Sociology I · Practice questions
Thinkers, methods, stratification, religion, change
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Critically analyze the contemporary relevance of Durkheim's theory of religion.
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Emile DurkheimSociology of Religion
What are social movements? Discuss the different perspectives on social movement.
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Protest and Social MovementsPower and Elites
Define social change. Discuss the factors of social change in society.
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Theories and Agents of Social Change
Examine how according to Talcott Parson 'pattern-variables' lead to the understanding of different empirical social-systems.
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Talcott Parsons
What is ethnicity? Is ethnic identity assuming greater importance in contemporary times? Critically evaluate.
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Class, Status, Gender and RaceProtest and Social Movements
What is sampling? Distinguish between probability and non- probability sampling.
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Variables, Sampling and Hypothesis
The goal of value neutrality is highly desirable but equally difficult to be achieved in the study of social phenomena. Evaluate.
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Fact, Value and ObjectivityPositivism and Its Critique
Elaborate Max Weber's 'Ideal Type' features of bureaucracy. What was Weber's assessment of the increasing bureaucratization of modern societies?
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Max WeberPower and Elites
According to Robert K. Merton, deviance result not from pathological personalities but from the 'culture and structure of society itself'. Evaluate Robert K. Merton's 'middle range theory of deviance'.
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Robert K. Merton
Emile Durkheim's conception of 'Social Fact' was essentially an endeavor by him to create a separate niche and scientific status for Sociology.
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Emile DurkheimPositivism and Its Critique
The functional theory of stratification has been critiqued by many scholars on different grounds. Discuss.
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Theories of StratificationEquality, Inequality and Exclusion
Types of social mobility 8. (a) "Marxian theory of stratification is based on two polarized classes and their conflict among each other." Comment. (b) "Work in industrial and post-industrial societies can be alienating for the workforce." Discuss.
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Class, Status, Gender and RaceSocial Mobility
Critically evaluate the contribution of Positivism as an important philosophy and research methodology in sociological understanding of 'social reality'.
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Positivism and Its CritiqueScience and Scientific Method
Formal organisation (b) Class & lifestyle (c) Types of social mobility
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Class, Status, Gender and RaceSocial Mobility
Explain the importance of hypothesis in formulation of sociological theories.
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Variables, Sampling and HypothesisScience and Scientific Method
Symbolic interactionism :- (a) Modern capitalist economies has resulted in organisation & in nature of work in various ways which has been interpreted by sociologists in various approaches & its pros & cons. The discussion about capitalist economy remains futile without taking the opinion of Marx into account.
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G. H. MeadNon-positivist Methodologies
Critically evaluate to what extent is the Marxian notion of alienation, significant in understanding of modern capitalist societies.
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Karl MarxLabour and Society
Ethnicity (c) Work in feudal society (d) Racism (1)(a) Gender as a dimension of stratification
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Class, Status, Gender and Race
Social exclusion has come to indicate the growing inequalities in a fast changing world. Evaluate the various dimensions.
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Equality, Inequality and ExclusionClass, Status, Gender and Race
Education as a factor of social change :-
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Theories and Agents of Social ChangeResearch Methods and Data Collection
How does G. H. Mead's theory of 'Self and Identity' contribute to 'Symbolic Interactionism'?
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G. H. Mead
Sociology & its relation with Common sense :-
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Sociology and Common SenseScience and Scientific Method
Explain Karl Marx's theory of class struggle. Evaluate the theory in terms of its relevance in explaining contemporary reality.
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Karl Marx
Examine how Max Weber's 'Interpretive Sociology' added new dimensions to the subject matter and methodology of Sociology.
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Max WeberNon-positivist Methodologies