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Match List I with List II

List I
List II
[A] Karl Marx
[I] Madness and civilization
[B] Levi-Strauss
[II] Being and nothingness
[C] Michel Foucault
[III] The German ideology
[D] Jean Paul Sartre
[IV] The elementary structures of kinship

Options

A

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

B

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

C

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

D

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

Correct Answer :

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

Solution :

The correct option is A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II.

To understand why this is the correct matching, let us look at each author in List I and match them with their respective work in List II:

[A] Karl Marx: Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, and sociologist. One of his key early works, written alongside Friedrich Engels in 1845–1846, is The German Ideology ([III]). In this text, they first formulated their materialist conception of history.

[B] Levi-Strauss: Claude Lévi-Strauss was a French anthropologist and ethnologist who was key in the development of structuralism. One of his landmark works is The Elementary Structures of Kinship ([IV]), first published in 1949, which revolutionized the anthropological study of family structures and kinship systems.

[C] Michel Foucault: Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, social theorist, and historian of ideas. His first major book was Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason ([I]), published in 1961, which analyzes the evolving societal and medical perceptions of madness throughout history.

[D] Jean-Paul Sartre: Jean-Paul Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, and novelist who was a key figure in existentialism. His main philosophical treatise is Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological Ontology ([II]), published in 1943, where he lays out his core ideas regarding human freedom, consciousness, and existential choice.

Matching these pairs together:
- A matches with III
- B matches with IV
- C matches with I
- D matches with II

Therefore, the correct combination is A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II.

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