Odisha State Board CHSE Odisha Class 12 Sociology Solutions Unit 2 Indian Social Structure Objective Questions and Answers.
CHSE Odisha 12th Class Sociology Unit 2 Indian Social Structure Objective Questions
Multiple Choice Questions With Answers
Question 1.
Caste system of
(a)Social Harmony
(b) Social order
(c) Social Institution
(d) Above all
Answer:
(a) Social Harmony
Question 2.
Caste is a ranked social diversion in which the membership of an Individual is determined by birth. Who said this?
(a) A.L.Agrawal
(b) M.N.Srinivas
(c) Karl Marx
(d) None of these
Answer:
(a) A.L.Agrawal.
Question 3.
“Caste system from a comparative standpoint as a part of the medieval economic organisation”. Who said this?
(a) A.L.Agrawall
(b) M.N.Srinivas
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Above all
Answer:
(b) M.N.Srinivas
Question 4.
Who says, “that unchangeable division of labour on the basis of caste is a fundamental quality of the Indian social system”?
(a) A.L.Agrawall
(b) M.N.Srinivas
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Above all
Answer:
(c) Karl Marx
Question 5.
Who said that more than three thousand castes are seen in India?
(a) A.L.Agrawall
(b) J.H.Hutton
(c) GS.Ghurye
(d) Above all
Answer:
(b) J.H.Hutton
Question 6.
Who said this opinion that two hundred kinds of caste are seen in every linguistic area?
(a) J.H.Hutton
(b) G S.Ghurye
(c) L.K.Krishna
(d) Above all
Answer:
(b) G S.Ghurye
Question 7.
Who said this caste system was not only found in Indian society but also it was seen in ancient Egyptian society?
(a) L.K.Krishnalyer
(b) G S.Ghuiye
(c) Sir E.A.Gant
(d) J.H.Hutton
Answer:
(a) L.K.Krishnalyer
Question 8.
Who says that every caste and sub-caste are generally known as an endogamous group, smart has described the Indian caste system as the racial institution of the Aryans and compared in to the kin class of ancient Greek and Roman society.
(a) Sir E.A.Gant
(b) A.LAgrawall
(c) M.N.Srinivas
(d) J.H.Hutton
Answer:
(a)Sir E.A.Gant
Question 9.
Caste as derived from a
(a) Partiguege word caste
(b) Breed
(c) Race
(d) Above all
Answer:
(d) Above all
Question 10
Caste in derived from Sanskrit roof
(a) Jana
(b) Caste
(c) Casta
(d) Above all
Answer:
(a) Jana
Question 11.
Who says that A caste is a closed and rigid social class?
(a) Madan and Mazumdar
(b) C.H.Cooley
(c) MacIver and page
(d) Above all
Answer:
(a) Madan and Mazumdar
Question 12.
Which of the following characteristics of caste?
(a) Segmental Division of society
(b) Hierarchy
(c) Restrictions in Social habits
(d) Above all
Answer:
(d) Above all
Question 13.
Which of the following merits of the caste system?
(a) Determination of social status
(b) Fixation of occupation
(c) Guarantee of social society
(d) Above all
Answer:
(d) Above all
Question 14.
Which of the following Dysfunction of the caste system?
(a) Derives of mobility of labour
(b) Untouchability
(c) Retards social solidarity
(d) Above all
Answer:
(d)Above all
Question 15.
Which of the following factors affects the caste system?
(a) Modem Education
(b) Industrialisation
(c) Urbanization
(d) Above all of them
Answer:
(d) Above all of them
Question 16.
Which of the following Recent changes in the caste system?
(a) Dectioned superiority of Brahmins
(b) Change in the Restriction regarding social Habits
(c) Changes in the Restriction regarding marriage
(d) Above all of them
Answer:
(d) Above all of them
Question 17.
Which of the following caste and class?
(a) Stratification
(b) Structure
(c) Occupation
(d) Above all of them
Answer:
(d) Above all of them
Question 18.
