PRACTICE QUESTIONS UGC NET (SOCIOLOGY)
Social Institutions
UGC NET SOCIOLOGY
Basic Concepts and Institutions (UNIT 3)
1. Social institution is/are
(a) the family
(b) the state
(c) the school
(d) All of these
2. Marriage is an important institution
(a) because it aims of procreation and maintenance of children
(b) because it is a permanent bond between husband and wife
(c) because people having learnt to live in family cannot live without it, as it is conductive to sex, discipline and social harmony
(d) All of the above
3. The two forms of preferential marriage were
(a) generalised and restricted
(b) levirate and sororate
(c) exogamy and endogamy
(d) polygyny and polyandry
4. Murdock had studied nearly 250 societies to find out the forms of marriage. Who else have done nearly similar studies to find out the forms of marriage?
(a) Radcliffe Brown
(b) Nadel and Firth
(c) Ford and Beach
(d) WHR Rivers and Seligman
5. Marriage among Nayars of Kerala is known as
(a) Shadia Vivaha
(b) Sambandam
(c) Troille
(d) Karanvam
6. Which term is equivalent to group marriage?
(a) Polygyny
(b) Exogamy
(c) Cenogamy
(d) Endogamy
7. Who holds that “marriage is rooted in the family rather than family in marriage”?
(a) Murdock
(b) Marx
(c) Morgan
(d) Westermarck
8. The distinction between ‘courtship’ and ‘dating’ was made by
(a) Koller
(b) Locke
(c) Lowrie
(d) Warner
9. Levirate means
(a) a man marrying his wife’s sister while the wife is still alive
(b) a man marrying his wife’s sister after the death of his wife
(c) a woman marrying her husband’s brother while the husband is still alive
(d) a woman marrying her husband’s brother after the death of her husband
10. ‘Preferential marriage’ is marriage in which ego’s spouse is someone who is
(a) already related to ego
(b) his/her husband/wife’s brother
(c) his/her husband/wife’s sister
(d) primary kin of ego
11. ‘Ambil-Anak’ marriage is found in
(a) Indonesia
(b) Australia
(c) New Zealand
(d) Fiji
12. Marriage by purchase is called
(a) Arsha marriage
(b) Asur marriage
(c) Rakshas marriage
(d) Paishacpa marriage
13. Probably the best available discussion of divorce as a process and an experience is presented by
(a) W Waller
(b) HD Kirk
(c) Lomi
(d) Nagel
14. The system in which whole group is called? a women marries to the
(a) Group marriage
(b) Levirate
(c) Polyandry
(d) Endogamy
15. A type of marriage known as Levirate is the one that takes place between a man and a
(a) sister of his deceased wife
(b) widow of his deceased brother
(c) woman of an inferior caste
(d) woman of a superior caste
| 1 (d) | 2 (d) | 3 (a) | 4 (c) | 5 (b) | 6 (c) | 7 (d) | 8 (d) | 9 (d) | 10 (a) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 (a) | 12 (b) | 13 (a) | 14 (c) | 15 (b) | 16 (d) | 17 (a) | 18 (b) | 19 (a) | 20 (b) |
| 21 (d) | 22 (d) | 23 (c) | 24 (b) | 25 (b) | 26 (c) | 27 (b) | 28 (a) | 29 (c) | 30 (b) |
| 31 (d) | 32 (c) | 33 (c) | 34 (b) | 35 (a) | 36 (c) | 37 (c) | 38 (b) | 39 (b) | 40 (a) |
| 41 (a) | 42 (a) | 43 (d) | 44 (d) | 45 (b) | 46 (d) | 47 (a) | 48 (d) | 49 (b) | 50 (a) |
| 51 (b) | 52 (c) | 53 (a) | 54 (c) | 55 (c) | 56 (d) | 57 (c) | 58 (a) | 59 (b) | 60 (d) |
| 61 (d) | 62 (a) | 63 (c) | 64 (c) | 65 (d) | 66 (c) | 67 (a) | 68 (d) | 69 (a) | 70 (a) |
| 71 (a) | 72 (c) | 73 (a) | 74 (a) | 75 (a) | 76 (d) | 77 (b) | 78 (b) | 79 (c) | 80 (a) |
| 81 (b) | 82 (a) | 83 (c) | 84 (d) | 85 (c) | 86 (b) | 87 (c) | 88 (c) | 89 (c) | 90 (c) |
| 91 (a) | 92 (d) | 93 (d) | 94 (c) | 95 (a) | 96 (a) | 97 (a) | 98 (d) | 99 (c) | 100 (b) |
| 101 (c) | 102 (a) | 103 (c) | 104 (a) | 105 (d) | 106 (a) | 107 (b) | 108 (c) | 109 (a) | 110 (b) |
| 111 (b) | 112 (a) | 113 (b) | 114 (a) | 115 (a) | 116 (b) | 117 (a) | 118 (c) | 119 (a) | 120 (a) |
| 121 (a) | 122 (a) | 123 (a) | 124 (a) | 125 (b) | 126 (a) | 127 (b) | 128 (b) | 129 (a) | 130 (b) |
| 131 (b) | 132 (b) | 133 (b) | 134 (a) | 135 (a) | 136 (a) | 137 (b) | — | — | — |