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July 2024 and January 2025
Answer all the questions.
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Critically examine the attributional approach to the study of Caste.
- Discuss class as a form of social stratification.
Section – II
Answer the following in about 250 words each.
- Discuss the tribal policy in India.
- Explain the agrarian class structure in India.
- Write a brief note on ethnicity.
- Explain the concept of middle class.
Section – III
Answer the following in about 100 words each.
July 2019 and January 2020
Answer all the questions.
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Critically examine the interactional approach to the study of Caste.
- Compare Coser’s theory on class with that of Dahrendorf’s theory
Section – II
Answer the following in about 250 words each.
- What are the various types and forms of social mobility.
- Examine the role of family in gender stereotyping.
- Discuss the nature of Backward Classes movement in Post Independent India.
- Explain the relationship between tribe and ethnicity.
Section – III
Answer the following in about 100 words each.
- Who are the dominant castes according M.N. Srinivas?
- Differentiate between inequality and difference.
July 2018 and January 2019
Answer all the questions.
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Critically examine the attributional approach to the study of Caste.
- Discuss the role of linguistic ethnicity in the formation of states in India.
Section – II
Answer the following in about 250 words each.
- What are the various types and forms of social mobility.
- Examine the role of caste in gender stereotyping.
- Discuss the nature of agrarian social structure in post- independent India.
- Discuss Pareto’s theory of ‘circulation of elites’.
Section – III
Answer the following in about 100 words each.
- Who are the capitalist class?
- What do you understand by ‘Dominant Caste’?
July 2017 and January 2018
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Critically examine the functionalist theory of stratification.
- Discuss religious ethnicity as a basis of stratification.
Section – II
Answer the following in about 250 words each.
- Discuss the stratification system among the tribes of North East India.
- Examine the role of social institutions in gender stereotyping.
- Discuss the nature of middle class in Post- independent India.
- What is social mobility? Discuss its various dimensions.
Section – III
Answer the following in about 100 words each.
- What is westernisation?
- Differentiate between sex and gender.
July 2016 and January 2017
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Discuss the agrarian class structure in India.
- Distinguish between ‘interactional’ and ‘attributional’ approaches to the study of caste.
Section – II
Answer the following in about 250 words each.
- Outline concepts and forms of social mobility.
- Discuss marginalized groups and their changing status.
- Outline Webers views on industrial classes.
- Distinguish between “purity” and “pollution”.
Section – III
Answer the following in about 100 words each.
July 2015 and January 2016
Section – I
Answer the following in about 500 words each.
- Discuss the relationships between gender differentiation and ethnicity.
- Describe the status of dalits with examples.
Section – II
Answer the following in about 250 words each.
- Discuss ‘purity’ and ‘pollution’ as the basis of caste hierarchy.
- Elaborate on the ‘interactional’ and ‘attributional’ approaches to the study of caste.
- Describe the agrarian class structure.
- Outline the middle classes in India.
Section – III
Answer the following in about 100 words each.
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