Please keep at least one language enabled. / కనీసం ఒక భాషను ఎంచుకోండి.
Question 1
ప్రశ్న 1
Class culture refers primarily to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Class culture includes habits, values, tastes, language and practices associated with social and economic positions.
• Option A is correct because class experience is shaped by labour, income, education and access to institutions.
• Class culture is historically produced rather than biologically inherited.
• Cultural Studies examines how class identities are represented, reproduced and contested.
• Option A is correct because class experience is shaped by labour, income, education and access to institutions.
• Class culture is historically produced rather than biologically inherited.
• Cultural Studies examines how class identities are represented, reproduced and contested.
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Question 2
ప్రశ్న 2
Working-class studies is chiefly concerned with:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Working-class studies examines labour, community, everyday life, representation and collective action.
• Option B is correct because it treats working people as cultural and historical agents.
• The field may analyse oral history, popular culture, trade unions and neighbourhood practices.
• It challenges accounts that focus exclusively on elites.
• Option B is correct because it treats working people as cultural and historical agents.
• The field may analyse oral history, popular culture, trade unions and neighbourhood practices.
• It challenges accounts that focus exclusively on elites.
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Question 3
ప్రశ్న 3
Caste is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Caste is a historically rooted system of hereditary hierarchy and social differentiation.
• Option C is correct because caste has regulated status, occupation, marriage, space and access to resources.
• Caste and class may interact, but they are not identical categories.
• Cultural Studies examines how caste is represented and normalized in language, literature, media and institutions.
• Option C is correct because caste has regulated status, occupation, marriage, space and access to resources.
• Caste and class may interact, but they are not identical categories.
• Cultural Studies examines how caste is represented and normalized in language, literature, media and institutions.
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Question 4
ప్రశ్న 4
Dalit culture is most accurately described as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Dalit culture includes literature, testimony, performance, memory and collective anti-caste assertion.
• Option D is correct because it challenges caste oppression and dominant representations.
• Dalit cultural production often centres experiences excluded from elite histories.
• It combines aesthetic expression with struggles for dignity, equality and social justice.
• Option D is correct because it challenges caste oppression and dominant representations.
• Dalit cultural production often centres experiences excluded from elite histories.
• It combines aesthetic expression with struggles for dignity, equality and social justice.
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Question 5
ప్రశ్న 5
The term subaltern groups generally refers to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Subaltern groups occupy subordinated positions within social and political structures.
• Option A is correct because their voices may be excluded from official history and dominant representation.
• The term can refer to peasants, workers, oppressed castes, tribal communities and other marginalized groups.
• Subaltern analysis asks how such groups act, speak and become represented.
• Option A is correct because their voices may be excluded from official history and dominant representation.
• The term can refer to peasants, workers, oppressed castes, tribal communities and other marginalized groups.
• Subaltern analysis asks how such groups act, speak and become represented.
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Question 6
ప్రశ్న 6
Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital refers to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Cultural capital includes knowledge, educational qualifications, linguistic competence and socially valued cultural dispositions.
• Option B is correct because these resources can provide advantages within schools, professions and elite institutions.
• Cultural capital is related to, but distinct from, economic capital.
• Bourdieu shows how culture contributes to the reproduction of social inequality.
• Option B is correct because these resources can provide advantages within schools, professions and elite institutions.
• Cultural capital is related to, but distinct from, economic capital.
• Bourdieu shows how culture contributes to the reproduction of social inequality.
వివరణ:
Question 7
ప్రశ్న 7
Which of the following is an example of institutionalized cultural capital?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Institutionalized cultural capital takes the form of officially recognized qualifications and credentials.
• Option C is correct because a university degree certifies cultural competence through an institution.
• An accent is closer to embodied cultural capital.
• A painting collection is an example of objectified cultural capital.
• Option C is correct because a university degree certifies cultural competence through an institution.
• An accent is closer to embodied cultural capital.
• A painting collection is an example of objectified cultural capital.
