Sociology I · Practice questions
Thinkers, methods, stratification, religion, change
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The statement 'Sociology as a discipline stands apart from Psychology', doesn't hold any merit today'. Comment.
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Sociology and Other Social Sciences
Globalisation is transforming industrial cities and giving rise to global cities. Explain.
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Theories and Agents of Social ChangeOrganisation of Work
Sociology and social anthropology are still divided by differences of terminology, approach and method but lately there has been convergence in both disciplines. Analyze.
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Sociology and Other Social Sciences
'Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought.' Discuss.
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Science and Scientific MethodFact, Value and Objectivity
Climate change is deeply intertwined with global patterns of inequality. Comment.
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Development and Dependency
According to Marx, 'labour is the source of wealth and prime basic condition of human existence. Comment.
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Karl MarxLabour and Society
Discuss whether Identity politics is divisive or unifying force through examples.
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Protest and Social MovementsNation, State and Citizenship
Welfare state reflects the collective will and aspirations of the society and work for the betterment of the citizen by empowering them socially and economically. Explain.
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Nation, State and CitizenshipPower and Elites
'Work is worship' is not true anymore due to changing nature of work. How far do you agree? Do you think that this changing nature of work has given birth to 'one dimensional man'?
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Organisation of WorkLabour and Society
Do you think phenomenology restores the primacy of human experience and meaning giving acts of human consciousness?
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Non-positivist Methodologies
Women are no longer restricted to the domestic hearth, but have the whole society in which to roam and be exploited. Discuss in context of changing nature of Patriarchy.
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Patriarchy and GenderClass, Status, Gender and Race
Explain the 'latent' and 'Manifest' outcomes of 'work from home' culture.
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Robert K. MertonOrganisation of Work
Davis and Moore theory of stratification has provoked a lengthy debate. In this context, produce a comprehensive criticism of their ideas.
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Theories of StratificationEquality, Inequality and Exclusion
Critically examine to what extent the concept of 'latent and manifest functions' evolved by RK Merton has given greater significance and relevance to the functional analysis in understanding social reality.
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Robert K. Merton
Educational Institutions teach the skills required by the future capitalist employers through the hidden curriculum. Analyse from Marxist point of view.
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Education and Social ChangeKarl Marx
What do you mean by rationality? Discuss Max Weber's treatment of rationality in his work.
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Max Weber
Normalisation -- Do you think informality is planned for sustenance of the formal?
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Organisation of WorkLabour and Society
How viable is interview method in the present era of social distancing and virtual world? Can we eliminate it altogether, given the importance of method in social science research?
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Research Methods and Data Collection
Micro sociological understanding of self & society ought to be different from Macro sociological understanding of social-systems. How?
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Science and Scientific MethodNon-positivist Methodologies
Gender as a dimension of social stratification. 5. (a) "No society can be absolutely open or absolutely closed". Comment.
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Class, Status, Gender and RaceSocial Mobility
It is argued that globally countries are moving toward despotism with a democratic facade. Give your views.
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Nation, State and CitizenshipPower and Elites
What is critical social research? Discuss the main features of critical social research.
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Non-positivist MethodologiesScience and Scientific Method
History is past sociology and sociology is present history. Examine.
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Sociology and Other Social Sciences
In India also, media excessively focuses on issues of the dominant castes. Subaltern perspectives like dalit and tribal issues take a back seat. With emerging media technologies like influencer jobs, internet of things, 5G revolution, both modernisation and traditionalisation occur at breakneck speed.
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