AIR 10 · CSE 2014 · Sociology I · 38 pages

Arvind Singh: Sociology I answer copy

16 answers by Arvind Singh, as written in the test. Each question opens a page with how other toppers answered it.

The questions

  1. Q1(a)Gender as a dimension of stratification10 marks
  2. Q1(b)1. (b) New social movements10 marks
  3. Q1(c)Industrial conflict and strikes10 marks
  4. Q1(d)1. (d) Religious pluralism10 marks
  5. Q1(e)Pressure group and democracy10 marks
  6. Q2(a)Max Weber understanding of social stratification is closer to empirical reality. Comment.20 marks
  7. Q2(b)Examine the impact of information technology on social organization of work in contemporary society.15 marks
  8. Q2(c)Critically examine the functional theories of religion.15 marks
  9. Q3(a)What are social movements? Discuss the different perspectives on social movement.20 marks
  10. Q3(b)Enumerate the characteristics of 'informally organized work' in certain types of societies.15 marks
  11. Q3(c)Examine the role of civil society in the functioning of democracies.15 marks
  12. Q4(a)Evaluate Max Weber's 'theory of religion' as a 'factor of social change.20 marks
  13. Q4(b)The functional theory of stratification has been critiqued by many scholars on different grounds. Discuss.15 marks
  14. Q4(c)Social exclusion has come to indicate the growing inequalities in a fast changing world. Evaluate the various dimensions.15 marks
  15. Q5(a)Discuss the impact of increasing globalization on 'nation-states' and 'national-identities', in current times.25 marks
  16. Q5(b)Identify the causes of religious fundamentalism in contemporary global world.25 marks

The answers

Question 1(a) · 10 marks · 160 words written

Gender as a dimension of stratification

Opening

The feminists like Shulamith Firestone believes that Gender is the foundation of all the stratificational system. Feminists believe in the Sexual division of Labour and 'Dialectic of Sex' as the basis upon which materialistic division of Labour (Marxian), or market based economic division of classes (Webers perspective) rests.

Ann Oakley says in 'Sexual Politics', that women suffer from the patriarchal values instilled in all stratification system because of following factors:

Body · points and prose

(i) unequal wages (ii) Domestification of Wife (iii) Violence in two forms

  • Symbolic violence (e.g. pornography)
  • Expressive violence (iv) State's apathetic role

Close

so while Liberal Feminists demand Equality of opportunity, Radical feminists demand Sexual freedom. Radical Feminists says that only when Gender based class is dismantled only then class based on relations with forces of production can be dismantled.

Criticism: Like Marxism, Feminism is also a deterministic ideology, which do not recognize the role of status, Power, class etc in dividing the women of world in different stratum.