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1 The system under which boys and girls are allowed to mix with each other and are given maximum permissible mixing facility by society before marriage is known as:
A probationary marriage
B experimental marriage
C compassionate marriage
D none of these

Answer: probationary marriage
2 When the offsprings inherit the father’s name, the family is called-
A Patronymic
B Conjugal
C Patrilineal
D Patriarchal

Answer: Patronymic
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3 One’s wife’s brother is one’s_________.
A affinal secondary kin
B secondary kin
C primary kin
D tertiary kin

Answer: secondary kin
4 If in a kinship system, maternal uncle enjoys a pre-eminent place in the life of his nephews and nieces as a matter of convention, the kinship usage is called_____________.
A Avunculate
B Matriliny
C Amitate
D Couvade

Answer: Avunculate
5 The principle or set of principles by which ego’s consanguineal relatives are determined is technically known as-
A rules of descent
B rules of kinship
C rules of residence
D none of the above

Answer: rules of descent
6 The Child Marriage Act amended in___________ (year) raised the minimum age of marriage for girls from 15 to 18 years.
A 1976
B 1991
C 1986
D 1929

Answer: 1976
7 Mark out the factor contributing to high maternal mortality rate-
A Early Marriage
B Increase in the number of working women
C Education
D Antenatal Care

Answer: Early Marriage
8 Dialectic of Sex was authored by-
A Shulamith Firestone
B Deepa Mehta
C Babuef
D Farah Naqvi

Answer: Shulamith Firestone
9 The theory of diet principle in social demography was given by
A Burnham
B Double day
C D. Ricardo
D K. Mannheim

Answer: Double day
10 Who defined family as a ‘group of persons whose relations to one another are based upon consanguinity and who are therefore kin to one another.’?
A J. Goody
B Kingsley Davis
C Maclver and Page
D L.H. Morgan

Answer: Kingsley Davis
11 Middle quartile is known as:
A Median
B Geometric Mean
C Mode
D Harmonic Mean

Answer: Median
12 Froebel, the well-known child educationist was a:
A German educationist with poor education
B Psychologist of the progressive education movement
C Realist from the United Kingdom
D French psychologist

Answer: German educationist with poor education
13 Which one of the following correctly defines the concept of social structure?
A Socially assigned meaning to a particu¬lar set of behavioural pattern
B The enduring, orderly and patterned relationships between elements of a society
C A group of individuals, sharing com¬mon social background, aspirations and occupations
D A set of behavioural patterns shared by different cultures

Answer: The enduring, orderly and patterned relationships between elements of a society
14 ‘Before and after’ observations are made in studies involving:
A Exploratory Design
B Experimental Design
C Descriptive Design
D Cross-cultural Design

Answer: Cross-cultural Design
15 The distribution of data is symmetrical when:
A Median value is equal to that of mode.
B Mean, median and mode values are equal.
C Mean value is equal to that of mode.
D Mean value is equal to that of median.

Answer: Median value is equal to that of mode.
16 According to Radcliffe-Brown, which of the following does not contribute to the integra-tion and survival of the society?
A Leadership
B Rituals
C Lineage
D Kinship system

Answer: Leadership
17 Which of the following requisites is appli¬cable to symbolic system of Malinowski?
A Social control and regulation of behaviour
B Communal rhythm in daily life and activities
C Production and distribution of con¬sumer goods
D Organisation and execution of authority

Answer: Social control and regulation of behaviour
18 _____________ is a set of techniques to measure attractions and repulsion in interpersonal relation ‘in quantitative and diagrammatic terms’.
A Sociometry
B Quantitative method
C Social statistics
D Social survey

Answer: Sociometry
19 The method of sociometry was first used by:
A G. L. Moreno
B Lipset
C Weber
D Sorokin

Answer: G. L. Moreno
20 In India language has:
A Helped in promoting national unity
B Played health role in national life
C Stood in the way of national integration
D Created no problem at any level

Answer: Helped in promoting national unity
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