MCQ Bank
Which one of the following is considered as origin of languages in the language family?
- A) Proto language
- B)
- C)
- D)
According to functionalists, rewards must be:
- A) Symbolic
- B) Equal
- C) Incentives
- D) Temporary
Which one of the following use research skills to determine how well a policy or program has succeeded in its objectives
- A) Evaluator
- B)
- C)
- D)
Intensive agriculture, market economies, urbanization, and complex forms of social stratification, all the characteristics are associated with:
- A) Bands
- B) Chiefdoms
- C) States
- D) Tribes
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
- B)
- C)
- D)
Primary task of science is to:
- A) Encourage beliefs
- B) Challenge existing belief
- C) Challenge certain experiments
- D) Create knowledge
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
- B)
- C)
- D)
If an individual breaks the law, and likely to turn himself for punishment, he possessed which type of personality?
- A) Indigenous personality
- B) Inner-directed personality
- C) Tradition-oriented personality
- D) Other-directed personalities
Food production became important for humans about:
- A) 10,000 years ago
- B)
- C)
- D)
The expected ways of behaving are referred to as social __________.
- A) Mores
- B) Values
- C) Norms
- D) Folkways
Socio-linguistics examines:
- A) Link between languages and social structures
- B)
- C)
- D)
Which of the following statements is true about globalization?
- A) It has led to both economic growth and inequality
- B) It has stopped the movement of people across borders
- C) It has reduced poverty for all countries
- D) It has no impact on the environment
Which of the following kinship systems emphasizes patrilineal descent?
- A) Omaha
- B)
- C)
- D)
What does the term urbanization refer to?
- A) The process of people moving from rural areas into cities
- B) The decrease in population in rural areas
- C) The process of people moving from cities to rural areas
- D) The process of cities becoming smaller
According to horticulturist which one of the following is a useful form of production? Slash and
- A) Burn Technique
- B)
- C)
- D)
Which of the following theory stimulated that states developed as a result of warfare and oppression rather than voluntary self-interest?
- A) Nation state formation
- B) Coercive Theory of State Formation
- C) Hydraulic Theory of State Formation
- D) Voluntaristic State Formation
Who among the following are concerned with the issues related to dying out of rarely spoken languages
- A) cultural anthropologists
- B)
- C)
- D)
When people are rewarded primarily by popularity rather than skill, this contradicts the ideas of:
- A) Functionalism
- B) Interactionalism
- C) Conflict theory
- D) Evolution theory
The Inuit in the Arctic region provide a good example of:
- A) Hunting and gathering peoples
- B)
- C)
- D)
Colonial rulers often imposed which form of governance?
- A) Kingdom
- B) Chiefdoms
- C) Bands
- D) Tribes