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Social Structure and change in India Part 1
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1. Proximity to nature is a characteristic feature of
Agrarian society
Urban society
Industrial society
Post-industrial society
2. The total organisation of social life within a limited area may be termed as
A community
An association
An institution
A society
3. Which of the following will not be considered as Primary group
Family
Peer Group
Neighbourhood
Crowd
4. __________ borrowed the administrative model of the persian empire.
British
Mughal
Mauryan
Gupta
5. Kushans brought the famous_______ art.
Kathakali
Mohiniyatam
Kathak
Gandharan
6. Social mobility is the most important feature of
Urban society
Rural society
Tribal society
Industrial Society
7. The natural boundaries provide India is.
Cultural unity
Political unity
Religious unity
Geographical unity
8. Government which year human rights act as commissioners in census?
1911
1950
1942
1921
9. defined the ?religion is an attitude towards superhuman powers
MacIver
Page
Ogburn
Ginsberg
10. Islam religion comes to India in century.
12
13
10
14
11. Who was the founder of Sikhism?
Guru Nanak
Guru Govind
Mahveer
None of the above
12. Who was the census commissioner in 1911?
Herbert Risely
Jawaharlal Nehru
M.N. Srinivas
G S Gurye
13. The concept of mother India also indicates _______
The realization of geographical unity
Natural boundaries
Land of Bharat
Indian diaspora
14. What are the factors of language growth
level of literacy
cultural growth
both
None of these
15. Racial groups are divided into three by __________
anthropologists
Sociologists
Scientist
Administrators
16. The villages are the symbol of cultural homogeneity and the cities symbolize.
Homogeneity
Isolation
Cultural heterogeneity
Alienation
17. Who says that diversity of physical and social type, language, customand religion which strike the observance in India?
M.N. Srinivas
Herbert Risely
Harvard Wood
A R Desai
18. Mangoloids are concentrated in _________
India
America
U.K
Europe
19. Language of Negritos
Andamanis and Ongan
Andamanis and Burma
Ongan
Devanagiri
20. Negritos are concentrated in _________
Andaman island
India
Sreelanka
North East India
21. Specialty of mangoloids are __________
fair
black
both
None of the above
22. ___________ is the major concern of man
Family
Religion
Society
Community
23. According to the 1931 census there were ______ religious groups in India.
10
20
22
14
24. _________ is the oldest religion of the world.
Christianity
Hinduism
Jainism
Islam
25. ___ is the basic unit of Indian rural social structure
Marriage
Caste system
Family
Community
26. The main duty of the family
schooling
Jsocialization
internalization
Agriculture
27. The caste system based on
Religion
Endogamy
Marriage
Region
28. Economic system of the village is based on ____
Functional specialization
Political system
Training
Homogeneous
29. Buddhism was founded by _______
Mahaveer
Gautama Buddha
Allah
Prophets
30. Jainism was founded by _________
Mahaveer
Allah
Christ
Goutama Budda
31. ___________ is the major feature of rural society
Social heterogeneity
Dynamic life
Homogeneity
Social mobility
32. Self sufficiency is a major feature of ___________
Rural society
urban society
tribal society
None of these
33. India is a land of ______
villages
Cities
Township
Rururbs
34. A village has less than __________ individuals
10000
15000
5000
25000
35. ____ is the main occupation of the Indians
Business
Agriculture
Priesthood
Cottage industries
36. _____ is a land of diversities
Village
Kerala
Nepal
India
37. The important feature of the Indian social structure?
Mono religious
Multi-religious
Rigid mentality
Social mobility
38. The villages economic activities are determined by the ____
Economic conditions
Social conditions
Cultural conditions
Political conditions
39. What is the basic unit of Society?
Marriage
Family
Kinship
None of these
40. What is the first and most immediate social environment to which a child is exposed?
Family
Nuclear family
Society
both (a) and (b)
41. Family is a ________ group
Social
Institution
Universal
both (a) and (c)
42. In the Industrial Society the family is limited to husband, wife and their children is called
Extended family
family
Nuclear family
None of these
43. The word family is derived from______
Greek
Spanish
Latin
Portuguese
44. The term bharat varsha stands for
Fundamental unity,
Unity and diversity
Geographical unity
Cultural unity
45. _____________ says about ?The unity of India
M.N. Srinivas
Merton
Gupta
Ashoka
46. _____ was the root of both pali and prakit?
Hindi
Sanskrit
Malayalam
Konkini
47. The constitution of India in its height recognizes _____official languages.
42
22
2
5
48. Name the official languages of India?
Assamese
Bengali
Devnagiri
Hindi
49. Who defined the family is a biological Social unit composed of husband wife and children
Mac Iver
Burgess
Eliot
M.F. Nimkoff
50. As per Hindu Dharrnsastra marriage between a Brahmin woman and a man from Vaishya Varna is called
Pratiloma
Anuloma
Exogamy
Love marriage
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