Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Sociology

Chapter

Indian Society: Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion

Question:

Match List I with List - II.

List I Concept

List II Characteristics

A. Third gender

I. Separation of races

B. Apartheid

II. Social category of persons who are neither male nor female

C. Adivasis

III. Conversion of gender status of body into opposite gender by choice

D. Transgender

IV. Indigenous population, identity struggles

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options:

A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II

A-IV, B-II, C-I, D-III

Correct Answer:

A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

Explanation:

Third Gender – Third gender refers to that social category of persons who are neither male nor female. In fact this category presents the persons having alternates of both genders–male and female. The identification of our self as third gender is based on self–understanding however in various situations. This identification is made by group, family and society, Now the third gender persons get the legal recognition. In India a third gender person can nominate themself to contest in elections.

To ensure their political control, the White European minority developed the policy of apartheid, or separation of the races. An informal practice for many years, apartheid became law in 1948 and was used to deny the Black majority South African citizenship, ownership of land, and a formal voice in government.

Adivasis : Indigenous population, identity struggles.

Trans Gender – In general ‘male body’ and ‘female body’ as social unit are unchanging identity but due to so many researches in the field of physiology, the notion of the body is now liked with ‘choice structure’. By using surgical procedures male body can be converted into female body or female body into male body. It means gender indentites can be chosen willingly. Transgender as concept, thus, refers to conversions of gender status of body into opposite gender by using choice or certain compulsions.