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A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
A. R. Radcliffe-Brown is central to 14 previous-year questions, spanning 2009 to 2024 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
14Questions
2009–24Years tested
I & IIPaper
5Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
descent 3unilineal descent 3comparative method 2dominant caste 2holism 2sanskritisation 2affinal kinshipaffinal tiesalliancealliance as marriage relationsbook view versus field viewco-residencecognatic descentconsanguineous kinshipconvergencecorporate descent groupscorporate groupcorporate kin groups
Where A. R. Radcliffe-Brown appears in the syllabus
Every question on A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
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