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Exam : Entrance Examinations
Paper: Ph.D. (Anthropology)
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Year : 2016

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PART – A
l. Who stated social structures are as real as an individual organism?
a. Nadel
b. Durkheim
c. Radcliffe-Brown
d. Firth

2. According to whom culture is an ‘energy capturing system’?
a. Leslie White
b. Julian Steward
c. A.L. Kroeber
d. Gordon Childe

3. In the works of Julian steward culture core is the area which is most directly related to
a. stability
b. continuity
c. change
d. adaptation

4. According to whom the evolution of human society is a natural and inevitable continuation of organic evolution?
a. Morgan
b. Herbert Spencer
c. Radcliffe-Brown
d. Montesquieu

5. Who among the following applied the concept of structure to culture?
a. Malinowski
b.Leach
c. Herskovits
d.Tylor

6. Ethnographic present shall engage in
a. Freezing of time and maintain present tense
b. Predicting in the present, since society is rule bound
c. Illuminating the present in consideration of the past
d. Discording the past and historical antecedents

7. The strength of ethnography lies mostly in
a. Methodological validity
b. Reliability of the research
c. Relating and combining both validity and reliability
d. Increasing the quality of research

8. In ethnographic engagement the search is essentially for
a. Translation of cultural ideas and concepts
b. Exploring the meanings and translate them by interpretation
c. Describing actions of the people systematically
d. Narrating the behaviour as observed without aqy bias

9. Name the scholar, who argued strongly that highly stratified societies outside South -Asia share important characteristics with Indian caste system.
a. William Wiser
b. Louis Dumont
c. Gerald Berreman
d. Nur Yalman

10. Indian villages have been described as little republics by
a. M.N Srinivas
b. Charles Metcalf
c. Baden Powel
d. S.C Dube

1l. In his Homo Hierarchicus what does Dumont mean, when he says, “… it is by implicit reference to this opposition that the society of castes appears consistent and rational to those who live in it.”?
a. Pure-impure
b. Sacred-profane
c. Jati-Varna
d. Brahman-Shudra

12. For whom Jajmani system is a feudalistic system of hereditary obligations between castes?
a. Kathleen Gough
b. Thomas Beidelman
c. William Wiser
d. M.N.Srinivas

13. Nicholas Dirk’s Castes of Mind is essentially about
a. A psychological analysis of caste
b. An essentialist interpretation of caste
c. An ethno-historical approach to caste
d. An indological approach to caste

14. Which Articles of the Indian Constitution deals with the declaration of tribes as Scheduled Tribes?
a. Article 357
b. Article 342
c. Article 312
d. Article 333

15. There is ample evidence to say that wherever there has been radical betterment of the economic conditions of sectors of the Indian populations, conespondingly great changes have been found in:
a. The pattern of family life. (Structurally, change from joint to nuclear family)
b. Attitudes towards marginalized sections of the society
c. Life cycle rituals
d. All the above

16. A comprehensive study of a social unit be, that unit a person, a group, a social institution, a district or community is called
a. Comparative method
b. Interview method
c. Case study method
d. Observation method.

17. Which of the following is not a type of probability sampling?
a. Random sampling
b. stratified sampling
c. Purposive sampling
d. Snow ball sample

18. Method which moves from known to unknown and reality to theory is called
a. Deductive
b. Inductive.
c. Adductive
d. Inclusive.

19. The sampling technique which involves using some members of the groups of interest
to identify other members is called
a. Purposive sampling
b. Snow ball sampling
c. Multistage sampling
d. Random Sampling.

20. Caste in India is the best example of a closed system of social stratification as
a. It is hierarchically arranged
b. Its members are recruited on the basis of ascribed status
c. It is founded on the criterion of ritual kinship
d. It is confined to the Indian society only