వివరణ:
Question 8
ప్రశ్న 8
In Bourdieu's sociology, taste is:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Bourdieu argues that taste is shaped by social background, education and access to cultural resources.
• Option D is correct because preferences can mark class position and establish distinction.
• What appears to be natural refinement may result from unequal social training.
• Cultural hierarchies therefore convert social privilege into apparently legitimate taste.
• Option D is correct because preferences can mark class position and establish distinction.
• What appears to be natural refinement may result from unequal social training.
• Cultural hierarchies therefore convert social privilege into apparently legitimate taste.
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Question 9
ప్రశ్న 9
Marginality refers to:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Marginality describes exclusion from dominant institutions, resources and representation.
• Option A is correct because marginalized groups may be placed at the social, political or cultural edges of society.
• Marginality does not imply passivity or lack of agency.
• Marginal spaces may also become sites of cultural creativity and resistance.
• Option A is correct because marginalized groups may be placed at the social, political or cultural edges of society.
• Marginality does not imply passivity or lack of agency.
• Marginal spaces may also become sites of cultural creativity and resistance.
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Question 10
ప్రశ్న 10
Oral traditions are especially important to marginal cultures because they:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Oral traditions include songs, stories, testimonies, legends and performance practices.
• Option B is correct because they preserve experiences often absent from elite written records.
• Oral traditions are dynamic and may change through performance and transmission.
• They can sustain community memory and challenge dominant historical narratives.
• Option B is correct because they preserve experiences often absent from elite written records.
• Oral traditions are dynamic and may change through performance and transmission.
• They can sustain community memory and challenge dominant historical narratives.
వివరణ:
Question 11
ప్రశ్న 11
Everyday resistance is best understood as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Everyday resistance may include refusal, evasion, satire, hidden criticism and selective non-compliance.
• Option C is correct because resistance does not always take the form of organized rebellion.
• Such practices can occur in workplaces, households and community life.
• Cultural analysis studies both their possibilities and their limitations.
• Option C is correct because resistance does not always take the form of organized rebellion.
• Such practices can occur in workplaces, households and community life.
• Cultural analysis studies both their possibilities and their limitations.
వివరణ:
Question 12
ప్రశ్న 12
Which of the following is NOT consistent with an anti-caste cultural perspective?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Anti-caste cultural work challenges inherited hierarchy and exclusion.
• It recovers marginalized histories and centres the voices of oppressed communities.
• Option D is inconsistent because it naturalizes the very system that anti-caste thought contests.
• Dalit cultural production often exposes caste as historical, institutional and changeable.
• It recovers marginalized histories and centres the voices of oppressed communities.
• Option D is inconsistent because it naturalizes the very system that anti-caste thought contests.
• Dalit cultural production often exposes caste as historical, institutional and changeable.
వివరణ:
Question 13
ప్రశ్న 13
Statement I: Cultural capital can influence educational success.
Statement II: Educational institutions always evaluate students independently of class-based cultural advantages.
Statement II: Educational institutions always evaluate students independently of class-based cultural advantages.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because familiarity with institutionally valued language and culture can support educational success.
• Statement II is incorrect because schools may reward cultural dispositions more available to privileged groups.
• Such advantages can appear to be individual merit rather than inherited social resources.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
• Statement II is incorrect because schools may reward cultural dispositions more available to privileged groups.
• Such advantages can appear to be individual merit rather than inherited social resources.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 14
ప్రశ్న 14
Statement I: Caste representation can influence how communities are socially perceived.
Statement II: Cultural stereotypes have no relationship with institutional discrimination.
Statement II: Cultural stereotypes have no relationship with institutional discrimination.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement I is correct because repeated representations shape public assumptions about caste groups.
• Statement II is incorrect because stereotypes may justify exclusion in education, employment, housing and public life.
• Representation and material inequality can reinforce one another.
• Hence, option B is correct.
• Statement II is incorrect because stereotypes may justify exclusion in education, employment, housing and public life.
