July 2024 and January 2025
Assignment I
Answer the following Descriptive Category questions in about 500 words each. Each question carries 20 marks.
- What do you understand by ‘political economy’? Discuss the influence of political economy perspective on Marx’s writings.
- What is social revolution? How will it be reached?
Assignment II
Answer the following Middle Category questions in about 250 words each. Each question carries 10 marks.
- What is the difference between use value and exchange value of commodities.
- What are the rules for observing social facts objectively?
- Discuss Durkheim’s understanding of suicide.
Assignment III
Answer the following Short Category questions in about 100 words each. Each question carries 6 marks.
- Highlight Marx’s concept of alienation.
- What are the characteristics of capitalist mode of production.
- What do you understand by ‘historical materialism’?
- What did Weber mean by ‘rational legal authority’?
- Why are ideal types contructed.
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