Deck 1: Kinship and Family Structures in India

Question 1

Which of the following is not a characteristic of Joint family?

A)Co-residentiality
B)Joint ownership of property
C)Private ownership of property
D)Common worship

Answer 1

Private ownership of property

Question 2

An essential ingredient of 'Jointness' in the term joint family according to TN Madan is

A)Commensality
B)Joint ownership of property
C)Fulfilment of obligation towards kin
D)Fulfilment of karma

Answer 2

Commensality

Question 3

Which of the following factors has led to a breakdown of the link between kinship and the occupational structures in the joint family system?

A)Urbanisation
B)Industrialisation
C)Legislative measures
D)All of the above

Answer 3

All of the above

Question 4

Joint family

A)Consists of at least four generations
B)Is also known as undivided family
C)Was never known during the vedic period
D)Is separate dwelling

Question 5

Changes in the joint family lead to

A)A rise in the status of women
B)An increase in the size of family
C)Greater attachment to traditional occupations
D)Greater economic interdependence

Question 6

A extended family may include all of the following members except

A)Aunts
B)Cousins
C)Great-grandparents
D)All of the above

Question 7

Joint family in India is characterised as an extended kin group by

A)A.R Desai
B)K.M Kapadia
C)Irawati Karve
D)A.D Ross

Question 8

Which of the following is not a primary kin?

A)Mother
B)Father
C)Uncle
D)Brother

Question 9

The extended family is the opposite of nuclear family. It does not exist in

A)USA
B)India
C)Bangladesh
D)Nepal

Question 10

Which type of residence does not help the formation of extended family?

A)Virilocality
B)Avunculocality
C)Uxorilocality
D)Neolocality

Question 11

The practice of levirate is found in

A)Matrilineal societies
B)Patrilineal Societies
C)Bi-lineal societies
D)All of the above

Question 12

Which of the following kinship terms indicates that father's sister is given greater importance than the Mother?

A)Amitate
B)Avunculate
C)Couvade
D)Teknonymy

Question 13

Which of the following types of descent is found among the Yako of Nigeria?

A)Matrilineal
B)Patrilineal
C)Bilateral
D)Double

Question 14

Bilateral descent is a kinship principle in which people belong to the kinship groups of both their

A)Mother and Father
B)Uncle and aunt
C)Brother and sister
D)Father and sister

Question 15

Who among the following follow the matrilineal family system?

A)Nairs of Kerala
B)Bhils
C)Kadars
D)Muslims

Question 16

In matrilocal family the husband goes to live in the house of his-

A)uncle
B)wife
C)aunty
D)grandfather

Question 17

Which one of the following statements about kinship is NOT true?

A)Its usages create group of kins
B)It creates relationship structure
C)It defines role of different relationships
D)It indicates expected behaviour of kins

Question 18

The Child Marriage Act amended in 1929 raised the minimum age of marriage for girls from-

A)15-18years
B)20-25years
C)14-20years
D)30-35years

Question 19

The prevalence of arranged marriages in India is related to

A)the rules of endogamy that confine marriage alliance within specified groups
B)the rules of exogamy that disallow marriage within one's clan/village/neighbourhood
C)regulations about prescriptive (allowing) and prescriptive (prohibiting) nature of rules, guiding marriage among parallel and cross cousins
D)All of the above

Question 20

Which one of the following is the family unit of Kodavas?

A)Ghar
B)Biradari
C)Chulah
D)Okka

Question 21

The family of orientation denotes a family

A)In which a person is born and is socialized
B)In which a woman is married
C)In oriental countries
D)Which conducts an orientation course

Question 22

The bond between the blood relative is called-

A)Affinal kins
B)Consanguineal kins
C)Primary kins
D)Secondary kins

Question 23

Affinal kin include one's

A)Father
B)Father-in-law
C)Brother
D)Father's brother

Question 24

Family started with patriarch belongs to the theory of

A)Matriarchal
B)Patriarchal
C)Polygamy
D)Feminist theory

Question 25

Which of the following theories about the origin of the family believed that in the past offering of wife or daughter to a guest was considered as a mark of hospitality?

A)Sex communism
B)Polygamy
C)Patriarchal
D)Polyandry