A joint family has the following size _________.
(a) Small
(b) Medium
(c) Large
Answer:
(c) Large
Question 19.
Property in a joint family is ___________.
(a) Common
(b) Independent
(c) None of the above.
Answer:
(a) Common
Question 20.
Joint family promotes ___________.
(a) Quarrel
(b) Status of women
(c) Personality
Answer:
(a) Quarrel
Question 21.
Joint family limits ___________.
(a) Reproduction
(b) Social mobility
(c) Litigation.
Answer:
(b) Social mobility
Question 22.
Which one is not a factor of disorganization of a Joint Family?
(a) Family conflict
(b) Industrialisation,
(c) None of the above.
Answer:
(b) Industrialisation.
Question 23.
Which of the following is not a feature of the joint family?
(a) Joint property
(b) Common religion
(c) Common occupation
(d) Small size.
Answer:
(d) Small size.
Question 24.
Which of the following are the merits are of the joint family system?
(a) It ensures economic progress
(b) It provides an opportunity for leisure
(c) It secures the economy of expenditure
(d) It helps in the development of personality.
Answer:
(a) It ensures economic progress.
Question 25.
A joint Family system is criticised because it
(a) denies privacy of the newlywed couple.
(b) prevents property from being divided
(c) becomes a home for ideas.
(d) provides little time to women for leisure.
Answer:
(a) denies privacy to the newlywed couple.
Question 26.
Which of the following factors are responsible for the disintegration of the joint family system in India?
(a) Industrialisation
(b) Social Legislation
(c) Education of women
(d) Women franchise
Answer:
(a) Industrialisation.
Question 27.
Village Community is
(a) A group of people
(b) A geographical area.
(c) A developed community.
Answer:
(a) A group of people
Question 28.
Who said this, “the real India lives in villages”.
(a) A.R.Desai
(b) M.N.Srinivas
(c) R.K.Mukhi
Answer:
(a) A.R.Desai
Question 29.
Who said this, “ a village is a body of people living in a restricted area, at some distances from other similar groups with extremely poor roads between them, the majority of people being engaged in agricultural activity, all closely dependent upon each other economically and otherwise, having a vast body of common experience must have some sense of unity”.
(a) M.N.Srinivas
(b) R.M.Mukherji
(c) R.N.Sharma
Answer:
(a) M.N.Srinivas
Question 30.
Who said this, “a whole within a large whole”?
(a) Prof Mekin Marriot
(b) R.M.Mukherji
(c) M.N.Srinivas
Answer:
(a) Prof Mekin Marriott.
Question 31.
Topographical factors are
(a) Land
(b) Rural Economy
(c) Peace
Answer:
(a) Land
Question 32.
Economic factors is
(a) Rural Economy
(b) Land
(c) Peace
Answer:
(a) Rural Economy
Question 33.
Social factors is
(a) Peace
(b) Rural economy
(c) Water
Answer:
(a) Peace
Question 34.
Mention any one important characteristic of village community.
(a) Caste system
(b) Primary relations
(c) Above all
Answer:
(c) Above all
Question 35.
Who said that “A group of persons permanently residing in a geographical area and whose members have developed community consciousness and have their own cultural, social and economic relations which separate it from other communities.”
(a) M.N. Srinivas
(b) Maclver
(c) A.R. Desai
Answer:
(a) M.N. Srinivas
Question 36.
India lives in her villages, Who said this?
(a) M.K. Gandhi
(b) Srinivas
(c) Spencer
Answer:
(a) M.K. Gandhi
Question 37.
‘Real India is found in rural society’ Who said this?
(a) A.R.Desai
(b) M.N.Srinivas
(c) GillinandGillin
Answer:
(a) A.R.Desai
Question 38.
Which of the following is the characteristic of a village community?
(a) community sentiment
(b) non-agricultural economy
(c) culture
Answer:
(a) community sentiment
Question 39.
Which of the following is the characteristic of the urban community?
