 to 18 years.
[A]
1976
[B]
1991
[C]
1986
[D]
1929
(7)
Mark out the factor contributing to high maternal mortality rate-
[A]
Early Marriage
[B]
Increase in the number of working women
[C]
Education
[D]
Antenatal Care
(8)
Dialectic of Sex was authored by-
[A]
Shulamith Firestone
[B]
Deepa Mehta
[C]
Babuef
[D]
Farah Naqvi
Answer: Shulamith Firestone
(9)
The theory of diet principle in social demography was given by
[A]
Burnham
[B]
Double day
[C]
D. Ricardo
[D]
K. Mannheim
(10)
Who defined family as a ‘group of persons whose relations to one another are based upon consanguinity and who are therefore kin to one another.’?
[A]
J. Goody
[B]
Kingsley Davis
[C]
Maclver and Page
[D]
L.H. Morgan
(11)
Middle quartile is known as:
[A]
Median
[B]
Geometric Mean
[C]
Mode
[D]
Harmonic Mean
(12)
Froebel, the well-known child educationist was a:
[A]
German educationist with poor education
[B]
Psychologist of the progressive education movement
[C]
Realist from the United Kingdom
[D]
French psychologist
Answer: German educationist with poor education
(13)
Which one of the following correctly defines the concept of social structure?
[A]
Socially assigned meaning to a particu¬lar set of behavioural pattern
[B]
The enduring, orderly and patterned relationships between elements of a society
[C]
A group of individuals, sharing com¬mon social background, aspirations and occupations
[D]
A set of behavioural patterns shared by different cultures
Answer: The enduring, orderly and patterned relationships between elements of a society
(14)
‘Before and after’ observations are made in studies involving:
[A]
Exploratory Design
[B]
Experimental Design
[C]
Descriptive Design
[D]
Cross-cultural Design
Answer: Cross-cultural Design
(15)
The distribution of data is symmetrical when:
[A]
Median value is equal to that of mode.
[B]
Mean, median and mode values are equal.
[C]
Mean value is equal to that of mode.
[D]
Mean value is equal to that of median.
Answer: Median value is equal to that of mode.
(16)
According to Radcliffe-Brown, which of the following does not contribute to the integra-tion and survival of the society?
[A]
Leadership
[B]
Rituals
[C]
Lineage
[D]
Kinship system
(17)
Which of the following requisites is appli¬cable to symbolic system of Malinowski?
[A]
Social control and regulation of behaviour
[B]
Communal rhythm in daily life and activities
[C]
Production and distribution of con¬sumer goods
[D]
Organisation and execution of authority
Answer: Social control and regulation of behaviour
(18)
_____________ is a set of techniques to measure attractions and repulsion in interpersonal relation ‘in quantitative and diagrammatic terms’.
[A]
Sociometry
[B]
Quantitative method
[C]
Social statistics
[D]
Social survey
(19)
The method of sociometry was first used by:
[A]
G. L. Moreno
[B]
Lipset
[C]
Weber
[D]
Sorokin
(20)
In India language has:
[A]
Helped in promoting national unity
[B]
Played health role in national life
[C]
Stood in the way of national integration
[D]
Created no problem at any level
Answer: Helped in promoting national unity
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