Soc401 3rd Quiz

Which of the following facilitate change in modern

times?
Change agents
Change workers
NGOs
Anthropologist

Illness is not biological phenomenon it is more related

to the socio cultural facts, which branch of
anthropology deals with illness?
Psychological
Medical
Educational

Son, father, grandfather are all categorized in same

category, and it is known as:
Relative age
Generation
Lineality
Consanguineality

Those who own and operate factories and other

businesses in pursuit of profits called __________
according to Marx.
Entrepreneur
Capitalism

Conservative Hindus and Rwandans in Central African

insist on marrying within a group, they exhibit which
type of marriage?
Endogamy
Exogamy
Polygyny
Polyandry
Collecting basic demographic data at the initial
stages of fieldwork is also known as __________.
Document Analysis
Data collection
Census taking
Genealogies

Which one of the following is NOT a dysfunctional

aspect of culture?
Pollution
Traveling
Discrimination

Close system of communication includes which of the

following?
Human
Grammer
Animal

Which one of the following is an ambivalent system,

which submerges the nuclear family into a larger
kinship group?
Hawaiian
Eskimo
Iroquois
Sudanese

Half a million people in different cultures live by

which of the following food pattern even today?
Foraging
Horticulture
Agriculture
Barter

In some societies wealth is transferred from a

grooms family to that of the brides, this practice is
known as________.
Bride price
Bride service
Dowry
Bride wealth

Which one of the following are unilineal groups which

claim to be descent but unable to trace their
relations?

Bands
Clans
Tribes
Gender

_____________refers to the way members of the two

sexes are perceived, evaluated, and expected to
behave

Stratification
Sex
Gender
All of the given options

Which one of the following is NOT a part of Max

Weber theory?

Wealth
Power
Status
Institutions

Women do not remain in their natal household after

marriage under which one of the residence pattern?

Patrilocal
Matrilocal
Avunculocal
Neolocal

An individual entity which is at the receiving/taking

end of a relationship is known as __________.

Exchanger
Donor
Agent
Recipient

The ongoing spread of cultural features around the

world is known as ___________.

Interpretation
Globalization
Cultural ecology
Extrapolation

Enabling inheritance is a useful function of which one

of the following descent?

Bilateral
Double
Unilineal
Matrilineal

A marriage arrangement that implies a woman

marrying more than one husband at one time, it is
known as_______.

Exogamy
Polygyny
Polyandry
Endogamy
Which type of interrelatedness of cultures serves as a
conservative force discouraging change?
Critical
Functional
Social
Economic

Band and tribal societies maintain social control by

which type of mechanisms?
Formal
Informal
Social
All of the given options

States began to be formed _____________ years ago with

the Greek city-states.
2,500
3,500
4,500
5,500

Over the past four decades the number of women has

increased dramatically who are:

Working outside
Have more children
Working home
Start learning driving

Which of the following families based on blood ties

among three or more generations?

Nuclear
Extended
Double-earner
Modern-day families

Which one of the following is a social unit in which its

members cooperate economically, manage
reproduction and child rearing, and most often live
together?

Family
Marriage
Religion
Political institution

When alien culture traits diffuse into a society on a

massive scale, ___________ frequently is the result.

Acculturatoio
Diffussion
Inventiom

A country or even an individual entity which is at the

giving end of a relationship is usually recognized as
__________.

Helper
supporter
Change agaent
Donor

Anthropologists recognized how many types of

political organizations?

One
Two
Three
four

In a society Marx would have welcomed, which of the

following would be true?

All people would have jobs.

Social classes would cease to exist.
Factory technology would be abolished.
Capitalists would pay fair wages to workers

Which type of qualities is determined at birth because

of gender or ethnicity or family background?

Achieved
Ascribed
Attributed
Credited

_____________refers to the way members of the two

sexes are perceived, evaluated, and expected to
behave.

Stratification
Sex
Gender
All of the given options

In Pakistan most of the marriage arrangements are

those who implies having one spouse at one time, it is
known as:

Exogamy
Polygyny
Polyandry
Monogamy

States began to be formed _____________ years ago with

the Greek city-states.

2,500
3,500
4,500
5,500

Hindu India is often cited as the most extreme form

of:

Caste society
Class society
Stratified society
Modern society

Which one of the following is most often found in

foraging societies?

Tribes
Nations
Bands
States

Which one of the following is common in small scale

societies?

Bride service
Bride wealth
Dowry

Band and tribal societies maintain social control by

which type of mechanisms?

Formal
Informal
Social
All of the given options