(a) namelessness
(b) class extraness
(c) large people
Answer:
(a) namelessness
Question 40.
Which of the following factors is responsible for the village community?
(a) industrialisation.
(b) development of transport and communication.
(c) social legislation
Answer:
(b) development of transport and communication
Question 41.
In a community sentiment, there is
(a) strong sense of belongingness,
(b) sense of we-feeling
(c) sense of own community
Answer:
(a) strong sense of belongingness
Question 42.
The village community
(a) consists of a group of families.
(b) prescribes geographical area
(c) develops community consciousness:
Answer:
(a) consists of a group of facilities
Question 43.
Who said that “The urban community limited geographical area, inhabited by a largely and closely settled population having many common interests and institutions under a local government authorised by the state,”
(a) Havard Woolston
(b) M.N. Srinivas
(c) Maclver
Answer:
(a) Harvard Woolston
Question 44.
In a town.
(a) The population of that place should be more than 5000
(b) The density of the population should not be less than 400
(c) Not less than 75% of the adult-age population is engaged in non-agricultural activities.
Answer:
(a) The population of that place should be more than 5000
Question 45.
Village community.
(a) Has been in existence since the pre-historic age.
(b) Arose when people began to lead to settled life?
(c) Arose when people became politically conscious.
Answer:
(b) Arose when people began to lead to settled life.
Question 46.
The primitive village community was.
(a) small in size
(b) based on cultural ownership of land
(c) based on joint family system
Answer:
(a) small in size
Question 47.
Which of the following statements is not true?
(a) The primitive village community was small in size, and the modem village community is large in size.
(b) In the primitive village community there was individual ownership of land, in the modem it is collective.
(c) In primitive village community land was cultivated joint in the modem it is not so cultivated.
Answer:
(c) In primitive village community land was cultivated joint in the modem it is not so cultivated.
Question 48.
In the modern community the bond of kinship has broken down because
(a) The village people have become rich
(b) agriculture has become mechanised
(c) Urbanisation has affected village life
Answer:
(b) Agriculture has become mechanised.
Question 49.
It is true to say that under the impact of urbanization the rural way of life.
(a) is withering
(b) is not withering
(c) has withered away
Answer:
(c) has withered
Question 50.
Which of the following is not a feature of the village community?
(a) Faith in religion
(b) Nuclear family system
(c) Community Consciousness
Answer:
(b) Nuclear family system
Question 51.
The village people have deep faith in religion because
(a) There are simple people
(b) They are untouched by modem urbanisation
(c) They are illiterate
Answer:
(a) They are simple people
Question 52.
Villages will grow on a place where
(a) Water facilities are available.
(b) Land is fertile
(c) People are intelligent
Answer:
(c) People are intelligent.
Question 53.
The characteristics of Indian villages are
(a) mechanical codes of cultivation.
(b) conservation
(c) poverty and illiteracy
Answer:
(c) poverty and illiteracy
Question 54.
In the modern village community of India.
(a) Casteism has got strengthened
(b) Caste system has lost its hold
(c) Inter-caste marriages are common
Answer:
(a) Casteism has got strengthenes.
Question 55.
Which of the following statements is true?
(a) City is an open area with a large population
(b) City is a place where people are engaged in different occupations,
(c) There is no exact definition of a City.
Answer:
(c) There is no exact definition of City
Question 56.
The occupational criterion to distinguish the City from the village was used by
(a) Maclver
(b) Gist and Halbert
(c) Zimmerman and Sorokin.
Answer:
(a) Maclver
Question 57.
The concept of the rural-urban continuum suggests that
(a) The village and city are poles apart
(b) The differences between village and city are not qualitative per se.
(c) A definite line of demarcation can be drawn between village and city.
Answer:
(c) A definite line of demarcation can be drawn between village and city.
Question 58.
Village life differs from city life is that
(a) The city encourages impersonal rather than personal relationships.
(b) There is more cooperation in the city than in the village.
(c) The village people are polite, but the city people are not.
