Syllabus: Paper I > 2.2 The Nature of Society > Social stratification
Topic Explorer · Paper I
Culture & Society Questions in UPSC Anthropology Optional Mains
The conceptual vocabulary of social anthropology — culture and civilization, society and social groups, status and role, cultural relativism, culture change, and the anthropology of language.
Syllabus context
Paper I 2.1–2.3, 9.2 — Nature of Culture and Society; Language and Communication
All year-wise Culture & Society questions
Culture & Society
25 questions1(a) Attributes of culture
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Nature of Culture > Characteristics of Culture > Attributes of culture
Syllabus: Paper I > 7. Culture, language and communication > Social context of language use
1(b) Cultural Relativism
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.1 The Nature of Culture > Ethnocentrism vis-a-vis Cultural Relativism
1(b) Cultural Relativism
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.1 The Nature of Culture > Ethnocentrism vis-a-vis Cultural Relativism
1(e) Culture and embodiment.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > Nature of Culture > Contemporary Culture Concepts > Embodiment; body and culture
3(c) Critically examine that the structure and content of language are influenced by culture.
15 Marks
Syllabus: Paper I > 7. Culture, language and communication > Social context of language use
Syllabus: Paper I > Nature of Culture > Critique of the Culture Concept > Holism and bounded-culture critique
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.1 The Nature of Culture > Concept and characteristics of culture
Syllabus: Paper I > 7. Culture, language and communication > Emic and etic perspectives
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.2 The Nature of Society > Social institutions
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.1 The Nature of Culture > Ethnocentrism vis-a-vis Cultural Relativism
5(c) Glottochronology
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > 7. Culture, language and communication > Language change
1(c) Human rights and Cultural relativism
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.1 The Nature of Culture > Ethnocentrism vis-a-vis Cultural Relativism
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.1 The Nature of Culture > Concept and characteristics of culture > Culture and human uniqueness
Syllabus: Paper I > 7. Culture, language and communication > Social context of language use
Syllabus: Paper I > 7. Culture, language and communication > Language and culture
1(d) Non-verbal communication
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > 7. Culture, language and communication > Verbal and non-verbal communication
1(c) Radcliffe-Brown's ideas on status, role and institution
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.2 The Nature of Society > Status, role and social institution
1(b) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > 7. Culture, language and communication > Language and thought
Syllabus: Paper I > Nature of Society > Social Groups, Status and Role > Social stratification and inequality
1(b) Society and Culture.
10 Marks150 words
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.2 The Nature of Society > Society and culture
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.2 The Nature of Society > Social stratification > Status and role; ascribed and achieved status
Syllabus: Paper I > Culture, Language and Communication > Linguistic Anthropology > Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
Syllabus: Paper I > 2.2 The Nature of Society > Social stratification