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Sociologists call a system ranking categories of people in a hierarchy:Read the answer and worked solution →Marriage restricted to members of the same caste is called:Read the answer and worked solution →The caste system is justified ideologically through the opposition of:Read the answer and worked solution →Pre-conceived opinions of one group about another, literally pre-judgement, are:Read the answer and worked solution →Fixed and inflexible characterisations of a whole group are:Read the answer and worked solution →While prejudice describes attitudes, actual behaviour towards another group is:Read the answer and worked solution →Historically the caste system classified people by their occupation and:Read the answer and worked solution →In South Africa, apartheid became law in:Read the answer and worked solution →Under apartheid, Blacks were relocated to poor districts called:Read the answer and worked solution →Nelson Mandela's African National Congress formed the government in:Read the answer and worked solution →The three dimensions of untouchability are exclusion, exploitation and:Read the answer and worked solution →Manual scavengers in India are estimated to number about:Read the answer and worked solution →Mahatma Gandhi popularised which term in the 1930s for ex-untouchable castes?Read the answer and worked solution →The term Dalit gained wide currency through which radical group of the early 1970s?Read the answer and worked solution →The Schedules listing castes and tribes for special treatment were first drawn up in:Read the answer and worked solution →One of the earliest laws against caste discrimination, allowing Dalits into government schools, was the Caste Disabilities Removal Act of:Read the answer and worked solution →The Ninety Third Constitution Amendment of 2005 introduced reservation for OBCs in:Read the answer and worked solution →Untouchability is abolished by which Article of the Constitution?Read the answer and worked solution →The Prevention of Atrocities Act protecting Dalits and adivasis was passed in:Read the answer and worked solution →The Dalit Sangharsh Samiti is a Dalit political organisation of:Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the forms of capitalRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the laws on casteRead the answer and worked solution →Run the yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the sociology wordsRead the answer and worked solution →Attitude or behaviourRead the answer and worked solution →Sort India, South Africa and conceptsRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Social inequality bingoRead the answer and worked solution →Community identities determined by birth and involving no choice are called:Read the answer and worked solution →In Max Weber's definition, a state successfully claims a monopoly of legitimate force in a:Read the answer and worked solution →

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Sociologists call a system ranking categories of people in a hierarchy:

  1. Social stratification
  2. Systematic exclusion
  3. Structural mobility
  4. Cultural capital flow
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Correct answer: A. Social stratification

1. It shapes identity, relations and access to resources. 2. This is social stratification. 3. It persists over generations. _Source: syllabus Indian Society, Chapter 5, Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion._

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Marriage restricted to members of the same caste is called:

  1. Monogamy
  2. Endogamy
  3. Exogamy
  4. Polygamy
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Correct answer: B. Endogamy

1. It reinforces the ascribed nature of caste. 2. Same-caste marriage is endogamy. 3. It rules out blurring of caste lines. _Source: syllabus Indian Society, Chapter 5, Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion._

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The caste system is justified ideologically through the opposition of:

  1. Town and countryside
  2. Youth and old age
  3. Purity and pollution
  4. Wealth and poverty
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Correct answer: C. Purity and pollution

1. Brahmins are placed highest, Dalits lowest. 2. Purity and pollution is the justifying idea. 3. The privileged support such systems most strongly. _Source: syllabus Indian Society, Chapter 5, Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion._

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