SOC401 Quiz 2 Set 2

SOC401

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Maha Malik Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

1. Patrilineal descent affiliates a person with the kin of the _____ family? (Father's)
2. All of the following includes the types of crops grown by horticulturalists EXCEPT: (Fiber crops)
3. Food collecting people live in which of the following environment? (All of the given options)
4. The Bride-wealth that is the transfer of wealth from a groom’s family to that of the bride’s is
5. Which one of the following are unilineal groups which claim to be descent but unable to trace their relations? (Clans)
6. Commercialization of food is a distinctive feature of which of the following? (Industrialists)
7. Pastoralism involves a nomadic or semi-nomadic lifestyle within family based communities. (Small)
8. Which of the following descent able to accommodate two-sides simultaneously? (Bilateral)
9. Which of the following term is associated with the rule that emphasis on the members of the same group or category to marry within their social groups? (Endogamy)
10. Slash and burn can be a _________form of production in unused areas of the vast land. (Efficient)
11. Which one of the following occurs when a newly married couple establishes their home independent of both sets of relatives? (Neolocal)
12. A trend where women tend to end up in close-ended jobs, less pay, exploitation, poor health, greater responsibility and bear more burden is known as: (Feminization of poverty)
13. Most contemporary foraging societies stay on a _____scale, unspecialized, egalitarian and non- centralized. (Small)
14. Which strategy is preferably adopted by food collectors in most of the societies? (Foraging the food)
15. Which of the following is a classic example of occupational segregation? (Pink-collar jobs)
16. According to anthropologists, what is the nature of language? (All of the given options)
17. The Lacondon Maya of Chiapas, Mexico achieve _____ levels of production from the same land and do so with maintaining rather than displacing them. (3)
18. Which food obtaining strategy utilize simple and small tools for transformation of plots in to cultivated land? (Horticulture)
19. Family is a social unit in which the members perform all of the following functions EXCEPT: (Living independently)
20. Food production became important for humans about: (10,000 years ago)
21. English, French and Spanish are _________ with reference to language families. (Sister languages)
22. Enabling inheritance is a useful function of which one of the following descent? (Double)
23. Which societies depend mostly for their living on domesticated herds of animals that feed on natural pasture? (Pastoralists)
24. The relations between man and wife tend to be more ______in matrilineal societies. (Fragile)
25. Which of the following phenomena is used in most of the societies to justify the universal male dominance? (Gender ideology)
26. Kinship comprises of all of the following relations EXCEPT: (Verbal)
27. How many food obtaining strategies found in different cultures of the world? (Five)
28. Which descent groups are most common around the world? (Patrilineal descent)
29. Sixty percent of cultures in the world are: (Patrilineal or Unilineal)
30. Which term of kinship organization is based on a set of kin who can trace their ancestry back through known links? (Lineages)
31. Wheat, barley, rice, millet, oats and sorghum are the examples of which category of crops growth? (Seed crops)
32. Which term refers as two halves of a society related by descent? (Moieties)
33. Which of the following production system uses techniques like irrigation and fertilizers to produce substantial food surplus for large population? (Intensive agriculture)
34. According to Anthropologists, which factor does not set limits on food obtaining patterns? (Environmental)
35. The earliest cultivation occurred in the Fertile Crescent of the: (Middle East)
36. Productivity of agriculturalists depends on: (All of the given options)
37. Which one of the following is considered as origin of languages in the language family? (Proto language)
38. Dowry which is the transfer of wealth from a bride’s family to that of the groom’s is
39. The term “breadwinner” is mostly associated with which of the following? (Male head of the family)
40. Which term best describes the environmental capacity of a given area? Carrying capacity
41. Crow kinship system is associated with which of the following descent system? (Matrilineality)
42. In which of the following type of reciprocity there is an explicit expectation of immediate return? (Balanced reciprocity)
43. Food collectors possess inbuilt mechanisms by which they mean: (Low population and little use of technology)
44. Marrying outside a given group is known as: (Exogamy)
45. Which category of crops growth is enriched with starch and carbohydrates? Root crops Which types of families are often found in the societies with greatest amount of geographic mobility? (Nuclear)
46. Food collecting societies have all of the following characteristics EXCEPT: (Shifting cultivation techniques)
47. Division of sexes in the society on the basis of wealth, power, status, role and prestige is known as: (Gender stratification)
48. In America, dollar is used as a standardized currency to buy and sell goods and services. America is using: (Market exchange system)
49. According to cultural evolutionist theory, the earliest forms of humanity was surviving on fruits and nuts, this stage is called as: (Lower Savagery)
50. Which of following items are used to fertilize soil by slashing and burning wild vegetation to restore fertility of the barren land? (Ash)
51. In the present times, how many people survive by foraging in the different cultures? Half a million