MCQ Bank
The psychological reaction you experience when you are in a different culture from your own is called
- A) Ethnocentrism
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The psychological reaction you experience when you are in a different culture from your own is called:
- A) Culture shock
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Which of the following descent from either males or females is recognized but individuals may select only one line to trace descent.
- A) Ambilineal
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Which one of the following is most common in societies with political bureaucracies?
- A) Redistribution
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Which of the following is NOT an example of participant observation?
- A) Interviewing cultural counsellor
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The foragers are well off and dubbed as the original affluent society by anthropologists because (of):
- A) They enjoy leisure time
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Which form of descent is prevalent in foraging and industrialized societies?
- A) Bilateral
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Which one of the following is considered as origin of languages in the language family?
- A) Proto language
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Which one of the following use research skills to determine how well a policy or program has succeeded in its objectives
- A) Evaluator
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The institutions like family, religion, education, economy, and sports are found all over the world. This versatility of cultural systems around the world is called:
- A) Cultural Universals
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Which one of the following is a technical term used by anthropologists to describe exchange of goods and services of almost equal value between two trading partners?
- A) Reciprocity
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Food production became important for humans about:
- A) 10,000 years ago
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Socio-linguistics examines:
- A) Link between languages and social structures
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Which of the following kinship systems emphasizes patrilineal descent?
- A) Omaha
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According to horticulturist which one of the following is a useful form of production? Slash and
- A) Burn Technique
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Who among the following are concerned with the issues related to dying out of rarely spoken languages
- A) cultural anthropologists
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The Inuit in the Arctic region provide a good example of:
- A) Hunting and gathering peoples
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Which one of the following theory states that culture evolves in direct proportion to their capacity to harness energy?
- A) Neo-Evolution
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Higher the rate of education, lower will be the rate of poverty is a hypothesis in which population is ___________
- A) Variable
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What is the percentage of vegetation in food intake prescribed by contemporary food collectors?
- A) 80%
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