AIR 28 · CSE 2023 · Sociology I · 52 pages

Pawan Kumar Goel: Sociology I answer copy

19 answers by Pawan Kumar Goel, as written in the test. Each question opens a page with how other toppers answered it.

The questions

  1. Q1(a)Discuss the significance of symbols in symbolic Interactionism approach of GH Mead?
  2. Q1(b)Discuss the relationship between poverty & social exclusion?
  3. Q1(c)Formal Bureaucratic structure offers a dichotomy of benefits & challenges for a diverse country like India. Discuss.
  4. Q1(d)To what extent, in your opinion are religion & science compatible?
  5. Q1(e)Discuss the significance of ideology for a nation.
  6. Q2Durkheim labelled the modern form of collective conscience as the cult of the individual. Discuss.
  7. Q2(e)Discuss why pluralists consider interest groups as necessary elements in a democratic system.
  8. Q3(a)Compare & contrast the contributions of Karl Marx and Max Weber on social stratification in capitalist society?
  9. Q3(b)Occupying positions at the very apex of our society, elites use the language of national interest, valour and endeavour in order to keep themselves in power. Discuss in context of theory of Power Elites by CW Mills?
  10. Q3(c)Durkheim's society is merely a by-product of his concern with moral issues? Discuss?
  11. Q5(a)Do you agree with the statement that the bourgeoisie produces its own grave-diggers? Give supporting arguments to your answer.
  12. Q5(b)Discuss the factors acting as barriers to social mobility of women.
  13. Q5(c)Define New Age Movement & explain the growth of new age movement with few egs?
  14. Q6(a)Parsonian combined the Weberian notion of subjective aspect of social action with the Durkheimian notion of objective contents of social facts. Explain.
  15. Q6(b)How far do you agree with the view that Globalisation has eroded power of Nation States?
  16. Q6(c)'Sociology is a science which attempts Interpretivist understanding of Social action'. Explain the Interpretative understanding of Max weber.
  17. Q7(a)The issue of fundamentalism illustrates that religion appears to be associated with conflict in many parts of the world. Critically discuss.
  18. Q7(b)Merton's critique to conventional structural functionalism provided new conceptual insights which helped to give structural functionalism a continuing usefulness. Discuss.
  19. Q7(c)'I' & 'Me' are central terms in Mead's work. Critically analyse?

The answers

Question 1(a) · 174 words written

Discuss the significance of symbols in symbolic Interactionism approach of GH Mead?

Opening

GH Mead belongs to chicago school of sociology & gave socio-psychological explanation to study symbolic Interactionism.

Body · continuous prose

Mead gave importance to symbols in his study of "Mind, self & society".

According to him, human behaviour isn't normative as explained by Durkheim and nor is completely instinctive as put forth by Sigmund Freud.

Neither is human behaviour completely materialistic as defined by Marxist. As according to him, human behaviour is reflexive, reflective and comes out of development of self through the process

of interaction, and humans according to him interact with the help of symbols.

According to mead, humans are different from animals as they interact through significant symbols such as "language".

Symbols are gesture whose meaning is shared by the person doing it & the person towards whom it has been directed. Thus significant symbols allows humans to interact and lead to development of mind, self & human thinking. These significant symbol, separates humans from animals that perform just basic gesture.

Close · a summary

Thus symbols, play an integral role in the symbolic Interactionism approach of GH Mead.