AIR 416 · CSE 2022 · Sociology I · 45 pages

Anjali Joy: Sociology I answer copy

14 answers by Anjali Joy, as written in the test. Each question opens a page with how other toppers answered it.

The questions

  1. Q1(a)The change in intellectual orientation in Europe led to the emergence of sociology. Discuss.
  2. Q1(b)Do you think phenomenology restores the primacy of human experience and meaning giving acts of human consciousness?
  3. Q1(c)How viable is Interview Method in present era of social-distancing and virtual world? Can we eliminate it altogether, given the imp. of the method? In Marx's view, social stratification is created by people's differing relationship to the means of production. Discuss.
  4. Q1(d)Do you agree that Pattern Variable theory is preconceived?
  5. Q2(a)Micro sociological understanding of self & society ought to be different from Macro sociological understanding of social-systems. How?
  6. Q2(b)The process of embourgeoisement is antithetical to the concept of 'proletarisation' and 'class in itself'. Critically analyse.
  7. Q4(a)"Davis and Moore's theory of stratification has provoked a lengthy debate". In this context, produce a comprehensive criticism of their ideas.
  8. Q4(b)Through Protestant Ethic and spirit of Capitalism, Weber, stressed the influence of rel. attitude on economy. How far do you think rel. influence economic outcomes in contemporary times?
  9. Q4(c)Doing Oral History takes you beyond the confines of archives. Discuss.
  10. Q5(a)According to Marx, 'labour is the source of wealth and prime basic condition of human existence. Comment.
  11. Q6Modernity has many children, one of them is fundamentalism. Critically evaluate the relevance. (b) Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Analyse. (c) There is a strong correspondence b/w sociology of Religion and Sociology of knowledge. comment. (d) Many social theorists have built on Marx's conflict theory to bolster it, grow it and refine it over the years. comment. (e) Industrialisation has disrupted trad relationship b/w generations, as well as, the relationship b/w spouses in a familial structure. Discuss.
  12. Q6(d)Examine dig-parenting as a need of the hour in an increasingly digitised world.
  13. Q7(a)The overriding goal of each state is to maximise its share of world power, which means gaining at expense of others. Discuss in Weberian context.
  14. Q7(b)Normalisation -- Do you think informality is planned for sustenance of the formal?

The answers

Question 1(a) · 162 words written

The change in intellectual orientation in Europe led to the emergence of sociology. Discuss.

Opening

The emergence of sociology was closely-linked with European-Renaissance, Enlightenment and desire to develop on similar grounds as Natural-sciences.

Body · points

Intellectual Orientation in Europe :-

» PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY : History was seen as moving and dynamic and not stagnant. It was pioneered by Abbe-Siant Pierre and Giambattista; which viewed society moving through different stages.

» BIOLOGICAL THEORY OF EVOLUTION : by charles Darwin, also promoted earlier mentioned view. Herbert Spencer adopted social Darwinism followed by Marx, Durkheim etc-

» SURVEYS OF SOCIAL CONDITIONS : led to belief that poverty was not a natural event (divine decree), rather a social event. It boosted sociological thinking like socialism and communism

» PHILOSOPHY OF ENLIGHTENMENT : by Immanuel Kant ("Dare to know"), Voltaire ("smash the system") and Mary Wollstonecraft sowed seeds of sociology in womb.

Close

Thus, it led to early pioneers of sociology viz. St. Simon, Auguste Comte and Emile Durkheim to emulate natural science methodologies to develop 'SOCIAL PHYSICS' or 'POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY', which became sociology.