List of top Sociology Questions on Kinship, Caste and Class

“The post-independent Indian state inherited and reflected the contradictions of the pre-independent period.”

Comment on the given statement with respect to the role of caste in the public sphere.
“Untouchability is an extreme and vicious aspect of the caste system.”

Explain any two dimensions of untouchability.
Which of the following is not true about Adivasis?
Assertion (A): Sanskritisation operated similarly in different parts of the country.
Reason (R): In regions where the non-Sanskritic were dominant, it was their influence that was stronger.
Which of the following are not the changes brought about by colonialism to the caste system?
Write the nature of joking relation in tribal societies.
Describe two functions of clan.
Classificatory affinity is associated with which of the following relatives?
Which of the following is not the kinship usage?
'Mother' comes under which category of kinship?
Which among the following is not the function of kinship?
Discuss the social significance of kinship.
What do you mean by voluntary organization ?
What is socialization ?
Define kinship system.
What is Avunculate kinship usage ?
Write the names of any two minority communities of India.
'Mausi' (mother's sister) comes under which category of kinship ?
The system which regulates the mutual relations of kins is called
Society symbolises the network of
Which one is not a primary kin ?
Match statements (P), (Q), (R), (S) to names (1), (2), (3), (4):
(P) “Today, Indians no longer idealise hierarchy. What they … idealise is equality.”
(Q) “[We] do not argue that non-dalit feminists can ‘speak as’ or ‘for the’ dalit women but they can ‘reinvent themselves as dalit feminists’.”
(R) “[From] the point of view of people at the lowest end of the scale, caste has functioned (and continues to function) as a very effective system of economic exploitation.”
(S) “The pure hierarchy that Louis Dumont wrote so compellingly about a few decades ago … now stands bereft of empirical support from practically every quarter of Hindu India.”
(1) Dipankar Gupta
(2) Sharmila Rege
(3) André Béteille
(4) Joan P. Mencher
The avunculate refers to the relationship between