(d) The village life is peaceful city life is not.
Answer:
(d) The village life is peaceful city life is not.
Question 59.
The village is no longer a community of India
(a) The bond of kinship has disappeared
(b) Panchayat system has died out
(c) Community consciousness has decreased.
Answer:
(c) Community consciousness has decreased.
Question 60.
Which of the following statements is not true?
(a) In India the villages are passing through a transitional period.
(b) The village people in India are divided into political groups.
(c) Rural values have disappeared.
Answer:
(c) Rural values have disappeared.
Question 61.
Which of the following factors is responsible for breaking rural rules?
(a) the mechanisation of agriculture.
(b) political party system
(c) education of the rural people.
Answer:
(b) political party system
Question 62.
Which of the following factors is responsible for breaking rural values?
(a) politically motivated
(b) an emphasis on the importance of the need for rural uplift.
(c) a sign of imbalance in Indian society.
Answer:
(a) politically motivated
One Word Answer Questions
Question 1.
Mention one of the characteristics of caste.
Answer:
Hierarchy
Question 2.
Mention one of the theory of the caste system.
Answer:
Traditional Theory
Question 3.
Mention one function of the caste system.
Answer:
Fixation of occupation
Question 4.
Mention one Dysfunction of the caste system.
Answer:
Derives of mobility of labour
Question 5.
Mention one factor affecting the caste system.
Answer:
Modem Education
Question 6.
Mention one recent change in the caste system.
Answer:
Dectioned superiority of Brahmins.
Question 7.
Mention one Distinction between caste and class.
Answer:
Stratification
Question 8.
Mention one of the characteristics of a joint family.
Answer:
Common kitchen
Question 9.
Mention one of the functions of the Joint family.
Answer:
Provides social security.
Question 10.
Mention one of the dysfunctions of the Joint family.
Answer:
Encourages idleness
Question 11.
Mention any one of the recent changes of the Joint family.
Answer:
Industrialization
Question 12.
Hindu Marriage Act.
Answer:
1955
Question 13.
Child Marriage Act.
Answer:
1976
Question 14.
Equal Remuneration Restraint.
Answer:
1976
Question 15.
Dowry Protection Act.
Answer:
1961
Question 16.
Medical Termination of Pregnancy Act.
Answer:
1971
Question 17.
Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act.
Answer:
1986
Question 18.
The Hindu Adoption and Maintenance Act
Answer:
1956
Question 19.
The Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act.
Answer:
1956
Question 20.
The Hindu Succession Act
Answer:
1956
Question 21.
The Hindu Women’s Right of Property Act.
Answer:
1973
Question 22.
Indecent Representation of Women (Prohibition) Act.
Answer:
1986
Question 23.
Pre-mutual Diagnostic Techniques Regulation and Prevention of Misuse Act.
Answer:
1992
Question 24.
A village community is a definite geographical area.
Answer:
Village community
Question 25.
Who said thus “the real India lives in villages.
Answer:
A.R. Desai
Question 26.
Who said thus “a whole within a large whole”.
Answer:
Prof Makim Marriot.
Question 27.
Arose when people began to lead a settled life.
Answer:
Village community
Question 28.
The occupational criterion to distinguish the city from the village was used by.
Answer:
Maclver
Question 29.
In the unity, the people in the midst of the multitude feel.
Answer:
Secure
Question 30.
The trend in India today is towards.
Answer:
Urbanisation.
Correct The Sentences
Question 1.
A caste is a closed and rigid Social class by C.H. Cooley.
Answer:
A caste is a closed and rigid social class by Madan and Mazumdar.
Question 2.
When a class is somewhat strictly hereditary are may call out a caste by Madan and Mazumdar.
Answer:
When a class in somewhat strictly hereditary are may call out a caste by C. H. Cooley.
Question 3.
Caste is derived from a portiguage word caste.
Answer:
Caste is derived from the Portuguese word caste.
Question 4.
Caste is an exgamous grory.
Answer:
Caste is an endogamous grory.
