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SOCIOLOGY -PAPER 1
SECTION – A
Answer the following in about 150 words each: 10x5 = 50 |
| 1. a |
Europe was the first and the only place where modernity emerged. Comment. 10 |
| 1. b |
Do you think ethnomethodology helps us in getting reliable and valid data? Justify your answer. 10 |
| 1. c |
Discuss the challenges involved in collecting data through census method. 10 |
| 1. d |
Explain whether Durkheim’s theory of Division of Labour is relevant in the present-day context. 10 |
| 1. e |
Critically examine Max Weber’s theory Social Stratification. 10 |
| 2. a |
From the viewpoint of growing importance of multi disciplinarity, how do you relate sociology to other social sciences? 20 |
| 2. b |
How far are sociologists justified in using positivist approach to understand social reality? Explain with suitable illustrations. 20 |
| 2. c |
How is sociology related to common sense? 10 |
| 3. a |
How do qualitative and quantitative methods supplement each other in sociological enquiry? 20 |
| 3. b |
Critically examine the dialectics involved in each mode of production as propounded by Karl Marx. 20 |
| 3. c |
Do you agree with Max Weber’s idea that bureaucracy has the potential to become an iron cage? Justify your answer. 10 |
| 4. a |
Explain the concept of social mobility. Describe with suitable illustrations how education and social mobility are related to each other. 20 |
| 4. b |
How has the idea of ‘Work From Home’ forced us to redefine the formal and informal organisation of work? 20 |
| 4. c |
With suitable examples, explain how conformity and deviance coexist in a society as propounded by R.K. Merton. 10 |
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SECTION – B
Answer the following in about 150 words each: 10x5 =50 |
| 5. a |
Explain the emerging challenges in establishing gender equality in the informal sector. 10 |
| 5. b |
Critically examine the relevance of Vilfredo Pareto’s theory of Circulation of Elites in the present scenario. 10 |
| 5. c |
Critically compare the views of E.B. Tylor and Max Muller on Religion. 10 |
| 5. d |
What is cult? Explain the growth of cults in the contemporary world. 10 |
| 5. e |
Do you think Talcott Parsons gave an adequate theory of social change? Justify your answer. 10 |
| 6. a |
Elucidate the main problems and challenges faced by the migrant labourers in the recent ‘Lockdown period’. 20 |
| 6. b |
Explain how political parties and pressure groups are dialectically related to each other in terms of achieving their goals. 20 |
| 6. c |
Give your comments on the growth of religious revivalism in the present-day context.
10 |
| 7. a |
Explain how the pattern of patriarchy is being altered in a family and at the workplace in the present context. 20 |
| 7. b |
Critically examine the contribution of dependency theories in understanding the present global scenario. 20 |
| 7. c |
Explain the growing salience of ethnicity in the contemporary world with illustrations. 10 |
| 8. a |
Discuss the changing nature of kinship relations in the contemporary world. 20 |
| 8.b |
Describe the role of Science and Technology in enabling us to face the challenges triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic. 20 |
| 8. c |
Highlight the roles and functions of civil society in a democratic system. 10 |
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