"Women have acquired all the follies and vices of civilization and miss the useful Fruit". Who made the above statement ?
Beatrice Webb
Mary Wollstone Craft
Nancy Chodorow
Margaret Mead
The Shri Narain Dharma Paripalana movement was launched primarily among :
Nadars
Brahmins
Ezhavas
Nayars
According to Robert Blauner, there is X between the level of technology used and aliention, X stands for :
An equal relationship
An inverse relationship
A positive relationship
No relationship
Kroeber reported that an American Indian seeing the advantages of writing, invented a system called a syllabary with 86 symbols to put the 'cherokee language' in to written form. It can be called a process of :
Innovation
Diffusion
Imitation
Discourse
Which one of the following groups of thinkers belongs to the linear view of social change ?
Comte, Pareto and Marx
Pareto, Sorokin and Marx
Comte, Ogburn and Marx
Assertion (A): Colonial policies such as on water tax, land-revenue and agricultural prices could bring together poor middle and well-to-do tenants, along with lesser landlords against zamindars and peasant potentates.Reason (R): It is not the peasant mind or mentality but the circumstances of peasant life that account for the emergence of peasant movement.
Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A
Both A and R are true but R is not the correct explanation of A
A is true but R is false
A is false but R is true
According to the studies available, which one of the following has remained the most effective factor of social change amongst the Dalits ?
Reservations
Social reforms
Industrialization
Collective action
Which one of the following political movements mobilised its support on the basis of caste loyalties ?
Self-respect movement
Naxalite movement
Kisan movement
Bodo movement
Who defined social movement as "a collective venture extending beyond a local community or single event and involving a systematic effort to bring about changes in the way people think and behave" ?
C. Wendell King
Robert Ash
N.J. Smelser
Anthony Wallace
Bhoodan movement was started after a violent peasant movement known as :
Naxalbari movement
Tebhaga movement
Telangana movement