Question 5.
A caste is merely a flexible social class.
Answer:
A caste is merely a rigid social class.
Question 6.
Caste system is based upon social and religious stratification.
Answer:
Right
Question 7.
Caste bears a nominal name.
Answer:
Caste bears a particular name.
Question 8.
Caste is a fixed occupation.
Answer:
Right
Question 9.
Caste system plays a vital role on individual life.
Answer:
Right
Question 10.
Caste system provides nominal security.
Answer:
Caste system provide, adequate security.
Question 11.
Joint family property is held by a male member
Answer:
Joint family property is held jointly by all the male members.
Question 12.
Joint family take food cooked at separate health.
Answer:
Joint family take food cooked at one common health.
Question 13.
Joint family is a small size
Answer:
Joint family is large in size.
Question 14.
Joint family is regarded as a sufficient unit.
Answer:
Joint family is regarded as a self- supplement unit.
Question 15.
Joint family provides to not security.
Answer:
Joint family provides all security.
Question 16.
Tarward is a patrilocal Hindu Joint family.
Answer:
Tarward is a matrilocal Hindu Joint family. ,
Question 17.
Illom is a matrilocal Hindu Joint family.
Answer:
Illom is aprutrilocal Hindu joint family.
Question 18.
Hindu Widows Remarriage Act 1857.
Answer:
Hindu Windows Remarriage Act 1856
Question 19.
Villages will grow in a place where water facilities are available.
Answer:
Villages will grow in a place where the land is fertile.
Question 20.
The village community has been in existence since the prehistoric age.
Answer:
Village community arose when people began to lead a settled life.
Question 21.
The primitive village community was an isolated community.
Answer:
The primitive village community was small in size. ‘
Question 22.
The primitive village community was an isolated community.
Answer:
The primitive village community was small in size, the modem village community is large in size.
Question 23.
City is a large, dense and homogeneous area.
Answer:
City is a large, dense and heterogeneous area.
Question 24.
The city ends where the village begins.
Answer:
The city begins where the village ends.
Question 25.
The transition from a rural to an urban community is gradual.
Answer:
The transition from a rural to an urban community is gradual.
Question 26.
The city is more homogeneous than the village.
Answer:
The city is more heterogeneous than the village.
Question 27.
City dwellers are good neighbours.
Answer:
City dwellers are night dwellers, not neighbours.
Question 28.
In village status is ascribed in city it is achieved.
Answer:
In a village status is achieved in city it is ascribed.
Question 29.
A village is a dependent unit.
Answer:
A village is not a dependent unit.
Question 30.
Villagers have a high standard of living.
Answer:
The village has a low standard of living.
Question 31.
The degree of community sentiment is low in the village.
Answer:
The degree of community sentiment is high in the village.
Question 32.
There is no definite locality of the village.
Answer:
There is no definite locality of the village.
Question 33.
The degree of the neighbourhood is high in the towns.
Answer:
The degree of the neighbourhood is high in the village.
Question 34.
The inequalities of the towns are less than the village.
Answer:
Equalities of the towns are less than the village.
Question 35.
Village culture is dynamic.
Answer:
Village culture is static.
Question 36.
The village is characterised more by formal and secondary relations.
Answer:
The village is characterised more by formal and primary relations.
Question 37.
Police law and court play important role in the village’s social control.
Answer:
Police, law and court play important role in the town social control.
Question 38.
In the towns, the relationship tends to move towards primary groups.
Answer:
In the towns, the relationship moves towards primary groups.
Question 39.
The city is a static counterpart of the village.
Answer:
The city is a dynamic counterpart of the village.
Fill in The Blanks
1. Caste bears a ________ name.
Answer: Particular
2. Caste system is divided into many __________.
Answer: Sub- castes
3. Caste system is based upon social and __________ stratification.
Answer: religious.
