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MeghalayaPSC Polityequality — practice questions

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As per your syllabus, what term refers to a social-economic-cultural system that values men more than women and gives men power over women?Read the answer and worked solution →Natural or social inequality?Read the answer and worked solution →Which one does NOT belong?Read the answer and worked solution →

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As per your syllabus, what term refers to a social-economic-cultural system that values men more than women and gives men power over women?

  1. Patriarchy
  2. Plutocracy
  3. Meritocracy
  4. Matriarchy
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Correct answer: A. Patriarchy

Your syllabus defines patriarchy as the male-dominant social system that feminism challenges. The other terms denote different power structures.

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Natural or social inequality?

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Items
  1. Item
    Born with it
    Category
    Natural
  2. Item
    Innate ability
    Category
    Natural
  3. Item
    Cannot be changed
    Category
    Natural
  4. Item
    Made by society
    Category
    Social
  5. Item
    Rank differences
    Category
    Social
  6. Item
    Can be corrected
    Category
    Social
Categories
  1. Item
    Natural
  2. Item
    Social
Instructions
Tap a description, then tap the kind of inequality it names.
_Source: syllabus Political Theory Ch3 Equality, Chapter 3 Equality_

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Which one does NOT belong?

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Questions
  1. Items
    1. Socialism
    2. Marxism
    3. Federalism
    4. Liberalism
    Reason
    Federalism is a way of dividing power between levels of government, not an ideology about equality.
    Odd item
    Federalism
  2. Items
    1. Natural inequality
    2. Social inequality
    3. Equality of opportunity
    4. Drainage basin
    Reason
    A drainage basin belongs to geography, not to the debate about equality.
    Odd item
    Drainage basin
Instructions
Tap the item that does not belong with the rest.
_Source: syllabus Political Theory Ch3 Equality, Chapter 3 Equality_

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