List of top Family, Marriage & Kinship; Theoretical Approaches Questions asked in GATE XH- C6

In Hindu society, marriage of a widow to the husband’s brother is referred to as ________________________.

Which of the following statement(s) is/are INCORRECT?

Which of the following statements explain and illustrate the term ‘tragedy of commons’?

Which one of the following methods uses a control group while validating the impact of intervention programmes?

“We demanded changes that would make the law more sensitive to the cultural and economic contexts of women’s lives. Women’s groups investigating ‘dowry deaths’ demonstrated how the designation of the family as the private domain restricted women’s access to protection against domestic violence. They exposed the collusion of the law, police, medical system, and the family in classifying these deaths as suicides. Feminist scholars worked to salvage gender and women’s issues from being subsumed by class analysis, sought to extend the Marxist understanding of labour to include domestic production, and pointed out the marginality and vulnerability of women in the workforce.”
(Susie Tharu and Tejaswini Niranjana (1996), Problems for a Contemporary Theory of Gender)
Which among the following statements can be asserted from the above excerpt?

Which of the following statement(s) correctly represent(s) A.M. Shah’s views in his ‘The Household Dimension of the Family in India’?

Match statements (P), (Q), (R), (S) to names (1), (2), (3), (4):
(P) ``The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.''
(Q) The state is ``an institutional association of rule, which within a given territory has succeeded in gaining a monopoly of legitimate physical force as a means of ruling.''
(R) ``It is only through the State that individualism is possible, although it cannot be the means of making it a reality, except in certain precise conditions. We might say that in the State we have the prime mover. It is the State that has rescued the child from patriarchal domination and from family tyranny; it is the State that has freed the citizen from feudal groups and later from communal groups; it is the State that has liberated the craftsman and his master from guild tyranny.” ''
(S) “The family is indeed a fiction, a social artefact, an illusion in the most ordinary sense of the word, but a ‘well-founded illusion’, because, being produced and reproduced with the guarantee of the state, it receives from the state at every moment the means to exist and persist.”
(1) Pierre Bourdieu
(2) Emile Durkheim
(3) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
(4) Max Weber

Which of the following applies/apply to Lévi-Strauss’ fundamental unit of kinship?