AIR 383 · CSE 2023 · Sociology I · 45 pages

NEETI AGARWAL: Sociology I answer copy

8 answers by NEETI AGARWAL, as written in the test. Each question opens a page with how other toppers answered it.

The questions

  1. Q3(c)Durkheim's concepts of collective conscience, solidarity, religion highlights that he was concerned with the degrading morality in modern society.
  2. Q4(b)Poverty as per Ruth Lister refers to the scarcity of resources to lead a meaningful life. While exclusion is a broader term in which an individual / social group is not allowed to engage / participate in wide social process.
  3. Q55
  4. Q5(c)5(c).
  5. Q5(d)5(d)
  6. Q8(a)8(a)
  7. Q8(b)Bryon Wilson argued that with rise of Modernisation, there would be growth of sects and cults which highlights Religious Pluralism.
  8. QDiscuss the significance of symbols in symbolic interactionism and mention some of its criticisms.

The answers

Question 3(c) · 122 words written

Durkheim's concepts of collective conscience, solidarity, religion highlights that he was concerned with the degrading morality in modern society.

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→ According to Durkheim, morality formed the basis of human life. → In his concept of collective conscience, he argued how primitive socities were held together by shared values and morals. → In his study of Totemism, he argued that whole society is divinised due to moral force which later termed as Religion. → In Organic solidarity concept in Modern division of labour, Durkheim held how people are interdependent on each other and how moral conscience is kept intact by restitutive lanes.

→ In his study of suicide, Durkheim held concept of morality in the form of social integration & regulation.

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However, morality being a value loaded term, Durkheim used positivist methods (theory of suicide), factual data in his theory of solidarity.