AIR 50 · CSE 2023 · Sociology I · 54 pages

K N Chandana Jahnavi: Sociology I answer copy

19 answers by K N Chandana Jahnavi, as written in the test. Each question opens a page with how other toppers answered it.

The questions

  1. Q1(a)Examine the intellectual influences that facilitated the emergence and development of sociology in Europe.10 marks
  2. Q1(b)Critically analyse the problems of objectivity in social science research. Also discuss how value-bias could be curtailed in social sciences research.10 marks
  3. Q1(c)Highlight the challenges involved in collecting data through social survey. How do researchers overcome these challenges?10 marks
  4. Q1(d)Elucidate the 'new' features of new social movement and assess their impact in guiding social change in India.10 marks
  5. Q1(e)What are social facts? Explain briefly the significance of treating social facts as things.10 marks
  6. Q2(a)"It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but on the contrary it is their social being that determines their consciousness." Examine with reference to Marx's notion of mode of production.20 marks
  7. Q2(b)What do you understand by class-based stratification system in the context of Indian society. Elaborate on the ways in which Marx and Weber differ in their diagnosis of class-based stratification.20 marks
  8. Q3(a)Answer the following questions in about 150 words each: a) What determines the 'functional importance' of any position? Explain with reference to Davis and Moore's theory of social stratification.10 marks
  9. Q3(b)Do you agree that formal organizations assign more preference to informal organization of most of their work. Justify with suitable illustrations.10 marks
  10. Q3(c)Civil society and state, at times, share a dialectical relationship. Critically examine the recent disconnect between civil society and state in India.10 marks
  11. Q3(d)"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind". Comment.10 marks
  12. Q3(e)How does ethnicity determine social organisation in contemporary world society?10 marks
  13. Q4(a)"Power is a generalized facility of resources in the society." Explain. Also, critically assess the variable-sum concept of power.20 marks
  14. Q4(b)Do you think New Religious Movements have both functional and dysfunctional role in society. Discuss with reference to growing sects and cults in different societies.20 marks
  15. Q4(c)Assess the impact of legislations on the changing trend of marriages in India.10 marks
  16. Q5CLASS distinction exists in "OLD FAMILY" and "NOVEAUX rich" as per JAFFRELOT
  17. Q5(a)Distinguish between positive and negative reference groups, with suitable examples. Also, discuss in detail the determinants of reference group as conceptualized by Merton in his reference group theory.20 marks
  18. Q5(b)Deglobalization and growing protectionism, on part of developed nations, compounds the impacts of continued development and dependency. Critically analyse with reference to dependency theory of development.20 marks
  19. Q5(c)Rationality remains central to Weber's sociological analysis. Briefly discuss different types of rationality as elaborated by Max Weber. c) Enumerate the structural and functional changes of family in modern societies.10 marks

The answers

Question 1(a) · 10 marks · 132 words written

Examine the intellectual influences that facilitated the emergence and development of sociology in Europe.

Opening

IRVING ZEITLIN highlights SOCIOLOGY as child of "social changes and emergence of modernity in EUROPE.

INTELLECTUAL INFLUENCES

Body · points and prose

Diagram
- Dark ages - Rise of ENLIGHTENMENT ERA - Commercial Revolution, - Scientific revolution - CONSEQUENCES - of French, American - & INDUSTRIAL Revolution - emergence of SOCIOLOGY
  1. POLITICAL intellectuals such as PLATO, ARISTOTLE's conceptions on need of SOCIAL INEQUALITY rooted in NATURAL inequality were questioned.

ex: conception of "social contract" theory and LEX rex principles as paradigm shift

(2) Change in Technology as per VEBLEN created fertile grounds for SCIENTIFIC and critical questioning. ex: KANT'S "WHAT is Enlightenment?"

(3) PHILOSOPHICAL revolution with Disembodied rationality of DESCARTES led to "social churning" (4) Adam Smith's "wealth of nations" brought economic paradigm of CAPITALISM for prosperity (5) the RAPID changes and theories in society led to Augustus Comte outlining need for SOCIETY study in "POSITIVE PHILOSOPHY".

Close · a summary

Thus sociology emerged as a "Reaction & Response" as per Wagner and crystallized with Adaptation to societal needs