4. Caste system is not only _________ for its members.
Answer: Important
5. The caste system plays a vital role in the development of_________ a social nation.
Answer: Hindu
6. Caste system performs many __________ functions on community life.
Ans: religious
7. Caste system opposes __________
Answer: Democracy
8. Caste system hinders the __________ of human personality.
Answer: development
9. Caste system creates obstacle of the __________country.
Answer: Unity
10. Caste system and joint family are two __________parts of the Hindu society.
Answer: Important
11. Joint family is the __________habitation.
Answer: Common
12. Joint family take food cooked at one common ___________.
Answer: Hearth.
13. Joint family have common property which is shared by ___________.
Answer: all
14. Joint family is regarded as a self-sufficient __________.
Answer: Large ‘
15. Joint family is regarded as a self-sufficient __________.
Answer: unit
16. Joint family provides security to those members who are mentally and__________ weak.
Answer: Physically.
17. The members of joint family set more leisure time as it is based upon the principle ___________.
Answer: Division of labour!
18. Joint family provides psychological ___________to its members.
Answer: Security
19. Joint family satisfies the basic needs of its ___________ i.e. food, clothing and shelter.
Answer: members
20. Joint family is the _____________of quarrels,
Answer: centre
21. The joint family is very conservative in ____________.
Answer: nature
22. Joint family was the centre of ___________,___________ and ___________.
Answer: Production, distribution, consumption.
23. The women in the Joint Family lead a miserable___________.
Answer: Life
24. Joint family is more ___________ as compared to all other types of family.
Answer: conservative
25. Joint family had developed many new features as well as new __________ problems.
Answer: consequential
26. Tarward is a Hindu joint family.
Answer: matrilocal
27. Illom is the _________ Hindu joint family
Answer: patrilocal.
28. Village community arose when people began to lead a _________ life.
Answer: Settled
29. The primary village community was __________ in size.
Answer: Small
30. City is a _________ group.
Answer: Heterogeneous
31. Village community is a __________ community
Answer: Homogeneous.
32. God made __________and man-made ___________.
Answer: Country, city
33. Indian village community is ___________ community.
Answer: Little
34. Village is a __________ of life.
Answer: Way
35. Farmers and countrymen are almost ___________.
Answer: Same
36. Village community is a __________ republic.
Answer: Little
37. Rural community is similar to _________ water in a poll and the urban community __________ to water in a kettle?
Answer: Calm, boiling
38. Each village has primary ___________.
Answer: Relationship
39. The members of a village community _________.
Answer: Sentiment
40. Rural economy is a major __________.
Answer: Characteristic
41. Village has _________ size.
Answer: Small
42. __________ is an important base of stratification of Indian villages.
Answer: The caste system
43. The primary occupation of an Indian village is __________.
Answer: Closed
44. The villagers have much ____________upon religion.
Answer: Close
45. There is no clear ___________ of either the town or the village regarding their end and start.
Answer: Definition
46. Village is characterised by the __________ relationship.
Answer: Primary
47. The village the inequality of is very less demarcated than the town which leads to less conflicts in the village.
Answer: Classes
48. Village the primary __________ like family.
Answer: Groups
49. In the village the status of an individual is likely to be the _________ of the family.
Answer: Status
50. Jajman system is the __________ village community.
Answer: Traditional
51. Village is a necessity.
Answer: Historical
52. Village runs smoothly where there is a greater degree of ___________ among its members.
Answer: Co-operation
53. Population constitutes an important aspect of __________ community.
Answer: Rural
54. The sense of __________ in the village community is given considerable importance.
Answer: Neighbourhood
55. Caste is an important base of ____________ or rural Community.
Answer: Unique.
56. Joint family is an __________ feature in village community.
Answer: Important
57. The people of the village community are ____________ conservative in their outlook.
Answer: Primary
58. In the village community there is no or ___________ specialization.
Answer: Little
59. The Indian villages are _________ ridden.
Answer: Caste
60. The villagers are deeply influenced by ___________.
Answer: Religion.
61. Village differs from town on the basis of __________ problems.
Answer: Social.