• Representation and material inequality can reinforce one another.
• Hence, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 15
ప్రశ్న 15
Assertion: Taste can function as a marker of social hierarchy.
Reason: Dominant institutions may treat the cultural preferences of privileged groups as universally superior.
Reason: Dominant institutions may treat the cultural preferences of privileged groups as universally superior.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because tastes can identify and separate social groups.
• The Reason is correct because institutions may legitimize elite preferences as refined or universal.
• This conversion of privilege into cultural authority explains how taste marks hierarchy.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
• The Reason is correct because institutions may legitimize elite preferences as refined or universal.
• This conversion of privilege into cultural authority explains how taste marks hierarchy.
• Therefore, option C is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 16
ప్రశ్న 16
Assertion: Oral traditions can serve as forms of cultural resistance.
Reason: They may preserve counter-memories that challenge dominant written histories.
Reason: They may preserve counter-memories that challenge dominant written histories.
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The Assertion is correct because oral traditions can sustain marginalized identities and histories.
• The Reason is correct because counter-memories may question official narratives and elite archives.
• This preservation of alternative memory explains their resistant potential.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
• The Reason is correct because counter-memories may question official narratives and elite archives.
• This preservation of alternative memory explains their resistant potential.
• Therefore, option D is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 17
ప్రశ్న 17
Consider the following statements about cultural capital:
1. It may exist in embodied forms.
2. It may exist in objectified forms.
3. It may exist in institutionalized forms.
4. It is distributed equally across all social classes.
Which statements are correct?
1. It may exist in embodied forms.
2. It may exist in objectified forms.
3. It may exist in institutionalized forms.
4. It is distributed equally across all social classes.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because embodied cultural capital includes durable skills and dispositions.
• Statement 2 is correct because objectified cultural capital includes books, artworks and cultural goods.
• Statement 3 is correct because educational credentials provide institutional recognition.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because access to cultural capital is socially unequal.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because objectified cultural capital includes books, artworks and cultural goods.
• Statement 3 is correct because educational credentials provide institutional recognition.
• Statement 4 is incorrect because access to cultural capital is socially unequal.
• Therefore, option A is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 18
ప్రశ్న 18
Consider the following statements about marginal cultures:
1. They may preserve alternative histories.
2. They may develop resistant cultural practices.
3. They are necessarily isolated from dominant culture.
4. They may use oral and performative traditions.
Which statements are correct?
1. They may preserve alternative histories.
2. They may develop resistant cultural practices.
3. They are necessarily isolated from dominant culture.
4. They may use oral and performative traditions.
Which statements are correct?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Statement 1 is correct because marginal cultures can preserve memories excluded from official history.
• Statement 2 is correct because they may challenge dominant meanings and hierarchies.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because marginal and dominant cultures often interact under unequal conditions.
• Statement 4 is correct because oral traditions and performance are important cultural forms.
• Hence, option B is correct.
• Statement 2 is correct because they may challenge dominant meanings and hierarchies.
• Statement 3 is incorrect because marginal and dominant cultures often interact under unequal conditions.
• Statement 4 is correct because oral traditions and performance are important cultural forms.
• Hence, option B is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 19
ప్రశ్న 19
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Cultural capital
2. Taste
3. Marginality
4. Oral tradition
List II
I. Socially shaped cultural judgement
II. Position of limited access to power
III. Transmission of memory through spoken or performed forms
IV. Cultural resources that may provide social advantage
List I
1. Cultural capital
2. Taste
3. Marginality
4. Oral tradition
List II
I. Socially shaped cultural judgement
II. Position of limited access to power
III. Transmission of memory through spoken or performed forms
IV. Cultural resources that may provide social advantage
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Cultural capital matches cultural resources that may provide social advantage.
• Taste matches socially shaped cultural judgement.
• Marginality matches a position of limited access to power.
• Oral tradition matches the transmission of memory through spoken or performed forms.
• Therefore, option C gives the correct matching.
