ARCHIVES 15 October 2014 1) Distinguish between the Indological and the Sociological views on the Hindu family and show how the former has influenced the latter. (300 Words) 2) Examine with particular reference to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, the view that education promotes social equality. (300 Words) 3) Write notes on any three of …
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ARCHIVES 14 October 2014 1) Write notes on ALL the following is not more than 200 words on each: (a) Universalisation and parochialisation in Indian civilization. (b) Bride and bridegroom price. (c) The changing social composition of the political elite since Independence. (d) Unionization and the agrarian classes. 2) What is the relative role of ritual …
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ARCHIVES 13 October 2014 Answer in about 300 words: 1) Analyse the social determinants of industrialization. Will industrialization per se lead to equality and balanced development in the society? 2) Do you agree with the view that legitimacy is a powerful instrument in the hands of the elite in the contemporary society? What are the different …
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ARCHIVES 11 October 2014 1) Discuss suicide as a social fact. While explaining the typology of suicide according to Durkheim, bring out the destabilising role of anomic in modern societies. (300 Words) 2) Are caste and class merely different forms of qualitatively different types of social stratification? Elucidate your point of view. (300 Words) 3) …
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ARCHIVES 10 October 2014 1) Write short notes on ALL of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):- (a) Participant observation and the problem of objectivity. (b) Functional prerequisites of society (c) Religious and scientific world views. (d) Family in industrial societies. 2. Distinguish between social change and social development. How does the …
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ARCHIVES 09 October 2014 1) Write notes on ALL of the following in not more than 200 words on each: (a) Education and society mobility. (b) Direction of tribal change. (c) Socio-cultural dimensions of Indian villages (d) Westernization and modernization. 2) Discuss industrialization and urbanization as inter related factors of social change in India. 3) …
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ARCHIVES 08 October 2014 Write notes on ALL of the following in not more than 200 words on each: (a) Continuity and change in India. (b) Agrarian and industrial class structure. (c) Intergenerational gap and youth unrest. (d) Decentralization of power and political participation. What are the features of economic development? Outline the social determinants …
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ARCHIVES 07 October 2014 1) Discuss the role of participative decision making in formal and informal organizations. Is it possible to have workers’ participation in industrial organizations? 2) Distinguish between science and religion. Examine religion as a functional and dysfunctional factor in the contemporary society. 3) Analyse Marxian theory of social change. Is it useful …
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ARCHIVES 06 October 2014 1) . In social stratification a particular form of social inequality? Analyse the role of wealth, power and status in the perpetuation of stratification systems in the society. (300 Words) 2) Write short notes on ALL of the following (Each should not exceed 200 words):- (a) Pressure groups and economic development. (b) Industrialization and …
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ARCHIVES 04 October 2014 Write short notes on ALL of the following (Each answer should not exceed 200 words):- (a) Sucide as a social fact. (b) Decent and Kinship as social networks. (c) Modernization and intergenerational mobility. (d) Suitability of questionnaire for data collection in developing societies. How far do you agree with the view that …
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ARCHIVES 03 October 2014 61)Compare and contrast the stratification systems and ideological patterns among the major religious categories in India. Evaluate the problem of religious conversion against this background. (250 Words) 2) In what sense was the traditional Indian village a ‘community’? Bring out the impact of the Community Development Programme upon that ‘community’. (250 …
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ARCHIVES 01 October 2014 1) Bring out the socio-cultural contexts of educational inequality. In view of these circumstances what measures you think are appropriate for the solution of the educational problems of the scheduled castes? (250 Words) 2) 5. Write notes on ALL of the following in not more than 200 words each:- (a) Acculturation and integration of tribal communities. …
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ARCHIVES 30 September 2014 1) Write notes on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:- (a) Orthogenetic and heterogenetic factors of social change in India. (b) The changing position of woman in India. (c) Jajmani system. (d) Panchayati Raj 2) Examine on the basis of empirical evidence whether castes are …
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ARCHIVES 29 September 2014 Answer in 250 words: 1) In what sense is family a primary group? Examine the correspondence between the nature and functions of the family on the one hand and the nature and functions of the state on the other, in a changing society. 2) Explain the basic features of “bureaucracy” and …
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ARCHIVES 27 September 2014 1) Distinguish among the concepts of “social inequalities”, “social hierarchy” and “the perpetuation of social inequalities”. How are these features manifested in the different forms of social stratification? (250 Words) 2) Write short notes on ALL of the following (Each answer should not exceed 200 words): (a) Cultural lag and directed …
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ARCHIVES 26 September 2014 1) Write short notes on ALL of the following (each answer should not exceed 200 words):- (a) Alienation in modern society. (b) “Value Problem” in sociological research. (c) “Social Action and Pattern variables. (d) Socialization and the Self. 2) What are the major postulates in functional analysis? Is the framework conservative …
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ARCHIVES 25 September 2014 1) Explain why it is not urbanization alone, but urbanization combined with industrialization, which is responsible for far-reaching changes in society. (250 Words) 2) Write short notes on the following:(200 Words) (a) Varna and Jati. (b) Growing economic disparities despite development planning. (c) Slow progress of Scheduled caste despite Protective Discrimination. …
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ARCHIVES 24 September 2014 1) There are tendencies in some parts of the country, on the part of the native people of a region to discriminate against the immigrants. Analyse the economic, demographic and socio-cultural factors which may give rise to the politics of nativism. (250 Words) 2) Examine India’s claim to be a secular …
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ARCHIVES 23 September 2014 Answer in 250 words: 1) Analyse the interrelationships among the joint family, the caste system and the village community in the traditional Indian society and show how they were supported by the peculiar economic organization and the value system. 2) Describe the traditional modes of adaptation and mobility in tribe and …
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ARCHIVES 22 September 2014 Answer in 250 words: 1) What argument are adduced by some authors to assert that the caste system is peculiar only to India, and by some others to show that it is a universal phenomenon observable in other parts of the world as well? 2) Some authors maintain that the caste …
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