MCQ Bank
Which of the following method allows a researcher to study non-verbal behavior
- A) Participant Observation
- B)
- C)
- D)
Which of the following can be thought of as a comprehensive vision, as a way of looking at things?
- A) Hegemony
- B) Policy
- C) Ethnic view
- D) Ideology
Which of the following descent systems is able to accommodate two sides simultaneously?
- A) Ambilineal
- B)
- C)
- D)
A ___________ ideology is the body of ideals, principles, doctrine, myth or symbols of a social movement, institution, class, or large group that references some political and cultural plan.
- A) Political
- B) Social
- C) Ethnic
- D) Economic
The distribution of commodity among the people of a society is known:
- A) Exchange
- B)
- C)
- D)
A political ideology can be described through all EXCEPT:
- A) Social movement
- B) The body of principles and doctrine
- C) Institution and class
- D) Encouragement of beliefs
English, French and Spanish are _________ with reference to language families.
- A) Sister languages
- B)
- C)
- D)
Which one of the following best differentiates invention from diffusion?
- A) Diffusion always takes place deliberately, invention happens accidentally
- B) Invention develops within a culture, diffusion comes from outside
- C) nvention usually spreads more quickly, diffusion spreads more slowly
- D) Diffusion originates within a culture, invention comes from outside
Which of the following production system depends primarily on domesticated animals for food?
- A) Pastoralism
- B)
- C)
- D)
Police department falls under which category:
- A) Administrative
- B) Judicial
- C) Law enforcement
- D) Legislative
Physical Anthropology is the study of humans from a ____________ perspective.
- A) Biological
- B)
- C)
- D)
Which of the following are formal airings of disputes involving kinsmen and friends of litigants and the adjudicating bodies?
- A) Song Duets
- B) Moots
- C) Law enforcement
- D) Social Intermediaries
An anthropologist is interested to explore the changing patterns of marriage over the time. Which source of information will be focused by him?
- A) Document Analysis
- B)
- C)
- D)
States began to be formed _____________ years ago with the Greek city-states.
- A) 4,500
- B) 2,500
- C) 5,500
- D) 3,500
Which analysis is carried out by linguists to understand the language structures and its underlying rules at a given point in time?
- A) Synchronic analysis
- B)
- C)
- D)
Early research in anthropology was mainly concerned with:
- A) Social development
- B) Physical development
- C) Cognitive development
- D) Emotional development
Which of the following theory is influenced by cultural relativism and ethno-science?
- A) Post modernism
- B)
- C)
- D)
The two principal ways through which cultures change are:
- A) Migration and industrialization
- B) Invention and diffusion
- C) Innovation and globalization
- D) Socialization and acculturation
The earliest form of humanity survival was on fruits and nuts, it falls under which development stage?
- A) Lower Savagery
- B)
- C)
- D)
The channeling of water from its natural route for the purposes of agriculture is known as _____________.
- A) Irrigation
- B) Foraging
- C) Fishing
- D) Small-scale farming