• Taste matches socially shaped cultural judgement.
• Marginality matches a position of limited access to power.
• Oral tradition matches the transmission of memory through spoken or performed forms.
• Therefore, option C gives the correct matching.
వివరణ:
Question 20
ప్రశ్న 20
Match List I with List II:
List I
1. Working-class culture
2. Dalit culture
3. Subaltern groups
4. Everyday resistance
List II
I. Routine negotiation or evasion of domination
II. Communities subordinated within structures of power
III. Cultural life shaped by labour and class experience
IV. Anti-caste assertion and marginalized memory
List I
1. Working-class culture
2. Dalit culture
3. Subaltern groups
4. Everyday resistance
List II
I. Routine negotiation or evasion of domination
II. Communities subordinated within structures of power
III. Cultural life shaped by labour and class experience
IV. Anti-caste assertion and marginalized memory
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Working-class culture matches cultural life shaped by labour and class experience.
• Dalit culture matches anti-caste assertion and marginalized memory.
• Subaltern groups match communities subordinated within structures of power.
• Everyday resistance matches routine negotiation or evasion of domination.
• Thus, option D is correct.
• Dalit culture matches anti-caste assertion and marginalized memory.
• Subaltern groups match communities subordinated within structures of power.
• Everyday resistance matches routine negotiation or evasion of domination.
• Thus, option D is correct.
వివరణ:
Question 21
ప్రశ్న 21
A school rewards students who already possess elite linguistic styles and presents their success as evidence of natural intelligence. Bourdieu's theory would interpret this as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Students from privileged backgrounds may enter school with linguistic styles already valued by the institution.
• Option A is correct because inherited cultural capital is converted into academic recognition.
• The process can conceal structural advantage by representing success as natural ability alone.
• Bourdieu's analysis exposes the role of education in social reproduction.
• Option A is correct because inherited cultural capital is converted into academic recognition.
• The process can conceal structural advantage by representing success as natural ability alone.
• Bourdieu's analysis exposes the role of education in social reproduction.
వివరణ:
Question 22
ప్రశ్న 22
A television series repeatedly portrays members of an oppressed caste only as servants and never as professionals or decision-makers. This most clearly illustrates:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The series confines an oppressed caste to a narrow and subordinate social role.
• Option B is correct because repeated restricted representation creates and reinforces a caste stereotype.
• The absence of varied roles can naturalize unequal social expectations.
• Critical cultural analysis would examine both visibility and narrative agency.
• Option B is correct because repeated restricted representation creates and reinforces a caste stereotype.
• The absence of varied roles can naturalize unequal social expectations.
• Critical cultural analysis would examine both visibility and narrative agency.
వివరణ:
Question 23
ప్రశ్న 23
A community performs songs recounting struggles against bonded labour, although these events are absent from official textbooks. These songs function primarily as:
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• The songs preserve community experiences excluded from official written history.
• Option C is correct because they operate as counter-memory and challenge dominant accounts.
• Performance connects historical knowledge with collective identity.
• Oral traditions can therefore become important archives of labour and resistance.
• Option C is correct because they operate as counter-memory and challenge dominant accounts.
• Performance connects historical knowledge with collective identity.
• Oral traditions can therefore become important archives of labour and resistance.
వివరణ:
Question 24
ప్రశ్న 24
Which comparison between class and caste is most accurate?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Class is closely connected with economic relations, occupation, wealth and control of resources.
• Caste is a hereditary hierarchy involving status, social exclusion and historically regulated occupations.
• Option D is correct because it distinguishes the categories while recognizing their interaction.
• Cultural analysis must avoid reducing caste to class or treating either category in isolation.
• Caste is a hereditary hierarchy involving status, social exclusion and historically regulated occupations.
• Option D is correct because it distinguishes the categories while recognizing their interaction.
• Cultural analysis must avoid reducing caste to class or treating either category in isolation.
