10 November 2014
1. Write short notes on ALL the following (each answer should not exceed 200
words):
(a) Techniques of Data Collection
(b) Ideal Types
(c) Social Movement
(d) Alienation
2. Do you agree with Max Weber that the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism are correlated? What are the alternative theories suggested by other academics?
3. A.R. Radcliffe-Brown is said to have improved upon B. Malinowski’s Functional theory. Discuss, how.
4. Do you think that in T. Parsons there has been a transition from the analysis of the structure of social action as such to the structural-functional analysis of social systems”? discuss in detail.
