Gender Religion And Caste Issues

The criteria that characterize a dominant caste are
A. Numerical strength
B. Sanskritization
C. A high ritual status in the local area
D. Political power and authority
E. Cultural association
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Most important features of the caste system are:
(A) Authority
(B) Social and Religious Hierarchy
(C) Heredity Occupation
(D) Taboos
(E) Mobility
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Gender discrimination occurs when
A. Women & men are located separately whilst participating in a broadly similar set of activities.
B. Deliberate legal / traditional policies of segregation adopted.
C. Women primarily excluded from paid work.
D. Women attained higher education
E. Women achieve political empowerment
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Match List I with List II

	List I (Book)		List II (Author)
A	Religion & Society Among the Coorgs of South India	I	Louis Dumont
B	Village India: Studies in the Little Community	II	BR Ambedkar
C	Annihilation of Caste	III	M.N. Srinivas
D	Homo Hierarchicus: The Caste System and its implications	IV	Mekin Marriot

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Match List I with List II

	List I (Constitutional Provision)		List II ((Issue)
A	Article 17	I	Backward Cla
B	Article 340	II	Equality
C	Article 19	III	Untouchability
D	Article 14	IV	Freedom of speech

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It is a system of manipulation by which an effect is sought through the action of unseen powers and regardless of physical causality. It may be sympathetic and contagious.

Which of the following features characterizes class?
(A) Common economic condition
(B) Common status
(C) Common occupational prestige
(D) Common Life Style
(E) Common Religion
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Which of the following characteristics are correct about modernization?
(A) Rational Thinking
(B) Secular Ideas
(C) Scientific Temper
(D) Faith in Old Tradition
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Some of the key features affecting the religion in contemporary times across the world are:
(A) A limited, partial secularization is continuing the twentieth century trend towards a secular age.
(B) There is a declining interest in the mainstream traditional world religious and attempt to revive and attract wider group of followers.
(C) The growth of fundamentalism alongside the clash of civilisations' which results in more and more religiously linked conflicts, culture, war and even genocide.
(D) The development of a wide range of new religious movements.
(E) The development of a new institutional (may be post modern) form of religion such as cyber temple and mega churches.
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The baby lamb known as Dolly was born in UK on 5th July 1996. Her claim to fame was that she was cloned. Once the issue of animal cloning has been proved possible, it is but a few steps to the issue of Human cloning. Although at present most government oppose such development, there have already been maverick scientist who claim to have cloned people. Dolly died in 2003, but the issue she raised continue. They are:
(A) Environmental
(B) Ethical
(C) Religious
(D) Political
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In the context of earliest form of religion, the German theory of Naturism is often associated with :