AIR 236 · CSE 2023 · Sociology I · 84 pages

ANAND SHARMA: Sociology I answer copy

28 answers by ANAND SHARMA, as written in the test. Each question opens a page with how other toppers answered it.

The questions

  1. Q1(a)It is asserted that the field of sociology has expanded over time. Discuss the change in scope of sociology with particular attention to the pandemic era.10 marks
  2. Q1(b)Elaborate the Main Tenets of Positivism in Sociology with its Critique.10 marks
  3. Q1(c)According to Marx, social stratification is caused by people's varying relationships to the means of production. Discuss.10 marks
  4. Q1(d)In sociological study, the concept of absolute objectivity is considered outmoded. Discuss.10 marks
  5. Q1(e)Discuss the relationship between poverty and social exclusion.10 marks
  6. Q2(a)Describe how the social, economic, political, and intellectual context in Europe throughout the 18th century contributed to the development of sociology.20 marks
  7. Q2(b)Do you believe that phenomenology reestablishes the importance of human experience and meaning-giving activities of human consciousness?20 marks
  8. Q2(c)"No society can be absolutely open or absolutely closed". Comment.10 marks
  9. Q3(a)Analyse the pattern of high suicide rates in contemporary Indian society using Durkheim's Suicide Theory.20 marks
  10. Q3(b)What, in Max Weber's view, is the subject matter of sociology? Which principal techniques did he advocate for social science research?20 marks
  11. Q3(c)Discuss the significance of hypotheses in social research as well as their sources.10 marks
  12. Q4(a)The theories of action or "action approach" that Parsons uses are based on the ideas of his predecessors. Discuss.20 marks
  13. Q4(b)What significance does Merton's Middle Range Theory play in sociology? Critically discuss.20 marks
  14. Q4(c)Types of Mobility.10 marks
  15. Q5(a)Discuss the role of civil society in repairing the institutions that serve as the foundation of democracy.10 marks
  16. Q5(b)Examine the Focus Group Discussion (FGD) method of data collection using appropriate examples.10 marks
  17. Q5(c)Discuss the feminist critique of structural functionalist family theory. Show this in the context of India.10 marks
  18. Q5(d)Using examples, debate whether identity politics is a divisive or unifying force.10 marks
  19. Q5(e)Write short note on Class within Caste and Caste within Class.10 marks
  20. Q6(a)The formal organisation of work has recently suffered due to the tertiary sector's growing importance. Examine the statement20 marks
  21. Q6(b)'Research is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what nobody else has pondered.' Discuss20 marks
  22. Q6(c)What exactly is social closure? What are various forms of social closure in society?10 marks
  23. Q7(a)Highlight the various 'Social Pathologies' within Marriage in contemporary times.20 marks
  24. Q7(b)Education serves as a tool for socialisation and social control in addition to being a force for social change. Discuss20 marks
  25. Q7(c)Are social movements both primordial in their means and progressive in their agenda? Explain10 marks
  26. Q8(a)"Merton's theory of anomie is a borrowing but essentially different from that of Durkheim". Critically examine.20 marks
  27. Q8(b)"Marx's conception of 'class-in-itself' and 'class-for-itself' has been questioned on the basis of 'empirical studies'. Elucidate20 marks
  28. Q8(c)Write short note on Development and Dependency.10 marks

The answers

Question 1(a) · 10 marks · 135 words written

It is asserted that the field of sociology has expanded over time. Discuss the change in scope of sociology with particular attention to the pandemic era.

Opening · a definition

Ans- Sociology may be defined as systematic study of human behaviours, social group and society in a scientific manner. Changes in the scope of sociology (w.r.t pandemic era)

Body · points and prose

velopment of political and social schemes Eg PM SVANidhi for street vendors, Sweekruti for Transgenders -> Economic Realm focuses of social development -> Better education and role of sociology -> Development of Technology Eg Drones used for SWAMITVA

Changes in the scope of sociology (w.r.t pandemic era) (1) More focused on human mental

health due to prolonged isolation Eg Manodarpan Scheme etc

(2) Changing economic patterns with rise of gig workforce - So occupational codes-2020 provides their social safeguard.

(3) Pandemic according to functionalists helped better the outreach programmes particularly the vulnerable strata - widow, elderly

(4) According to feminists scholars, however the pandemic affected women worst Eg NCW data:- 130% increase in cases of wife battering in lockdown

(5) In terms of adoption of new technology, for better coverage of vulnerable groups

Close · a summary

Eg DBT schemes etc

Thus, sociology extends in influence in all walks of life encompassiy new changes in the pandemic era.