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July 2024 and January 2025
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Discuss Ghurye’s contribution to the understanding of caste.
- Explain Weber’s viewpoint on rationality.
Section-II
Answer the following questions in about 250 words each.
- Did Durkheim consider crime as pathological in society? Explain.
- What are the main features of Malinowski’s functionanlism?
- What did Weber mean by ‘verstehen’.
- Discuss Parson’s idea of social change.
Section- III
Answer the following questions in about 100 words each.
- What do you understand by ‘dysfunction’?
- Why does polenisaction of ideas happen under capitalism?
July 2018 and January 2019
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Discuss the spatial pattern of urban development in contemporary India.
- Define marriage and its different forms
Section-II
Answer the following questions in about 250 words each.
- Explain the concept of the Jajmani System.
- What are the major problems encountered by ‘Scheduled Tribes’ in India?
- Describe the features of the kinship system of North India
- Discuss the changing facets of caste system in India Society.
Section- III
Answer the following questions in about 100 words each.
- Explain the notion of “growth with justice”.
- What do you understand by “parochialisation”?
July 2017 and January 2018
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Explain the central ideas of Anguste Comte towards the development of sociology.
- Discuss Durkheim’s views on social solidarity.
Section-II
Answer the following questions in about 250 words each.
- Outline Marx’s ideas on social change.
- Discuss Robert Merton’s postulates of functional analysis.
- What is Ideal Type? Discuss its characteristics.
- Discuss Malinowski’s concept of culture as an integrated whole.
Section- III
Answer the following questions in about 100 words each.
- Distinguish between ‘mechanical solidarity’ and ‘organic solidarity’.
- Define mode of production.
July 2016 and January 2017
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Discuss some of the central ideas of Simmel in sociology.
- Discuss R.K. Mertons concept of function.
Section-II
Answer the following questions in about 250 words each.
- What did Marx mean by mode of production?
- Discuss Redcliffe- Brown’s concept of social structure.
- Examine the intellectual influences affecting the emergence of sociology.
- Is magic similar to science ? Discuss.
Section- III
Answer the following questions in about 100 words each.
- What is anomie?
- What do you understand by circulation of elite?
July 2015 and January 2016
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Identify factors responsible for the growth and development of sociology in Europe.
- Discuss the Marxian theory of historical materialism.
Section – II
Answer the following questions in about 250 words each.
- Discuss the concept of power and authority as delineated by Weber.
- Describe Malinowski’s approach to the understanding of magic, science and religion.
- Explain Durkheim’s view on division of labour.
- Explain T.Veblen’s concept of leisure class and conspicuous consumption.
Section – III
Answer the following questions in about 100 words each.
- Distinguish between Manifest and Latent function.
- What is social structure?