Sociology II · 20 marks
Regarding the growth of Indian sociology, it is argued that, like most social sciences in India, sociology is very much influenced by Western philosophical and social scientific traditions but some scholars challenged the borrowed theoretical and methodological assumptions. Discuss.
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Syllabus: Perspectives on the study of Indian society: (a) Indology (G.S. Ghurye). (b) Structural functionalism (M N Srinivas). (c) Marxist sociology (A R Desai).
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