Multiple choice

Consider the following statements:

  1. Sir Henry James Sumner did not subscribe to the view that legal basis of primitive societies lay in ties of blood and kinship.
  2. Kinship classification system developed by Lewis Henry ultimately led to Fredrich Engel's work on the origins of the family and the state. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

  1. 1 only

  2. 2 only

  3. Both 1 and 2

  4. Neither 1 nor 2
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Statement 1 is incorrect - Sumner DID subscribe to the view that primitive societies were based on ties of blood and kinship (he coined 'folkways'). Statement 2 is correct - Lewis Henry Morgan's kinship classification system directly influenced Friedrich Engels' work 'The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State'.

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