వివరణ:
Question 25
ప్రశ్న 25
Which conclusion best integrates class, caste, marginality and cultural resistance?
Select an option first. / ముందుగా ఒక సమాధానాన్ని ఎంచుకోండి.
Explanation:
• Class and caste hierarchies influence access to institutions, cultural authority and representation.
• Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital explains how privilege can be reproduced through taste and education.
• Marginalized communities may challenge domination through oral traditions, literature and everyday resistance.
• Option A provides the most comprehensive account of hierarchy and cultural agency.
• Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital explains how privilege can be reproduced through taste and education.
• Marginalized communities may challenge domination through oral traditions, literature and everyday resistance.
• Option A provides the most comprehensive account of hierarchy and cultural agency.
వివరణ:
Answer Key సమాధానాల పట్టిక
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Question 1 ప్రశ్న 1Answer: A. Cultural practices and values shaped by positions within social and economic relations సమాధానం: A.
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Question 2 ప్రశ్న 2Answer: B. The labour, culture, history and agency of working people సమాధానం: B.
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Question 3 ప్రశ్న 3Answer: C. A hereditary system of social hierarchy involving status, occupation and exclusion సమాధానం: C.
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Question 4 ప్రశ్న 4Answer: D. Cultural expression shaped by anti-caste experience, assertion, memory and resistance సమాధానం: D.
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Question 5 ప్రశ్న 5Answer: A. Groups subordinated within structures of political, economic or cultural power సమాధానం: A.
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Question 6 ప్రశ్న 6Answer: B. Cultural knowledge, skills, credentials and dispositions that provide social advantage సమాధానం: B.
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Question 7 ప్రశ్న 7Answer: C. A recognized university degree సమాధానం: C.
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Question 8 ప్రశ్న 8Answer: D. A socially shaped judgement that can express and reproduce distinction సమాధానం: D.
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Question 9 ప్రశ్న 9Answer: A. A position of limited access to social power, recognition and resources సమాధానం: A.
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Question 10 ప్రశ్న 10Answer: B. Can preserve memories, knowledge and identities excluded from written archives సమాధానం: B.
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Question 11 ప్రశ్న 11Answer: C. Routine practices through which subordinated people evade, negotiate or challenge authority సమాధానం: C.
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Question 12 ప్రశ్న 12Answer: D. Presenting hereditary hierarchy as natural and unchangeable సమాధానం: D.
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Question 13 ప్రశ్న 13Answer: A. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: A.
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Question 14 ప్రశ్న 14Answer: B. Statement I is correct, but Statement II is incorrect సమాధానం: B.
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Question 15 ప్రశ్న 15Answer: C. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: C.
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Question 16 ప్రశ్న 16Answer: D. Both Assertion and Reason are correct, and Reason is the correct explanation of Assertion సమాధానం: D.
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Question 17 ప్రశ్న 17Answer: A. 1, 2 and 3 only సమాధానం: A.
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Question 18 ప్రశ్న 18Answer: B. 1, 2 and 4 only సమాధానం: B.
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Question 19 ప్రశ్న 19Answer: C. 1-IV, 2-I, 3-II, 4-III సమాధానం: C.
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Question 20 ప్రశ్న 20Answer: D. 1-III, 2-IV, 3-II, 4-I సమాధానం: D.
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Question 21 ప్రశ్న 21Answer: A. The conversion of inherited cultural capital into apparently individual merit సమాధానం: A.
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Question 22 ప్రశ్న 22Answer: B. Caste stereotyping through restricted representation సమాధానం: B.
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Question 23 ప్రశ్న 23Answer: C. Counter-memory and cultural resistance సమాధానం: C.
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Question 24 ప్రశ్న 24Answer: D. Class is strongly related to economic position, while caste is a hereditary hierarchy that may also shape economic opportunity సమాధానం: D.
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Question 25 ప్రశ్న 25Answer: A. Social hierarchies shape cultural value and representation, but marginalized groups can produce counter-memories and resistant practices సమాధానం: A.