AIR 163 · CSE 2024 · Sociology II · 82 pages

Harsita Agrawal: Sociology II answer copy

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

The questions

  1. Q1(a)Highlight the significant features of G.S Ghurye's Indological perspective to study Indian Society.10 marks
  2. Q1(b)Critique the victory narrative of land reforms in the context of Indian Society.10 marks
  3. Q1(c)While Dumont's work on caste in India has been influential, it has also been subject to criticism. Discuss.10 marks
  4. Q1(d)Compare and contrast Sanskritization with secularization.10 marks
  5. Q1(e)Evaluate how the concept of Dominant Caste has been utilized in analyzing social hierarchies?10 marks
  6. Q2(a)While caste remains an important dimension of modern social life, its relevance is mostly limited in contemporary times. Critically discuss.20 marks
  7. Q2(b)Do you think that marriage as a sacrament is losing its relevance in contemporary India? Present a sociological overview.20 marks
  8. Q2(c)Religious beliefs and values influence political ideologies, policymaking, and governance. Analyze the relationship between religion and politics in contemporary India.10 marks
  9. Q3(a)Untouchability is not just a social problem but a denial of human rights and its eradication requires both legal reforms and a transformation of societal attitudes. Comment.20 marks
  10. Q3(b)A. R. Desai considers religious reform movements as an expression of national awakening due to contradictions between the old value system and new socio-economic realities. Explain.20 marks
  11. Q3(c)Tribes are said to have accepted ethos of caste structure and absorbed within it. Critically analyse the changing dynamics between caste and tribe.10 marks
  12. Q4(a)Though integrated and comprehensive, Yogendra Singh's analysis of social change has been subjected to criticisms. Elaborate.20 marks
  13. Q4(b)The colonial understanding of the Indian village' reduced it to an 'ideological-category' distributing the native life in a way much removed from the empirical reality. Discuss.20 marks
  14. Q4(c)Analyse the sociological interconnections between Government schemes and tribal integration in India.10 marks
  15. Q5(a)Account for an evolution of industrial class structure in India.10 marks
  16. Q5(b)Explain the Interactional approach to study of caste in India.10 marks
  17. Q5(c)It has been observed by I. P. Desai and other sociologists that nuclear family in India is merely a stage in the joint family cycle. Elucidate.10 marks
  18. Q5(d)Citing some case studies from Indian society, expand the concept of 'Decentralisation of power.10 marks
  19. Q5(e)Meenakshi Mukherjee observes that social conformity has always been more obligatory for a woman than for a man. Discuss.10 marks
  20. Q6(a)Discuss the impact of legal reforms on family structures in India, with a focus on changes in inheritance laws, property rights, and marital legislations.20 marks
  21. Q6(b)British rule produced radical and lasting changes in Indian society and culture. Examine the statement in the light of M.N. Srinivas's concept of westernization.20 marks
  22. Q6(c)"It is not politics that gets caste ridden; it is caste that gets politicized." Comment.10 marks
  23. Q7(a)"While a caste struggled for a higher position for itself in the local hierarchy, it resented the efforts of others, in particular the lower castes to move up". Examine the nature of inter-caste struggle for mobility in the context of this statement.20 marks
  24. Q7(b)Religious minority groups in India encounter numerous challenges, encompassing declining population trends and identity-related crises that warrant critical examination and discussion. Elaborate.20 marks
  25. Q7(c)Provide a sociological overview of changes in consumption pattern of middle class in India.10 marks
  26. Q8(a)How did A R Desai integrate Marxist theories into his analysis of Indian social structures and class relations?20 marks
  27. Q8(b)Annihilation of caste is not merely a socio-political goal but requires a radical rethinking of religious principles. Discuss.20 marks
  28. Q8(c)Write in detail about Iravati Karve's comparative analysis of kinship system in four cultural zones of India.10 marks

The answers

Question 1(a) · 10 marks · 185 words written

Highlight the significant features of G.S Ghurye's Indological perspective to study Indian Society.

Opening

G.S. Ghurye's Indology considers that Indian society is unique in terms of its culture, and thus should be studied from the point of texts, culture.

Body · points

Features of Indological perspective

  1. Book-view - based on Hindu religious texts, cultural documents.

  2. Importance of values - Indian society is held together by values, such as tolerance, co-operation, and thus require sociological attention.

  3. Focus on Gurus - and teachers who play important role in transmission of values, uphold moral, ethical standards.

  4. Continuity from the past - Indology involves study of Indian society as a continuing whole, without breaks from the past.

  5. Historical approach - uses archeological findings, travellers records, inscriptions, to make sense of Indian cultural values.

  6. Methodological pluralism - development of multiple theories based on cultural historical texts.

  7. Focus on unity, stability - study how solidarity, co-operation is maintained in society, ignoring to conflict and divisions.

  8. Supremacy of Hindu culture which is considered as syncretic, and does not account for multiple religions, traditions in India.

Close · a summary

Therefore, Ghurye's sociology laid the foundation for a qualitative assessment and discipline of sociology in India.